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2024-10-29 19:42:56Chapter 5 – Empire wall
Ghou Fe Ling sat on the small couch in his room, he raised his head unto the ceiling with a face filled with disappointment and guilt, his eyes got wet recalling the memory of how Funji fell into the furnace while he stood, watching the whole scene without doing anything to help.
How is Xia and Peng going to feel after discovering the news, especially Xia who is the youngest, how am I going to explain to them how he died, or-or I should not even tell them if I -.
Ghou Ling’s got interrupted from his thought as his eyes caught the door as it flung open
“Ghou, how could you allow our brother die in your watch.” Pengfei Dou’s broken voice yelled in the room while his eyes suddenly began to drop its tears. Behind him was Xia whose eyes were bloody red with thin veins visible on her eyeballs, tears were falling freely from her eyes while catarrh gathered under her nose
Wait, is this how they walked to my home!
Ghou’s eyebrows knitted unconsciously as he stared at both Xia and Pengfei, he instantly snapped out of his thought and stood up from the couch
“I’m sorry, I wasn’t really-”
“Don’t deny it Ghou, the top three in the war has already spread, you, my brother and one other girl called Kiara Mihou.”
Pengfei voice calmed a little bit while he wiped his tears, he heaved a loud sigh and turned his gaze to the dark marbled tile of the room.
“The girl killed him right.”
“Ghou why didn’t you protect my brother.” Xia finally managed to murmur staring at Ghou directly into his eyes, her eyes had suddenly become less red now becoming a little bit normal
“I am so sorry Xia, Pengfei I am sorry I couldn’t do anything to help, he was so determine to kill anyone including me, I didn’t attack him, that girl, Kiara did with the help of her outstanding ability, even I had to give up because of her immense power, I’m sorry.” Ghou fell back on the couch leaving Pengfei and his junior sister to mourn their brother
****
The year quickly passed into a new one with lots of changes upon the empire. Kiara Mihou Ling being the new empress did a good job on the empire renaming it from ‘Ling Empire’ to ‘Empire Houhau, the excessive increase in materials were decreased into a more affordable one.
Artefacts and object which were seized from the Late emperor Fhen were returned back to their right owners, the citizens of the empire were gladden by their new empress and never made any grudge against her.
….
Ghou Ling laid on his old couch with his eyes closed, his life for the past year had had been lonely due to the expected withdrawal of Xia and Pengfei after their brother’s death.
Knock! Knock!
A loud bang landed on his door jerking him out of his rest, he stood up almost immediately from the couch and ran to the door, he was curious to know who might be knocking in his door after over six months, he instantly opened it and met two tall men who stood in front of the door wearing an overall red metal uniform and a pair of black under-knee boots, on their waist was a metallic red scabbard holding a silver-rapier sword.
“Empress Kiara expects your visit in the palace.” One of the men informed staring directly into the eyes of Ghou whose face fuzzed with frustration
Oh heavens!, I’m so tired of this stupid name, just because she won a stupid war does not mean she deserve to be empress.
Ghou Ling stared at the men who were vividly message-guards of the palace, he slowly walked out of the house, wearing a under-knee trouser and a normal plain black shirt, he locked the door of the house using an almost rusty key and dropped it into his pocket, he turned back to the guards and heaved a deep sigh
“Okay, lead the way please.”
….
Ghou Fe Ling stood in the center of the ‘great hall’ in the palace, there were large golden chandeliers which hanged on the ceiling, the ground was well adorned with beautiful red carpets which flowed from the minister stairs down to the exit door. Golden statues and sculptures of other past emperors and empress were well arranged in the corners of the hall thereby enhancing a mesmerized beauty
Tap! Tap!
Ghou Ling looked back at the staircase and saw Kiara, the empress climbing down the stairs slowly while her pure white and silky robe flowed alongside with her, her long hair was well packed and ornamented with several jewelries
“Ah, Ghou Fe Ling, you are Ghou right.” Kiara Mihou Ling, now known as Empress Kiara pronounced slowly as she climbed down the stairs. The two guards who stood beside Ghou instantly bowed upon seeing her, but Ghou stood firm on the ground like a tree well stable on the ground
“Hum, Ghou why won’t you show respect to your empress.”
The two guards immediately stood upright and turned their gaze to Ghou who did not pay any attention toward them, one of the guard raised his hand in anger on an attempt to hit him
“Don’t touch him.” Hearing the order, the guard stopped his hands in mid-air, he bowed again in apology and backed away toward the exit door with his other colleague
“Would you mind coming upstairs Ghou.” Kiara turned around and began to walk toward the left corridor. Ghou having no other choice obediently claimed unto the staircase thereby following her.
After ten seconds of walking across multiple guards in the corridor with silence, Kiara stopped in front of a metallic red door and twisted its knob thereby opening it
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Kiara stepped into the room while Ghou followed curiously. Just then after entering the room, his brow folded realizing that he was in the empress chambers, he was surprisingly stunned by the beauty of the room even when he wasn’t expecting to be invited into this particular room.
The wall were painted red with drawing of patterns and flowers on it, in the left end of the room stood a blue four-poster net bed with a beautiful patterned mattress and pillow arranged on it, beside the bed was a beside-bed-table which held a large lamp and a cup of tea, the ground was covered by a furry red rug which covered the whole parts of the room. In the right side of the room was a pure white door which had to be the way to the bathroom, while the center of the room stood three blue armchair and a wide golden table which held a flower vase.
“So I called you here cause there is something very important that I think you need to know and help me with.” Kiara voice trembled as she immediately sat on one of the armchairs while Ghou sat on another
“Eh, what’s that.”
“It’s the wall, I don’t know but the guards who are in charge of guiding continue giving me report of beast which have tried to pass through.”
“Soo, I thought that’s supposed to be normal.”
“No, this is not normal, there are up to fifteen records of different beast trying to pass through every single dawn, one of the guard was killed last dusk.” Kiara brows folded while her mouth curved with her gaze fixed on the table
“So what do you need- wait, do you want me to guard the wall.” Ghou’s face twitched with his eyebrows knitted staring at Kiara who kept silent
“Like seriously, you think I would risk my life for you.”
“No Ghou, you are not risking your life for me, it is for the people.” Kiara’s voice lowered making it sound more innocent that prideful
“B-But, my powers is not an expert like yours, and by the way as an empress you are expected to fight for your people.”
“Ah, Ghou you know fully well that my responsibility is in the palace and not the battlefield.” Kiara voice fuzzed with the words of Ghou.
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