My Cruel Little Empress
Chapter 1 - Prologue

I approached the man with a sharp look. No more adoring gazes of admiration, now all my race towards her has turned into resentment and hatred. After all that I had done for her, everything I sacrificed, the time I spent, and the betrayal I committed, it all ended up in vain. All that's left of it is regret and guilt.

All this time the love I always held betrayed me with a lie and a falsehood. I was just utilized, used to be a doll that complies with all her wishes for love must always sacrifice.

I smiled miris. All this time I was wrong, misjudging his figure. My feelings for her were just a mistake, her feelings for me were just a falsehood. As the princess of Zhang's kingdom, she took advantage of my feelings for her and took the opportunity to seize all of mine.

My throne and my kingdom, all my people, all the property of the kingdom and the assets of the people of Zhang's kingdom are taken away by it. My love for him has blinded me, my desire to have him fully makes me an unforgivable great sinner.

A lot of blood, tears and sweat I sacrificed, even I betrayed a family that loved me wholeheartedly. Now that only guilt and remorse were enveloped, the tears I had shed to beg for her forgiveness and compassion had even dried up.

I stared around me still on my knees with both hands tied behind my back. Inside the large and spacious main hall of Zhang kingdom, there were many corpses scattered about. Blood pooled above the floor surface, the smell of rancid as the wind blew.

My gaze stopped on the figure of the middle-aged man who met his death with a very terrible, and everything he experienced along with the soldiers who ended up the same as the middle-aged man was all because of me.

"There's no need to be sad, you'll soon catch up with all of them"

I turned to look at the man I once adored with a sharp gaze, the man stood arrogantly before me not forgetting the mocking smile he gave.

"How does it feel to be the cause of their death?" He began to squat and clench my jaw firmly.

The pain and pain I felt from his grip made me have to bite. I didn't want to let out a groan, because I didn't make the devil in front of me feel happier.

"Zhang Mu Lan, look at it because of your stupidity, you are bringing disaster to everyone" he said "You are a disaster, therefore I will kill you personally. Think of it as a sign of my gratitude, because because of you I managed to achieve my ambitions" he added.

"I-I don't want to be killed with a disgusting man like you" I replied, instantly gaining a grip stronger than before.

"How dare you...!"

Crews!

The pain and pain that I felt was increasing, the sound of cracks due to his grip managed to make me close my eyes while driving away my tears that wanted to fall because of the more intense pain I felt.

"****** like you don't need to be pitied" he said, throwing my head so strong that my body fell and hitting the floor hard enough.

I felt something wet in my head, there was no need to be very smart to guess if at this time my head managed to get injured until my head was bleeding. I'm not sad, I don't even feel pain. I was as if - going to be numb from all the physical attacks that he gave so viciously. My tiny body seemed to have been immune to all the wounds he gave me until my whole body was full of cuts, gaping wounds or bruises.

If my life is going to end like this, I'll take it. All this is because of my mistake. It's just that I'm so sad, guilty and sorry to have sacrificed the happiness and life of others for the sake of the man who arrogantly and arrogantly stood before me with one of his hands holding a sword and swaying upwards. As the sword began to swing and was about to slash at me, I closed my eyes tightly.

At the end of my life, I begged that if time could turn around, I promised not to repeat the same mistake. If the heavens allow it, I would like to atone for the sins he has committed even if it were to go against the line of fate. If I may ask for one last time, I wish that all I've been through was a nightmare.

Crass!

"Mahhhkk!"

I woke up and sat myself on the contest with an irregular roar of breath, and the sweat-pads still seemed to wet my entire body wrapped in a pink sleeping robe.

I stared around me, until suddenly the door in the room opened and showed a 42-year-old middle-aged man who was the last time a lecturer claimed his life because of me, now stepping up to me followed by a beautiful 38-year-old woman and a 20-year-old young man stepping behind her.

"Is this a dream?" I murmured when I saw that my three families were already in front of me.

I felt the smooth skin and warmth that my mother delivered, the warm feeling then managed to make me shed tears of guilt. Whether what I feel right now is just a dream or reality, I only wish I could be with them for a very long time.

"Lan'er mother here, don't cry. We are here" said his mother embracing him in a loving and warm embrace that further broke my tears.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" I asked regretfully.

The shadow of the death of his mother, father and gegenya continues to be imagined. The feelings of guilt and regret that were squeezing his chest made him claustrophobic. The apologies I kept making were not even able to eliminate the tightness I felt.

The hug I felt was now unraveling, the beautiful woman then held onto both of my shoulders with a puzzled look on her face "Lan'er why do you keep apologizing, what happened?" ask my mother worried.

"I-I'm guilty, I'm guilty. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Because of my mistake I made you all die" my frog sobbed

"What are you saying, may? Stop saying nonsense, we are all still alive" my gege reply that managed to make my crying stop

"What did gege say?" ask me confused

"We're still alive may. If we were dead, we wouldn't be standing in front of you right now" he said

"Lan'er, maybe you were having a nightmare" said my mother who managed to draw my full consciousness. The nightmare?

"How old am I this year?" much

"At this time you are 14 years old, may may" replied my gegeku

*14 years? How did that happen?

Could it be that I went back two years before that, or were all the horrible things I experienced just a nightmare*?

"Your highness, I think we need to call the royal physician" said my mother who jolted me from daydreaming.

"Zhen you think you're right empress, it seems we need to call the royal doctor. Because after our little daughter slipped and fell on the lake two days ago, there seems to be something wrong with her" his father replied

Slipping? Falling in the lake? wait for. What exactly is going on right now?

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**TBC

Tuesday, 7 April 2020**