Chapter 74 - 74....his knight... (1/2)

His life went well after that, they played, they studied, they practised and they confided with each other.

Everything was going well, for the little Xuan, it was like he was living in a dream, a fantasy novel, and if it was something like that, he didn't want to get out of this book.

The nightmares he had suffered from that brutal place, those vivid memories were also fading away as the new memories with his Linlin were created, and gradually replaced them.

But it wouldn't be life, if it went too well, right?

That day, it was supposed to be a simple play of hide-n-seek.

Because it was raining cats and dog outside, they simply decided to play this game, well the mansion was huge and because they understood each other too well, it'll serve as a good method to judge their mental aptitudes.

Meilin never asked but she knew that he had psychological shadows, one of them was 'too dark places'. It was no new news that he slept living all lights on and abhorred going to the basements even though they were well lit.

This day, Xuan was, as he will say in his future statements, 'too full of himself'. After knowing Meilin, he thought he could win the world, well, he was wrong, habits and trauma are nothing to sneeze at, after all.

Xuan decided to hide in the basement, well, he thought had forgotten everything about the past and he knew that the basement of the mansion was not similar to that hell.

Well, Murphy spanked him on his butt.

In simple terms, Murphy laws = the things you least want to happen will happen.

just a minute after he found a suitable place in the basement to hide, he heard a huge thunderclap, it was like a lightning struck very close to the ground above the basement, which was actually underground, and then suddenly the power in this particular place went off and as luck had had it, he never had a habit of carrying his smartphone 1 .

Before he could even think, he had a problem in breathing, he felt suffocated, the temperature of both his body and surrounding kept on plummeting, his eyes were bloodshot as small nerves started popping out around his temple and after a gap of almost a year, the demon inside wanted out.

By the time a maid found him, only about 10 minutes had passed-no! Ten minutes had already passed...

”Ahhhhhhhhhh!”

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Meilin was already on her way down, knowing Xuan, though she knew he will try to outwit her, she didn't expect he would actually go into the basement, even while playing, she didn't want him to be hurt, either physically or mentally...

He didn't like dark places as well as the underground rooms, she didn't know why and she will never ask until he tells her on his own and till then, she will support her and be his strength till then.

She had this bad feeling about the whole situation and by the time she heard the maid's shriek and rushed towards the basement, it was a bit too late.....

The scene she saw, made her heart go cold in an instant and her eyes dilated...

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The next day, by the time she got close to his room he was already suffering from that cold...

She didn't know what to do except for calling the doctor to check on him and tending to him.