Unknown Beauty (7)

Wang Haobin was in his room talking to his mother about canceling the engagement with Lu Tian Tian.

"Um, Mother... I have a request...." He hesitated on saying it but was able to express his feelings. "Mother, I don't want to marry Lu Tian Tian."

"What do you mean? Why now?" asked his mother, Li Muqiu.

"There is this rumor going on in town about the unknown beauty..."

Li Muqiu has heard about it, 'Ah, the fake one? The rumor about a beautiful woman no one in town knows but has seen her enter the Unknown forest...'

"I want to marry her. She's real. I've met her in town today and... I fell in love with her," said Wang Haobin. "Mother, I have to marry her!"

Li Muqiu was surprised. She has never seen her son like this before. He usually just follows her orders since she knows what's best for him.

"No, you need to marry Lu Tian Tian. Their family is our best bet to win the throne and for me to become Empress," she said.

"Sorry, Mother. I will not become Emperor of Wang if I can't have her!" he said with nothing else wavering him. 'I will have the unknown beauty!'

"We can make her you concubine then if that's what will make you become Emperor," said Li Muqiu. She never would have thought he would go to that far to get the woman she has never met.

"Great! I'll make you proud, Mother!" said Wang Haobin. "By the way, we left the 3rd prince somewhere in the city where you wanted him to be, Mother."

"Good, good. My guards have taken care of him. We should not see him tomorrow..." but then the door slid open with a man out of breath and kneeling to greet them.

"My prince, Imperial concubine! I just saw the 3rd prince return to the palace a moment ago!"

"What!?" yelled Li Muqiu.

"Yes, Imperial concubine. He returned safely back to the palace with only a red mark on his face!" said the guard.

"Check the warehouse!" she said getting up from her position.

"Where are you going, Mother?" asked Wang Haobin. He knew his mother hated the queen because he was told the queen seduced the emperor and took his mother's position so he wanted to make his mother proud of him and get her position back.

"Go to sleep, my son. Tomorrow is your father's birthday party so you're going to need all the rest you can get."

What he didn't know is that she was the one who killed the 1st, 2nd, and tried to kill the 3rd princes of Wang. He thought he was just lucky his brother died without him doing much. So he was very confused about the conversation his mother was having with the guard.

"Why did you always pay attention to my older brothers instead of me!? Why can't you just love me like how the queen loves her own sons!' he thought angrily as he watches his mother leave his room.

'Tsk. This is why I hate my mother!'

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"Why isn't he dead yet!?" yelled Li Muqiu as she entered her room.

A man came out of the shadow and looked at her in concern. "I don't know. When I heard the news of the 3rd prince returning, I went to check toe warehouse just to find my men dead."

"What?" when she heard that those men died, she was confused, "But the 3rd prince in barely a Martial Knight? You said you men were all Martial knight's and higher?"

"They are."

"But the prince... wouldn't have defeated them all.... right?"

"Exactly. Someone else was there and killed them. They all died in one hit, slice right on the neck, separating their heads from their bodies. And..." the mysterious guy paused thinking while saying it, "their expression when they died were...weird. They were surprised but in a way also happy?"

"What? Who would want to die happy?" asked the confused woman.

"I don't know but whoever the person is, they're strong. So we have to lure them out and destroy them before the contract in completed," said the man.

"Good. Kill whoever is disrupting our plans," said the woman. She looked directly at him and it was her first time clearly seeing his face. 'A mole... under his eye...?' she thought but quickly got her thought back together again. "Anyway, did you find the woman who bought all your slaves?"

"No, she's super hard to track. All I know is that she wears a veil, probably because she's super ugly. But it doesn't hide the big scar on her forehead and somewhere in the area..."

"Big scar on forehead...? You mean Lin Yu Yan?"