It was silent as Lihua swallowed her saliva down her throat.  She went through Young Miss's memories to see if she had any information on the man who called himself Hell King.  From what she could gather form the history books that the Young Miss read, Takeshi Shiro is the younger blood brother of the current King, King Nao Shiro.  Being the second born prince, instead of fighting for the crown with his brother, he joined the army at a tender age of 8 and was sent to protect the boarder at 10.  With 6 years protecting the boarder, his fearlessness and ruthlessness reputation as Hell King reached back to his brother and Nao Shiro called him back to the city to help him win the crown from their half brother Ryo and their cousin Kazu.  Upon his return, Takeshi came back with a fearsome reputation and experience in fighting.  He came back to the city that welcomed his achievements, to a father King who rewarded him for those achievements and to a blood brother who still treated him like his little brother.  As if the years away did not deter their friendship and brotherhood.  After the death of their Father King two years later, Takeshi helped Nao claim his rightful place on the throne.  

In return, King Nao gave Takeshi a title of King in name as well.  Soon afterwards, Takeshi Shiro was announced missing and no matter how hard King Nao sent people to search for him, he couldn't find any answer or evidence to the whereabouts of Takeshi Shiro.  That was ten years ago.

Not letting the new information about the man she save intimidate her, she  lifted her head up and looked straight into his eyes. 

"So what if I did?"  Lihua said as she moved across from him to stir the soup.  "You smelled awful and I cleaned you up. Besides, there wasn't really anything special to see. "  

"You have violated this King."  He tells her as his cheeks burned red.  "This King's body is precious!"   

"So what if I have?  You can't do anything to me.  You promised." Lihua reminds him.  "Besides, not only did I release you from your chains, but I have been by your side the whole time. Trying my best to heal you so all my work in releasing you from your chains wouldn't go to waste." 

Takeshi stared at the the girl wanting to vent his anger and embarrassment, but he was still too weak to do anything to her.  

"This grandma only changed and bathed your body, so you wouldn't smell.  You should be thanking this grandma instead of accusing me of violating your body."  Lihua scolded him.  "What this grandma had to go through the past week, was hard on this grandma's body and mind you know.  This grandma has been poisoned so this grandma had to take care of myself as well!  This grandma had to feed you with my own lips, like a mother bird feeding her young, just for you to survive!"  

The tips of his lips wanted to curl up at the girl, it twitched, but he held the feeling to himself tightly and kept on staring at the girl instead.  The puny little girl stole his first kiss!  Not only did she steal his first kiss, but she also took several other kisses from him as well!  Does the little girl know no shame! A the cold breeze hit her, Lihua moved closer to the fire and ladled out some fish soup into a bowl. 

"Can you feed yourself or do you need me to do it for you?" Lihua asked.  

"My arms feel heavy."  Takeshi said.  

Lihua sat next to him and spooned out some soup and fish into the spoon.  She blew on the soup a couple of times to cool it down before feeding him.  As the spoon came closer to his lips, his mouth opened slowly and received the warm soup into his mouth.  The fish soup and medical herbs spread through his mouth.  He could taste the tender and sweet fish that hid the slightly bitter taste of the herbs.  It was seasoned well as as he ate more, his body became warm.  The qi stored in his body began to circulate in his body, opening small, clogged veins and pushing the qi from head to toe.  With each bite, he felt better and better.  

When the bowl was empty, Lihua reached over with a cloth in her hand to wipe his mouth of any food residue.  Her small fingertip reached out to the tips of his lip, dabbing it lightly.  Suddenly Takeshi cursed the cloth that blocked his skin from feeling her skin.  He wanted to know just how soft her skin felt as it looked.  

The finger traced his lip from one side to the other, slowly making its way across.  Takeshi's jaw tightened itself, grinding it and his lust down.  He stared at the girl, the whole time, but she looked as if what she was doing to him was innocent.  Her brows wrinkled upward as if what she was doing took all her thoughts and concentration.  

When her finger left his lips, Takeshi's hand shot out and grabbed her wrist, stopping the descent of her hand.  Her forest green eyes met his cool silver eyes in confusion.  

"You keep taking liberties with this King without this Kings permission."  Takeshi tells her as he frowned.  

"I just wiped your mouth cause it was dirty.  You could have stopped me during or even before I started wiping your lips.  Don't think too much about it.  This grandma just wanted to help."  Lihua said as she reached over with her other hand and stuck her fingers in his hair and wriggled it around, rubbing his head as if he was a cute little boy.  

"Now that you've eaten, you should get some strength from it.  You should start cultivating so you can heal your body."  

Lihua removed her hand from his hair and stood up to leave, but Takeshi still held on to her wrist, not letting it go.  Seeing that he still held on to her wrist, it was quickly let go and he cleared his throat in embarrassment and looked away. 

"You stay here and cultivate, I'm going for a swim, this grandma's body is still weak from the poison.  The heavenly water will help heal the poison in this grandma."  Lihua tells him as he goes inside the hut.  When she comes out, she she brought out a new set of white clothing that was in the cabinet and a towel.  Without a second glance, Lihua made her way towards the lake and took off her clothes and folded them next to the clean clothes and the towel.  

She waded into the lake slowly before diving into the lake.  Her arms and legs grew muscles as she swam every day, sometimes twice a day.  Over the past seven days, she was able to detoxify the poison, but the poison that seeped into her third eye was irreversible.  Her body felt healthy with all the exercise and long hours of cultivation.  Her martial skills was now at peak Martial Movement.  

Lihua swam for a while before stepping out of the lake, her foot steps stopped.  For right in front of her stood Takeshi Shiro, staring straight back at her.