Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes (Love You Seven Times)

Chapter 18

Edited by renderedreversed

“Dida” was the sound of the water in the stone cave.

“Where is this…” I kept sobbing while sitting on a rock. Zihui squatted in front of me and gave me a towel.

“You can say that it’s my home. A Xiang, don’t cry anymore.”

I took the towel and wiped my face, choking while I said: “Although I’m stupid, I still remember that father and mother were very good to me. Shifu, Shifu was obviously also very good to me…but why did he kill my parents? Why did he lie to me?”

Zihui was silent for a moment before he said: “A Xiang, you can’t return to Shengling Sect anymore. What are you going to do next?”

“I…haven’t thought about it yet.” I shook my head: “I hit Shifu. Shifu wouldn’t want me anymore. I also don’t want to go back to Shengling Sect. Home…I also can’t go back home. I…don’t know.”

Zihui grabbed my hand and quietly looked at me. In the darkness of his eyes, I saw a hint of purple fly across.

“From now on, a Xiang, let’s live together, alright?”

He stretched out his hand and touched my face. I, for some inexplicable reason, felt that this wasn’t right. I wanted to hide, but his hand left as quickly as it had come.

“You can be my wife. I’ll treat you better than your Shifu. I won’t lie to you and I won’t abandon you.”

I looked at him for a moment: “But, Shifu still hasn’t agreed…”

Zihui was stunned for a moment and then said with a laugh: “Shifu? Silly girl, he slaughtered your whole family. You really still see him as your Shifu?”

The tears fell again: “I can’t see him as Shifu anymore?”

After all, Shifu was really good to me.

“Right, you can no longer have the bond of disciple and master after this blood feud.”

Zihui held my hand tightly. Like an irresistible temptation, he said: “I’ll marry you and take care of you in the place of your Shifu. Are you willing?”

I looked at how my tears fell onto his hand. Then, I nodded. Zihui laughed, stood up, and touched my head.

“A Xiang, this is nice. In my family, there’s a tradition that whoever marries into my family will need to drink a bowl of this medicine. It makes the body more fit to live with me. A Xiang, do you want to drink it?”

I nodded mechanically. Zihui left my sight. Soon he came back holding a bowl of red medicine. I didn’t have any suspicion and swallowed it. A fishy, sweet and warm feeling, like drinking a mouthful of blood, enveloped me. My chest felt stuffy.

Zihui patted my head with a face full of happiness. He pointed at the stone bed and said: “These two days must have tired you out. Go take a rest.”

In fact, I didn’t want to sleep. But, I didn’t know why that after listening to his words, my feet moved on their own toward the bed and I obediently laid myself down. I closed my eyes. My world turned dark. My brain was filled of Shengling Sect and Fengxueshan Manor and, and Shifu’s face: one moment laughing and in the next, angry…

I thought that I would never see that kind of Shifu anymore. After becoming Zihui’s bride, I would settle down in this stone cave.

I didn’t want to step out of this cave. I always thought that there were monsters outside who wanted to eat me. I became truly lazy. Here, no one let me do the laundry or make the bed. Nobody liked to let me fan him and turn the page of his books.