Just Because I'm Not An Ordinary Girl

Chapter 3 - Where Am I?

I'm sorry... I'm sorry! It's all my fault... It's my fault... It's my fault... I'm sorry!" Fengjiu cries and sobs non-stop.

"Jiu'er!... Jiu'er!... Jiu'er!... Jiu'er!... JIU'ER!..." he screams while waking up and panting! His heart was beating franticly and he can't calm himself down. He looked around his surrounding, finding himself in a strange and unfamiliar place. All of a sudden Fengjiu crosses his mind, "JIU'ER!" he screams.

He closes his eyes and tries to summon his power to cast a tracking spell, but nothing happened. He tries to focus his powers again but there wasn't anything happening at all. He had a strange feeling deep down in his heart. He tries to summon his Cang'he sword but still, it never appears. He can't settle his mind on anything and his heart is hurting him for no reason.

He left his room and to search for her, once he walked out of his room he realized he was in a big manor. He opens every door that crosses his path, he searches every room and every inch in this giant manor but there is no sign of her anywhere. He was so scared that something might have happened to her and he fell down to the floor in front of the main entrance.

At this point, Zhonglin walks in through the front door and notices Donghua was in a frantic state. "What's wrong sir are you not feeling well? Should I fetch for the doctor?" he asks panicking. When Donghua looks up at him he was thinking;

"Why is he dressed so weird? When did he cut his hair? What did he just call me? This place doesn't even look like TaiChen Palace? Where was I? Most importantly where's my Jiu'er"

"I am fine." he said in his cold harsh voice as always. "Are you sure? Sir, you loo" he tries to say but got interrupted by Donghua "I SAID I'M FINE!" he gives him the deadly glare. "Where are Siming and LianSong?" he ask Zhonglin. "Sir, Siming should be back soon and as for LianSong,... he's over at his girlfriend's place." he reports. "GIRLFRIEND? Since when did he have a girlfriend and who is she?" he curiously asks. "Sir maybe you were too busy... and you don't pay much attention to the gossiping news. He asked ChengYu to be his girlfriend grand meeting hall after the meeting last week." he reports. In Donghua mind;

"ChengYu... is here as well? What is going on here... I need to find Jiu'er! "

"Zhonglin do you remember anything that happened last night?" he asks with the same emotionless face. "Last night... there wasn't anythi...ng I think... or... actually, I can't remember anything... it seems strange..." he says with a dumbfounded look.

"Zhonglin, listen carefully to everything I say and don't question me at all. I need you to get LianSong, to come here as soon as possible and when Siming gets back all three of you come to my room." he orders him, he gets up and walks up the stairs heading to his room.

Before he reaches his room, in his mind he is wondering if these people were really the people he used to know, since now he knows Miao Luo is behind all of this. "Zhonglin, what do I normally cook for LianSong?" he asks this question out of random, that only a few people would know the answer to this. "Sir, you always cook sweet and sour fish for LianSong especially when he offended you." he replies.

Without saying anything he went back into his room, while he left Zhonglin standing there all confused and thinking about what happened to Donghua. He slowly looked around his room again, he inspected everything and every inch carefully and found a bamboo scroll at the back corner on the floor behind the bookshelf. He struggled for a bit when reaching for it and finally he was able to grab it. He now recognizes it from last night, the scroll that Fengjiu has shown to him while he was withholding onto the protection barrier.

"So last night wasn't a dream at all, this is a new realm that was created where there's no magic power, immortals and gods with that box... but where is that box if the scroll is here... shouldn't it be here as well? How did Miao Luo get to Jiu'er anyways? I need to find her soon, I can feel her in an unsteady state. If only I didn't push her away, we probably wouldn't end up this way. Even when I tried to stay away from her she still got hurt because of me. Even when we are not together the world still falls into calamity! Then wh..." he thought to himself until a knock on the door disturbs his thoughts.