Sung laughs secretly while peeks at her, saying, “Oh really? Come smell closer then! Enjoy my lovely smell!” Wendy moves closer, unexpected, Sung pulls her into his arms. “Hey, what are you doing? You make me wet!” Wendy yells. “How embarrassing… People can hear us from outside.” She replies shyly with her hands against his chest and a red face.
Sung laughs, “Hmm, why you care? No one can hear us, my brother and Minister Young have gone to the room next door awaits for us. Also, no servants dare to hear from outside!” He replies with uncaring. When Wendy talked outside with others, he heard their talks. That’s how he knew Minister and his brother are in another room.
“Fine, fine, my Majesty! We need to hurry, don’t let them wait.” Wendy compromises him then cleans his face fast. A disappointed face shifts on Sung’s face abruptly, “So what? I’m a disabled man anyway. If they can’t wait then suit themselves!” He says in a disappointed voice.
“Hey! Don’t say that!” Wendy gets pissed by him immediately. She stares at him, almost crying, her eyes are red. She feels shit when she hears something like this. Sung sighs and apologizes, “Okay, I’m sorry. Women are so annoying…”
Wendy doesn’t please by his reply, she gets more anger, “If you think I am annoyed, then I won’t care about you anymore!” Sung looks at her, feeling touched. He never hates her after the trip in the mountain. He knows this woman loves him a lot. He is eager to protect her, to be her shelter. Unexpected, his heart pounds very fast without any reason. He wants to kiss and hug her passionately! Meanwhile, he feels sad, cause he knows he can’t keep her that much now, due to his disability. Wendy has changed, entirely, she doesn’t love him that much now. He knew this clearly and it is all his fault! He used to treat her badly before, so he deserves this sequence today. Wendy is nicer to him all because he saved her life. She owes him.
Soon, they finish cleaning and on their way to meet Zack and Minister Young. Sung swatches Wendy from behind on the sedan chair, looking sad and miserable. Zack and Minister Young are glad they come together. On the meeting, Sung doesn’t speak that much, cause he is a newbie on the public works. Minister Young is the one who explains a lot to Wendy the whole time. Sung gives some opinions from time to time when Wendy shares some cognitions and concepts. She used to write an essay about the riverbank and published in the magazine.
“My dear Majesty, it’s great we have in common with some good ideas about how to solve the issue of our riverbanks! I will go back to write a memorial to the throne then hands to the King tomorrow morning!” Sung nods, “Ok, you may hand to me first, and I will check for you before you hand to the King tomorrow!” Minister Young nods satisfied then leaves with Zack. Zack doesn’t speak a lot on the meeting, but he is very glad to see his little brother comes back to combative once again!
“Yasmin, are you a friend of doctor Shawn?” Zack asks her secretly when she sends them out. Wendy shakes her head, “No, we are not. We just met sometimes in Princess Zena’s palace.”
“Then why you stood up for him??” Zack asks, wondering. Wendy smiles and responses, “Well, does that matter? It’s one life, I couldn’t see him taking the blame all by himself. Besides, he is innocent! So I must save him!” One life, means a lot to her, in the hospital, everyone tries their best to save patients, even sacrifices their lives! So, one life, means a lot…
Zack hears her words, sighs, “Impressive! Compare to you, I feel shame.” Wendy laughs and comforts, “Hah, your Majesty, that’s fine. Don’t feel bad please! We all human beings in this world, and we make mistakes all the times imperceptibly. You helped doctor Shawn this time as well, so I am very proud of you! Because you tried your best to save him, which is good enough!” Zack smiles, agrees with her theory.
Sending Zack away, Wendy goes back to Sung, who still considering about the riverbank in the room. They stay there for a couple of hours. Every time Sung gets confused with something, Wendy helps him out and gives him suggestions. They both agree with the South-to-North water diversion idea. During this time, Wendy also keeps learning from her book.
A few days later, the people from the Sunrise Palace, where little Charlie stays, comes and reports, that Prince Charlie is almost recovered! His yellow parts are gone, only a little bit left for now. Things look great, and everyone’s happy with it. However, two days later, Charlie gets a high fever, with nauseating and jerking days and nights, which surprises everyone! Wendy and all doctors go checking on him, but they have nothing to do with it. No one knows what happened to him this time! Worse, Princess Zena knows everything, she cries on Charlie’s bed day after day, even faints sometimes. She regrets that she doesn’t know her son’s disease before. So she begs to Wendy to save her son, no matter what ways she’s gonna do, even opens his tummy to rescue him! Wendy doesn’t feel right to try this way on Charlie, he’s too small to do the surgery. She can’t risk with such a small kid. Even last time, she felt dangerous enough to open Zena’s tummy without the narcotic drugs and operative instruments!
Zena could survive last time is a true miracle honestly! But Prince Charlie’s case is different this time. She can’t confirm which kind of jaundice he got; and she doesn’t know how to use the golden needles to cure him yet. That’s why she can’t promise or take any action!
Doctor Zhuge comes sometimes as well, he is a genius with Chinese medical, he says, “Prince Charlie’s disease comes from the amniotic, nothing could help this time…” His words slap everyone’s face and pull everyone into the deep black water.
During these days, Empress Ron is too sad to blame everything, on Wendy! She ensured that, Wendy used to stay with Sung often, and didn’t come to check on Charlie on time, that’s why Charlie’s disease went worse. She is lying all the time. Ron’s words made the Royal Empress pissed, she went to against her for Wendy, then she was too excited to get a heart attack! Soon, Ron’s words passed to the King’s ears, he was too mad to scold Ron, then Ron shuts her mouth until now. Then It’s spread to everyone in the palace, Sung wanted to argue for Wendy, and got stopped by his mom. It’s not a proper time to argue, everyone is in panic at the moment. By the way, Ron is kind of Sung’s godmother.
Wendy feels guilty after what happened, she looks miserable during this period. Sung usually brings her to the mayflowers and cheers her up. He can’t help her curing Charlie then he would love to do something else for her. He mentions how dangerous of that time in the Sirius mountain, and Charlie’s case is really a piece of cake… Wendy understands him well, she doesn’t worry about Ron’s blame, which she gets used to it in the hospital. She only worries about little Charlie, she can’t watch him dying slowly day by day.
It’s a beautiful dusk today, though it’s covered by a group of heavy grey clouds in the sky. It is about to rain. About forty minutes later, the small rain comes first, then sooner by later, the sky is covered by a big heavy rain. Different kind of lightings is having their performance in the black sky. All people are staying in the Sunrise Palace. Because they feel it’s the last day for Charlie, who has been in a coma since yesterday, suffering from high fever, he is swimming on the edge of life and death. Charlie’s mother, Princess Zena, has cried since last night, none-stopping. Seeing the big rain coming, she runs to the yard and begs for her son on the ground to God. Zack follows her outside, covering her wet body with his clothes, both of them crying in the rain. Ron acts really calm these days, she seems to smell the death. She decides to stay with Charlie until the end. The Queen also got the angina pectoris last night, so she went back to rest with her maids. The Sunrise Palace has become the Hell Paradise.
All doctors stay outside in the rain, wet. They all wait for their death coming very soon. Doctor Young and Felix have announced to their families that they would not be able to back home today, probably. “Brother Felix, I…” Doctor Young tries to say something at the last moment of their executes. Then he’s back to quiet again. Felix sighs, “I, I shouldn’t trust Princess Yasmin…” Maybe if he didn’t follow her, then Empress Ron wouldn’t get that mad now.
“Well, brother, we all doctors and we all try our best to save people. Fallen leaves return to the roots, we can’t control things.” Doctor Young replies with a little disagreement, he saw how Wendy saved Princess Zena that day, how selfless she was that time! By that moment, he knows no matter what she does, she is a good Princess and an amazing doctor.