1 Miss? What are you doing?

How to read:

Anything in quotations is the speaker saying it out loud.

Anything in {brackets} is the speaker thinking to themselves.

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"Catch her! All of you better catch her alive!"

The voice of a middle-aged man dressed in silk robes ordered the pack of male servants in front of him.

They have been chasing the two young girls for a while now. From the looks of it, the girls are getting tired as they stopped at a cliff-- a dead end. The girls turned back to look at the crowd behind them. Fear was written all over their faces as they held tightly on to one another.

"Hua'er. Listen to your father and come back"

The man in silk robes walked to the front of the crowd to face the girls.

"D-Don't come over! C-Cancel the e-engagement o-or e-else!"

A slender girl in a green hanfu warned the man.

"Hua'er. I love you dearly. You're my favorite daughter, but we must pay off our debt to the Bu family."

"T-Then w-why won't you g-give the e-engagement t-to my sis-sister!?"

The man gave her a gentle smile as he took a step forward. The smile looks gentle to the eyes, but who could guess his real intentions.

"D-Don't c-come a-any closer! I-I'll j-jump!"

"Hua'er" the man called out gently as he took another step forward-- ignoring her warning.

The girl in the green hanfu looked at the girl beside her. She gave the girl a gentle smile and let go of her hand as she whispered:

"I'm sorry"

In an instant, the girl in green turned to face the edge of the cliff, draws in a deep breath, and then jumped off. The girl who was standing beside her widened her eyes and reached out to save the lady as she let out a scream:

"My lady!"

Fortune was not on the maid's side as her foot slipped and she fell down after her lady. The fall would've meant their death, but the trees below had cushioned them. The two unconscious girls made it to the ground below with only scratches and dislocated joints on their body. Whether they are alive or not, it is yet to be answered.

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"Look! There are two beauties on the ground!"

"They look dead"

"Let's take their belongings! We can sell it for money!"

{Damn.... why does my head hurt so much? Why is it so loud?}

The lady on the ground tried to move her body, but the pain prevented her from moving.

She can hear footsteps drawing near, but she was motionless and her eyelids were heavy-- everything is black to her. She can only hear the footsteps, but cannot see anything. Her eyes refuses to open and her body laid motionless from the pain. The people that were drawing near squatted down beside the girls to check if they're dead.

"They're alive! We can sell them to the brothel!"

Upon hearing this, the girl wanted to run, but her body refuses to listen to her. As the men were about to carry the motionless body of the girls, they froze in their movements and fell to the ground with a loud 'thud.' With a lot of focus, the girl was able to open her eyes, but her blurry vision could only make out the silhouette of the bodies beside her. The men who were about to carry her were laying lifelessly next to her in a pool of their own blood. She could see a blurry image of the bottom half of a person in white nearing her. On his waist was a jade pendant. The man squatted down besides her, but her vision would not make out his face. Only his tall slender figure could be known to her. He hovered his hand over her body. Suddenly, she felt at ease and less painful. The feeling was peaceful and her eyelids felt heavy as she fell into a deep sleep.

"Master. We must go catch them. Why are you wasting your time here and saving these girls?"

The man in white stood up and looked at his subordinate who was kneeling on one knee with his head looking at the ground and his his right hand in a fist touching his left palm.

"It is fine. We can let them go."

He turned to look at the unconscious body of the girl he had just healed with his magic and smiled.

"Master. Would you like to bring her back?"

The man turned back to look at his subordinate.

"There are people coming. We should go"

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{Who is hugging me?}

The girl opened her eyes to see a young man in his twenties. She was in his arm. From her angle, she could make out his strong jawline. His face was a mix of a round and square structure. His eyes are big with long lashes and straight brows. His skin is fair and his nose is tall. His lips are not too big and not too small, it complimented his features just fine. He looked innocent and kind. A handsome man who is kind and loving would describe his looks well. With the comfort of being carried, the girl closed her eyes from her tiredness.

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After a long nap, the girl opened her eyes to find her laying in bed. She looked around and saw the man who was hugging her at the table across from her bed. His hair was all tied up in a bun with a hair ornament holding it in place. He was dressed in a white fitted hanfu with silver threading. The style was that of a martial artist. When he heard her sat up, he took hold of his sword and walked over to her. She can hear someone screaming 'let me in' from outside and two other voices trying to stop the intruder.

"Miss, you're awake. I have some questions to ask you"

The girl just looked at her hands-- ignoring his voice. With her palms facing her, she closed it into a fist and then opened it up repeatedly.

{Am I still alive? Wasn't I in a car accident?}

"Miss?"

{These don't look like my hands. They look more like the ones that belongs to a hand model.}

She then moved her hands up to her face with her arms stretch out. Her palms facing the man in front of her. She stared at her hands as she slightly move it to inspect every angle of her hand. To test the functionality of her hands, she did a groping motion. The man in front of her looked at her weirdly and felt violated as her hands move in a groping motion.

While she was doing this, motion, the door swung open and a girl ran up to her with two other people following behind. The girl who broke in stopped midway as she watched the lady in bed doing a groping motion at the man in the white hanfu. The two people who was chasing the girl that broke in also stopped in their tracks as their eyes moved from the girl in bed to the man in white across from her. Their eyes moved back and forth in unison.

"M-Miss... what are you doing?" the man in the white hanfu finally broke the silence.

"Huh? Oh... n-nothing!"

The girl in bed brought her hand down and rested them on her bed and gave an awkward and forced smile.