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Chapter 1 - A Tale of Chase and Love 1

Theresa opened her eyes abruptly because of the cold. She quickly sat up and rubbed her eyes, finding to her surprise that she was in an unfamiliar room.

" Where is this place? Why is this place so cold?" she thought as she surveyed where she was.

As a lover of ancient Chinese and Korean dramas, she could say she must be in a Chinese person's house. Did that person save her? How could his house be so cold with no air conditioners?

She searched her pockets for her phone but couldn't find it. Anyway, she must find a way out of this room. At least, she's got to thank her saviour(s) and maybe with their phone, she could contact her parents again.

She wondered if any of the passengers on board survived. What also baffled her was that there was no scratch on her skin.

"This is weird. I need to leave here, she thought.

When she tried to stand, she felt in the legs excruciating pain she has never felt before!

"It hurts so much," she thought, close to tears.

What really happened that made her be in this much pain? She closed her eyes and recalled all that had happened. From the airport to the aeroplane crash. She couldn't remember anything other than that. So where exactly was she?

The entire room was naked and so quiet, and a tinge of fear built up in her heart. Hey! she's afraid of lonely places. Are there ghosts and vampires here? Can anyone just speak and reassure her that everything is fine?

Her doll, Lovina, has been her second-best friend since she was six. Whenever she had nightmares, she'd hug Lovina tighter, subconsciously. Now her precious baby is nowhere to be seen. When she tried to call for help, she found out that she couldn't even whisper.

"What's going on?. My beautiful voice. Where did it go?" she thought sadly. How did this happen to her? She'd prefer to die!

It was right at this low moment that Theresa heard someone cough. Looking behind her with hopeful eyes, Theresa instead met a sight she'll never forget.

A lady was lying on the old, creaky bed. Her head was bald and bandaged messily. Someone had gouged one of her eyes out and one ear cut off. On the right cheek was a hideous scar, and her visible hands were festering.

Theresa couldn't hold it in anymore and retch. The scary-looking lady lying on the bed weakly smiled and raised a finger that emitted green light.

"Transfer," she muttered as the light glowed brighter, forming a ball she sent into Theresa's neck.

She knew that there was not much time left, and so she kept repeating the same actions 8 times while Theresa was vomiting.

After Theresa had vomited all she had in her stomach, she suddenly felt a very severe headache.

"What have I done to deserve this?" Theresa thought.

She was receiving strange memories that did not belong to her. No matter how much she tried, she could not shout. She even felt her body boiling.

"Man! I need to die now. I want to die." Theresa cried internally.

Meanwhile, the lady on the bed saw that Theresa had a high aptitude to cultivate (i. e practice to become a magician). This was a piece of good news to her as she quickly started writing with her free hand on a flying scroll beside her with a brush.

When she was done, she threw it over to Theresa, who at this moment was on the verge of fainting. The lady then nodded her head slowly before gathering her last energy to form a ball of fire, which she threw at Theresa.

Theresa felt the pain was lessening and so was the heat in her body and was about to sigh in relief when she felt another pain in her abdomen.

"What's this again?" she thought, terrified. She opened her eyes to see the scary lady smiling at her and nodding.

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bells rang

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s moment, the lady

r of this kingdom, Luo Ye of the Fire continent. Yes, you guessed right. I summoned you here and I want you to take reve

ose who harmed me must be taken care of, but please do not kill them. I know you

t and the fact that she could unders

only knew five languages-Ge

and English. How then did she understand

e travel Chinese movies three months ago and saw their costume. T

also her turning into willows was real -no tricks involved. She looked at the calendar again to confirm the date, and she finally relented. She had just cr

re k-pop music to listen to? No dram

avens know her much, they were against her idea

nt that she thought she was on fire. She wanted to die. Why didn't she just die too like t

elf to death, a figure appeared behind her. He is dressed in ancient

His slightly plump lips were red and so tempting fo

to her and then sat behind her in a meditative pose. He then place

roubled to find out who the owner of those hands was. All she car

almed down and finally fell asleep,

face, he sighed in defeat. Women's weapons lay on their faces especially if they were pretty. Unfortunately, this man had no time to consider women. It's a mirac

and the man wondered how the decea

is storage ring and blew cold air onto her fac

nd brought out a chair

ll anyone who sa

uld pick up in a treasure trove. Some might n

nown young man had it. S

ty, and divine quality. The one in this young man's hands is a divi

pocket in his sleeves and read to kill time. Occasionally, he would

out of my peaceful home to become her contracted pet."

nizing the memories of the deceased concubine.

t birth until 16. Three days to her marriage to the emperor, her step-mum poison

wed the emperor two years ago and th

hs ago because she had twice saved his life before their marriage. He wanted to bring the best physician

ne of his loyal subordinates in a battle. He got fu

al could only de

urs in the cold palace, but since Han Fei Fei was in

ealm was difficult to achieve. Some became Foundation practitioners at the age of th

ad isolated her in a courtyard for two years, she had much time to cultivat

her ugly and the ones who made her suffer in the cold pal

elling powerhouse at age 12 and that is why even thoug

o do whatever she wants in this world. She never got to see the emperor's face even once before dying. Even when she had saved h

t have to be her? She wanted to attend a concert with her idol performing. Ah! The wasted money, the n

t taking revenge for the deceased? Now Theresa wished

in man was getting impatient. Why won't she wake up? She need

f familiarity toward her, like he'd known her for a long tim

that her parents were in a heated argument. Suddenly,

man from his thoughts. Alarmed, he looked at he

tered. Now he was going to take care o

wn on his face. But the frown did not destroy his beauty. W