SuSu~ These walls around me are tumbling down, as they descend, stones fly, shower hitting my head one after the other. Every brick’s finding its aim, me, yet I do not suffer. The whole world crumbled and ceases to exist, and my resolve is complete. After giving birth, my frail body is merely an empty…
SuSu~ Regret is similar to taking medicine without water. The dry little pill sticks on your bare tongue, bitterness emerging instantly, spreads further and intensifies sourness as you force yourself to swallow. The means of ingestion doesn’t get any easier from there. No, it catches, remains in the very back of your windpipe sticking regardless…
SuSu~ “Ye Huaaaa…” My husband? No. It’s the Crown Prince’s name, like a prayer, murmurs linger on my lips as I awake. It’s nothing new but a bad habit that I have to yet eradicate from my yearning heart, body, and brain. Call it a work in progress. Anyways, he or the man with his strikingly…
Settlement….. “Stay with me…” He tried to shout but it was the most horrifying vision. SuSu dressed in her beautiful red wedding attire. She sat on their bed on Mount Junji and told him she was no more. She declared she was no more before completely disappearing from his sight instantly. Ye Hua felt…
Desperate Measures….. In full silent retreat and seclusion, Qian Qian abruptly closed up in the Hall of Beautiful Youth for almost an entire month. She reopened its doors, as suddenly as she’d closed them but she never appeared before Ye Hua. When he went to her, always absent was she and never did she come…
Reverse Psychology….. Ye Hua closed and rested his tired eyes. His temples throbbed due to the extensive range of chaotic emotions churning inside him, which were baffling. He couldn’t decide which was worst – the injury or the rage; the sorrow or the profound disappointment; the desperation or resentment; the love or hate. He felt…
The Real Secret Agenda….. Bai Qian raced until she couldn’t take another step as breathing became difficult and labored. By the time she reached her private chamber in the Hall of Beautiful Youth painfully, her heaving lungs felt as if they were going to either collapse or explode in her chest. And it took many…
Killing two birds with one stone….. Instantly, it disturbed him when Ye Hua acutely noticed it in SuJin’s keen and calculating gaze. She’d so quickly caught on to Qian Qian’s poor performance, which had become distinctly suspicious of his and her amorous relationship. It was due to what she witnessed during tea. Their unusually odd,…
Lullaby….. The water is wide I can not get o’er And neither have I wings to fly Oh go and get me some little boat And both shall row, my love and I. Where love is planted, O, there it grows It buds and blossoms, like some rose It has a sweet and pleasant smell…
The Handshake….. Swiftly rising to her feet, Bai Qian coolly informed him, “I’ll see you tomorrow at the Eastern Sea King’s banquet for his son. We’ll start there as I’ve explained.” He wasn’t ready to part with her yet. Not even close. Ye Hua’s precious time with Bai Qian was too brief and too short.…
The Charade….. The first contrived, a purely false move was her misleading request for Zhe Yan’s amnesia potion. A total farce. Since it was something Bai Qian never intended on drinking, not even for a second. Nonetheless, in her mind the show, the semblance was a needed performance to divert, deflect all and any inquiries…
First meeting or reintroduction….. The illusionary image seemed unreal and resembled something one would see in a dream…fantasy. The subtle wave of undulating color that mirrored the smooth, fluid motions of the curling sea, was Ye Hua’s future Crown Princess Consort Bai Qian’s silky oceanic hued goddess dress that was flowing and swaying with her…
First, a horrified, “Ahh!” Then a crash. The loud sound of dropping dishes shattering, and followed by Ye Hua’s terrified voice screaming, “Qian Qian! Please gouge out my eyes! Nine Heavens! Where is Zhuzian Terrace?!” From the master bedroom, Qian Qian swiftly ran out to see Ye Hua covering his eyes, while standing next to…
During the hectic three weeks time in which Bai Qian’s continually changing life, did more rotations than Yuna Kim and Nancy Kerrigan (ice skaters) put together. Everything in Zhe Yan’s peach orchard was the same as usual, ordinary and predictable. In Ten-Mile Peach Grove, the wind still blew gently. The peach florets continued to bloom…
Heavenly Lord said and did nothing, after hearing about the change in guards at Donghua Dijun’s residence. If anything, he’d intentionally and purposely avoided the palace, because he didn’t want to run into Bai Qian. He’d lived long enough to know revenge was best served cold and calculated Bai Qian’s plans were currently on ice.…