Timeline: Thirteen years after prince ZiShu left the palace.
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On top of Mount Hua 華山...
Lao Wen was riding his horse until he saw a hill where he could smell and observe peach blossoms from a distance. He jumped off the horse, and decided to walk up the stepping stones instead, since the hill was rather steep.
On his way up, two ladies were heading down hill, and he heard them talk.
"He's so handsome and tall, and so charming and friendly, and very playful." One lady said to her friend, all giggly.
"I know. And he keeps flirting with us, telling us how cute we are, he's just impossibly attractive and a sweet talker. I think I'm falling in love with him..." Her friend said.
"Falling? You already fell! So have I!" The lady said and laughed with her friend.
Lao Wen did not like the sound of that at all. It looks like his Ah Xu never changed. He liked it when Ah Xu flirted with him, but with others? No way. Lao Wen gave the ladies a nasty look but they did not see it, they were watching their steps because the hill was rather steep.
As Lao Wen and his horse arrived to the middle of the peach blossom field, they noticed a vegetable garden and a log cabin. So Lao Wen walked towards the log cabin, leaving his horse behind to rest.
The horse wandered on its own for a little while, and then went towards the vegetable garden.
Lao Wen on the other hand, entered the log cabin and found a man sleeping in the bed. His heart nearly sunk. There was another man, sleeping in Ah Xu's bed!? What the hell!? He made a fist with both hands and tensed up. This was not what he was expecting to see at all. He thought Ah Xu would be waiting for him, but instead, he had found another man to warm his bed. How in the world could he do that to him?
Lao Wen checked out the man, who was sleeping soundly. He looked like he was about twenty or twenty-five years old, definitely a lot younger than Lao Wen, who was now in his mid-forty. Not overly good-looking but not ugly either. Lao Wen didn't know what he should do. Beat up this man? Tell him that Ah Xu belonged to him and nobody else? Or run away and never come back? Didn't Ah Xu promise to wait for him? Granted, he made Ah Xu wait 13 years, but Ah Xu had sworn that he would wait forever, yet only 13 years later he found another man to warm his bed at night? Or worse, in the middle of the day? This is unacceptable. Lao Wen felt jealousy eating him up and then suddenly he hears behind him a voice that sounded very familiar... The voice said "Lao Wen..."
He turned around and there he was. Standing behind him.
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Earlier, at ZiShu's log cabin, after the 2 ladies left...
"Doctor Wen, I have migraines all the time, I have not been able to sleep lately. I feel so tired yet my head hurts very much, to the point I cannot rest. Can you help me?" Lei, a mid-twenty farmer, asked ZiShu.
"Lie down over here Lei, I will use acupuncture to see if it can help relieve some of your pain." ZiShu laid the man down on the sick bed, and reached for his needle bag.
After a short session, Lei felt better and because of that, he quickly fell asleep since he had not slept for a few nights already.
ZiShu left the room so Lei could rest.
He stepped outside his log cabin, and did not see any other patient. And so he decided to use the free time to pick some fresh vegetables from the garden.
In the garden, he harvested some lettuce and potatoes and put them in a basket, and then he heard foot steps behind him, so he got up and turned around. He thought it was Lei. But it was not.
