... This is another book

I woke up like this

It was like every usual mornings.

My dreams halted and I became aware that I was already awake. Without even opening my eyes, my right hand automatically stretches out to reach my smartphone which I routinely place next to my pillow every night. This was not on purpose, the phone definitely fell there in the battle between sleep and lucid before sleep claimed me causing the rectangular piece of metal to fall just so perfectly there. However, there was a problem.

My hand, it did not stretch out as it's supposed to. To be specific, it feels as if both my hands were bound and now that I became more aware toward my senses, my entire being was as if wrapped tightly in the embrace of a very coarse cloth.

My eyes, even as much as hard as I tried to open it, they will not open. Everything is so dark.

Have I became blind after too much usage of smartphone in the dark?!

Did I somehow manage stabbed my eyes during sleeping?

OR

Was my mum actually right on how cockroaches' pee can blind you and that is why you really need to make your room super clean?!

NO.

This can't be, I - I can't live with this sudden fact. I mean, don't we have to go get this checked? I need to call mum at least. Yes, mum.

Then again, the same thing happened when I tried to call out mum. The muscles on my tongue feels weak. It was as if they've forgotten how to roll out the word mum. All I can mutter out is just some random rambling but even my voice doesn't sound like me!

Have I been kidnapped by a human trafficking syndicate during sleep?

Did they injected some weird untested drug on me that would turn me into a kid's body and then I have to seek protection under some washed up detective who is a single dad with a teenage daughter. Does this mean, I have to solve mysteries with an old uncle?

This can't be... I want to cry. This whole realisation is just sad. I feel like I should cry and wail. I know that it wouldn't help with anything but if I just cry really loud, it might just help me.

Aaaahhhh- My life. It's sad. So utterly sad. Who would ever understand my pitiful laments. AHHHHHHHHH

In the Flowing Garden, who doesn't know that there is a hermit who lives there in seclusion. The garden which is tended by the lone hermit is beautiful and filled with treasured plants as well herbs. Many yearned for the garden. While more yearned for the Garden Owner.

There was no human sound from the garden that can be heard all year long. In Spring, the beautiful whistling of birds filled the air with the soft sound of the butterflies' flapping their wings accompanied the whistling orchestra. While in Summer, the battle between the short term cicada and the loud frogs rang loud chasing the springs' orchestra. Came Autumn, the rustling of leaves and soft thud of persimmons dropping replaced the now gone animal song while with Winter, the cold wind sonata blows inside the garden.

The students of Radiant Peak Sect was used to this reclusive environment. Of all the elders' in the sect's personal dwelling, Flowing Garden is one place where they should never dare to dream to enter. It was not just an elder's dwelling, the recluse hermit was also their former Sect Leader who founded the Sect just a decade ago. Yet, he hated being bothered by all the formalities with the other sects and decided to step down then randomly choose one of the elders to become the next Sect Leader. By his words "I'm tired. You guys do it"

Then he went to the most secluded area within the mountain and goes down to the valley where he build his personal garden near the river. From then on, for a decade after, the six elders had rotated the sect leader position between them by a gory battle of paper, rock and scissors annually. Between the six, the second elder Yi Hua and the third elder Yi Luo had three years under their belt as sect leader. While the fourth Yi Qi had two years and the fifth Yi Ruo as well as the sixth, Yi Liu had only hold the tittle for a year. The eldest of these six elders, Yi Yi had somehow successfully avoided the dreaded tittle for a whole decade. Being the closest to their master, she was similarly lazy and hoped that the juniors will once again assume the position.