Memories from that day.

It's the third day and no one answered to my call.

Maybe A-Li couldn't make it or she never received the letter.

I can not prove anything because I am being closed in this damn prison. I think is already past nine o' clock and no inquisitor came to torture me yet. Something strange must have happened outside.

A bit later a guard comes in and brings me a note.

It's from A-Li! I hurriedly open it to see the news.

"Min Sun, I don't know what to believe anymore. At the beginning, all the indices were leading to you and the old general. It seems that even some ministers from the east fraction are involved in this matter. I am only replying to you now because someone proved that you weren't implicated in this act of treason, otherwise I wouldn't bother to write to a traitor. I can not help you. I don't want to be involved in this. If what that person proved is still valid until tomorrow, you won't lose your head but I am not sure about your grandfather's life or your position as princess. I am sorry but please don't contact me again. Farewell. "

I raise my eyes from the paper when I realise that is all full of my tears. I can not believe what I am reading. A-Li says that she doesn't want to see me anymore and to stop contacting her. She never tried to prove my innocence, she never believed in my purity. My own sister that was so close to me until the day of the banquet turned her back to me and thinks that my mother's relatives did this.

Why?

I close my eyes and wait for the next stage to happen, even though I don't have a good feeling about it. In the evening, the inquisitor comes and tells me that the general just admitted his wrong doings and he will be executed tomorrow morning, together with the ministers from the east fraction. After the public execution, their families will be sent as slaves to the Chuan Xu island, a far away place near the northeast border.

The Chuan Xu fortress uses its slaves as workers in the iron mine. Even though I wasn't involved, I will still be sent with them.

When he turns to leave, I politely ask him to tell me who was the one who vouched for me.

The inquisitor tells me that it was a guest envoy from a neighbouring country, someone who claimed to be sitting next to my table all that evening, then he leaves the cell room.

I try hard to remember all the foreign guest's figures and especially the one who was next to my table that evening but I can not recall anything. Frankly speaking, I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings at that time.

I believe that even my future fiance, a prince from the Langling kingdom, was there during that night.

The Langling kingdom is a powerful nation situated at our east border. After the conflict that took place twenty five years ago before I was born, the both emperors decided to strengthen their peace by marrying their first children. The Langling's first prince is Lang Li Hua. Following this rule, I should have soon departed to Langling to marry their first prince but the events changed over night. Who knows who will marry the Langling prince now. No one will want a slave.

That's it! Tomorrow I am going to see our ending with these teary eyes and I won't look away from it , not even when my eyeballs will fall down.

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