Ten.

                                    

                                          
A YEAR LATER. 
Jian Lou was still looking for a way out of the painting but she was still trapped. 
So she would enjoy her life while she could being trapped in this different world. 
Ever since that night when she left the palace, she tried to forget the crowned prince even though she couldn't truly forget. 
She spent time with her best friend Chang mi and roamed all different places of the world. 
Now she was sitting in a brothel, dressed as a guy with her best friend Chang mi, drinking whine and looking at all the ladies, "do you still miss him?" Chang mi asked. 
"I don't know how to feel, ever since he kicked me out to go marry that princess, I knew then and there he didn't love me at all so why would I bother to continue to think about him? All my thoughts would just be wasted but...I guess I am just a woman wasting my thoughts on a man who doesn't even care about me..I am that bad."
"You are not bad at all you are a good person Jian Lou, the crowned prince maybe chose that choice to protect you because if you stayed in the palace he knew you'd be bullied and put down by those horrible girls! Especially the princess, he didn't want you to be hurt so maybe he did this for your sake." 
"Chang mi..I know your only trying to
Make me feel better, it's okay if he didn't really love me, I guess I really played the fool like he said, but everyone in their life has been hurt by a lover this is normal, I just have to face it..but I don't think I can forget him."  She told Chang mi. 
"It's natural..to long for him Jian'er but I don't think he is a bad person, maybe one day he'll come back to you." Chang mi said patting her on the shoulder. 
Jian Lou picked up the whine bottle and gulped it down. "Why wait? He's already married to the princess, he loves her dearly I should just try and move on." She said in a drunken  tone. 
Then suddenly someone grabbed the whine bottle out of her hand. "I think you've had way too much to drink, let's take you back." It was the crowned prince. 
"Crowned prince?! What are you doing here?"Chang mi said getting up and bowing to him. 
" I couldn't help but notice you two here, dressed up as boys and drinking your life away, I'll take you two back home where do you live?"
"We don't live anywhere we actually stay..in this brothel for awhile we are best friends with the owners and they let us stay here in the hotel rooms.." Chang mi told the crowned prince.
"Let me take you both to the room then." He said helping Jian Lou up and taking her to the hotel room in the brothel.
"You wicked crowned prince, you come back now? I waited so long for you. I thought you'd never return." She said drunkly hitting him. 
"I'm sorry.." he told her. 
She started drunkly crying. "I loved you, all to be kicked out by you? You didn't love or care about me at all you just wanted to throw me away to get married to your lovely princess, fine have it your way but just know I will not love you any longer I will give up on you!" She said behaving drunkly.
"Jian er please behave." Chang mi said sighing. 
"It's fine, she must've been really hurt for a long time..it's normal for her to feel this way..I hurt her after all...I had to do this..I'm really sorry I couldn't give you the life you wanted Jian..you don't deserve to feel pain, only to be happy in this lifetime I thought by kicking you out the palace  you'd be safer and you'd move on and be happy without me, never thought you'd still feel this way." He said putting her in her bed.
"Jian barely ate for days when you kicked her out, she barely had any sleep, she didn't have motivation to do anything, she was really hurt by your words, I felt so sorry for her..I couldn't even help her."
"all I could do was drink whine with her in hopes that it could ease her pain I felt guilty for being such a bad friend.."
"No you were a great friend to her you stayed by her side in her hardest times, that's all she needed. I'm glad you decided to follow her everywhere at least she wouldn't be lonely and would have someone to accompany her in this world."
"alright I'm leaving..as long as you both are safe." 
He said walking out.