QingYu: A Wuxia Tale (Going Through Reediting)

Fall in You

(Dayu's POV)

I woke up with the morning light slipping inside the cabin. I can hear voices and movements outside. It's already late. I usually woke up with the first croak of the roosters but today...

I turn my head and slide a little, happy that that slight movement didn't cause my shoulder some pain. Means I am really getting better, even my wound is cooperating now.

I peeked down, expecting an empty pallet. My eyes blinked rapidly when I saw the Captain still asleep.

Why is he still asleep? Normally, by this time, the Captain is already awake and terrorizing his soldiers. Torturing them with endless trainings and tasks to keep them strong and alert.

But here he is, still sleeping. Why?!

And why is he so still? I gasped, is he dead? Did someone came inside the cabin and steal my revenge?! Is he still alive? Breathing?

I reach down to put my finger under his nose but the angle is all wrong so I have to slide farther off the bed to reach his head. Now, the upper half of my body is hanging off the raised bed.

I stretch my arm, readied my finger and tried to reach him when my balance suddenly abandoned me and I fell, straight into the Captain's chest.

"Ugh!" the Captain coughed when I fell on him.

I see...he's alive after all. I look up and my eyes widened when I saw him, looking straight at me.

He groan, his head falling back on the makeshift pillow. "If you really want to sleep in one bed with me, just say it with words. You don't need to pull off stupid stunts like this..."

I scrambled to get up and off him but I bump my hurt shoulder on the raised bed. Pain slashed through my body and I fell on his chest again, moaning in pain.

"Are you hurt?" concern in his tone. He gently arrange me to lie on my stomach again, sliding off the pallet to give me space. "Do you really love this pallet so much for you to do this?" he asked in amazed tone.

I gave him an angry glare. He smiled, "So you know how to be angry. I thought you only have two moods, happy and subservient..."

He is teasing me now! I will kill him, slowly...

My breath got stuck when without any warning he picked me up and gently placed me on the bed, sitting up.

I close my eyes when I felt a slight dizziness from the sudden change of position.

"You want to sit up last night, there I helped you, you're welcome."

I will kill him. Slowly and painfully...

I open my eyes to see him smiling at me. With the dizziness gone I can think again. I nodded and thanked him. He was right anyway, I really wanted to sit up last night.

"We woke up late," I said.

"We are both tired. You need rest to recover from being poisoned. I am tired from turning every stone on that mountain where we were attacked."

"And did you find anything?"

His face turned grim, "Subtle marks. Nothing conclusive to pinpoint one enemy. But I will not stop until I uncover who dared to attack us in our teritory."

I secretly sighed in relief. He has nothing. He won't catch those who attacked us. Those are professionals. They knew how to hide evidences and themselves.

Good! At least those imbeciles knew something other than shot an arrow at me. I think I won't kill those stupid morons after all. There are uses for them.

The Captain started shedding his sleeping clothes to change into his uniform. I tried avoiding the scene but before I can close my eyes I saw glimpsed of that hard body I fell into a while ago.

I heard his amused chuckle, I fisted my hand. He is getting accustomed to amusing himself in expense of me.

Outside, the Captain had a reputation for being a hard man. Unsmiling, uncompromising and unwilling to back down from his principles and decisions.

Here, inside the cabin with just the two of us, he showed his other side. Teasing, playful and dark sexy.

Dark sexy?! Where did that come from?! I open my eyes in my own shock and saw him half naked, his upper body exposed. And to my utter shame, I did something I have never done before in front of an enemy.

I hiccuped. Twice!

"What is wrong with you?" the Captain asked as he stopped in front of me, still robeless.

I think this is a day for first, cause I did something for first time again after a long, long time.

I felt scared.

My eyes, turned round without acting this time. My heart pouding inside my chest. I felt cold sweat trickling from my temple. My blood congealing inside my body.

I felt like time froze with my blood.

"Dayu!" the Captain captured my face with both his palm. "Breathe!" he shouted at me.

I released a breath. And time continued to tick.

I raised a hand to hold his arm, another first, "I am fine now Captain,"

"I think you are pushing yourself too hard to get up from the bed. You are forgetting that you have been poisoned aside from being shot by an arrow," he released my face and ruffled my hair.

I glared up at him again. He chuckled at me and just ruffle my hair again before returning to his dressing.

I decided that the first part I will cut off is his hand. Maybe that will stop him from ruffling my hair.