From a prison to another

While the Hong Dynasty was busy searching for the Sword Hime as well as otherwise unobtainable concubines, the rulers of the other provinces weren't sitting still.

Each of them started a search of their own, often initiating an harem-building process similar to the Hongs despite knowing about the sword hime not being in their own provinces, and sent people to the Red Provinces.

Spies and diplomats flooded the Red Province, intent on ether negotiating or directly threatening the relatively weak Hong Dynasty to hand over the sword hime, but to all of them the answer was the same, that they were searching and still hadn't found anything.

While such answer was certainly true from a certain point of view, it could also be considered false since there was a great possibility that the sword hime was among the already gathered girls.

As the situation in the continent was heating up, something unthinkable happened. No, such a thing was expected to happen, but it was just too soon and the perpetrator was someone unthinkable.

The Hidden Zui Sect was a famous dark group from the Black Province, regarded as a gathering of criminals and lowlifes, but only few knew of their true strength rivalling even those of Great Dynasties. And among those few, even fewer could imagine that the Zuis could be bold enough to fearlessly raid the Hong Imperial Palace, laid waste to it, pillaging it's riches and **** the potential Sword Himes.

Mei was obviously among the kidnapped, unable to do anything as she was shipped away to Hidden Town of Sin, the headquarters of the Zui Sect in the Black Province.

Before she was in a decent room, now in a stone cell. The environment may have changed, but to Mei the situation was the same. She just changed prison.