A Tale of Chase and Love s1

After 3 minutes, Theresa stopped crying and wiped off her tears herself. Ren then made the same disguise that she used when she went out to the market this afternoon.

“Mistress, you’re good to go now. And one more thing, you’ll start cultivating as from tomorrow. By then, I will be your master in some kind of way.” said Ren.

Theresa did not think twice and quickly nodded. Then she ran off, following the direction of the location stone. When she had left, Ren smiled slyly.

“Mistress, it’s time for payback,” he thought.

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Outside the house, Theresa smiled.

“Yes, you’re all I have and my free money bank. Such a foolish boy!” she thought happily as she continued to follow the location stone’s direction.

This location stone was a cheap one so nobody bothered to steal it from her.

Theresa sighed as she put the location stone into her pocket. It took her almost an hour to locate Grandma’s home.

“Grandma’s home is really far from the market and yet she always goes there every day with those feeble bones. She needs someone to care for her at this age but here she is struggling to make ends meet.” Theresa thought and sighed.

She walked towards the little house made of bamboo and wood that the Grandma resided.

“Mama, how are you doing back there? I was wrong… I was wrong to disobey you. I shouldn’t have headed for the concert. Now.. we’re separated forever. Mother, I hope you can hold on. Mother…” Theresa was woken from her thoughts when she crashed to the ground unexpectedly.

That’s weird! How did she fall down? She wasn’t in any one’s way. Who would be so petty to push a weak girl like her down.? Theresa got up from the ground and patted off the dust on her clothes.

She then looked behind her and saw six men approaching. At this moment, her heart nearly leapt to her throat. What the hell is this again? Why is it that whenever she’s around Grandma there’s always some problems arriving? Though it was getting dark, she could see their mean expressions.

“Why carry such a scary face? I am an innocent girl. As they say, the innocent fears no accusation.” Theresa thought and then braced herself to meet the six men.

If it comes to worst, Ren will just save her. It’s really good to have a powerful guardian like Ren. Theresa began to retreat slowly but she stumbled on something and fell down. She then noticed that it was a sleeping python.

One thing that she dreads is a snake. Any type of snake be it real or fake. The last time she came in contact with one in the zoo, she had fainted because she saw it spit. Now there’s one this close to her. What should she do?

Faint? No, that wouldn’t be a good idea. Her body would be swallowed. Should she scream then? No, that’ll make Mr. Snakey angrier. She covered her mouth and slowly got up. She then ran towards the mean men.

“Help! Help!” she cried as she ran towards them with all her might.

The snake, however, just stayed there and did not bother to pursue her. It had a target and that was the wretched Grandma. Theresa hugged one of the men, her whole body shivering.

“What is it lass?” one of them carrying a spear asked.

“Snake, snake!” Theresa shouted and then pointed at where the snake once was but there was nothing there.

“I swear I saw it there. It wanted to bite me.” defended Theresa. The one she was hugging threw her harshly to the ground.

“Your tricks are pretty lame. Grandma will die today no matter what you do” the man said and then left with the others. They were heading for Grandma’s house in haste. One of them threw a spear that passed through one side of the house penetrating to the other side.

“That old witch dares to live here. She must be stupid.” one of them called Lu Jie. He is 7 ft tall and has a body like the dead Lu Chen. This Lu Jie is not from Lu Chen’s family but they just have the same surname. In Luo Ye, there are more than 80 families scattered all over with the name Lu.

The others with him currently, are his brothers. From their dressing, one would know they were rich though not as the noble families but the masses would cower in front of them since they were also cultivators.

When they were 3 feet away from the house, one of them gathered up green internal energy. This showed that he had the nature (vegetation) element. These kinds of people would be easily poached by any sect but if one doesn’t show it how would they know?

And how many powerful elders in the various sects want to go out on said leisure, and look out for these people? They were always busy day in day out. Also, they always held admissions once every year so those interested would go apply.

A lot of people in Luo Ye don’t even know how to access these sects except for the ones that are low-ranked or not yet ranked (unrecognized though not illegal).

These brothers probably might or might not belong to sects. Theresa who managed to rise up again from the ground was in a panic. Did they say they wanted Grandma dead? For what reason?

No, she can’t let this happen. She used the little strength she had to run towards them.

“Hey, you people!” she shouted as she ran. One of them turned back and cast a spell on her.

This spell is supposed to make her dumb but surprisingly there was a shield around her. The spell could only hit the shield and bounce back to its sender who marveled at what he had seen.

“Wow. It seems Grandma is sure nice to send this kind of person to us.” Lu Jie said when he turned and also saw this sight.

Theresa thought she was done for when she saw the spell coming for her but she was surprised at the barrier that covered her.

“Wow! This is amazing. If this is one of the benefits of being Ren’s accepted mistress then there is no problem” she thought happily.

Poor Theresa did not know that Ren had placed, an invisible hairpin on her head when he hugged her earlier and if there were three attempts made on the shield made from that golden hairpin, it would crash.

She confidently walked to them with a smile on her lips.

“Boys, you can’t hurt me.” she bragged.

“Lu Fan” Lu Jie called.

“Yes, big bro?” replied one who only had hair on the right side of his head and had a rough voice.

“Finish her off and don’t let her make noise” Lu Jie ordered and then turned around to proceed towards the entrance of the grandma’s house.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.