**CHAPTER 1**
"It's time to wake up Lady Shurei"
"I'm still sleepy, just a few more minutes Xing Yu"
"I'm sorry my child but you must get up now, you know the rules"
Sigh "Alright you win"
Shurei is one of the most beautiful women of China. She is 23 years old. Her skin is fair and her hair is a long straight black with slight bangs covering her forehead. She doesn't like wearing revealing clothes even though she has a nice body. But she loves wearing simple but elegant clothes. She doesn't need makeup too because her face is still beautiful.
When she got up her maid Xing Yu help her get dress. Xing Yu is her nanny ever since she was small. She is a very nice old woman and a trusted maid in the Imperial Palace.
"Xing Yu may I help cooking the meals?"
"I'm sorry my lady but you can't"
"Why? Oh please please please let me help! How can I practice the recipes you taught to me if I'm not allowed to cook?"
"My lady…"
"Please! I'm begging you Xing Yu!"
"Alright, but remember my lady be careful that you may not get burn or His Majesty may kill me."
"Oh come on don't worry, I can handle myself!" she smiled at Xing Yu.
This is her everyday life. Wake up, eat, secretly cooking in the kitchen or doing household chores, play the harp, read, sometimes sparring with her younger brother Han Zhun, eat, doing nothing and then sleep. She's never allowed to go outside the palace for they say that it's too dangerous for a princess to be outside. Well she always violated that. She always sneaks in to go outside the palace every market day. Xing Yu worries that maybe there's something going to happened to her lady while she's outside the Imperial Palace. But she can't stop her for this is one of her hobbies, sort of. And then one day, something unexpected happens. Someone from the Imperial guards learn that Shurei is going outside of the Imperial Palace without permission. And because of that, she is grounded in her room for a very long time. She can only see the outside world in the window of her room.
She became a gloomy girl after that. She is not the same princess who always smiles every time you see her. Xing Yu feels sorry for her lady. She wants to do anything to make her happy, so she asks Shurei and…
"My Lady, I feel sorry for you. I know you had a hard time but please tell me if there's anything I can do to help you my lady, I will do it wholeheartedly for your happiness sake my lady."
"…"
"My lady?"
"There is a one thing I always want to do in a very long time Xing Yu."
"What is it my lady? Tell me."
"I want to escape the life of a princess."