27 The Talk with FeiHong |Part 1| (1/2)

XieRong hadn't known that FeiHong had felt that way, but what her sister said had been true. She had not wanted to depend on her little sister. For that matter, she didn't want to depend on anyone. She had grown so used to looking out for herself and others that she'd forgotten that she had people she could depend on too.

”YueLiang, do you know where I can find FeiHong?”

-Master is near the Willow tree. I'll lead you there.-

Just as XieRong was about to leave she felt the pull on her mind again. She picked up the sash of needles and gave it a stone cold glare.

”This miss is not in the mood to bind with you right now. I will keep you in my space but if I feel one more pull from you, I swear I will melt you, make you intojewellery and sell you to the highest bidder. Is this miss understood?”

XieRong felt the pull die instantly.

She put the sash in her ring and ran to her sister.

FeiHong was sitting on a swing when XieRong found her.

”FeiHong, can I sit?”

FeiHong didn't say anything, just moved aside to make place for her sister.

”I'm sorry I made you feel like you are undependable FeiHong, when you are not. It's just that I am not used to depending on anyone except master. I have been looking out for you, mother and I by myself for years with no one to depend on in return, so now I feel ashamed, useless and a like a burden when I depend on someone else, even you, especially you because you are my little sister; the one I have been protecting, or at least trying to protect, for years. I'm sorry I didn't keep my promise to depend on you, FeiHong and I'm sorry if it felt like I was treating you like a child.”

”Jie, I'm sorry for yelling at you. I didn't mean to.”

”It's okay, FeiHong. You didn't say anything mean to me, just something that made me open my eyes. You have my permission to scold me and correct me if you feel that I'm doing something wrong. I promise from now on I'll try my best to depend on you when I need to, and take things from you if I want or need them. As a start to keeping my promise, I'll bond with this,” XieRong said, taking out the stash of needles.

She picked one and pricked her finger. A bond formed as a drop of blood was sucked from her finger.

”I'm sorry for getting angry at you,” she apologised, feeling the presence of a child spirit inside the needles.

”I promise to play with you the next time I go come in any of the spatial rings.”

”Jie,” FeiHong said, when she saw that her sister had put back her new weapon.

”I didn't bring you here because I wanted to help you cultivate or show you around. I brought you here because I wanted to tell you something. Do you promise not to get angry or leave me after I've told you?”

”FeiHong, sister will never leave you. I can't promise I won't get angry or upset or hurt, but I can definitely promise you with my life that I will never abandon you or hate you, ever.”

”Sister do you believe in rebirth?”

”I don't know. I have never really thought about it, but I think I do. If I could meet mother, then I don't see why I shouldn't believe in rebirth. Why?”

”Jie, I was reborn. I regained my memories when I saw mother get punished by Fa LiHua again. Do you believe me?”

”I believe you, FeiHong,” XieRong said, noticing the sadness and depth in her sister's eyes. She believed that FeiHong was telling the truth looking at the desperation on her face, besides her mother had said there was more too FeiHong than what met the eye; that she had changed.

”Go on FeiHong, tell me what happened.”

”Jie, I think it's better if I showed you by forming a sisters bond with you.”

XieRong pricked her fingers with one of her needles and pricked FeiHong's as well.

”I, XieRong, swear by the blood that flows within me, to take FeiHong as my sister in blood in this life till death brings us apart.”

FeiHong repeated the oath and a bridge formed between their minds. XieRong felt immense sadness, hatred and loss from the bond

”Jie, what I'm about to show you is extremely ugly and painful, to the point that it may break you. Do you still want to see it?”

”I want you to show me FeiHong. I will carry this burden with you.”

XieRong was inside a foreign body.

Her hands were long and slender, her body full of curves and that of a woman's. She was in a room filled with jewels and luxury which overlooked the capital.

She saw herself in the mirror as she adorned herself. Big brown doe eyes, full cherry red lips and straight brown locks of hair that fell down her back.

'FeiHong?'

She adorned herself for her husband, the emperor, to whose chamber she had been summoned. She hadn't married for love, but she had found it with her husband over time.

XieRong felt her heart overflow with love and butterflies in her stomach. She couldn't wait to tell her husband that she was with another child.

XieRong entered her husband's chamber only to see her son held by a guard and forced to watch with tears streaming down his face as his father made love to another woman.

Gone was her happiness, she felt an intense rage and desire to kill.

”What is the meaning of this?!” she demanded, pulling her son in her arms and shielding him.

”Guards, seize this woman!” Her husband shouted, while making love.