Wu Yifan stirred the cup ramen that he had just brewed. He sat in a chair while blowing his hot noodles. While arranging some stacks of journals and articles to read later, he placed the cup on the table. His hand grabbed the remote, turning up the the volume of TV.

"A sinkhole 5 km diameters was formed in an H city in China. Because of this, number of buildings in the area were destroyed, several cars damaged, and hundreds of people injured by the ruins. According to some witnesses, this sinkhole occurred suddenly as a man in ancient costume fell from the sky. Although some people call it a coincidence, a number of scientists are trying to investigate this extraordinary natural event. "

The fork he had just lifted to roll the noodles fell instantly. Wu Yifan gaped at the photo displayed. The picture was quite blurry, but he could somehow predicted how his appearance would look like.

He put the cup back, exclaiming hysterically.

"I have to meet him! I have to meet him!"

-000-

Inside the cell, Li Zhihua was locked in a cell with a white interior around him. His hand was chained, but he had no intention of to released his own hand. It was not about the height that makes every part throughout his body weird. But he was not adjusted with the atmosphere of mortal realm.  The air is bad, so many sinister energy floated. And what worse; how thin the Qi surrounds him. Li Zhihua was so adjusted to Celestial Realm where Qi was abundance and how pure the air was; leaving every living creature who lived there felt so blessed.

Still, there was nothing he could do, now that he decided to descend here.

Li Zhihua groaned in pain as shift his position. Landing on a butt was not his choice, but that happened, anyway. He hated to admit that after all this time, his weakness had always been the moment when he landed on a lower realm. If there was no Zhou, who had always been his ride when he descended to any realm, he would have been the laughing stock of the people in Immortal Realm.

While sitting sitting solemnly on a white mattress, he looked around. Vaguely, he heard the chatter of the guards.

"White room is in use, huh?"

"Yes. Because of this guy too, tonight I will automatically be on guard. "

"It's strange, tho. Thi room is not usually  occupied unless for specific prisoner. The last time this room was used when a serial killer was  arrested. What he had done, now?"

"I'm not sure actually, but I heard some witnesses said he fell from the sky and made a 5-km sinkhole. He also talks weird, like someone from historical film."

"What? That’s weird. How could a human do such a thing? Is he an alien or something.”

"Beats me. Still, he wasn't that bad. He didn't fight back when we took him. It's a shame if he was arrested for a disaster that was not his doing. Moreover, he is also handsome, you know! "

"Handsome?"

"I almost thought that I was  looking a god when I saw him ! Even a number of my friends who originally drove him from the crime scene could not stand over his aura. "

"Are you serious?"

Li Zhihua frowned. They must be talking about me. But if he makes the mortal weak, it's not his fault, right?

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While sighing in desperation, finally he pulled himself together. The god sat in lotus position, closing his eyes. He shutted down his Divine Sense. In meditative position, his five senses felt sharper. The footsteps of the police, the cell key which made a clanking noise, the gossiping women, sound of vehicles machine, car horns, women's moans, crickets sounding in the park, the wind blowing slowly; various sounds which entirely caught by the god.

"Officer! Officer! "

A panicked voice accompanied by hasty steps suddenly caught his attention.

"Can I help you?"

"Isn't this the cell used to lock up the weird cosplayer?"

"Cosplayer? Hold up, you mean the guy with the weird look who made the sinkhole? The tangpao[1]?"

"Yeah. I am here to bail him out."

"His family?" The intonation turned cold. "Do you know who his name is?"

"O-oh... it’s W-Wu Shen!"

"But he claimed to be named Li Zhihua."

"That's his alias. You saw that he is wearing a costume, right? "

Listening to the conversation, Li Zhihua frowned. Who is that mortal?

"Yes, he is wearing a costume. So what?"

"It maybe a bit strange...” there was an uncomfortable intonation spiced, “but I have to say that he has been suffering a mild hallucition current years. When he is hallucinating, he always playing role as man from Han dynasty and introduce himself as Li Zhihua! ”

"Hold...up... you mean ... he has a mental disorder? "

Mental disorders?

Whatever that is, someone like me would never suffer a mental problem!

"Right! He hasn't been  seeing his therapist apparently, considering that hallucinations happens just occasionally, so ... I don't have a prescription as a prove."

The Sage opened his eyes. Why does this man insist on lying for his sake? He began to worry.

"Okay, please fill in your name here ... and this is the payment for the fee."

His breath gasped. "This much?"

"Isn't he your brother? Moreover, he had made such a big mess. I can't believe that he did destroy the building around him, but a number of superiors consider him dangerous, you know! ”

"Wait. Is it not yet confirmed that it was his doing, right?"

Both shrugged nonchalantly.

"Fine! Only my personal data, right? "

"Yes. After that, we will bail him out. "

From his white bed, Li Zhihua got up. His face got darker. Sibling? Wu Shen? He tried to make simple guess. If he was lying that much to some of the people who had just arrested him, Li Zhihua suspected that this man was intentionally here to help him. Despite his  suspicion with this mysterious mortal, he felt compelled to follow this unexpected scenario.

Maybe this mortal could be a great help for him to adapt in mortal realm.

The room opened. In front of Li Zhihua, a female officer opened the door with her blushing cheeks.

"You may go out. Someone’s here to pick you up.”

With a nervous expression, Li Zhihua nodded. He looked at the officer, paying attention to her appearance. In those uniform and short hair, he asessed her. After the handcuffs were removed, he stepped out from the room. However, a few seconds later Li Zhihua turned around to look at the officer before.

"Are you perhaps ... a woman?"

"Eh?" the officer gasped, surprised. Her  face got hot because Li Zhihua looked at her intensely. "Y-yes, I'm..."

"Ah, much obliged for taking care of me..." Li Zhihua smiled, watching the officer's hair in front of him. "You will look prettier if you lengthen your hair. Why don't you try?"

The officer gasped, clearing her throat with heat roamed on her face. "E-enough. It's late, you have to go home soon. "

With innocent expression, Li Zhihua turned to the man the officer mentioned. This mortal wore a glasses, with a thin but tall body. He gasped to see the arrival of Li Zhihua and suddenly looking down, out of reticence.

"Are you a mortal who... who just picked me up?" he asked, rather scpetical.

Realizing that the act still had to go on, Wu Yifan pulled Li Zhihua's hand in hurry. He tried to avoid the officers' suspicion of his pretension. Li Zhihua's body was dragged out from the building.

As the two of them finally arrived around the sidewalk area, quite far from the sight of previous officers, Wu Yifan letting go his hand.

"Master, I'm sorry, I-"

"Master?" His brows furrowed. "This venerable doesn't even acknowledge you. Who are you?"

Wu Yifan felt his heart pounding. If the man in front of him is a  man who did fall from the sky and had caused a catastrophic sinkhole, then he had to ask for proving his suspicion of Li Zhihua’s origins. Taking a deep breath, Wu Yifan looked at the handsome man before him with determined look.

"Are you perhaps... someone from Celestial Realm?"

-000-

[1] Chinese nicknames for those who loved to dress up in Han costumes.