Somewhere far away from the area from the destructive place lies a pond with only fireflies flying around. Xiang Jiao and Sun Mei landed on this spot, but they were in a very complicated situation. The fact that Sun Mei almost committed suicide and Xiang Jiao never thought his actions could cause someone to have done such a thing would lead to this situation. Add to the fact that they both almost died from falling off the deep waterfall was inexplicable.
“Sun….”
“Xiang Jiao”
“You speak first Sun Mei.”
“Xiang Jiao, I don’t want you to think I’m crazy. It’s just this is the tradition of my tribe. If any woman is rejected, they would have to forfeit their life in order to experience a better fortune in their next life.”
“……although I don’t agree on such traditions, I understand your concern. My actions have led you to a humiliating misfortune, and because of that I will apologize for my carelessness,” Xiang Jiao responded.
“….I cannot go back to the village…..” Sun Mei replied. She wanted to say more but she just couldn’t find the courage to do so.
“Sun Mei, I have thought about us very carefully. My experiences in the outside world is very limited; thus, I do not know the customs and traditions of the different tribes, kingdoms, or empires. I have only heard what love is like from the books I’ve read, and I was very curious about it, but it was completely different than what I’ve experienced with you. I cannot explain the feeling I had when I couldn’t find you or when we were falling together. I really don’t know if this was love or something else…….I also do not fully understand what marriage is. But let me assure you that if you give me some time, I will keep my promise to marry you!” Xiang Jiao said with great confidence this time while his eyes were passionately staring at Sun Mei’s eyes.
“….Are you sure?……I don’t want to force you…..”
“It doesn’t matter if I’m sure or not. What matters is I will keep my word. Whatever our situation is, we will need to discuss with each other first if we want to know what is it we seek for our future before doing something unnecessary,” Xiang Jiao concluded.
“…O…Okay” Sum Mei blushed while looking down.
“For now, how can we get you back to the village?”
“This…..you will have to meet my parents to make a promise to our marriage….but we don’t have to get married right away”
“Good. We will go back to your tribe together and I will make the marriage announcement to your parents and to the whole tribe,” Xiang Jiao confidently said.
Xiang Jiao summoned his falcon and carried Sun Mei to the top. The falcon took off and flew high in the sky. Xiang Jiao and Sun Mei were holding hand while looking at the bright stars and the surrounding scenery as they passed by the different terrains.
“It’s there below,” Sun Mei said.
The area where she pointed was quite isolated. They flew deeper into the area where a deep ravine appeared. The falcon started to glide slowly waiting for Xiang Jiao’s instructions. The homes Xiang Jiao saw were quite extraordinary as it was built within the cliffs of the ravine instead of the common houses you see in the cities. There were hundreds of homes built from the bottom of the cliff all the way to the top of the cliff supported by a network of bridges and stairs connecting across each other’s homes. Each home were lit with a lantern where the fairies were living inside, which made the whole ravine bright and lively.
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The falcon landed below the ravine, where there were Sun Mei’s tribesmen hanging around.
“Sun Mei, you’re back,” a young woman said. She looked to be the same age as Sun Mei, wore the same type of clothing as her but with a different color, and her face seemed to express a smile of relieved.
“Zhao Nu, Thank you!”
“No need to thank me. We’re best friends.”
Hearing the young woman’s voice, Xiang Jiao concluded that this was the same person that whispered to him about Sun Mei when they were on their way back to the cave. Xiang Jiao also expressed his thanks to Zhao Nu. Without her help, Sun Mei would’ve never come back to this place. Sun Mei and Zhao Nu were in front walking and whispering, while Xiang Jiao was following behind. They were on their way to Sun Mei’s home.
When they arrived, Sun Mei had introduced Xiang Jiao to her parents. Apparently, Sun Mei was the daughter of the tribe’s leader. This was a special night where Xiang Jiao had made a promise to Sun Mei, her parents, and the other present tribesmen, that he was willing to marry her. Fortunately, there wasn’t any objections as the tribe’s traditions were strange in the first place. Sun Mei’s parents happily approved of their future marriage. Xiang Jiao also explained that he cannot marry her now as he was going on a journey to find his own family, but in 10 years, he promised that he will come back to marry Sun Mei. By the time Xiang Jiao comes back, Sun Mei would be at the prime of her life to get married.
The night went on with customary celebrations with the whole tribe celebrating, dancing, and getting drunk. The Ravine was much livelier by now as the fairies could glow in different colors celebrating together with the tribesmen. It seemed that the fairies were living happily together with the tribesmen instead of being forced there.
Xiang Jiao was blushing as he couldn’t dance, but many of the tribesmen dragged him to the center and taught him how to dance. As he got a bit more drunk, his dancing became more wild and perverted. In fact, he actually copied what he saw when Ma Qian was grinding in front of Wang Rong. He was even crotch grabbing! The parents was obviously unfamiliar with this type of dancing, so they continued celebrating, but deep in their hearts they felt extremely uncomfortable when they say Xiang Jiao’s wild dances. If the crew saw this, they would never believe how wild Xiang Jiao could be. However, this special night will never be remembered by Xiang Jiao, because this was his first time drinking and dancing with Sun Mei and the other tribesmen.
Even the fairies were performing some type of show to show their blessing to Sun Mei and Xiang Jiao.
“Xiang Jiao, my dear, you need to go back to your friends now. You can’t stay here for the night as it is forbidden to our tradition,” Sun Mei was blushing while whispering to Xiang Jiao.
“What?….I still wanna drink, dance, and kiss……”Xiang Jiao replied. He was already drunk, so there was no point explaining things to him.
“Let me help…” one of the man said.
Bammmm.
Xiang Jiao laid on the ground quietly. He got knocked out by the man’s punch. The man carried him to the falcon and told the falcon to go back. Somehow, the falcon understood and flew off.
“Uncle, you could’ve done it in a harmless way instead of punching him,” Sun Mei angrily said but understood that it wasn’t too excessive.
“Haha, my niece. The first thing to being a man is to take a punch!” the man countered.
The falcon flew off until it reached the cave, then made a sound, “Roarkkkk, roarrkkkk.”
The crew was already sleeping at this point in time, but the falcon’s moaning woke them up. Angered by the noise, they came out angrily and started beating the falcon!
“Arkkkkk,Arrkkkk,” the falcon screamed in pain. He was trying to help but ended up being beaten by this crew. He was extremely angry, but he was powerless against three other people. A while later, they stopped the beating after the falcon was summoned back to the storage ring. They were about to go back to the cave, but they finally saw Xiang Jiao laying on the ground. They carried him back inside the cave, only to see Xiang Jiao had a bleeding face. Lin Yang wanted to wipe out the bleeding, but Ye Tian stopped him immediately while staring at him viciously.
Lin Yang felt the stare, but he didn’t know what he did wrong. Ye Tian’s aura was increasing slowly. Lin Yang also noticed Ma Qian’s aura was increasing slowly. Lin Yang was startled they were acting so agressively, so he prepared to defend himself in case things go really bad. Just what happened? Why did the situation become like this?