[[~?????? P.o.v.~]]: Somewhere deep into the mountain...

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! HELP ME!!!" A loud scream interrupted my reading, I stood up in shock at the noise and decided to see where did that scream come from; Searching for the loud scream from before that I left my Mansion in the hands of my trusted servant, Yin Yu. Minutes later, I came to the worst timing of a pack of wolves was chewing on their dead meal. Then the minute I was about turned to ask the human to leave if he was alright, however, it started to whimper in fear that he looks around 3 or 4, rushings towards her side as green veins had already started to pop out of nowhere giving signs of the poison in her system have already started to spread and I later spotted three wolf bites all over her faces, legs, and arms; My crimson eyes widen in shock that I whistled them to come here and shot one glare at all of them in which, the wolves bowed their heads in shame. "Leave. Now." I growled. The wolves started to run away from me while leaving the child alone, walking closely to their meal I immediately saw a pool of blood in front of me only this time it wasn't a bride; It was a little girl."Are you alright, little one?" I questioned her in worry in my voice,  she looks up to get a better view of me but I notice her vision was getting blurry that she couldn't see me well; As well as the bite wounds had already gotten into her system just now. 

The little girl coughs out blood all over her ragged clothes and tries to reach out to me with her small hands which were nearly to drop on the red pool of blood also, I manage to hold her hand gently essentially to be sure she isn't hurt in which, she spoke in a stuttering sentence: "H-h-h-hell-lp..me, please.." Those were her last words going unconscious, her big green eyes were beginning to lose the balance of staying awake and falling asleep instead, she slowly closes my eyes fell into the endless hole of darkness. "I will help you, little one," I told her in a whisper, still kneeling at her side I slowly carried the little girl bridal style, the blood pole was dripping all over my robes but I didn't care about it; What matters is that she needs to survive and be taken care of as she keeps breathing in and out rapidly.

Time skip~Paradise Manor

After hours of walking back to my Paradise Manor, carrying the little girl in my arms as she starts to feel the sharp pain inside her chest that I would need to inspect it sooner or later, but for now, she needs rest from all the danger in the Ghost Realm, moreover, the little girl wasn't strong enough to handle this kind-of-poisoning. "Gege.." She whimpers over and over while tears started falling through her eyes while they were close, I never complained about it although, this one is interesting...somehow, kept thinking about it whenever I should or shouldn't have to worry so much:' She's too young to die & yet,...she is still breathing. What was this little girl doing walking alone in the dark path all by herself?' Questions came rapidly through my mind that I couldn't answer in the time since I was waiting for his highness (A/N: YOU KNOW WHO!) to return to the mortal realm. Fortunately, my heart started to pound as I stopped my steps from walking towards my Mansion.

"Welcome home, Mast-." "Yin Yu, I need you to take care of her while I'm out." I cut off his sentence before he can welcome me back to the Mansion by giving him my orders, he began noticing my actions, and without hesitation, he clearly understood what I meant since I'm still holding the injured girl in my arms from wolves that had almost eaten her alive. Yin Yu, however, looked confused but asked: "So, where shall I place her, Master?"  "Oh, while I'm out. I continued, "Make sure to tend to her wounds properly before I come back, clear?" "Of course, master." He replied with a nod while I immediately disappear into thin air, searching for the antidote so the poison stops spreading to the poor girl. Leaving only the small fragile little girl to my trusted servant Yin Yu, who had started tending to her injuries. While I left straight out of the guest room, transforming into my true form once again that I was beginning to feel more worried than before. I don't know why but it has something to do with...No I couldn't possibly care for a human. Great, now I sound like a real monster yet again, she's so fragile and too little to die. I can't let her die like this and I cannot leave her in this state. We'll, I will sacrifice my soul to save no matter what.

This problem of mine doesn't matter to me, what really matters is that I need to reach in every bookshelf to find a medicine book in the Library since it has great knowledge for cures of any kind to slow the poisoning down. One minute later, I came back and gave the medicine book to my trusted servant Yin Yu, who damped some wet cold cloth on top of the little girl's head; Standing from tending her injuries, I nodded at him by giving him the medicine book so that he can start preparing the cure of the poisoning. Once he left, I heard a small whimper next to me and notice that: 'She's in so much pain and yet, *caress her hair* Nevermind.' With that, I gently smiled at her sleeping form and took the wet cloth from her forehead, soaking it back into the cold water, and then placed it once more on the little girl's head.

[[~Little girl's pov~]]: (Click video)

Fluttering my green eyes open, I began to sit up until I felt something on my neck and hissed at myself because of the pain that had gotten me from the wolves earlier, wait! That must be it, maybe the wolves are not what they seem to be and; Somehow, a flashback of my memory remembered someone *flashes of the man in red* is he the one that saves me? 'Huh? I'm in bandages? Who or what healed me? I need to find the answers.' Thinking at first, but continue to stand up carefully as soon as I touched the ground, my feet tripped but, I manage to get up fast by calming myself again and again, 'deep breath, deep breath'. "Where...Where am I? Hello?" I called out quietly not to disturb anyone but no one was around except for crimson red curtains that hang around me and without any thought about it, I tried to find an exit but suddenly, from the corner of my eye, I saw:

"A butterfly?" I asked in shock but, I smiled at it and decided to chase it, standing up from the bed I decide to reach out to touch the silver butterfly, it flies around the room, leading me somewhere around this room or place that couldn't think of, I felt excited to chase it all the way downstairs and didn't care about where I am but still, curiosity hadn't gotten to me as it finally lands on a gentle finger. Gasped in Belvidment, I stopped chasing the silver butterfly and tried to ask but, I ended up saying: "Where..." With a hesitant look on my face, a sudden breeze came of nowhere, perhaps from the windows, and blew the red curtains along with bells ringing with a beautiful melody that I don't know of; It almost sounded like a child singing through the sounds. The red velvet curtains that were covering the entire room had suddenly revealed a man in red robes, he looks extremely handsome and beautiful, his skin is pale as ice, his long hair was black as the shadows with a widow's peak on his forehead; He wore maple-red robes with silver vambraces and black boots decorated with silver chains. But, there was one lock of hair that was braided on the right side of his face almost showing a red pearl along with an eyepatch that's covering his right eye. There was something written, underneath the vambraces on his left forearm that says 'Xie Lian', and on the color of the left side of his arm was black and in red ink on his right arm. 

"Hello little one, I hope you are feeling better after you're encounter with the wolves back there.~" Spoke in a husky voice, I blushed and swung my gaze away while nervously glancing at him again only this time, I rubbed my left arm up and down in embarrassment since I have never gotten myself use to meeting noble people like...To be honest, this savior is the first noble I had ever met: 'Um...this is really difficult to look at my savior like this but, he did save me. I can try to consider him a friend.'  Sweatdrop at myself that I almost wanted to faint in front of him, I shyly replied by averting my eyes at his red ones: "W-where am I? W-who a-are you?" I stammered out loud only making him chuckle at the sound of my voice since I stammered like a total idiot, he, on the other hand, took a cup of tea from the table and sips it slowly by responding to my question: "You don't know who I am? Isn't that interesting." The man in the red robes asked in surprise at my question, I hesitantly shook my head at him which made him smirk even bigger, and I replied with a soft voice: "Should I know who you are, sir?" I raised an eyebrow at the man with a questioning look on my face.

Being polite is the best way to talk to another person, that's what Miss Xiao Ying told me, the man in red made a fake shocking gasp (which by the way, is a sarcastic way of teasing the little girl) and stand up from his chair, walks around, and then looks at me from down to up as if he was checking on me I felt not scared but somehow, it feels like I can trust him and be safe from danger when I am around him; Anyways, I coughed and asked him: "Do you have a name, sir?" "Yes I do but, you must keep it a secret since you don't know who I am, I might as well tell you." He paused for a moment, kneels down on one knee, and bows by telling me, "I am Hua Cheng, one of the four famous calamities in the Ghost Realm, which you are living in here for the time being. So, you frightened by the Ghost King himself in front of you?" The minute he saw me staring at him like this, I awed at Hua Cheng and curtsy him because he is a King, I heard rumors about him but, I never thought I would actually meet his true form, I began beaming in excitement: "Actually, I am not. I continue with a smile, "Your name means 'city of flowers', right?" "You...aren't afraid of me?" "Nope, I think you're a legendary villain but I know deep inside you are waiting to be free!"

I bit my tongue while I try to understand what I just said to him and I felt terrified of saying it out loud that he frowned since I'm inside a ginormous Red Mansion called the Paradise Mansion; There was silence in the room, the man in red covered half his face with his bangs and averted his gaze away from me. 'Uh oh, I think I said something mean to me.' "I appreciate you letting me in your home & checking if I'm healing beside, I feel better-Ngh!" Suddenly a sharp pain came from my neck, he notices this action and quickly lifted my face away, checking on my neck "I know you want to go back to the mortal realm but, in order to recover your injuries properly from the poison you had gotten last night, you'll have to stay here in the Paradise Manor for 5 days. He continues, "Furthermore, you don't have to worry about your parents finding you." "Um...actually, I don't have parents. I was raised by bandits for as long as I can remember." I said in a sad tone. "What's your name, little one?" "Little girl! It's what everyone calls me that because they couldn't figure out a name for me since I was baby." Smiling at the man in red robes in front of me, who had rescued me, tendered my injuries and moreover, he's like a big brother to me: "Why wouldn't anyone give you a name? No one needs to call a little girl' all the time." I nodded in agreement.

He starts coming up with a name for me and I waited with stars in my eyes that he finally answered: "How about...Hua yào? It means 'peony flower', would you like that?". I nodded in response, and to top of it, my stomach started rumbling in hunger that the Ghost King name Hua Cheng began to laugh and ruffles my hair in a mess on which, I whine at him for teasing me: "Hey, no fair." "First, you need to eat. You look famished. Oh, pardon, *ahem* would you like to dine with me, little Yaó?" While looking at his hand, I looked up at him in which, he looks almost like me but in an adult male form and gives me one of his wicked smiles, and escorts me to dine with me. "Okay!" I beamed, making him smile even more. 

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