My Cruel Little Empress
Chapter 53

Crown Prince Liang stared dimly at all the special food and snacks that the royal cooks had made for his sister who had all returned to his residence. Crown Prince Liang then sighed, he then greeted Bo Qing who grimaced unwell when he got the desperate gaze he gave.

"Bo Qing, please repeat what you said" crown prince Liang asked to make sure his hearing was not wrong.

"Hearing your orders, your highness princess Mu Lan asked the servant to bring back all the food and snacks you sent as a sign of apology. His highness the princess also said, he does not need all this food and snacks, because all he needs is your sincerity, the noble crown prince Liang" bo Qing said repeating the sentence that his master had ordered him to pass on to the crown prince Liang for the second time.

"What more sincerity does mei want?" ask the crown prince Liang in despair. "I've asked even to beg the emperor's father to help me command the royal cooks to make all his favorite foods, does this act of mine not look sincere in his eyes?" ask crown prince Liang.

"I'm sorry your noble servant, I have helped to explain, but your highness princess is still adamant with her stubbornness" Bo Qing explained "But, rather than you continue to think about this matter. Why don't you meet your highness princess Mu Lan, maybe the sincerity that your noble daughter means is your desire and effort to apologize directly to her" Bo Qing added.

"How can I meet him if he doesn't want to see me?" lamented crown prince Liang

"You should put in the effort, perhaps by seeing your unyielding efforts and sincerity and keep coming, your highness princess Mu Lan will be withered" Bo Qing replied patiently

Crown Prince Liang digested Bo Qing's words carefully, until he finally snapped his finger and said, "Your advice is right Bo Qing, may may only want to see my effort and sincerity apologizing to her!"

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The sound of knocking on the door was caught by my sense of hearing. I who was disturbed by the sound then woke up and occupied myself with consciousness that has not fully recovered. I yawned while rubbing my two itchy eyes, it felt like I still wanted to continue my sleep and prepare a lot of energy to face the birthday party of the Empress Mother tomorrow. But because of the sound of knocking that disturbed my sleep, I paused my intention to continue sleeping.

"Where is everyone? Why would they let anyone disturb my sleep?" ask me after looking around my very quiet room.

"Bo Qing...?"

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"Bo Qing's? Have you gone home yet?" call me again but still did not get any answers from Bo Qing who usually stood in the corner of the room or lay on the recliner in my room.

"Has he not come home yet?" my murmur then went down from the contest after shaking off the thick blanket that had wrapped my body up to the chest when I slept.

"Where is everyone? why is the Shanku residence so desolate?" ask me to step towards the door.

When I got to my door, I opened the door a little bit, creating a little bit of a blemish for me to peek. I peeked out from behind the open door, but unfortunately I did not find anything from the middle room of Shan's pavilions.

"If there is no one, then where does the knocking sound come from?" then I closed the door to my room quickly.

"Mu Lan, you need to calm down. Maybe what you hear is just your feelings" I said trying to calm down.

Just as my heart beat was racing rapidly starting to beat normally, my heart was beating fast again as I again heard the sound of the knocking very clearly. Both of my eyes began to look out around me and as I turned to look at the door, with the courage I gathered, he said, I opened the door wide and was about to throw a punch at anyone who frightened me and took advantage of my fear and hatred of solitude. But my hand that floated in the air was actually caught by a young man who really did not want to see because of his words yesterday.

"What's gege doing here?" ask me in a hostile tone.

"Of course to come and show my sincerity and my effort in apologizing to you" he replied

"By comforting and scaring me like this?" ask me with an upset voice.

"This also includes the may may attempt," said crown prince Liang "I don't know what else to use to forgive me" he added in a tone that sounded desperate.

I who heard that clearly felt pity. Anyhow our relationship could be this close just because of my fall incident a few months ago. If only I had not been reborn in this life or if only when I was unconscious at that time and had nightmares about my family's destruction, maybe I'm not this close to crown prince Liang.

I used to be so cold with my family, though either in my old life or in my present life they still love me so much after the great mistakes and sins I committed took their lives and the loyal servants of the Zhang kingdom just because it is so to judge young general Wu Cheng who is a disaster for me.

But in my life now. I was born a new person. I will make amends for all my mistakes and mend my relationship with the Zhang royal family no matter how much they realize how much I mean to them, and I only realized that after watching them die and lose their lives at the hands of the son of a bitch I used to love.

"Alright, I accept the great effort and sincerity in apologizing to me," I break "but there is one condition that must be fulfilled before I forgive you completely" I added, which made crown prince Liang frown.

"Do forgiving someone need to be conditional?" ask her with one of her raised eyebrows.

"If gege doesn't want to qualify me, then I won't forgive gege completely. So please get out of my house!" it was my firmness that made both crown prince Liang's eyeballs round.

"May mei. Be kind to me!" the door with a clear tone

"I've been kind to gege by forgiving gege, even though I'm still very angry and upset with you" I admit

Crown Prince Liang then thought for a moment, if he made the opportunity that he gave, he did not know when his brother would inhabit him. Compared to the conditions he gave, the thing that crown prince Liang feared the most was the relationship of the two who had just improved their relationship only because he was late in voicing his opinion about the appearance of mei-meinya.

"All right, what's the condition?"

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**TBC

Sunday 12 July 2020**