
"I didn't see the man's face. I just saw it from behind. Who exactly is that guy?" inner King Wei.
"Your Majesty, do we need to find the Empress at the Huang residence?" ask Yu.
"No need, he wasn't there" replied King Wei.
"Your Majesty, the officer guarding the stables wants to see you." reports one of the guards.
"Let him in!" king Wei replied as he looked at a young man in charge of guarding the horses in the residence.
"Your Majesty, I would like to report about the Empress" the officer said.
"Do you know where the Empress is?" asked King Wei with great hope.
"The empress brought a horse from the stable, not long after which Ti Liu also took her horse out" replied the officer.
"Ti Liu?" re-king of Wei.
"Right, Your Majesty, Ti Liu followed the Empress when she came out" the officer replied.
"Yu, where's Ti Liu?" ask King Wei.
"I haven't seen him since this morning" replied Yu.
"Finding Ti Liu's whereabouts, she must have followed the Empress silently to protect her" King Wei said.
"Your Majesty." replied Yu.
A few hunting dogs were taken out of the cage, and Yu and the Eagle Squad began to search for Ti Liu's whereabouts with the help of a hunting dog.
Ti Liu since childhood had been in the residence, the hunting dog had already gotten used to its smell. They are trained to look for traces with smells left behind.
Hunting dogs take the Queen's search party up to a mountain, a dark day makes it difficult for them to walk through the forest forest on the mountain.
"Your Majesty, rest here for a while. We will continue the search." said Yu.
"I will go and search until the Empress is found." replied King Wei.
"But your wounds ... " Yu stopped his words, he stared at the wounds that were all over King Wei's body.
The wound was a punishment to King Wei, he punished himself for having done a great wrong to Se Se.
Every minute they spent in the forest would become a new wound on his body. King Wei pierced his feet and hands with the tip of a sharp sword as a form of regret.
"Please come back, I will accept all punishment. Please return to my side." Inner King Wei.
"Your Majesty, your wound must be cleaned. This place is very moist and dirty, your wound is easily infected if you leave the wound open" said Yu.
"I will treat her if the Empress has been found." replied King Wei.
"I really don't understand the mind of a person who is in love. Why is His Majesty acting so foolishly? Love is really scary." Inner Yu.
King Wei held onto his chest which was in pain for no reason, he stopped his steps.
"Your Majesty ... "
Yu was surprised when he saw King Wei leaning against a tree.
"You okay what, Your Majesty? Take a break for a while. We will continue the search." said Yu as he approached King Wei.
"What's with this disturbing feeling? Why does my heart ache and hurt? Did something bad happen to Se Se? I hope this is just a bad premonition." Inner King Wei.
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Inside a cave located on one of the mountain slopes, Ti Liu was treating the wounds all over Se Se's body.
For the first time Ti Liu saw Se Se Se's helpless face. He hoped that King Wei would soon seek their whereabouts, though, Ti Liu could not leave the Empress just like that in the forest because of the many wild beasts and he could not bring Se Se's body back to the residence either because his injuries would get worse if too much moving.
"Liu, go back to the residence. Please bring this flower to Your Majesty, tell Your Majesty to always carry this flower until the flower has withered." said Se Se.
"I can't leave you alone in this place. This place is too dangerous." Ti Liu replied.
"I beg... If we wait any longer, we will lose His Majesty forever. Please deliver this flower to Your Majesty right now!" se Se said in a weak voice.
" ... "
Ti Liu did not refute nor did he obey orders from Se Se, he just sat down while thinking what he should do.
"Liu ..." call Se Se.
"Empress, I don't understand why this flower is so important that you are willing to sacrifice your life. Can you explain that to me?" ti Liu said.
"You will definitely understand right away if you see the oddity in His Majesty's gaze as well as his behavior. His Majesty has been exposed to a poison that makes him unable to think clearly.
"The longer the poison is in his body, he will get weaker and if the poison is not treated immediately, he said, we will lose His Majesty because he will behave like someone else who is completely different from his self that we know. So I beg you, please save His Majesty from the poison" Se Se said.
"This flower is the antidote to poison?" ask Ti Liu.
"Yes, that flower can remove the poison in His Majesty's body. We just need to keep His Majesty carrying it until the flower withers away" Se Se said.
"I've tried to give my blood, but it seems like the poison can't be treated with my blood because there is no danger of life threatening the person who has been poisoned. This is the last way I can think of, if it's true this is the poison Huan Ren I've read about in the past, then only this flower can save Xuan." Inner Se Se.
"Please wait here, the Empress must wait until I return to save you" Ti Liu said.
"I'll wait, I'll be fine here." replied Se Se.
FLASHBACKS
Ti Liu who heard the clashing sound from King Wei immediately headed to the source of the sound. As he reached the front of the room, he saw Se Se coming out of the room with a face that looked frustrated.
Ti Liu finally decided to follow Se Se from behind, he did not know where the girl was going, he was just trying to protect her silently.
Se Se went to the stables, he pulled a horse out of the stables. Ti Liu took a horse after seeing Se Se go away.
Se Se went towards the mountains, he went around looking for something there. Ti Liu was curious, "What is the Empress looking for in the middle of this mountain?" her inner.
"Finally met!" said Se Se while smiling.
Se Se saw a flower growing on the rocks of the mountain slope, without any safety equipment he went down to pick up the flower.
Ti Liu tried to prevent her, but she was late due to Se Se's extremely nimble movements. The girl had already gotten the flower in her right hand, but when it was about to go up, the stone that was stepped on by Se Se turned out to be weathered. The stone fell and made Se Se Se's body balance disturbed.
Se Se fell down the ravine, and, the bottom of the abyss filled with dense trees made his life safe but his body was full of scratches and his legs also could not be moved because his bones cracked.
Ti Liu immediately looked for a way to descend to the bottom of the abyss, he brought Se Se Se's body into a cave and treated the girl's wound there.
^^^CONNECTS...^^^