Qi Xue remembered crying for days afterwards.
She was nothing more than a little servant in Qi Xi Kingdom, the identity given to her because she wanted to stay in Qi Xi Kingdom.
So no one paid attention to her.
And the one most devastated was Qi Kan Tian. He lost his father and older brother in a matter of days. And what they left behind was a ruined kingdom, the chaotic people, and the mess that he had to solve.
The 13 year old Qi Kan Tian had no other choice but to step forward and inherited the throne.
No matter how much he didn't want to, there was no other option for him.
A young teenager who should have lived a carefree live in his teenage age, carried a burden of the entire kingdom.
Countless people depended on him to live.
Many people wanted to take over that power.
But Qi Kan Tian could never hand it over.
It was the kingdom that his family sacrificed their lives to protect and passed to him. So even if he didn't like it, he had to take sit on the throne and become the Emperor.
She could wallow in her sadness.
But Qi Kan Tian could never do that.
He didn't have the time to immerse in sadness either as his life was in danger day and night. Too many people wanted his life.
The knowledge of medicine he learned from Traveling Doctor Liu were instead used by Qi Kan Tian to detect poisons in his food. It should have been used to save other people's life, but now he could only use it to save his own life.
He survived.
But days have never been the same anymore.
Qi Xue stayed in Qi Xi Kingdom ever since that day and never left.
Traveling Doctor Liu also stayed behind for a few years to help Qi Kan Tian and also cured him.
But after Qi Kan Tian was 17 years old, he asked his master to leave.
"Master, if this place makes you sad, you shouldn't be here." That was what Qi Kan Tian said to Traveling Doctor Liu.
Traveling Doctor Liu lost his disciple for the first time.
Qi Xue knew her master was sad, but he didn't show it much in front of her and Qi Kan Tian. Because he didn't want the two of them to be worried of him. There was no point in showing his worries to them either.
Qi Kan Tian didn't say anything for years.
But when he had grown older, he knew that he couldn't restrain Traveling Doctor Liu to stay beside him all the time.
Traveling Doctor Liu went to travel because of his dream.
And he stayed behind in Qi Xi Kingdom to nurse his wounded heart and also to help his disciple. Because what Qi Kan Tian faced was not something that many other teenage age of the same age could experience.
He helped him.
But Qi Kan Tian knew that Traveling Doctor Liu also needed time for himself.
"Are you sure you will be alright?" Traveling Doctor Liu asked.
"I'm not a child anymore, Master," the young Qi Kan Tian said to Traveling Doctor Liu. "Besides, it'll be strange to call you as Traveling Doctor Liu if you're staying in Qi Xi Kingdom all the time."
That persuasion worked.
Traveling Doctor Liu asked Qi Xue whether she wanted to come along with him before he left.
But Qi Xue didn't want to go.
She didn't have any place to come back and this kingdom was filled with both beautiful and sad memories. Because of that, Qi Xue never wanted to leave and would rather stay here for the rest of her life.
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