Summer memoir (YiZhan FF)

Eleven

AN: i haven't proofread it yet so please bear with the errors and grammatical mistakes. Enjoy reading~

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"Be alert and always look at your surroundings, we don't know for sure what's really going on so it's best to take caution. " Zhan warned the Juniors who were listening to him attentively.

All of them nodded before going on their ways to look around the burnt temple.

Zhan sighed and sat down, Yibo did so too. They scanned the whole place to look for something that could lead them to solve the mystery of the temple.

Yibo stared at the statue because he felt something unusual about it.

"Don't you find that statue strange? The more i look at it the more i think that it resembles the corpse of the bride we faught earlier. "Zhan stated as he also observed the statue.

Yibo stood up and went to look at the statue closely, Zhan followed him and placed a talisman to protect them both if the statue suddenly cause them harm.

As Yibo placed his hand near the statue, he felt a strong resentful energy, he took a step backwards and look at Zhan, bemused.

"Why? What's wrong? " Zhan asked.

"It's full of resentful energy. "

Zhan frowned and placed his hand near the statue, his eyes got wide and looked at Yibo with shock.

"T-This is.. "

Yibo nods "Yin Iron. "

They looked around once more and now they both realized that the place they were in wasn't just a temple, but also a graveyard, they can tell from the decorations that was also burnt, But the grave is nowhere to be seen.

Apart from that, one thing's for sure, it's the corpse bride's grave.

"The Yin Iron was small, but it's enough to control a hundred of corpses. " Zhan said when he searched the whole statue for the yin iron that was hidden there. He found it on its forehead and now they are both looking at it closely.

"If the corpse bride is being controlled by the Yin Iron, then who controls the Yin iron? " Zhan questioned.

"P-Please put it back! " Both of them looked back at the temples entrance, there they saw an old couple, the woman was crying while looking at the statue and the man begs them to put the Yin iron back. They give off a luxurious and elegant vibe even though they were wearing commoners clothing.

"And why? Do you know how wicked this piece of metal could be? "

"W-We know.. We know but please put it back, it's the only way we could see our daughter alive. " The woman plead.

Both Yibo and Zhan frowned and looked at each other.

"Your daughter? "

The couple nodded.

" This temple belongs to our daughter, she liked it here very much so we bought it from the monks, we gave it to her on her wedding day. " the woman cried.

So they're the bride's parents. But what happened to the bride? Zhan thought.

"Can you please tell us exactly what happened? "

"No! Our daughter is waiting for us! We need to wake her up! It's time for her to eat. " The man said and dashed towards the back of the statue.

Zhan raised his eyebrows when the man opened the back of the statue. The man stumbles as if he saw something horrifying inside.

"W-Where is she? " The man stuttered.

"That's her grave? " Zhan whispered at Yibo.

"I think so. " Yibo answered.

The woman ran beside her husband and shrieked while pointing at the back of the statue.

"Where's my daughter?! " She screamed.

The woman looked at them angrily.

"What have you done to my daughter?! " They both step backwards a couple of times because the woman kept on pointing them.

Yibo tied the woman up, and also her husband.

"Calm down. " Zhan said to the couple.

"No! Our daughter! Where is she? " The man kept on struggling.

"Listen sir, i don't know the history that happened inside this place and to your daughter but first things first, your daughter is dead, her corpse is merely a puppet that you control. Second this piece of metal can destroy your lives. We are here to set things straight, so please listen to us. " Zhan explained.

The woman cried harder.

"I know.. we both know our daughter is dead but we can't just accept that! She's the only one we've got and we lost her this early. If only we didn't pushed her to get married this wouldn't have happened. " The man regretted.

"Where did you get this iron? " Yibo suddenly asked.

"W-We don't know. "

"Tell us the truth. "

"We really have no idea, a man just visited us two years ago and said that the iron can bring our daughter back to life. " the man explained

Zhan squinted his eyes as if thinking, he unconsciously rubbed the bridge of his nose and Yibo thought that was cute.

A man? But I don't remember anyone who could control Yin iron besides me. Huisang can't be the one because he hates the Yin Iron more than anyone. I can't think of anyone..

Yibo was staring at him and Zhan realized he was being stared at so he looked at Yibo and smiled.

"W-Where is she?" The woman kept on asking.

Ah, i forgot we're still here. 

"Don't worry, she's finally resting in peace. " Zhan answered her

The woman cried but smiled at him.

"Atleast, i won't be worried anymore. " She said.

The couple seemed to calm down so Yibo released them from being tied up.

"Please tell us what happened here before so we can both help. "

The couple looked at each other before they nodded, the four of them sat down in front of the statue that now seems to be decaying and started to rust since they took out the Yin iron.

"We want to introduce our selves first, My name is Madam Su and this is my husband Su Heng, a former minister of the imperial palace. We were once, one of the most influential family here in this city, second only to the family of our daughters fiancee, the Li's. But since the tragedy happened, our assets and land that we owned slowly disappeared. We had to pay debts and most of our belongings are seized by the bank.

And our daughter.. she was the most beautiful lady this city has " as Madam Su talked about her daughter, her eyes became warm. Zhan and Yibo listened to her attentively.

"Almost all the ladies envied her, especially when she got engaged to the second son of the Li family that is also known as the most good looking young man in this city. If only we didn't get blinded by our greed and forced her to marry that son of a b*tch, our daughter would've been happy and alive until now, she could have met fine young man like the both of you and would've marry her off–" Madam Su didn't finished what she was saying when Zhan butted in.

"I'm sorry madam, but these two fine young man you were talking about are married. " Zhan said then he placed his head on Yibo's shoulder and cling his arms to Yibo which made the latter's cheeks glow red.