[Hey!! You! Yes, you in the blue and white dress.] - Looking left and right, Abigail found out that no one other than her was wearing a blue and white dress so she turned toward the mysterious voice. The voice turn out to be a handsome young man, he has waist length black hair and pearl-like black eyes, the young man was riding on a crimson dragon horse, wearing expensive red and black garments, his expression could be described as arrogant to the extreme. One look and Abigail could tell this was an influential person.
As if for confirmation, Abigail pointed her finger at herself, asking with a surprised face, she was pretty sure she did not know anyone in this world other than Zhan Liang and the two female mercenaries. [Me ?] - The six, who Abigail presumed were bodyguards of the young man laughed loudly, not hiding the lust in their eyes in the slightest. [Yeah you! Come here, our young master has something to talk to you about.]
Seeing this, murmurs broke out from all around, some people shook their heads, looking sympathetically at Abigail while others just smirked, enjoying someone else's misfortune. It didn't take Abigail long to figured out what's wrong from others reaction, this must be the oh-so-infamous 'young master' type of villains in most xiantian and xuanhuan novels on Earth. Then suddenly, Abibail eyes brightened as a thought struck her.
Taking advantage of when nobody was looking, Abigail quickly changed her expression from amusement to an naive, innocent one tinted with a bit of nervousness. Her normally cheerful demeanor instantly transformed into a shy one, her hands and feet were shaking as she approached the group of people, she was as if a frightened little rabbit that could be scared away by the smallest sound.
This made the group even more excited as the lust in their eyes grew several times. Impatient, one of the guard suddenly screamed at everyone to disperse, then he walked up and grabbed Abigail hand, dragging her toward the group. [Wha..What are doing ?] - Abigail faked a nervous voice as she 'tried' to take her hand back, this soon resulted in the guard squeezed her hand even more. [Ah...It hurt! Let me go!!]
Annoyed, the guard slapped Abigail hard, not hard enough to damage her face of course, but enough to make a normal girl cry out in pain and because Abigail was playing damsel in distress so she did just that. Sniffled softly, Abigail look as if she was trying to repress her tears but the truth was she's actually trying not to laugh out loud. The only thought that was in her mind was how stupid these people were compared to that Zhan Liang.
If you actually take time to think about it, you would find this set up extremely suspicious. Could it be that a not just young but also beautiful girl, wearing although plain but expensive clothes like these are without guard sent by her family ? Would her parents even allow her to leave their family ground if that's truly the case ? Of course there's a chance that she ran away from home but for someone who wear clothes like that, could her identity be simple ? Would her family really let her slip away like that ?
It was unfortunate that these were just your typical impulsive, all-brawn-no-brains type of villains that alway let their sperm rush to their heads without thinking of the consequences. In the midst of all these, a familiar face emerged from the crowds, it was Zhan Liang. After Abigail left, it took Zhan Liang almost five minutes to regain his composure, then he rushed out chasing after Abigail while screaming for the mercenaries to come to his estate and take their money later.
When she kissed him on his cheek, although Zhan Liang tried to deny it but deep down, he knew he was already smitten by her. He, one of the ten legendary young masters of the capital city, Zhan Liang who was once believed to be impotent by the whole city was now in love ! With Abigail speed, there was no way he could catch up to her, but not being a noble or any influential person child, Abigail was forced to wait in line just to go into the city.
In truth she could just use her teleportation spell and didn't need to wait at all, but she wanted to experience the feeling of being normal, the feeling of having to wait for something instead of cheat her way for it using her power, then suddenly out of nowhere, that young master and his dumbass guards came out and ruined everything ! She was about to lead them somewhere and quietly dispose of them, but who would've thought Zhan Liang would come back so quickly ?
Seeing Abigail being dragged around by the guard of one of his rival, Chen De, Zhan Liang was extremely pissed. His eyes went entirely red as killing intent gushed out from him like a broken dam, he instantly grabbed the guard who was dragging Abigail around by his throat and with a crack, Zhan Liang completely crushed the thug windpipe in rage. He then pried the hand that was holding onto Abigail off and threw the corpse twelve meters away, crashing into a goods carriage of some unimportant-to-the-plot merchant.
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Watching his guard being killed, the young man, Chen De's face darkened. To him, that guard wasn't important at all but it would lower his family prestige if he were to let someone who had just killed his guard get away. Normally, he would immediately order his guards to kill the person that offended him, but this time things were different. Because of Zhan Liang identity, he didn't dare to kill him but he also couldn't let him leave like that no matter what so he roared loudly, trying to keep whatever amount of faces he has left. [Zhan Liang!! What's the meaning of this!!? Do you want to fight with our Chen family ?]
Zhan Liang, who was now standing calmly with one arm wrapped around Abigail took out a handkerchief from his chest pocket and wiped away the blood that covered his hand. This calm demeanor of his almost made others think the monster with killing intent gushing out from every fibers of his body from before was just an illusion, but then they looked at the ruined carriage and the corpse on it with his throat completely crushed and stimultaneously cringe at the sight.
As for Abigail, the cause of all this, she was staying in Zhan Liang embrace with a amused smile plastered on her face. She even almost laughed out loud, but remembered her act, she quickly stopped herself, her muffled laughter was soon mistook as crying by Zhan Liang though and this made him even angrier. He felt as if he would rush out and smash Chen De head himself, he even forgot about how Abigail was the one who saved him just a few dozen of minutes ago. [I was going back home when suddenly, i found some dogs who thought they're the greatest! So great that they even dared to kidnap others in the middle of the day! The funniest thing is that the alpha dog even has the nerve to ask me what am i doing.]
Finished, he picked Abigail up and caried her into the city himself, leaving behind Chen De with pig-liver-colored face and veins popping out from with his head. He wanted to refute but he couldn't because what Zhan Liang said was right ! He wanted to screw caution and rush at Zhan Liang but his family couldn't afford to fight against 'Yin Yang Sea' sect at the moment and he also wasn't Zhan Liang opponent with his eighth stage 'Core Formation' cultivation.
Unlike the other in his sect, as the sole heir, Zhan Liang cultivated a different kind of Qi technique because his elders didn't want him to immerse in sexual activities all day like some of the students in the sect, and though slow, this Qi technique was extremely potent ! It can give many benefits for the pratictioner after he had broken through the third big stage of cultivation, 'Core Formation'. Due to his nature and how he was raised, Zhan Liang only knew how to cultivate, he had never fallen in love with anyone despite meeting many beautiful girls from different families and sects until today.
Looking at the man who was carying her, Abigail said teasingly. [Can you let me down, sir Zhan ? Or do you want to do the same thing that guy was about to do with me ?] - Zhan Liang looked at her for a moment and their eyes met, Abigail swore she saw only love and concern in his eyes but she didn't point this out and struggled to get down from his hands. Suddenly, a thought struck Zhan Liang as he once again directed his deep black eyes at Abigail.
[Why did you let him do that to you ?] - He finally asked the question that has haunted his mind for the last few minutes and what he recieved was a pout from Abigail. [I just got here and don't want to cause any problem. That's why i wanted to quietly 'teach' them a lesson somewhere without people, but then someone decided they should interfere and ruined my little plan.] - Hearing the obvious sarcasm in her voice, Zhan Liang could only smiled wryly as he thought the girl in his hands was really a she-devil.
Night was near and most inhabitants of the city have returned to their homes, the street was basically empty with not a signs of life when Abigail continued with a chuckle. [...But thank for helping me anyway, i appreciate it.] - Zhan Liang eyes widened at her words and he felt the weight in his hand disappeared. Looking down, he found nothing other than a wisp of disappearing white smoke. He tried to grab it but his hands just passed through, at that moment he really thought he would never see her again when the smoke suddenly condensed into a note.
We'll meet again soon
- Abigail Reinhardt -
Shaking his head at the note left behind by that air-head girl he met today, Zhan Liang walked back to his sect slowly, taking his time to enjoy the beautiful sunset. The smile never left his face that entire night even when he was asleep. Backup a few hours later before Zhan Liang reached his sect, outside of the Merchant Guild stood your one and only, Abigail 'The Devil'. Her mouth curled up into a innocent smile that seemed to stole the souls of every man in the vicinity as she said to no one in particular. [Let's buy a house, shall we ?]