112 Chapter 112

He was chasing after her in the court where the ground was in blocks of large gray tiles. At the same time the place was used for a bit of garden by the servant.

With gravel rocks build up all around to fence away the area for the vegetables. But there was nobody at the moment to disturb their play.

"Finally got you," Tony tells her as he shifts in front of her, almost touching the shoulder of her Han style dress.

Her heart was beating loudly as she noticed the hand reaching close to her. For the moment she tries to stop herself on the track; however, her running created too much of a momentum.

When she decided to move backwards her left feet got caught in the horizontal slip crack of a tile. "No!" she shouts, still with her attention on her lost as Tony's hand was only a centimeter away.

Her body falls down in a slow motion before Tony's eyes. As her head is about to reach the ground Tony sees the stone in linear order to which her head lands.

The fall was like a familiar nightmare in which she couldn't control her body as it descended backwards into the unknown darkness below the high cliff. Closing her eyes as Tony reaches close to grab hold of her.

In the silent darkness of closed eyes Tony's voice calls out, "You alright?"

Her heart was fluttering from the fear as when she wakes up every night in fear from the nightmare. The same nightmare with the face which she yearns to be close to like a past ghost haunting her every night.

Opening her eyes slowly she caught the dashing image of a man looking after her with eyes of worry and care.

Sob Sob

She sniffs as the uncontrollable sad emotion that awash her heart every night erupts at this moment under his observant eyes. A single drop of tear slid down her glossy long eyelashes of her left eye.

"It's alright I'm here with you," Tony tells her reassuringly as he wipes away her teardrop which slides down her flowering cheek. 'Isn't her innocence as lovely as the first bloom of early spring. Yet she bears alone the pain of the world on her shoulders.'

To stop the tear slipping down her sorrowful face Tony's willing to give up the whole world in exchange. She's like a fallen angel without her wings descending from the sky.

'If there's nothing missing in my life then why do these tears come at night,' her eyes drop down to unavoid Tony glance as she turns her head away in her independent nature.

For some strange reason the sympathy in heart flowed to Tony's every limps as he was gripped with the powerful emotions to protect this tearful angel. His hands wrapped around her shoulders in a hug turning her into his deep embrace in surprise.

"I will never abandon you nor leave you alone," Tony promises her, his heart melting for the pain that burrowed inside her.

He could still remember his foolishness when he chose to abandon himself to his own death. The hopelessness as his addiction to drugs wiped his inner vision of light. Leading him onto a lonely path of darkness.

At first she tried to push away, not bearing for anyone to know this vulnerable side to her. But given up the resistance accepting the warm embrace.

She can trust this stranger for an unknown reason, a familiarity that allows her to slide down her large pride that wouldn't have allowed anyone else.

His words were of integrity resounding in her empty mind. Finally a realization came to her. Saying to Tony in a whisper, "So it was you?"

She remembers the pair of piercing eyes of the man in the morning that looked with care as he holds her in his embrace. A moment that she let go of all the guardedness.

"Master Zidu?" a voice calls out from above that broke the serene moment.

The maid saw on the stone floor their body smacked together with Tony on top of Miss Wu. Holding the proud girl in his tight embrace.

Hearing the voice Zetian notices the maid in the distance looking on in a state of awkwardness not knowing how to treat this situation.

Immediately her face reddens in proud embarrassment and pushes Tony away, "Get away you bastard. Lili listen, this is not what it seems."

Getting up from the ground Tony dust away his clothing and came to greet the maid whose ears are red from seeing the 'indecent scene' between the two.

"Hello Miss we see again so soon," Tony bows in a polite way as though nothing had happened between him and Zetian.

He didn't care about the weird expressions Zetian was making to him with her face like a signal to help her explain things.

He asks with care pretending not to understand, "My dear disciple is your face okay? You seem to have quite the twitch there."

"I'll get you for this," Zetian says beneath which only Tony could hear. Staring holes into his face with annoyance and embarrassment.

"Zetian you don't have to explain anything. It's so obvious," the young maid says with laughter at the comedic harmony between the two. There was an understanding stemming from their long friendship together.

"Lili, Master Zidu was simply sheltering me from a fall,�� Zetian made an expression of honesty as she tried to explain to her maid.

Covering her smile the young maid tells in a soft manner, "I'm only here to tell you that dinner is prepared already."

With a slight curtsy the bashful maiden runs off to avoid feeling more the awkwardness from barging into the sweet moment before.

Zetian pouts with annoyance as he hits Tony in the arm in anger, "Look what you did."

"Can't you have more respectful for your master," Tony tells her as he pretends to wrap his damaged arm