The Prince Is Abolished

Chapter 15

Crowd went wild at these strange happenings.

Some of the men went up towards Kang Zhing and shouted to those below:

'THIS IS SOME ROYAL WOMAN! LOOK AT THE MANSION'S SEAL? IT READS XI MANG.'

'The one who was engaged for some time to Lu Xang's daughter? My god!'

Kang Zhing winced and her pain was visible on her face. The men and women surrounded her and they were looking at her bloodied face horrified.

'I am Kang Zhing. Daughter of a royal court's clerk Kang Ji. Please inform my father that I was abducted by Song Wu yesterday right and raped by Prince Xi Mang. I have the proof. I am wearing rapist Xi Mang's clothes, and this is his official seal.'

'Where is that Xi Mang and Song Wu?' Someone asked her.

'Shut Up. Look at her. She is so badly bruised. Let's take her to Lu family clinic first.'

'NO.' Kang Zhing begged the man who suggested medical aid and said:

'I may die any moment. Please take me to Royal Court. And their bodies are in the abandoned mansion. Please pick their bodies and take them with me to the royal court.'

'Okay. Okay. Let's go up the hill, men.' A few men went up and saw Song Wu lying on the ground and found naked Xi Mang inside the room. The men covered Mang's body and dragged him and Song Wu down the hill.

'I killed them?'

'Miss. They are both breathing.'

'I tried my best to finish them, but failed. I am sorry to Mi.'

'You have done enough. Let's parade them on streets.' A young man suggested.

Kang Zhing said: 'Brothers. Strip them before parading. That is what I want.'

'Yes. They are subhuman. They do things against every grain of dharma. Strip them. Strip them.' The crowd chanted in unison.

Xi Mang was stripped of the bedsheet he was covered in, and Song Wu was stripped of his clothes by men.

A horse carriage was bought for Kang Zhing but she declined as the horse carriage was covered. She requested a donkey cart and a red dupatta.

The crowd bought the cart quickly and Kang Xing sat in the donkey cart in front, and the naked bodies of the two men were also piled in the same cart behind her.

'They stripped me to this state. Now, I will show them what shame is all about.' She told herself and covered her face in the ghoonghat.

The procession went out in full force as it was already day time and more people joined the march to the royal court. People threw garbage and wanted to kidnap the two rapists, and beat them to pulp but due to Kang Zhing's wishes they merely slapped them while some put dung on the faces and bodies of the two.

It took two hours for the procession to reach the royal court where the courtiers were either on the gates chatting or lazing around.

The chants of 'Xi Mang is a rapist,' 'Kill Xi Mang,' 'Royal Family down down', 'Abdicate the throne' alerted the guards of the royal court and the shocked courtiers were brought inside the court for safety.

The ministers were in shock. Why a sudden rebellion? They asked each other, but none knew. One of them sent a few guards, but the guards were beaten up by the enraged crowd and none returned and the courtiers were still in the dark.

Then the prime minister went out to check on the crowd and saw a woman in red ghoonghat sitting in a donkey cart and saw, horrified, the naked bodies of two men with dung, black paint, and garbage smeared on.