9 Escape (1/2)

”What did you do to me?”Xue Huan's jaw tightened as his eyes flared in anger. Shi Mei looked straightly at Xue Huan.

”Don't tell me you're blaming me about your condition-”

”Indeed.”

Shi Mei was enraged by the accusation of Xue Huan and even his monotonous voice as if he was insulting her.

”You know what, you're despicable. Sorry to disappoint you but I don't even consider you as a stranger, why should I waste my time to someone like you.”

”Why not, after all you're only a puppet, assassinating people.”Shi Mei pressed her lips together, she could not deny that she's already fuming to the point that she's breathing heavily.

But Shi Mei calmed herself, she must not be affected by Xue Huan's words. What she hated the most was seeing herself like a pitiful person. And she had seen different people who always smearing her but she never let herself dragged into a mud.

”Just who do you think you are?Do you treat yourself so special that everyone would squander their time for you.”Shi Mei smirked mockingly.

Wen Zexi was about to interrupt the two but Gong Yan stopped him and motioned him not to meddle. While Chen Wei nervously looked at Xue Huan.

”Why? Is it because you're a master of not more than ten people? a prince?Don't delude yourself, you don't own the world. You're a mere prince living in a secluded area-”Xue Huan let out a spine-chilling laugh estranging the people around him. He stepped back as he released Shi Mei's hand. Then he nodded as he laughed even more but stopped abruptly.

”It's been a long time since I heard such disparaging remarks towards me. I find it refreshing.”

”Crazy.”Shi Mei blurted out.

”But what can you do? You'll be stuck at me.” Xue Huan gave a satisfying look to Shi Mei.

”Keep an eye on this woman. She must not leave my residence without my permission.”

”No Way!Are you deaf?I told you, I don't have anything to do with you?!”Shi Mei yelled but Xue Huan started to walk away. She saved him for goodness sake yet she's an assassin in his eyes.

”Oh man, we're doom. They are both weird.”Chen Wei commented as he watched Xue Huan and Shi Mei arising another quarrel.

”Let's get used to it. There'll be no peaceful days anymore.” Wen Zexi added while Gong Yan closed his eyes then sighed.

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Shi Mei paced back and forth, how could she know what she needed to do if she's confined in the residence. She believed that if she was able to transport in this dimension then she could also find a way to go back in her world.

”I need to recall what happened before I ended up here.”she murmured as she thought the day of her shooting. There's nothing unusual to her that day, it only started when she heard someone whispering to her.

”Whisper.”Shi Mei snapped her finger.

”What was it again?”she said, trying to remember the words she heard. She regretted that she didn't pay attention, but she must remember it or else she would live forever in this strange place.

Shi Mei sat before the table, closed her eyes tightly and organized her thought.

[ The voice was from a woman. She warned me not to fall in love again with a certain man? But who exactly that man? She even told me to run away. What was her message to me?]