"In Luck or out of Luck?"
The sun was already down the horizon and still Ruoyun was nowhere to be found.The clouds of mystery were already building up the suspense,but the resulting rain was still ain't to be found.
In ancient times,things were not so easy for the commoners to confront the royal family and its People, No matter wherever you check the history. Failing to search out Ruoyun,Imperial gaurds and Palace gaurds were already in disdain.The worse was happening with the only "to-be-said" suspect of the case, Fu Yiyi.
Afterall,The Emperor needed one Scapegoat to end the case. Even Yiyi's Brother Zhang was distraught with the false accusations on his innocent sister.But all of his rage and sadness was unheardable for the Emperor's ears.If the Emperor want's her to die, then she has to die..
The night was a worst frozen one,with unoccasional raining marking a bad omen.
Nature has too shown its distraught over this unlucky Scapegoat.
She had just gone to talk with her old friend after decades of separation,but the destiny had made her pay for this.
As the day came out,As expected by Commander Zhang, Emperor had decreed punishment for Fu Yiyi.
Sometimes being an upright official can't help your own family- Zhang realized this first time.
He knew the capital has no feelings for each other,Its such an "unfilial" place that even the family members don't care,if you are doomed.
But being a only adopted son of the Fu family, he has only this sister in this world. whose smile according to him, can deter the mountains to fall for her.
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The Sun rose up, As Zhang continued to think about finding a clue to take her sister out of this; he got something extremely shocking- even for him as a commander of Imperial Gaurds.
The fourth maid of Consort Fei(Mother of Crown Prince)had seen someone in the backyard of Fei Palace.
Finally the dying disappointment was saved for a moment,but as they found the person,it was none other than Ruoyun's bulter-Shen Dai Fu.
He was unconscious with severe injuries on his body,having no clue for what has happened.
This might seem like a good thing,but it was'nt,it directly "implicated" Consort Fei and "complicated" the Case.
"The silence of Chaos"was now growing with exponential terms of "mystery, injustice and distrust"!
But all the people were like someone's chesspeices,forced to change there position by the situation. And on this situation only one person was getting the most of the profits-
Guess Who?
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None other than the person who got all the profits from the implications on Consort Fei, which caused Fei's to be grounded,defamed and lose reputation. And addition to this,she got a big share of powers from the Fei's,As the Officials dependent on Fei's slowly changed there sides to her shelter.And,all this happening was'nt really suspected by the Palace Gaurds,as it was natural that the officials were trying to survive under a stable person....After all 'survival' is required, even for the nobility.
It was Consort Ruyi-the Mother of the fourth Prince,Jin Yunlan.
As she kept herself out of suspicion,she underestimated one of her enemies,whom she had thought will not be be suspecting her caused problems.
Afterall, "time"is not partial.
It was the Crown Prince,son of the defamed consort Fei, who out of desperation,leaked all the secrets of the Consorts to the Emperor;without getting himself indulged,he targeted the Other Three Consorts which were idle in this situation-including Consort Ruyi.The secrets were extremely controversial and included many corruption cases of the two consorts,which he had gathered once to negotiate with them for his crowning,Causing mass unrest over the Royal palace,which engulfed the city too,as men of the three Consort's started fighting each other in distrust.
Its more like to say that it seemed that if not stopped- in only three days,the Capital city will be collapsing with these riots.
But Luckily something good happened that turned the tides....
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While searching clues to save his sister, Zhang found an evidence which gave him an idea of the location of Ruoyun's whereabouts.
He rushed outside of the Capital with a handful of followers,as his Sister was taken to be executed..it was a fair race with the time,while "time" was ruthlessly flowing with little feelings for what was happening,but Zhang's white horse seemed to be faster than the "Time".
While Zhang galloped out,his followers lagged behind him; but, he didn't stop.
After galloping across the narrow valley,he reached an old dirty discarded Warehouse which belonged to Consort Ruyi's brother Si Guan yi.
Zhang rushed inside,without waiting for reinforcements,and barged into the broken wooden door, surprising a whole crowd of Warriors,which covered there face nicely enough to be beyond recognition.
"Kill him!"
"Kill!"
A group of people rushed towards Zhang,with their swords thrusted towards the intruder.
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Like Thunder strikes, Zhang's sword shined with the sunset's glare- "The colour of Blood", a deep deadly smile came out on his face,and on the next moment the first wave of attackers were crippled to the ground,with a filthy scene of Blood splattered all over them.
Almost drenched in the blood of the attackers,Zhang pushed through the second wave of attackers almost giving them the same fate as he gave to the first ones.Before he can cut down the last of them, a barrage of arrows came out of nowhere,almost killing him.
As he turned back,he saw a big wave of Armoured warriors were rushing towards him,with archers surrounding him.
Seeing his unsafe situation,he pushed in- cutting the two soldiers along with their swords in "one strike",and as his blade tore them apart-in the spur of the moment, he sprung inside the doors of the warehouse,thrusting his blood-drenched sword on the soldier inside the warehouse.
As he got inside,the attackers poured inside-and the sounds of clashing swords and cries of death and pain intensified...scaring the attackers outside the warehouse,who stopped their aggression hearing the voices and cries of their comrades.
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As the cries stopped with a strange silence,the remaining attackers surrounded the warehouse,with archers stretching their bows with their heavy arrows,ready to pierce through the intruder.
A deafening silence engulfed the moment,along with the stench of Blood and the dead furiating the attackers- to take revenge for the dead. But,We don't decide who will die,or who live with regrets.
The "Silence" proved to be the calmness of the wind,before the gruelling storm-
Zhang came out of the broken door,drenched in blood and injuries,he came out with Ruoyun lying unconscious on his back; his hands gripping the slippery sword,almost red with the blood dripping down from its blade.
For a moment the soldiers seiging the warehouse were stoned out,seeing this enigmatic scene of Blood,death,sweat and sunset's coldness coming through the bamboo forests surrounding the warehouse.
As the sweat rolled down the foreheads of the archers- a cry of "kill" poured the moment with the arrows whistling towards Zhang ,thirsty to pierce through him.
'Death was approaching towards him,he faced with a deadly smile- even scaring off the Death.'
In a moment,he kicked the broken door lying before him,with such a immense force which made it to come springing up with enough speed to take the impact of the arrows,buying enough time for him to escape the volley of the arrows,vanishing with a blink of eye which only a Master of Lightening*(a special category of fighters; having prowess in extremely speedy movements ) can do with such speed.
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As he escaped out of the encirclement with his speed ,the attackers and their whistling arrows pursued him.
'He had fooled the death before him,with just a smile.' (*author be like- Smile OP!)
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