6 Liu Wen Qiang

Wu Zhou grit his teeth and clenches his fists. An angered royal member shouts back at Wu Zhou, "Wanna know what we did to her?! We tortured her and threw her into the bottom of Vanishing Mountain! She'll never come back! Never!!"

Quickly Jia Yi ran over to Wu Zhou and dragged him away before more problems stirred up. Da Xia followed behind them as fast as she could. Xue Qin watched them run off. The royal member yells, "Catch and execute them all!" They ran after Wu Zhou them.

Xue Qin smirks, "Don't go after them, it's not worth chasing after people like that. After all, they didn't do anything wrong." The commander tells the rest to stop chasing them immediately after Xue Qin spoke his words.

He turns around to look at one of his guards, "Am I a bad prince? What did I do to anger him?"

The guards looks at each other, then one of them eventually answered, "Your Highness, what you did was saved the world, you've done no wrong."

Laughing, Fan Bi Yu stands by the royal carriage, "She was an evil woman, you know, she was planning to destroy the entire kingdom! Innocent or not, she killed reluctantly!"

Xue Qin looked at her blankly, "There was such person?" She scoffs, "Do you not remember of this or what? You were clearly involved with her death too."

After running for so long, the three finally stopped by a nearby river. Jia Yi gave Wu Zhou some water. He refused. Da Xia looks at her reflection in the ripple water, "If undisturbed, it will become still and clean."

They both turned their heads to look at Da Xia. Jia Yi questions her, "What do you mean?" Wu Zhou follows along, "Who are you talking to?"

She stops playing with the water, "You both seemed really frustrated and sad with anger when they mentioned about this woman in red. Wu Zhou, if you want to know what happened to her, confronting out of control like that won't make the person tell you truthfully. Instead, just sit still until you can see things clearly. You'll start connecting dots and solve the situation."

He rolls his eyes and looks the other way, "I've done that for 2 years already. Still haven't found out about anything."

Da Xia stands up, "You have! You found out it's related to the royal family, is that not why you asked the Prince?"

Jia Yi's eye's widens and agrees with her, "That's right! Wu Zhou she makes sense, you did find out about things! This was all related to most of the royal family members!"

He looks back at them in silence. His eyes filled with sorrow. Just how important was that person to him? Jia Yi carries her bundle of belongings, "Let's go, if we don't keep on going they'll find us." They kept walking until they found shelter.

When they settled down in a old wrecked house, Da Xia decides to ask out of curiosity, "May I know about the woman too?" Jia Yi turns around, "She..just know she was a good person."

Wu Zhou kicks a pebble on the dirt ground, "We've just met you, I don't think I'd let you know anything yet. Don't know if you're trustworthy of. And you're still quite suspicious to me."

Da Xia looked at the ground. That's right, why would she need to know things that didn't even relate to her? She felt nosy and looked outside from the opened door.

Jia Yi comforted her, "Don't worry too much, it's a personal thing to Wu Zhou that's why he's acting like this. As I said before, he's a really great person with a good personality. Though he may be straightforward at times, try not to take things personal." Da Xia fakes a smile and nods, "I understand."

Wu Zhou lies the back of his head on the wall, "When do you think chaos will happen again?" The two girls looks at him confused. Jia Yi frowns, "What do you mean?" He sighs in annoyance, "Didn't they said there's a rumor about Wen Qiang coming back to life? If she's really here, obviously the royal families will do something and kill her off again or whatever."

Being the talkative and curious girl as ever, Da Xia asks him, "Will you go find her if you know she's back and alive?" Irritated, he stands up, "Why do you ask so much ques—" cut off by the figments of Liu Wen Qiang in his mind, he looks at Da Xia one last time then walks out and sits on the ground nearby the house.

She looks over at Jia Yi, "I'm sorry if I angered him." Jia Yi smiles, "He's not mad, and I know he's not. I can see through him. Don't worry."

Wu Zhou curls into a ball outside the house, "Why did I just suddenly remember of this? Stop doing this to me you stupid brain!" His mind continues to wander around, playing scenes from the past:

"And why did you decide this one was better for me rather than the silver and jade one?" Wen Qiang asks him while showing him the red and golden hair accessory. He laughs for a short second then lightly pushes her head with his finger, "Why do you ask so much questions? Just accept your birthday present." She smiles, "Thank you."

Jia Yi comes outside to look for Wu Zhou. She finds him beside the house, "Hey, are you okay?" He lifts his head up, "Yeah. I'm fine." She tried her best to cheer him up, "We'll find her, I know we will." He smiles, "You sure?" Jia Yi then smacks his his shoulder, "Of course!"

Xue Qin returns to his palace feeling bothered and goes straight to the King's room. The Eunuchs tried to prevent him from going in, however he bursted through the doors. As the doors opened, the concubines of the King yelped and covered themselves with the silk blankets.

Chen Zhang Yong stopped what he was doing and turned around to see Xue Qin, "You really don't know any manners do you? Such an intractable son!" Letting the words flow through one ear to another, Xue Qin asks forwardly, "Who is this 'Liu Wen Qiang?'"