Episode 3

"Where's Minsheng?" I asked.

"He's not yet here. He went out. Would you like to wait for him?"

"Oh... Ok."

We walk into a hut and he ushered me to the chair and he served tea. I accepted the tea and drink slowly. Unlike the tea that I drank awhile ago. This tea is tastier. The silence befall us and we sit still not moving a finger. Once again, he broke the silence with another question.

"How do you know him? I mean Minsheng." He asked. He looked at me awkwardly then cleared his throat. "You seemed- young." He's reluctant to ask.

"Young?" I said. I'm confuse.

"Yes. You're like fifty thousand years old." He said.

I smiled at him. I did not answer him because even I am confuse. My cultivation is only forty thousand years but how did he mistaken my age? He should see that I'm older even though the rest of my cultivation has been sealed. I need to ask Minsheng when he comes back.

Time passed by and finally he's back.

"Zihao? Are you inside?" Minsheng said.

He walk inside the hut and walk over to where we are sitting. I looked at him waiting for him to look at my way and when he did he looked surprise. He walked towards me and he's scrutinizing my face. He's coming closer and closer but I'm just sitting there and staring at him nonchalantly.

"You! You are Chao-Xing?" What happened?" He said shocked that he can hardly say anything.

"Yes. May I talk to you privately, please?" I said. I looked on Zihao's way and said " If you don't mind?"

He looked at Minsheng and Minsheng nodded. He looked at me and he nodded as well and walk out of the hut. I waited until it has been quite sometime since Zihao went out. Then I started talking.

"Please take a seat." I said t Minsheng.

"Chao-Xing, since when are you awake?"

"Since this morning." I said while pouring a tea for him.

"Do Zian and Xiaodan know about you?" He asked.

"Yes. I looked for them first. Then she lead me here but she had some urgent business and left me. I look around and found the young man. Now here I am."

"Oh... What's the reason you're here? Surely not to visit me." He said.

"I have a question to you first. How old do you think I am right now? The one that you can see."

"The one that I can see? Of course you are- No! You should be- Old! but why?"

"What?" I asked him worried.

"You're just fifty thousand years old with forty thousand years of cultivation."

I was shocked by what he said. How can that be possible? it was just like the same when I was younger. Same age and same years of cultivation. What did The Creator do? Don't tell me he- That sly old man!

"Are you serious right now? Shouldn't it supposed to be called out by Zian and Xiaodan first?"

"Probably they are too amaze to see you. Even I did not notice that." He said to my truthfully.

"How's that even possible?" I mutter to myself but apparently he heard it.

"Maybe it's because of your slumber."

"It can't be. My cultivation may be affected but not my age." I stood up and looked outside the window. Zihao is by the lake. "Minsheng." I called his name.

"Yes?"

"I came here to visit you. I don't actually have a reason or something."

"Oh... Really?"

I looked at him and I narrowed my eyes on him. I pout my lips and finally said.

"Ha! Can I stay here?" I asked him politely. " Nope! I. Will. Stay. Here. That's an order." I smiled at him. A smile that's both pure and hellish.

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