Chapter 216 - Reliving It (1)

Lu Weisheng nervously paced back and forth, "What is it that could be taking them forever? That crazy demon-"

Suddenly, the door to the room his older brother and Xiong Jingfei was in opened. She walked out alone with a face that you can't tell if things went good or bad.

"Did you finish talking?" Lu Weisheng came hoping to her side. He couldn't wait any longer to ask the question, "H-how did it go?" 

In other words, am I free to do whatever I want again? 

Xiong Jingfei gave him a blank stare in return. 

"It went horrible, didn't it!?" Lu Weisheng's face paled as he stammered, "W-we have to leave this place immediately!"

"Weimin." 

Lu Weisheng stopped tugging on her arm and turned around, "Did you just say something just now?" 

"I said…" Xiong Jingfei pulled her arm out of grasp, "You're overthinking it. There's no need to worry about your brother." 

Lu Weisheng let out a sigh in relief and smiled, "You've done a great job. I promise you that I'll work even harder to look for that hairpin! If you want, I can ask someone to create the exact same as your drawing." 

"No, it's useless to have it if it's not the original one. How about you owe me a favor?" 

"What kind of favor?" 

"I don't have anything in mind yet, but should we get home before the person you call 'crazy demon' comes looking for you?" Xiong Jingfei suggested, heading out the door with a smile on her face. 

"A-ah, yes! I will take you back to cra- Zheyan's place." 

Xiong Jingfei silently laughed to herself inside the car as she stared at Lu Weisheng's reflection on the car window. You haven't changed one bit.

Lu Weisheng, the famous useless fourth prince, and the only one who shared the same mother as the Crown Prince, Lu Xuefeng. 

"Make sure to buy a lot of food before returning." Xiong Jingfei sleepily said as she closed her eyes for a quick nap. "It'll save you, Lu Weisheng..." 

***PAST*** 

"Ouch!" Xiong Jingfei yelped, the side of her head just hit into something very hard. "Ahhh… Lu Weisheng, can't you drive better-!"

When she turned her head to the side to scold Lu Weisheng, he wasn't there in the driver seat. Xiong Jingfei's heart thumped against her chest not because he wasn't there, but worst, she wasn't in a car. 

"Where am I?" 

Xiong Jingfei shook her head and pinched her legs. Wake up! I said to wake up! Why am I not waking up!?

It wasn't working as she was still stuck in a dream of the past. There was no way she'll ever mistake what kind of ride she was currently in, a carriage. 

It was then she realized that she wasn't alone in the rolling caged carriage. She didn't notice them at first because they were so quiet, and barely any lights were allowed inside. There were other girls of various ages, but she didn't recognize any of them. 

Xiong Jingfei quietly sighed and surrendered herself to the dream. She became lost in thought as she couldn't remember this part of her life. 

Was there a time she got kidnapped? Is this human trafficking? If she remembered correctly, human trafficking is a crime in Lou Zemin, so who dares take a risk to do such a thing? Especially...

There was a girl among all of them that stood out in comparison. Besides her extremely expensive silk dress that she had on, it was the white silk cloth covering her face. 

A noble's daughter? 

That girl in the pink dress couldn't be any regular noble's daughter. The kind of fabric used for that dress was something even Xiong Jingfei's family couldn't afford to purchase in the past. Plus, it wasn't like Xiong Jingfei was wearing a fancy dress like that noble daughter. She had on a plain dress that anyone would wear daily.

Xiong Jingfei didn't want to talk to anyone in the carriage, as she reminded herself this was nothing more than a dream. Yes, a dream only! 

Yet, pink girl looked like she would break with the slightest touch. 

"I'll be the grown-up..." Xiong Jingfei grumble. She didn't need to look around to tell there wasn't another twenty years old in the carriage. "You- Ahhh!" 

Pink girl swatted away her hand and screamed, "Don't touch me!" 

Xiong Jingfei didn't think that pink girl still had any fighting spirit left in her. That hand slap took her by surprise and enough that something fell out of her sleeves. 

"What's going on in there!?"

"Be quiet, or else I will kill you!"

A gruff man's like voice shouted from outside the carriage. He also thumped aggressively on the carriage to give them a scare. 

Xiong Jingfei rubbed her stinging hand and pink girl, who didn't look much older than fifteen, glared at her for getting them into trouble. She shrugged it off but didn't try to approach pink girl again. 

She picked up the item that flew out of her sleeves, "Why are you showing up here…" 

Xiong Jingfei tucked the butterfly hairpin back into her left sleeve before anyone else saw it. 

"When can I wake up?" Xiong Jingfei voluntarily bumped her head against the carriage's wall. "Should I try going back to sleep? But I can't fall asleep… Should I knock myself out? It shouldn't hurt when I wake up, I think."

"Have you gone crazy?" 

Xiong Jingfei slowly turned her head towards the person calling her crazy. She snarled her lips, "Is that how you talk to someone much older than you? In this lifetime, I am old enough to be your mother and have two more children hopping around!"

"You- You must have gone crazy." Pink girl had her eyes opened wide with confusion. "How can you even be my mother? You look to be about my age!"

"Didn't I tell you to be quiet!"

Pink girl and Xiong Jingfei immediately closed their mouths. 

"I-I... How old do I look?" Xiong Jingfei whispered under her breath and moved closer to the pink girl. "You don't look much older than fifteen." 

"Crazy girl, I just turned fourteen this year." Pink girl huffed and turned her back towards Xiong Jingfei. "It's bad enough to be stuck in this dirty carriage, but to be stuck with someone not in their right mind..." 

Xiong Jingfei thought about what pink girl told her. 

Then she must not look like someone in their twenty to these people from the past? No wonder pink girl would think she is crazy. If what was said by pink girl is the truth, she must be back in the past when she returned from the war and before the fall of her family. 

Still, what is it that's blocking her from remembering this part of her past? It should be times like this that she should know since she wasn't just seeing her past right now. 

She was reliving it!