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DAY 3 #ZYLBY48week2021 | Reincarnation

Hei Qi / Ye Zun

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"Will you stop following me?" Ye Zun finally snaps, turning around to confront that shadow that had been stalking him for days? Weeks?

Regardless of how long it has been, and what his brother said, Ye Zun is fed up.

"I know you’re there.”

A man steps out from the corner and reveals himself. He is tall, mostly legs, and has hair that seems to have never met a comb before. Ye Zun admits he looks quite handsome but he is too much of a mess to confirm that.

The man suddenly approaches him, casually stepping inside Ye Zun's personal boundary until he is forced to step — no— walk backward. The man does not stop and he proceeds to push Ye Zun into a wall. He slams his palm, flat on the hard surface beside Ye Zun's head, and grins like a predator who had trapped his prey.

"Who are you?" Ye Zun glares at him, his face half scared and half ready to throw hands if he needed to.

He smirked. "The cat wasn't lying. You really have no memory of me." The man's eyes scan Ye Zun's face marveling at every feature his sight landed on as Ye Zun grows more uncomfortable at how he perceives him.

"What cat?"

"The black cat that enjoys your touch too much. Da Qing? He told me everything before I dumped him in the trash."

"You are insane." Ye Zun said, "cats don't talk."

"With enough threat, they will. And darling, that cat does more not-cat things than just talk. But let’s not get distracted. I’m here to take what you owed from me”

Ye Zun folds his arms and sets a frown on his lips. He looked at the man more carefully and was certain that if he had met him before he would remember him. “I do not recall owing someone like you.”

“Yes, yes, yes I know. New life, clean slate, and all that jazz. But since you’ve forgotten, let me remind you how once upon a time your brother chained me to a pillar while you drained my soul. But guess what? You left a small tiny piece of it and now that will be your biggest problem.”

Pillars? Souls? Ye Zun couldn’t believe that he is giving him his precious time just to listen to this. “You truly are crazy.”

The man scowls and scratches his head, messing his already bird’s nest of a hair. His eyes then lit up, as if he remembers something important, “But I’m right that you have a brother. A twin brother…your dearest gege?”

Ye Zun’s arms fell as his mouth hangs. This man can say whatever he wants to say to him and corner him like this, but not his brother. His gege who is too precious, too trusting and too kind for people like these.

However, as if on cue Shen Wei suddenly appears from nowhere and pulls the man away from Ye Zun. The man stumbles back but quickly regains his balance before he even reaches the moving traffic running along the main street.

“Speak of the devil.” The man looks impressed, happy even, to see that Shen Wei came.

Shen Wei steps in front of his brother, “Didi, did he hurt you?” he asks without even turning to look at Ye Zun.

“No broken bones, ge.” Ye Zun assures.

“Good.”

Shen Wei stares at the man who answers his intense eyes with a snigger. When the stranger takes a step on the side, Shen Wei angles himself to it. When he takes a step on the other, Shen Wei mirrors it. Ye Zun sees how focused and careful Shen Wei is and wonders if his gege knows him.

“...Hei Qi.” His brother mutters a name, answering Ye Zun.

The man, Hei Qi, widens his eyes in slight surprise, “Well lookie here. Did you get some special pass in the wheel and you get to retain your memories while he doesn’t?”

“Do you know him ge?” Ye Zun quietly asks behind him.

“No.” His brother lies.

Shen Wei suddenly attacks and Hei Qi blocks his punches quickly. Ye Zun is fully aware that his brother knows how to fight, as, between the two of them, he exercises more and had dutifully attended all their extra classes when they were younger. But to see him in action like this against someone who moves likes an expert, Ye Zun doubts that this skill simply came from their taekwondo classes.

But Hei Qi obviously knows what he is doing and in no time turns the fight where he is the one attacking while Shen Wei tries to block for his life. Ultimately, Hei Qi pushes him back until he almost falls if Ye Zun hasn’t caught him quickly.

“The mind is the same but your body is human? Very interesting.” Hei Qi notes.

Ye Zun worries for his brother and how he can seriously get hurt if they continue like this. “Can you stop? We don’t know you — or at least I don’t know who you are but can you leave us alone!”

Hei Qi throws his head back and laughs from his chest. “After you used me like a battery for you to get this kind of happy life, you want me to leave you alone? No! I am here to take what you owe from me.”

“What do you want then!” Ye Zun screams, willing to give anything in order for them to get out of here unscathed.

“Your body.”

Shen Wei pushes himself off of Ye Zun, ready for another round, but Ye Zun pulls him back. Shen Wei grits his teeth in anger, “I don’t know how you survived and how you crawled out of hell but you will never take my brother from me as long as I live.”

Hei Qi sways from side to side, enjoying the look on their faces too much. “I can and I will—” but just then he pauses and lifts his nose to the air, then scrunchies it as if he smells something foul, “but maybe not now. Let’s continue where we left off some other time.”

Ye Zun feels a little relieved when he sees Hei Qi walking away from them. But then he turns back and licks his lips, “don't miss me too much, darling. I will always find you. You have no idea how much I missed you.”

Shen Wei instinctively pushes Ye Zun behind him again, while Ye Zun shivers.

Zhao Yunlan opens his eyes and finds himself in the bathroom. Both hands are gripping the edge of the sink while his face and bangs are dripping wet. He looks up and sees the face in the mirror giving a different expression from the one he is wearing.

“Hei Qi. You’re done early?”

Hei Qi, whose real name was Bai Qi, is the remnants of the soul of a powerful and legendary General from a long time ago. He is the dark side of Bai Qi, or at least that part of his soul where all the regrets, sin, and anger come together until it turns into a malevolent spirit detached from its original existence. After he was punished thousands of years ago, he even lost his form and thus had to live from one body to another.

Or at least that’s what Zhao Yunlan’s father told him when he first introduced the spirit to him. He was the secret of the Zhao family that he inherited when he came of age. He has hosted Zhao Xinci before and his grandfather before that. So Hei Qi had been with him even before his first memories and probably knew more about himself than him.

Hei Qi looks happy inside the mirror. Something that never sounds good to anyone else aside from Hei Qi. “I got to talk to him today, Lanlan.”

The two are quite close. Among his hosts, Zhao Yunlan is probably Hei Qi’s favorite, but then again the young man is still quite young, his problems with his hosts usually arise when they reach the age of forty or once they get married. Then it was all, ‘how dare you sleep with my wife too.’

“That person you’ve been stalking? Congrats. How is it?” Zhao Yunlan asks as he rubs his face with a towel.

“My darling is still as beautiful as temptation itself.” Hei Qi answers.

“You should introduce me someday.” Zhao Yunlan steps out of the bathroom and turns to another mirror, finger combing his hair while he continues to talk with Hei Qi.

“Maybe when he doesn’t hate me.”

Hei Qi notices that they are grabbing one of their jackets and looking for a sock that seems clean enough to wear from a pile of clothes on the floor. “Are we going somewhere?”

“Yes, since you’re done we can go investigate something in Dragon University. Chief duties.” Zhao Yunlan explains as he dons his jacket.

“Murder I hope?” Hei Qi’s glee resonates inside Yunlan’s head.

“Yep. Murder.”

Zhao Yunlan dumps his ass on his bed and starts putting on his boots while Hei Qi is still talking in his head. “Nothing beats murder. Special case or not. It’ll never be boring.”

Zhao Yunlan stands up, grabbing his phone and his keys and shoving it in his pockets. “Ah, and btw,” he suddenly remembers, “please stop dumping Da Qing inside the trash. You know he sleeps on the bed.”

“Your cat knows a lot of things we don’t. I’m only doing my best to make him share those things with us. It could be useful someday.”

“I’ll let him talk when he wants to talk. So for now just stop.”

“Okay.”

Zhao Yunlan leaves the apartment, shutting his mouth as he walks. He has been trained to look normal, to not look like someone who has a malevolent spirit constantly talking with him inside his head. But Hei Qi feels like he has been wary of something, and the feeling becomes stronger as their motorcycle gets closer and closer to Dragon University.

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