“Right, you can no longer have the bond of disciple and master after this blood feud.”
Zihui hold my hand tightly, like a temptation he said: “I’ll marry you and take care of you in the stead of your shifu. Are you willing?”
I looked at how my tears fell onto his hand. Then I nodded. Zihui laughed, stood up and touched my head.
“A Xiang, this is nice. In my family, there’s a tradition that whoever marrying into my family will need to drink a bowl of this medicine. It makes the body more fit to live with me. A Xiang, do you want to drink it?”
I nodded mechanically. Zihui left my sight. Soon he came back holding a bowl of red medicine. I didn’t have any suspicion and swallowed it. A fishy sweet and warm feeling, like drinking a mouthful of blood, making my chest felt stuffy.
Zihui patted my head with a face full of happiness. He pointed at the stone bed and said: “These two days must have tired you out. Go take a rest.”
In fact, I don’t want to sleep. But I don’t know why after listening to his words, my feet moved on their own to the bed and obediently lay down. I closed my eyes. My world turned into darkness. My brain was filled of Shengling sect and Fengxueshan manor and, and shifu’s one moment laughing face and one moment angry face…
I thought that I’ll never see that kind of shifu anymore. After becoming Zihui’s bride, I’ll settle down in this stone cave.
I didn’t want to step out of this cave. I always think that there are monsters outside, who wants to eat me. I became really lazy. Here, no one lets me do the laundry and make the bed. Nobody likes to let me fan him and turn the page of his books.
Zihui was often absent. I sit all day long on the stone bed and didn’t know what time or day it is. I live with the nature. But I didn’t think that these days are relaxed. They’re like a block of stone, putting pressure on my heart, making it hard to breathe.
Today, Zihui came back. I was complaining about the bad air in this cave, making people’s hearts feel stuffy. Zihui smiled distractedly and said: “Excuse me, I lack a heart. I don’t know what a stuffy heart feels like.”