30 Wooden doll (1/2)

It took a while before Jing Chu and Bai Lu came to get her from Wo Long Temple.

The sun had already arisen and a new day had come for everyone in the Jing Capital.

On the way back to the Liu residence, Bai Lu had filled her up on what happened back home while she was gone. Other than her biao sisters asking to see her and Liu Sheng Xiao constant worry of Jiao Yu's whereabouts, also the people still looking for Mui Gu, nothing special happened.

And regarding the death of Mui Gu, it was not known by anyone else but Jiao Yu and Bai Lu, who helped her clean up.

Combing the silk black hair of Jiao Yu, Bai Lu could not help but to keep her hands on her young lady's hair, ”Young lady's hair is really soft like the finest silk that no one could resist to touch it.”

”Mm...” With her eyes closed, Jiao Yu indifferently replied.

”Is Young lady still thinking about Mui Gu?” Seeing that her young miss was not in the mood to talk, she wondered if it was due to the death of Mui Gu, ”Young lady must not worry about anything regarding that night. This servant already took care of it and is sure that it would not point anything towards young lady.”

During the course of three years, the only one who knew about her side line as a huntress and the truth about her identity was Liu Sheng Xiao, Jing Chu and Bai Lu. Both stayed beside her while acting accordance to their entitled relationship with Jiao Yu, one as her loving father and the other, her trusted maids.

Jing Chu and Bai Lu was Liu Sheng Xiao's people and was assigned to take care of her necessities and safety, since the time she took the identity of the real daughter of Liu Sheng Xiao. Along with their jobs as Jiao Yu's maid, they helped her avert some of the Liu family member's attention away during the time Jiao Yu had to get used being the lady from Liu.

”Mm...” Jiao Yu hummed her reply then said, ”You two go out for now. I had not taken a sleep since last night and have to catch up to it. Wake me up once father has come to see me.”

After dismissing her two maids, Jiao Yu opened her eyes and take a look at herself. There were faint red line marks around her neck and there were dark circles forming under her eyes. Jiao Yu stood up, lighting her sleeping incense and lied back on her soft bed, letting sleep take over her.

Rain started to fall from the skies, while thunder keeps on roaring, scaring the children inside their homes and waking people up from their dream.

”....Where am I?” Jiao Yu said as her eyes looked around her.

Jiao Yu stood in the middle of an empty ground. The sky was blue and the light coming from the skies were blinding that it made her squint her eyes, then the place changed from an empty ground to a place that was so familiar to her, the Xiang li village.

Just like how it was before, the place was indeed something to miss and remember.

Jiao Yu stood in front of the house she used to call home, she saw children come in and go and heard the voice she used to wait and wish would welcome her and hold her dear, it was Jiao Yu's father.

”Yu'er, come here. I've got something great to show you.” Jiao Yu's father said calling her by Jiao Yu's nickname, as his mouth formed the usual smile Jiao Yu had been seeing since before long.