'As sunlight streamed through the bedside folding screen,

Her hair at the temples curls over her snow white cheeks

Sleepily she paints her eyebrows slim

When she puts on a flower between mirrors, to tell her face from the flower is difficult

The new patch on her brocade vest

is two love birds in a golden thread.'

Gongsun Li closed the book with a sigh after reciting the poem by wen tingyun, a famous ancient poet of Tang dynasty. Gazing dispiritedly out of the window, she reminisced the day day of her childhood. Her parents, her little brothers, those laughs, hugs, oh she missed them so much.

The wound of losing her family again became fresh in her heart. She lost loved ones then and she again lost him now, another week spent without seeing him.

'The new patch on her brocade vest

is two love birds in a golden thread.'

She whispered those lines again, they worked like medicine to her heart.

"My lady, my lady!" Xiao Hua ran into her chamber hyperventilating.

"Calm down. What happened?"

"My lady, Master Niang arrived!"

GongsunLi furrowed her brows, "Master Niang?"

Xiao Hua widened her eyeballs,

"Don't joke, my lady. Everyone knows master Niang, he is the martial art teacher of huangshang. Huangshang respects him very much."

"Is that so?"

"My lady, everyone is going to the palace of fire dragon(the emperor's palace) to see Master Niang. I heard, master even brought his best disciple with him, Huang Xiaomin."

"Huang Xiaomin?" G.Li's eyes lit up like Christmas trees hearing the name. Huang Xiaomin was her most favorite actor in her world, her idol, the love of her life, tears'. She was his biggest fangirl. She would day dream about meeting him all the time!

Now there is a Huang Xiaomin in this world too, naturally G.Li's naughty mind became curious to see this man and the master, mostly she wanted to see her husband more than anything. She missed that chipmunk to death.

With a sly grin, she faced her maids,

"How about we visit this master too, huh?"

All her maids squeeled with excitement.

G.Li later got to know why all the maids were so excited, legends had that Huang Xiaomin was one of the most handsome men in the state and they all were ready to suffer from some nosebleeding, heh.

.................

At the palace of fire dragon.....

"Zhen is grateful to Master. It must have been difficult for Master come in a short notice."

Master Niang stood up from his chair and bowed before the emperor,

"Serving huangshang in time of need is my duty. I brought my best disciple Huang Xiaomin with me. If huangshang would allow him to help me in war plan, it would be huangshang's genorosity."

Huang Xiaomin too kneeled down before the emperor and cupped his fists.

"Nucai's life at huangshang's feet."

Zhu Zhen smiled slightly and nodded to them as a form of agreement.

"Rise. Master don't have to kneel before Zhen. Master is a father figure to me. Master can take any help you want, your contribution in this war is important."

"Huangshang is gracious. I wish peace and prosperity to huangshang."

"En. Let's discuss about the war."

It nearly took G.Li half an hour to reach the palace of dragon from her palace in a sedan chair. She felt like ripping her hair off at the slow pace of her carrier. Why would the concubines use sedan chair when it was so painfully slow?! She could bet on her ass she would reach in five minutes if she were allowed to run.

Master Niang and Huang Xiaomin just bid goodbye to the enperor when G.Li reached the palace. Xian Xu was seeing them outside.

G.Li narrowed her eyes to look at their face. Huang Xiaomin!!!!! Oh My God!!!!! It was really Huang Xiaomin, her idol walking infront if her eyes!!!!!!!!

Gongsun Li could feel her blood pressure reaching its peak with all the excitement she was feeling. The dream of her man!!!!!!

Not being able to suppress her excitement she squeaked like a fan girl,

"Huang Xiaomin!!"

Huang Xiaomin stopped his pace at her call and looked right at her. His eyes widened as he whispered,

"Gongsun Li!"

He knows my name!!!!!

"You know my name?"

Huang Xiaomin laughed as if she was crazy,

"Gongsun Li, my friend!"

And of course in the next moment, G.Li did what she was best at doing. She fainted.