Part I
"So, would you like to stay for dinner?" Mulan asked. "I would love
to," Captain Li Shang replied
eagerly (yet nervously). The war against the Huns was finally over.
During that time, Mulan had dressed
and acted like a soldier. She impersonated a soldier named Ping, and
"Ping" happened to wind up in
Captain Li Shang's troop. That is how the two met.
During dinner, Shang and Mulan were involved in a deep conversation
about their adventures together.
Their sentences started off like, "Oh! Remember the time..." and "It
was so funny when..." and "Weren't
you scared when...". In other words they really hit it off. The other
members at dinner were Mulan's
Father, Fa Zhou, Mulan's Mother, Fa Li, and Granny Fa, Mulan's Grandmother
(of course).
Fa Li and Granny were giving each other the "Mulan-finally-found-a-Man"
smile. Fa Zhou sat their
watching the two young lovers chatting with great happiness and pride.
Everyone could hear wedding
bells ringing..everyone that is, except Shang...
Part II
After dinner Shang reluctantly announced that he had to leave for home,
but would love to come over
again sometime, and if Mulan could, he'd invite her over to his home
for dinner, or something like that.
"Where have you been?!" asked Shang's strict stepmother (angrily), Li
Tiang, after he arrived home from
Mulan's. "I was just over at a, um, uh, friend's house eating dinner,
and, uh, we were celebrating the, um,
victory over the Huns! Yeah, that's where I was, sorry if I was late,"
Shang answered nervously. "Well,
you know you have a big day tomorrow, Gwan Tzu's daughter will be coming
over to meet you, you don't
want to be late for that now do you?" Li Tiang asked sharply. "No,
stepmother..." Shang said.
Strange, isn't it? The almighty, fearless Captain Shang is afraid of...of...a
woman? But not just any woman,
a stepmother, she used to be his strict tutor when he was just a little
boy, but when Shang's mother died of
a strange illness, his father General Li, remarried to this monsterous
gal.
Shang hated Gwan Tzu's daughter, she was an annoying, selfish, spoiled,
and ugly (not to mention stupid)
brat. Her name was Gwan Taoyen. She thought she was beautiful, witty,
and Shang's wife-to-be. His
(Shang's) stepmother had been trying to match the rich girl and the
military man for years. Because if they
married, she would become a VERY rich woman...but Shang's heart belonged
to another girl, this girl was
pretty, a little naive, yet witty and smart, this girl also saved his
life in the war between the Huns, this girl
was Mulan...