Chapter 1 (1/2)
CHAPTER 1: Born Different Pupils, Evil Star
In the pitch-black sky, lightning as white as snow ripped across the rain. The sound of thunder came, yet the feel of stifling summer increased, making it hard for people to breath.
Tonight, under the curtain of rain, there wasn’t any peace at all inside Dong Qing country’s Prime Minister’s residence. The sound of a weeping infant pierced the night sky. Inside the Prime Minister’s residence, a burst of chaotic voices could be heard. Under the curtain of rain, a man and a woman were surrounded by numerous guards.
“Jing Zhan, hand that demoness over right now!” A middle age man shouted imposingly, that splendid brocaded robes in his body had demonstrated this man’s distinguished identity. He was exactly the master of this residence, DongQing’s country’s Prime Minister, Jing TingHe.
“Father! This is my child! She isn’t some kind of demoness!” The two persons, man and woman, were surrounded and cornered. The man was handsome and resolute, holding a newborn baby tightly in his chest and stared unyieldingly at Jing TingHe.
“Presumptuous! This child is born with different pupils! It’s an evil star!” Jing TingHe glared at the man.
“What bullshit is an evil star!? Grandmother is growing old! What she had said was such nonsense yet you really believed it! And you even go as far as wanting to kill your own granddaughter!” Jing Zhan’s whole body was trembling; his eyes were filled with despair.
“Husband……” The woman standing closely beside Jing Zhan looked pale; the clothes sticking on her body still had the blood from when she gave birth a moment ago. She seemed really weak.
“If you want to take my child’s life, father, you just have to step over my dead body first!” Jing Zhan held the baby tightly in his bosom. No longer hesitating, he brandished the sword in his arm and broke out from the surrounding guards’ encirclement. Jing TingHe furiously chased after him. The chaos on that night was only known by the people of the Prime Minister’s residence and didn’t disturb the world outside at all.
Fleeing for a full month, Jing Zhan brought his wife and child towards the west region. He escaped the border of Dong Qing country and fled into the continent’s largest forest, Luo Man forest. This forest extended uninterruptedly for thousands of miles, went over ten mountains and connected four countries’ borders together. The north border of the forest was Bei Mu country, the south was Nan Li country, and the west was Xi Wu country, while Jing Zhan, belonged to the east part of the forest, Dong Qing country.
In the forest border, Jing Zhan, whose whole body looked so poor covered in mud, watched the woman in front of him closely and said: “A Yun, you hold our child and hide here; I’ll go over there and lure those pursuing soldiers away.”
One month of fleeing had led the originally handsome and bright man into this pale and exhausted appearance at the moment. He didn’t even notice the stubbles that grew on his chin. His whole body looked so poor that it didn’t have the slightest looks of nobility left.