A tall young man adorning short, cleanly cut jet black hair strode furiously across the marbled white floor of the palace. His black robe swishing around him sharply and an angry glare set on his face scaring those standing in his way, he huffed loudly as he made his way to his private chamber at the far end of the massive palace. Entering his chamber he angrily slammed the door shut, surprising the two seated members. The seated member sat surprised both wearing identical metal bracelets symbolising their status as slaves of the Royal Palace. The Prince of said palace now stood glaring at them before he let out a low whine immediately crumbling into the embrace of the shorter slave, who just smiled affectionately and combed his fingers through the Prince’s soft hair.  ‘Gegeeeeee!!!! I’m so sick of this old man!! He should just give up the throne and let me take over!’ ‘My Prince! How can you say such things of the Dragon Emperor?!’ The slave sitting opposite to them whispered shocked. ‘It’s only the truth Jongdae ge. The man does not care about saving the other nations like he likes to claim, but of saving his own hide! It is a clear enough fact that if we don’t form an alliance with the West, our nations would be taken over by the North and South, so he will be thrown off power.’ ‘My Lord, even so he is your father!’ At this the young Prince scoffed loudly. ‘Please my Lord you must refrain from calling me by… by that name…you should call me by my slave name Chen…’ At this the young Prince sat up, back straight, the long gone glare back at full force. ‘When you are in this chamber you are no slave of mine but a friend. I will not call you any name that degrades but the name that you were born with. Do not associate me with the rest of the fools in our society!’ He spat angrily. The slave, Jongdae cowered silently in fear, seeing this the other slave slowly gripped the young Prince’s shoulder in a calming manner. ‘Tao calm down, it’s ok. He’s new to the palace, he will understand soon enough. Now tell me what happened earlier.’His gentle voice and touches pulled the Prince from his anger as he pouted before leaning into the embrace of the slave. Jongdae widened his eyes at the affectionate yet forbidden display between the two, yet opted to stay silent in fear of the Prince’s anger.  The Prince, Tao sighed deeply before he started, ‘Apparently the Dragon Emperor of the West will be arriving in two hours, I need to get ready in the meantime, because we will be going directly to the Crystal Cave for the…’event’.’ He pouted again upset at the turn of events. ‘Hmm…well think about it this way Taozi, if the guy is your destined wouldn’t be absolutely brilliant??’ ‘That does sound brilliant ge but it also sounds absolutely ridiculous.’ Tao deadpanned. ‘The possibility of the Golden Bond is just nul ge.’ ‘Golden Bond?’ Jongdae finally spoke up confused. The other two stared at him as though he had sprouted another head. ‘You don’t know about the actual legend do you?’ Tao asked him in a monotone voice. ‘I’ll explain.’ The other slave said. ‘I suppose you know how most peopl