Hu Li look around. The room is surround by candles, each lighted up. the windows are open thus there is a gentle breeze. The table next to the open window, the corners of the papers are moving slightly with the paper stone on it. The brushes that are hanging on the stand are swinging. Hu Li see a scroll hanging on the wall with her name written on it. She walk pass the table to the huge bed at the end of the room. The curtains are down. She push it aside and see an ash face Sheng Qin. She sit on the bed beside him and touch his wrinkly hands. He open his eyes and look at her. He smile and raise his hand to touch her cheek.
"You are here."
"Yes."
"I ask the gods for a last time to see you."
"Now you have. You can go now."
"I can't go without knowing the face of beautiful fox that i loved."
"You don't have to know."
"I have too. So that i can come back to find you again. I only can relay on my nose to smell that special scent that you have."
Hu Li did not say anything. She still holding the cattail grass in her hands. She give it to him. His eyes that never leave her face look sadly at her.
"If i can come back again. I will look for you. I don't want to be in this Sheng Qin's life. He made this mistake and his love is gone. I want to be brave in my next life. To be brave for you."
Hu Li who never been sad before finds tears in her eyes. Water and electricity is not a good mix and she got temporally blinded. Sheng Qin did not talk anymore and she did not hear anything. However she feels a strange kind of wind. At that moment, she can hear footsteps approaching the door. The sound of the door open.
"Father! I bought some... Who are you! Guards!"
Hu Li is now blind can't react fast. She knows that the person who walk in is Sheng Qin's son, Sheng Wu. She try to avoid him but he hold her down.
"Who are you??? GUARDS!"
Hu Li hear more foot steps. She cannot morph into her fox form as she can't see where she is going. She have to wait till her sight is back. For now, she is being press down. She hear Sheng Wu calling his father and asking people to find the physicians to come see his father. Hu Li feels that now she is being tied up. She did not resist nor do anything. She just simply sit where she is place down at. She close her eyes and turn on her vision eyes. She see the room is fill with men of all sorts of uniforms are standing around. From a distance outside, she see a woman walking up towards this direction. She must be that princess that Sheng Qin had married. She doesn't want to meet nor see her. Since everyone is busy with looking at Sheng Qin, she cast a spell on becoming a mouse. With the spell, she is free from the rope that bind her. However she is still blind and she goes knocking into furnitures in the room. Her fur gives off electricity as she knocks into things. Lucky she is small and the room is in chaos no one takes notice of a little mouse who is blindly running around.
The princess mansion is searching for the unknown female intruder. Thus she is alone in the bedroom with Sheng Qin. She hear that it seems no one is around. Till she hears footsteps.
"Sheng Qin. is that unknown person, your first wife?"
"Go away..."
"Why are you still contacting her?! You promise me that you will not see her again! Who is she! Tell me! "
"Leave her alone. She is not someone you can..."
Sheng Qin cough and Hu Li hears the footstep away and returns.
"Her name is Bai Hu Li, is it?"
"Leave her a...lon..e!"
He cough badly. Hu Li hears some sound of paper scrunch
"I will kill her! If that is the last thing i have to do in this life! You belong to me and this family! You never once even look at your son! Do you know how much he wants ..."
"Get out! "
He cough again. This time non stop and Hu Li hears her screaming for the physicians again. This time, Hu Li feels that Sheng Qin have taken his last breath. She non longer hears the sound of his heart beat. The little mouse stay till her sight is back and the sky is dark. She hears the cries of the woman in a distance. while she can feel that Sheng Qin's body is still in the room. She morph back to herself and take one last look. She remove the cloth that is covering his face. He looks peaceful as if he is taking a nap. She see the cattail grass on the floor. She pick it up and tuck it in his shirt. Taking the last look, she touch his cheek.
"Go and be safe."
She cover back the cloth and turn around to walk away. It is then she see the light floating above her. She smile and tears form in her eyes. Her blindness comes back as she say her master's name. A portal open in front of her. The strong wind blows hard and strong. She enter the portal but she did not walk in the portal to the other end, she feels the water on her feet. She stand alone in there and cry till someone come and lend the shoulder for her to lean on.
"When you are ready we will walk out."