Zhuiling

Chapter 1 (English)

..."Jin Ling."

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..."Jin Ling!"

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..."JIN LING!!"

"Woah what?" asked Jin Ling, who had just woken up from a daydream. "What's wrong, did I miss something?" Jiang Cheng, who was standing in front of him, just looked at him sternly. "Have you already forgotten?" he asked with a hint of contempt in his voice.

"You should have started the night hunt two hours ago. Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi have been waiting for you for two hours!" Jin Ling jumped up. He had completely forgotten about the night hunt.

When he came across the two Lan students a little later, he noticed that they didn't look very enthusiastic either. Jin Ling kept his head down and hoped that neither of them would say anything, which of course wasn't the case.

"What took you so long?" asked Lan Jingyi. Jin Ling clenched his hands into fists and shouted: "It's none of your business!" Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi were used to this tone and did not shrink back. They just shrugged their shoulders and followed him.

Jin Ling scolded himself. He had sworn not to shout at them anymore. He thought it would be easy, but it apparently wasn't. How could he shout at them? Especially at Sizhui? How could he say such words in those eyes that always looked at him so reassuringly when he...

Wait? What was he thinking of? Sizhui was his friend and nothing more or less. Or did he want more? No, that was completely impossible. Jin Ling squeezed his already closed fist even tighter.

It didn't take long until they heard a rustling from the bushes, whereupon Fairy began to bark like mad and ran towards one of the bushes. "Fairy wait!" Jin Ling shouted, but the dog didn't listen to him. Jin Ling cursed just before he ran after his spiritual companion. He followed Fairy deep into the forest until he came to an intersection and lost sight of the dog.

He put his hands on his knees and gasped. Jin Ling looked around. After thinking about it for a moment, he knew he had never been here before. A few minutes later, Lan Jingyi came between the trees and relief showed on his face when he saw Jin Ling. "I got him!" Jingyi shouted and a little later Lan Sizhui joined them.

They heard the rustling again, only this time closer. Jin Ling took his bow and drew an arrow while Sizhui and Jingyi raised their hands protectively. A row of undead pounced on them.

Jin Ling fired a volley of arrows at them and jumped up into a tree. Lan Sizhui, on the other hand, kept backing away, as if he was afraid. Jin Ling noticed this and shouted: "What are you doing?!"

Lan Sizhui was not deterred and kept backing away. He wanted to lure them away so that he could kill them all at once. Jin Ling saw through his plan immediately and wanted to help him somehow, but didn't know how. He sat helplessly by the tree and shot down undead while his friend took care of all the other undead?

Jin Ling jumped up from his seat and ran to Lan Sizhui. He didn't want to put himself in unnecessary danger.  And Lan Sizhui was his friend. You should protect friends, right?

Secretly he wanted more than that, but he didn't want to admit it. Sizhui was just a friend and he would never be more than that. Jin Ling had resolved not to think about something that would never happen, but he couldn't get Sizhui out of his head.

It was as if he was a leech that didn't want to leave him, except in a good way. So that Jin Ling didn't want to dissuade her either. He couldn't explain the reason for that. It couldn't be that he loved him, that would be too crazy. Much too crazy and he would never get that love. Jin Ling decided to banish Lan Sizhui from his mind.

At least for a day.

Or even just an hour.

Or...

He pushed the thought away and kept running. Lan Jingyi continued to fight a few of the undead that were not chasing Lan Sizhui. Jin Ling reached Sizhui and firing a volley of arrows at his opponents. They kept pushing them back until they came to a cliff. It wasn't particularly deep, but it was steep. The ground beneath Jin Ling and Lan Sizhui was not at all stable and could collapse at any moment.

When Jin Ling noticed this, it was already too late. They were too far from solid ground to get back in time. The ground began to shake. Jin Ling looked at Lan Sizhui, who was trying to lure the undead further to the slope. He hadn't noticed the tremor.

Jin Ling tried to stay calm, but it was obvious how scared he was. He thought about it and decided that there was no point in standing around here any longer. It didn't matter what happened to the undead. They would still fall into the depths. He briefly wanted to call out to Lan Jingyi, but they had already left him far behind in the forest.

Jin Ling had a short circuit and ran towards Lan Sizhui. He wrapped his arms around him and pulled him into the depths. Sizhui let out a short scream of terror. The ground they had just been standing on broke off and fell into the depths. With it all the undead they had lured up.

Jin Ling let go of Sizhui and waited for the impact. When he finally touched the ground, it was softer than he thought. He gasped briefly. With his eyes closed, he let his head fall to the ground, but instead of the hard ground, he hit something soft. His lips touched something soft.

Jin Ling was frightened, screamed and rolled onto his side in a flash. When he looked at the spot where he had landed, he couldn't believe his eyes. And very quickly another thought came to his mind.

He had just kissed Lan Sizhui!

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Hello,

 this is the English version of my FF and I hope you liked it! I'm not really good at English so if some sentences don't make sense I'm sorry, my mother tongue is German so yes. I will try to update as often as possible but my teachers argued about the schedule today so there might be a lot of school work and texts coming up in the near future.

By the way, these are 1075 words.