Chapter 59: Chapter 59

Back in Beijing, the troublesome two-Lan and Li Hua had been drinking red wine stolen from a top list wine shop earlier, when they sensed something wrong and came out only to see people, cars, practically everything was frozen in place.

Lan rubbed her eyes to be sure she wasn't hallucinating.

"Li Hua, are we dreaming?" she asked in confusion.

"No!" Li Hua shook her head. "I thought we're the only magical beings here. Seems I was wrong," she muttered.

"Eh? What do you mean? What other magical beings are you talking about?" Lan asked in further puzzlement. What's going on?

"It's amazing! Others are frozen in place but we aren't. What could possibly..." Li Hua was cut off by Lan who exclaimed.

"Look at that petite figure..."

Li Hua looked at the direction Lan pointed to and saw...

"A FAIRY!" both exclaimed in shock as they beheld the magical being that they've only read in books make its way towards them.

"This is a dream... this is a dream..." Lan recited while Li Hua shook her head in pity.

"Shush, you fool." Li Hua chided and knelt, pulling Lan down with her.

"Why are we kneeling?" Lan was unreconciled.

"That's royalty!" Li Hua replied.

"Huh? How can you tell?" Lan asked in puzzlement.

"I just know it. Pay your respects with me," saying that, Li Hua took the lead in prostrating and Lan unwillingly followed.

Gah!

They'd managed to escape from Luo Ye by tricking someone and had almost forgotten that they were once slaves who had to bow every second of their lives. Now after getting here, they had to bow too.

They'd never even bowed to their boss, Clark Williams. Why would they have to bow to that little fairy?

By the time the fairy showed her true self, both were paying their respects already.

"Your servant beholds royal princess!" they chorused.

The figure they were bowing to is our baby, Yao. She landed on the ground gently, her beautiful wings fluttering fast.

"Please rise," she commanded and the duo rose up.

"What does your highness need?" Li Hua asked.

"Sorry to disturb you but I really need your help," said baby Yao worriedly.

"Tsk! After all that splendid appearance, she's actually here to beg from us? Wonderful! Then, she might as well go on her knees and beg us," Lan thought sarcastically.

She wanted this little princess to fly away as far as her wings could possibly take her.

"Our help? What could lowly servants like us offer you as assistance?" Li Hua asked.

"Yeah, why do we have to help you?" Lan butted in unhappily.

For heaven's sake, this was but a child wearing a tiara. Wearing a tiara doesn't make one a princess or else she'd just go buy no, steal one at the mall and ta-da! she's a princess!

"My dear seniors, forgive me for intruding but I really need your help. You guys are my only hope." pleaded baby Yao with puppy eyes.

Lan's resolve to chase away this intruder lessened by 1%.

"So?" Lan folded her arms and asked in a 'gentler' tone: "Your highness what is it you require of us? Save your kingdom from Yama?"

"Lan? Be kind to her. Can't you see she's about to cry?" Li Hua chided her again.

"My mom is about to die!" baby Yao confessed and burst into tears.

"Aww... please don't cry. We'll definitely help you in the best way we can." said Li Hua as she picked up baby Yao and pacified her.

"We? Not happening!" Lan refused.

"I'll give you my tiara as compensation," said baby Yao.

"Fine. But don't go back on your word." Lan reluctantly agreed at the mention of benefits while Li Hua sighed in defeat.

This girl is really spoiled but she was no better than her anyway. The kettle should not call pot black.

"So, can we leave now?" Lan asked impatiently.

"Right now," said baby Yao after wiping off her tears. Her aura changed from a gentle type to domineering.

Lan began to sweat but Li Hua wasn't worried. As expected of royalty. They are Oscar award-winning actors. To think, she even got fooled by her.

began to pity her subjects. Forget it, they'd both agreed on it anyway. There's no turning back!

"Hold your friend's hand." baby Yao commanded and Lan obeyed, holding Li Hua's left hand.

Her wings began to flutter at a faster rate and light enveloped the three of them and in a second, the trio vanished from their previous spot.

However, nothing in the surroundings changed. Seems this fairy princess really went all out for her mom.

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Guinea hospital.

The situation was really bad for Ling. Up till now, he still was unable to read aloud a single word. All he saw were pictures of things he couldn't understand and a few words. So he tried to read out whatever he could.

"Ahem!" he cleared his throat. "Bi... ma ooo li si pin... li maaaaa bi... li?"

The air in the morgue became chillier.

"Eh? What's happening?" Ling asked in fear.

The floating corpses stopped floating and fell to their respective beds. Then... they got up... BY THEMSELVES and opened their eyes which were glowing red.

"Ah!" he was shocked at the turn of events.

Even his wife now looked like a bloodthirsty monster. What had he done? The corpses were coming at him!

"Handsome, come and let us bed you." the corpses chorused.

What? They wanna bed him? No way. What to do? Should he faint?

No, his safety and Vanessa's was not secure. Should he escape? Though that seemed to be the most feasible option, he really could not because baby Yao promised to have his head for supper.

What should he do?

To worsen things, Vanessa's eyes were glowing purple and she looked at him like a piece of meat.

"Human, come here and be my meal. I promise you'll like the process." she said in a scary voice.

"Ahhh!"he screamed in fear.

Why were the heavens so intent on punishing him? From one calamity to another. Everyone here wanted him as food but he wasn't enough for even Vanessa to eat, right? This is madness!

"HELP! SOMEONE HELP!" he finally cried out. He just couldn't take it anymore.

" Help me, someone!" Ling cried out.

He didn't wanna stay here even a minute longer. He still couldn't believe that his reading had caused this creepy situation. Ah, he wanted to go back in time.

At this very moment, baby Yao and the duo (Lan and Li Hua) appeared covered in yellow light which faded in less than 2 seconds.

"Gosh! What's this?" Lan exclaimed in shock.

In all her life she'd never seen anything like it. Baby Yao frowned as she looked at the direction the corpses were facing and even her... mum?

"Good! Very good!" she muttered before raising her left hand and the book flew to her and hovered in mid-air.

Lan tried to see what was in the book but was stunned to see that she couldn't read it.

"Don't waste your time. The blind can't see it." baby Yao said sarcastically and Lan fumed but Li Hua chided her.

"Tsk! I'll forgive her for now." she muttered in annoyance.

Baby Yao turned the pages and finally found what she was looking for.

"Li sina szen chzoo aran bi ma." she recited and the corpses flew back to their bed and everything in the room became normal except for a certain someone- Vanessa.

"Baby Yao, I'm glad your back," Ling said gratefully amidst pants.

"Blockhead!" baby Yao muttered with ire.

"Sir, you're the father?" Li Hua asked politely

"Yes, I am," Ling replied.

It was now he realized that besides his precious baby Yao were two people who were dressed normally. He wondered why she brought them here. Maybe they aren't ordinary, seeing as they weren't too freaked out earlier when they arrived. Things gotta return to normal fast or he might go insane soon.

"You better leave us and wait outside," baby Yao said in annoyance.

"What about..." Ling was still worried about his wife.

"Sir, please leave. We need to do something important. Trust me, things will go well. Nothing bad will happen," Li Hua gently convinced Ling.

"I'll go but please, call me if there's anything I can do." Ling reminded.

"Just leave. We don't need you here," Lan said unhappily.

"Fine, fine, I'm leaving now. Take care!" Ling said and then walked out of the room; not forgetting to close the door behind him.

He saw that everyone was still frozen in place and sighed before sitting on the bare floor. He'd rather stay close to them. Just in case.

He wouldn't go far from his family even if his baby didn't like him at the moment.

Inside the morgue room.

"So what do we do now?" Lan impatiently asked, tapping her left foot on the ground.

"We start now," baby Yao replied. "What powers do you two have?" she asked.

"Err... fire and teleport," replied Li Hua.

"Oh, you have the same abilities then. I should have just picked one of you instead. Can't believe I wasted my precious energy on an extra." baby Yao complained while targeting a certain someone and as she expected that someone lost all control.

"Who are you calling an extra? You should just send me back home then. I never wanted to be here anyway. You forced us to be here. Just send me back. I'm tired of this place." Lan spat in annoyance.

"Wow! I forced you to come here? Really? Your sure?" baby Yao asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Let's stop fighting here. We're here to help someone and let's do so to the best of our ability, alright?" Li Hua preached.

"We? Our? You make a decision without telling me! I am not gonna help a zombie." Lan spat.

She was slowly gathering a fireball which showed the extent of her ire.

"My mom's a zombie? Wow! You perfectly described her. Now, please leave. I don't need blind, dumb extras." baby Yao was also fighting to control her ire too.

"Lan, listen to me. I know you don't like this kind of place but a life is ebbing away."

"On other days, you wouldn't care. But coz it's royalty and a chance to be rich and famous along with bountiful benefits attached to this mission, you suddenly wanna save a life. And what ebbing away? That zombie is clearly alive and kicking. Look at her overflowing energy!" Lan refuted any chances of Li Hua convincing her.

Pa!

Li Hua finally couldn't control herself anymore at Lan's antics and landed a very hot slap on her left cheek.

"LAN!" Li Hua yelled. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

"Me?... Li Hua, shouldn't I be asking you that? You have never hit me... but for her... this runt..."

"I'm a fairy princess!" baby Yao corrected.

"Shut up!" Lan barked, her eyes darkened.

Pa!

Another slap landed on Lan's face. This time, it was baby Yao.

Lan was tossed to a corner from the impact. Instead of crying, she smiled.

"Good! I'm done here now. I'm just an extra, so you guys don't need me. I'm out of here." Lan stormed out of the room.

"Lan?" Li Hua called after Lan but baby Yao patted her shoulder with an evil smile that held deep meaning.

"If she hadn't left, I would have killed her." baby Yao spat. "Let's begin now shall we?"

Lan nodded slowly and walked towards the living 'corpse' who had been tied up by baby Yao earlier when Lan and Li Hua were quarreling.

Outside the morgue room.

Ling was getting bored sitting around. He hadn't heard Lan and Li Hua's quarrel and he wasn't in the mood to look at his phone coz he'd switched it off.

But these frozen humans here weren't helping. At least they wouldn't eat him. He wanted to go in and see how Vanny was doing but he dared not.

So when the door opened, he immediately sprang up to his feet only for him to see Lan storm out.

"Miss, how is she?" he asked.

"Get lost!" she spat before vanishing.

"Huh? What happened in there?" Ling thought and made his way towards the door that had been left open by Lan.

When he wanted to enter, the door suddenly slammed against his nose. The impact sent him a few metres away from the door.

"Ouch!" he hissed in pain.

Did baby Yao have to be so cruel to her father? He was only worried after all Li Hua promised everything would be alright.

Now, seeing a pissed Lan storming out meant there might have been a quarrel. But whatever!

He won't make his way towards that door again. Sigh! baby Yao is really scary.

Inside the room.

Li Hua was instructed to pour out her fire energy on Vanessa.

At first, she was hesitant after all, this was someone who needed help. But as soon as she did, a shield formed around Vanessa and Li Hua mouthed an "Oh!"

"Just continue while I search for the right spell for it." baby Yao commanded and continued turning the pages of the magic book. Finally, after ten minutes, she found it and read out the spell.

"Raez mi llee szen botchke a li"

Immediately, yellow light covered Vanessa and baby Yao tossed the book faraway.

"This is a vital moment. Increase your fire!" commanded baby Yao.

"Yes!" Li Hua nodded and increased her pouring but to say the truth. She felt drained somehow. Sigh! how much she wished Lan was here.

Li Hua's job was to warm up Vanessa's body while baby Yao poured her helping energy on Vanessa.

Ten minutes later.

It was taking longer than expected with the absence of Lan.

Li Hua's fire had terribly weakened and baby Yao's healing had reduced. Both sweated heavily.

"Gosh! We don't have much time. I can't keep freezing time for much longer."baby Yao cried out.

"Well, this wouldn't have happened if you hadn't irritated Lan." Li Hua complained.

"You blame it on me? Who was it that slapped her?" baby Yao retorted.

"You know who really made her vexed. You!" Li Hua rebutted.

"Work harder or our efforts will really go down the drain." baby Yao urged.

"I'm trying okay! I'm also tired as well." Li Hua sighed.

Outside the room.

Ling went out of the hospital. He sensed weakened energy from the morgue room and knew that Lan had to be brought back. But where would he find her?

Unexpectedly, he saw her outside destroying all the cars in the hospital even his. Gosh! This Lan is sure strong. How was he gonna get close to her without being hurt?

At the same time, Lan turned her head and saw him and then... stopped.

"They sent you to get me? Go back! Tell them I'm busy." she said with a wicked smile.

"Err, lady. I came on my own. I dunno what happened in there but I wanna apologize on their behalf."

"Your daughter slapped me and injured me. My bestie also slapped me. Do you think this can be solved with an apology from a nobody? Don't make me laugh!" Lan scoffed.

"What the hell? Baby Yao, you've killed me." Ling lamented in his heart. This was gonna be hard.

"Err...I.." he couldn't complete his words because the person in question Lan had vanished.

"Again? Sigh! Magical beings really make me feel inferior. Now that she's left, where do I begin looking for her?" he thought in frustration, both hands on his waist.

Heavens only know how much energy he'd expended just to get down here and now he had to go back up. You know his baby has frozen everything... hehe the elevator didn't work so just imagine how many stairs he ran down. Now he also has to go back to the VIP ward again. How terrible!

Somewhere in Wuhan.

A lady opened her eyes. She is as pretty as Theresa currently is right now, fair-skinned without flaws, tall, slim, curvy at the right places and sexy. Any man would drool at the sight of this beauty.

Currently, she is still lying lazily on her king-size bed.

"Peter, get me water. Peter? Ronald... Feng Xiu! Where are all these stupid servants? Daring to ignore their mistress' call. Hmph! It seems I've been too lenient recently and they forgot who this princess is." the beauty unhappily got down the bed, wore her pink fluffy slippers and arranged her black sexy lace nightgown that barely covered her ample boobs and thighs.

She stretched her body and headed towards the door. Taking another glance at her big, tidy room, she let out a sinister chuckle.

"Morning to all demons and birds. Whose blood will I drink today? Whose meat will enter my pot? Hehe!" she muttered as she opened the door made of acacia wood and left the room.

She resides in a mansion and lords over 60 servants, all of whom she remembers vividly. However, when she reached the living room, she was shocked to see things and people frozen in place.

"Who did this? Show yourself..." she was unable to complete her words as she felt weak energy towards the north.

"I'll go see what's happening." she muttered before changing into a white and red Hanfu.

Her formerly black hair had become yellow and her black eyes now pink. Her red lips became a chestnut colour. She looked elegant and gentle with royalty showing from head to toe.

"And off I go!" she muttered again before disappearing.

*******

Ling panted as he finally made his way back to the VIP section of Guinea hospital. Sigh, he really needs to drink water after climbing those stairs!

He lay on the floor patting his chest.

"Water...need water..." he muttered.

Behind him, the beautiful lay that rivaled Theresa, had appeared and she changed her clothes to a pink crop sweater and white mini skirt. On her feet were dark pink sandals and her eyes and lips had returned to their normal color.

She walked to him and stood in front of him. Any who saw her now would drool and wanna pounce directly on her but it seems her charms weren't working on Ling.

"Who are you?" he asked with a dry voice.

"Sir, you must be thirty. Do you want to drink some of my milk?" she asked seductively.

"Er... no, my wife has delicious milk right from day one of our marriage. Thanks for your concern." he said with a meaningful smile.

"Okay then! Where is the one with weak magic?" she asked.

"Tell me who you are and your mission first," Ling demanded.

"Quite stubborn, ain't you? You don't deserve to know but I'll give you a hint. I'm called 'The untouchable peony' " she said before heading straight to the morgue room. She didn't even knock but just vanished.

Ling was a bit shocked.

"OMG! What's going on today?" he asked himself. But he was still thirsty.

Any thing would do so long as it was liquid. Actually it's not that he didn't find any water on his way here. Just that everything had been frozen. He couldn't drink ice right? Things got to return to normal as soon as possible or else he isn't sure he can take it anymore.

Argh, he was so thirsty!

Another figure appeared behind him. It was Lan.

This time she is wearing pale green floral gown a few inches above her knees and bright red heels. Her hair was held up in two ponytails by two red ribbons. On her neck, a shiny scarlet necklace paraded. Yeah, just now, she decided to go change clothes.

She didn't go Beijing, just visited some luxurious store a few hours drive away from the hospital to 'borrow' what she liked. But it seems she is a bit lacking in the make-up aspect.

"AHH! Who are you?" Ling asked when he saw her.

Who was this strange girl behind him? She looked scary! Eyebrows thicker than a man's, too much blush applied, too much lipstick and uneven eye shadow. This lady got some talent at looking like a ghost.

Lan was unhappy at being asked such a question.

"You don't know me anymore?" she asked with a pissed tone.

"You... are that lady from before?" Ling couldn't believe it.

How long did it take him to climb all those stairs? But look at her. She's here without sweating and even had time to change her look.

"Life is unfair!" he thought in frustration.

"I see that you are thirsty and coincidentally, I wanna pee and no nearby privy. Urine is liquid too; so do you mind drinking it?" she asked with a meaningful smile.

"Err... no. No." Ling refused. No matter what he won't even drink soda water say less of urine.

"I'm a magical being. Maybe my urine can give you magical powers?" Lan shrugged. "But since you don't want it..." she tossed a bottle of hot water to him.

"It's the best I can do for you now." she said before heading to the morgue room. Instead of knocking, she teleported.

"Argh! I hate my life. What help? More like torture. I'm so thirsty. My throat is very dry. I swear I could drink a whole dam and she actually gave me hot soda water in a bottle. This life is unfair. Please, let things return to normal. I wanna see my dear wife and hold my baby girl in my arms once again. I don't mind if even my memory gets wiped. Sigh!"

Inside the morgue room.

The beautiful lady who had earlier referred to herself as 'The untouchable peony' was healing Li Hua and baby Yao as they poured their energy into Vanessa's body. But Lan felt she couldn't take it anymore.

She needed another fire source but Lan had been angered and stormed off. She could only grit her teeth and continue the treatment.

When she felt like fainting, two hands were suddenly placed on her back and she felt heat energy flow into her body. It was familiar. She turned her head for a moment.

"Lan?"

"Let's finish up. I want her tiara," Lan indifferently said and Li Hua smiled.

"Yeah, let's do this." Li Hua's fire energy increased by a whole lot; attracting the attention of the two healers (baby Yao and the unnamed lady)

"You're back? Great!" baby Yao gave Lan a thumbs p but she only hissed in return.

'Untouchable peony' didn't say a word and just focused on doing her thing.

30 minutes later...

The 4 of them sighed as they sat on the floor.

"Ahh, so tired!" Li Hua muttered.

"Me two!" said baby Yao.

Vanessa had been finally revived and was currently sleeping.

'Untouchable Peony' said that she'd wake up in two hours.

"Thanks everyone. And Lan... here," baby Yao took off her tiara and gave it to Lan with a smile. "Take it. You deserve it." she added and Lan quickly snatched it from her hand for fear that she'd change her mind.

"So while resting, let's get to know each other. I'll start first." said baby Yao.

"Okay!" the rest chorused.

"Well. I'm Yao, princess of Butterly Kingdom." Yao introduced.

"So that means that your Mama here is a queen?" Lan asked.

"Yes. But she somehow came here and married my dumb father."

"Oh, that hot dude outside's your dad? Sigh, he indeed is a wrong choice for your mum. He's handsome but you are ugly." said 'Untouchable peony'.

This irked baby Yao.

"Don't interrupt me. You're even worse looking than shit." she cursed.

"Shit is still useful to dogs but you are sewage. Terribly useless," 'Untouchable peony' countered.

"Hey!" baby Yao became even more pissed.

From her clenched fists you could tell that she was fighting not to erupt. First, there was this evil Lan and now the healer seems to have a knack for irritating people. They dare gang up on her, a royalty, a real princess for that matter. How despicable!

"Are you going to finish up your introduction?" Lan asked. She wasn't here to listen to them argue.

"Fine. I'm just a few hours old and I did all this to save mother. Thankfully, she's okay."

"You're just a few hours old? "Li Hua asked in shock.

"Yeah! Mum birthed me today." baby Yao nodded in agreement.

"EH?" the others were shocked especially Lan and 'Untouchable peony'.

So they were arguing with a few hours old baby? How unfair!

"This is my 3 year-old self and I did this so as to do my work well. But I'll soon return to normal. Let's finish up our introduction and I'll unfreeze time. I'm getting weaker you know."

"I'm sorry!" Lan apologized. "But you are indeed annoying. I just feel sorry for your father,"

"You!" baby Yao was getting tired of these two twisted ladies before her. Lan has a knack of irritating people and spoiling the fun for people. How frustrating!

"Heh... my turn now. I'm Lan and this is Li Hua my acknowledged sister/bestie and you can join us if you feel bored. We steal whatever we want and beat the hell outta bad guys. We even posted a politician's naked photos on the web. We also crash into parties invited or not just for fun. But we also do good work as cleaners. We do well to clean everything in the company including the money and jewelry we found. Li Hua, I've introduced us; so let's go now." said Lan.

"You are evil girls? I like you. But you still need a bit of training. I'll teach you how you put pepper on the senator's undies, how to set bombs at the altar whenever an evil guy is marrying a second or third wife. How to embarrass proud celebs and how to torture your victims especially rapists. Yeah, I'm called 'The untouchable peony' cos I'm pretty, sexy, brained but poisonous. Call me Zhang Mei," she finally introduced herself.

"Wow, that sounds exciting. We'll definitely find you." Lan was very excited unlike Li Hua who facepalmed.

"You three are bad guys? I wanna faint now." said baby Yao.

"Please, do so now so we can get our hands on your wings." Lan advised.

"Eh? You took my tiara already!" baby Yao almost erupted. How annoying would this Lan get?

"Look, princess Yao, we're all bad girls here. At such young age, you are already scheming. I can't tell how much headache you'll bring to your parents in the future." Zhang Wei praised.

"Forget it. I need to unfreeze time now. I need your help too." said baby Yao in a sleepy tone.

"Any rewards?" Lan asked with shining eyes.

"I won't give you my wings," baby Yao was once more pissed.

"I was just joking. But if you got any rewards, it'd be nice." said Lan.

"Hmph, you think I've forgotten the slap you gave to me. You're just a newborn but you dare hit me, your senior sister. If I don't discipline you well before I leave, then I'm not Lan. And Li Hua, just you wait! We're gonna have a long battle tonight." Lan thought.

"You'll get a nice reward then," baby Yao said defeat

"Great! Let's do the job!" Lan jumped up in delight.

Li Hua wondered what happened to Lan today. She had an inkling that something like a storm was brewing at home.

Back in India at Theresa's maternal grandparents home...