11 CHAPTER 11 : THE QILIN MARK

Stepping towards the figure on the bed, the man hit her pressure point. After he assured that she is indeed asleep, he reached for her belt.

Slowly he disrobed her. Looking at the exposed shoulders, he shuddered. Touching her hot skin, giving him goosebumps. Under the low light he could see traces of red marks disappeared between her underwear. Swallowing his saliva, he start searching for the Qilin marking. Looking closely at her arms, he didn't see any qilin.

'Maybe it's under the underwear?', he thought to himself. Gritting his teeth, he untied the inner garment on her neck. Slowly revealing her 2 mounts, his eyes look at the unconscious lady. 'It's good she didn't see what he is doing now. He had never harassed a woman in her sleep before!'.

'I really am a beast that night', he thought. At first, seeing the marks on her shoulder and collarbone he already thought the worse of himself. But now looking the bruises on her mounts and stomach, he really is ashamed. That was her first time and he behaved like a monster. Tracing the marks with his fingers, he almost couldn't help himself to hold the mounts. So he looked away.

Seeing there's no qilin, he almost believe that was not her that night. When his fingers touched the band on her trousers, he contemplated to stop or not. But he really need to know if she did have that mark. Swallowing his saliva again, he pulled the trousers down reveling 2 jade legs.

Stepping back, he admires the view in front of him. Touching the legs, he search for the qilin. From the feet to the thigh. Slowly, he lifted her legs and spread them apart. The view in front of him shocked him! Her flower bud is right in front of his face. He could feel his face burned and his member is twitching with excitement.

With sheer endurance, he look for the qilin in the inner side of her thigh. This time he found it! He touched the qilin and for a moment, the qilin marks glowing.

"Of all the places, why must it be here?", he mumbles.

Steeling his heart, he put the girl's clothes swiftly and faster than when he took it off. He looked at her one last time before leaving the room. The lady on the bed didn't even stirred. The look on his face is hard to decipher.

In jianghu at Qilin headquarters~

"Ah! It seems like it really was her. Now what are you going to do?", Rui Sheng asked the empty hall.

"What should or shouldn't I do?", from the door, emerged a black robe's man. Walking to the side of Rui Sheng, he take the tea pot and gulped down the content.

"It looks like looking for the Qilin really has been hard on you", Rui Sheng's double meaning words didn't even angered Long Jie. "Even tiger will eat if the meat has been dangling in front of it. Repressing yourself so much, will only damage your body".

"You don't understand! Till yesterday, I have been hating her. That scheming and dreadful woman! But now this.... how should I react to this?", Long Jie lamented.

"If it's any consolation, there is a fine line between hate and love. Hating on someone so much moreover in an innocent woman who doesn't have any relationship with you is not in line with your character", Rui sheng nearly laughed at his cousin. How can this ruthless man be so oblivious?

"Hating her or loving her I also didn't know. But what do you think she feels about me?", suddenly he is curious about her.

"She definitely doesn't like you", Rui Sheng watched as Long Jie's brow furrowed.

"So she still love brother very much...", his voice lowered. He feel hurt by his own word. "Did she hates me?", he definitely couldn't let this go.

"Perhaps you did something to her?", Rui Sheng reminded him. 'It's all retribution. Debt must be paid in full'.

"So it's like this...", lost in his thoughts, the hall fell into silence.

Rui Sheng remembered the dream he had. One lifetime ago, he watched as the royal family wrecked havoc to an innocent family. Watched, as Long Jie killed a guard in the dark dungeon. After killing the guard, Long Jie went to the body lying in a pool of blood. Wordlessly, he picked up the body and bring her to his place. For 3 days, Long Jie didn't come out of his room.

Patiently, he waited for him. After 3 days, suddenly he acted as usual. The lady's corpse is nowhere to be found. At that time he had not imagine the cousin of his will spent a lifetime in regrets and live a lonely life.

In his deathbed, Long Jie said, "forgive me Xi-er. I'll use another lifetime to repay you".

Him at that time, another lifetime wasnot privy to another's life. But after watching the life of his cousin's he couldn't help but be curious. Later, he found out how unfairly she had been treated. How because of others' ignorance she become the scapegoat. He didn't know if his cousin loved that woman or he just feeling guilty. 'It's all retribution!'

One day he woke up, he remembered his past life. Did he really reincarnated? Or was it all just a dream? So he carried on his life leisurely till the story somehow changed. Maybe this lifetime his cousin will be lucky in love? But before that, let him enjoyed himself to the fullest.

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Stretching herself, Li Xi Rui woke up fresh. Looking around, she was surprised Xiao Xi is not in her room.

"Did I wake up too early?"

"Miss? Have you wake up?", from outside the door, Li Xi Rui can hear Xiao Xi's voice.

"Yes. Please prepare a bath".

"Yes miss".

Last night she was dreaming about her past life. When she first met the crown prince. She was 7 at that time and the crown prince was 16. The crown prince was visiting her father as he was his former teacher. Meeting the dashing young male made her feel fluttered.

Maybe it was infatuation, since then she had been clinging to him like glue. Her memories of him is beautiful but she didn't know how he remembered her.

When he was 19, he and his brother were dispatched to the front line in a war at the border. She was 10 at that time and since then had been waiting for him. Never had she thought the probability of him meeting another woman in the battlefield. After Mu Jiu Jiu has been crowned crown princess, the story about how they met has been spreading.

Mu Jiu Jiu disguised herself as a male and save the crown prince. Afterwards, she disguised herself as a man and since then been inseparable with him. For 3 years they have been together. Never had he mention about Mu Jiu Jiu in his letters to her. It's better he annulled their engagement then. Why wait for 10 years? He truly is cruel to her.

But as cruel as he is to her, she hated the 2nd prince more. Her first meeting with the 2nd prince was when she was 15. She has been arguing with another lady in a clothing shop. Xiao Xi had accidentally ripped that lady's dress. But the lady insisted to whipped Xiao Xi even after she apologized. 'Is it justifiable for whipping a human just because of a piece of clothes?! It's not! After the lady stepped on Xiao Xi's hand, Li Xi Rui slapped that powdered face. That was when the 2nd prince saw her.

Since that incident, Long Jie had been making trouble for her. His impression of her worsened and she didn't care.

In her last lifetime, she had been accused of poisoning Mu Jiu Jiu (then crown princess). That day, Mu Jiu Jiu met her accidentally in a restaurant. By evening, Mu Jiu Jiu had been bedridden. What she knew was Mu jiu Jiu mention she met her and that's all. The heroine didn't mention they met accidentally and she didn't even sit down with her to eat. She left immediately! When had she have time to poisoned that heroine? Sadly, she didn't know who did it in the end. All she remembered a vague feeling someone was screaming her name. Then everything went dark. When she woke up again, she was in the imperial hall.

Shaking her head, she cleared her thoughts. 'This time, it's going to be different'.

Picking up the paper she hid, she reads the words:

(1) Robbery in Li mansion (5 days)

(2) Minister Lu is killed (6 days)

(3) Father is jailed and investigated

(4) Father is no longer the Left prime minister

(5) Father and brother are killed by assassin

(6) mother killed herself

(7) Mu Jiu Jiu is poisoned

(8) I will be jailed

These are all what will happened to her family.

"Did I forgot anything else?", she mumbled. All the major event is here but she didn't have all the facts. For example she didn't know what will be stolen. She didn't know who framed her father and she didn't know who poisoned the heroine.

"Maybe I should hire someone to investigate?", she talked to her self. After all, all she got is money.

"Eldest Miss, the bath is ready", Xiao Xi interrupt her thoughts.

Walking to the inner chamber, she forgot about the paper on the table. Unluckily, someone has been stalking her. Looking at the paper on the table, that shadow quickly grabbed that paper before disappearing.

"Master, I found this on the miss' table. She was looking at this and mumbled if she should hire someone to investigate something", Jie Yi spoke.

Grabbing the paper, Long Jie's brows furrowed. "Let her hire Jie San and keep an eye on her".

"Yes master", Jie Yi disappeared.

Talking to no one, Long Jie read the words written on the paper, "What is this?". Without understanding, he folded the paper carefully and put it inside his sleeve. He didn't understand her more each day. It's like the childish and unreasonable girl he get to know is a different woman. 'Did the annulment affected her so much? Did she loved the crown prince that much?'. But he decided not to rush anything. He just wanted to see and planned his move. There was nothing he couldn't do!