Chapter 02

The guests couldn't see her dark aura. Even so if it becomes uncontrollable, they might get caught in and get consumed by her enourmous dark powers.

“Your Highness, please control yourself, there are many eyes and ears in the hall”

Ziteng regains consciousness.

“Ah I must have been out of my mind”.

"Thank you, Yi, Xi'an."

Let’s leave.

“Your majesty, Ziteng would like to excuse as she is not feeling well”.

The emperor noticed her aura and lets her leave.

“Very well then! Call a physician if required”

“Yes, your majesty. Thank you.” (Bows Politely and leaves)

"The Emperor noticed it too"

"Yes, milady."

( Sighs)

"While at that, Xi'an could you send a message to father about the reports of the war? He might want to hear directly from me."

"Yes, Your Higness. After all, The Emperor has sent you to the war to observe but yet you used your powers there"

"If i hadn't use, we might have lost the war."

Unbeknownst, the onset of changes started taking place…

Shortly, after the banquet, some events started taking place. The emperor became sick and was on his sickbed. The Crown Prince soon took charges but the imperial harem was in turmoil.

(Inside the palace)

“I CANNOT ACCEPT THIS! MY LORD”

”The Crown Princess is no one but a mere person with a noble title. She was a child of a tribe which is now extinct, thus giving her the Phoenix seal is an insult to the noble consorts”.

The Crown Prince couldn’t protect her consort and had to take away the seal from her hands.

“Right now, if status matters then the person above the Crown Princess would be the Grand Imperial Princess”

”I shall give the seal to her. No one shall defy my order”

News does travel fast and shortly after the Crown Prince’s orders, Ziteng was informed.

“What do you say, My Lady?”

“It is very interesting to see that my brother would give me the phoenix seal, knowing about my powers.”

“What….The Crown Prince knows?”

“It is just a guess; everyone in the palace would ignore me for being quiet and weak. They would normally stay away from me”

(Sighs)

“But I like it this way; I have you two, Fen and my familiars”

Ziteng, the eighteen year old princess was given the charge of handling the palace.

Under her rule the palace was much more peaceful as she was the highest ranking noble in the harem.

Concubines dare not say anything to upset her as they were informed that she was the Gongzhu Zhianshi. No one would even dare to oppose her.

At first they were startled for the Crown Prince to give her such a privilege position.

But as the days pass, they began to accept her as the head of the harem.

"Isn't Her Highness a capable person?"

"Yes, it seems like that. I heard that she was educated equally like her brothers, even sword fighting"

"If she was so capable then why did she had to hide it from her brothers.."

"It must be probably about the succession of the throne"

"Hushh we are not allowed to talk about that"

(On the rooftop) A disguise man was eavesdropping on them.

"A battle for the throne..huh?"

(laughs rudely)

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