My Cruel Little Empress
Chapter 38

Like many people regarding Zhang's royal torture tower, the place was quite dark due to the lack of light. When he had just set foot in front of the courtyard of the torture tower, the sound of screaming and screams of pain would greet his hearing for the first time. The smell of blood and sweat that is out in the air is clearly able to make anyone nauseous, unfortunately it will only apply to people who have a weak mentality.

When I first came here to set foot in the torture tower, it happened to me. I experienced severe nausea even as my body trembled in fear as the sounds continued to be earthy. The shadow of how they were tortured made my guts shrivel and in the end I did not enter the torture tower.

But as time went on, I no longer felt that feeling. I was no longer frightened when I heard the sound of agonizing screams from the people who had been tortured in the Zhang royal torture tower. Because at the Wu residence, seeing a traitor being beaten, being cruelly tortured and killed has made me no longer feel afraid. I'm used to it so that the pity that exists disappears.

In my current life I was just staring flat at the Zhang kingdom torture tower even though the sounds of screams, screams of pain and pleas for mercy continued to echo. It certainly made the Wei emperor and some of the Wei kingdom's special warriors look at me because of my very calm demeanor.

"What's wrong, why are Fathers and royal special warriors looking at me like that?" I asked when they realized their gazes were directed at me.

Emperor Wei then shook his head, while the special soldiers of the Zhang kingdom then lowered their heads.

"Omong - by the way, when do we get in?" ask the Wei emperor

"Before we enter, do you not feel fear or disgust at all, Lan'er?" asked the Wei emperor to make sure.

I shook my head and said "not at all!" I firmly believe that the Wei emperor "the color of the little princess of Zhang's kingdom does not feel what we are worried about, let's enter now" the Wei emperor said.

I followed the steps of the emperor's father as well as the special soldiers of the kingdom who participated in following us, I then aligned my steps with the emperor's father when I had just digested his words just now.

"Ayahanda, did you deliberately stop for a moment because you were afraid that my mind would not be strong?" my question that managed to steal the attention of the Wei emperor who was now looking at him.

"Yes, we stopped for a moment because we were worried about you, my daughter. Unfortunately to our worries seems excessive" replied the Wei emperor whom I nodded.

When I had just entered the torture tower, the scent of blood rancid my sense of smell even more. I quickly stuffed my nose with a handkerchief however the smell almost managed to make me feel my stomach was heartburn and I was about to spit out my lunch.

All the way down the hall, my eyes never slipped out staring at every prison room full of people who commit crimes. Their bodies were scarred and bruised, their gazes looked desperate as if there would be no hope for them to be freed from the suffering the torture tower gave them.

I continued to walk more and more into the tower hallway with very minimal lighting, I continued to follow the steps of the emperor's father who led my way in front. When the emperor's father stopped at the end of the back passageway gave two forked paths, The emperor's father then took the road to the left until as I stared around the prison lined the hallway on the left side of the blinded, the faces of the femiliar greeted my vision.

"Ayahanda emperor, aren't they officials and soldiers who work in the capital's governor's hall?" ask me with a view that can not be separated from those who are behind bars.

Emperor Wei turned his head for a moment to look at them before turning his gaze back to the front, he then said "the memory of my little daughter is very sharp" he said

"Has their problem not been solved? Why are they still here?" I asked the father of the Wei emperor who continued to step deeper.

"Ayahanda knew for sure you would ask that, but the new Father would let him go if they wanted to confess who ordered them to commit violence against the workers who were demanding their rights a few days ago" clearly the Wei emperor "Ayahanda knew that our little princess Zhang had told them everything, but it would not be easy to drag them straight to the judiciary even if there was no solid evidence. Even though we have the ultimate power to take them down easily, but we cannot fight the eyes and mouth of the people of the royal capital Zhang who will later be ill-judged and consider us as arbitrarily - mena only because they have a high position and power" he continued.

"Ah, we arrived" the Wei emperor said as we stood before a door at the end of the hall.

"Why are we here?" I could no longer hide my curiosity when I knew that the door in front of us was the most sadistic torture chamber compared to the torture chamber in the right aisle.

Emperor Wei frowned and said, "My little princess.Why do you ask as if you know what door and what room is in front of us?" the Wei emperor asked suspiciously.

I then shook my head, there was no way I wouldn't say I knew when this was the first time I stepped on the tower of torture in my life this time. I then turned my brain to think of the right answer, no need to wait a long time, I then answered "Ayahanda may have misinterpreted the meaning of my question, I said, I asked like that just because I felt like the door in front of us looked different. Throughout the hall I only saw iron bars, so I asked out of curiosity" I replied, who was taken by the Wei emperor

"Iahanda thought you also knew the door before us" I'm emperor Wei "this door is the door of the torture chamber, this room is the upper level torture chamber" added emperor Wei who I immediately nodded while pretending to understand when in fact I already know.

"Then what are we gonna do here?" ask me again

"Certainly forcing them to open their mouths!" replied the unflagging Wei emperor how long it took to open the door and the light from the light in the room so glare greeted my vision.

I closed my eyes for a moment before re-opening my eyes while getting used to the brighter light rays of the room than the lighting along the torture tower hallway. When I entered, three officials I did not know first entered my view.

"Her Majesty the emperor!" exclaiming one of the officials who made the other two officials then turned towards Ayahanda.

Instantly the three then asked for forgiveness by approaching Ayahanda and began prostrating under the feet of the emperor's father who did not budge at all.

"Your Excellency .. we are innocent, please appeal!" pinta officials are thinner than the other two officials.

"Your Majesty, there is someone who has framed us by bestowing all wrongs upon us, please your Majesty give us a second chance to demand justice" pleaded the official with white skin.

They kept begging, though, but the emperor's father coldly retreated before passing away leaving the three of them and sitting on a chair that had been in the middle of a torture chamber full of tools used by royal soldiers to torture criminals.

"If you feel in a scapegoat by someone, then you have proof that what can defend your words is the right thing?" asked the Wei emperor coldly

"Your highness.give us the opportunity for justice and freedom from this terrible place, we will tell the real mastermind of the embezzlement of the workers' wage fund along with the evidence" said a thinner official who was taken by two other officials.

"Can your questions be trusted?" ask me to speak up

The three officials then turned to me, maybe they were surprised because they only realized my presence was also here.

"The princess should not worry, we will tell you everything so that we can escape from this place with our family" said the official with a more contained body trying to convince

"Then if you're proven to be lying? and the evidence you mean does not exist, are you ready to die by the extermination of one family ?" my question that instantly made the three officials quite surprised even their faces that had turned pale increasingly pale.

Emperor Wei was also quite surprised by his daughter however today they only intended to show her cruel side as motivation for her daughter who asked to be taught to be a tough and cruel girl. Unfortunately, it seems that the Wei emperor did not need to teach him because his daughter already had the natural will.

"We will tell you everything, no matter if in the end the evidence we provide is not able to declare us innocent, and even though we die in the end, at least we didn't die in a horrible place like this" the white official said.

I did not expect, even just a few hours after the three officials were dragged to the torture tower, they would betray their loyalty just to be free from the place.

"Your Majesty ..."

"Your highness princess!"

I flinched from my daydreams about the events that had passed a month or so ago, I turned my head and looked at the young man who had just returned home a week ago from his training at Shi Rong's warrior headquarters with a questioning gaze.

"Young Miss Ma Mei Rong, wants to meet you" said Bo Qing who managed to make me give off a flat and cold demeanor.

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**TBC

Tuesday, 16 June 2020**