Lotus Kingdom
In the Yuleng Imperial palace, we can see the emperor in a hidden room that only he and his true heir can access, then three guards suddenly appear behind him. "Report," said the emperor after sensing them, "The 'crown' prince intents to use lethal poison on the second prince's food the order was received by one of our men, and the one we sent to the temple returned with a message from our god."
"I see, for the poison change it to a non-lethal one without Lou or the Empress noticing, and read the message it might help us in the future," said the emperor knowing that anyone who marries in the Imperial family is always corrupted by power and passes on to the child as well, and always killing the second or the child made out of love.
"The message reads: 'The second prince Xiao will wake up after the poison leaves his body, and the familiar finishes the contract while the second prince sleeps. The familiar of the second prince will help you in the future but you, the emperor must reconcile with the second prince for them to help you with your plans against the empress. The second prince is the key to that plan to work along with his familiar, fail to keep him safe until they start the contract, the familiar will destroy the world and reset to give you another chance and will keep on doing it until the second prince becomes the crown prince.' That's all it says, your majesty," said the first guard nervous about what the emperor will do.
"What did the priests say about the message?" asked the emperor curious why the message was threatening him.
"They said that it was a direct message of the future familiar of the second prince the threat was a warning from our god the rest of it was from the familiar, your majesty," said the second guard.
"So that familiar is dangerous if Xiao dies and would destroy anything and reset it until Xiao becomes the crown prince, it also says that it will help as long as I reconcile with him. Let's do what it says protect Xiao no matter what if any danger comes to him while making the contract even if it the 'crown' prince or the empress stop them, fail and you will be punished," said the emperor.
'The familiar has other motives but the main one is to make me and Xiao a family again while taking out the corruption in the Imperial family, and also removing obstacles for Xiao and helping him. I must think of a way to be together with my precious son,' thought the emperor.
Meanwhile, the second prince can be seen in the library reading books about history with one of his teachers beside him helping him with what he doesn't understand "Teacher, why is my name similar to our god? why did father name me like him?" asked Xiao to his teacher.
"Hmmm, you could say that the moment you were born he knew that you would become a lot greater than he is, but don't say anything about this to the crown prince he might become more jealous than he is and his methods might become worse so, for now, we must keep quiet until the right moment arrives for you to become what you were supposed to be," said his teacher knowing that a guard from the emperor is listening to their conversation and finishing his lessons with the second price early. "Well, I think it's almost time for your swordsmanship class, and it's best to be early knowing who your teacher is, that's why we are finishing the lesson now so you can prepare, now go."
After the second prince left the guard hiding in the shadows came out "What is it?" asked the teacher waiting for the guard to answer, "Teacher Loumei Ying, the emperor wants to warn you that soon the crown prince will use lethal poison on the second prince's food, we were ordered to make it non-lethal without the crown prince knowing, with your knowledge of poisons and how they are made we thought that you would be the one to make such poison" answered the guard
"I see, knowing the crown prince and his attempts on trying to kill Prince Xiao, I would have expected that one day he was going to rely on poison, he might test it on someone so I will make two, one for him to use on someone and the other will be the non-lethal since they will have similar effects he won't notice. You may leave and tell the emperor that the empress is sick and her servants are also sick it appears that what we gave them worked perfectly since I can't sense them trying to listen to our conversation" said Loumei dismissing the guard knowing he poisoned the empress with a poison sickness that will leave the less she moves and become worse the more she moves.
It was also a request from the emperor himself, to think that the emperor would request to poison the empress so she can't leave her quarters means that soon their plan will start, a plan that will remove the empress and the crown prince from their positions.