Asean in Love

Wearing a mask become routine, that life behind a heavy wooden mask is not an easy thing every day, the queen of Bali realized a long time ago, but it was the price of survival on the throne for the son of King Bali, sometimes in order to survive in dangerous situations we need to be careful and wise like owls that watch all night and they warn of danger like sirens.For the Queen of Bali, a former princess from the Song dynasty, from the noble Kang family, life would be ideal, just like in the pictures of a tropical garden with birds of paradise and parrots, only if she didn't have to hide behind the mask even that her son asked her to take off that mask her face many times."Mother, please, take off that wooden mask, I saw that those masks are heavy and you are covered all day and when it is tropical heat you bathe in heavy sweat behind the mask!""No, my son, I have a fan, so I'm not hot," she tried to hide her suffering and pain, but if one of her enemies or a spy discovered that behind the mask she was a princess of the Song dynasty, it would be white and dangerous as death, that's why she suffered her trouble until the son sits on the throne as an adult ruler.She would remember the good times, to drive away worries and fear, and even a joke about the King of Bali and she staged performances for each other under theatrical masks.When they came back from the Song Dynasty with a baby who was just 3 months old, the return was not a simple process, they had to come up with a scenario and a story to preserve their lives and power.As stories circulated around the kingdom that the king Pangus had cheated on Princess Kang Cing Wei with another woman and fathered a son with her, they decided that story would be a continuation of their play and a story of survival for the royal family in Bali. With a mask over her face, the princess was accepted as the new wife of King Pangus, who hid behind the mask incognito so as not to reveal the true identity of the adulteress with whom the King of Bali cheated on Princess Kang, but he got an heir that the people of Bali were happy about, so they forgave it's easy that the king cheated on the princess in order to get the heir to the crown.As a sign of remorse, the king made stone statues of him and Princess Kang, which became a myth and legend that the mountain goddess turned them into stone statues.The king himself could rarely be seen around the kingdom after his arrival from Song dynasty to Bali island, he spent more time in the palace deep in the mountains playing with his son, but there were days when he had to rest in his room because his illness was leaving him without strength or breath. King will sometimes joke to the queen:"Perfect health is more precious than a collection of beautiful gold treasure in a palace.If I'm born just as an ordinary man, we could enjoy a simple life without the mask on your tender face all the time."Queen will just smile:"Even if I'm a performer in the theatre I must wear a big mask and dance all day long or on top of a rock before sunset! "His son will come in the evening to see his father, and by looking at him the king Raja Jaya Pangus will get more energy and he will read the epic Ramayana loudly to make son a strong hero in future. Soon when the king feels better they will go for a trip around the kingdom for his son to know how beautiful Bali island is. There are many kinds of creatures in a tropical rainforest which the queen has never seen in her original homeland. Sometimes monkey will come down from the forest to the palace especially after heavy storms, they like to hide behind people back unnoticed, but never attacking, they had been living here for ages before human comes to Bali Island, now they are looking at people from the distance even many people try to bring them home and give them fruits to eat, but they like free life without cage like birds.