"Do you know how far my courtyard from the main building, you should know I'm not allowed to take one step outside my courtyard, no servants or guards would let me came close to the main area….then how I met Zhao Mu Fan?"

Lao Fei Yan frowned because what Lao Min Na said is not wrong, Lao Min Na was confined inside her courtyard by her father so how could she met with Zhao Mu Fan.

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"It was Zhao Mu Fan who came to my place" Lao Min Na sneer in contempt, not for Lao Fei Yan but for herself for she realizes she's been played around since the first day she met him.

"Don't lie to me, why someone like him visits a dilapidated place like yours?" Lao Fei Yan is not easy to convince but Lao Min Na didn't care.

"Who knows, maybe he bored, maybe he curious but he came, I don't even know who he is but he treats me kindly, something I never experience in my life and you should now about that better than anyone" she glowers at Lao Fei Yan.

"Since then, he visits me some time and just as you said, I'm a dog maybe that's why the first thing he gave me is a candy 'Tang Hulu' to be exact something that only worth two copper coin"

Lao Fei Yan's expression change, Lao min Na saw a raw rage in her eyes but she doesn't know is it because Zhao mu fan lied or because he gave her candy nonetheless she doesn't care anymore.

"Then he gave me moon cake, a wildflower, a simple lace, nothing is expensive but for me, at that time it was all priceless, in the place that people don't want even talk to me more than two words and treat me worst than a plague, he is the only person who looks at me in the eyes and smile warmly to me, since then he becomes the only light in my life so how could I'm not falling in love with him?" Lao Min Na realizes how stupid she was, he is a prince but he only gives her cheap stuff and she falls for his trick.

"LIE, YOU LIE TO ME!" Lao Fei Yan hit the table until it cracked, her nostrils flare as she is fuming with anger.

"Only later I know who he is, it broke my heart but I know I'm not worthy of him so I decide to back off but he refused to let me go, I'm so confused I don't know what to do so I jump to the pond, I want to drown myself but unfortunately I'm not dead, you know what happened, I was sent to my courtyard, I have a fever but father refused to call a physician for me"

Lao Fei Yan bit her lips, everything that happened to Lao Min Na is true because she was there and it was her mother who incited her father does not give Lao Min Na a physician to punish her for making a ruckus, Lao Fei Yan didn't know Lao Min Na reason to suicide, just like her mother she thought Lao Min Na just tried to get her father attention.

Lao Min Na wiped the tears on her cheek with her hands harshly and leaving a red mark on her face "And when I lay feeble on my bed Zhao Mu Fan….he came to my room, he knows I'm still hesitant to marry him so he…..he convinces me that night, I can't think clearly when I wake everything had done and I have nowhere to turning back"

"SHUT UP! YOU LIED – YOU LIED!" Lao Fei Yan covers her ears and storms out of the room.

Lao Min Na leans her back on the couch, she feel exhausted is like she had no strength left in her body. She closes her eyes and more tears fall on her cheeks, that day Zhao Mu Fan beg for her forgiveness he told her that because he loves her too much and don't want to lose her and she believes him, how could she not…she love him.

Zhao Mu Fan persuade her t talk to her father, he even teaches her how to talk to her father, he teaches her how to persuade his Father, what, when, where to talk with her father Zhao Mu Fan teach her to the tee to make sure she's not failed.

Lao Min Na mirthless laugh, she is a joke, her love is a joke, from the beginning Zhao Mu Fan only covet her beauty nothing more than that, she just his plaything, and she becomes everyone plaything. Her laugh is getting louder then it changes into a long and heart-wrenching wail.

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Another month pass in a blink of an eye she already seven months, her baby is relentless, despite everything she had done the baby refused to die, she doesn't know if she should be happy or angry.

"You look fat"

Lao Min Na lay on her bed and her body flinch slightly, she turns her head to her side and there she saw Bei Li Yan sit comfortably in her room, it's been months since they last met.

Lao Min Na dulled eyes stare at Bei Li Yan indifferently "I try to reach you…." She quietly said.

"Really, why?" Bei Li Yan props his chin in a carefree expression.

She grips her blanket as she swallows her irritation, she was living in hell but the Hei Shen people refused to meet her, with their power it should be easy for them to help her abort the child or get her out of the manor.

"You know what had happened to me, why don't you help me, I just need a pill to abort my baby this shouldn't be hard for a mighty sect like yours but why don't you help me, I have work for you diligently for months but why…." Lao Min Na feel wronged, she doesn't understand why everyone is so cruel and heartless towards her.

Bei Li Yan beautiful eyebrow creased "Why you think you are worthy of our help?" he scowled at her in disdained "We already help you to cure your addiction and we help you so your dear husband didn't throw you to another man and your job is only report us about Zhao Mu Fan schedule, my dear I think we have treated you graciously and you still not satisfied, tsk – tsk – tsk….miss Lao, you should not forget your place, it was you who beg us to let you work for us isn't it?" Bei Li Yan expression turns grim and Lao Min Na gulped nervously.

Bei Li Yan rose from his seat and she strides calmly toward her, her terror mounted in every step he makes. He stops right beside the bed then he slightly bends his waist "You are not in the position to demand, it was I who decide what can and can't you have, you still breathe because our Lord let you so don't act like you are irreplaceable….cause you are not"

His stern and cold voice are like a knife pierce to her heart, how much humiliation she can take is there no compassion left in this world why everyone is so horrible and cruel, her eyes welled up however Bei Li Yan expression didn't change, he turned around and clapped his hand then smiled widely.

"Well is a good thing that you feel disappointed with our….relationship, coincidently I came here behalf of my great Lord to tell you that we will end our collaboration" he opens his arms as if he just announce a good news.

Lao Min Na face turn pale "W…what?"

"It means you are not working with us again" he wiggles his index finger and grinned.

"No!" Lao Min Na shout in distressed.

Bei Li Yan grinned widely "Yes!" he clasped his hand in front of his chest and smile kindly "So, farewell Miss Lao, and I hope you will have a healthy baby" Bei Li Yan smile sarcastically then he nods his head one time and left with bouncing step.

Lao Min Na eyes bulged widely, Hei Shen is the only hope she got to got out from this hell, she thought if she make enough merit she would ask them to help her to free from Zhao Mu Fan clutch but Hei Shen left her just like that, what hope left for her.

"No, this can't be….what should I do….." she mutters helplessly to herself

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A month after that the rumor said Zhao Qin Feng found Ying Xuan Xie earing in Zhao Mu Fan bedroom by accident, the earing is one of the kinds that Zhao Qin Feng purchased from the famous craftsman so it's impossible he made a mistake, the fight between two brothers becomes inevitable than not long after the Emperor suddenly dies, no one knows why the health emperor suddenly sick and die not long after.

People suspicious that one of the prince faction killed the emperor but no one dares to voice out their thought, since the Emperor die then automatically Zhao Mu Fan raised to the throne since he is the crown Prince, at that time Zhao Yi Chen and Zhao Qin Feng work together to fight against Zhao Mu Fan.

The fight between prince change the Nan Jing capital city into a battlefield, many people including noble family escape from the city however a lot of innocent people trapped inside the city. Only in two days, the once beautiful city burn in flame, people scream in frenzy mixed with the sound of steel colliding. It was total chaos and in that chaos, a man with black robes stand on the tall pagoda looking down at the ruined city with icy eyes.

"It's done, Milord…" Mong Ki kneel on the floor "What is your next order?"

Zhao Li Xin is a lot more skinny than before, his jaw becomes more apparent, his chin looks sharper and his eyes are dull and sunken he looks so frail and feeble as if a simple wind blow would kill him. Still, the trace of his beauty still left on his face.

"Nothing…I want to see everything….burn to ashes," he said with a hoarse voice. Years after drinking a lot of medicine and tonic it finally affected his vocal cords, his once melodious baritone voice change into a heavy and hoarse voice like a ninety years old man. However is a small price to prolong his life, he doesn't think is a waste.

Jin Hao, Bei Li Yan, Wu San Bo, and Jiang Jin Wei stand behind him, they all look down when the city cover with flame.

"It's too hot don't you think?" Bei Li Yan fanning himself with his hand.

"Hot is good…I feel less cold," Zhao Li Xin said in a monotone "The Ying woman…." He questioning Jin Hao.

"I already plant poison in his body, she will not feel anything but everyone who touches her would die in three days, it's enough to distraught the Yin clan until we come," Jin Hao said.

Zhao Li Xin response with a satisfied nod although his expression remains the same "Send out the flare, let Yuan Shao finish them all"

"Yes, Milord!" Mong Yi cupped his fist then he releases a red flare to the sky. The three prince's must-have exhausted from the war so when Yuan Shao came no one would strong enough to fight the mighty Liu Yan Emperor, as he plans today all the Zhao clan will be dead without him lifting a finger.

Not long after he heard the sound of a thousand horse galloping from the distance then his expression turn sinister.

"We're done here" Zhao Li Xin flick his sleeve and prepare to leave.

"Where do we go, Milord?" Jiang Hin Wei asks politely.

"Ying clan" he briefly said, his mouth curved then he make an evil smile "I'll take every single one of them to hell with me as I said the more the merrier..." he chuckled in eerie sound.