Disgusted

"What have you done to me?" Liang Yi asked from the other side of the round table we occupied in his room.

I didn't answer right away for I had stuffed my mouth with food. It tasted so delicious because of the victory I had had. The feeling of knowing that an enemy would no longer kill you was liberating. Now I could sleep in peace and enjoy my fragmented dreams.

"Answer me!" he yelled smacking the table.

I put down the bowl and picked up a cloth to wipe my mouth. I still hadn't forgotten my ladylike manners despite being a man now.

"A curse."

"A curse?" Liang Yi repeated agitated. "How did you put a curse on me? What kind of a curse is it? Are you cultivating the demonic path?"

I looked at him with annoyed eyes. How could I now practice with a faulty dantian according to what that doctor had said?

"How I did it is not necessary. All you need to know is that you can't harm me or you will go through what you did not long ago. Also, since you beat me up so bad, I owe your sister nothing anymore. You either help me cancel the wedding or help me find a sect I can join."

Liang Yi's brows furrowed as his whole face twisted in an infuriated expression.

"Are you seeking death?" he hissed with a harsher scowl.

If given a chance, he would have skinned me alive then and there and buried my body under the floor we stood on to cover up his crime.

I put the chopsticks on the bowl of rice and got up.

"Haaaa!" I exhaled dramatically while walking around the table to his seat. Placing a hand on his shoulder, I said, "Even though you're really good-looking, I won't go easy on you, Liang Yi. I don't want to marry your sister or anyone for that matter. Even though I have no goals right now, I will find one soon and would like to have my freedom when I do."

He shook his shoulder to get my hand off of him. "Don't lay your promiscuous hands on me. You disgust me."

"Ha! Really?"

"You're a shameless and irresponsible man. A disgrace to your family and-"

I licked my thumb and quickly pressed it on his cheek before jumping away from him.

"Lin Xuan!" he growled kicking the table as he got up. The bowls and jars shattered when they hit the floor, spilling the food and drinks. Such a waste of good food.

I grinned. "Hit me! Come on!" I poked him, wanting him to be in pain as my vengeance for our past grievances.

I took his wrist and placed his hand on my cheek. "Do it. You know you want to, Liang Yi. Slap me and vent your anger on-"

Liang Yi just yanked his hand back before grabbing the sleeve of my clothes.

With seething anger in his purple eyes, he ran the fabric on the spot I had smeared my saliva on. "I'm not helping you at all. You either marry my sister or die a miserable death."

With that threat, he brushed past me and strode out of the room...his room.

When the doors banged shut, I collapsed on the chair he had sat on, a hand on my heart.

Feeling it thumping so hard as if it was trying to escape from its cage and my heavy breathing, reminded me that I had survived and even gained something for my trouble.

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3RD POV

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Liang Yi stopped by a pillar at the stairs. He stopped biting his lip, and a thin trail of blood flowed from his little self-inflicted cut before he punched the wooden pillar.

His fist drilled a hole through it effortlessly, leaving a mark of his rage in the poor thick pillar.

He only wished it was Lin Xuan's face he had punched. Wished it was the spoiled brat's abdomen he had drilled the hole. But it only remained an unfulfilled wish that would not come to be for a long time. At least, not until he found a way to get rid of the 'curse'.

"You'll pay for this humiliation you brat."

Lin Xuan experienced a little shiver out of nowhere as he placed up and down in Liang Yi's room.

Fanning himself frantically to collect his thoughts in place about how to handle the future, he suddenly heard someone calling for him from outside.

"Young Master Lin? Should we come in?"

"Are they this dumb? I instructed them to come in not yell for permission."

He approached the window and peeped down at the group of men who were staring up at the accommodation rooms without any certainty of which one their master occupied.

He lifted his hands in an 'X' to signal them not to cause any scene as he was free.

One of the men raised the family head's token. "You're being summoned back him, Young Master."

"Okay, okay, gawd," he breathed moving away from the window. "They're so loud and annoying."

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"Father, Mother," Lin Xuan greeted saluting them normally with a slight head bow.

"Good news, son," his mother beamed rising from her seat with a red fabric scroll in her hands. "Look, she canceled the engagement herself. You don't have to leave the city anymore."

"Hmph!" his father snorted slapping the table between his chair and his wife's. "He still needs to go out and do something useful with his life. Dear, what happened was our fault for spoiling him too much. Since he doesn't know what he wants to do with his life, then I shall decide for him."

"Father? What do you-"

"You will still join Cloud Sect."

Lin Xuan's mother turned around to face her husband, protective of her 'son'. "But, he can find something to do among the family businesses. He can-"

"Enough! Dear, have you not heard the rumors spreading in the city?"

"But they're all lies."

"Of course, I know. But do you think they will stop talking as long as he is around? I've already made my decision. He'll leave for Cloud Sect in a day."

Lin Xuan stepped forward. "Father, my dantian was ruined. How will I-"

"You won't join it as a disciple but rather as the library assistant. I trust you can handle such a mundane role because the only other available is being a cleaner."

Lin Xuan swallowed.

It didn't sound like a bad deal.

If he'd be exposed to books with the knowledge of this world, he could easily learn about it faster than asking people.

He smiled bowing. "I understand, Father. I will leave as you've arranged."

This would also give him a chance to explore more than just the city and be in a new place where he could be a different person than the Lin Xuan his family and friends knew about.