Wuxia Tale: Hua in Bloom

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(CAPTAIN WANG)

I watched in brooding silence as my lover fixed his robe around his slim and lean body. Dayu avoided my stares and shows more defiance as he sat on the edge of our bed. I untied him after that ridiculous outbursts that came from his mouth.

I cannot believe his words. Me...having other lovers. What?

"I cannot wait to hear where you got that insane idea of yours that I have other lovers." I grumbled in uttered disgust.

Dayu glared up at me. Everything a picture of a jilted lover. "You don't touch me anymore," he said in sharp tone.

My mouth slacked open in shock, "What...?"

Dayu sneered, "Why act surprised? It's true! For weeks you have been quiet, ignoring me and acting cold..."

"It's because I am mad at you. At what you said about me telling you Dao's activities inside the base..." I argued.

"Even so," Dayu continued to glare as he cuts my words. "We had arguments before. Misunderstandings. Difference in opinions but you were never this cold towards me. And letting weeks pass without touching me," his voice shook a little. Eyes shining with tears, "Admit it, you don't find me desirable anymore because someone else is meeting your sexual needs. Who is she? Or is it a he? Who is your whore on the side, warming your body?!" Dayu's tone is getting louder.

"Dayu! Stop it!" I hissed at him. "Do you want Hua to hear you? And...by Buddha, your language. What do you mean I have a whore on the side..."

"I don't care if Hua can hear us!" Dayu continued to be outrage. "It will be good if she will learn how her Baba mistreats me now..."

"How do I mistreat you?" I cannot follow this conversation anymore. I think I am also close to losing control. "Dayu ah...I have no other lovers..."

"Lies!" Dayu's eyes swam with more tears. His face a mask of hurt. "You always went home late these past few weeks. You are always eager to leave. You made it a habit of leaving during the night, coming home late. And tonight...tonight..." he sniffled.

"What is wrong with tonight?" I asked him in exasperation.

"You came home freshly washed!" Dayu shouted.

I put a palm on his mouth. Dayu struggled but I put my other hand on the back of his head to steady him. He gave me dagger like stares filled with promises of hurt.

"Keep it down!" I hissed at him again. The last thing I want, and if Dayu is thinking clearly he will agree with me, is for Hua to witness her Father unraveling like this.

Dayu pushed my arms away and slid away from me. I sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed too.

"What is wrong with me washing myself before I go home to you?" I asked him in a tired tone.

Dayu sniffled some more, "You must think because I am a virgin when you had me that first time that I am truly innocent. I am not!"

Yes, he is not. Dayu is already a skilled assassin when I met him and took him to my bed. Yes, when I was still oblivious about who he is, I thought Dayu is the purest and utterly innocent. But now, if I look back, I can say that Dayu's body might be innocent but his mind is not.

"I once worked at a brothel while spying on that Governor in Guangzhou. I saw noblemen and high ranking military officials enter that brothel and romp with whores, straying from their marriage bed and jilting on their wives and lovers. And most of them wash themselves after rutting between those whores' legs. Stupidly thinking that if they wash their bodies after the act that it will mean they are already clean and absolved of their sins. I should have killed them all..." Dayu glared at me again. "And now, you are coming home to me after attending that minister's celebration, all freshly washed. Who is that whore you touched tonight? Who?!"