Zhuge and Lacey back to Sung, while he sits on a comfy chair near the windowsill and watching the crystal flower. He seems sad. Hearing the footsteps, he turns back and asks, “How’s Yasmin?”
“She is fine now. I just helped her cleaned the wound, it needs a few days to scab.” Zhuge replies then grabs a chair and sits near him, “How’s going? Are you alright?” Sung sighs, “I’m fine. I have no choice now. Even you can’t cure my legs. I guess I just make my life fully every day…” As Sung’s good fiend, Zhuge feels sympathy for him, he pats on his shoulder, “Hey, don’t say that. We get many good doctors in this country. We will find someone who’s brilliant for you. So don’t lose your hope!”
Sung gives him a wry smile, “Don’t fool me, brother. You are the best one here, no one can compare with you. If you say my legs are hopeless then it will be!” Zhuge shakes his head and explains, “I’m not trying to fool you, Sung. You know me, I’m a straight person. There are many good doctors we don’t know I think. I heard when Princess Zena got her son, a doctor opened her tummy to get her son out! That’s a brave doctor and I’m very impressed! I only saw that way on the book, but no one ever tried to do it before! Think about the courage! That’s why I’m thinking you may keep trying with the doctors in the palace, perhaps, they will figure it out how to help you!” Sung looks back to him, smiling, “Well, that one is a long story…” Sung didn’t mention to him about how Wendy treated Zena before.
“Oh, so you did see that doctor?! Tell me more!” Zhuge seems very interested in that amazing doctor. Lacey speaks behind him, “That’s my sister, she saved Zena and her baby.” Zhuge opens his mouth, with unbelievable. He can’t believe Lacey’s words, he turns to Sung to confirm, Sung nods as well. For a long time, he doesn’t speak. Then he talks, “As I know, your sister doesn’t know anything about the medical.”
Lacey replies, “Yes! I can prove this. She never learned any Chinese medical! I feel unbelievable too! I just know she used to sick a lot when she’s in childhood. My parents hired a doctor for her to look after her for a long time. Maybe she learned from him??” Lacey pauses a while, “Or she learned by herself? That doctor had many books I remembered.” Zhuge considers for a while then replies, “I don’t know how she learns. But I know she shouldn’t get from the book! To open someone’s tummy, is not an easy thing. She is way much better than other doctors in the town I could say.”
Hearing this, Sung gets an idea, “What if I ask you to open my legs and treat them?” Zhuge laughs, “To be honest, I can’t. I never do that before.” Sung back to quiet again, and plays around his white jade ring. “I feel Yasmin changed a lot… I can’t say how, but she seems to change to another person.” Zhuge says. Sung looks at him with an agreement. He turns to Lacey, “Lacey, I need to talk with Zhuge privately. Would you go out for a while?”
Lacey pouts her mouth and replies with jaunty, “No, I won’t. Maybe you will say something bad behind me.” Usually, Sung would let her stay after she says like that. But this time, he is very persistent. “What do you mean? Are you saying I’m a big mouth person?” Seeing he’s getting serious, Lacey gets a bit scared, she looks to Zhuge to support her. “Oh come on, she can stay I think.” Normally, Sung never refuses Zhuge, but this time, he is quite rough, “I said, you leave!” Lacey feels grievance, she walks out quietly, head down.
Zhuge gets confused, he used to adore Lacey, he asks, “Are you alright? We never have a secret with her. No need to treat her like this.” Sung says with sadness, “As you know, I feel Lacey has changed a lot when she moved here. Same as Yasmin. They all changed.” Zhuge feels his sorrow and inquires, “What happened? Tell me.” Then Sung tells him everything has happened in the palace with Lacey and Yasmin. Besides, he also went to investigate Lacey, she always tried to bully Yasmin with her cruel words, sometimes made traps for her. Zhuge gets shocked by his story entirely.
“I don’t know brother, why Lacey became like this? Perhaps, she’s just jealous. I heard about witchcraft when I travelled in town. It can change people’s characters. Do you know that?” Zhuge responds. Sung shakes his head, “No, she didn’t leave the palace. How she changed her character here without meeting anyone from outside? That’s impossible.” His words confuse Zhuge more, “Then I don’t know. If she is available to change her character entirely, then how she knows about the medical so fast? That’s insane!”
“Wait, have you heard about reviving in a new guise?!” Sung’s mind begins to improvise. His mind makes Zhuge laugh this time, “Hah, I never believe the ghost stuff! Shut up!” Sung nods, “Me either! But this is too weird!” Zhuge nods, “Yes, if this is real, then she must die first. But she is not.” Removed all the possibilities, Sung feels she must get through something really hard, then she changed entirely. “How was she when you cleaned her wound?”
Zhuge replies, “Well, she didn’t feel pain when I cleaned. I was very impressive!”
“Yes! When the time I fainted in the mountain, she was there too, with wounds everywhere on her body. Then I woke up, she was watching me aside, and she looked totally fine! That’s really scary to me until now…” Sung replies with a little frightened.
“And she saved Prince Charlie right? As I knew, he couldn’t get any chance that time, I checked him before.” Zhuge keeps asking. Sung nods, “I know, right?! Everyone said Charlie would die that moment. But when she’s there, she just brought him back to life!” Their conversation sounds very interesting now.
“Wait, did you see her using the acupuncture?” Zhuge asks suddenly. Sung shakes his head, “No, I don’t. No one is there at that time. She didn’t allow anyone to go inside.”
“Then I guess she must know a lot about medical. Otherwise, how she would risk her life to do it?” Zhuge continues. Sung nods again, “Same as we were in the Mountain and how she saved doctor Shawn from the King. She is truly brave now…”
All of a sudden, Zhuge speaks, “All beings grieve for the follow beings…”
“What do you say?” Sung asks back. Zhuge is in deep thought. He can’t explain to himself about this sentence either. Perhaps, Yasmin is a real doctor, she just hides this part too well? Normally, she used to be bitchy to everyone. And she didn’t have a heart for everyone. Her happiness always depended on others suffering. That’s old Yasmin.