Female Novel
Chapter 841 Poor Diana (Part One)
When Rolando saw the names of envoys from the Bright Dynasty, his expression and overalldemeanor became as cold as ice.
Immediately noticing his temper, Miguel raised a small and awkward smile on his face. "Your Majesty, itseems like you're currently in a bad mood. Prince Matthew, a powerful man from the Bright Dynasty,has been sent here to celebrate with us. It's a kind gesture on their part. Why aren't you happy?" heasked.
But Rolando just ignored Miguel's question. Instead, he walked out of the door and watched the gentlesunshine outside. There seemed to be a touch of gentleness in his eyes, but no one saw it.
Meanwhile, upon closer assessment of Rolando's reaction, Miguel finally understood that the emperorwas disappointed and frustrated because the one he was expecting wasn't included in the list.
"Miguel, I want you to do one thing for me. Just one thing! If you can't do it well, you don't have to comeback," Rolando slowly said.
At that, Miguel's face paled. "Your Majesty, aren't you being too cruel? I don't know what you want meto do. You're being too harsh. I'm afraid I really can't harass or hurt someone else. And I can't beat up acapable woman like Princess Harper. So please, calm down!"
Rolando glanced at him and bitterly smiled. "Don't worry, I won't ever dare to let you do that. The lasttime that you did, she was buried under the library of the South Kingdom and almost lost her life. She'sa vengeful woman. This time, if you go and she doesn't kill you, you'd be so lucky."
Miguel laughed out loud. He was even more convinced that Harper did cause quite a lot of trouble. Sheeven made Rolando love her from the bottom of his heart. "Your Majesty, you are indeed very devotedto Princess Harper."
Rolando turned around and glared at Miguel. In an instant, Miguel shut his mouth and murmured, "Ididn't say anything wrong. It's the truth."
"Just finish what I'll ask you to do." Rolando's voice was low and cold like the frost early in the morning.It was so frightening that Miguel shivered just by listening to him.
"Your Majesty, what can I do for you?"
While still looking at Miguel, Rolando smiled even more sinisterly. Naturally, Miguel felt uneasy.Rolando opened his mouth and said something in a very low voice; nobody but Miguel heard it clearly.Upon hearing the order, he felt that the blood all over his body froze. For a while, he just stood thereand forgot how to react.
Without saying anything else, Rolando turned around and left. Miguel remained standing by himself fora long time before he came to his senses.
Meanwhile, the road to the Great Jade Kingdom was quite troublesome for Matthew. Throughout theirjourney, they had encountered various problems. First, the road collapsed which ultimately affectedtheir speed in moving forward. Then, there was heavy rain so the bridge was submerged. In any case,accidents kept happening every step of the way. When Harper and her entourage set out to the GreatJade Kingdom, Matthew and his people even hadn't left the land of the Bright Dynasty.
On her way to follow Matthew, Harper chose another path, different from the one Matthew and theothers were taking, as the couple had decided that they would travel to the Great Jade Kingdom, one inpublic and one in secret. The one Harper was taking was rough and quite dangerous. She climbed overthe mountains and went through forests. Although unable to ride a horse or get in a carriage whilegoing through this path, Harper had a good health condition and only brought Forsythia with her. Therest of the maids stayed in the mansion. It was much easier for them to pass over mountains and riversthat way. Moreover, the twelve secret guards were closely following her.
With utmost confusion, Forsythia asked, "Your Highness, why did we choose this path? It's very difficultto climb over mountains and go through rivers. If we went on the official roads, perhaps we would havecaught up with His Highness and the others on the way."
Harper laughed. "We're going through this path because it's a shortcut. His Highness and the othersleft five or six days ahead of us. By this time, they might have already entered the Great Jade Kingdom.With this path, we can get to the border in three days. So if everything goes well, we can reach thekingdom at the same time as them."
"How do you know this path?" Shawn was actually quite surprised. The more time he spent withHarper, the more astounded he was. How could a weak woman— His thoughts were interrupted whenhe caught a glimpse of Harper who was casually walking in front. He then threw away his line ofthinking. She was not a weak woman. On the contrary, she was so strong that he didn't know howcapable she really was until then.
"I heard of it by accident when I was on a trip in the past. It takes only half of the time to go back to theimperial capital through this path. I often took this way when there were accidents in the imperialcapital," Harper said with a broad smile on her face.
The corners of Shawn's mouth twitched a little. He concluded that during the past years, Harper rarelystayed in the imperial capital and often traveled around. But how did she hide it from everyone andwander outside of the kingdom all year round?
"You were often away from the imperial capital?"
"My uncle always had to leave in the past. Well, I didn't like to just stay at home to be despised, so Ioften followed him. With my uncle as an excuse, it was easy for me to go out. But then he disappearedand since then, it became difficult for me to go out whenever I wanted." A hint of sadness flashednovelbin
through Harper's eyes. Her uncle had treated her so well, a hundred times better than the way herfather treated her.
"Let's take a break. We've been walking for a long time," Shawn suggested.
"Okay," Harper agreed.
"I am going to look for food," Zorro immediately said. Harper sat down against a trunk andunconsciously shook the branch in her hand. Staring into nothing, she seemed to be recalling the past.Her eyes were gentle and confused, as if she had a very vague memory of what happened then.
"Please drink some water, Your Highness." Forsythia handed the bottle to Harper. She then took a sipbefore saying, "I hope everything will go well on this trip to the Great JadeKingdom."