Young man come with us our lord wants to meet you.
Your lord, who is your lord?
Your future master.
My future master, I don't know anyone in this town and I have no relations with anyone from Chang'an so I'm not going anywhere, sirs?
You must come with us or else, you will have to take you there by all means.
Young man what is happening, why do these people keep coming after you?
Don't worry aunty Su, everything is okay.
I will come with you guys.
Aunty Su, please inform everyone that I'm leaving and that I'm thankful for their hospitality and care.
I will surely come visit again, okay?
Take care, young man.
I will and you too.
Where are you taking me to and why are you taking me there?
You shouldn't ask any question and we are not knapping you, we are just taking you to your destination to get what you deserve.
What I deserve?
Yes so shut up...
We have arrived.
Your lordship, this is the refugee you want.
You saved my daughter?
Your daughter?
Yes you saved our young mistress from the lake yesterday, right?
Oh you mean the girl I saved yesterday, is no trouble at all and is what I should do even if anyone else is in her place I would have done the same.
So please if you excuse me, I will take my leave your lordship.
How dare you lowly refugee, you want to go while our lord is talking?
I didn't mean any offence just that I don't want any rewards for my deeds.
How to you know I'm going to reward you, young man?
Well your lordship, I still remembered what the young mistress said but I don't need anything from you guys, I have come to Chang'an to settle down for a while though I have nothing but I'm still content with my life, I don't have any family or relatives who I should fend for, I just want to pursue freedom and explore the world.
Where are your family members?
They are long dead by now they remains must have been reduced to ashes.
So you really don't want to be rewarded for your good deeds?
Only officials, servants or high rank citizens are those that feel the urge to please others or seek rewards and by me accepting your rewards I will go against my upbringing and conscious, your lordship.
A lonely man who has nothing to fear, doesn't seek material wealth or fame, to me fame is just a burden, I will rather struggle to live with my poverty than serve his majesty and accepting rewards for my deeds makes me feel like that imbecile of an emperor
Do you think I wouldn't kill you, how dare you speak about his majesty in such disrespectful tone?
I'm sorry your lordship but I mean whatever I said, his majesty does not deserve to be the emperor, what sort a king sit in his throne while his subjects are suffering, what sort of a king will be enjoying a prosperous life while the nation is in calamity, I hate his majesty, is because of him that I'm all alone right now?
How dare you?
I'm sorry your lordship but you can execute me if you want however, I won't change my mind, the so called emperor you worship is nothing but an incompetent ruler.
I'm taking my leave.
Wait, since you don't wanna be rewarded I won't reward you but I will like to offer you a job here in the manor, you can reject if you don't want it, I won't pressurise you.
Thank you for the kind offer your lordship but I'm still sticking to my own ways.
Okay you can go but where can you if go, you don't even have a shelter over your head, do you want to go back to the Shao lin temple to burden them with your needs or do you enjoy getting beaten over food everyday, huh?
Just consider my offer, you can stay in the mansion have three meals a day and eat whatever you want, you don't have to adapt to anything new, I just want you to accept the offer.
But why your lordship, we don't own each other anything and I'm a useless man I can't do anything and the offer you gave is only beneficial to me, what's in for you?
You ingrate, his lordship is sympathetic towards you and you are still be ungrateful and stubborn.
Don't talk to him like that, I valued talents and you help my daughter, shouldn't I return the favour or should I do nothing as my daughter's saviour suffers?
Alright I will accept the offer but I won't change my mind regarding that emperor of yours.
Don't overthink this and leave everything behind, what's your name and what do you do for a living?
I'm Lu Qian Feng from LuoYang, in the past my family runs a small business, my father was a chef and my mother helps him with the trays?
So your family runs a restaurant?
Not exactly, is a food stall.
That's to say, you can cook?
That's right your lordship, I can make some dishes.
That's decided you will be our chef from today and all the preparation of food in the manor will be personally done by you, I will have some servants in the kitchen help you with the chores.
Okay your lordship, I'm honoured!
But your lordship, how can you trust a stranger like me to take care of your food, aren't you afraid I might poisoned you and your family?
I'm just afraid I might lost my appetite already before eating your cooking and you just answer your own question, will you?
Of course you won't because if you harbor some bad intentions we wouldn't have make me wary of you and your intentions are obvious, you are not a meticulous person.
Thanks for you trust your lordship, I won't let you down and in the future I will remember your kindness towards me, don't worry about losing appetite I'm a trained chef.
Ji escort him to his room.
Your lordship he won't live in the servant's yard?
No, how can he stay in the servant's yard, he saved my daughter's life so he must be treated differently, okay?
Noted your lordship.
I will inform everyone in the manor to take care of your lordship's guest.
After you young man.
Don't be so modest, call me Lu Qian Feng.
Okay Mr Lu, after you.
Your lordship should we really trust a complete stranger?
Who says we trust him, we will take advantage of his hatred for his majesty and make him slowly ours, when the time comes his majesty's defeat will be marked in history.
But your lordship, he is just a weakling, how will he destroy his majesty or how can a mere weakling like him assassinate his majesty?
Nobody says he will assassinate his majesty, don't you know hatred is the greatest and also the strongest weapon a man can obtain, when the right time comes we will send him to his majesty's side as our spy and he will give us all the information we need regarding his majesty's moves so we can contradict them.
What if he betrayed us, your lordship?
Can't you see how much he hates his majesty, just a little kindness from us then he will take our side.
What if his majesty never agrees to having him?
His majesty will surely comply to having him after all he feels guilty for what is happening at the frontier so to ease his guilt he will have him for sure, we just have to ensure his hatred for his majesty never disperse or else he will switch sides.
You are wise my lord, you always think of the bigger future.
How is Shao Yin doing?
The young mistress is doing find though she has been looking around for her maids but we have told them to tell her that your lordship has vanished them to leave the manor and go back to their villages.
Fine, don't ever let the young mistress find out that they have been executed.
Ok your lordship, are we still doing to meet that man, he said you should meet him at villa?
No, haven't we supplied enough, let them wait a bit moreover we have been going to meet him a lot recently, what if we attract unwanted attention.
Your lordship but if you don't supply the goods, wouldn't they think we aren't being cooperative with them and the mission, we are already allies or does your lordship has other thoughts in mind?
No the alliance must go on, there is no turning back now and the enemy of my enemy is basically my friend, fine let's meet them at the villa.
Noted your lordship, I will send the message to now, that the supplies are ready.
Go.
- Ling Xian-
That old hag, he thought he would turn me against his majesty but little did he know that I will for sure turned the tables on him and alter his fate then let's see how he dies.
I know he still doesn't trust me but at least his isn't wary of me.
Treason his a capital offense and a treachous act, since he wants to rebel, he can't be the only one, there must be someone supporting him or helping him out in the dark so I must find his Allie as well but how will I expose him if only uncle Li is in the capital he will help me for sure and ministry of justice, they will never agree to helping me against such powerful official even they will need some evidence before they can start an investigation but that will later arise suspensions, how do I get the royal robbery case reopen, how?
Is simple, first gather some evidences and then seek help from someone as powerful as him.
Is easier said than done because no one will want to get involved in the royal robbery case that happens decades ago or even fight against the Chen family, you don't know they are the most influential family in Chang'an so do you think any official in the court except Duke Chan will want to fight the Chen family?
That's it then seek his help surely he will help you expose him because he wants to ruin him more than you want to expose him.
But do you think he is crazy enough to trust a stranger and that too for something this serious?
With evidence yes because we don't have to give him or ally with him, we will just lead the way for him, that way we will be out of trouble and the court will handle this case.
Wow Lu Qian Feng I never ever thought you could be sensible and so accurate.
No something is fishy, is nearly lunch time and ghosts don't roam around during the day so it can't be him.
Who's there, show yourself?
What a cat, did he escape but who is he and why is he helping me in the dark?
Why did he escape if he wants to help me, is he also an enemy of marquis Chen or I'm I imagining things like Lu Qian Feng?
Oh kitty, why are you here and why is your family?
Who needs a family and I'm here because of your pathetic little wish so just get it over with.
Wow kitty you have got a temper, wait is the cat talking?
HEEEEIP!
What are you doing you crazy human, you just dropped me, why will the spirit king descend my soul to earth for this shit, doesn't he knows who I am, how dare a mere spirit lord order me around once I retrieved my body, I will take the outer heaven and destroy the celestial realms but first let me deal with this idiot.
AAAAHHH help me there is a monster.
Shhhh
I'm not a monster I'm here to fulfill your wishes.
My wishes?
Didn't you made a wish to the spirit world so the spirit king send me to fulfill your wishes?
A wish I made to the spirit what, I don't know anyone by that name?
Of course idiot you don't know because you have to die to reach here.
You are also a ghost like Lu Qian Feng?
I am not a ghost to be a ghost I have to die but my spirit was imprisoned in the spirit world by that woman but the spirit king promises to free my spirit from the lightening formation that he cast and also the immortal rob.
Immortal rob?
Is a kind of molten chains that are attached to the bones and if you try to remove them, it makes a person suffers excruciating pain that spread through the body like hot magma.
So ruthless, who has done that?
Is her Ling Xi.
Who is Ling Xi?
A person worthy of being my rival.
Which person will want to be a rival of a wild cat, I think you are fabricating some ridiculous stories but since he is here, I can use his help, is just pure luck that now I run into a talking cat or maybe I have the ability to understand animal's language, what a hallucinative cat and he is so bad tempered, I have never seen such cat that likes to fight humans.
What are you thinking of?
I'm thinking since you like to stay, you can stay, you are at least better than that idiot Lu Qian Feng, how can only come and go when the problems are solved.
You misunderstand, I'm here to fulfill your three wishes not to stay.
I have made countless wishes yet none ever came true and now you're telling me you are a what?
Your spirit guide.
My spirit guide, I thought you said you are a wish cat?
I'm your spirit guide from the spirit world, the gate of the spirit world only opens once in a millennium and this time it has open for you, a mere human, who are you girl?
I'm Ling Xian and I'm not a mere.
How did you know I was a woman?
Even with disguising spell, I can tell gender and people let a lone some human tricks. You, are the whole animal kingdom like you or maybe only the cat species?
I'm not an animal, my spirit needed a body and so I possessed this cat.
You could have possess a human if that's the case.
I hate humans because the celestials are protecting them and..
Stop I don't want your mythical stories, if you won't an animal you will probably be a good storyteller but please spare my ears and be my good cat okay?
Let me give you a name, how about Zhao Er?
No that's more like a girl's name.
Okay I will call you Yin.
Yin whatever.
Grumpy cat.
Mr. Lu, his lordship wants to have his meal.
Mr. Lu.
I will be there.
Just be a good kitty and stay put.
Don't call me that.
Mr. Kitty, meow kitty.
Stop it!
Whatever Mr. kitty.