Sung woke up earlier than everyone’s expected. He’s tougher than Wendy thought.
“Then I will leave, Doctor Zhuge.” Wendy takes her medical kit and walks out. They all forgot about Zoe’s case during this mass situation. “Don’t pay attention, Wendy. That’s his character, he’s nice Prince and doesn’t mean any harm.” Zhuge comforts and sends her out. Wendy smiles and shakes her head, pretending she’s fine. The sun shines on her sadness back, which looks sadder and sadder. Her hair stirs by a faint of breeze in the air, which makes her green jade hairpin flow like a silver string. Zhuge sighs behind her, feeling pain from her sadness. He could tell she’s the old Wendy, now and then. He also has a special unexplainable feeling to her that he can’t tell.
“So, you mean the North Country sent their assassin to kill me?” Sung asks in the room. He closes his eyes, considering for a while, then his eyes open with a cold glare, “Well, I knew it’s them! They followed me back in our team, and found the right time to take action! I’m an idiot, I should pay more attention to them!” He looks to General Chen, “So, have you found them?!” Chen nods, “Should be soon, probably tonight, your majesty.”
“Then execute him at once when you get him!” Sung orders in pissed. General Chen nods with responsibility, “I will your majesty!” Zhuge complains a little with Sung, “How we were so careless, to let a traitor in??” Chen apologizes, heading down, “Yes, it’s our fault. We were lost our minds in the victory that time…”
“Well, Chen, don’t blame yourself that much. If they want to kill me, they always find a way!” Sung says, then turns to Zhuge, “So who’s that girl?? She’s your new doctor??”
“Yes!” Zhuge nods.
“I never knew you had a young female doctor!” Sung says with disbelief. Zhuge explains, “Oh, she just came here several weeks ago. She’s the one who saved you this time! She’s truly amazing!” Zhuge says with excitement. “Wow, seems like you really admire her medical skills! Is she really a doctor, that simple?” Sung asks with teasing.
“What do you mean?” Zhuge replies. Sung puts a hand on his shoulder, “Well, we are getting old day after day, you need to consider about your own life, my brother.” Sung sneers to him, “If you like then, go with her!”
Zhuge’s face is red, “Oh, no. Don’t misunderstand me, brother! I didn’t…” He complains. General Chen laughs suddenly, “Hah, yes! Your majesty! You didn’t know how nervous of Doctor Zhuge that moment, when I checked on that girl!” Zhuge sighs, “I don’t even know her, just know she’s not from the North Country.” Sung nods, “Yes, the people from Zhuge always good! You guys don’t need to check that much. Or he will be pissed.”
Zhuge peeks at Sung, sneers, “Well, seemed like you were suspected her that time, while you woke up as well?” Sung pouts his mouth and replies, “So what? I just don’t like to get close to women!” Lacey hears this, she seems miserable. Zhuge notices and shares a look to Sung. Sung nods then says to her, “Lacey, I’m fine now. You may go back to rest.” Lacey nods, takes a light bow, “Ok, your majesty. Please take good care of yourself.” Turning to Zhuge, “Brother, please help me looking after him.” Zhuge nods with a smile.
“Then I will leave now, your majesty.” Lacey replies and heads out reluctantly.
“Well, why you can’t be nicer to your woman? You have lost one, then you should cherish the other.” Zhuge sighs with a little complain. Sung sneers, “She is the Royal Princess now in my place! What else I should do for her?” Zhuge argues back, “You know what she wants.”
“That’s all I can give to her…” Sung says with angry. “Why you married her? You like her right?” Zhuge comes forward to take his medicine away. Sung turns to the window, “After all what happened, I realized, I only like her… no more else.” Zhuge explains again, “Sung, you shouldn’t blame her that time when she told on Wendy. It’s not her fault, it’s your fault I could say. If you trusted Wendy enough, no matter who said something, you would always trust her! So don’t blame to Lacey anymore. She doesn’t feel good after her sister died.” Sung then remains quiet, General Chen brings his people out quietly.
Sung doesn’t like anyone to judge him, he fights back angrily after Chen left, “Wow, you seem to care about Lacey more than me. You can take her if you want, I will divorce with her and leave her to you.”
“Sung, Lacey is your woman, your wife! How could you say that? She’s a live person, who sleeps next to you! Don’t treat her as a stuff! If I say I love Wendy, would you give to me??” Zhuge raises his voice. Talking about Wendy, Sung gets more aggressive. “Hah, finally, you told me the truth! You loved Wendy! You loved her all the time!”
Zhuge sneers with unbelievable, feeling stupid of his childish, “Yes! I admitted I loved her before! She died all because of you! And you never changed all these years, you only made women sad, and made them die slowly! Yasmin died for you, Wendy died for you, now is Lacey’s turn!”
Sung laughs, “You left one, brother! Zoe, she fainted for me as well. During that time, I felt you loved Zoe, then it’s Wendy. Maybe Lacey now… Stop being fake in front of me!” Zhuge shakes his head, squeezing his fists, he’s super mad now, “Yes, I am! I’m pretending all the time! Your majesty! I don’t want to be friend with you anymore! Good luck then!” He walks out surrounding with fire.
General persuades him behind, “Doctor Zhuge, don’t be mad with the majesty, please. You knew the majesty didn’t mad with you… he’s very stubborn recently about Princess Yasmin…” Zhuge keeps walking, “I know, General. But he’s done too much this time! No one can bare his attitude! He should learn something after Princess Yasmin’s death… while he is not!”
“The majesty, he, he just couldn’t forget Princess Yasmin, that’s it.” Chen sighs, he doesn’t know about love that much, cause his marriage is lovely and made by his family. He has a lovely and happiness family! Sometimes, he doesn’t understand Sung a little, but he knows how suffer to think about the same woman every day and night. Zhuge understands Sung totally, about how much he had suffered all these three years. However, he decided to talk like today, and being selfish, all is good for Sung.
Back to his place in Sung’s palace, he sits and reads, which can calm him down a bit. Slowly, all memories from old Wendy have run out of his mind. The first time he saw her, how he comforted her in the garden in the late night? And how they research a book together in his room? At last, how heartbroken of her to swallow those misunderstood and blames herself…
Sung closes his eyes and tries to calm down, while he can’t. Every time he thinks of Wendy, he gets heartache. General Chen walks back, he knows Sung’s still awake, “Your majesty, please don’t be mad with Doctor Zhuge, you knew he’s the one cares you most!” Sung opens his eyes, looking to the ceil, with his mind blank, “Do you know how many times I have tried to dream about Yasmin all these years? While she never came into my dream, not even one time! I think she hates me a lot,”
“Your majesty, if she hated you then why she saved you?? Please don’t think too much, just cherish who’s around you right now…” Chen comforts. Sung looks at him, “It’s funny to hear from you saying something like that, as a general.”
Chen rubs his head, smiling, “I just heard from those dead people’s family, from the plague.” Plague also means Woody for Sung. Sung’s heart starts to ache again. “My sickness began with that plague(Woody), now I can’t run away from it…” General Chen watches him with doubt.