19 The Letter part 1

The Empress felt mad, she tolerated her first born too much for her liking. Covering for him and taking the blame with an open heart. She lost The Emperor trust because of him, she didn't know why he was that greedy with the idea of sitting on the throne to a degree of obsession, she didn't raise him that way, and he's supposed to know that the firstborn automatically sits on the throne in the first place.

Fuming, she didn't hold her palm from slapping the First prince after getting informed about the ambush and the fourth prince death. What made her angrier is her son accusing her of taking the dead person side.

"YOU ARE A FOOL! I tried to convince the Emperor to send him away for a long time and now when he did, look what you have done! HE'S BLAMING ME FOR IT!" The Empress Shouted

"Even the walls have ears, lower your voice!" (First prince name) hissed annoyed

"You! Don't ever talk to me that way! I am your Empress." She scolded him

"And I am your future Emperor!" He fired back; with a challenging smirk, making her face goes pale from surprise

"I am your Mother!" She exclaimed

"I am leaving." He coldly ignored her and left, not before meeting the twin Brothers in the doorway eavesdropping

"If you say something like that again to the empress, don't blame anyone but yourself." The Second prince warned bumping his shoulder with his older brother, and rushed to his mother side, while the Third prince gaped like a fish.

"Are you alright?" Zheng Min asked his pale mother, the concern evident in his voice

"I….I….." She couldn't finish her sentence making the Third prince hug her for comfort

"Mom you spoil him too much!" Zheng Chang puffed his cheeks looking at his twin in jealousy

"Come here, you rascal!" She told him, laughing in delight

Joining the hug, The Empress started to feel better. At least she has children who love her, that all what mattered at that moment.

**

Early in the morning, Li Jie woke up to deliver the letter that his master wrote. He couldn't sleep at all, the black circles evident around his eyes indicating his lack of sleep.

Trying not to make a nose, Li Jie quietly walked into the old man who kept snoring without a care in the world, sleeping peacefully, he suddenly felt jealous.

Li Jie ignored his inner thought, and took the letter then left the cottage in a hurry, Pleading the sky not to get caught by the guards. Arriving in the village, he carefully walked around looking for a person to give him the letter. Spotting him near a tree, he advanced his way.

"Li Jie! How can I help you?" A guy with tan skin and a messed long hair with shabby old clothes asked

"Master told you to take care of this." He said giving him the letter

The Tanned man examined the letter.

"I will take care of it you can go." The man told Li Jie who sighed in relief and went to look for a restaurant nearby to eat inside.

The man who took the letter secured it inside his clothes and disappeared from the view, going to the forbidden ally, the guy pushed a tile making a door appear in front of him.

"Boss Yo!" A person wearing a robe with the royal seal called

"I feel lucky I was about to go meet you!" Yo told him, his luck looks pretty good today

"Leave whatever you are about to say aside! I need you to find the young prince. The Emperor can't rest without seeing him dead or alive." He said

"Well, I already have a clue of where he is. Take this and give it to the Emperor! And don't open it! " Yo stated giving him the message.

"You mean this letter contains information about the young prince?" He asked in surprise, finding the prince was faster than he thought it would take

"Yes!" Yo nodded

**

Back to Li Jie, he felt like someone have cursed him with bad luck, a scoot of Guards walked around the market, and unfortunately for him, The fat guard saw him again and started to shout for the hall group to chase him. Li Jie ran away like his life depends on it while getting mixed with the crowd in the process.

"Criminal in the loose! Move! Move!" Li Jie heard the fat man shout, he felt like beating the crap out of him because of him he will go home and eat rice, eating it on lunch and dinner was enough for him, he saved the money for a day like. He sells stuff for people to gain money to eat Tofu and drink tea, sometimes he doesn't know if he should laugh or cry about his miserable life.

Pushing people to pass, Li Jie bumped into a masked man making him fall on the ground.

"Catch him!" The fat man yelled from afar

The masked man stared at him coldly, not moving from his spot. Chills started to gather in Li Jie's heart the masked man aura was so strong that he couldn't move.

Reducing his aura, the masked man gave him his hands to stand which the young man accepted.

"You need to get away fast, Or they will catch you." He stated coldly giving the young man his back.

The scene before him was a familiar one making his worst memory get triggered.

Remembering his childhood that was lived without a family, alone and homeless, a kid who's looking for a way to survive.

He stole to eat, he caused troubles wherever he went, but that was normal for a kid. Getting arrested was what changed his life forever.

He got captured but not to be punished. They took kids under their wings and trained them to be assassins.

These assassins work under a secret organization created by the minister of justices in secret.

Being an assassin, meant getting rid of emotions That was the first rule he learned. He doesn't remember the last time he felt something, beside being indifferent.

He won't lie and say he didn't feel sad for killing kids and yes he felt sad for the young prince, the young prince was only a child, he wasn't the one who killed him, but still he didn't try to save him.