My Devil Emperor
The Beginning of Life

...The story is just fiction, it has nothing to do with Chinese history. If there is a similarity of names/places it may just be a coincidence.]...

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Winter is just over and spring is warmly welcome. The holiday period is almost over making everyone busy preparing everything.

But here, in the forest that looks beautiful with the uphill road seen a group of young men and women who are walking slowly down the path. Maybe spend vacation time to climb the mountain before the tasks take place. Spring is a good time, even if it is short.

"Hold a minute. We'll be there soon!" said the man who looked pretty handsome.

Call it Jiang. He cheers up the friends behind him. In total there were six people with a ratio of three men and three women.

"Can't we rest first?" A soft voice sounded from the back. There was a beautiful girl in a ponytail. His face was a little sweaty.

Jiang turned and approached the girl. "Drink," he said, offering a bottle of butterflies.

"What are you doing?! that's mine!" Suddenly another voice sounded. His voice is a little high. He seemed to be holding back his emotions.

"A-Yuan, I'll replace it later, okay?" Jiang looked at the girl with a pleading look.

Han Yuan, or the usual A-Yuan, looked annoyed. He snorted and left the two men without saying another word.

Without thinking about the sour-looking girl's face, Jiang again gave Li Yue his drinking bottle.

"We'll rest here first!" tell the other friends.

"A-Yuan, where are you going?" Li Yue's question made Yuan stop and turn towards him.

"Why should I tell you?" replied Yuan indifferently. Her pretty face looks a little red.

Li Yue who noticed him immediately shut her mouth back. He was self-aware that he was the cause of the girl's mood being destroyed.

Without looking again, Yuan went towards the left of the forest with a slow but sure pace.

"You're gonna let him go alone?" Li Yue asked Jiang who looked unconcerned.

"What can he do? I know him very well. Take it easy, she's a smart girl. I'd better take care of you" he said.

Li Yue was stunned then smiled and said, "I'm fine."

"Are you guys fighting?" Another voice interrupted the two.

Jiang turned his head and looked at a man who walked up to him.

"All men are the same!" knock on a girl who looks the youngest. She was named Qian-Qian, the girl who looked the softest between Yuan and Li Yue.

"No! We're different! Even if all men are the same, maybe you mean I look the same as actor Yang Yang."

"What-what's that?! Yes, you look the same when viewed from the planet Mars! Brother Lei it seems like you have to have a lot of glass."

"Qian-Qian is so fierce!"

"Can't you talk about me in the back?" asked Jiang cynically.

"Already, stop. Jiang, I thought you shouldn't be too close to me. Yuan may be jealous. Who is a woman who is not jealous when her boyfriend is close to another woman even though it may be a close friend or his little friend," said Li Yue.

"Go away, don't let anything happen to him. If you don't want to, I'll look for him" said Sizhui - the man who had approached Jiang and Li Yue - who was met with a sharp look at Jiang. How could Jiang let him? Yuan was his girlfriend, and Sizhui was looking interested in Yuan just maybe because Yuan had become his, the handsome man chose to step down. They are all close friends too.

Jiang immediately rushed to look for Yuan. While waiting for the two to return, Li Yue, Qian-Qian, Sizhui and Lei sat on a fallen log.

"Is the love story like that?" ask Qian-Qian plain.

"If you're with me, of course not" Lei said confidently.

Qian-Qian heard it but did not respond to Lei's remark.

"Stop flirting with my sister, she has clearly rejected you," Sizhui said with a laugh.

"Can't you help me?" lei asked.

"No. I don't want you to be my sister-in-law." Sizhui's reply made Lei look at him cynically.

"Oh yes, Sister Li Yue why are you so close to Brother Jiang?" qian-qian asked as she recalled Li Yue and Jiang's closeness.

(Brothers & Sisters here means the call of the younger to the old. Like Brother & Sister. In Chinese Gege & Jiejie.)

"We've known him since childhood" Li Yue replied.

"You like Jiang?" ask Lei curiously.

"Of course not! I just thought of him as a friend," he argued directly.

"But I think Jiang likes you," Sizhui said suddenly.

"No. that's not possible. How do you think that?" Li Yue looked at Sizhui and continued, "He himself said that he only considers me a friend."

"There is no pure friendship between a man and a woman."

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Elsewhere, Jiang finally found Yuan sitting pensively under a tree. Jiang approached him.

"Why are you here?" asked Yuan who already sensed someone approaching him.

Yuan stood up and turned to look at the man in front of him. "What's? You like it, right?"

"Why are you talking like that?" jiang asked, starting to get carried away with emotions.

"Of Brother Jiang, there's no need to lie anymore. You look at him with a different view, even a fool would know what your gaze means to him" Yuan said casually. He even looks ordinary.

"Oh, can you guess, right? That's right, that I do like Li Yue. He's different from you but I'm not destroying our friendship. It's also true that I love you just that your nature is really harsh. Our relationship is too boring." said Jiang vent his heart.

Yuan smiled faintly and nodded. "I understand. If you say my harsh nature, do you know what your nature is? Non-standing. Not stable. I expected it, and fortunately I didn't really put my heart on you. So you don't worry about hurting me." He laughed softly after saying it.

"What do you mean?" jiang asked trying to contain the anger.

"Because you're honest, then I'll be honest, too. Brother Jiang, I never really liked you. I accept you for being touched by your struggles. If you maintain your sweet attitude like when we first started, maybe I'll like you. Unexpectedly, humans changed that fast. Why is it that when we get something, it is so hard to keep it? Why is it that when we get something easily, we also easily let go?"

"You!"

"What's wrong? Did I say the wrong thing? Brother Jiang, let's just end this relationship." After he finished saying what he wanted to say, Yuan ran away leaving Jiang emotionless.

Jiang returned with an annoyed face to his friends.

"Where's A-Yuan?" qian-qian asked as she did not see Yuan's whereabouts.

"Don't ask me! I don't know," replied Jiang.

"What did you do to him?" This time Sizhui asked.

"I didn't do anything, he decided me!" jiang replied annoyedly recalling it.

Li Yue approached Jiang with a suspicious look. "What did you tell him?"

Jiang looked at Li Yue doubtfully and replied softly, "I like you."

The answer made them all surprised.

"Why are you telling such a lie?" asked Li Yue weakly.

"I'm not lying. Li Yue, actually I love you," Jiang said as he held onto Li Yue's two hands.

"Is there a friendship between a pure man and a pure woman?" muttered Li Yue. He let go of Jiang's hand and looked at him disappointed.

"You guys just here. I'll look for him."

***

Elsewhere, Yuan had already stopped running. He is not sad or avoids trouble, just feels very covetous.

Because it was too dissolved in the mind and swore at Jiang along the way, the girl was not aware of herself being on the edge of the abyss that looks dark. He wanted to get away from there, but his feet were stepping on the wrong ground. As a result, his tiny body fell into the abyss.

But a hand quickly held onto Yuan's hand, holding him back from falling.

Yuan raised his head and looked at Li Yue who was trying to pull him up. One of Li Yue's hands held a tree that was not too big.

"Hold on," said Li Yue.

Yuan smiled and said, "If you continue to hold me back, you will also fall."

"So I should let you fall? Yuan, believe me I don't have any feelings for Jiang." In the midst of his attempt to pull Yuan up, Li Yue tried to straighten out the misunderstanding.

"I knew. Sister Li Yue, you good and beautiful girl are also fun. No wonder he likes you," Yuan said insecurely.

"But I don't like it. He's not my type!"

"Yes, you can't like it! Otherwise you might end up the same fate as me. Only the toys that were fought for were then released in the end," Yuan said dramatizing.

"Didn't you decide?"

"Oh, is he telling you? it's because I'm tired of pretending. Sister, can you just let go? my hands are very painful."

"Are you crazy!"

"Sister, why are you the one who looks panicked?"

"Why do you look so relaxed? Aren't you scared?" asked Li Yue who was inexhaustible with Yuan. In a tense moment like this, the girl looked ordinary. Only his hands were cold.

"Sister, what you see is not necessarily what happens. I was scared, but it was too hard. Pray that under is water. Relax, I'm an expert at swimming. After all you are not strong enough to pull me by yourself, if you do not let go of me, we will both fall and there will be no trace. So, your sister knows what you should do? I believe you." After he finished saying, Yuan pulled his hand from Li Yue's grasp.

His heart felt beating, involuntarily his tears began to flow. Aye! The beautiful girl was crying, but she could do nothing. Yuan allowed himself to plunge freely down the seemingly endless abyss. I do not know whether under it are rocks, beasts or water. But Yuan began to hear the sound of water down there, then the tall trees that had been seen from above began to disappear replaced by trunks where sunlight could enter through the cracks. Yuan closed his eyes as he felt his body hit the water violently. That's pretty painful.

And all he can do is surrender. Yuan wasn't lying. He could actually swim, but falling into the water was apparently quite painful. It makes him limp. She saw someone approaching her. Nah! it seems like that person fell down too. Is that Li Yue? but as the silhouette drew closer, he looked different.

Yuan closed his eyes for a few seconds and when it reopened, how surprised he was to see himself in front of him.

'What kind of hallucination is this? Is this Jin water?' thought.

The longer, Yuan's eyes felt heavier until he began to lose consciousness. Dad, Mum... Save me!

The girl lost her consciousness and sank to the bottom of the water. Is this the beginning of the end of his life?

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