"Jie... Jie...", Li Xi Rui caressed Long Jie's face. She couldn't believe that it was just this morning he made a passionate love to her. But now, he is lying down, unconscious on the bed. She held herself back from weeping. She didn't want to show her weakness even at this moment. Not with many eyes watching.

The tent is eerily silent. All eyes are on the unmoving figure on the bed. "How could this happen? Rui Sheng? QiQi?", Li Xi Rui asked the two people beside her. As for the rest, she didn't want to care about them now.

*Thud!* "This servant deserve punishment!", QiQi kneeled on the dirt, making sure her head knocked on the harsh surface. Silently, QiQi's tears flow down her dirty cheeks; making sure everyone knows that she is repenting.

"QiQi, I didn't ask if you deserve punishment. I asked what had happened to him that the second prince is suddenly unconscious?", Li Xi Rui didn't help QiQi up. If she didn't explain, how would she know how to save her? She could barely hang on right now. She is trembling with anger. If she releases those emotions, she would surely collapse!

Realizing the eyes on them, Li Xi Rui ordered, "Everyone else, OUT!". Li Xi Rui didn't care that the Long Qing's and Mu Jiu Jiu's status is higher than hers. She needed to be with her people and outsiders are not invited to stay!

"I was just going out to brew the medicine as I always did. But when I come back, that woman is here and the master has been throwing up blood. Madam, QiQi didn't expect this to happen!", QiQi is crying. This is the first time QiQi being rude and calling Mu Jiu Jiu 'that woman'. Besides, she had just left to brew medicine, the shadow guard should have guard the tent's door. "When I checked, the poison has reacted to the overdosed medicine. With the enhancing properties of the drug, the poison has become more potent than before", QiQi tried her best to explain.

"Shadows!", Li Xi Rui called the shadow guards. In a second, all the shadow guards appear including Jie Er and Jie Yi. The only who is not present is Jie San.

"Madam!", the shadows kneeled on the floor, their head hanging low with respect.

"Explain", that one word sends shivers down the shadows' spine. They have been observing the situation from the shadow.

Nodding his head, Jie Yi look at Jie Si since he was the one guarding the tent. "Second master told us to leave. The other in the shadow are not allowed to expose themselves", replied Jie Si. The punishment for a shadow guard is heavier than any normal soldier. If they did just a tiny bit mistake, their head would fly in mere seconds. And now, considering their roles to the sect master's condition, a massacre would be taking place; with shadow guard's head as the main sacrificed.

"Rui Sheng!!! Before I smack your head open, stop grinning and explain", her tone harsh. She could barely think straight as it is; she didn't want to succumb to her emotion as well.

"I beginning to think that the lioness began to grow some claws after all. Have you forgotten? This is what's written from the beginning. Furthermore, if a certain someone didn't do something naughty, the poison might not have affected the other area. Didn't I say to take it easy and ceased that activity?", replied Rui Sheng in somewhat cynical tone. He did say to cease any boudoir activity; he did say to rest. "Though it should happen, that lotus is really consistent. Always repeating the same mistake. For something that has been pre-determined, exposing the shadows are not an ideal move. It will jeopardize the whole plan", what Rui Sheng did, what he said, there will always meaning behind it. This time he couldn't help but sacrifice his cousin for a greater good.

"He will wake up right?", asked Li Xi Rui. Didn't Long Jie wake up in the previous life? Based on that, she desperately wanted to believe that something might stay the same; at least the good part. 'I told him that he should stop, Jie, you stupid man!', Li Xi Rui scolds him in her mind. Problems after problems, she is getting tired of this unending crisis.

"Hmmm...", Rui Sheng lazily replied. His divine prediction never failed him; he is confident that Long Jie will wake up... eventually.

"Don't lie to me. Don't make me hate you", Li Xi Rui could barely uttered that words calmly. She hates her unstable emotions.

"Does that mean that you didn't hate me before?", asked Rui Sheng light heartedly.

"Shut up. It's time; it's time to destroy her belief and her pride", Li Xi Rui is angry. With nowhere to vent, the only person she could vent on is that so called heroine! She couldn't risk Long Jie's life; so she could not change the future too much. But she wanted to break Mu Jiu Jiu's pride. She wanted to make her miserable by making her realize that her view is wrong all along. Everything that she believes in is her own imagination.

Leaving everyone behind, Li Xi Rui walks out from the tent. Her steps light the opposite of her feelings.

"Ah~ It's going to be an interesting show", Rui Sheng smirks. 'Jie~ Your lioness is growing wings. While you rest, be careful that she might fly~', he could even joke with someone unconscious, anticipating a lively scene.

***

Outside the tent~

"Xi-er, Jiu Jiu... she is not intentional", Long Qing started to talk about Mu Jiu Jiu but Li Xi Rui refuses to listen.

"Crown prince's consort, why did you feed the second prince an unknown concoction?", Li Xi Rui asked calmly despite the raging storm in her heart.

"I... I... it is a herbal medicine. It's supposed to restore his body to normal. I am too a person with knowledge in medicine", Mu Jiu Jiu is rather shocked. She didn't think that the medicine she brewed would be harmful. She had been making the same medicine and feeding it to some people before. The only difference is the dosage. She purposely increases the dosage because she heard that Long Jie's condition is bad.

"QiQi is here. Despite what crown prince's consort believe, as young as QiQi is, she is the wondering doctor Bai Wu's disciple. Now then, what is Crown prince's consort think, coming in the second prince's tent, unaccompanied? Didn't the crown prince ordered the princess to stay in your own tent?!", Li Xi Rui asked Mu Jiu Jiu. Her words indicate that Mu Jiu Jiu might harbor a different intention after all.

'How did she know that?', Long Qing stares at Li Xi Rui. He had never disclosed that he had punish Mu Jiu Jiu by forbidding her to step out of her tent.

"That... Qing...", Mu Jiu Jiu wanted to explain, but there are so many eyes on her. As an actress she should be used to be the center of attention. Still, it's different when thousands of eyes are on her. She has only acted behind the television screen with camera and tens of people; not an entire army of soldiers! Not to mention her previous miscalculation had made the soldiers hostile. Since she transmigrates to this ancient time, this is the first time she couldn't do anything. Wasn't she the heroine? Because she is a transmigrate person, she should be the heroine; like in all those dramas. For once, she is the main character; even though this is not what she expected, she is still the heroine. But why didn't it seems like that? Why are they looking at her like that? That familiar look. 

"Why couldn't princess consort answer? Why? Is it because you are a little interested in him? As a woman?", Li Xi Rui kept on asking and asking; driving Mu Jiu Jiu into a corner. "It is not like that at all right? After all, he is your brother in law...", making everyone doubting her.

"No... Qing, I didn't...", Mu Jiu Jiu started to weep. If Mu Jiu Jiu is really clever, then she should say that she is just worried about her brother in law calmly. But her hesitation, is a prove that she is indeed having ulterior motive.

"In fact, princess consort had done it before, so...", Li Xi Rui let her words hang, letting the soldiers speculate. Murong An, Vice general Xu and Long Qing keeps on looking without helping anyone, while Mr. Mu watch on. Indeed, Mu Jiu Jiu had seduced another woman's fiancé, this cannot be disputed.

'No, I couldn't defend Jiu Jiu now. She keeps on making mistakes, if I were to defend her now, the soldiers might feel unsatisfied. We still need to win the war', Long Qing decided to keep quiet. Anyway, the soldier has been hostile to Mu Jiu Jiu since the first accident. Now with Long Jie incident, the soldier might feel even bitter.

"No. Believe me... it was a mistake. I... I didn't mean to. I am the heroine. You should back me up!", Mu Jiu Jiu couldn't help but shout. Frustrated and angry, Mu Jiu Jiu started to spout nonsense that no one understands.

"Surely, the most talented lady, a famous doctor such as princess couldn't make a mistake. A. Stupid. Mistake", Li Xi Rui emphasize her words one by one. "Ah~ maybe it was wrong of me, princess consort might intentionally... after all, the matter about the ruin military strategy might be a plan to rid of someone. Isn't that so?", sowing discord between the fake heroine and the soldier is rather easy to do under this high pressing environment.

"No! I didn't! Believe me! I- the heroine would not do something like that! This villainess is just making wild guesses!", desperate for help, Mu Jiu Jiu uttered something that she shouldn't. Pretending to be innocent and kind, Mu Jiu Jiu has strayed from her character; revealing her vicious thought. If this is the world she come from, Mu Jiu Jiu has fail as an actress. She won't ever be an A-list actress. Forever stuck as a B-list actress.

"You couldn't even defend yourself. Look around you; when you are crying desperately, they didn't even help you. You might not want to harm Jie, but everyone would doubt your real intention of getting close to him. There is no heroine because this is real life; there is no heroine entitle of everything. You are alone. You. Are. A. Fake!", Li Xi Rui spoke in a low voice making sure Mu Jiu Jiu heard her. This is a small revenge. For someone like her, who always looking down on people, who always needed attention; wouldn't this be a perfect gift? After all, she gets her most wanted attention.

"No. I am the heroine... I am a transmigrate... in... in drama... wuwuwu... Jianyu, help me...", crying; Mu Jiu Jiu looked at a certain direction asking for help. She didn't expect that she would meet him in this state; she thought he would at least sympathize at her. But contrary to what she expected, that man didn't even budge. He just looks at her with a cold pair of eyes. Judging her worth silently.

"Jiu Jiu, for now, just go back to the palace. Don't ever step out from your tent until the day you're going back to the capital", said Long Qing. This is the extend he could do for her. The one making mistake is his consort and the one lying on the bed is his brother. Both is the member of the imperial family. So, this matter should be judge by the head of the imperial household; which is the emperor.

P/s: The heroine is crumbling...