Zhuan An & Qian Ki 2

"Inherited equally?" Wang Geming exclaimed from the side, and the other few Royals with him were as confused as he was.

"Yes? Is that weird?" Duan Hin, having been raised in such a culture, found nothing weird in that.

"Yes, it is very weird. On our side, the elders or the most capable inherits all most all titles." Xiao Fan, who was the least confused spoke to the brothers "So you three have equally inherited all the possessions and lands of your father?" He also wanted to hear more.

"Not us three. We had more brothers, but they all have been killed by us or by the others."

"Okay..." Xiao Fan hearing this knew that this was going to be a long talk. "-how about we talk this through at a better time." Now wasn't the time to start any cultural wars.

"Sure thing." Duan Hin then turned towards the two brothers of his who were now unarmed and leaving towards the tower. "It would be a big shame if you didn't come back." He laughed.

"They'll come back if you bring our people back." Wang Geming faring better spoke this as he had missed the sarcasm in Duan Hin's words.

After that, there were some more words, and while they were going the two women, Zhuan An and Qian Ki were eying the other.

'She still has some red, better not introduce.' Zhuan An heeding the advice of Xiao Fan had given her didn't go to her; instead, they kept their distance.

'Who is this woman? She's looking at me with that look. Is she?' As Zhuan An had her own thoughts, Qian Ki had her own which were going towards the conclusion that she didn't like to arrive at, 'There is no other reason for her actions... but how close is he to her?' After some thoughts, she was sure that there was something between them, and so the next thing was to know exactly how much.

'Neither has lashed out at the other yet, good.' Walking between the two women, Xiao Fan could easily note that the two girls sometimes acted to look at him while, in reality, they were peeking at the other, 'Sooner or later I need to say something...' But for now, thanks to them acting so nice, he had time to evaluate what to say.

Or not "Hey!" At some point in their journey, Zhuan An decided now would be a good time to talk. 'Her eyes don't show any red anymore,' Was her reasoning.

Qian Ki turned to look at her slowly. "What is it?" She acted oblivious to what would be coming.

Zhuan An before saying anything back realised that she had made a mistake, for the other eye of Qian Ki was still showing a lot of red, 'Did she do that on purpose?' There was so much red that she smelled a trap.

"Is it true that you don't know Mask? You have been looking at him weirdly." Yet as she had started the conversation, she needed to continue it.

"No, I don't know anyone named, Mask" She spoke, yet from her speech, it was pretty clear that she meant Mask, not Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan in the middle was crossing his finger and toes, hoping that his luck would hold.

"Right, why would you, as aren't you with that Xiao Fan? That inventor guy?" Maybe approaching her this way could Zhuan An know if she was a friend or enemy.

"I am." Qian Ki responded.

"Must be nice, but hasn't he disappeared some time ago?" She continued.

"Everyone knows that he has disappeared, but not dead."

"How can you be so sure?"

"I have this feeling."

"Feeling that you miss him? That you want him to be alive?" Zhuan An had laced these questions with the bait.

"Maybe that-" She didn't see it, and spoke so with a longing tone. "-after all, he is the only man that can understand me." She had surely missed him.

Zhuan An hearing such a good response made her feel that Qian Ki might be a friend, for her Xiao Fan was everything, so if she was the same they had some common ground.

"Seems that you truly miss him. Have you tried to find him?" Zhuan Wanted know a more.

"Who wouldn't miss his or her soulmate? And to find him? I don't need to. I know who took him." Qian Ki continued this roundabout talk with her because she, at this point, didn't know who Zhuan An was, so she also wanted to know a little more.

"Oh, so the real captor hasn't been told to the public yet. Why not just gather people to help you in freeing him?"

"What does this even have to with you?" However, Zhuan An got this far before Qian Ki put up some barries.

"Curious, curious." Zhuan An defended that she had no ulterior motives in her questions.

"How about you? You seem to be close with him, is there something between you two, or did I just expose your one-sided love?" Qian Ki decided to ask some questions out of her.

"It's not one-sided. Or is it?" The first sentence was for Qian Ki, the second for Xiao Fan.

Hearing that he needed to say something Xiao Fan vaguely as possible said his opinion "No I don't think so." He smiled at her.

'So they aren't an official couple yet?' Qian Ki interpreted this as so. 'That's good to hear. So she only knows his true name and nothing else? If so, there is still time to cut them off with some words and actions.' She imagined that things only being this far could the third woman be shaken off him.

"Looking at you two, one would think that you are further in your relationship." Still, she too wanted more confirmation.

"Well, many say that we look good together." Zhuan An replied.

"You two look good together? You should see how good Xiao Fan and I look." She said this as if she was trying to argue.

"How could you? There is no prettier couple than him and me." She refuted, maybe she knew that Qian Ki looked better than her, but admitting it outwardly was something of a giant nope, "It is a sorry that we can't compare as you can't hold onto your man, so you can go and think that you look good."

"You aren't even a couple, some people wanting to kiss your asses just say that you two look good together."

"Who said that we aren't a couple?" Zhuan An questioned.

'!' An alarm was set to off in the head of Qian Ki. 'She's saying that they are a couple? This might be bad!' It might be good in the way that Xiao Fan would deny this.

"So you two are a couple?" Outwardly she didn't act a lot, only saying this while her eye changed in colour, it was a tiny change towards red, yet a Body Activation Realm cultivator could easily note the difference.

"Not a couple, happy couple." Zhuan An spoke back.

In the middle of these women, Xiao Fan finally got enough of these two girls trying to act like this. The whole discussion was a joke, nothing else as neither of these girls were really made for scheming or anything like this.

"Just stop it." So he cut the two women off before they continued this any further.

"Stop what?" Qian Ki questioned, not yet exposing herself.

"What is it?" Zhuan An acted the same way.

"You two aren't suited for this, leave it to Du Lan and Fei Sun." Xiao Fan made sure that both of them got the idea and stopped this.

"Fei Sun?" At least Qian Ki did drops the act, but hearing a new name that surely wasn't the name of this girl next to him did she take hold of Xiao Fan's arm.

"Why are you grabbing the arm of my hubby!" Zhuan An stopped the act in a way, mostly because he saw that Qian Ki was using way too much power in her grip.

"Not helping!" Xiao Fan cried out to Zhuan An, who worsened the situation by calling him by that name as it made Qian Ki tighten the grip.

"You there stop!" Thankfully the bomb about to explode was stopped by Duan Hin. He didn't want to see them kill each other, even if he hoped that Duan Hon and Duan Han might die in consequence, 'Not yet, not on my watch.'

Qian Ki knowing that fighting them back here would lead to nothing, stopped the attack on Xiao Fan, yet she did keep the angry look on him.

"What happened here?" Duan Hin not wasting a moment came up to them.

"All fine." Zhuan An answered.

"Nothing." Xiao Fan grabbing onto his arm, spoke while feeling that she had done damage to his arm in that time. 'How strong is she already!'

"He was pissing me off." Qian Ki said something else than the two of them, her mind somewhat taken over by the rage.

"Hey, Mask, aren't you the Blood Magic expert or something?" Duan Hin questioned Xiao Fan's doing.

"I asked the wrong question, nothing else." Xiao Fan said that he hadn't done anything he wasn't of knowledgeable of.

"Qian Ki?" She then asked the woman.

"Yea, he just said something really stupid, nothing else."

"You three act nicely, okay? Mask, please do not ask her something that gets you killed."

"I'll try." After Xiao Fan saying so, Duan Hin dropped behind the three of them, waiting there if something would happen. He didn't want them to be dying on his watch, for there would be too much shit coming at him that the amount of wealth he would gain from his brothers' death wasn't worth it.

The three of them left alone Qian Ki repeated "Fei Sun? Who is she?" Still angrily looking at Xiao Fan like she had done the whole time after hearing that name.

"She's my friend." Zhuan An told, making Qian Ki sift focus onto her 'Scary!' Qian Ki's eyes staring at her, Zhuan An couldn't but feel startled, those two red eyes made her more fearful than she had ever been before.

"Don't scare her like that!" Xiao Fan raised his volume while his body came between the two, cutting the stare.

"You are defending her? From me?" Qian Ki wasn't too happy from this or where this was going.

"You shouldn't use your powers against anyone that is not our enemy!" Xiao Fan wanted to remind her of this. Also, he knew how scary those eyes were, 'It will be a wonder if An'er doesn't have a nightmare today.' He knew exactly how scary those eyes could be. He himself remembers having a freaking nightmare the day he had seen them for the first time, so Zhuan An having one would indeed be a wonder.

Turning his head towards the victim of those eyes, he could see that Zhuan An was feeling weak "Are you okay?"

Zhuan An feeling the effect didn't speak immediately, taking some time to recover. "At least, now know why you said don't talk to her before they are blue." Saying this, she continued to feel shivers on her skin and in the bones.

Qian Ki left alone after Xiao Fan's words saw how Xiao Fan was trying to help the strange girl and realised things, 'Maybe they are too far already? He seems to really care about her.' This was the first time Xiao Fan was actually yelling at her.

"It's okay. She isn't like that." While Qian Ki was thinking so, Xiao Fan was still trying to calm down Zhuan An.

"I don't know...she seems...scary." Zhuan An might have had enough of Qian Ki. Xiao Fan might say one thing, but her brains were almost screaming that she needed to run away.