"Don't you remember me, I am Jia Yu, the girl who helped you when you were shared because you were rejected by a girl in high school," he was so cute then that she couldn't help herself after he was stoned with eggs and flour because he dared to ask out one of the popular girls in the school and ever since then, he had a crush on her until she rejected him.

"We would have invited you to our wedding if we knew you were back," he placed his hand on her shoulder while she held his waist.

"We will head off now to enjoy the rest of our honeymoon," both of them waved him a sassy goodbye then he tied the towel around her waist but as they were about to go past him, Ji Chen intentionally nudged his shoulder, causing him to fall into the pool but they still left as if nothing happened.

He wriggled his arms and legs as he struggled to float on the pool due to his aquaphobia but his assistant quickly came to his rescue, he looked around to find everyone laughing at him. Had he known it was Jia Yu whom he used to stalk and send creepy messages under hidden identity, he would never have approached her.

The only reason he went abroad is that he gave her a teddy bear with a hidden camera with it and it was discovered by Yu Yan so they called the police on him but they told Ji Chen the story in university and his identity.

She hit his chest lightly for the stunt he pulled when they were almost leaving.

"How could you not recognise him immediately?"

"Do you think I have enough space in my brain for someone irrelevant? but how did you know it was him, I only remember telling you about it but I never showed you his picture.

He held her hand as they strolled on the sandy area of the resort.

"Yu Yan showed me the group picture you took and she specifically showed me his picture,"

"He was fat when we took the pictures so how did you..?"

"Let's just say I am a genius,"

She clicked her teeth.

"Narcissist,"

*********

Sect leader Lin and the first elder entered the entrapment then they made their way to his cell, unlike before when he has his heart filled with hope as soon as he hears the gate creak, he doesn't even feel anything anymore except for pain, frustration and anger.

"Bohai," his father called, standing at the entrance of the cell with the first elder beside him.

He recognised the voice, he was already expecting his father to see him in person instead of sending his messages through Xiaomeng.

After all, it has been so long since he has been resisting the pill..

His eyes had already turned red and he had bruises on his lips from the biting, his face even looks scarier than a ghost.

"Father, you are finally here," he responded.

Sect leader Lin walked closer to him then he stopped when he got to his front, he raised his eyes to see the shackles already about to be broken off, from just that he can tell just how much Bohai struggled to not give in to his desires.

"Why are you still resisting?" he asked, feigning pity in his eyes.

"Father wants me to kill the woman I love for power so how can I not resist with everything I have?" he smiled with much effort.

He lowered his head but sent a slap across his face as soon as he raised his gaze, even the first elder shuddered at the sound of his slap.

"Useless fool!"

He gripped his jaw tightly.

"If I can imprison you here then I can kill you on a whim or do you think this father doesn't dare to kill his own son?" he threatened, if his son already knows his true nature then there is no need to hide anymore, all he needs to do is have the power in his hands.

"Go ahead...kill me," he hissed back.

He scoffed.

"Mr desires, my desires, my desires! how do you know what I truly want?" he screamed as though he has been saving his strength just for this moment, Meng Hui keeps trying to use his desires as a facade to tempt him into doing something so despicable but he doesn't believe he has such desires to the point where he will sacrifice his humanity for power.

"Because you are just like me," sect leader Lin retorted, gripping his jaw tighter.

"You can and you will do anything you can to succeed in ruling over the whole world as long as it is within your reach,"

He cackled at the absurdity of what his father is saying to him, if he is just the same as him then why hasn't he gotten the power for himself?

He doesn't believe that his father really intends to leave the chance to him.

"Then why haven't you taken that power that you want so much for yourself? with your cultivation, the moment you get her power you will surely become the most powerful cultivator in the world,"

"Because you are my blood and my legacy, if you can get the power then I will have no reason to worry about the future of the wind sect,"

"Please leave, until you smell my corpse don't come back unless you plan to let me go," he will never forgive his father for this not even after he dies, he knows his father plans to be the sole owner of the martial world and the court and he has never thought anything less of his father's ambition yet he wants to use his own son to get the power he needs.

Even if he really wants him to take the power, he is sure there is something else involved.

Sighing, he turned to leave with the first elder but he stopped at the entrance of the cell then glanced at him from the corner of his eyes.

"Your fate and the fate of the entire sect is in your hands, I am just doing this to protect us," he remarked then closed the door to the cell, subjecting him to the darkness he has already gotten to.

As though the pill was waiting for the sect leader to leave before it starts its fiasco again, the pain started crawling up his body again and his eyes went bloodshot. He spread his shackled hands and screamed his throat out because of the unbearable pain that feels worse than death but not worse than not being able to see her again.

He might have very little time with her and he might have envied her but none of this means he doesn't love her...at least that is what he believes.

"I love Huo Lan, I will never hurt her!" he screamed to strengthen his determination as that is the sentence he has been screaming whenever the pain strikes.

******

Huo Ying has been kneeling for days so her mother can release Huo Lan from the confinement but she still hasn't shown her face and she hasn't heard anything from her, Huo Qiang has been coming every day to make her leave since it is no use but she refused.

"Huo Ying," he called in a pleading tone as he knelt in front of her.

"If you want to beg me to leave then don't bother wasting your time,"

"If you won't leave and you won't let me kneel with you then there is only one way," he stood up then walked towards the chamber.

"Huo Qiang, don't!" Huo Ying yelled but he had already knocked on the door to her chambers.

"Sect madam, please release Huo Lan from her confinement," he pleaded with his voice raised so she can hear him, he repeated himself for a while but he didn't get any response so he rushed back to Huo Ying.

"When last did anyone enter her chamber?" he asked

"Ever since she confined Huo Lan, she ordered that no one disturbs her, what is it?"

He gave it a thought, the sect madam might be very decisive but she won't confine one child and leave the other kneeling in front of her chamber for days despite the cold, he turned towards the door with an alarmed look on his face.

"Oh no," he ran back to the door then pushed it open while Huo Ying followed him with her feeble body, he stood at the entrance with his eyes widened.

"Sect madam!" he screamed then dashed towards her, Huo Ying also followed him in fear that something bad must have happened to her mother but she was shocked to see her body lying on the floor with her face sweaty and blood at the corner of her lips.

He held her body in his arms, it appears that she must have collapsed during her meditation.

"I will call the elders," Huo Ying said

"No...." she muttered weakly as she regained consciousness.

"Mother,"

"No one should know of this,"