The Secret Princess – Fan fiction by AC Chapter 03: Ruins of the past came to life
♥Author♥Angel♥Chua♥
Adapted from Princess Agents drama series and original novel by Xiao Xiang Dong’er – Chu Qiao Chuan Biography
Ruins of the past came to life again (Edited 01.25.2021)
Its twilight when the two shadows reached their destination.
Chu Qiao’s face is in dismay, did not appreciate what she saw.
They passed by a small village and finds people who are sick. Living in poverty, the people have no food to eat, no water, neither shelter.
The beggars came to Chu Qiao and touched her, but their hands were electrified they felt sharp pain.
The beggar cried but Chu Qiao did not care. She gently touched the beggar and looked at in the eyes.
With eye contact, suddenly, the beggar turned into an evil witch.
Too late to realize it was a disguise from a face of an old woman in her dirty cloak.
The old woman said,“She cannot enter unless she passes the test.”
Viper took out her long whip and, in her position, she is ready to fight to protect the Mimi Gongzhu.
Chu Qiao suddenly thought they are ambushing her, she looked at Viper sharply, mad eyes and wants to ask Viper,”Who dares to disguise, this haggard old-looking woman like a beggar to attack me?”
The old woman kicked Viper and became even stronger, displaying the strength of ten men.
Viper got up threw her fierce looks, she used her whip and she let her taste the shadowless martial arts.
Looks like the old woman is still unbeatable and knows how to counter attack Viper even if Viper is in a shadowless fight.
Chu Qiao looks confused when suddenly Viper was almost hit on her head.
Chu Qiao’s killer instincts awakened, blocked the old woman punches by holding her hand, looked at her straight on her eyes.
The old woman suddenly felt like there was a fire burning her hands. Since the old woman cannot let go, her hands were glued, it got stuck in Chu Qiao.
The hands became red and Chu Qiao have no plans of letting go of her hand.
She let’s her taste the Wind and Cloud decree powers and the old woman wants to scream forced her to sprinkle the dust powder to distract Chu Qiao.
Chu Qiao’s reflexes were fast used her indigo scarf to catch it and saves her eyes from its attack.
The old woman has to concede, offered a key to Chu Qiao. But this is not as simple as it is, the end goal is to deceive her. Still, Chu Qiao did not let go of her hands. The old woman begged, yet Chu Qiao as if deaf, twisted her hand. Although the old woman has the strength of ten men, Chu Qiao’s power is invincible.
Viper shouted to the old woman,“enough!”
Do not provoke her or if she cannot control her power, everyone will die within 3 meters!”
The old woman has to hear Viper glady accepted defeat and gave up the way, said: “Alright, you may pass.”
Chu Qiao let go of her arm calmly.
The old woman put back her cloak into her head and walked passed them as if nothing happened until she disappeared like there is no shadow to be found.
“Who the hell is she?” Chu Qiao asked Viper.
“She is the Skyshadow Master, the gatekeeper of the Chu Jing Palace,” Viper replied.
Chu Qiao still locked on her brows, looks mad yet impressed at the same time.
“Where is the Chu Jing palace?” Chu Qiao asked again.
“Mimi Gongzhu, do you have the key to unlock the secret door?” Viper asked.
No.. Chu Qiao thought was it the key from the old woman’s wrist?
“This way Mimi Go… ”
All of a sudden Chu Qiao cut her words and put her two fingers in Viper’s lips just like before they smiled at each other when they were still like children.
Where is the key? Viper asked again.
“I don’t know. Where I am supposed to get the key? Is that the key from the old woman’s wrist? I am not sure if she is testing me again, so I did not bother to get it from the old woman.”
“Look at your wrist” Viper replied.
Chu Qiao somewhat stunned, she found the gold key in her wrist.
Here it is. Chu Qiao said, and she gave the key to Viper.
They used it to unlock the secret door, one in the upper, middle and lower parts of the door.
When the door opened, an uphill labyrinth of Green tea meets their eyes. It looks like the first time for Chu Qiao but not for Viper.
Chu Qiao experiences random flashbacks again.
There is sharp pain in her head. She leaned at the door for a moment, she continued to walk.
Viper used her whip to clear the way as the wild vines crawl to their hands and feet whenever they hold or stepped on them.
As darkness swallows them, Viper’s whip glowed in the dark that gives light to their way.
The labyrinth is full of an obstacle course, yet Viper knows the secret pathway to avoid and evade the stratagems planted around it. If not careful, it may kill them both.
“Do not touch anything unless I told you to do so.” Viper told Chu Qiao.
“I am not touching anything,” replied Chu Qiao.
After few hours of winding the treacherous paths, Chu Qiao memorized those secret paths as she follows Viper.
Including the mounted traps of evading of arrows, finding the rope to swing to the other side, crawling on the ground, and walking sideways to avoid a cliff-like a bottomless pit.
“We are here.” Viper said. And they arrived at a stone-walled dungeon. However, the smell of the dungeon is very fragrant, but the ground is scorched. The earth is parched there are cracks where tiny purple flower thrives.. Chu Qiao thinks these flowers emit the fragrance. However, she started to be dizzy, she yawned. About to fall on the ground looks like the fragrant smell is poisoning her in killing me softly way, and Viper caught her.
“Mimi, use your scarf to defend yourself.” Viper doubled her mask using her indigo scarf underneath its thin red mask that covered her nose and mouth.
The embroidered plum blossoms in her scarf sprinkled with plum blossoms oil, and in times of being poisoned, a sniff will save her to death. She sniffed the plum blossoms in her veil, and it went to Chu Qiao’s nostril, Viper said: “The plum blossoms is a friend in winter and a gift by the Qian (heavens).”
Chu Qiao recovered, she stood up to walk. She is astonished of this entirely new world far different from Green Hills courtyard, Wei or Yanbei. She slowly remembers who is Xinger’s, her deadly and trickiest trip to Jile Pavilion where she killed Yuwen Xi, the stratagems at the secret repository of the Eyes of God at Green Hills courtyard. However, she cannot recall all, but if an object comes to life-related to the past, she remembers all of them.
By the time they reached the Chu Jing inner courtyard Palace through the secret door shortcut, it was already deep of the night where the moonlight is unusually vast and bright. Chu Qiao not able to contain what she sees now, all is new like it was her first time, but in reality, it is not. Mixed emotions creeping into her consciousness and Viper got her attention before she can even speak.
Viper coughs: “This is the ruins of Chu Jing palace, suit yourself, we still have many things to carry out for tomorrow. I will walk you to your room.”
Viper noticed some secret tears in the eyes of Chu Qiao, and she asked: “Mimi, is there anything that bothers you? Seems there is a lot of sadness in your heart.”
Chu Qiao said:” I don’t know I just feel a lot of things happened in this place.” Chu Qiao cannot keep herself any secrets from Viper, so she let go of her tears. She feels she owns this room and like sneaking in her own territory. Chu Qiao feels like a stranger in familiar surroundings and yet did not tell Viper that Chu Qiao slowly remembers the past because it is still disfigured. She remembers her mother Lou He is riding in a black horse which she is screaming her name “Mom, mom” but Luo He said: “Do not forget all of the things I told you” a sad smile and went on her way.
Viper is busy fixing the secret princess royal Chinese mattress to sleep when a sudden cold wind blew around them. She knew that there were only two people who can use this summons of weather in the form of martial arts. Either Viper or the fighter who chose to follow the prince of Yanbei, now the future King just waiting for few months before its crowning day. And before she could even turn around, Viper took her whip and slam it to the window.
Chu Qiao saw the one lurking around and called her name: “Zhong Yu!”
Zhong Yu did not let them see her face right away she hid her face with her light orange scarf, but then she walked towards them with bluish feather falling on the secret princess diamond hall.
The room of the secret princess called the diamond hall because it’s shaped like the diamond. The ceiling made of clear glass, cut and made of real rough diamond stones created by diamond smiths of their empire. At night, you can almost see the moon and the stars twinkling and 10 times nearer, like an instant telescope. There are lots of secret passages in the secret princess room. Unfortunately, all of them somehow forgotten by its owner.
It seems Viper and Zhong Yu had some little issues in the past. Zhong Yu is looking fierce at Viper while Chu Qiao is just happy to see her but then she could not understand the friction between the two. Zhong Yu looked at Chu Qiao and said: “A’Chu, the prince of Yan searched you everywhere and failed to find you. He said he won’t be declared as king of Yanbei until he finds you. If you are dead, then we show him your bones. Unfortunately, we cannot kill someone innocent to match your figure and present it to him. And one thing, the prince reached his age of golden wisdom yet gave in to his darker side. He became hungry of justice to avenge Yan. Now let’s go!
Viper suddenly went in front of Zhong Yu and said: “You cannot take her, she is the Mimi Gongzhu and Wu Dao Ya guarded using his own life, he exchanged his position and was supposed to be Yan’s leader to govern its highest officials next to the Yan King.”
Zhong Yu is not ringing a bell and replied: “Viper I don’t trust you!”
“You must know and trust me this time!” Viper shouted.
“You never came back after the secret princess fall from the cliff, you did not report to Wu Dao Ya. Now you took A’Chu the general of Xiuli army. Prince Yan Xun is looking for her, we need to take her back to Yanbei,” cold and steady feminine voice Zhong Yu looks determined.
“I don’t have time to explain to you Zhong Yu, but if you dare to touch her, I am afraid I will have to cut off ties with you and will forget you as my eldest sister!”
Silence in the air…
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