Chapter 426 - Took Pity (1/2)

His hand wrapped around her waist firmly and he pulled her closer into his arms, ''If you don't want to talk about it, then we can let it be,'' He whispered, ''You don't need to recall all that.''

Mia laughed. She moved her hand from his waist before placing it on his chest, ''Is your heart aching for me?” She asked him teasingly, not expecting his reply to be, ''It is.''

Han Jian Yu tilted his head to look at her, ''It is indeed aching for you. Do you have a cure?''

Mia tilted her head up and looked into his dark eyes for a few seconds before she cleared her throat, ''Are you possessed today?”

''By you, yes,'' came his quick reply.

She felt her cheeks turning slightly warm and she quickly buried her face in the nook of his neck, ''I came in my fox form for a few seconds before turning into a human. It turned out I had seals on my power and my powers were not unleashed. They killed me and my first life ended there, they trapped my soul in a magical box and I was unable to transform into my human form. It was your ancestor who provided that box which had a crescent marking on it that provided the power to trap me there…''

Han Jian Yu's brows were tugged together in a deep frown when he heard that, ''Crescent mark…''

''Yes, the birthmark that Mei has. Centuries passed and the people who trapped me died, while I was reduced to a stale object in it. The Han Family kept me in their treasury but their descendants were never told about the box's origin or what is inside because those old people wanted to keep their heinous deeds under wraps. My lives also kept passing inside the box…''

''Lives?”

''I had 9 lives, my 9 tails represent 9 lives. This ability is something only my mother was supposed to have for she was an immortal but she wanted me to live more and see more of the world so she passed it to me on her deathbed,'' Though it came with its banes, Mia was thankful for it. Had her mother not done that, she would have never met these people whom she came to cherish so much.

''How many lives do you have now?” Han Jian Yu was curious, having never have known too much about things like these, let alone coming across them.

From the very first time he met Mia, be it when she was in her fox form or human form, he always felt that she was unique and very rare. Little did he ever realize that she was not like them at all. She was different.