4 Suspicion

The harem assembly ended.

After Han Lian Ai and Han Wu Xia called the doctor to check their bodies, they sat on a couch inside Han Lian Ai's room.

Looking through the window, Han Wu Xia knitted his brows.

He got up and walked around the room. "Sister…"

"Sigh… I know…" Han Lian Ai laid her back on the soft couch. Her eyes looking at the wooden ceiling. "It was not my intention to make Concubine Fu shove Fai Fai onto us. Yet,"

Han Lian Ai jumped off the couch and go to the place where Han Wu Xia was standing. She tapped his shoulder. "we need to go to the party, Xia. You are the Crown Prince, you are going to lead this empire one day. And to do that, you need the backing of the people in high society too."

Han Wu Xia looked up to his sister. His dark eyes met with Han Lian Ai. He frowned. Han Wu Xia never saw this kind of expression on his kind and caring sister.

Han Wu Xia was the closest person to Han Lian Ai and vice versa. Han Wu Xia knew all about his sister. His sister was always carefree and full of silly smiles. She was an epitome of a loveable princess.

How this Han Lian Ai in front of him handled the Concubines earlier in the morning assembly was the very opposite of how the sister he knew would act.

Han Wu Xia realized from the moment his sister woke up in the morning after the fire, his sister had changed completely. Could it be that his caring and gullible sister's personality changed in one night?

'It seems that my guess was not wrong…'

While Han Wu Xia was on his own world, Han Lian Ai was thinking of the half-siblings problem.

In his past, Hui Lei's old supervisor was the Emperor of Shen, Shen Ren, he was a man that enjoyed parties. Being with him for so long, Hui Lei learned many things about the high society and how to be in the best of shape to represent oneself in front of them. Yet, he was not sure if his knowledge was enough.

The soul that resided inside Lian Ai, Hui Lei, was a very fanatic type of man. He knew almost all of the upper-class heirs from Han.

He did not know them personally, however, unlike the half-siblings of Lian Ai and Wu Xia, who knew them since childhood. Wu Xia also did not know them much.

"Hmm..." Hui Lei hanged his head, tilting it to the side, he put his fingers on his chin and thought.

'I guess we need more plans.'

Han Lian Ai looked down, now that her health was getting better. She could pull work herself up and make sure that Han Wu Xia would be safe when she was gone.

Han Lian Ai jolted.

'Now that I think of it, how is Ren Ren doing?'

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Shen Empire, Shen Zhong.

Far away from the Han Kingdom. The Shen Empire great hall had a very tense atmosphere as the Emperor of Shen's mood had been very bad the past two months.

"Did you find him yet?" a man with high bearing looked at a battle outline. His eyes showed impatience. With his index finger, he tapped the map over and over. In front of him, stood a nervous man clad in black.

"No...No, Your Majesty."

His impatience finally erupted. Shen Ren flipped the table in front him. "I gave you two months! Do you even value your life? Someone! Come and behead this useless vile!"

"P-p-please, your majesty. G-give us one more month, we will definitely catch the culprit who killed Master Hui Lei!"

"I gave you one month, you asked for two. I gave you two months, you ask for three?" The Emperor clenched his fist. His face was darker than the night's sky.

"Now, now, Your Majesty." An elegant woman with red lips and long curled eyelashes came into the hall. She slowly walked to Shen Ren's side and took his right hand into her lovely flawless silky hands. She was draped in a fine high-class dress made of silk. Her eyes twinkled like stars on the night sky and gleam of water on morning dew. Shen Ren raised an eyebrow when she began to speak. "Don't be so mad. Even if we find out who the culprit is, your strategist won't come back to live."

The men inside the hall were all focused on her. Her soft tone of voice and gravitating look screamed charm as she spoke to Shen Ren carefully.

"Think about it, Hui Lei is dead. It is one lost from your side. Would you kill your agents and lose more people?

The Emperor glanced toward the sexy lady. Then, he pushed her and clutched her from her neck. "Akh!"

"Empress!" the Empress's attendants stood up to help their mistress. But stopped when the met the Emperor's murderous glare. "Ple, Please, Your, Your Majesty, spare… spare the Empress."

The Emperor murderous glare landed on everyone in the hall. Sending chills down their spines. His glare was a warning to them all. "Don't you dare speak of Hui Lei's name so carelessly!" He then released his clutch. The Empress dropped to the floor and sat weakly.

"Cough cough...This, this Empress, cough, thanks the Emperor for giving mercy."

"Hmph!" Shen Ren turned his body and walked away. He halted and gave them another fierce remark. "What the Empress said was right, I won't bring anybody to the death door this time." Shen Ren punched the wall on his right side. Making his subordinate tremble and kneel.

"But you all should remember! If not for Hui Lei, all of us would have died long ago!"

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty!"

"Good!" Shen Ren continued to walk. He passed the castle's hallway and went to the top of the castle wall.

"You there, Chao Da?"

From the shadow. Someone who wore attendant clothes walked. He saluted the Emperor.

"How's the situation on the border?"

"Your Majesty, the Xin Empire has started moving."

"Tch! They must have heard a rumor about Hui Lei's death! Chao Da, prepare to defend the border!" Shen Ren ordered. "No! Wait! Don't defend the border, attack a weak spot in Xin's border before the main Xin army arrives instead. That is what Hui Lei would have done."

"This lowly servant understand!" Chao Da disappeared into the dark.

Shen Ren was left alone, he stared at the moon intently.

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Long ago...

"Lei, why do you like the moon so much?"

"Hmm? Let me see… maybe because long before you came to my life, the moon was my only friend."

"Eh?"

"Heh, I will tell you later."

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"In the end, you never told me…" Shen Ren grimaced and gripped his fist. "Hui Lei…"