40 Solar Eclipse (1/2)
Jianhong wanted to do something to her so badly, he was ready to touch her. But right as he could, a gush of wind blew in from the window.
”Who is that?!” His eyes darted to the window and hurried to look out to see who it was. There was nothing but the moon facing back at him as the darkness faded in. Jianhong turned back with two guards bowing down at him. ”My lord! We are ready to depart!” The two guards said in sync. The identity of the two guards was Weizhe and Zhaoyun, taking the opportunity to fake their identities to be their guards for the ride to General Feng's home.
”Okay, okay. Let's go.” Jianhong uttered, tempted by Suyin. He quickly tried to shrug it off so he could carry on with his mission.
”Carry the woman and throw her in the carriage.” He mentioned, leaving the room. Suyin continued to fake her unconsciousness, unaware that the two guards were Qin Fuhua's people. --------------------------
”Where am I going?” Suyin thought to herself, keeping her eyes glued shut through the entire time. ”Qin Fuhua said to run to the south where the sun meets the moon after getting out...” She had repeated that through the whole bumpy ride to Junli's manor.
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There was a sudden halt in the carriage and Suyin could hear a couple of people talking to each other. All of a sudden, the sound of the swords coming out from the sheaths could be heard, with men yelling at each other.
Was it time for Suyin to make the run? Or should she wait? Qin Fuhua did not make any instructions on this and only mentioned what he needed. With more men yelling and some groaning from being killed, she opened her eyes immediately, noticing that no one was in the carriage.
Suyin hopped up and began to loosen the ties that Qin Fuhua had done earlier before. She took a peek out from the carriage curtains and noticed that there was a fight going on around the bamboo forest. Although it was around five in the morning now, Suyin could see a glimpse of the surrounding environment and decided that this was the perfect time to head out and run to where Qin Fuhua told her. Two different parties were sword fighting against each other in the midst of Suyin getting ready to get out of the carriage. One of the party was dressed in all black and the other was grey. Suyin couldn't tell whether or not she should trust any of them.
There were about six to eight people around the area with all of the mess, but she couldn't find Jianhong, Qin Fuhua, or anyone else. The people looked unfamiliar, but Suyin needed to leave soon.
As she jumped out of the carriage and quickly scrambled away from the scene, one of Jianhong's men caught her. ”Where do you think you are going?!” One of the guards asked, pulling Suyin's wrist closer to him. Suyin tried to fight him off by pulling her wrist back but the soldier was stronger than she was.
”Let me go!” Suyin yelled, glaring at the soldier. A soldier laughed and was about to strike her with his sword until one of the soldiers in black jumped in to strike him from behind. They suddenly hurried back to help their comrades in the sword-fight battle.
Shocked with what had just happened in front of her, she froze in place for a second.
”This is real,” Suyin whispered to herself. Seeing blood was nothing to her but to be in a position where she saw someone die in front of her first-hand by someone's shed of blood was new to her. She needed to keep calm and continue to move on otherwise she would be stuck in this battle.
Suyin lifted her hands up and down, taking a long, deep breath. ”Run south,” Suyin uttered in her head.
She then dashed as fast as she could down the bamboo trees, dodging them as the sun slowly began to rise up. Where she ran, there was no path but she knew deep down inside that it was the right way to head towards the sunrise.
”Where the sun meets the moon...”