A Tale of Chase and Love s1

Currently in Long Ren’s spatial ring.

Theresa found herself in a very nice garden full of rich qi that made her wanna immediately sit down to meditate but she fought the urge to do so. She was here for something more important and that is, to get to know her pets better.

She put the books on the grass and sat. A cool breeze caressed her being and made her chuckle for a while. How nice it felt here!

“Now which story to go through first? By right, it should be Long Ren then Ju Wei and finally, Bai Lu Chen. But according to age, Bai Lu Chen is first and Ju Wei is last.” she took an unknown flower with brown and yellow petals and began to peel them while muttering: “Age, Contract.”Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

In the end, the contract was the winner so she decided to pick Long Ren’s book and opened the first page.

Immediately, light radiated from the book and she vanished.

Opening her eyes again, Theresa found herself in a forest.

“This, how did I get here? What’s this place?” Theresa was alarmed.

Not far off, she heard some pitiful cries and ran over only to see a couple on the ground holding hands and transferring some kind of energy she didn’t know about into the forehead of a cute boy that lay between them. He was about to die and his parents were trying to save him at all costs.

Theresa gasped and ran over worriedly, hoping to be able to help in some way.

“Excuse me, Sir, Ma’am. Please is there any way I can help you?” she asked but she was shocked when none of them even looked at her say less of reply.

‘Excuse me! Hello? You guys can’t hear or what? Even if you are both deaf at least you can feel my presence right? Why are you two ignoring me? I mean no harm.” she said but still they didn’t pay attention to her.

“What exactly is wrong?” Theresa was perplexed.

“Brother Long, will he be fine?” the lady who was very weak, managed to speak.

“Hey, you can speak and can hear too. Why pretend that you can’t hear me?” Theresa was unhappy but this wasn’t time to show it. She squatted and tried to touch the dying boy but was stunned when her hands passed through the boy.

“Eh?” she became alarmed.

She checked out herself and found all to be fine. Then, why couldn’t she touch the boy? She tried to touch the mother too but it was the same.

“What nonsense?” she spat.

So she’d have to stand there without being able to help out in any way? Damn it! She folded her arms and began to think.

“Our dear Ren’er is a strong boy. He carries my demon fox blood. He’ll surely survive.” said the father who possessed brown hair with a red tip.

Hearing the word, something clicked in Theresa’s mind.

“Ah, I got it.” she smacked herself in the head.

How could she not have known? She must surely be in Long Ren’s book containing his story. She can’t interfere as it’s being shown to her.

Now that she’d realized, she sat at a corner and watched the scenes unfold before her, not forgetting to take some strawberries outta her ring to pass the time.

The couple who were dying managed to save the boy and happiness could be seen in their tired eyes.

“I’ve given him my green fire. He’ll do great things with it and make it famous.” said the man with a smile.

“Brother Long, I also gave him my true mermaid fire. It should complement yours. This way he can always recall us.” the purple-haired lady also said.

At this moment, the little kid with magenta hair opened his eyes and immediately rose, wiping blood from the corner of his mouth.

“Papa, Mama, what happened to you? I’m sorry, Ren’er let you down.” the kid began to weep.

“Shush! Don’t say that. Mom and I will always be proud of you. Recall that we love you. You are our sweetest thing in life.” the father spoke and managed to caress the boy’s face with trembling hands.

“Papa, Mama, you’ll come with me to meet grandpa right? He can save you.” the kid was hopeful. He held back his tears and tried to look strong.

“Now that’s a good boy. Recall not to cry too much. I don’t want you to lose your eyesight before you become a great man.” his mum advised and also kissed him on the cheeks.

“Remember, we love you!” they both whispered before they fell to the ground and transformed into their true selves. His dad was a white fox with a red moon mark on his forehead, while the mom was a beautiful pink and purple-tailed mermaid princess.

“Papa, Mama, why did you transform into your true selves? Change back and let’s go find grandpa, please.” the boy urged.

He was getting really scared.

“Baby, you’re never gonna be alone. Keep that in mind okay?” his dad said with a tired smile and both breathed their last holding fingers.

“Mama, Papa, don’t scare me. Wake up, wake up!” the boy cried but there was no answer.

After a while, the corpses of his parents became willows that the wind blew away. Seeing this, the boy sniffed and rose from the ground, placed a hand on his chest and looked at the sky with resolution.

“To the mermaid and fox tribes, I make this vow today, that any human who crosses my path with the idea of getting hands-on me, kind or not, I will kill them till there’s no one left. Mama, Papa, I will avenge your deaths. I promise you.”

The kid’s eyes then turned red, shocking Theresa who had been trying not to react ever since.

“What the hell?” she muttered. She felt an inexplicable feeling. Like something drastic was about to happen.

And she was right!

Something did happen and it was really drastic and gory. She almost couldn’t bring herself to stare at the scene of men and women corpses littering the village they were in currently.

The culprit was still in savage mode when an old man similar to Long Hua Ming appeared.

“Grandson, sleep till we get home. Relax,” he said gently and the kid fell asleep. The old man picked the kid up and vanished.

Then Theresa got to the scenes of the kid mourning his parents for quite a long time and the old man just leave him be.

A small vortex then opened and sucked her in. She didn’t resist for she knew she’d come out of the story soon and maybe this was the only way.

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Theresa found herself back in the garden. Long Ren’s book on her hands was now sealed by a technique. It glowed for a few seconds before the light faded. Sigh! She couldn’t open it even if she wanted to.

So she gently placed it on the grass and picked Ju Wei’s book to take a look at. That spirit was a headache giver and she wondered what was his roots all along. She now has the chance so she’s gonna see how he became that way.

Some drug addicts and law offenders had traumatic experiences. Maybe Ju Wei was like that.

She exhaled and opened Ju Wei’s book and immediately the book glistened and she felt a force suck her into a mini vortex that had formed atop the book.

She didn’t resist it and just went with the flow with closed eyes.

When she finally crashed to a hard floor, she opened her eyes and was greeted with a harmonious scene.