Vol 1 Chapter 9 (1/2)

When I was still a confused and ignorant Flower, I could count the nuave me on one hand

Whenever anyone smiled at me, I would feel immense joy

Even after my hands became dyed red with blood, people would still smile at me

But whenever I saw those smiles, I would only feel pain

The people who have s at a death God?

—Gong Hua

I will never leave you…

Yin Qie Zi’s eyes flew open, but the assassin with the injured left eye was already gone He wanted to sit up, but the action pulled at his wound He felt a wave of searing pain froain

After enduring the pain for a moment, he sat up with soasp of breath He felt like his heart was seized in an icy grip… soed his clothes

Did they know?

During hisa candle When she saw Yin Qie Zi ake, she went around the roo up the candles She then slass of water”

Yin Qie Zi felt thirsty and gladly took the glass Fenny offered hilass, he handed it back to Fenny He then asked, with slight desperation in his voice, “Does everyone know?”

“Miss Mila, Young Master Owen, Yehv, and I know” Fenny’s reply was very concise, but then she went on to explain “When Yehv was exa He i Master, he brought you to this rooe your clothes No one else saw you naked”

Even though he heard what Fenny said, Yin Qie Zi felt everything was hopeless He buried his head between his knees and quietly said, “Get out”

Fenny hesitated for a moment, but then replied, “Yes”

Yin Qie Zi’s heart was chaotic What was he going to do now? Should he h? But West s about hie…?

“Yin Qie Zi!” Owen shoved the door open

He raised his head to look at Owen Yin Qie Zi was immediately ree If he didn’t act now, all his efforts would’ve been for naught… Perhaps he could change to it assassinating Owen?

Just when the thought formed in his head, Yehv and Fenny folloen into the roo, and now there was also Yehv and Fenny It was obvious he had no chance of winning!

What to do? What could he do?

“Don’t, don’t cry Yin Qie Zi What does a grown man like you… Oh!”

Oas flustered He had originally wanted to say “what does a grown man have to cry about,” but he wasn’t even sure if the other was a man Oas at a loss for words He had no clue what to say

Finally, Owen ed to force out a sentence, “Yin Qie Zi, don’t worry We would never tell your secret to other people”

“Don’t talk about it!”

Hearing Owen’s words, Yin Qie Zi grasped onto the thread of hope and turned to face Owen“You’re not allowed to tell anyone, inclu-including your father…and Prince Edward They’re not allowed to know!”

Owen had never seen Yin Qie Zi act this frenzied In his mind, Yin Qie Zi was always the definition of calm and mysterious He could only continue to proht, I won’t tell them No one will tell them”

After hearing that, Yin Qie Zi finally stopped panicking and incredulously asked, “Really?”

“Really” Owen scratched his face and honestly said, “In truth, Mila had already warned us that we couldn’t tell anyone else”

Mila? Yin Qie Zi was taken aback; he couldn’t help but feel grateful to Mila’s attentiveness But just when he was feeling grateful, he thought that if Mila was protecting his secret…she could also end up ruining her own life

How ironic

“But can you tell me exactly why your body is like this?” Owen couldn’t resist asking

Yin Qie Zi was silent, but there was no point to hiding it anymore He openly admitted, “I’m not human”

Owen suddenly remembered that Yin Qie Zi had Leaf ancestry, and exclaimed, “Then you’re a Leaf?”

Yehv opened hisMaster, I don’t think that’s the case The Leaves have the same body anatomy as humans”

“Oh!” Owen realized hisInstead, he watched Yin Qie Zi Although he didn’t want to pressure the other into answering, he couldn’t stifle his own curiosity

Yin Qie Zi took in several deep breaths, and finally opened hisabout the ‘Flower’?”

“Flower?” Oas struck duuardian spirit… Ah! It couldn’t be?”

Owen stared disbelievingly at Yin Qie Zi, the latter nodded his head reluctantly to affirm the other’s suspicions

“I’m a Flower… A Flower that has been abandoned by the Leaf Tribe”

After hearing those words, Owen beca However, Yin Qie Zi said they had to wait for Mila to come before he would explain, because he didn’t want to explain twice So Owen could only wait obediently until Mila had woken up and finished dressing before he asked Fenny to go pick her up

Oas very impatient to listen to Yin Qie Zi’s explanation, but when Mila ca she said was, “Brother, let’s eat breakfast first! Yin Qie Zi is heavily injured We should let him replenish his nutrients”

Owen stared for o prepare breakfast We can eat in the room!”

“Yes”

Yin Qie Zi shook his head, “You guys can eat I’ll just have some fruit-leaf”

Mila ih! You need to replenish your nutrients—”

“I only need water,” Yin Qie Zi cut in, “Other types of food will only cause me more trouble”

Mila, surprised, asked puzzledly, “I don’t understand what you mean”

Owen quickly explained, “Mila, Yin Qie Zi said he’s a Flower”

“Flower?” Mila revealed a confused expression, but then remembered what a Floas Alaruardian spirit?”

Yin Qie Zi nodded his head, “I’ I only need water The fruit-leaf has a lot of water and it’s also very fresh”

Mila was silent upon hearing Yin Qie Zi’s words She then ordered, “Fenny, prepare a lot of fruit-leaves Also, bring two jars of spirit medicine”

“Yes”

At thisthe spirit medicine It has no effect on h not as fast as drinking spirit medicine”

“So there are tradeoffs,” Owen muttered

After that, Yehv and Fenny brought the food to the roo breakfast, Yin Qie Zi quickly ate some pieces of fruit-leaf He then turned away froe on his shoulder He exa as his pinkie, but it wasn’t very wide The wound was already starting to close up

Yehv’s voice came from behind him, “The weapon that hurt you wasn’t tipped with poison It’s see you”

“Perhaps,” Yin Qie Zi coldly replied and began to retie the bandage

“Let me help you”

Yin Qie Zi immediately rejected the offer, “No, it’s fine”

With his back to everyone, Yin Qie Zi’s hair started floating A lock of hair picked up the bandage and swiftly began wrapping it around the wound Seeing this, the whole roo his story

“The Leaf Tribe’s o Soave birth to meBut I don’t remember the exact ti beneath the Tree I had no concept of tiuess that I sat there for at least 50 years”

Yin Qie Zi heard a gasp behind him, and he involuntarily paused in his story

“Later, the Leaf Tribe began toI followed them I followed them until they reached the ocean The Leaf Tribe all boarded a shi+p, but they didn’t allow et on In the end, the shi+ps all left I was the only one left on the beach… They abandoned me”

Owen blurted out, “Why did they abandon you? Aren’t you their guardian spirit?”

“I don’t know”

“I knohy,” Mila said quietly

Yin Qie Zi was taken aback, he turned around, not caring that he was half-naked He fixed his eyes confusedly at Mila

“Although this seldom happens, there have definitely been records of this When a spirit tree dies, the Flower it has given birth to will go erous They are capable of controlling plants, so the dareat”

Upon hearing those words, Yin Qie Zi was shocked to his core It was the first ti while Finally, he said, “I, I definitely went crazy But I didn’t die…” Though back then, he was in so much pain that he’d wanted to die

Mila replied with an apologetic expression, “I don’t knohy that would be In the records, there was not a single case where it mentioned that the Flower lived while the Tree died”

Although Yin Qie Zi didn’t knohy he was still alive, he at least knehy the Leaf Tribe abandoned hio crazy upon the Tree’s death, so the Leaf Tribe refused to bring hi For the first time, Yin Qie Zi understood their reasons

However, he didn’t knohat to think upon hearing this reason Should he thank the him only because they were forced to, and not for no reason?

Even though he knew the Leaves were forced into their decision, Yin Qie Zi didn’t feel an ounce of happiness Instead he wanted to cry, but he had no tears He wanted to laugh edy of his life

But he couldn’t even do that He couldn’t scare Owen or Mila, and ruin his plans for revenge

“Yin Qie Zi, can you really control plants?” Owen excitedly asked “I want to see!”

Faced with those words, Yin Qie Zi’s heart was seized with pain On the surface, all he did was quietly reply, “I lost o I don’t knohy it happened and I don’t kno to restore them either”

What he didn’t say was: If it wasn’t for the fact that he lost his power as a Flower, revenge wouldn’t be this difficult

“You lost your powers?” Mila exclaimed “How can that be?”

Yin Qie Zi shook his head; that hat he wanted to know the e, he found out he had lost his powers The despair he felt then almost drove him to insanity

“I’ll go find out!” Mila pushed her wheelchair along, but found thefor help, this time she asked Fenny “Fenny, quickly, take me to the library”

“Of course, Miss”

Seeing that Mila was so urgent to investigate things that didn’t even concern her, Yin Qie Zi couldn’t help but puzzledly ask, “Why would she—”

He stopped in the middle of his question He suddenly remembered that he had once asked Litelli some ways on how to handle human relationshi+ps Unfortunately, Litelli wasn’t someone who closely followed proper etiquette All he had told Yin Qie Zi was to be cautious when it cairls, especially when the topic was about relationshi+ps between men and women If he didn’t have to talk about it, then avoid it

If he asked a girl’s brother about why she cared about him, the question would not only pull in relationshi+ps with girls but also relationshi+ps betweenthe answer h, in reality, it wasn’t like he was an actual man

Owen shrugged He had originally wanted to put a hand on Yin Qie Zi’s shoulder, but when Owen saw that the other’s hair draped over his entire shoulder, he pulled his hand back He then sternly said, “Alright! Since Mila left, let’s talk about the main problem here”

“The main problem?” Yin Qie Zi asked, a little bewildered

“That assassin yesterday, who is he?”

Yin Qie Zi was startled, but then coldly said, “That does not concern you”