Memories from that day.

After the inquisitor leaves I ask the guards to bring me paper and ink to write to A-Li.

(A-Li, A-Li Sun, the younger princess of the Empire and our protagonist's step sister.)

She is definitely going to go to the bottom of this story and find out the truth.

" Dear A-Li, I think that you're already aware of what happens in this moment and I'm asking you to believe in my innocence. I am innocent. Please convince our mother to investigate this issue and clear my name. Your sister Min Sun."

I give the letter to one of the guards and wait for my sister's reply. And wait, and wait, and wait but no answer comes back in the next hours. This waiting seems to take too long!

I am having so many fears while waiting for my sister to reply or visit me down here. I am wondering if she will be allowed to come to the prison and visit a state criminal but I never doubt her trust in me. I am sure that she will do everything in her power to free me.

My younger sister A-Li is a smart and gentle girl that everyone is proud of. She always struggles to be as good as her elders and I know that she admires me a lot. A-Li once told me that she will become my duplicate so that no one would tell us apart in the future but I am always advising her to be more like herself because she has a wonderful mind and body.

Now as I am staying in this dark and dusty cell and the minutes are passing slowly, more and more memories are coming back to me. I am suddenly seeing my defunct mother's face in front of my eyes. My poor mother! Everyone says that she died of an incurable illness but my nanny said that the doctor brought by her family told a different story. Soon after, the man was found dead in his residence. I don't know what happened back then because I was only three years old. I only remember her face from the few portraits that are kept in my father's study room.

At a short time after my mother's funerals, noble concubine Zhai became the new empress. The next year my sister A-Li was born and ten years later our brother, Huo, the current crown prince, came to this world. My mother only had me.

I am also seeing my father's image signing documents in his study room and yelling at eunuch Gui for being an old pesky man, the place's gardens, the imperial kitchen where we played as children and many other places and images from my childhood.

I am wondering if I will see them again in this life!

While having all these kind of thoughts in front of my eyes, I didn't realise how late it was.

It was probably midnight because I could hear the sound of the owls coming from outside.

Freedom seems to have become a distant feeling to my heart.

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