Arc 2 Chapter 1

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To let him space: In a disagreement, you shall let the other party the time to cool down his anger and not barge in, hoping to be listened to.

***

With no feeling of dread, oblivious to any danger, Li Miao actually happily accepted the assistance’s explanations and upon hearing the content of the next lesson, displeasure laced her voice,

“What nonsense are you spouting? Short tempered? Me? I’m the most upright and patient person in Xuanjin’s life, alright?”

The assistance didn’t argue back, instead, the bright light in the room started to fade until complete darkness took its place. Then Li Miao opened her eyes, her mouth twitching. Instead of responding that thing actually directly sent her to that let-him-place lesson. Really senseless! Well, it served no purpose to stay angry, she rather experiments that lesson then.

Ignorance was sometimes bliss and some other times cheer foolishness.

The moment Li Miao opened her eyes, anxiety assaulted her, fear, despair and their friends, she felt it all at once. It was really different from the first world.  Foreign memories assaulted her and came in vagues making her gasped and crouched down trying to regain her breath. Trying to rationalize it, Li Miao thought that the emotions felt by this person at the time were so intense that even she as an exterior soul still was affected. She so desperately wanted to save her lover and this want was transmitted to Li Miao who, almost unconsciously brought lifted her right hand and with those long sharp nails, let it descend to her breast and dug out her heart. Despite the intense pain, the heart was cleanly taken out.

She stared at the still beating and bloody organ then lifted herself up.

She was in a small hut, and on the bed laid a panting man, on the verge of dying. Her hands still not really responding to her, she opened his chest with her sharp nail from where was oozing a sort of green energy and she proceeded to replaced his heart with hers. After which, with that same energy, she sewed him and healed him. Shortly afterward, his complexion got better.

She knelt and gasped then healed her own tormented chest. The heart wasn’t there anymore but as long as it was beating, even if it wasn’t inside her own chest she could still survive. Not eternally, for after six years, if she didn’t retrieve it her body would die but it was an emergency, she couldn’t wait or do anything other than that for the time being.

However, as long as she was near it, her body would unconsciously try to regain back its heart. She needed to further herself a bit. She had six years to find the correct medicine for him. Li Miao looked at the weak heart of the man and wrapped it inside a green energy. The moment she snapped her fingers, it disappeared from sight.

The body still not responding to her, she headed outside and towards the forest.

***

Five years later, Li Miao was finally in command of this body and understood its story. And more so, she understood the anger that this body was feeling.

Coming back from that trip, she just heard that the man she loved was with another.

If Chen Miao was a doting sister to the point of obsession, this one was an angry mad woman that turned her love into hatred. Not that Li Miao blamed her.

To be clear, the story she entered in this time was that of the hunter Arkbolt and the cleaner Scarlet. A cleaner was a demon’s hunter. Scarlet’s family had been massacred by a demon and since then, she had devoted herself to exterminated their whole nation into extinction. She met Arkbolt, a hunter as he went into the forest to hunt a game. At the time, she was fighting a particularly powerful demon who fled away once Arkbolt came closer. The hunter helped the injured woman and that was how their story started. They understood after spending some time together and him helping her around with demons that his constitution was special, demons were scared of him and his arrows actually easily killed them. Together, the massacred plenty of demons becoming a renown couple of cleaners. Their romance was on good track too, as they were even planning to get married. Everything was good until a woman of Arkbolt past came. It turned out she was demoness. And she wouldn’t take no for an answer. With a great deal of difficulty, the two people killed her off and celebrated their union. Their offspring became a particularly strong cleaner and killed the king of demons throwing their nation into chaos making it possible for the cleaners to exterminate them all.

This body’s name was Asa. A demoness. That very demoness from Arkbolt’s past. At the time she fell in love with a human and disguised herself as a human to stay with him. However, their sweet time together didn't last long, for he fell ill and no human treatments could save him. In despair, she revealed her truth to him and hearing him said he loved her no matter her race, she proceeded to give him her heart to prolong his life, while she went and found a medicine from the demon world.

However, as she had the last ingredient, and returned, she was welcomed with news of her lover being intimate with another woman and even planning a wedding. What was her sacrifice for then?

To leave him space, was this broken thing really thinking that she, Li Miao, would do some nonsensical things like these, seeking her own death? Since an alternative universe was created then let it be that in this one she reclaimed what she had given. He wanted to cheat, fine, let him return her heart first, quite literally!

Where would she remember that it was supposed to be a lesson? It was a reproduction of time and she’ll be damned before letting it happen!

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