Mei Yang took in a deep breath, she had finally moved up the ranks of Wu, after fighting as a private for so long she was finally able to prove herself worthy. Sun Jian himself appointed her as Lieutenant General she was so excited she ran straight to the sparring grounds with her weapon startling some of the rookie privates. She jogged towards the training grounds limbering herself up as she did so.

She was stopped in front off the entrance by one of the older officers Lu meng.

"I'm sorry Mei Yang I know you're eager to start training but the grounds are in use right now."

"What?! But how could it be that busy I saw a handful of generals on my way here theres no way it's full!"

Mei Yang pushed past the old man her green eyes blazing. only to stop short when she saw who was in the training grounds. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were going all at it she could see the sweat dripping off their body from ten feet away.

Lu meng placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Sun Ce and Zhou Yu didn't want to worry about getting in the way of others, you see they fight with such intensity it was only a matter of time before someone else gets injured."Mei Yang was only half listening she was entranced by Sun Ce's fighting. He was attractive too she felt herself feel giddy and emotion she thought had died when her parents were murdered. She began to tear up at the thought part of her felt a little guilty it seemed as if she was moving on, although she knew she never could truly move on until she killed the person responsible. Lost in her thoughts she was brought back to reality when Sun Ce waved his hand in her face.

"Hello?" He leaned forward ever so slightly she could smell his scent mixed with sweat. She swallowed hard "S-sorry " She bowed her head

"Don't be sorry I just wanted to know why you looked like you were about to cry there." Sun Ce's care free smile faded into a serious expression.

"I wasn't about to cry, I was just disappointed I couldn't train since you decided to hog the entire arena for yourself" Mei Yang teased pretending to snub Sun Ce.

"He is the son of Sun Jian you should treat him with more respect!" Lu meng lightly shoved Mei Yang reprimanding her actions. Mei Yang whipped her head around causing her red hair to whip her in the face and gave Lu Meng a look. Lu Meng raised his eyebrows in response.

"Fine." Mei Yang huffed. "Sorry." She looked at her feet as she did slightly embarrassed for her actions.

"It's alright, I'm almost done here anyway." Sun Ce assured.

"Don't bother rushing." Mei Yang started as she began to walk away. "I've lost my motivation now anyway."She called back un-tying her hair so it hit the beginning of her hips. She blew her hair out of face in frustration why did the old man have to embarrass her like that?

Mei Yang returned to her room and flopped on her bed. Why was she so concerned? Not like she cared about manners before with the exception of Sun Jian of course. Mei Yang slipped off her gladiator sandals leaving her dress on the fabric that resembled was tight fitting but she didn't quite feel like getting undressed yet. She played with the sleeves of her undershirt folding back the piece that extended just over her wrist forming a 'V' shape on her hand. She asked the seamstress to make it unique just for her, rimmed with a gold trim it enhanced her own skin colour just slightly. Mei Yang admired her outfit a bit more before getting distracted with thought of the past again. She didn't understand why the thought of her parents brought so much pain after eleven years she figured the pain would diminish, yet it still felt fresh. After all this was the whole reason she started to fight in the first place, she was too weak to defend her parents then, but now she was certain she could avenge them.

Mei Yang ran her hand through her hair in despair. She hadn't made many friends, what could she expect she was new after all. Yet she still wished she had someone to help guide her or talk to her at least. All these depressing thoughts were getting to Mei Yang she decided to go get a drink somewhere to take her mind off things.

Mei Yang entered the market with hesitance, she hadn't gotten used to being in public around fellow Wu soldiers. "What can I get for you my dear?" A older woman asked smiling at Mei Yang.

"Just some wine please."

"Alright." The older woman disappeared in the back for a moment before returning with a bottle of Mijiu.

Mei Yang thanked the elderly woman and headed back to her room drinking straight from the bottle. She wasn't particularly worried about looking lady-like in front of everyone since she was an officer anyway it seemed the stereotype didn't apply to her. She wasn't itching to get married to anyone either which meant she could do basically whatever she wanted and she enjoyed it that way.

By the time Mei Yang was half way home she was already drunk she enjoyed the warm feeling in her stomach which radiated through her throat as well. She stumbled every so often fighting her way back to her room. She almost fell into one of the outside fountains before someone grabbed her by her shirt a tugged her back restoring her balance. She turned around and squinted it was Zhou Yu. "Uhm thank you, sorry about that." Despite Mei Yang's stance on manners she couldn't help but be polite around Zhou Yu he had that sort of demeanor about him.

"Ah You're that one from earlier, Sun Ce took quite an interest in you." Zhou Yu said analyzing Mei Yang. Mei Yang stood with her mouth agape at the news. "What? He did?" She shook her head she shouldn't care about such silly things.

"Well it's none of my business anyway, I see you may need some help getting back to your room would you like me to assist you?" normally Mei Yang would've told anyone off who assumed she couldn't take care of herself but it didn't feel as if Zhou Yu felt that way and besides she had way to much to drink.

"Fine, alright lets go." Mei Yang agreed walking beside Zhou Yu thankful for his concern.