Female Novel
Chapter 843 Saving Prime Minister Miguel (Part One)
On their way to the Great Jade Kingdom, Harper and her companions maintained a normal travellingspeed. Because of Diana's presence, however, the journey didn't seem as boring as it had been. Aftercrossing the border between the Great Jade Kingdom and the Bright Dynasty, Harper changed intomen's clothing and all the members of the group disguised themselves as businessmen.
When they entered the territory of the Great Jade Kingdom, Harper and her companions slowed downtheir pace. They started to wander around the tourist spots of the kingdom, as if they went there just toenjoy and take in the beauty of nature.
"Master, I'm afraid we're going to miss the coronation ceremony of the Great Jade Kingdom's empressif we play around like this. Don't you think so?" Diana asked Harper who was currently reading a bookin the carriage to kill time. Diana was sitting opposite of her. Feeling extremely bored, all she could dowas to stare at her master. She couldn't understand why Harper liked reading so much. Whenever theywere in the carriage, she could see Harper reading book after book.
Harper answered, "It doesn't matter. As long as the envoy team can attend the coronation ceremony,it's going to be okay. We just need to get there at our current pace. After all, our purpose is not toattend the coronation ceremony there. Besides, the ceremony won't take place until more than twoweeks from now. Even though we travel this way, we'll still have enough time to be there on time."
"The one who's going to be the empress of the Great Jade Kingdom is a princess of your BrightDynasty. Don't you feel excited about that?" Diana asked in amazement. She believed it was a joyousevent, so she couldn't understand why Harper looked so indifferent.
Nonchalantly, Harper asked her back, "Why would I feel excited? It's none of my business. I'm just abystander. What's more important is that Rolando and Lilian feel excited about it. I believe they don'tcare whether or not others feel happy for them."
"You're so blunt and honest!" Diana commented while shaking her head. If the new empress of theGreat Jade Kingdom was a princess of the South Kingdom, she would be extremely thrilled andecstatic. After all, it was a good thing since it could indicate that the two countries were on good termswith each other. She believed that all of the people in the country should share the happiness fromsuch an alliance.
"My Lady," Forsythia called Harper while lifting up the curtain of the carriage.
"What's wrong?" Harper asked while she shifted her eyes from the book to Forsythia. Forsythiaresponded, "We've found a man who's seriously injured and in a coma ahead of us. Zorro told me toask you if we should—"
"Just ignore him," Harper casually replied.
"Master, how ruthless you are! Let's at least see who the man is. He might be handsome, you know?"Diana complained. After jumping off the carriage, she continued, "I'll go and see what's going on."
While looking at Diana's receding figure, Harper couldn't help but shake her head helplessly. She knewthat Diana felt extremely bored to be inside the carriage these days, so she kept on wishing forsomething to do. With such thoughts in mind, Harper didn't stop her.
Diana came back very soon. "Master, the man turned to be an old acquaintance of yours!"
"An old acquaintance? Who are you talking about?" Harper asked, astonishment evident in her eyes.
"The new prime minister of the Great Jade Kingdom, Miguel Hua!"
At the mention of the man's name, Harper narrowed her eyes a little. Both she and Diana had metMiguel in the South Kingdom. At that time, Miguel had been very hostile and exceptionally unkind toher. When she mentioned this to Matthew, he had told her that Miguel was gay and he was in love with
Rolando. So the reason why Miguel was adverse towards her was because Miguel didn't like howRolando had saved her at the price of his arm.
"Master, shall we save him or not? If you don't want to save him, I'm going to give him one more stab tohelp him die sooner," Diana asked with so much excitement.
At those words, the corner of Harper's mouth twitched. "Leave him alone. Don't stab him. Let's just go."
"Let him die by himself?" Diana actually felt that her master wasted such a good opportunity. She hadthought that she would at least take the chance to get revenge on him. To her surprise, Harper chose tosimply turn a blind eye on him, as if she hadn't seen him.
So then, their group passed by Miguel who was lying helplessly on the road. However, a few secondslater, Harper's carriage suddenly stopped in its tracks. In a rigid voice, Harper ordered, "Take him withus."
"Yes, My Lady."
When Miguel woke up again, he found himself inside an inn. He opened his eyes and saw a personstanding in front of the window. At that time, the person had the back turned on him but still, Miguelthought the person looked somewhat familiar. However, he just couldn't remember where he had seenthis person before.
"Thank you for your help. I don't know how to thank you b—" Upon seeing the person turn around, heswallowed the rest of his words of gratitude. "Harper Chu!"
Crossing her arms over her chest, Harper said, "I'm honored to be recognized by you, even at firstglance, Prime Minister Miguel."
"Did you save me?"
"I didn't want to, but after reconsideration, I changed my mind. After all, Rolando is my friend and you'rehis most helpful assistant. So it only seemed inappropriate for me if I didn't save you from danger. Thatwas why I told my men to pick you up," Harper plainly said, as if she was talking about how she justpicked up a mere puppy on the roadside.
Miguel struggled to sit up, but he scratched his wound in the process. It hurt so much that his eyebrowsfurrowed so tightly together while he fell back to the bed once again.
"You're severely injured. It would be better if you don't move your body for the time being. Or else, yourwound will split and it'll cause me more trouble." After saying that, Harper activated a gust of wind fromher fingertip and hit one of Miguel's acupuncture points. In an instant, his body could no longer moveexcept for his eyes.
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"You need to have a good rest so your wound can heal in peace." Harper pulled out a chair and satdown in front of Miguel. "What happened in the Great Jade Kingdom? How could you, the new primeminister who is greatly favored by your emperor, be injured this much? You were even lying on theground, hundreds of miles away from the capital of the kingdom."
Miguel firmly closed his lips, refusing to answer her question. Harper had already thought that hewouldn't tell her the reason. But she thought that it was worth a try to still ask. She didn't really careeven though the man didn't answer her.