Chapter 9: unusual encounters

Few minutes ago, young master Zhang walked past the man in the wheel chair. Dew to the crowd, they accidently bumped into each other.

"Agh! Look where are you going, man", said the young master Zhang with scornful attitude, as he turned around to look at the man in the wheel chair, "well, well, being cripple must be why you can't control where you are going", he gave out a mocking smirk.

The man on the wheel chair stopped and asked his bodyguard to turn him around. The man did not say anything yet.

So the young master continued with his mocking, "why? Can't you even say sorry now?"

The silence of the man made the young master furious.

He was the son of one of the great noble families with the ties to the emperor but this crippled man won't apologize to him.

Who does he think he is? I have to teach him how to respect others.

"you won't say sorry?" he asked.

Yet, the man still did not speak.

"Fine then," he said and signaled his lackey friends to hold him "hold him"

His so called friends hesitated but in the end complied. 

Their actions caused the passersby to stop and form a crowd around them. The young master was inwardly over joyed. It was good chance to set an example out of him. 

The cripple should know who he was messing with.

The bodyguard took out his sword and so did the four so called friends of the young master.

The four young men lunged at the bodyguard first, but with incredible speed he swiftly made them kneel all at once.

They did not dare to move at all. They lost completely. This man was just too strong for them.

Young master Zhang on the other hand felt furious.

"You all are so useless", he shouted.

"I will be on my way then", the man in wheel chair finally said, his voice deep and clam, yet it was commanding, "What a waste of time"

His body guard sheathed his sword and turned to push his master's the wheel chair.

Everyone around them laughed and made fun of them.

Young master Zhang was humiliated now. His face turned red like a tomato and he almost broke the paper fan in his hand.

"If you don't grab the bodyguard, I will tell my father to not give you any chance to write the Royal Examination this year"

The four young men became white as a ghost. They tried so hard to even apply for the examination, almost ten years of their lives at that, even if it meant to curry favor with the examination's director's son.

They couldn't let their hard work go in vain.

The masked man in the wheel chair did not stop even after hearing what that young man said. It was very irrelevant for him.

But then, the four young men grabbed the body from behind.

Two around his waist and two at his legs.

"Master I will finish this", said the bodyguard. And his master gave a nod. He then let go of the wheel chair's handle and turned towards the four, who were desperately trying to hold him in his place.

Taking this chance, young master Zhang used a golden magical rope which popped out of his hand to grab the handles of the wheel chair.

He had recently learnt this move from his teacher, the second prince.

With all his might he pulled the wheel chair along with the man sitting on it over the railing.

The body guard quickly threw the four men away and rushed to catch his master, but, unfortunately he was only able to grab the wheel chair. The man on the other hand fell down.

And that's when Ryu Kai noticed him.

"who the hell did this?" she looked up furiously, the she saw a man barely holding the wheel chair and also another one who looked at her in fear and suddenly ran away, "it was you then", she grit her teeth.

With one strong jump she rose up the fifth floor.

She saw the young man running away leaving behind his lackeys. As she floated in the air, with the quick wave of her hand she pulled him and slammed him on the ground.

"Agh!"

"How dare you cause trouble here?" she shouted and by that time the security guards have already arrived.

They pointed their swords at the young master.

"I am sending you to hell"

"How dare you?" he said trying to get up but couldn't because of the swords, "do you know who I am?"

"Why? Did you forget your damned name?" she asked.

The crowd instantly burst into laughter.

"Do you think I care a shit, boy?" she said angrily, "you are not to step foot inside this building ever again. That goes for you all too", she turned to the four young men on the floor.

"Who do you think you are?" the young master asked again, "I am the son of Lord Zhang"

"Lord Zhang?" Rye Kai scoffed, "you mean minister Zhang who is the principle of the imperial school, also the person who takes bribes to pass the failed students?"

"What? How dare you say such things?"

"Listen boy I don't care about you are your criminal father", she pinched the bridge of her nose and glared at him, "you almost killed someone today"

This sent shivers down his spine. He didn't think of that because he was too busy trying to escape and fix his ego.

But, he was actually about to become a murderer.

Rye noticed a little regret in the young man's eyes. which made her rethink about what punishment she should give him.

"Let this be a lesson for you", her voice was clam and yet full of warning, "take them away and ban them from entering 'Ya Qian's' premises"

Ya Qian is the name of the brothel which also means elegant money. It was named by Rye Kai herself as a symbol wealth.

"Yes, my lady" said the security guards in unison.

They dragged the five and escorted them away, that was outside.

"well folks get to your business" she clapped her hands, "a little commotion shouldn't disturb your night"

With that, everyone dispersed and went on with their business.

When Rye Kai turned to look at the man holding the wheel chair but he was nowhere to be found.

"Where'd he go?" she all the sides and finally looked down from the balcony, "oh! There he is…he is helping his master get….on the wheel chair? Why?"

She stared at them both until she found out why, "oh...…he can't walk, poor him" 

Mei Lan watched the whole incident from the other side of the indoor terrace, after Rye Kai made at the scene, "things have been taken care I see", she came here immediately after her one of the maids informed her.

"maybe this is great time to meet her", said the man who was standing behind Mei Lan.

He was stern faced as he watched below at Rye Kai and also the man in the wheel chair.

"well I told she is busy", said Mei Lan with a hint of irritation.

She'd always stop him from meeting her sister and it always worked because she was never there when this man comes, the crown prince, Liang Qi Xiao.

For some reason he is obsessed with her sister.

"from what I can guess", said the crown prince, "lady Kai has a very sharp hearing and can hear from miles away"

"how did you…"

"Lady Kai, I would like to have brief conversation with you", he said looking at the Madam.

Rye Kai turned her head towards them and smiled. And within seconds she was in front of them.

"what is it that your highness requires from a humble brothel woman"

The crown prince stared at her with unmoved eyes.

The man in wheel chair below had noticed this meeting.