Past

Wang YiJun blinks. 

The princess smirks, side-eyeing the door; she unties YiJun. "Prince YiJun, you will only see me, and you will only hear me."

"Mn."

"Now, Embrace me." The princess orders. 

YiJun hugs her. 

"Good boy. Now, take off your clothes. Let me see how your body looks under all those layers of clothes."

The princess takes a few steps back as YiJun starts to undress. 

She turns and walks towards the door. A few guards follow her with their eyes.

There, in semi-darkness, stands a gagged and bound Xiao Xian with tears rolling down his face.

"I told you he is mine now. Once I have looked at his body, I will touch him. And then, I will ask him to undress me, and fuck me. Trust me, boy, he will do it. And when he cums deep inside me, he will call my name. Loverboy, do you believe me now, or do you want to see more?" The princess whispers in Xiao Xian's ears.

Xian violently shakes his head.

"I knew it."

The princess steps back, and the guards take Xian away, closing the door behind them.

She turns to look at YiJun, who is only wearing his lower garments now. She gestures the other guards to leave too.

Except one, everyone leaves.

"You are not needed here." She says to the only remaining guard. 

"Princess, the king has ordered me never to leave your side." the guard says resolutely.

"Fine." The princess sighs and starts walking towards YiJun.

"Su Shin... " Shen speaks suddenly, "If you have him, then you don't need me anymore. Let me out. Let me fight him. If I die, you would have nothing to lose, and if he dies, you will know that I am better than him."

"All these years, you resisted me, and now, all of a sudden, you want me to choose you? Why?" The princess stops and looks at Shen. 

"I just want him dead," Shen says, banging his hands against the cage.

"Damn it, Shen!" The princess curses and turns to look at Shen.

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YiJun moves quick. He immediately unsheathes a knife and plunges it in Su Shin's abdomen. 

"Ahhhhh!" The princess screams. She turns to face YiJun and staggers a few steps back.

The guard attacks YiJun, and the two begin to fight.

"This is not possible." The princess shakes her head in disbelief.

With just a knife at his disposal, YiJun disarms and kills the guard, before advancing towards the princess.

The princess doesn't retreat like YiJun had hoped. She smiles, "You fool." She chuckles before advancing towards YiJun, who aims the knife at her heart and attacks, but Su Shin holds his wrist and twists it. 

YiJun winces; he hears his wrist bone crack. 

Su Shin pulls YiJun close. YiJun tries to resists but fails. The princess's fingers make their way into YiJun's hair. She pulls his head to a side, exposing his neck, and sinks her teeth into it.

YiJun screams. His legs feel heavy, and he sways. The princess pushes him away, and he falls to his knees. "You could have had it all. But you chose death instead." The princess states, before turning to Shen and throwing a key towards him. 

"You wanted to kill him, right? Here is your chance. Now that both of you are weak, the fight will be even."

Shen catches the keys and opens the cage. But instead of walking towards a bleeding YiJun, as the princess had expected, he immediately shifts into his wolf form and attacks Su Shin, bitting her neck and ripping out her blood vessels.

Blood starts oozing out of her eyes and ears along with her neck, drenching her wedding gown in red.

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The Su Shin's eyes widen in shock before her eyes close.

Shen shifts back to his human form and runs to YiJun.

"YiJun... " Shen whispers, holding his nephew's body in his arms.

"Uncle, will I die now?" YiJun asks as black spider-web like lines crawl out of the place the princess had bitten him, and climb over his neck and shoulders.

"I don't think so. I think you are changing."

"Did she never bite you?" YiJun asks.

"No, she didn't. I think she was scared that it might kill me. I have heard that only a few can survive her bite. And I think you will survive. Our blood is strong." Shen answers.

All of a sudden, YiJun feels a stabbing pain in his heart. 

"Uncle, please help me. Help me get to Xian. He saw me embracing the princess. He might have gotten the wrong idea." YiJun begs.

"Stay here, and I will bring him to you."

"No, uncle, he will not believe you. You have to take me to him." YiJun explains, trying to stand up. But even before he can sit up straight, he feels his throat constrict, a strangling sensation. He struggles, gasping for air.

"YiJun, what is it? Does it hurt? Say something." Shen asks, trying to calm the younger man down without success.

Suddenly, YiJun stops moving and loses conciseness.

"YiJun! Wake up." Shen shakes the younger man's shoulder, but YiJun remains motionless.

Present 

*Jiang Residence around 10 pm.*

Wei Xian's phone rings.

"Wei gege, it's me, Mianmian." the voice on the other end speaks in a clear tone.

"You should be sleeping, young lady. What are you still doing up?" Wei Xian enquires.

"Wei gege, I told you a couple of hours ago that Jiang Cheng and four of my other friends will be spending the night at my place for finishing the assignments. Gege, I think you should see a doctor about your memory problem." Mianmian teases.

"Hahaha. Very funny. By the way, why did you call so late in the night."

"Gege, Jiang Cheng's laptop crashed because of... "

Before Mianmian can finish, there is a shuffling noise at the other end, and then Jiang Cheng speaks. 

"Wei Xian, there is a problem with my laptop. Can you get my back up drive here? It's on my desk."

"Jiang Cheng, at least ask me politely," Xian suggests, smiling affectionately. 

'This boy...I wonder why his laptop crashed?'

"Please, Wei Xian, you know we will be in trouble if we don't hand it over tomorrow. Moreover, you always say that you are my right-hand man. Can't you even do this much for me?" Jiang Cheng pleads.

"I will be there in twenty," Xian says before cutting the call and dressing himself in a simple White T-shirt and pajama pants. 

He thinks of informing Yanli that he will be stepping out for a bit, but when he finds her, she is sleeping with their parent's photo album in her lap. Xian decides against waking her up. 'I will be back in an hour. Shijie won't even know that I had stepped out at night.'

He picks the drive from Jiang Cheng's room and heads out to Mianmian's house on his bicycle.

Xian is used to riding his bicycle, so riding it for twenty minutes was not an issue. The problem was that he had not estimated that it would be cold outside. To add to that was the fact that Xian hated the dark, and he hated venturing out alone after sunset, so he seldom went out after 9 pm. Thus, after a few minutes, he starts feeling cold; he contemplates riding back and grabbing his jacket, but he decides to endure the cold instead. By the time he reaches Mianmian's house, he feels like an ice cube.

"Gege, it was dumb of you to step outside without as much as a jacket," Mianmian scolds, handing over a cup of hot chocolate to Xian, her tone reminds him of Yanli.

Xian smiles affectionately. 

"It's ok. Really. Thank you for the hot chocolate."

"Xian, why don't you stay here for the night? You can take Jiang Cheng back with you at dawn." Mianmian's mother suggests.

"Thank you for the offer, aunty, but Shijie is at home alone. I need to go back. Jiang Cheng, be more careful next time. And be ready at dawn."

"At least take this." Mianmian's mother hands over a spare jacket to Xian.

Xian wears the jacket, bows to Mianmian's parents, and leaves.

*Somewhere in a poor neighborhood, between dark alleys*

A middle-aged man walks out of a small house. He has bruises on his knuckles.

He starts walking with sure steps towards his destination. He doesn't realize that a man dressed in black is following him.

The man in black is on the hunt again, and the man walking just a few meters ahead of him is his prey for the night.

{Note:- Word count 1498

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