Chance Encounters-An Eternal Love of Dreams Fan Fiction

Chapter Eleven - Back to Qingqiu

"Did you hear anything about Dijun?"  Xiao Jiu asked Chonglin anxiously as soon as she saw him return to Tai Chen Palace.   Chonglin had gone to the assembly hall where a report was being made to Hao De Tianjun by some returning emissaries as to the situation on the ground.  Dijun had been gone now for a month and except for one short missive he was able to send when he was in Fanyin Valley to tell her he was all right, Xiao Bai has had no news from him.  Although she knew that she would have heard if something bad had happened to him as any significant news about Donghua Dijun would be of extreme importance in the Immortal Realms and would spread immediately, she couldn't help but feel apprehensive.  She really missed him  Missed talking with him, missed spending time with him.  But most of all, she misses taking care of him.  She knew that aside from her, he would never allow anyone to be close enough to look after him.  As such, she could not help but worry about his health and safety.

"The last known information on Dijun was that he was on his way to the Western Realms.   There's a dark storm cloud blanketing the entire continent that could not be explained away and while Dijun was not certain if this had something to do with the general unrest in the Immortal Realms, he had decided to treat everything as part of the conundrum until proven otherwise.  He took 3rd Prince and some of his Sentries with him to gauge the danger to the people in that area.  Other than that there's no other news regarding Dijun."  Chonglin said.  Xiao Jiu looked disappointed at the brevity of the news but merely gave a sigh.   At least she knew he was safe, it would have to be enough.  "Don't worry too much Xiao Jiu, Dijun knows what he's doing."  Seeing the forlorn look on the young fairy's face, Chonglin couldn't help but try to comfort her.  He awkwardly patted her back clearly not used to having to comfort a love interest of Dijun. 

"Chonglin greets Star Lord Si Ming" the Steward suddenly said as he saw Si Ming walking towards them.  Xiao Jiu followed with a similar greeting giving her friend a small smile.  However, Si Ming did not return the smile.    

"Chonglin, I need to talk to Xiao Jiu for a moment."  Si Ming said.  Chonglin bowed in understanding and withdrew.  He wondered what they had to talk about.  The Star Lord looked uncharacteristically serious.  It couldn't be about Dijun because as far as he knew the Star Lord has been out of the Sky Kingdom for the past few months and has only been back for a few days, so he wouldn't know the relationship between Xiao Jiu and Dijun.

"What is it? What happened?"  Xiao Jiu asked worriedly as soon as they were alone.  Si Ming knew all about her obsession with repaying Dijun so he might be bearing some news about him.  

"You need to go back to Qingqiu at the soonest possible time.   Fox Queen Bai Qian just came back and Xiao Jiu, she's blind."  Si Ming said lowering his voice just in case someone was around the area and could overhear them.  "Someone took her eyes."

"Wha.... what do you mean blind?  I don't understand."  Xiao Bai said confused.  As far as she knew her Gugu had gone to the Mortal Realms for her love trial.  However, what happened in her trial should not affect her as soon as she got back to the Immortal Realms. "Where was she blinded?  It couldn't have been in the Mortal Realms right?  What's being done for her? Is it a temporary thing?  What did High God Zhe Yan say?"  Xiao Bai was agitated now hence the rapid fire questions. 

"We're really not sure yet but there's a certain peculiarity with her love trial.  I don't know if you're aware but Crown Prince Ye Hua brought back a mortal woman Susu here to the Sky Kingdom a few months before?"  Xiao Bai nodded her head recalling how she heard the emissary making the report to Donghua a few months before.  She had sent off a letter to her father in Qingqiu through a messenger but her father merely left a return message that he would take care of it.  After that, with the continuing unrest in the Immortal Realms, the issue had probably been put in the back burner while they waited for Bai Qian to come back.  Suddenly, Xiao Bai remembered something that has had the entire Sky Kingdom in an uproar a few weeks back.   Surely, it couldn't be.  But it was too much of a coincidence if it wasn't.