Chapter 2

• Although Wu Xie was unable to see the man’s appearance in the darkness, she could clearly hear familiar sounds of the metallic clanging of chains.
• This man was chained? Beneath the depths of this desolate cliff?
• As soon as it heard the man’s voice, the little black cat immediately turned into a wisp of smoke and hurriedly fled into Wu Xie’s body. This man was dangerous!
• “You’re chained up?” Wu Xie totally disregarded his tone of voice as her mind only echoed a single thought, this man can help her. All she needed was ……his freedom of movement.
• “Ah? You mean these small things?” The man in the dark was pulling chains, a deep magnetic voice echoed in the dark caves, “I guess so.”
• “I’ll free you… but you’ll have to save me.” Wu Xie stuttered as she struggled to get the words out. She was trembling from all the cold and pain. Her body temperature was falling dangerously low and her battered body which was riddled with severe injuries wouldn’t hold up if she didn’t do anything soon.
• The man in the dark kept quiet, he seemed surprised that this half dead girl would say such words.
• ‘Silence means consent’ Wu Xie self-reasoned as she had no other alternatives so she decided to gamble on this chance.
• As she groped around in the darkness, she leaned on the man and pulled out a thin pin from her hair. She was a doctor, not a thief. That fool had once performed this trick for her, she wasn’t sure if she could pull it off.
• Wu Xie’s little hands tried to reach for the chains as she fumbled around in the dark. From a doctor’s perspective, she could ‘feel’ that this man’s physique was exceptional.
• Using her last shred energy, Wu Xie attempted to free the man with her poor skills. She had never felt so clumsy in her life.
• With all her toiling efforts, she finally unlocked one! This effort had left her breathing heavily as she struggled to keep her consciousness from fading.
• “As per your wish.” The man finally spoke with an enigmatic deep smile, his deep masculine voice echoed throughout the cave.
• Before she could even react, ‘click’… ‘click’… ‘click’, a series of broken metal sounded around her. He broke free from the other three shackles as she felt some warmth as he pulled her into his arms as he embraced her.
• He gently lifted her up and carried her as he trudged along towards the light.
• Outside, the rain continued to fall relentlessly.
• Although the weather was gloomy, it was daytime and just this little light was enough to show off his exquisite face. The man’s high cheekbones, perfectly accentuated his face along with his long satin hair casually draping down. As the crystal clear rainwater ran down his neck, it was God’s most outstanding work.
• The man was looking up at the sky, when felt a gaze from her, he bowed his head slightly, violet eyes slightly narrowed, his lips breaking into a smile.
• Wu Xie looked on indifferently into that pair of purple eyes, without any trace of expression. The rain was falling on her pale cheeks as she calmly watched him.
• He raised his eyebrow slightly. Her unusually calm demeanour was a refreshing reaction.
• This is the first time someone didn’t scream and panic when they saw his eyes.
• “Aren’t you afraid?” He asked in his deep husky voice.
• “I’m about to die” Wu Xie reminded him matter-of-factly. Her dark eyes, looked deeply into that pair of purple eyes, without any hint of desperation or fear, but rather with a clear gaze, as though the death she was talking about wasn’t her own.
• The mysterious man raised his eyebrows as he sought to calm his own emotions as the deep black obsidian eyes stared back at him coldly, almost as if it could freeze him over. How he wanted to rouse her calm demeanor and mess up her pace! This girl was unbelievable, how can she be so calm in such a situation?
• “Don’t worry, I won’t let you die” he said gently.
• “Send me home.” She retorted.
• Considering how badly injured she was, the best option and only use for him was to send her back to her own ‘home’.
• He gave a devilish smile, leaned down and kissed Wu Xie right between her eyebrows.
• “As you wish.” He chuckled.
• The little black cat hidden in the depths of Wu Xie was petrified, it’s mistress had just been taken advantage of!
• …..
• Jun Wu Xie felt her surroundings slowly fading away as she slipped into darkness. When she finally stirred, her long eyelashes fluttered open and she found herself lying down on a nice warm bed in a luxuriously decorated room.
• A white-haired old man was sitting by her bed and when he saw that she had awoken, his whole face lit up and exclaimed :”Silly girl, you finally woke up! Don’t scare your Grandfather!”
• “Silly girl, it’s just a contractual spirit. So what if you don’t have any? Who do you think I am? I am the almighty Lin Wang! I’ll support you no matter what. There’s nothing to be afraid of!” Jun Xian huffed.
• Grandfather?
• Wu Xie furrowed her brows as the body’s memories flashed through her mind. The old man sitting by her bed was none other than Kingdom of Qi’s Lin Wang which is also the former’s Grandfather – Jun Xian.
• What Jun Xian mentioned – “contractual spirit” was unique to this world.
• When a baby is born into this world, contractual spirits will form a bond with the human soul and the contractual spirits will sleep in the soul and only awaken at the age of fourteen. A ring will appear on the right hand’s ring finger, each spirit is like an evolution of the soul where each person’s contractual spirit’s form is different. Some can be condensed into a powerful weapon while some can morph into mighty beasts.
• A few days before was Jun Wu Xie’s fourteenth birthday and there should have been a spiritual awakening, but the whole day nothing happened…
• She was henceforth labelled as a waste.
• In this world where one’s future is determined by the strength of their contractual spirits, those that didn’t have any were regarded as wastes.
• Jun Wu Xie refused to believe it and had never received such a heavy setback in life. She actually went missing for 2 whole days! Jun Xian was shocked, thinking that this proud granddaughter of his couldn’t take this heavy setback and had actually attempted suicide.
• Jun Wu Xie remained silent.
• Commit suicide? I don’t think so.
• After inheriting all the memories of this body, Wu Xie was clearer than anyone else that it definitely wasn’t suicide. The reason she left Lin Palace was simply because three days ago the Second Prince had arranged to meet up with her.
• As the previous Jun Wu Xie was depressed that she did not have any contractual spirit, when her beloved Second Prince asked to meet up with her she had agreed in a heartbeat. She yearned to be consoled by her beloved prince.
• However, when she arrived at the appointed place, in place of her handsome prince stood a mysterious masked man in black instead.