3 CHAPTER 3 : WHO IS THIS MAN?

Back in her room, she looked at her reflection in the copper mirror. Though the reflection is not that clear, she could see her flawless skin without any blemishes, her straight nose and her big bright eyes. She touches her eye, 'How I hate these pair of eyes. How I wish I could gauge them out and keep it!'. What is that?! Who said that? Is there something that I forgot in my last life?

Suddenly her head started to hurt.

"Aaagghhhh!!!", she shouted.

"Eldest miss! What happen to you?! Let's get you in bed", her maid Xiao Xi help her get up and slowly they walk to her bed.

"Xiao Xi, I just feel like my head hurt. But it's okay now. Thanks Xiao Xi", she smile at her maid.

"Eldest miss please be happy", Xiao Xi cry softly. Her heart breaks seeing her eldest miss suffered.

"Xiao Xi, I'm okay. In the future, we don't have to talk about that man ever again", she tried to pacify her maid.

Xiao Xi is her most trusted maid. From young, they grew up together. They are like a pair of sisters. But ever since she start obsessing about the crown prince, she ignored this maid. She used her to do her schemes and at last, while doing her bidding, she got caught by the 2nd prince. Finally she is sentence to death by drinking poison.

"Sorry Xiao Xi, in the future let's live happily", said Xi Rui while trying to wipe Xiao Xi's tears.

"Yes miss", while still crying softly.

After a while, she fell asleep as the headache started to ease. After making sure her eldest miss slept, Xiao Xi left her in her own room.

But after Xiao Xi left, Li Xi Rui open her eyes. She feels suffocated inside the room. She feels terrible. She didn't understand this feeling. It's like the world is out to get her! She curled up in her bed and cried. She cries for her family, she cries for herself. Finally, she saw her hairpin on the table and crawled her way to get the hairpin. Seeing that beautiful hairpin doesn't makes her happy. That jewel encrusted gold hairpin is a present from the crown prince when they just get engaged. Why? Does she not deserves love as everyone else? Is she that bad?

So she cried. She lifts the hairpin and angle it towards her thigh. She stabbed herself. When once doesn't relieved her pain, she stabbed again and again till her skirt is stained with blood. Why she stabbed her thigh? It's because no one can see that part of her. In this ancient country, appearance is the most important. Flawless white skin, big eyes and red lips. So she stabbed her thigh. So her family didn't see, so they didn't worry. After feeling pain from the wound, she stop stabbing. Then she laughs.

She laugh her sadness away, laugh at herself and laugh at the world. She laugh till her tears stop and then she stand up. Though her thigh is hurting so bad, she endures. She decided she will endure everything. Even when her heart becomes stone, she swears she would not fall in love again. Once is enough. Because of her love, everyone dies. So she would not love again.

Standing up, limply she changes her clothes. She couldn't risks anyone knowing her pain. She didn't want her family feel hurt for her. So she will pretend, pretend to be okay.

After changing her clothes, she burns the blood drenched dress. But her wound, she just left it unattended so she would remember her pain.

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"Drink this little missy! In a while you will feel very good", a man force Li Xi Rui to drink a kind of drug. She try to fake unconscious so she could bid her time later to run. She got a feeling that this drug will make her do their bidding. So she pretend to be unconcious.

"Brother, do we need to tie her just in case she wakes up?"

"There's no need to tie her. She sleeps like a log. See, even when I do this she didn't twitch"

"But brother, this princess is truly a beauty. Couldn't we just try her?"

"STUPID! You don't want to anger the young master. If we touch her, he will cut our d*ck off!"

"But she looks really beautiful. I couldn't help to want to mess her up"

"No! Now let's get out from here before you do something stupid. We can just guard her from the front door"

Li Xi Rui can hear 2 men talking about her. After a while she heard them closing the door and she open her eyes.

"So, even in this lifetime there would be someone wanting to hurt me". Even when her engagement is already off and she didn't do anything. She scanned her room and judging from the furniture it is most likely an inn. Getting up, she walks to the door and listen to the movement outside. As she could hear some movement, she went to the window and open it slowly. She tried to be as quiet as she possibly can. Looking outside, she can see the ground.

"The second floor. Humph! No wonder they thought I wouldn't be able to run. But you are wrong scums...", carefully, she steps outside the window to the roof. Nobody knew except her family that she can do some basic martial arts. So 2nd floor building like this is not an issue with her to escape from.

As she steps carefully at the roof, suddenly she feels uncomfortable. She feels a bit hot and she loses her footing.

"Ahhhh!..", she falls down from the roof to the ground. She shuts her eyes and ready for the impact to hit her. Waiting... but the hurt never come, so she open her eyes and realized, there isa body cushioning her fall.

"Where is this man come from?", she couldn't see clearly as the light is not enough. The man is unconscious.

"Sorry, I have to run. I OWE YOU!", Li Xi Rui started to get up and run. But before she went out from the side door, she take a last look to the man. Guilt hit her at that moment.

Sighing, "I might regret this later but let me just take you as a thanks". Li Xi Rui dragged that man away with her tiny body. The man slowed her down. Slowly, she walks for a long while till she saw a hut. As the night gets deeper and the sky becomes black, Li Xi Rui also feels tired. Her body started to get hot and her visions blurred. Finding the hut really is her luck. Judging from the man's state, she didn't feel any danger so she decided to rest in the hut. They are also far from the capital so most likely the criminal won't be looking for her here.

Putting the unconscious man on the bed, she also stumbled on top of him. At that time, the drug started to get vicious. She shivered. Her body feels so hot it burns! Trying to get up, she put her hand on that man chest and sit up. But it's like her body is not her own anymore. Her hand started to grope the man everywhere but she still didn't feel satisfied. Looking down she try to make out his features but it was blurry.

"But his body does look good. Maybe it tastes just as delicious", she mouthing the word. She hasn't realised her eyes fill with lust and is looking at the man like a predator.

'No! LI XI RUI YOU MUST WAKE UP!', her mind try again to control her body as her hand already trying to take off the man's robe.