Rebound

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🔞Mild Mature content in this chapter🔞

I finally got my golden core back. After weeks of healing and meditation, I was well enough to get my core. It didn't take much, I just laid on that crystal of Baoshan's and she used it to help me absorb my core. I stayed in that crystal for three days afterwards so I could let my body adjust to the cultivation again. I just felt good to have it back. I know I went through a lot just to give it to Jiang Cheng but after the way he treated me, I felt justified on getting it back.

Now that I was fully recovered, I was able to get back to training. I used a training field outside of Baoshan's home and since I took my sword with me, I started practicing drills. I was a little rusty but it didn't take long for me to get back into my routine. As I practiced, I felt eyes watching me. I glanced over and saw Lan Zhan watching. I grinned and, "Lan Zhan, you dare fight me?" I asked.

"Can Wei Ying handle a spar?" Lan Zhan replied.

"It has been a while since I used my sword, but I can still use it," I said, "last time we fought sword to sword, I never took it out of the sheathe. Dare to try and fight me now?"

"Very well," Lan Zhan said as he took out Bichen and stood ten paces from me, "do you want to make the first move?"

"Does not matter," I answered.

Lan Zhan smiled and charged towards me. I smiled in return and got ready to block an oncoming strike of his sword. Just like that night on the roof, we soon got into a rhythm and we were more matched in performance than we were actually trying to overpower the other. We moved in sync. It's been so long since I had this much fun sparring with someone. With a few more quick moves, we called it a draw.

"Hanguang Jun is still the best fighter I have come across," I stated.

"The Yiling Patriarch also has good skills," Lan Zhan said.

I laughed and walked over to him, "perhaps you shall defeat me another day," I said.

He then pulled me closer to him and wrapped his arms around my waist, "perhaps, or maybe I like being your equal," he said.

I nodded, "if you stick with me, you probably always will be...except that I can use resentment but I'd never use it on you."

"Maybe you should for training purposes...someone out there uses it and it caused others to believe you are a criminal. I think you should practice using it with spiritual energy," he said.

"Are you actually encouraging me to use it?" I asked.

"It was wrong of me to try and convince you to stop when I never knew your situation. Baoshan also confirmed that your family is the only one that can use it properly and not be hurt by it. As it runs in your blood, it's a way to connect to your father in some way. If I could have some way to connect to my parents in such a way like that, I'd use it and not care what anyone else thinks," He explained.

I smiled and wrapped my arms around his neck, "I am not upset about you trying to help me. You are the only one who genuinely tried to help me when others just wanted to talk about me," I told him, "I love you, and now that I have my cultivation back, I can focus on us a bit more."

"I love you too, Wei Ying," he said, "I hope you know that we will marry when you are ready."

"I am ready to marry you," I told him, "I am just a bit nervous about the parts after we do our bows."

"What are you worried about?" He asked, "I will do what I can to keep you comfortable."

"I trust you, and I think it's a normal thing for anyone to be nervous about that," I said, "being so intimate with another person."

"Come with me," he said and dragged me to our bedroom and locked the door behind him. He then placed a privacy charm on the walls, "I won't go all the way, but how about I show you a little bit of what you might expect?"

"What?" I asked.

He then kissed me and gently pushed me back onto the bed. Our boots came off and soon I caught him removing his robes. All that was left was his trousers. As he kissed me, he let me explore his body a bit with my hands. His body felt incredibly buff and his skin was actually very soft. I could feel the muscles just under the surface of his skin. Feeling them, gave me a sense of security. As my hands explored, he suddenly opened my robed and his lips moved from my lips and down my jaw to my neck and collarbone.

"How..do you know..what you're doing?" I asked.

"Read about it," he mumbled against my shoulder. His hands ventured to my chest and began to rub and pinch my nipples. This was what he was trying to show me. He knew what he was doing and to show me I had nothing to worry about. His lips ventured further down my body until he stopped at the scar on my abdomen where I had my core removed, "you can heal this now you know."

"I know...but I don't want to," I said, "some scars are just meant to be kept and this is one of them."

"Wen Qing?" He asked.

I nodded, "I hope you know I only ever saw her as a sister nothing more...I never actually had any interest in others where it was a man or a woman. I flirted a lot because it just helped get things out of it," I told him, "just know you are the only one I ever felt something for and I will only ever flirt with you."

He crawled up so he was face to face with me and buried his face into my neck. He bit down, "good."

"Lan Zhan, are you a dog?" I asked.

"Wei Ying is tasty," he said.

I laughed, "that doesn't mean you should bite me."

"Very well," he said and began to run his tongue over my chest, occasionally running it over my nipples. My body tingled behind his touch. I placed my hands on the back of his head and tangled my fingers through his hair. This man is nothing short of amazing. I knew that he only studied up on this stuff for my sake. Otherwise he would probably have not ever touched those types of materials.