"Young master?" Lu Qing was bewildered of her young master's sudden actions. She felt his hands placed tightly on her shoulders and his fingers digging into her skin. Then he pushed her body backwards with force until she felt her backside bumping against the building wall.
Confused, she looked up to see her young master who was giving her a stern glare that made her heart tremble.
"Young master?" she tried to question him but she couldn't understand his intentions. Then she was shocked again to his face slowly drawing near to hers. Reducing the distance inch by inch until she could his breath exhaling. Until only an inch was left to break the barrier.
Their eyes fixated on each other's and revealed the other's expressions through their pupils.
One pair of eyes revealed her confusion for all things, trembling as it narrowed like the eyes of a cornered rabbit, reflecting the image of the stone-cold glare of her young master's visage.
The other pair of eyes revealed his blindness from the crimson colored emotions fluctuating, calm and serene as his heart was protected by multiple layers of hard chrysalises, reflecting the image of the frightened cornered rabbit like a hungry wolf preying.
And then, they both went still. Motionless like two statues. As if depicting a painting that was breathing life on its own.
This went on for a while and Lu Qing managed to get her senses back. She realized that she was sweating a bit from her body heat, panting shortly for air and her heart wouldn't stop pounding. It felt like a jackhammer beating its way out from her chest. And it left her stifled for a chance to breath under her young master's body towering over her.
Finally, she moved. She lifted her arms and placed her hands on her young master's chest. After some hesitation, she decided to push back her young master away and get out of her confinement.
It couldn't be helped. If she were to remain any longer being sandwiched by the solid walls and pushing her back, she was certain that her body would melt like a wax candle. Breaking her composure to think.
But no matter how much strength she exerted, her young master wouldn't budge from his position. She tried to move her body to slip pass but his hands holding her shoulders were like two grapplers fixing her body still.
She could not move nor she can push herself free. She was trapped and it made her flustered.
Then, the moment when her eyes tried to look away from him did her young master began to speak. The projection of his voice drew hot breaths that left her skin tingling.
"Don't move." he said. "Don't look away from me and be still. Don't even try to resist and think of a way to break free. Because I don't intend to let you go until I think it's time to let you go."
When he spoke, he did not yell. Yet, his words were so loud that it broke the glass-like thoughts in her head. Shattering them all to tiny pieces.
Unable to lift another thought, she can only follow her young master's compelling words. She didn't move anymore. Let alone lifting a finger, she didn't dare to close her eyes and only blinked occasionally.
Time flew by, it was a minute or two, and the two remained were they were as if they dedicated their time being solid statues. The wind breezed by and fluttered their loose robes along with their hair. The nipping wind made Lu Qing's hot sweat grow cold and gave her the chills.
Another minute passed. And another and another.
Eventually, ten freaking minutes passed and they still haven't moved from their positions. Lu Qing felt she was dying from asphyxia.
She could hardly breath with her young master's face so close and her back so pressed against the wall. Such a situation left her dumbfounded as she didn't know what was going on her young master's mind.
Eventually, her eyes began to swim. Darting left, right, up then down, her eyes landed on her young master's lips. The very lips she kept stealing in an effort to show him her love.
Yet, it seems that he would rather ignore her love than to accept it. Calling their relationship complicated of the sorts yet it was very simple in appearance.
Wait a minute...
Pressed against the wall.
Held back by his arms.
With faces so close they could easily... Kiss.
Kiss? Does young master want another one? Such a question popped up in her little head. And then she concluded, that must be the case.
After all, he never took the initiative. It was always her who started it. And even though he acted like he didn't care he must've been happy to be kissed by a girl. Such a thought made Lu Qing smile faintly.
Then if it's a kiss he wants, a kiss he'll get. Lu Qing didn't mind giving him kisses whether it was the kind that uses the tongue or something that was very extreme. As long as it makes him happy then she didn't mind feeding him mouth to mouth. Of course, it would also make delighted as well. Extremely delighted in fact. She would be happiest girl in the world to do it. Albeit, a kiss wasn't really what her young master wanted.
What Ben Li intended to do was fall in love with Lu Qing right here and now.
Ben Li believed that someone can fall in love at the very first sight. After all, it happened to him. And the theory stated that if you keep staring at the charms of the opposite sex for a good 2-3 minutes, you'll eventually find yourself falling in love.
And Ben Li had been staring at Lu Qing a damn well 10 minutes now and his heart still remained indifferent to her charms.
She was cute. That Ben Li can't deny. And he damned Wang Xie for being such a lucky bastard for having this girl fall for him.
Ben Li had told her many times now that he wasn't Wang Xie but the lass just wouldn't listen. He could decide to leave her alone or avoid her completely but the lass would eventually find her way into his embrace and steal his lips in the process.
Ben Li never wanted her because of his matters yet she wanted him no matter what.
She was one adamant lass.
But alas, it seems he can't fall in love with her for now. And he can point the reasons why.
It's because she's too young. Still unripe for the picking. Perhaps when she blooms into a mature adult, he may want her eventually.
Another is because of her standards. This lass just tolerates anything that's thrown at her.
Truth or lies won't matter to her as long as the situation can be fixed. And it seems she won't avoid any discomforting discussions like telling her he doesn't love her.
And the last is because she's too clingy at the wrong guy.
Perhaps Wang Xie might enjoy her embrace but it was Ben Li who she's been clinging onto and it made him uncomfortable knowing that this love of hers will never belong to him.
With such cases, no wonder his heart still hesitates to open up for her. Perhaps one day he might find himself wanting her but today was not the time.
Ben Li sighed. But just as when he was about to move back, Lu Qing suddenly grabbed hold of his head and shoved her lips unto his. Osculating him.
Lu Qing finally did it again. Eyes closed and heart opened. Soaking out his dry soft lips and pushing in her tongue into his mouth.
Ben Li wasn't even surprised anymore. He anticipated that this bold girl would make another bold move considering their respective positions. Thus, he didn't resist and let her be. Slowly cooperating as he also gave her a smooch.
A while passed and two who were necking each other were already becoming wild. Lips pressing lips, tongue entwining tongue. Bodies pushing against each other. Their kissing had gone to the point of being lewd in the borderline erotic.
They had separated once and twice to breath some air then Lu Qing would pull in and thrust her lips again.
The sound of their lewd kissing was making a lot of noise. It would probably attract some attention if only someone was here to see them. It was a good thing that it was only the two of them were here alone where no one could disturb them... Or so Lu Qing thought when suddenly...
"Kyah!!!" a surprise yelp echoed from the left to which it caught Lu Qing by surprise and pull back her lips.
Ben Li was also a bit surprised but he didn't have to turn his head to know who screamed as he had Soul Sense.
They both turned their heads to look, only to see Wu Fei, another servant working under Wang Xie, stood by the door side facing them nearby.
She was left speechless of what she just saw as no amount of words could describe the shock she just had.
It was just another ordinary day for her. Not much work left to do, she decided to go outside and get some fresh air until suddenly, she witnessed one romantic interaction between two people. And the two just happens to be her young master and her close friend.
But what had truly shock her was Lu Qing demeanor. It was way different than the shy and timid girl she kept teasing since.
The Lu Qing who Wu Fei saw right now no different than a bold girl necking the heck out of her young master, whom she was so afraid of.
Lips to lips, tongue lacing tongue, the obscene amount of saliva spilling, if what they did wasn't one deep French kiss, then she would have thought that her young master was at his antics again.
If someone were to tell her that the timid girl she knew for three years was so bold to had accompanied the young master into such romantic endeavors, she would probably had scoffed in disbelief. But now after seeing it herself, she was in complete disbelief.
A moment of silence began between the 3 and lasted shortly as Wu Fei recovered herself. She flustered with embarrassment casted all over her face and said.
"I'm sorry, was I disturbing you two? Please don't mind me." Wu Fei dashes inside the building after that and left the two in silence.
Ben Li was calm even after seeing the other's reaction. He shrugged in nonchalance and shifted his attention on Lu Qing. And was a little startled at what he was witnessing.
Lu Qing's face was red as an apple, hot as a steam bun and flustered in speechlessness.
Her body trembled quickly in agitation as her gaze fixed on the spot where Wu Fei had just left. Seeing her reaction, Ben Li was amused.
It seems that other than him, no one must know she had such had bold side lest she suffers from sheer embarrassment.
"Oh now, Lu Qing, why are you flustered?" Ben Li felt like teasing her.
Ben Li always felt that he didn't have the affinity with the bold Lu Qing. Now after seeing her so shy for the first time, he felt peculiarly elated to tease her.
Perhaps I liked this side of her. He thought.
Lu Qing got even more flustered hearing her young master teasing. She cranked her neck to look at him with her face so red and hot she might have melted right away.
"Y-y-y-y-young m-master... She, she, she saw us..." Lu Qing spoke with her mouth left open.
"So? It was your fault taking advantage of me." Ben Li said, pinning the blame on her.
Well technically, it is her fault. She was the one who kissed him first after all.
"Awwh..." Lu Qing held her head with both hands. Feeling lost at what to do.
Her young master was right. She was the one who started it. So, she only has herself to blame.
How could she had made such a careless act? To think when she was glad enough no one was around, her close friend suddenly teleported nearby and embarrassed her.
Did she tempt fate? How was she supposed to know that?
Now that Wu Fei had seen that side of hers, how will she interact with her from now on. Will she compel her to do bashful deeds from now on? What is she going to do?
Ben Li sighed at the sight of how troubled Lu Qing was right now. He didn't know what was there to be troubled of. Hell, for all he cares, he just wanted Lu Qing to reflect on her actions from now on.
After sighing, Ben Li lightly knocked Lu Qing's head with a chopping hand and asked. "Alright, knock it off, silly lass. What exactly did you want that you had to seduce me?"
Gaining her attention, Lu Qing looked at her young master with her lips twitching from nervousness. But after stuttering out the words she wanted to say, she finally said.
"Umm... Young master... I want to see my big brother and see how he's doing... Is that fine?"
"Your big brother?" Ben Li's eyes suddenly lit up as an idea came in mind about Lu Chong. He looked at the anxious Lu Qing and frowned. Then he said. "Do what you want, lass. No one's going to stop you in the sect as long as you say you're a friend of mine. As long as you don't create some trouble then it's fine to do whatever like."
"Thank you, young master." Lu Qing bowed in gratitude as she finally regained her calmness. Then she scratched her cheek awkwardly and asked with a bitter smile. "But, I don't know where he is. Do you know, young master?"
"Where is he? Hmm, he's probably in the infirmary." after saying such he still thought that Lu Qing will get trouble around if she aimlessly looks for the sect's infirmary. Then after some quick thinking, he decided that it was best to take her there.
"Alright, I'll take you there." he said to her. "You want to go now? Do you need to bring some things first?"
Li Qing shook her head. "No, young master. Let's go now."
...
In the Sect's Medical Hall of Healing, a young man woke up blinking his eyes tiredly.
He was lying on the bed facing the unfamiliar ceiling that was white and unblemished. Feeling the weakness overwhelming him as he tried to lift a finger. Yet, he could only make it twitch as he felt no strength from his body.
He felt like he was dying.
Without strength to move his body. Could barely breath without closing his mouth. And his mind was blank and filled up with confusion.
And it seems no one was around to tell him what had happened to him as he was currently alone in his room.
The young man was confused of himself. Very, very confused.
Who am I? He questioned.
And as if triggering his head, he suddenly got a headache that made him groan in pain.
Then all of a sudden, vague cloudlike images began to fill his mind like a storm that threatens to tear his brain apart. He could hardly tell what these images were as he bore the agonizing headache. It was as if the images were drilling into his head. Heedless whether he can take the pain or not. This lasted for a while until the head finally faded away.
After experiencing having his head drilled by a thousand images over and over, the young man finally knew his name.
His name was Lu Chong.
Lu Chong... And that's about it.
It seems that, other than his name, everything else was too vague or too distorted to remember. And the only thing he could recall was that he had a little sister. But even he can't remember her name.
It was only after waiting for a while that he finally could feel strength from his body. A sense of relief calmed his heart and he tried to move his body up.
He sat up on the bed and tilted his head down to look at himself. He could see that he was wearing very loose robes over his naked body. And the length of his hair was really long that reached down to his chest.
He moved his hand to rub strands of his hair. He looked to his left and saw the outside world through the window.
The sun was shining brilliantly in the sky and illuminated all things below it. He saw majestic mountains over the horizon. A vast forest on the left and a vast pool of water on the right. He saw many buildings on the lands and many people walking and flying in and out... Wait, flying...
Lu Chong rubbed his eyes and looked again. And sure enough, he wasn't imagining it.
People are really flying. Soaring the sky as they rode with rainbows and swords underneath their feet.
How is this possible? Humans can actually fly?
Lu Chong was instantly filled with disbelief. But after a second, he finally regained his calm as it seems he happened to remember something vague in his mind.
Immortals. That's what they are.
Only immortals can tread in the skies as if they were eagles and roar as if they were Dragons.
Immortals... Just the word alone had made Lu Chong pale in fright.