THE TEMPLE OF MOON GODDESS

(the next day)

Qiqi came out of the room with a pair of clothes drenched in blood while chi yin and hwan watched her," why is their blood on the clothes that qiqi is carrying? " hwan looked at chi yin and chi yin looked at him. "you don't know, it's that master has scars on her back that bothers cause those wounds open every week" he looked away while hwan had his eyes fixated on the blood drenched clothes with an expression no one understand , qiqi walked towards both of them "chi yin, would you mind burning these clothes" she gave the clothes to chi yin and made him leave the two alone "hwan..." she blushed a little while he just hmmed in answer "its really embarrassing to ask but will you go to moon goddess instead of me" she asked ".... n-" "master is also coming" she looked down at her feet ".... okay" he replied, internally being happy after saying that she left from there.

(in afternoon)

Qiqi brought tea to the princess. "young miss, Hwan will be join you" she said while wu jiang chokes on the tea she was drinking "W-What" she said while coughing " I am ordered to tell you by her highness, please try to understand" she bowed a little "why would moth-.... oh" "I'll dress you up in the meantime" she pulled out some dresses and picked up a hanfu while wu jiang drank the tea, she prepared her and while doing her hair wu jiang spoke "does Hwan have something to wear if not tell the tailors to make something wearable for him" she monotonously spoke "i think he does but-" "tell the tailors to make him all sorts of wearables to his liking" she ordered "yes young miss i will go now" she left while other maids did her hair. after preparing all the stuff and after getting she sat in the carriage "when will he be arriving?" she asked tilting her head away to the window trying to look outside to see any glimpse of him but he didn't arrive "how have you been doing, master" he bowed before entering "good, how have you been doing, i rarely see you" she still had her face tilted away not making any contacts with him "i was a little ill recently but-"she tilted her head in the most creepy way as if she was offended by something he spoke, "y-young m-miss, i-is s-something wrong?" one of the maids spoke being startled "why wasn't i informed of him not being well" she eyed the maids "even i wasn't treated that way, what's so special in any way" chu yin mumbled to himself "is there something wrong" wu jiang and hwan asked him in unison while he stuttered "n-n-n-nothing" " are you sure your gonna be alright" she faced him "master its no big deal, i am alright now" he was a bit stressed from his looks "fine then get inside the carriage" she sighed and went inside alongside him.

it was a long journey until they reached the temple so wu jiang decided to play go with him "do you know how to play go" she looked at him while he swung his head left and right in denial "i never played go before but saw old uncles play them, can you teach me master" he smiled, and it went on two games before hwan finally said " its so hard, how can i ever learn " he pouted, it was rather cute then how frustrated he was just by playing a mare game of go. it was a while later when the carriage finally stopped and they reached the temple of the moon goddess, it was hard to say wu jiang was the cruel warrior who ended thousands of life in battle by one strike of her sword, she looked as if she was some sort of goddess, after all she was one of the beauties of her era, she bowed to monks who were there in the temple and the monks bowed as well, but they seemed misunderstand something, one of the monks came towards them while both of them bowed and showed respect "may moon goddess bless you both" he gave his blessings and went away but this did make hwan smile a little but wu jiang didn't understand a thing maybe that's because of staying in the border for too long, that's what the other monks said, they started walking towards the statue "master, we haven't looked around how can we go straight to pray" well he did have a point "but there is nothing to see, who am i going to see ,you" she smiled looking at him up and down trying to check him if anything was wrong "well, well, you do look good, " she started walking towards the statue while hwan was left in awe as if his heart stopped, he indeed looked good in his bright blue hanfu which he had store for "special occasions" basically that was for her.

upon reaching near the statue, she knelt down , hwan joined her and knelt down, while wu jiang burned the incense and prayed to the goddess , hwan had no intension to do so and watched her pray with his elbow supporting his face, he smiled ' i had never ever thought that i'd ever fall for a human girl, how could you stir these feelings in me' he thought but wasnt aware that someone else might hear his thoughts just then there was a message in his private array "now who is the bastar-ahhhhhhh WHAT THE HELL, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" she screeched in shock "never in my entire life have i thought the crown prince would react this way, seeing me in front of me" the women in revealing red dress spoke with a gentle voice, soothing to hear but for the crown prince, he had disgust uphold his face "what do you want?" he straightforwardly asked "that is what i want to ask, why are you here?" " what do you mean" " i mean WHY THE HELL IS THE CROWN PRINCE HERE IN FRONT OF MY STATUE KNEELING. ARE YOU EVEN AWARE IF ANY DEMON AROUND YOU TWO GETS TO SEE THIS, THEY REPORT IT IN THE PALACE AND BECAUSE OF YOU, MOTHER WILL PUNISH ME, i hate you" the aggressive speech ended dramatically with woman crying "it ain't my problem, deal it yourself oh so great sister" he rolled his eyes, "if mother gets to know this,that you are praying on a human woman, then make sure you prepare yourself ,dear brother" she threatened her while hwan just stood there mocking her "oh really, i bet you can't" "what if i did" "nah, you won't" " now i will" "you cant" ,both of them started fighting until they heard wu jiang's voice " hwan, we need to go back to the palace, there is some urgent matter" her voice was firm yet filled with panic

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