Mu Zi dashed towards the inner palace, she seemed to have gone crazy as she shouted, “I must ask Royal Father and get him to say that you lied to me!” I saw translucent water droplets in the air. Ah! Those were Mu Zi’s tears.
Ke Lun Duo shouted, “Princess, please wait for me!” He said that as he pursued her.
As I saw their leaving figures, I stood up from the thicket, with my face covered in tears. If I didn’t have the scars on my body, how happy I’d be. I would immediately reveal my identity and take Mu Zi away. However, what else could I do? I was no longer a suitable match for her, who had an appearance like a goddess.
After I surveyed my surroundings, I used short teleportation to enter the firewood house. As I just entered, Xiao Rou pounced towards me. I grabbed her and whispered, “Help me keep a look out. I’m going to change my clothes.” I nimbly changed into the servant’s attire before tossing the night attire into the space pocket.
After changing, I heaved a sigh of relief.
Just as I laid on my bed, there was suddenly a loud explosion that came from the inner palace, startling Uncle Firewood and I.
Uncle Firewood said groggily, “What happened?”
I replied, “I don’t know. It seems that something had exploded outside.”
Uncle Firewood put on his clothes before saying, “Let’s go out to see what happened.”
When Uncle Firewood and I walked out from the Firewood house, we saw that the sky at the inner palace was crimson red. Could it be that a fire started somewhere? I didn’t destroy anything in the inner palace.
All of the staff from the kitchen walked out from their resting place, the kitchen in charge said, “What happened?”
Someone replied, “It seems that assassins appeared in the inner palace?”
“Who would be so daring to do to even think of infiltrating the palace of our Holy Light Empire? That person must be tired of living.”
A group of soldiers walked in from outside. The leader of the soldiers said, “All the members of the kitchen staff are not to move. Assassins entered the palace, and are currently being pursued. Everyone must return to their homes.”
This can’t be happening right? Why are they making such a big deal about a solo infiltration?
The entire night the palace never went silent, the entire grounds, including the kitchen, were searched.
At noon of the following day, whilst I split the wood, I heard chattering of two masters in charge of chopping vegetable. They were discussing about what happened yesterday. I focused on my hearing as I heard them say, “I heard that there were assassins that infiltrated the palace last night. They were plotting to assassinate his Majesty.”
The other master said, “Everyone knows about this. After fussing about it for a long time, wasn't no one was caught in the end? I really don’t know what the soldiers are doing.”
“Xu! Hush your voice. Don’t let anyone hear that. If not, you’re guaranteed to be in trouble.”
“It’s the truth, no? They are responsible for protecting the palace. There were so many of them, and assassins were still able to infiltrate. Moreover, they strutted out with no issues at all. It was really embarrassing!”
“That isn’t even the most interesting part! Something even more intriguing occurred.”
”What’s that?”
“Do you still remember the sudden loud explosion from the inner palace that lead to a blazing fire? Do you know what caused it?”
“Of course, I was awoken from that explosion. It wasn’t due to the assassin?”
The master looked at his surrounding before he whispered, “Of course not. I heard from a small eunuch that was in charge of serving the meals saying that it was the princess that caused it.”
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The other master said in surprise, “What? It was caused by the Princess?”
“Lower your voice. I don’t know why, but the Princess suddenly threw a tantrum at His Majesty. She then cast an unknown large scale magic in fury, leading to the destruction of the Politics Palace Hall.”
Upon hearing that, I lowered my head to hide the stirred up emotions and increased the pace of splitting wood. Mu Zi’s fall out with her father was definitely due to me. ‘Mu Zi! My good Mu Zi, if I still had my original looks, how great will that be? I’ll definitely escape to a faraway place with you. However, I’m no longer compatible with you. Perhaps, Ke Lun Duo will be the best match for you.’ I gritted my teeth at the idea of not being able to see Mu Zi anymore. Even though I know that if I were to reveal myself to her, she wouldn’t reject me because of my appearance. But could I do that? I mustn’t ruin her life. If she were to follow me, whose body was filled with scars, how would other people see her. Thinking about that, tears flowed down my face; my heart was filled with all kinds of mixed feelings, be it being sweet, sour, bitter and hot.
Uncle Firewood, who was beside me saw that something was wrong, asked in astonishment, “Eighteen, what’s wrong?”
I hastily wiped off the tears and replied, “Nothing, Uncle Firewood. It’s just sand that got into my eyes.”
‘En!’ Uncle Firewood didn’t continue to push for answers.
I took in a deep breath to calm down the complicated emotions of my heart. I couldn’t continue to think about Mu Zi anymore. Since I had already seen her, I should be satisfied. My top priority at the moment was to save Big Brother Zhan Hu and the rest, then immediately head back to the base for our last preparation against the Monster King. I bit on my lips as I focused my thoughts on splitting the wood.
At noon, Uncle Firewood patted on my shoulder. “Eighteen, you don’t have to be that hard working. You’ve cut two days worth of woods already. You can take a break, it should be time for our meal already.”
I placed the axe down, using my sleeve to wipe off my perspiration before forcing a smile at Uncle Firewood.
Uncle Firewood frowned, (when you see a ghastly person smile at you, you frown?), before he continued to say, “I’ll head out to eat first. After eating, I’ll call for you.”
I thought, ‘You must be scared that I will affect your appetite, right?’ After smiling wryly, I continued doing the job on hand.
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Later at night, I wore the evening attire again to sneak out of the Firewood house before gently leaping onto the roof. No matter what happened today, I would definitely investigate the position of the Sky Prison. I was afraid that the longer I stayed here, the harder it would be to stave off the temptation to seek out Mu Zi.
Just as I was about to move forward, a black shadow suddenly flashed in front of me, blocking my way.
The shadow approached me at such a shocking speed that even with my sensitivity, I wasn’t able to detect anyone approaching me.
I sized up the person before me, only to see that his entire body was covered with black clothing; not even his hair was in view. It was obvious that he was the same as me, who feared that someone would recognise him. If it wasn’t for the immense pressure that I felt from him, I would have already made the move to kill him.
I whispered, “What do you want?”
The black clothed man nodded at me before replying hoarsely, “If you don’t want to alarm anyone, follow me.”
After saying that, he moved in a flash, heading out of the palace.
I secretly sighed before pursuing his figure that was headed out of the palace.
The black clothed person used the same method as I did to infiltrate the inner palace. He flew high up and used night to hide his presence to leave the palace. However, he didn’t stop, and just continued to fly outwards. His speed was extremely fast so I didn’t have a choice but to use all of the fusion power in my body to follow him; making it impossible to question him.
After leaving the city, his speed gradually decreased, finally stopping at a small mountain cavity that was 15 km away from the royal city.