True Master

Zhen Xiu was helpless as she was in dangerous territory now. After all, nothing was more dangerous than love in this world. It makes your emotions high and is more powerful than any potent drug.

[Trust me, master. I can see that he cares for you.]

Zhen Xiu didn't know whether to believe Zoru or not. She was a person that believes in her own eyes and ears. So, no matter what Zoru says, she was not willing to understand it.

She didn't know what love was?

(I know that he cares for me but caring doesn't mean loving. My task is to make him fall in love with me.) She sighed helplessly.

Zoru felt bad for her, knowing that she was inexperienced and naïve in this department, he wanted to help her. He knew she was afraid of love, the unknown emotion that she has never faced in her life ever.

After going inside close door cultivation, he has stabilized himself and reached the second level of his life. Before he was a newborn baby and didn't have much intelligence in him but after this breakthrough to the first level he could see more things and knew more secrets behind this time travel of his master.

Zoru was astonished to know about this new secret. After all, he as her primordial spirit didn't know that the exchange of soul was meant to be, it was inevitable. This soul swap was bound to happen.

He was meant to be her spirit and she was, in reality, his actual true master. The previous master that he loved too much was just a fake, a replacement for his true master.

This was the reason behind his sudden change in behavior. Now he knew that from the starting he was unreasonable and judging. The way he behaved in the past that too with his true master, was something shameful for him.

He was serving the wrong person and unintentionally wronged his true master.

This was restricted information for a newborn like him. When he cleared his first breakthrough and succeeded in reaching the first level of his life; he was eligible to know about this secret.

Primordial spirit has five levels in their life. The first stage was of a new-born in which the intelligence level was lowest; the second stage was the first level when they truly get the knowledge of being a celestial spirit body and the intelligence level of the high entity. Currently, he was on this first level and eligible to know about these things.

He was foolish to behave like that in front of his true master. He was ashamed when he got to know about these things. He wanted to tell his master the truth that she was meant to come here and be his master; she was not a replacement but the true owner of primordial space but an invisible force was stopping him, not letting him spill the beans.

[Don't worry. You will not die. I know you can do it.] Zoru encouraged her.

(I know I can do it, little boy. Why are you suddenly being nice to me? No sarcasm, no old-master preaching and you are not even insulting me. What's wrong? Did you catch something?)

Zhen Xiu teased. She liked his new side but it was too fishy for her. Why was he behaving like a saint suddenly? Her cautious nature was telling her that something big was hiding in this new side.

Zoru's cheeks reddened in shame. He could not tell her the true reason, his pride won't allow him. [I am just doing my duty. You are my master I ought to follow you.]

Zhen Xiu rolled her eyes at his lame excuse. (Yeah, yeah! I know! If you don't want to tell me, then don't. You can't even properly lie without being caught.)

[No, it's true. I was stupid before and I will never repeat it again; I promise.]

(We will see.) Zhen Xiu snickered.

"So, Lu Jian, tell me. What are your plans?" Zhen Xiu asked him directly after finishing her conversation with Zoru.

Jiang Wui came near and stood between them. "I think she is right. It's been too long that she has to suffer from their evil plots."

He can understand that she must be feeling way out of control to see the culprits behind her humiliation. If he was in her position and has to see their ugly faces every day just so that he can entertain their insanity he would have lost it. They need to clean the house permanently.

"I know but I don't understand why my mother will do something like this to you? I can understand that Shen Rui will try extreme methods to remove you from my life but mother….."

Lu Jian was with them and he believed in punishing those culprits for the sake of his wife. He was a principled man that can never tolerate backstabbers and dirty-schemers in his personal life. He was confused about his mother and her strange behavior.

He knew that she was a cold and materialistic woman. For her, he was not her son but a chip to maintain her position as Madam Lu. She has always been like this, unfeeling and strict towards him but he even if he ignored her still treated her as his mother.

What was her reason behind all this? What will she get in harming Zhen Xiu?

Zhen Xiu can see the conflict in his eyes and felt bad for him. She knew how it feels when it comes to mother; her own experience was rather bad. This must be difficult for Lu Jian to accept that his mother was a bad person and has no morals.

Jiang Wui knew what Lu Jian meant; after all, he has treated mother Lu as his own mother and to see her dark side; they naturally felt bad.

"If you are troubled by this I can help you. You don't need to know anything. I and Xiu will do the work alone." Jiang Wui suggested.

Zhen Xiu agreed. "Yeah, it's fine. I can deal with her."

Lu Jian can see that they were trying to console him and giving him a free way to not see the horrible side of the woman he knew as his mother.

He was not a man that will run away when a problem arises.

He will face this on and give justice to his wife. He has wronged her before and even allowed others to walk over her but no more; never! Will he give anyone a chance to do this again? This was a promise to himself.

"No, I will be with you. It's a promise." Lu Jian gently vowed. He skimmed through her hair, feeling her presence.

"Well, I think you have made the right choice." Jiang Wui commented and pulled Zhen Xiu away from Lu Jian.

"Now! Don't be cheesy. I can't handle this much dog food alone."