Author's note: Mentions of torture and cannibalism 

After at least one hour, Wen Qing woke up, and she felt extremely weak and pale.

"Good evening princess." Chen said and Wen Qing looked at him, "Am I alive?"

"No, this is the afterlife."

Wen Qing sighed, "Oh boy, this is bad I wanted to love and become the Queen and also get married."

Cheng raised a brow. "Who did you want to marry?"

"You," she replied without thinking. And at the same time, Zhan came in, " I see princess, you are awake."

Wen Qing's eyes widened. "Did you also die?"

Zhan stopped, "What are you talking about? nobody died."

This made her look at Cheng who was laughing and her face became red as she threw a cushion at him, "YOU!"

Zhan smiled when he looked at these two, especially happy to see his brother laugh, "I will and call others... if that's okay your highness."

Wen Qing sighed, "I would like to spend some alone time with this idiot but okay everyone should be here when we talk about business."

Zhan smiled, "Don't worry princess, with how weak you are, you are free to stay here the whole night and spend as much as you want with him."

Cheng looked at his brother, "Get out."

Zhan laughed smacked his head, "don't talk to me like that." he said and walked out.

Wen Qing sighed and sat on the bed.

"What happened princess?" Cheng asked.

 "Let's talk when everyone is here," she said.

"I can tell that you did something stupid."

Wen Qing sighed, "for god's sake please don't annoy a person who just came back from the dead."

Cheng became quiet and a few minutes later another also came in. 

"How do you feel now princess?" Yanli asked.

"Alive." Was all she said, "Anyways shall we get down to business?" she said, "Have a seat people, we have a lot to discuss."

Everyone sat down and Zhan spoke, "So princess my brother told me that you wanted to talk about the Cult of Mithras, we would also like to know how you got poisoned."

Wen Qing sighed, "Can I have a pen and paper?"

Yanli gave her what she asked for and Wen Qing started to speak as she drew on the paper she told everything about the garden she went to and what she saw, what she felt, and Lilith, which was assumed to be Queen's fourth child.

And how she was injured there but managed to come here, after she finished she showed the drawing that she drew of Lilith to them, "This is exactly what she looked like. The hidden fourth princess Lilith."

No one was not shocked anymore.

Wen Qing spoke to Yibo, "So what did you find out Duke."

Yibo who was pale as a paper took some time to respond, to think that those people want to do something like this to Simon... shook his soul, "Zhan you tell them."

Zhan then proceeded to tell them everything Dennis told them including the fact that Simon was the favored one.

Wen Qing was baffled, "Wow, duke I didn't know that Simon was... you know that he is in danger right?"

Cheng who was awfully quiet was noticed by Zhan, and he finally spoke, "Cheng... would you like to tell what they did to you?"

Now everyone's eyes were on him and why not everyone was curious to know. Except for

 Wen Qing since she knew everything and her heart ached for him.

Cheng sighed and closed his eyes, "My team and I... we... we were coming from the war and we decided to stay in this village, I didn't know back then that it was a lower caste village...

So we stayed there and one night the village was attacked... any my team was captured and The villagers were also captured to save them  I surrendered.

We were taken to this dungeon-like place it had the same structure as Callum's place, We were kept in a dark underground room... first, nothing happened... but from second-day things started to get worse.

My team of four members... we were chained to the wall and everyday few people would come in and do some bizarre things to my teammates.

The first person was Hannah, she was injected with something... which drove her insane rashes and bumps appeared on her skin and face and her body slowly deformed and she always a friend and yelled with pain as they observed her before she finally died.

We all were hungry and asked for food, so my second teammate was boiled alive and his body was mutilated and cooked... before they gave us that and observed us like we were dogs, my other two teams mated were hungry so they had to eat to survive...

I tried my best to hold back but I was forcefully fed his flesh..."

He passed as tears slipped his eyes, but he continued, "We were in those dirty clothing for days nothing to eat or drink, tied to walls even afraid to ask for food, as they whipped us and beat us with rods poured hot water on us and they enjoyed this

One day their leader came in I don't remember her face but she came to me and asked me something, that was to become her pet and obey her I obviously refused she had these weird fantasies, so my third teammate was fed something again... and after a few hours he went insane and attacked my fourth teammate and tore him apart ripped him into shreds and fed on him 

I begged them I cried and I did everything but she enjoyed it.. she loved it... she didn't kill me, she enjoyed beating me starving me and one day she asked me to sleep with her and I was desperate to get out of there so guess what... it was awful...

After that, it continued the torture and the sleeping thing but one day I finally managed to escape I don't know how but I did."

Cheng's expression finally crumbled as he cried, "And I...was called a mental person? no one trusted me when I asked for help... my teammates never got justice..."

His silent cries filled the room where there was pin-drop silence.

Yanli was expressionless as she sat back while Zhan was eerily quiet too quiet with a straight face but the tears that were falling from his eyes without permission said something else.

Yibo finally got up and sat down in front of Cheng he grabbed his hands and said, "I am sorry. I am so sorry Cheng I should have listened to you I should have helped you trusted you I am sorry.

When Zhan was not here you were my responsibility and I..."

Cheng sighed sniffed and spoke, "It's not your fault, it really isn't, please don't blame yourself."

Yibo however was overwhelmed with guilt, "I'll not spare them I seat to got I will kill those bastards."

Yanli wiped Cheng's tears as she stood beside Cheng's chair where he was sitting and she gently grabbed his hand and pulled it towards her and patted his head, "You are really brave..."

Wen Qing smiled at him, however, Zhan finally spoke in his cold voice, "She... " Everyone looked at him, "She... is it who I think it is?"

Wen Qing nodded and smiled, "You are right it is her."

Yibo spoke with anger, "Queen Cassandra..."

"Duke..." Haoxuan came in looking worried.

"What is it?" Yibo asked.

Haoxuan replied, "The Queen she has sent a letter to..."

Yibo's anxiety rose, "What is it about?!"

Haoxuan sighed, "To take Lord Simon to the temple."

Author's note:  The Queen should die a horrible death right? just like Seth or maybe worse than him, what do you say?