Chapter 3: The Discipline of the Devil Physician (1)

As day passed by, her hope of waking up from her dream slowly die. She begin to accept that everything happening now is real – probably a reincarnation of her previous life.

That scene in her dream, everything is too real. She finally accepted the fact that she was chased by a dog, being hit by a truck, and die a tragic life. If there is one thing she regret in that life, is that she has been working too hard to the point that she forget how to enjoy her youth, her life, her freedom. She work so hard for nothing, only coming home to a lonely house and not even enjoying her money that she work so hard to earn!

She vows to heaven that in this life, she will enjoy her life fullest and live like a wealthy goddess!

Well, sadly her dream was soon shattered by her cruel master.

Her daily tortures includes learning how to read and write, learning medicines, planting herbs and practicing martial arts. Not forget to mentions how she have to clean the house and do chores from the time she wake up till she fall asleep.

She wake up every morning at 6am, and her master will make her practice martial arts with him before making her water the herbs while listening to him explaining about herbs. Only after she finished watering, her master will let her have her breakfast before they have another sessions of writing and reading. She didn't tell her master that she actually can read and write well, so her master thought that she's a genius that he only need to explain once and she can actually read a whole book!

'This discipline of mine is really a genius!'

After a session of writing and reading ends, followed by lunch, she occasionally stood by her master, watching him preparing a bunch of pills and powders, passing him some herbs, listening to his explanations, taking mental notes. Once in a while, he will let her prepare the medicines herself, only to find himself agitated as he watch her destroys his precious medicine!

"Are you stupid? Are you even listening to what I said?? Can't you do it properly??? Don't waste my precious herbs! That's equivalent to your one month of food expenses!"

"Master, I'm only 5 years old and yet you expect me to do this thing! My hands are so small, okay? They're not strong enough to carry all these herbs!"

"Well, if you practice more martial arts in the morning, you will not be this weak!"

"…I'm only 5 years old.."

Well, a 25 years old soul living inside a 5 years old body, to be exact.

Their evening usually spend by more martial art practice and watering herbs, while her master occasionally quizzing her about the various herbs in his garden.

Once in a while, her master will took her down to the nearby town or city to sell the medicines at the medical pavilions. To her surprise, her master is actually a famous physician across the country who is well known to cure all kind of sickness.

'Yup, my master is the best. He's handsome, he's strong, and he's a famous high demand doctor. If only he doesn't like to yell at me every time I make mistakes.'

Her master make pills and medicines out of his boredom, just passing his time, he said. He received a lot of request to cure people, and depending on his mood, he will decide whether he want to save lives or not. That's really is the devil master of her.

After a few day outside the forest, when they're done selling their medicines and buying their daily supplies, they will go back to the peak of the mountain.

"Making medicines, curing people and protecting yourself with martial arts, this is the only skills I can teach you as your master. One day, when I'm no longer here, this skills should be sufficient to keep you alive and well fed."

"Master, stop talking like you're dying soon." Don't leave me alone, master. Who's going to feed me when you're no longer here? Truthfully, this girl is just too lazy to think that she have to do things all by herself.

"That's the truth about life", he stare at his discipline who's been stuffing sweet bun inside her mouth along the way. "Its almost time."

"Time for what?"

"…"