Warring Kingdoms: The Tale of the Jade Phoenix and the Dragon Blade

Chapter 63: Wide Awake (惡魔領主意識到)

"Wh-Who are you?"

RuoMin lifted her hands trying to break free from the arms of the man with a confused look painted on her delicate face.

"LianHua... You came back. I thought you were dead, and our child... BeiYin! Where is BeiYin?"

"I- I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know who BeiYin is!" 

The man looked up on her with tears on his face. RuoMin couldn't help but gulp saliva. She was too clueless about the situation and who this man is. XueCao stood up and wiped blood dripping from his mouth and knelt in front of Asuro. 

"My Lord... You have awakened!"

"Who are you? Why did you bring me back?"

"My Lord, I am Lu XueCao. I spent hundreds of years trying to find a way to bring you back."

"Good enough. Do you have any wish in pretense of bringing me back?"

"No my Lord, I am here to fulfill your wish long ago..."

"Fulfill my-" 

Asuro held his head. Memories of long ago came back once again. The betrayal, death and longing... And most of all, vengeance. He sat on the stone table looking far away falling deep unto his thoughts and spoke...

"The humans killed my LianHua and attempted to kill my unborn child... I must get vengeance!" 

RuoMin saw his fists set ablaze. His demonic visage is returning once again. 

'I must prevent him. Although I do not know who this man is, keeping him calm is a must right now.'

Placing her hands on his flaming fists, RuoMin courageously held his hands despite the pain of the flames. Asuro felt the gentle hands on his and saw RuoMin's face full of sweat. He quickly put off the flames in his hands.

"I'm sorry. LianHua... Are you hurt?"

"I—I'm fine." A forced smile curved up her lips clasping her hands on top of another to conceal the damage caused by the flames.

"Come... Let's have tea together."

"There is tea in the Dark Realm?"
"Of course! The tea here tastes rather good."

"Is it... Is it okay for half-immortals like me?"

"Yes of course. Come follow me."

"But I can't."

RuoMin looked at the chains bound on her hands and her feet. An angry expression blurted out from Asuro. His eyes are fixed at XueCao.

"This is no way to treat our guests here XueCao! Remove these infernal chains or I'll remove your head!"

"Y—Yes... Right away my Lord."

When the chains on her hands were removed, Asuro led her upstairs into a grand balcony with chairs and tables wonderfully decorated by dark rubies and black gold.

Asuro sat at the chair and beckoned RuoMin to sit beside him. He then flicked his hand and a demon servant came bringing a tray with red porcelain teapot and black-colored cups. He then poured tea unto the cups and gave RuoMin the crimson-colored tea.

Looking at the odd tea, RuoMin reached on her cup with her hands trembling. She's hesitant on drinking the tea. She's taking turns on looking at Asuro's face then back to the tea and then back at Asuro.

"What's the matter? Why aren't you drinking?"

"The tea... I'm not used to drinking odd tea like this."