Little Sorcerer, Divine Doctor

Inside the Luoxia City Lord Mansion, Chen Lianlian woke up with a burlap sack over her head, feeling dizzy and disoriented, but she finally came to.

She remembered seeing Ye Beiming and Yun Sheng being intimate, and out of anger, she left the Luoxia Wetland alone.

Somehow, she was suddenly hit from behind and blacked out.

A jolt of fear struck her heart as she looked around.

The furnishings and decorations around her were quite exquisite; it was clearly the courtyard of an affluent family.

After all, Chen Lianlian was but a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl without a Magic Wand and all alone, her heart was pounding like a drum, unsettled and anxious.

"Has the person been captured?" A deep, masculine voice came from outside.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open.

The Dark Crown Prince walked in with his hands behind his back, glanced at Chen Lianlian curled up on the bed, and snorted dismissively: "You thief, do you know who I am?"

Listening to the cold voice of the man, Chen Lianlian couldn't help but shiver.

There was a malice in the man's voice, and she had no clue which powerful figure she had angered in Hou Qin.

"Don't come any closer! Do you know who I am?" Chen Lianlian shrank away, huddling into a corner.

Seeing the "opponent" shift from her previous arrogant and domineering demeanor to a pitiful tone, the Dark Crown Prince's irritation grew even more.

Previously, it was this little girl's pitiful appearance that had deceived him, prompting him to save her amidst the Beast Tide, only for her to trick him in return.

The Dark Crown Prince, exceedingly proud and self-regarding, viewed Yun Sheng's humiliation of him as a major stain in his life.

That's why he had ordered his men to capture "Yanyun."

"I know your master is that mysterious Summon Emperor. But now, in my hands, you're incapacitated, without a Magic Wand – do you think you can still call for help?" Dark Crown Prince said with a sinister face as he walked to the bedside, and through the sack, he grabbed Chen Lianlian's chin accurately.

Chen Lianlian felt a strong grip on her chin, almost crushing it.

"It hurts, who exactly are you? Why are you doing this to me? I..." Chen Lianlian whimpered, tears streaming down her face.

"Who am I? It's been barely a year, and you've already forgotten me, the Crown Prince!" The Dark Crown Prince was furious, this damned woman had humiliated him, and now she had the audacity to completely forget him.

He ripped off the burlap sack from Chen Lianlian's face.

Before his eyes were a face with scars and another completely unfamiliar face.

The Dark Crown Prince looked carefully, then into Chen Lianlian's panicked eyes.

His expression turned even darker; it wasn't her?

Indescribable disappointment and rage filled his heart.

He remembered Yun Sheng's eyes, the enchanting feature of that little girl that captivated everyone was her lively black eyes, cunning and vivid, always flashing with craftiness.

The young girl in front of him was definitely not Yun Sheng!

"Slap!" The Dark Crown Prince struck Chen Lianlian's face with a slap: "Damn it, the wrong person has been captured; the one I wanted to catch is Yanyun."

Hearing they had caught the wrong person, all the soldiers knelt on the floor.

Chen Lianlian hit the ground with a slap to her face, which immediately swelled up. Yanyun? That's Yun Sheng. Why is it again Yun Sheng? Why does everyone only have eyes for Yun Sheng!

"I'm not any Yanyun; I'm her enemy. I hate her to death, I wish I could chop her into a thousand pieces!" Chen Lianlian looked up and saw the Dark Crown Prince's appearance clearly.

The Dark Crown Prince, with his stern and tall stature, full of fury, looked all the more imperial and completely different from the earlier useless Crown Prince Ye Beilian.

Chen Lianlian thought these people bore a grudge against Yun Sheng, so she hurriedly cursed Yun Sheng, hoping to win the group's favor.

Little did she know that upon hearing this, the Dark Crown Prince's anger intensified. He violently grabbed Chen Lianlian's long hair, bringing her to tears.

The Dark Crown Prince spoke in a measured tone: "She is mine, to kill or to carve as I please, and I alone have that authority."

The Crown Prince... the Dark Crown Prince of Hou Qin?!

Chen Lianlian recognized the ferocious youth before her as the infamous Dark Crown Prince of Hou Qin, whose name had spread widely across the continent in recent years.

The customs of Hou Qin are fierce, governing by martial might, yet its martial spirit differs from the orthodox martial arts propagated by the Da Zhou Wuxuan Wuji Pavilion.

In the year the Five Countries on the continent divided territories, Hou Qin's ancestors were the weakest, hence the portion of land allotted to Hou Qin was the most barren among the Five Great Countries and teeming with Demon Beasts.

The first Emperor of Hou Qin led a thousand captives to Hou Qin.

The first thing he did was to drive these thousand people into a land fraught with danger.

Without giving them any weapons or a single grain of food, he forced those thousand people, who had never practiced martial arts, to survive in the wild for three months.

After three months, only fifty of those thousand people remained alive.

These fifty individuals became the earliest settlers of Hou Qin.

Since then, Hou Qin gradually grew stronger; the whole country adopted a ruthless approach to martial education.

As soon as a child turned three years old, they would be immediately thrown into the wilderness for training — only those who survived could enter the national Martial Arts Hall for further development.

Even the nobles of Hou Qin followed this practice.

The reigning Emperor Hou Qin's harem was substantial, with more than five hundred concubines who bore him nearly a hundred strong and healthy Princes and Princesses.

On his thirtieth birthday, Emperor Hou Qin announced that his Crown Prince would not be chosen based on being the eldest legitimate son, nor restricted by gender; only the mightiest could ascend the throne.

Because of this, assassinations and armed conflicts in the Hou Qin Palace occurred more frequently than in any other country across the Five Countries.

The Dark Crown Prince was born into such an environment.

His mother was but a lowly laundry palace maid, favored forcibly by a drunken Emperor Hou Qin one winter day by the palace well, leading to her pregnancy.

While the Dark Crown Prince was still in his mother's womb, she nearly fell victim to the other concubines' cruelty, but after he was born, his physical strength far exceeded that of the average prince.

By the age of three, he was already practicing archery, by five he could lift a 200-pound stone mill, and at the age of seven, he single-handedly entered the harem and disfigured and maimed the concubines who had once humiliated his mother.

The brutality of his methods shocked the entire Hou Qin country.

Yet, when Emperor Hou Qin learned of this, he not only refrained from anger but disregarded all opposition and designated the low-born child as the Crown Prince.

Having been made Crown Prince at the age of seven, and establishing the Crown Prince's Secret Department at thirteen, the Dark Crown Prince's infamy was already widespread across the continent. And yet, Yun Sheng managed to profoundly humiliate such a figure.

As the future Crown Princess Consort of Great Zhou, Chen Lianlian was naturally well-informed about the royal families of other states. She had not expected to fall into the hands of the Dark Crown Prince of Hou Qin.

She was so frightened that her complexion turned pale, and her body shook uncontrollably.

"I was wrong, Your Highness, I... I beg you not to kill me. If you send me back to Great Zhou City, the Crown Prince will surely be grateful. I am the future Crown Princess Consort," Chen Lianlian pleaded unceasingly.

Even now, Chen Lianlian still dreamt her sweet dreams of being the Crown Princess Consort.

"The Crown Princess Consort of Great Zhou? You are that good-for-nothing Ye Beilian's woman?" The Dark Crown Prince's gaze grew cold as he scrutinized Chen Lianlian.

Upon closer inspection, the Dark Crown Prince also noticed that Chen Lianlian was not lacking in beauty, although her face bore many fine scars.

"I can heal your face and can send you back to Great Zhou. But from this day forth, you must obediently follow my commands," the Dark Crown Prince said, already concocting a new scheme in his heart as he looked at Chen Lianlian.