A blessing in disguise
The elder of the Fox clan knew what the other elders were thinking of him but he didn't care, he only dared. Better sorry than regretful. He grabbed Lily's hand and stopped her in her steps.
"So young lass, you still had not answered my question?"
Lily had her eyes rounded with surprise. She was cursing her Master in her heart! Not even a day had passed and her beauty had already landed her in trouble!
She pleadingly looked at her Master to get her out of this bind but the Master of the valley wasn't paying attention to her.
"So lass, what do you say? My eldest grandson is the most sought bachelor of the Valley, you would not regret it!"
"...!!!!" What should she say? Lily was definitely not ready to be married, especially to someone she never met. Besides, Ran was engaged to SongJae! But wait, were Ran and SongJae already engaged in the timeline of this memory?
"I am engaged already!" The words were spit out before she could think it properly. All the people in the room gasped in surprise, including the elder that was so adamant in bringing her into his family.
The Master who had not paid attention at all, finally raised his eyes to look at them. They didn't know why but they clearly felt The temperature in the office dropping quite a few degrees.
"Haven't this Lord been clear enough? What are you still dawdling here for?" He said very coldly. With a fling of his hand, Lily was pushed outside of the room in an instant by the residual force of the hand's movement and the door was slammed behind her with a big "Bang" sound.
Lily was relieved but at the same time was feeling at loss. She had been rude but she didn't think she deserved that kind of treatment. Looking at the door with a complicated gaze, she finally decided against barging back to give her piece of mind!
Since it was still bright outside, she decided she wanted to explore the Valley. Being here for god knows how many days, she had only seen the Master's manor. She needed to broaden her horizons, maybe that would help her with cultivating? Besides she was quite curious about this Valley now. Even though, everyone she met felt and looked like human beings, at the same time they didn't seem to be. It was quite unsettling. For instance, she was certain her Master was a celestial being.
In any case, she needed to explore more. So, she headed to the gates but was promptly stopped by the guards. Initially, they were stunned by her out of the world appearance. Such a beauty, they had never seen someone like her! But still orders were orders and they were all quite loyal.
"Young miss can not leave!" They said it on a respectful tone.
"I'm not a prisoner! Why can't I leave?" Lily said softly.
Even her voice had become alluring! What this also part of the change?!? Lily was quite unwilling.
"Without Master's permission, no one is to exit the domain!" They said unanimously with conviction.
Lily knew she wouldn't be able to exit through the gates. The guards were really firm in their answer. Lily walked back and headed to her pavilion. But if you can't go through the gates, you can always climb up the walls no? So, far from giving up Lily was even more determined to go out.
At the last moment, instead of entering her pavilion, she walked towards the walls that were behind the pavilion. Looking left and right to make sure she wouldn't be discovered, she tried climbing the walls. Her first few attempts were unsuccessful as the wall was quite slippery but on her 10th attempted, she finally made it. As she was in a hurry, Lily didn't pay attention to where she would landed on the other side and she just jumped down blindly, or more accurately she just fell down. As she was expecting to fall on the hard ground, she actually landed on something really...soft? That was moving?! Wait a minute that can't be normal! Lily was almost afraid to find out but she quickly glanced down and realized she had...