Nightmares from the past.

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Bai Shen Ting's clothes had just been roughly torn at the base with her underwear peeking from the torn part. Her lips were bruised and her hair was scattered with a few missing from the roots. She had grass stains on her face with a few leaves sticking from her hair. Her dress had been torn from the collar to her stomach area and the only thing stopping her from being naked was her hands tightly gripping her clothes.

Her neck had red handprints all around it and from the size it appeared to be from a man. Her breasts were peeking from the torn cloth. They had red marks dotting around them.

Her cheeks were sticky from the number of times she had cried that night and her eyes were a bit red but they looked dead. Her eyes had lost all the brightness in them and looked like that of a dead person.

The sound of pitter-patter was heard and when she looked down, she raised her dress to see red and white dropping from her legs to the floor.

She had just been raped.

" Greetings your Majesty"

"Oh…? Yeah come in… come in quickly"

As she entered the room, the smell of alcohol and Red-Cloud incense assailed her nose. It caused her to stop in her tracks and look around the room. She looked at the incense burner and saw the Red-Cloud incense slowly burning. She immediately blocked her nose and avoided that area of the room before bowing her head.

A quick scan of the room before showed that the Queen was not here, so why had she called for her then?

The room had gone quiet since her arrival with everyone looking and leering at her.

She had heard rumors about the wanton parties the King threw every week with some selected members of his court.

Apparently they would invite courtesans and musicians as they partied till daybreak.

Such a disgusting man! How did the King not feel shame sleeping with someone when others were watching?.

Even having the guts to smear the divinity of the palace by bringing that disgusting incense only used in prostitutes houses.

She immediately bowed and apologized for the intrusion then walked towards the door to go and find the Queen.

"Wait! Halt! How dare you leave when you were being called?"

One of the officials bellowed. His clothes were missing leaving only his underpants that were loose.

A shocked look crossed Bai Shen Ting's face. It was the head maid that came and instructed her to this part of the palace.

A little laugh from where the King was sitting caused her to raise her head.

There was the King burying his head in the bosom of a maid.

She immediately bowed her head back in disgust but a little nudge from her thoughts made her look up once more.

Lo and behold, the head maid was spotted on top of the King with her top open leaving her naked as the King buried his head and nudged his face around her breasts.

Immediately, Bai Shen Ting knew she had been tricked. The Queen had not instructed her to come here. Seeing all the lascivious and leering looks, she stumbled backwards before turning and fleeing to the door.

Behind her, she heard someone curse in anger then she also heard the courtesans laughing at her escape.

She didn't look back. She ran as fast as she could before leaving that area. When she could no longer hear the musicians playing anymore she finally stopped.

She was breathing heavily before she collapsed on the floor.

She was lost.

She didn't recognize this part of the palace but she walked around a bit, trying to find the servants quarters.

She passed a sharp bend and bumped into someone causing her to fall down.

As she fell in an unnatural angle, she also sprained her ankle in the process.

She looked up to apologize to the person but was met with a smile on the person's face that caused her blood to run cold.

She immediately bowed and greeted the person, " Your majesty"

He held her hand and helped her up from the ground and as she tried to resist, his hold was firm and started hurting her.

"I called you over, how dare you disobey me and run away? You caused me embarrassment in front of my court!"

Yeah I'm the one that embarrassed you, not the endless amount of times you've slept with prostitutes and maids in public.

"Apologies your Majesty," she immediately bowed and used the opportunity to disentangle herself from his hands. " It is already late so this slave would be taking her leave".

As she moved to walk past the King, a sharp pain erupted from her head and she was flung on a courtyard pillar face first.

The King has dragged and thrown her with her hair.

Her head blanked as she saw specks in her vision before blinking them away.

'ripppppp'

She heard a loud tear and looked to see what it was.

Her skirt was torn. She immediately came to and rushed to sit up only to be stopped by a loud slap. The sharp sting on her lip caused her to wince. In her daze, her undergarments had been roughly torn away from her body and thrown across the grass leaving only her torn skirt to cover herself but underneath it, she was naked.

She immediately pushed off the King in a shocking display of strength and ran.

A sharp shove caused her to fall again and she was turned around to face the King.

He gave her another slap on that same cheek and put his fingers around her neck.

After a few struggles, she started to sputter and choke but he was relentless.

Her legs were pinned down by the weight of his body on her but they were still shaking and trying to throw him off.

She started to lose air in her body causing her vision to be dotted and fading.

Her hands stopped trying to pry his fingers from her throat and dropped limply to her body.

Just as she was about to faint, his fingers left her neck and she lay faint. She has not fainted but has no energy to move any part of her body.

The King resumed disrobing her and tore the front of her dress down to her stomach. Her dudou* was roughly tugged and sharply torn off her body causing her to wince in pain.

Her breasts lay bare after that. He buried his face and like an animal started nudging and painfully biting at them. Tears dropped from the edge of her eyes to the floor.

She knew what was coming. She had heard it from the maids in the palace. She turned her face around to look at the pale moon.

Moments pass that feel like years before she lets out a sharp cry.

She turned back to see the King between her legs with a stupid smirk on his face.

She started sobbing quietly.

"Hmmmm"

"Arrggggggh"

"Hnnnnn"

She turned her head back to face the moon. She bit her lips very sharply till blood pooled into her mouth but she made sure not to let out any noise.

Moments passed before the King grunted one last time and pulled out of her. He adjusted his undergarments and spat at her.

Crickets chirped and the loud hooting of an owl sounded. The cool blades of grass have started to have dew in them.

Bai Shen Ting stood up and winced. She was sore and hurting… everywhere.

She stumbled and limped towards her discarded undergarments on the ground. It took several tries before she could finally pick it.

It took even a longer time before she could wear it.

Moments pass in a blur as she finally finds herself inside her dilapidated courtyard. She took a candle and raised it towards the half broken mirror and stared at her pathetic state.

She blinked quickly and saw the mirror image shake.

She blinked again and saw a young girl with long hair and a long lace nightgown.

She immediately touched it and the image moved. She raised her hand to her lips and the image copied her actions.

She was confused but then she looked at her hands with the dim light of her candle and saw her small hands. She looked at the mirror again and saw that it was no longer broken but instead it was her jeweled mirror.

Raising the candle to her face, she peeked at the mirror.

Cold sweats ran down Bai Shen Ting's back.

The dull moonlight from her window illuminated her room. She walked towards her bed and dropped the covers she carried from her bed. The bed was almost taller than her. She padded to her dresser and poured tea in a cup.

The tea poured all over the place leaving only a few that entered the cup because her hands were shaking.

She dropped the kettle and gave up on the whole thing before picking and drinking the little in the cup.

It was all a dream.

She was no longer the pampered idiot of the past. She was not going to make the same mistake she did as her past self.

A/N: Hello lovelies. Don't forget to like, comment and refer my story to everyone you know.