Chapter 16: The Headless Soldiers

"UAKHH!!!!", The fire ghost is being kicked away at his belly by Xin Suan.

"UGH!!", He fell on his face, he crashed to the ground until his mask is cracked.

"You picked the wrong enemy at the first place.", Xin Suan puts his one of his black leather boots on the fire ghost's head.

"ARGHH!!", Xin Suan keeps pressing his foot to the ground. His mask is already broken, and his black blood splattered everywhere.

"I thought I have told you all, even I arranged a meeting in the day when she came here. No one is allowed to touch her. Not only her, but also my magic weapons. Does your little brain still works?", He pulls the fire ghost tied hair.

"P-PLEASE, H-H-HAVE SOME MERCY, YOUR MAJESTY, FORGIVE ME!!", His mask fall to pieces, revealing the true face of the fire ghost. He appeared to be around 40, and his face is covered with black blood. He lose some of his teeth.

"Have some mercy?", He released the fire ghost's hair, "Hehehehe.. Then I will show you some mercy. Now tell me, why did you do that to her? Does someone order you to do so?"

"N-N-NO, YOUR MAJESTY, I WAS JUST LOSING MY MIND!! I WAS SO HUNGRY, AND I WAS TEMPTED BY HER SCENT!!", He kneels to Xin Suan.

"How long have you been targeting her?"

"T-TWO WEEKS, YOUR MAJESTY!!"

"Hmm...", Xin Suan smirks evily, his eyes are glowing red, "You filthy trash."

"UGHHH!!", The fire ghost is once again being strangled by something invisible. His hands and his feet are streched out and can't move at all. He is floating in the middle of air.

"BUT YOUR MAJESTY, EATING THOSE ANIMALS AREN'T ENOUGH FOR US!! WE NEED MORE POWER!!"

"Haa... I've just heard the same kind of opinion like five minutes ago.", He patted his forehead, "But I told you, haven't I? In the first day when she came here."

"SHE IS MINE, AND MINE ALONE.", Xin Suan raised his voice.

"B-BUT YOUR MAJESTY, UNTIL WHEN WILL YOU KEEP HER ALIVE!? EVEN IF I DON'T EAT HER, SOMEONE WILL HAVE DONE THE SAME!! HOW COULD YOU THINK THAT SHE WILL BE SAFE FOREVER!? HOW CAN YOU GUARANTEE HER THAT YOU YOURSELF WON'T BE TEMPTED TO EAT HER TOO!?"

"You don't have the rights to ask about my actions. Even if I will be tempted to eat her, so what? I bought her with my own money, so she is mine. It's up to me and my mood to do whatever I want. Whether to keep her alive or dead is none of your business. Beside..."

"UARGHH!!", The fire ghosts limbs are twisted, his blood splatters everywhere.

"You have ruined my mood so bad. Because of you she-", 'called me a pervert!', Xin Suan continues his words in silent.

"F-F-FORGIVE ME!! PLEASE SPARE MY LIFE!!!", He cried in pain.

"Did you show her some mercy when she plead at you? No, right? You just kept continuing to torture her, playing with her mind and fear. You even showed her her most traumatizing memory. So who are you to ask me to spare your life?"

"If you want to rebel from me, then challenge me in person.", He raised his hand.

"NO, YOUR MAJESTY, I WILL BE YOUR LOYAL DOG, PLEASE GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE."

'SWOOSH!', A black mist covering behind the floating fire ghost. When the mist disappeared, two gigantic creatures summoned behind him. They are somekind of monsters, but having human-like forms. They are headless, suited in full armors, and holding giant axes.

"Whoa, Your Majesty, do you really have to use them?? You can just finished him with your own hands!", Yin Ling steps in.

"Yes, I have to. Let him taste the pain of his flesh being torn apart slowly but sure.", He is smirking evily.

'Oh boy... This man is clearly a hazard!', Yin Ling is a bit terrified.

"Y-Y-Y-YOUR MAJESTY...", The fire ghost can't believe what he saw behind him

"Now, perished.", Xin Suan smiling widely and his red eyes glowing brighter than before, as if he is enjoying the exhilaration of torturing someone.

Those gigantic headless soldiers raising their hands and 'BLAM!', they slash the fire ghost's body into two. But the fire ghost is an undead creature, so of course he can't die that easily.

"YOUR MAJESTY!!!", He is terribly in pain. He raised his hand to Xin Suan, asking for a help, as the two headless soldiers keep chopping his body to pieces. His black blood flooding on the ground, splattering everywhere, to the ceilings, to the walls, and even splash a drip to Xin Suan's cheek.

"Hehehehe", He laughes cynically as he wipes a drip of blood on his cheek, "Enjoy the show!"

'He is literally a psychopath...', Yin Ling silently judges him.

After a long bloody scene, the fire ghost isn't move or speak anymore. His body has long gone, nothing left behind, not even his skeletons or hair. He has been chopped into small pieces, almost looking like a porridge. No one dares to see his horrible state. He is obviously has meet his eternal sleep.

"Hahahahahaha! Huft... You may leave.", Xin Suan dismissed the headless soldiers.

"Is.... Isn't this.... too much?", even Yin Ling didn't dare to see the fire ghost's condition.

"He deserved it.", He pats Yin Ling shoulder, "Everyone who dare to opposed me should be punished, you know that too.

"Let's go. It stinks here.", Xin Suan walks to the gate of the isolation cell.

"Uh... Yeah.", Yin Ling follows him from behind.

'Just because of one girl, he used so much power to kill a lowly weak preta. This isn't even a punishment anymore. He isn't usually acted this way before...', Yin Ling silently discuss with himself, as he staring at Xin Suan's back in front of him.

It's been three days since that incident. Ai Lie had never seen Xin Suan's face at once. She still feels so upset at him, especially it seems he is staying at the palace to avoid her.

"THAT ASSHOLEEEEEEE!!!!!", She screams inside her locked room, "HOW DARE HE DOESN'T SHOW UP UNTIL NOW!?"

She went crazy inside her room in those three days. She thought that no one would heard her, but in fact, the ghosts were there, listening to her everyday. She may have forget that the ghosts can be in invisible mode too.

"Jie Jie, should we tell Mr. Hei She to call His Majesty? I can't stand her anymore!", Fang Yin whipers to Jiu Lan.

"Uh... I don't know... Mr. Hei She should have known about this, but he didn't seem to care about that...."

"Then, what should we do!? She will be crazy if she doesn't have a chance to see him! What the hell did His Majesty does to her until she became like this!?"

"Uh...", Jiu Lan can't answer anything.

"Whoa, those girls must be right! He must have rap-"

"No, no, that's not what happened, Fang Yin...", Jiu Lan cuts her words before she could continue her inappropriate word.

"If it's not that, then what? You know something right, please share with me, Jie Jie!"

"Uh... I'm sorry I can't tell you... It's a secret."

"Hmph!! How boring!!", Fang Yin crossed her arms.

"Stop acting like Ming Ming and Qing Qing, Fang Yin, you are a grown up woman...", Jiu Lan pats her shoulder.

"No apologize but instead he is avoiding me now... YOU!! WHEN I GET THE CHANCE TO SEE YOU, I WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR IT!! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FROM ME ANYMORE!!!", Ai Lie yells loudly.

Meanwhile at the Chang Huan Palace, Xin Suan can feel something gives him chill, "Ah... It must be that girl.", His eyebrows are flinched, as he lean his cheek on his cold hand. He is sitting on his throne.

"Your Majesty... We have been here for three days without doing anything. I thought you said you didn't like this place.", Yin Ling stands beside him.

"Yes, I don't like this place. This place is always gives me a bad luck."

"Then, why are we still here? Let's go back, we don't have anything to be done here anyway."

"I'm afraid...", Xin Suan lowers his voice.

"Afraid of what?"

"I'm afraid she will kill me if I meet her."

"WHATTT!? SO THAT'S IT!? THAT'S THE REAL REASON WE WERE WASTING OUR PRECIOUS TIME HERE FOR THREE DAYS!?", Yin Ling couldn't believe what he heard. This cold blooded man he has served for his whole life, that three days ago have killed a weak preta brutally using a malefic power, is actually afraid of being 'killed' by a powerless small girl.

"She is scary when she is angry."

"Wha- Okay, that's it. Farewell, see you at the manor, Your Majesty.", Yin Ling bows at him as he vanished from his view.

"H-HEY, WAIT FOR ME, YOU!! YIN LING, YOU LITTLE SHIT!!", Xin Suan is being forced to go back to his manor. He obviously has to follow Yin Ling, he doesn't want to be left behind in that misfortune palace all alone.

"Now what should I do when I meet him? Punch him? Or kick him? Or should I borrow a knife from Mr. Han to cut him to pieces?", Ai Lie talks to herself as she sits on her bed.

"This is so frustrating! I can't believe I can't remove him from my mind!! How dare you trying to avoid me!? I promise I will never let you go when I get the chance to meet you!"

'Srrrr...', She feels a warm liquid flowing out from her lower part of her body.

"H-huh?", She widened her eyes.

"W-what?? Is it already my time??", She rushingly go to the bathroom to check.

"Oh nooo!! It's already the time!", She is in panic after checking, "Did I brought that...?", She rushingly search her needs inside her bag, but she found nothing.

"No!! How can I forgot to bring something sooooooo important!! I thought I have brought everything at my bedroom... I should have double check it...."

"Ah, now I understand why I became this sensitive... What should I do now, it won't ended just in one day...."

In the other hand, Xin Suan and Yin Ling have finally arrived at the throne room.

"Hey, Yin Ling, you-", He pulls Yin Ling's arm.

"Good night, Your Majesty, I want to take a rest.", Yin Ling replied it coldly.

"But it's still afternoon, why are you 'good night'-ing me!?"

"Good. Night. And don't forget to apologize to her, you pervert.", He slaps Xin Suan's hand away, as he keep walking to the left wing, to his bedroom.

"WHAA-"

"Ahh!! Your Majesty!! Finally you are here!!!", It's Fang Yin's voice, coming from the right wing direction.

Jiu Lan and Fang Yin rushingly go to him, "Your Majesty, that child went crazy inside her room for three days!!", Fang Yin shouts at him.

"I... Already know that."

"What!? Then do something!", Fang Yin unconsciously said that bluntly

"Fang Yin!", Jiu Lan yells at her, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I apologize on her behalf.", Jiu Lan bows at him.

"I-I'm sorry, Your Majesty!"

"Huft... Did she still help you doing the chores?"

"Yes, she is. She's behaving nice when she's on her duty, but everytime she's done and back to her room, she will start to talk to herself."

"Shit... What should I do to her?"

"Fang Yin, can you go away first? I need to talk to His Majesty alone."

"What?? Aw, Jie Jie..."

"Fang Yin, please."

"Okay...", She is vanished from there.

"Your Majesty, actually Xiao Mei has told me the story..."

"Huh!? Did I do something that bad to her until she told you!?"

"Your Majesty, Ai Lie is a human, especially she is still young and immature. Doing something like that might have confused her feelings, so Your Majesty should be more careful."

"Confused her feelings? What do you mean?"

"That's what usually the lovers do. But Your Majesty and Xiao Mei have no such relationship, so it's unproper for you to kiss her, especially without a warning like that. If Your Majesty keep continuing to kiss her everytime she is sad, one day she will misunderstood your intention and will start to fall in love with you instead. And if she knows that her feeling is actually one sided, it will broke her heart."

"Hmm... I don't mind if she starts to fall for me."

"Excuse me?", Jiu Lan widened her eyes.

"So I should kiss her with a warning?"

"No, that's not what I meant....", Jiu Lan couldn't believe what he said.

"Thanks, I can't believe I got an advice from a woman. You should keep your friendship with her. Tell me if she ever share her thoughts with you again. Now, I guess I should talk to her.", He pats Jiu Lan's shoulder, and then he walks away to the left wing, leaving Jiu Lan behind.

"Huh? Wait, Your Majesty, that's not what I meant!", Jiu Lan is confused. She doesn't know whether her master is actually a womanizer or just simply stupid.