Chapter 127 - 125. Drunk Talk II

Third person POV

Meiyun closed her eyes and rubbed her cheek on his warm hand, she loves the warmness of his hands despite the roughness of the calluses that he gained from holding sword. She wanted to enjoy this moment as much as she could while she's still alive. Di Shang's heart was beating so fast, his mind was wandering around hoping that he still has a chance to make Meiyun his.

Meiyun: " Thank you for treating me like a woman, it is a first time for me. Thank you for being so kind and tender to someone unlady-like woman like me. I'm sorry that you have to look and touch my ugly and full of scars face, it must be hard for you. I will quickly go away from your sight but please let me feel this tenderness that I won't ever feel again."

Tears kept streaming down from her eyes to his hand. He clenched his hand and pulled her to his embrace. He hugged her tightly like he didn't want to let her go. His hand was caressing her soft and straight hair, he buried his face onto her neck crook, inhaling her gentle scent.

Di Shang: " I won't let you go, you are not going anywhere. Stay here with me, I will give all my love for you so please don't loathe yourself like that."

Meiyun hugged back tightly.

Meiyun: " But I'm not as strong as you see."

Di Shang: " Then I will protect you."

Meiyun: " I'm not lady-like at all."

Di Shang: " That part of you is cute."

Meiyun: " I'm not as beautiful as my sister or my Young Miss."

Di Shang: " To me, you are the most beautiful woman that I ever met."

Meiyun: " I will complain a lot when I'm angry."

Di Shang: " I will listen to everything."

Meiyun: " Please…. Don't make me fall for you."

Di Shang: " Why?"

Meiyun was silent for a while before she parted her lips.

Meiyun: " Falling in love isn't as fun as I heard it was supposed to be. It hurts, it hurts so much that even if I punched my chest, the pain won't go away. I thought that we will at least be friends but he won't even spare me a glance. Even after I protected his life, he still didn't trust me. He thought that I was a threat, he never apologize to me even after knowing the truth, rather than that, he said that he didn't like a tomboy woman like me. Did he have to be that cruel to me?! Did he even know why I am like this?!"

Meiyun's breath hitched as she cried her heart out.

Meiyun: " I just wanted to protect what is important to me. I acted tough and careless, always be happy go lucky but did he know that the nightmare of me getting tortured and assaulted in that dark room haunted me each night? I just wanted to be loved, is it too egoistic for me to ask him to love me back?"

Di Shang's knuckles turned white from gripping too hard.

Di Shang: " You have done more than enough, now it is time for you to rest."

Meiyun: " Can I? What if the enemy attacks us when I sleep?"

Di Shang: " It is okay, I will protect all of us."

Meiyun: " En… Thank you…. Thank you…."

Meiyun's eyelid slowly closes as she fell into a deep sleep for the first time in the last 16 years. Di Shang didn't stop caressing her hair, he glanced at Naran who was wiping her own tears.

Naran: " Take a good care of her. Even though I don't know what happened to her but I know that she had suffered so much in the past and now. Poor girl."

Di Shang: " En. Mother, lend me a carriage."

Naran: " Just go and take one."

Di Shang: " En, then I excuse myself."

Di Shang stood up with Meiyun in his arms, he tried hard to not wake her from her sleep as he went back to his own residence.

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A little girl sitting alone in a cold dark room with chains around her legs and wrists, her bony body was covered in cuts and bruises. The coldness of the cement floor pierced through her bones, she hugged her own legs and buried her face in her knees. She wanted to run away from this horrible place but she was afraid, afraid that someone that she loves would sit here to replace her. If it was going to be like that, it would be better if she just stayed here forever.

Then a light slowly shone from behind her, she turned her head around and saw a window that wasn't there before. A clinking sound caught her attention, she glanced at the chains that bound her was now laying on the floor. She weakly crawled towards the window and peeked outside, a line of mountains and river were displayed in front of her eyes. The sunlight warmed her face and her heart...

Meiyun slowly opened her eyes and noticed that she was hugging a super sized warm bottle while laying on a large bed. And to add it, her warm bottle smells so good, she rubbed her cheeks on the warm bottle but she felt that the surface of a warm bottle wasn't supposed to be like this. Her heart was telling her that this wasn't a normal warm bottle, she touched around the warm bottle and now her brain told her that it really wasn't a warm bottle.

Di Shang: " Satisfied?"

Meiyun flinched when she heard a deep voice from above of her head.

Meiyun: ' Don' tell me…. Don't tell me….'

Meiyun slowly raised her head to look at her warm bottle and saw that Di Shang was smiling from ear to ear while looking down at her. Her face instantly flushed red and wanted to back away but a big strong arm was wrapping around her waist pressing her body to his body. She bent her back backwards and lightly pushes away using her hands so her chest wouldn't touch him, she didn't want him to notice her heart was beating so hard and fast.

Di Shang stared at her and chuckled seeing how she wanted to get away but her eyes kept glancing at his abs. Hearing his chuckle, Meiyun smacked his hand that was holding her still.

Meiyun: " Pl-please let me go."

Di Shang: " No."

Meiyun: " Uughhh…"

Meiyun pouted and lightly smacked his chest. Di Shang laughed out loud by how she tried to hide her embarrassment, he placed his hand behind her back and pulled her to his chest.

Di Shang: " Don't bend like that, you will hurt your waist."

Despite of how he kept teasing her, she couldn't bring herself to hate him.

Meiyun: " Ge-general Di, it is time for me to go back."

Di Shang: " En, but let me enjoy this for a few minutes."

Meiyun: " E-en."

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Meiyun was wearing Dong Fang's clothes as her previous clothes were torn apart from the fight. Di Shang had gave her a mask and a horse earlier so now she was at the main gate of Dong Fang and was ready to depart. She mounted her horse after she made sure she had brought everything that was necessary for the journey. Then suddenly a man on a horse stopped beside her, she glanced at the man and surprised to see Di Shang here, on top of that he was wearing commoner's clothes.

Meiyun: " Ge-general Di, what are you doing here?"

Di Shang: " Follow you."

Meiyun: " EH?!"

Di Shang: " What?"

Meiyun: " Wh-why?"

Di Shang: " To protect you."

Meiyun: " I-I am strong enough to protect myself."

Di Shang: " Reason denied."

Meiyun: " Eeehhhh~"

Di Shang: " No matter what you say, I will still follow you."

Di Shang pulled his rein and clopped in a slow pace. Meiyun smiled widely and pulled her rein to catch up. It felt good to have someone to rely upon, thought her.