Meeting with a bandit.

Zhan Yanhui and her maid kept running through the path to the East Gate until they started panting from fatigue and decided to rest for a brief moment under a tree. Xue Li leaned on the tree and brought out a small bottle full of water and passed it to her mistress. "Your Highness, please drink some water. This weather is too hot."

Zhan Yanhui who sat down on a rock under the tree looked up to the sky where the bright sun stood proudly among the clouds in the middle of the sky. She uncapped the bottle and placed it near her lips, taking I'm water in small sips before she replied. "Yes, it is. We should hurry and leave the palace before His Majesty realizes I am missing. Xue Li, drink some water too."

Xue Li collected the bottle and drank some water before she got up to help her mistress. She said. "Your Highness, do you think the empress would betray us? What should we do if she goes to meet the emperor and reports us?"