Taoist Master

Lady Grand Master

Silently swigging the wine back, her sparkling laughing eyes, savagely held onto the vision of her brothers face when he had stormed into the den with his tail on fire.  Draped across the full length of the sofa with a bottle of wine in hand and several more on the table for his pleasure, she had merely met his scowling gaze with a sweet smile while he hyperventilated over the top of her.

Five minutes at least must have passed before he was able to coherently utter a word beyond the garbled stuttering and that was only after she magically lifted a wine bottle before carefully drifting it in the air towards him, which he not only snatched at, but he gulped back the entire contents in one mouthful before uttering a stream of obscenities which only increased the laughter she was barely keeping under control.

"Zhen Zhen.... is it so difficult to believe that I actually outclass you in this one little thing" she asked as another bottle of wine was lifted into the air towards him.

"Little thi .......  Xiao Wu! He stammered incredulously.....  "The title of Grand Master Taoist is no little thing.  You not only unseated High God Mo Yuan and no doubt many other world leaders in Taoist circles, but you sat there the entire time and didn't tell me!" He hissed angrily as that bottle was also slammed back before reaching for another.

"And what would telling you have achieved?  You would have done what you always did.  Scoffed at my audacity to reach for heights I am not capable of achieving before publicly humiliating me before the world by giving away my identity." she screwed her face up at him.....  "And besides, wasn't the finale and the big reveal worth it in the end?  Your little sister is now the Taoist Grand Master, surely that is something to celebrate?" 

 "Only the world doesn't know that because you not only left without giving your name, but High God Mo Yuan returned to find the hall in an uproar." he seethed before finally falling to the chair with a thud having worn himself out.  "It also seems that you forced him into keeping your identity secret and had Lord Pua not been there, High God Mo Yuan may have had to battle his way out again."  he added breathlessly as the vision of Mo Yuan standing on the stage and facing the anger of the crowd came back to him.  

"Demands had flown left and right that he give up your identity, after all, one can't really be considered a Master of anything if one doesn't know your name otherwise what would they call you?" he asked which she merely shrugged her shoulders at as the bottle in her hand tilted back towards her mouth.

"Grand Master anonymous?" he glared at her.  "You have no idea what you have just done.  The entire world is going to want your name and there is no way you can just hide in the den Xiao Wu, you will now have to attend every Tao meeting and session until the next Grand debate, because that is what the title demands.  And if you think High God Mo Yuan is going to let you slink back into anonymity, then think again." he glared back at the way her eyes were rolling in her head.....     "And they are going to find out eventually, because you cannot expect High God Mo Yuan to continue taking the heat, it is not fair on him." he finished it and turning her rolling eyes into a dark frown at that thought, though it didn't last long.

She knew Mo Yuan was more than capable of looking after himself, and nor did she feel she owed him anything.  They had come to a private agreement between themselves.    He could have just said no but he didn't, so he had to take the consequences of that decision, after all, a good Taoist did not make light decisions, and nor did they allow themselves to be the consequence of anything, so she had no fear that Mo Yuan would do that.  In fact, she strongly suspected the man was in a meditation cave somewhere on that mountain and quietly pondering on their next meeting which she planned to avoid.

"You know, you could just congratulate me, drink to my success and then we can deal with it all tomorrow..." she grinned at him.

"Is that all you can think of?" he asked in disbelief.