"Kneel." Hua Cheng kneels, head hanging low and complexion still. It is not that he is afraid, it's just that after years of living, he has learnt to be intelligent. Clever enough to analyze the situation, do as it suffice, abide and object when the time is right. "Why so far away? Come closer." When he is in this situation, however, kneeling with his head resting against the prince's lap, he doesn't feel quite right. Hua Cheng has learnt by living for years and for the first time in a while, he feels like he is doing his part wrongly. --- Hua Cheng, a rather famous leader of a bandit, stole something he shouldn't have stolen which somehow led him into being the prince of Xian Le's sole concubine to save his sister's life from a deadly curse. Or; Hua Cheng stole treasures and unintentionally became one himself.