Alright you guys, here is a sneak peak for my latest story 'The Legend, Loyalty and Laments of Zhen Ji'! As I said before, this one won't be as historically accurate as the first one. This story will be rated M since it will have more adult themes than the first one did. I hope you enjoy it, but until I get it posted, here's a sneak peak!

A few weeks and a few letters later, she and Cao Pi had managed to come to an understanding. They had both gone a little too far when neither one of them wanted to lose the originally light hearted argument. Everything settled back to normal again, except now she had become friends with Cai Wenji. Together, they started a home for widowed women to stay at while they looked for work. This was first thing she had done to help a massive number of people since she helped with the famine relief back in Zhangshan. It felt good to help the people again. Although, they were her people, not just the people now that she was once again the wife of the emperor. Oh well. It didn't really matter that much.

However, this peaceful time was short lived. In the middle of the night, Yin was woken by her door bursting open.

"Yin! Lady Yin, you must get out of here NOW!"

She rolled over and rubbed her eyes.

"Why?"

"Cao Pi was defeated by Shu. He couldn't get his supplies to the main camp and Jiang Wei ambushed him!"

Cai Wenji began running about the room grabbing things and gathering them next to her on the bed.

"Cao Pi had no choice but to go to the nearest city. So he won't be able to stop Shu from coming straight to us. You have to get out of here now, before it's too late!"

Yin launched herself from the bed and began to stuff everything Cai Wenji had brought into a bag.

"I had your maids get the horses ready. You'll bring the children and meet them in the stable."

"What about you?"

They gathered the two sacks and began running down the halls.

"What about you? Wenji, what about you!"

"I'm staying."

Yin grabbed the scholar's arm before they went into Rui's room.

"You can't." She whispered.

"It'll be fine, Yin. Jiang Wei won't harm a tutor, but the wife of the emperor and mother of his heir…" Wenji didn't finish her sentence.

She didn't need to either. Yin knew what was happening. Once again she found herself in a position that she would be used as leverage against Cao Pi. Only this time, she found out about it fast enough that she was still able to get the children and herself out.

"But where will we go?" She asked since she had no idea about what to do.

"Go to Xuchang."

"I can't!"

"Why?"

"Wenji, you're my friend, but I can't tell you. Just trust me. I can't go to Xuchang."

Lady Guo was in Xuchang. She would be dead if she went there. Only, Cai Wenji didn' know that.

However, she eventually gave in and answered;

"Alright, go wherever you think you'll be safe, but it has to be far, far away from here."

Yin nodded as Cai Wenji opened Rui's door. They went inside. Yin went to her son to get him up while Wenji began to gather some of his things.

"Momma, what's going on?" Rui's tired voice asked.

She pulled the sheets off of him.

"Quiet Rui, we just have to go on a journey."

"Why?"

"Because we need to leave home for a while." She told him as she picked him up.

"When will we be back?"

"I don't know." She answered.

She held him on her hip and followed Wenji out of the room. They went to the next door, which was Dong Xiang's room. They opened it and began the same routine. Wenji packed some clothes while Yin put Rui down and picked up Dong Xiang. Dong Xiang only began to fuss that she was waken up so early. Then they went into Xie's room.

"I'll take Dong Xiang. You get Xie."

Yin handed the girl to Wenji who held her with one arm and the sacks in the other. Yin shoved a few of Xie's things in the sack. Then she went and picked him up. He began to cry angrily. Yin patted him on the back and tried to sooth him, but considering that they were running, it was hard to keep the baby quiet. She followed Wenji down the halls and Rui followed right next to her.

While they ran through the courtyard, she saw countless others running and crying in terror. Soldiers tried to assemble under the command of their superiors, but with the nonfighting members of the court running in panic all around them, that alone was an uphill battle.

They made it to the stables to find that Shao Len and Jing Jia had prepared Cloud, Shadow and Storm. Wenji stuffed the sacks into the saddle bags. Len climbed up into Storm's saddle. Jia mounted on Cloud and Yin got up on Shadow. She held Xie in one arm and took the reins in the other. Wenji put Rui in the saddle in front of Jia. Then she put Dong Xiang in front of Len. Both maids wrapped an arm around the child and used the opposite hand to hold the reins.

"How can I ever thank you, Wenji?" Yin asked.

Wenji gave her a weak smile.

"Survive."

Yin nodded. Then she turned Shadow in the direction of the front gate. She sent Shadow off at a very controlled and collected lope. The gate had been opened to let the soldiers out, but there were more common people running through them than soldiers. The town was in just as much chaos as the castle had been. She wanted to stop and tell people to lock themselves in their houses. She wanted to tell them to go to the lowest level of their homes and surrender to any soldier that forced their way in, but she couldn't. She didn't have time. Knowing for how Shu 'fought for the people', they wouldn't harm the citizens of Luoyang.

The three women rode out of the city gates and made for the northern woods since Shu would be coming from south west. Once they got a few miles from the city, they could no longer hear the chaos. So they stopped the horses to let them catch their breath.

"What do we do now?" Jia asked.

"We can't go to Xuchang," Yin answered. "and Hefei is too far away."

"Where's Cao Pi?" Jia asked.

"I don't know. Wenji said he's gone to the nearest town he could, but I don't know which one that is." Yin explained.

"We could go to Yecheng." Len offered.

Yin had no desire to stay at the town that she had been taken to to be married Yuan Xi.

"No, I don't want to go there. It's too far anyway and so is the Guandu castle."

In reality, the distance was only one of many reasons not to go there. Some of the people there might still be loyal to the Yuans, as crazy as that sounded. If she went there and that was the case, they would turn her and the children over to Shu for betraying Yuan Shao all those years ago.

"Then what do we do?"

Yin thought for a long moment.

"I want to go home!" Rui whined.

"We can't, Rui." Jia soothed.

"Why!"

"It's not safe."

"Yin, wherever we go, we have to decide now. We can't stay here. The Shu scouts will be circling the city to look for any approaching Wei soldiers and they could find us." Len told her.

Yin let out a long breath. She made her decision, but she didn't like it. However, it was their only choice. There was nowhere that was safe for Lady Yin. Any town could have any number of Shu spies. They had to disappear for a while. At least until they could get to Cao Pi.

"There's nowhere that I can go. If anyone hears of my whereabouts, then Shu will send their soldiers after us." She told them.

"So what do we go, Yin?" Jia asked.

"Start by calling me 'Zhen Ji'." She announced. "We're going to Zhongshan."

The two maids stared at her.

"We're going home?" Jia said in almost a whisper as if she was too scared to say it any louder.

She nodded. Jia let out a happy cry.

"We're going home!"

Jia began riding north. Len followed close behind, but Yin took a moment to herself before letting Shadow trot to catch up. She was Zhen Ji again. She was going to see the family she hadn't heard from in over five years. Not only that, but she was going to see them again after they had been told that she was dead two years ago. She was going home alive and well. She didn't know who would be getting the bigger shock from this, her or her family.

"Zhongshan is days away." Len told her.

"Yes, it is, but we can cut the trip in half by staying off the roads. All we have to do is ride straight north. Then we can swing east when we reach Ji province, but by the time we get there, we'll know right where we are." Zhen reasoned.

All three of them were very familiar with Ji province. As long as they weren't turned around in a thick wood, they'd be able to find their way to Zhongshan.