Beauty and Beast [boyxboy]

11 So much undeserved pain...

A/n: So sorry for the lateness, but it is what it is! It's real life about I can do nothing about it🥺

But I make up to you with a long update.🥰

"You're all free for the rest of the day. As you know, the prince of Rose is missing, and I am not in the mood to eat alone. Besides, I'm not hungry at all, a nice tea would be plenty enough for me.", princess Yang Zi surprised the staff members responsible with the cooking of the royal dishes when she barged into the palace's kitchen.

"What tea would your Royal Highness prefer?", the headmaster chef asked, bowing before the princess.

"No need for that, you can go, too. I want to prepare the tea with my own hands, this time.
A friend of mine gave me these special herbs, and she asked me to not let anyone else but me touch them.
Oh, and tell my bodyguard waiting outside, to not wait for me anymore. He is free for the rest of the day, too.
After preparing the tea, I might take a long walk in the garden, where I don't see his presence to be needed.
Have a nice free day, now go, go! All of you!", Andy replied, dismissing the happy employees with a "shoo" hand gesture.

After taking out the small bag of herbs hidden in her waist purse, she excitedly boiled them, following Long Da Ni's recipe and indications.
"Cheer! Cheer to the rightful queen of Peony and to the future queen of Rose!
Don't worry Beauty, Yang Zi will make you a king! The king of the biggest and the strongest kingdom that China had ever heard of!
Long live the powerful King Xiao Zhan!
And long live Yang Zi, his beautiful and smart queen!
Beauty, just wait for me! Yang Zi is brave enough to go by herself to the mountain palace and serve you this magical potion!", she shouted, clinking a cup of steamy tea against a bottle filled with the rest of the tea.

But she started to cough, almost choking to death with the last gulp of liquid, at the loud thump. The kitchen door was knocked to the ground by an unfamiliar man who was pointing a long knife in her direction.

"Help!
Guards!
Guards!
Help!", the terrified princess screamed, forgetting that she dismissed the bodyguard responsible for her protection.

"Who are you and how dare you?
Put that knife down!
Do you realize that you will be hanged for threatening a royalty?
What do you want? Food, are you hungry?
Look there is some bread on there, you can take it and leave right away!
I might forget that this has ever happened, only because Yang Zi is a merciful queen...well, a future queen! ", Andy shouted, trying to intimidate the man that was probably just a poor, hungry peasant.

"Shut the fu*k up!
Your voice is giving me a headache!
A queen my aSs, ha ha! You are just a stupid cook. Queens don't stay in the kitchen!
Now tell me where his room is!
Hurry, or else I will cut your throat!", the thug grabbed Andy by her arm and placed the knife under her chin to make his point.