Xueing was surprised at seeing Fusheng and her eyes softened, she sneered and said "So the rumors are true, you really came to the academy."
Fusheng gave an awkward smile and said nothing...
They both stared at each other for a while before Xueying pulled Fusheng's hand and said "Let's talk"
Fusheng was surprised at the gesture but did nothing, just allowed herself to be pulled by Xueying.
Xueying pulled Fusheng into a furnished room, locked the door and sat down. Noticing that Fusheng was still standing she sneered and said "What you suddenly can't sit again?"
Fusheng sighed and asked "Whose room is this?"
Xueying was surprised and said "Is that really all that you're worried about? I haven't seen you in many years, never heard a single word from you only got a lousy letter from you and yet you're asking me whose room this is? Well it is mine, are you satisfied now?"
Fusheng was taken aback by her outburst but still took a seat. The both of them just sat down staring at each other without saying a word until Fusheng broke the silence.
"What did you mean by saying you never heard a word from me but received a lousy letter?"
Xueying did not understand why Fusheng asked this particular question but she still answered and said "Well after I heard that something happened to your Cultivation in fact after I heard of your illness, I became worried and came to the Meng Residence, countless times, but I was never allowed to enter, I was told that you did not want to meet anyone especially me."
"This happened on several occasions until I got a letter from you, the content of the the letter was hurtful, you said you did not need my friendship, you even accused me of being a fake friend, how I rejoiced in your predicament. I was so hurt, I tried coming again but I got the same reply, I planned to meet you after you came to the Academy, but I got the news that you were no longer interested in coming to the Academy."
Fusheng was shocked at this reveal, she did not know whether she should laugh or cry. She ended up covering her face letting out a chuckle and said "This is crazy."
Xueying stopped her ranting and asked "What is crazy?"
Fusheng looked at her and said "What you just said"
Xueying noticing that something was really with the situation asked "What are you trying to say?"
Fusheng sighed and asked "Remember the last time we met, you told me that if I encountered any problem that I should just ask for help from you."
Xueying nodded.
Fusheng continued "A few days later, I suddenly fell sick. You know I am not the type to fall sick, so I tried to get the royal physicians to come and check my pulse, but my father and his mistress refused and instead ordered the servants to give me medicine for fever and cold, claiming that it was just cold ."
"But I know my body system, that was not just cold and besides who would have cold in summer, but they refused to see reason with me. I tried to go out by myself to go to the physician, but I found out that I was already restricted from going out and I was getting weaker by the day, I could not even resist."
Fusheng smiled "the first week of the illness, was just me taking potions for fever, I don't know why, but after a week my father ran to the Emperor and pleaded for a Royal physician, he acted like a caring father so the Emperor agreed for the imperial Physicians to come and take a look at me. But by then it was already too late, my meridians were already damaged and I lost my cultivation, my face was also ruined. I was so devastated, I did spend a few days locked up in my chambers, but I later figured out that life must go on and that even if I had lost my cultivation I still had my martial arts. I remembered that I was offered an admission to the Academy, and that I could study martial arts there, so I asked my father to let me go to the academy."
"I don't even know what I was thinking by going to ask him, but he told me that the Academy revoked my admission and that I was no longer the prodigy I used to be, I argued with him and got slapped by his mistress and later got whipped by her personal maid."
At this point Fusheng did not realize that she was crying, but Xueying was crying so hard, she clenched her fist.
"That was the beginning of my nightmares, I could not leave my mother's courtyard, I tried sending letters to you, but I got awful letters in return, you said that you did not want to be friends with a loser and a waste. I was already sad but receiving that letter made me feel heartbroken and I lost hope of ever coming out. I did not even know what was going on in the capital. I was bullied by Meilan and her friends. I was almost killed by them one day, which was when I decided to try to fight for myself."
"The Royal Academy letter I found was the miracle ths brought me here and gave me hope. Later I found out that my father and his mistress were responsible for my strange illness back then and also caused me to loose my cultivation."
At this point Fusheng held her face in her hands and said "I really did not know what I did to make them hate me to this point. I tried to include them in my family, I just don't know..."
Xueying stood up and came to Fusheng's side and hugged her "I am so sorry you had to go through all these things. I am really sorry I did not try harder, I am so sorry I did not offer any help to you when you needed them. I am so sorry Meimei*...."
Fusheng stayed in her arms for a while and said "No don't apologize, it is not your fault, I mean you tried to warn me about this before. So please don't apologize. It's those wretched souls that caused this."
Still holding Fusheng, Xueying cursed "How dare those, those fakes? They are really evil to do this. They will rot in hell for this, they are so disgusting and evil. I can't stand them, they treated you like this and yet had the guts to spread those malicious rumors about you. They really have no conscience. How do they sleep at night?"
Fusheng started laughing, Xueying was surprised and asked "Why are you laughing?"
Fusheng giggled and said "After all these years, you have not gotten better at cursing someone."
Xueying sighed and smiled "I can't believe that this is what you focused on, after everything I said."
Fusheng smiled and touched Xueying's face "Jiejie don't be annoyed, your cursing style is very cute."
Xueying chuckled and flicked Fusheng's forehead and said "You have really not changed, still teasing me."
Noticing that Fusheng's mood had been lifted she said seriously "On a serious note, we have to do something about your father and that mistress of his, even that Meilan. We can't allow them to go scot free."
Fusheng gave her a lazy smile and said "I already have that covered, I plan to make them regret ever coveting my family's name."
Xueying nodded and said "I will talk to my Father and pressure him to tell everything to the Emperor and he will get justice for you."
Fusheng disagreed "No that won't do, I need to do this by myself. I owe this much to both my mother and grandfather and also to myself. As for the emperor I doubt if it will work. I heard something from the streets these few days, I heard that the new Empress is a distant cousin of my father's mistress. So I do not think that it will be easy to get the Emperor to help us."
Xueying was obviously surprised at the reveal "oh that would explain a lot. But how are you going to do it?"
Fusheng smiled knowing she was worried about how Fusheng would manage to go against her enemies without her cultivation. "There is something I did not tell you, after I left the Meng Family House few weeks ago, I met an old Buddhist priest, he claimed he knew my grandfather and he helped me detoxify and also helped me remember the basics of my martial arts. So I still have a chance at cultivation, I just need to start from the scratch."
Fusheng did not know how to explain Feilong's appearance to her best friend, so she just twisted the story a bit.
Xueying was shocked "Are you serious? You can cultivate again."
Fusheng nodded "Yes you can check my pulse if you doubt me."
Xueying could not stop herself from checking Fusheng's pulse and truly she could feel the light energy in her veins. She happily hugged Fusheng and said "I can't believe this. I am so happy for you. This is so good, you are really favored by the gods."
Fusheng chuckled "You are really something. You have to keep this secret for me, nobody knows yet. I want to give my enemies a surprise"
Xueying smirked "This is so you, well I talk to no one else so your secret is safe. Hey now I come to think of it, there is something different about you, your temperament has changed."
Fusheng stared at her hands in silence before saying "I had to change in order to destroy my enemies."
Xueying almost started crying again and said "Oh my little girl, Jiejie will make sure no one else bullies you ever again."
Fusheng laughed and said "I did not realize you are so emotional, do dramatic. I heard there is going to be a general assembly of some sorts, let us go over there."
As they both stood up after tidying up themselves Fusheng added "and I am not your little girl, you're less than a year older than I am."
Xueying smiled and added "I am still older."
Fusheng chuckled and with that they left for the general assembly.
***
At this time the General assembly was almost ending, and having seen no sign of Fusheng, Meilan was now so sure that Fusheng did not make it to the Academy.
She boldly told people how Fusheng was not serious about the Academy, just wanted attention from people...
"You see my Jiejie did not come to the academy after everything that happened. I personally asked her this morning to join me to come to the Academy, but she refused and even spoke rudely to me."
Her stupid fans felt that she was wronged and said "Our Lanlan is very benevolent, giving that waste face and yet she refused it."
Meilan emboldened by their reactions went on to say "I even asked her why she did not want to come to the Academy, she replied saying that the prime Minister's son was not yet at the Academy, so she did not see why she should come."
As she was talking, Meilan noticed that the surroundings were oddly quiet, her low braincells told her that maybe there were shocked by her story, so she became even more animated with her narration.
"She even said that she could easily get into the Academy with her grandfather's name backing her up."
She stopped to listen to people side with her and talk bad about Fusheng, but all she got was silence, she got irritated and wanted to ask why they were so quiet, but before she could ask she heard a very familiar amused voice.
"Meilan have you seriously never considered working as a storyteller in one of these tea houses, you are seriously wasting your talent here."
Meilan's blood ran cold and she slowly turned and saw the last face she expected to see.
"What are you doing here?"
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Mini theatre
Meilan: Miss author, please next time can you give me gossip partners that are actually smart. I mean the types to notify me if the person I am gossiping about comes and stands behind me, not the type that will just stand and stare in silence.
Author : No only the protagonist gets to request things from me. *Shrugs*
Meilan: *Walks away* I am tired of this my job. *Sighs*
This Author has something to say: so how did you people see the heart-to-heart conversation between Xueying and Fusheng?
I personally wanted Fusheng to have a very close female friend, because in most books about rebirth and revenge, the female lead almost never has a female friend and every female she meets are her potential enemies. C'mon that is not nice and since I am a girl's girl I decided to give her good female friends.
The song I am listening to right now is "Dynasty by MIIA" I think it is quite touching.
So the Meimei in the work refers to a younger sister.
I'll take my leave now, byee pookies~~
*Bows*