Chapter 23 : General Agreed

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General Julius listened to Princess Zina's proposal and his anger turned into frustration. What would he do if the prince finds out that he made a deal with the princess too? The princess that he dislikes Zhang Wei to be with as a partner in ruling Fort Pampanga had proposed a plan to help her get knowledge about what the Prince does in his free schedule. In exchange, Julius must keep quiet about the Princess and her slave's identities. For now, it was safe for him to agree since he and Prince Zhang Wei exchanged faces.

"By the way, you gave me days to decide. I just remembered." Zina mentioned but Julius just ignored it. The fact that it was Prince Zhang Wei that Princess Zina was having a conversation yesterday evening. And since he told her about his dual personality, he must act like he really had the disorder.

Julius slowly pushed his jumbled-up head with a diverse feeling that still persisted as he tried to control himself not to say anything worse other than being rude at Princess Zina's proposal since it was mostly a weighty condition. Hoping that he would not look like a General that bears a resemblance to a stone. His eyebrows slowly relaxed together and his jaw was not tensed up anymore.

Zina waited for the General to talk as she stared at the food that he placed on the table. She did not even notice Julius' expression toward her. She pulled the pillow away at the back of her waist, and she dragged it freely but the aches on her body starts poking again. Desiring another day that she was again able to feel no pain.

A minute later, Julius decided to sit down on the chair closer to the table. He was picturing out the whole thing if everything goes out of hand in both sides, he was letting himself stay in the chair to make rounds of the yes and no answer, his face was starting to look like a child who lost a lollipop but in silent mode.

"I did not remember about the thing you said just now. I think if my second character shows up then I assure you Princess that it did remember. And also, your proposal, I will agree to keep it as a secret since your reason is acceptable in my opinion."

Zina looked at the general and she smiled. And it was confirmed that her memory was not that sharp since General's height was not that tall. Maybe because of his boots. She then gently moves her back that was against the head board of the bed, she studied Generals face just to make sure he was serious, feeling a sense of relieve, her day was on track to be fine.

"Here it is Princess, your breakfast."

In front of Zina was a bowl of steamed buns and it was still hot and there was a tiny grass like cut along with the soup. Occasionally, when she was living at Ganot, there was always a well-known dish prepared by the chefs but the dish that she was about to intake as a meal does not have a name. She could just let the General eat her meal.

"You do not like it? Or You are hungry but you prefer to starve than eat this, Princess?"

On the other side of Zina's mind, she knows that it was not right to just ignore any kind of food, but she does not even know if it was edible and safe for her.

Julius took out the spoon and fork on his left side pocket. The utensils were being covered by a clean brown tissue.

Oddly enough, for Zina the action of the General was like a reminder of her sister… when she was with her sister Sabi—her sister likes to hide utensils that had beautiful decorations and she put them inside a safety bag but first she must make sure she put on a white tissue as an interior cover in each item.

Zina would like to meet her sister Sabi soon, but Sabi being missing, it would be hard to locate who seized her at the crime scene.

"Princess, do you understand the struggle of the rest of your people?"

Zina frowned at Julius. "I am not trying to be rude at you, I just wanted you to know that there are some of your people who cannot eat this kind of food, because it is a luxury here. If you thought about why this type of food is not known, then think again when I say, this dish is called Wonton Soup." Julius said as he uses the spoon to take one wonton out.

"Wonton Soup? I never heard of it."

"Now Princess, this food is still hot. I am going to blow it for you and feed you. So, no pushing me or else I will dislike you more." Julius said bluntly at the same time it sounded like a notice.

Yield the yesterday, for example. She pushed the general away but they were in an awkward position and if there was somebody else on sight, it will probably cause a rumor. But he was not supposed to remember it because of his dual personality, let alone to have made her confused again like she was on an urge of having more body pain tightening.

"I did push you and we—" Julius did not let Zina finish her phrase. He directly feed the cooled wonton on her mouth.

Zina almost got choked. Gladly, she manages to chew the wonton. It was soft and tasty. But she remained frowning while giving the General a deadly glare. Then she tasted a shrimp as her teeth divided the wonton inside of her mouth, it was good and stable. She enjoyed chewing her first wonton experience. She could not imagine what reaction she should have as she asked the General for another wanton instead of discussing about what happened yesterday. She should not be oblivious due to the situation when she let the general banded to keep the secret and be on her side on the upcoming days.