The Beast Attached to Lily Fragrance

by Yuan Yuan

  "Oh! If I’m not being suspicious, I'm afraid I've been sold one day and still yet to know the truth!" Hua Xi'er curled her lips, sat down on the chair, and poured herself a cup of tea.

  Knowing that pretending will be useless and stupid, so Shui Wa’er has to be honest about the reason.

  "If I continue to stay in the valley, I'm afraid I will be caught."

  "Haha! So not only me provoke people. But you too? Well, well… So, you are not any better than me.” Hua Xi’er laughed without sympathy. “Wa’er, why? Why are you afraid of being attacked?"

  Shui Wa’er stared immediately. "I'm not afraid of others, but that person..." She pursed her lips and had to admit it.

  "I'm afraid."

  Hua Xi'er stopped laughing and saw that the situation seemed to be really serious, her expression changed to serious. "Who is that person?"

  Shui Wa'er glanced at her, took a deep breath, and reluctantly told the story of sneaking into the "Blood House" five years ago when she was twelve years old.

  "That time, I was lucky that my brother rescued me but he was also spotted. Blood House issued a wanted message – looking for me and kept tracing the place of stealing Shengu* . So, I did not dare to go out of the valley. I was very careful every time I go out of the valley. I almost got caught several times. I was scared to death, and I didn’t dare to go out of the valley."

  After hearing this, Hua Xi'er couldn’t believe it and exclaimed, “My God! You even got into that cold inexcusable, the current Blood House owner?"

  Blood House is a well-known killer group of Jianghu. Leng Wu’she was a well-known cold-blooded killer of Jianghu before he succeeded the landlord.

  It is rumored that as long as he takes over the task, he has never failed, and the silent effort makes people die before he can detect his trace.

  Like a ghost figure, no one has ever seen his true face, and the mysterious identity is even more frightening.

  "White hair, white eyebrows, brown eyes, and skin as white as snow... Is he a ghost? Is there anyone in the world who looks like this?”

  "If it's a ghost, I'm not afraid," Shui Wa’er said angrily, "But he’s not and I don't know where I offended him, that he keeps chasing after me."

  Thinking of the weird boy that year, immediately she felt uneasy. She still remembered those gloomy brown eyes, cold, indifferent, and could not see any emotion at all.

  Hua Xi'er looks down and ponders for a while, then looked up at Wa'er again.

  Shui Wa’er, as her name implies, petite and exquisite. Even her face and facial features are small. Only those bright big eyes account for almost half of her small face, and the crescent-shaped bangs make her look more lovely and beautiful. Cute, like a pure lily.

  "Wa'er, you know, a man will chase a woman so persistently, usually for only one reason..." Hua Xi'er looked at her sympathetically. "Besides, you’ve already seen people’s naked body. Who knows, it was their first time being seen this way by a big girl! Hehe. No wonder that they have been non-stop chasing you. I’m afraid you’re responsible for that.”

  In the end, Hua Xi'er was almost is gloried.

  Shui Wa'er got shivered and stared at Hua Xi'er angrily. "Come on! Don’t be so horrible. I was only twelve years old. How can I know anything!? And he was more beautiful than any girl I’ve had seen, and I just didn’t see him as a woman..."

  Honestly, when she saw him naked at that time, her gaze kept on that evil beauty's face and she dared not look anywhere she shouldn't be.

  Recalling the scene five years ago, Shui Wa'er felt that the ears were a little hot. Then looking at Hua Xi'er, blushed and stared back angrily. "Furthermore, I don't think he will look after me. That guy doesn't look like someone who loves people at all." She tooted her little mouth and snorted.

  "Why do you say so?" Hua Xi'er raised an eyebrow.

  "He... is weird." Shui Wa'er frowned, thinking desperately. "He is very beautiful, and to this day, I haven't seen anyone who looks more beautiful than him. He was kept in a cage. It looked like a beautiful beast, but it's a very beautiful ... "

  She paused, thinking about how to describe the boy in the impression. "Evil ... It feels like a demon or a monster. His face was not only cold, but also strange and weird. It’s like no emotion..."

  How can a person without emotion know how to love someone?

  "Anyway, I don’t think he chased me because he fell in love with me." If so, it will be scary. It is too scary to fall in love with a man like a ghost!

  The more I thought about it, Shui Wa’er couldn't help feeling the fluffy in her heart.

  "Oh really?" Hua Xi'er looked at Shui Wa'er disapprovingly.

  "Not matter anyway. Xi’er, please let me stay here for a while." Shui Wa’er said with a small tooted mouth. "Even if you don’t allow me to. I will still stay here."

  "You want to stay here with me?" Hua Xi’er was just a civilian. She couldn't fight that terrible bloody landlord.

  "It should be okay for me to hide for a few days anyway. I have to find another secret place. In short, I can't go back stealing Shengu until my elder brother marries that beautiful woman."

  If her elder brother is here, at least there’s someone can protect her. But now her brother not around, she worried about her own safety.

  Well, she can only pray that she can live through these few days in peace.

  - - - -

  How good! It is right to hide in Huanxi City.

  Shui Wa’er was sitting on the railing, her legs were shaking, her little hands were holding hot pancakes and nibbling. Her ordinary eyes were beautiful and big.

  These days she stayed here in Huanxi. Happily eating, enjoying her life happily every day. She feels so happy.

  At first, she was still trembling. She went around with different faces every day. Until nothing happened, she settled down and took a strong ordinary face and pasted it on her face. She could easily look like an ordinary little lady.

  At this moment, she was sitting on the railing of Longteng Restaurant, interestingly watched the annual July Lantern Festival in Huanxi City.

  People say that the ghost gate opens in month of July, and Huanxi City has the custom of holding a lantern festival every July. They want to drive away those lonely ghosts with bright lights.

  The lantern festival is held for seven consecutive days. These seven days are the liveliest days in Huanxi City. Lanterns of various shapes are hung in rows on the street to brighten the entire city. The hawkers’ shouting and the crowds’ roaring, and giggling intertwined into a bustling picture.

  A pair of big eyes looked at the street view. The small mouth still did not forget to savor the delicious pancakes. The eyes were full of satisfaction.

  "Oh my God, I'm so happy!" Hua Xi'er sat on the chair, looked at the busy street with Shui Wa'er, sipped her tea gracefully and glanced at her lightly.

  "Indeed very happy!" Shui Wa'er nodded and ate the pancakes in three or two, eyes staring at the hot sweet scented Osmanthus cakes just out of the street.

  "I want to eat Osmanthus cake." She licked her lips and drooled.

  "Wait, I'll get it right away." Xi Que, who was on the side, heard it and immediately ran downstairs.

  "Thank you." Shui Wa’er smiled happily. "Xi'er, your family's Xi Que is so sweet."

  "Yeah. Only there are those thick-skinned people who live and eat for nothing and they don’t realize it at all.” Hua Xi’er said coldly.

  "Omg! This tea is so delicious. It’s fragrant and sweet! It’s great!" Shui Wa’er stretched out her hand and poured herself a cup of tea, as if she didn't hear it.

  Hua Xi'er stared at Shui Wa'er. "Shui Wa'er, is it true that you’re targeted?" Seeing her leisure appearance these days. Nothing happened, which made her doubtful whether Wa’er is cheating.

  Shui Wa'er sighed. Holding a tea bowl, blinking with her big eyes and looked at Hua Xi'er innocently. "Xi'er, do I look like a liar?"

  "Very much." Hua Xi'er didn’t hesitate and answered sh
arply.

  Shui Wa’er immediately pursed her mouth. When she was about to speak, she heard a scream from the street. She was stunned and immediately looked to the place where the voice came out.

  "What happened ..." Before she could finish her sentence, she saw a wounded man with bloody staggering across the roof.

  But in a moment, several men in black immediately surrounded him.

  "Revenge in Jianghu?" Hua Xi'er frowned at the men in black, notice that the fabric on their right arm is embroidered with a bloody ghost fire.

  The mark... Cannot be..….

  She immediately looked at Shui Wa'er, who was already looking pale and speechless.

  Because a ghostly figure suddenly appears in the middle of the men in black. He is white, covering the upper half of his face with a ghost-tusk mask, revealing only his graceful lips, and his white hair floats with the wind.

  As soon as he appeared, there was a moment of silence around him. The atmosphere fell into freezing point. No one dared to speak. The wounded man looked at him with a pale face and frightened look.

  "L_ landlord ..."

  "Betraying the Blood Tower is not a light crime." The man opens his mouth, the voice is light, without any emotion but it makes people cold to the bottom of their bones.

  The big man shivered constantly. His sword hand was dripping blood. His heart was sweating because of fear. His palms sweat, and cold sweat could not stop coming out.

  "Tell me, what kind of death do you want?" The man draws up the good-looking lips, the extremely pale brown eyes do not take a single silk of sentiment. The atmosphere was more tense after his words, as if they were on the verge of fire.

  Clang──

  Suddenly, the sound of broken glass broke the solemn atmosphere.

  "Leng Wu’she, I will fight with you!" The big man seemed to be scared, and he couldn't care less about killing the man with his sword.

  When he moved, the men in black immediately surrounded him and both sides were pinching and start killing; While the man in white didn’t move at all, his pale brown eye look across the pavilion, suddenly saw a pair of stunned bright eyes. The brown eyes behind the mask gestured.

  It’s not surprising at all that she’s just an ordinary little lady, but those eyes are very familiar. He had seen as like as two peas, the same big eyes, just like five years ago….. The looks are different, but the eyes are the same....

  "Wa'er." He soft voice, light voice, not very light or heavy but very clear to the ears of Shui Wa’er.

  She was horrified. Seeing a flicker of fire in his brown eyes. She could not help but take a deep breath and turned and ran without hesitation.

  Chapter 3

  Oh My God! She really sees ghost.

  ​

  The figure of Shui Wa’er flew fast. She dares not even stop. She uses her lightness skill to escape with all her strength.

  Uh…. She was really too suffocated. When she saw him, she was too scared, and didn't dare to move. But unexpectedly, the cup falls which attracted his attention.

  Shit! Very good Wa’er! He found me.

  With that guy's indescribable obsession to her, now she got to run hard!

  She did not forget that five years ago, he had unconsciously approached her by an inch when she did not realize it. In addition to the rumors heard in Jainghu these years. His skills must be more terrifying than five years ago, and she doubted whether she could really escape.

  Well, if you cannot escape, you still have to! The Stealing Gods have always been known for their lightness skill. She must not be ashamed!

  Shui Wa'er gasped in her breath. She fled for a few miles away from Huanxi City. She did not stop until she felt like no one had chased her.

  With her hand against the tree and another one on her waist, she swallowed hard, breathing shortly. "Should.… should be far en...."

  She looked behind her ── nobody. "Great, finally I got rid of ….."

  "Wa’er."

  "Ah!" She screamed in horror, turned around and saw a white figure slowly floating in front of her. The brown eyes were focused at her through the fangs mask.

  She was stunned. When did this guy come to her? And she didn't even realize... "Y_you….." Staring at him, she was so speechless with fear.

  Leng Wu’she looked intently at those bright eyes and his thin lips curled up. "I've found you, baby." That pair of vivid apricot eyes made him sure, it was her!

  "W_ what do you want?" From the shock, Shui Wa’er braved and looked up at him uncontrollably. "Leng Wu’she, you have been sending people to chase me since five years ago. What do you want?"

  She also has a temper. Since she was caught, she will just let out all out!

  She didn't do anything to him. She broke into the Blood House. At most, once, and accidentally saw his **…. But it wasn't her intention at all. It was because of him! He did not wear any clothes!

  "This— is yours." His tone was still light. He reached out to her hand, opened his palm.

  Shui Wa’er froze, looking at the emerald jade pendant on his hand, the round bead jade pendant, and the lily pattern carved in emerald color. Under the moonlight, there is a faint green light.

  This is the jade pendant she has been wearing since she was a child. She never left her body until it was torn down by him five years ago.

  She did not expect that he would actually keep the jade pendant with him, and the first thing he said to her was to return it.

  She looked at the jade pendant and then at Leng Wu’she. Her face full of doubts. "Y_ you... chased me for five years just to return this back to me?"

  This is cannot be. Impossible –– No?

  "You, don't want?" The brown eyes flickered incomprehensibly, but the voice still indifferent, cannot hear any emotion.

  "Er ...." Shui Wa’er scratched her head and looked at him. "You have to return it. Of course I want but..... when I take this, you won't follow me like a ghost anymore, will you?"

  Please! Please! Say no! She does not want to spend another five years with him.

  "No," Leng Wu’she replied.

  Shui Wa’er let out a sigh of relief. Just as when she was about to reach for the jade pendant, Leng Wu’she began spit out a word again. "I will not chase, but I will not let you have the chance to leave."

  "What?" Shui Wa’er’s hands were paused and froze in the air.

  "Your face .... not the same anymore." He ignored her, his brown eyes stared at the ordinary face, and reached out his hand and touch directly.

  "Hey! What are you doing …."

  Shui Wa’er flashed intuitively, but his movement was faster than her. The human skin on her face was immediately torn apart, a small white and flawless face instantly reflected into the brown eyes.

  The bright apricot eyes did not change, but the ordinary face disappeared, replaced by a flawless beauty with small and delicate features, like an enamel doll.

  "Never change." She looks the same as she did five years ago.

  Staring at the mask, Shui Wa’er was speechless. She really felt that she had encountered a lunatic and his every move was unpredictable.

  No way! She needs to run away …..

  But he had seen through her mind.

  "You can't escape." He won't let her escape from him again. "This time, no one will save you."

  The mistake five years ago, he will not let it happen again.

  Knowing that he was right, Shui Wa’er bit her lip and stared at him angrily. "What do you want from me?"

  "I don't know." Leng Wu’she replied simply and concisely.

  "What?" Shui Wa’er puzzled and frowned. "I don't know why you arrested me. Is there any reason?"

  "Reason?" He repeated her words, brown eyes looked at her. "I don't know." He never thought about the reason, only knew that he wanted her.

  "Leng Wu’she, are you kidding me?" How can this guy be so ridiculous and talk in a strange way? It’s completely confusing?

  "I don't play tricks." He sl
owly reached out and touched her face. The soft touch of his palm made him lift his lips. His cold brown eyes showed a touch of attachment.

  "Wa'er."

  The voice was soft, but with a trace of tenderness. It seems to call the treasure in the heart.

  Shui Wa’er felt her chest throbbing. Forgot to dodge his hand, let him touch. Apricot eyes could not leave those deep brown eyes.