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MY EVIL PRINCESS: Chapter 18: Choices
PART 128 – TIAN LIAM CAME BACK_2
Suddenly, he stopped eating and hugged her neck, then pulled her head to very close to his. He looked deep in her eyes and kissed her on her lips. She wanted to refuse him, but something prevented her from doing that, she just accepted his kiss and replied to him naturally. At that time, Tian Liang walked passing the entrance leading to her room and saw the scene from the view of the window. He felt sad and walked straight back to his room.
"What are you thinking about, Wang Tian Liang?", he asked himself. "You are envy to your own brother and his wife? You need to wake up, she is now your sister-in-law, and they don't do anything bad or wrong to you. Wang Tian Liang, your brother treats you well, your sister-in-law also treats you well, what do you expect more?"
He shook his head several times and decided to read some books to forget about what he had just thought about. They were the wrong thoughts, he should not ever think about them again. He should wish well for Tian Liam and Hou Lei.
After coming back from the meeting with the bureaucrats, the Emperor and the Queen heard the news about Tian Liam, they immediately ran to Hou Lei's room to meet him. They had just finished their dinner and Hou Lei was walking back to her room from the kitchen and bringing with her a bowl of medicine extract for him. She met the Queen and the Emperor at the entrance leading to her room. She stopped to greet them.
-My Emperor, my Queen. I wanted to inform you about Tian Liam, but you had a meeting this afternoon, I could not meet you at that time.
-I understand. Lead me to meet him! – The Emperor said.
They walked into the room, Tian Liam was playing with the things in her room. The Queen saw him and immediately ran to hug him.
-My son! – The Queen said with tears and happiness.
-Mother. – He also hugged her. – I'm sorry to make you worried.
-Wait! – The Queen gently pushed him away. – How can I be sure that you're my real son?
-Mother, why you ask me that? – He wondered. – I am Tian Liam, the fake one is captured in the prison.
-But if they carried out a ritual like that, they could carry many others. – The Queen said.
-Oh... I do not know how to prove to you. – He rubbed his hair.
-And the fake one can also have the memories and the characteristics of the original one. – Hou Lei said. – Mother, you must be careful with him.
-Hou Lei, how can you say that? – He yelled.
-But she's right. You need to prove that you're my real son. – The Queen continued.
-Well, your real name is... - He said.
-The fake Tian Liam knew that. – The Emperor cut his words.
-My first nun is Ah Xun. – He continued.
-The one in the prison also answered that. – Hou Lei said.
-Why all of you want me to prove that I am the real me? – He sat down on a chair and looked at them helplessly. – Hou Lei, on the way back to the palace, you said that you believed in me. Why did you change your mind?
-I just think that how can I assure you too? – She replied. – I am too scared of the things the fake Tian Liam could do and he seemed to know everything about the real Tian Liam.
-Okay, back to the question. – The Emperor said. - What's the traditional cake of West Land?
-It's a peach-tea biscuit! – He replied but not looking at them.
-Maybe the previous fake one could inform him about this. – The Queen said.
However, Hou Lei suddenly hugged him from behind.
-I believe that he's our Tian Liam. – She said.
-I also know that. – The Queen continued. – From the first sight I saw him, I already knew that. He has something like the energy around him, and only Tian Liam has this. The fake one used magic to prevent us from knowing about that energy, I guess.
-My son. – The Emperor said. – Forgive us for this small test. We only want to be sure that you are the real one. You know, seeing the scene of the shapeshifter changing from your face to his original face was something too much to us.
-So the three of you have just had a joke on me? – He wondered.
-Well, actually, not a joke, but okay, it's a joke! – The Queen answered.
-That's not fun! You've made me disappointed. You cannot even recognize if the one in front of you is the real me or not. – He was upset.
-Just because he had the perfect mask. – The Emperor said. – However, we did not make a joke on you, we really carried out a test.
-Okay, I know, I know, you all want me to be good. – He said with a sulked voice.
-Do not be like that. – She kissed on his cheek. – I think you also know how dangerous the ritual of Er Wang was. We must be careful about that.
-Well, it's late, we don't bother you two more. – The Queen said. – We just want to check Tian Liam's status, we were really worried much.
-We'll go first. – The Emperor and the Queen left.
-Do not be bad-tempered at them. They just want to check if you are really Tian Liam. – Hou Lei said. – The fake one made everyone scared much.
-I understand. – He continued. – At the time I was tied on a pole in the large yard of the Er village, I opened my eyes and saw some strange priests dancing around me and Er Wang, he was sitting on a chair opposite to me. After a while of dancing around the fire, the priests cut my hand and got some blood into a bowl with blue liquid. Then they gave the bowl to Er Wang, he drank all the liquid and looked at me then he laughed very loud. The priests continued to dance and chanted something like a spell and I could see many clouds on the sky and the wind became stronger. There was the thunder that appeared across the sky and it reached Er Wang's place. The priests danced faster and chanted the spell faster until Er Wang's face started to shine and he looked at me with satisfied eyes. After a while, his face shined brightly and when the light stopped shining, he was already a duplicate of me. I just could not believe my eyes. He stood up and walked to my place, he laughed, then looked at me from top to toe. He got closer to my face and said to me "Your everything will soon become mine. I'm the Third Prince of Main Land.". He even sounded like me, each tone, each laughing voice, each word he said. Everything just was the same as me.
-That was a very big ritual and he had spent a lot of time on that. – Hou Lei said. – How did you feel that time? Scared of him?
-No, I was not scared of him. I scared that he would hurt you, my parents, and the people in Main Land. But after all, when I knew his reason to do that, it was my scariest thing. – He continued.
-What was that? I still do not know what was his aim by replacing your place.
-You. – He looked straight at her.
-Me? – She surprised. – Why did he want to aim at me?
-Actually, I know many things from the beginning, Hou Lei.
To be continued...