In Xiangmei province, there were three division.
1: the rich.(First class people.)
2: the not so poor/ not so rich people. (Middle class people.)
3:the poor. (The second class citizen/ the lower class people.)
Mr. Li, was a retired officer, who took care of the family. He had more than enough family for just himself. But he was never contented.
One could say that he was fit for the word 'a harems'
But despite having too much for one person, he was never poor. Why? Just as greedy as he is in lust, he was also greedy with money.
A power drunken man, that's was a perfect fit for this old hag. Using the influence as a solder, who fought for the country, along side the cultivators, who came to defend them.
It was indeed by sheer luck. No one in their right senses, would badge in to fight a gigantic metal like toad, that the cultivators were finding it hard to defeat.
He was drunk that day, he wasn't aware of what was happening outside. After having an incredulous feast of drinks that night, due to some backlash of his own mistake, and was demoted. He decided to drink himself to stupor and drawn in the perpetual misery.
He wasn't aware of the battle. He just walked swaying from left to right, right to left. Despite the loud shout from the cultivators to move away from the path. That he was a distraction, he took it as an invite to come along and tag with them.
Miraculously, with a sheer luck, he accidentally poured the bottle of alcohol on the the eyes and mouth of the toad, after being sent flying.
Though that was a reckless move, he still somehow, with the amateur move, the toad melted. After further investigation, they found out that those creatures cannot withstand anything chilling hot. Just like alcohol.
That was how, all of a sudden, he was promoted. Into being the human messenger to the cultivators.
Using that, he started to use that to gain more women. Of course, being an asshole hero, women would flock to him like a celebrity. Not forgetting or bothering to wonder how he knew the beast's weak point.
And humans, couldn't dare to ask. To them, he was their second hope, after the cultivators living high up the mountain, in a very secluded areas.
They also made him a minister. As long as there's money, he'll take your petitions regardless of how useless it is. But those without, would have to find a way to tackle them, or pray, that they meet one of the cultivators, who decided to come down from the mountain. But unfortunately, that rarely happened.
He often sold their daughters to old hags, for money. That was how he earn more money. From selling his children all in the name of marriage, and fraud.
That was were his tenth son, came about.
Mr. Li, met Ming at the river one night. It was quite obvious what the lady was there to do at night. And lusting over the woman's body, he decided to make a move.
Surprisingl, the woman didn't reject, nor did she fight against him like many girls who would play hard to get with him.
After that lustrous night,
"Let me take you with me, and make you my wife." He offered.
Honestly, that was sincere. The woman Ming, was so beautiful. It was as if the goddess has fallen from the sky. And he felt drawn to her.
But what the woman said, threw him off balance.
"I did it because I wanted to. Not because I believed you really killed a beast, nor because you're wealthy enough." It was honest enough. And the eyes the woman gave him, had something, steering in him.
"But I really wanna..."
"I'll come back to you, after seven years. Take care of me then."
It was just a word, but he didn't know when he made a promise with the mysterious lady. After that encounter, the man forgot, his wayward life lingering on.
Such an asshole, isn't he?"
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SEVEN YEARS LATER...
A sudden knock on the door at that same wee hour, lingered that it frustrated him. He has built many houses, placing each of his wives and children, from the favourite to the least favorite.
Each spending the night with him, in his extravagant house, in the same order. He has already spend his sex filled night, and the lady was lying naked the only spare of dignity would be the quilt that covered her properly.
He staggered, almost bumping on the table, when he opened the door. Only to meet that beautiful goddess that he had slept with, beside the river.
"I've come as promised. Here..."
She pushed the little boy, of about seven years to him.
"Don't let him come out, till he's twenty. This is my last request from you." That was the only thing she said, before walking out quickly just the way, she came, without letting the him say a word.
Being as carlos, and as cruel as he was, the boy was kept in the basement. A dark one at that. Without the love and care from no one. Only the maiden assigned to him was seldomly coming to do her duties.
He only came out, when everyone was asleep. Just to roam around the house. Before the sun hits the surface earth, he would return to the basement. Where only steam buns and water, was his daily bread.
Then, once he clocked twenty, the only good thing his asshole father did was to send him the Wangshou academy, were of course, he used his ability and his popularity to gain the invite, thereby, throwing him, into the hand of the best, forcefully.
The day he left for the academy, was the day, he saw the sunlight. Felt it too.
He went to the academy, feeling alive. But entered another hell. He tried to find his mother. But the woman, looked like she just disappeared without a trace.
He gave up on the matter. Looking handsome and young, too young to some extent, he was able to fool everyone one, except the dean that he was an eighteen year old boy.
Though there was no problem with having older disciples. Considering he is the son of a wayward and careless man, there was an outraught distaste from both his master and Dean, has for him.
He tried to live. To survive. Infact he was just surviving. He leant to have a poker face. A face that annoyed the people around him. He hated why he was born. He never asked to be born! Why was it so hard to survive.
Until that very moment, when he was assigned to be group mates with two girls.
During the testing to score one according to one's ability, he saw many people exhibit and show their strengths. He in fact, envied all of them. Until he saw the shiniest sprirt animal. The blue phoenix. That was when he deemed himself the most useless person in earth. He got into the not so wise team because of his agility, rigidity and endurance in combats.
But the blue phoenix, was assigned to his team. He should have felt proud, but he felt useless. He felt inferior.
The girl who uses magic, introduced herself as XiMei, while the blue phoenix, introduced herself as Zhu Wenli.
And after that day, outside the gate, when he just said something that he felt he should because, naturally, he cared for them. Even though they were greater and better than him.
But then, hearing Wenli call him teacher, at first, he thought he was just hearing things. XiMei, also started calling him that.
"Teacher LuPeng this... Teacher LuPeng that..." He felt alive for the first time. Not for anything.
Not for the endearment, but for the hope they carried for him. Seeking his advice, even Wenli felt it needful to seek his awareness, before they do something. That was why, when they returned, after dealing with that demon that tormented the people.
He began endless trainings, surprising both the master and himself. Though training was hell and murderous, he still held on high, not to disappoint the girls, who thought him useful.
He always prayed that they embarked on numerous quests together.
And for the first time, felt alive. Not just surviving, but alive. And that feeling was so overwhelming, but he liked it.
He loves it .
And he gives no shit about it.