Chapter 11 - 11 - We Are All Great Actors. (1/2)
If someone were to ask all about the Queen Mother of the Rong Dynasty, everyone will tell that the Queen Mother was famous for being the most beautiful woman in the last generation and the luckiest when it come to romance.
Despite being a female, Wei Lei Shan was extremely beautiful even if she were not a fair person, which was already surprising since fair are famous for being born with all type of different beautiful appearance among the different genders.
So it was not surprising that Wei Lei Shan became the Queen of the Late Emperor and surprisingly the Late Emperor has remain true and has never gotten another ladies on his harem court because he was entirely smitten on the Queen.
The late Emperor has been famous for being loyal to his lover while remaining wise and kind as an Emperor to his peoples at the same time, he got everything he ever wanted on his life.
Unfortunately, misfortune has followed the Royal family despite of them being famous for being in harmonious relationship despite the fact that the Royal family members was basically known for fighting, betraying and unable to trust each other because of the throne, the power that they want to get hold on.
In the Royal family lineage, the late Emperor and the Queen Mother has given birth to three children, two of the first children has been born male and the youngest was born as a fair person, which become the favorite child of the Late Emperor.
However, misfortune seemed to follow this generation of the Royal family since only two of which has the Royal Blood in them was the only one that survive, the youngest child becoming the current Regent King, the first in the History of a Fair person for being granted the power over the Dynasty,and lastly the Young Emperor, which was the Grandson of the late Emperor and Son of the Second Prince, who was still young to handle how to take control over the power thst he hold.
As for the Queen Mother, Snow is currently sitting and facing the biological mother of his current body just after he got back from yesterday, which was already in seven days since he left Li Chen.
”My child, I am glad to know that you are back and safe, are you tired from your travel? You know that you have people to help you to govern the land. You should properly take care of yourself.” a worried voice sounded with a familiar but unfamiliar amber eyes that was full of gentleness and love stare at him, beautiful feature, and still well taken care face which look like in her 20's despite being already in her 40's still remain enough to make a person able to lost their soul with just one glance.
Snow just remain silent, it has always been the way that the Original Xen react when facing his Queen Mother.
”Wang Lou, he was your second brother closest friends. I am sure you could trust him.”
Snow narrowed his amber eyes slightly, ”Do not worry, Queen Mother, I don't need any help. I can handle it.”
”Child, I worry about you, look at your age, you should have long been married. I don't know why you would have cancel the engagement with him before, I know you still lo-”
Snow interrupted with his face remain expressionless at the constantly speaking Queen Mother, ”Queen Mother, I told you before to forget it already.”
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They remain silent for a few more minutes, before a soft sigh filled with worry and care echoed out, ”You know that the late Emperor and your Brothers will want you to take care and be happy right?”
Snow just show a polite smile, amber eyes lock eyes with the same amber eyes but the different was this one was devoid of emotion unlike the worry, love and kindness brimming what the older female has.
”I'll become happy when the Young Emperor can finally have the complete power on his hand safe and sound.”
The woman beautiful face remain smiling in gentleness, darker amber eyes flashing slightly before reaching out and holding the hand of her youngest child.
”Just let me know if you need any help alright? You know that I am here to help you anytime, you has always been my favorite child.”
Snow just nodded his head, before glancing at the cooling tea before him, a blue screen appearing before him,
Drink: Red Star Tea
Label: a famous and luxurious tea offer from the West Shang to the Royal Family.
Additional information: a dangerous and mix poison was added on the tea and was created by a mystic arts of the Bai Family. Among others, the mystic arts of the Bai Family have a high chance in curing the person taking the concoct of FH poison.
Effect: Make the person who has Cold Poison body to break down and damage more faster than ever. Three times more dangerous during the time when it wreak havoc in the person body, has the chance of 50% of the person dying.
Snow face remain expressionless, as he removed the hands holding his, before reaching out and taking a sip on the tea while not showing any sign of what he just read and over the fact that he was drinking the tea that which was basically deferential and dangerous on his life and health at the moment.
Watching in the corner of his eyes as the woman before him, relax slightly despite the little bit of unease and hesitation but with resign air around her that he could feel on the woman.
A cold glint flashing by his amber eyes before it goes back on looking dull and emotionless.
Living in a Royal family, there will always be those who act more better than those famous artists in his original world.
To better hide what they really feel deep inside of them, and showing different emotions when interacting with other people in order to fool them and make them believe and trust what they are seeing is the real them.
Showing abilities befitting from what kind of background they are born at, specially for people who are born in a noble families, specially the Royalty.
A deceitful people, that only know how to hide their ugliness and show the fake mask and lies to everyone around them, as they are unable to truly trust the people around them.
So, Snow finding himself in the presence of the Queen Mother that gave birth on his current body, knowing that all what they are doing is nothing as the warmth scene that it currently look like to other people since they knows that they are just lying on each other and being suspicious despite not having evidence that they are against each other in the first place.
This is the Royal Family, even with all the power they got, the both of them still has to show to be respectful and showing the complete and loving family that they are known for in the Dynasty.
In this Palace, the Royals and their subjects are all great liar and fake people who hide behind the scene.
What do you expect on a Royal family? For people who live in the Palace, where one mistake, can mean the end of your life?
It was the reason why Snow find it fascinating about how the last 4 generation in the Royal families, that they manage to remain true and loyal against each other, specially in the generation where Xen was born, only the Queen Mother seemed to hate them completely despite being their mother.
The late Emperor children has been quite affectionate on each other, they care and love, that the power that the throne has to offer weren't enough to break their bonds.
The Royal family has been love, because they love the people in their land at the same time.
So Of course, the world tell you that not everything can have a perfect happy family, specially regarding the Royal Family and misfortune has finally struck them hard in this generation.
And it was not because of brothers fighting over the throne, no, it was because of a woman, a female.
The beautiful female being the downfall of a nation? Snow believe it all now in this life of his, because he has the living fact right before him.
It was his mother, the Queen Mother of the Rong Dynasty, the cause of all the tragic disaster that the Royal family is currently facing.
One could say that the late Emperor has always been a good emperor, wise and all that, the only bad sign was the fact that he has fallen in love at first sight with the most beautiful female in the last generation.
Xen Queen Mother, Wei Lei Shan, has been the most beautiful person in the whole Dynasty despite not being a fair, because a fair person is a fact that they are far more beautiful, charming and adorable than the other genders.
Yes, the Late Emperor has remain true to the Queen, but the feeling that they have is not reciprocate from what he is currently seeing now at the moment.
As Snow amber eyes take a glimpse of the invisible blue screen appearing when taking a look at the woman before him, it seemed that the Queen Mother doesn't love the late Emperor at the same time.
And seeing the rate of hate being so high up, oh yes, she seemed to still feel guilty of causing all the death and chaos in the Dynasty at the moment because she was still their mother, the woman that has given birth to them, but the hate she was feeling was so high and heavy that it wasn't enough to stop her from murdering all her children's.
At least Snow got some clue about how and who was the cause of all the misfortune in their Royal family, he refuse to accept that it all happen because of coincidences and the fact that the Queen Mother is entirely an enemy from the original Xen suspicious from before are true.
The original Xen has always has a suspicious over his Mother, specially when his instinct has always been telling him that there was just something wrong about his Mother even when he was still young, and the moment that he didn't listen to what his instinct was telling him that he almost died for it, so then Xen has always trust what his guts has been telling him from that moment on.
Xen instinct doesn't always appear, but when it tell him something, that is the moment that he has to listen to it.
Although, as he looked at the screen in discreet, there is a name written on it under the Alliance which the Queen Mother was partner with all, it make sense that the disaster happening wasn't only her fault, since there is no way that she can do and has plan all of it by herself.