Belated Merry Christmas,
guys! Sorry that I couldn’t post this last weekend, but Christmas has been busy
for me… This instalment is the prelude to the deleted scene of Runaway Dragon
and Missing Phoenix part 5. Contains a link to the real deleted scene…
He didn't mean to wake her up, but she stirred in her sleep
as his fingers caressed her pure face.
"Sai Man..." she whispered his name even before
she opened her eyes. Then, as she realised he was indeed in front of her, she
grabbed his hand and pressed it to her face. "It's you! Tien, it's
you..."
"It's me... it's me, Sik Sik..."
"I heard your proposal was accepted.
Congratulations..." When he smiled to acknowledge her, she added,
"It must feel so good now..."
"Not as good as having you back," he told her the
truth. "I was planning to not come to the Court when Kong Fung told us
he'd found you."
She smiled. Then, suddenly, she hid her face behind her
palms and sobbed. Li Sai Man's heart sank as he realised he didn't even know
half the pain she had gone through. "I'm so sorry..." he laid down
next to her and hugged her. "I'm so sorry it took us so long to rescue
you..." She burst into tears.
"Sik Sik..." he was helpless to see her crying,
but he knew she needed the release. Hence, he just embraced her tighter and
buried his face in her sweet hair. "I'm so sorry..."
It was a while before she stopped crying. He helped her up,
cleaned her damp face and gave her water to drink. She drank the whole cup and
let Sai Man fixed her tousled hair. As he did so, he realised something he
missed: her cracked lips.
"They indeed dared to hit you?!" Blood boiled
again inside him, he suddenly checked her other parts of body. He found her
wrists red due to the chains. "And they tied you..." Li Sai Man's
eyes glowed red in anger.
"Sai Man..."
"They hit you and they tied you..." Li Sai Man suddenly made a move to leave.
"Husband, where are you going?" Alarmed, Sik Sik
sat on the bed.
He turned to answer her. "I'm going to the jail and
kill the people who did this to you!"
Tears welled in her eyes as she realised how much her
kidnapping mattered for him. "Kong Fung had killed all of them. We had
only four guards left, and they weren't the ones who hit me. I couldn't
recognise people who tied me, for it was very dark when I arrived there."
"They are still involved in your kidnapping!" Sai
Man approached Sik Sik again with anger, more at himself for lowering the
guard, which allowed her to be kidnapped.
She shook her head. "Sadly, we need them for
witnesses..."
Sai Man stopped on the spot. Sik Sik was right, they needed
witnesses. It was a while before he sighed and sat next to her again. "At
least you're safe now..." he searched for assurance in her eyes. His heart
sank deeper when he saw her quiver.
"Sik Sik," his voice dangerous again, "what
else did they do to you?"
She shook her head, but teardrops fell again.
"Sik Sik!" This time, alarm went off in his head.
"Tell me what else they did!" Fear rose in his heart as he asked
again, "Did they..." he inhaled. He had to ask this. "Did they
dishonour you?!"
"No!" Her fierce reply suprised him. "No, Sai
Man, they didn't dishonour me. They did say disrespectful things -" Sai
Man gritted his teeth as he realised what she meant, " - they said
disrespectful things, but they didn't touch me. I'd kill them myself if they
had done so, and then I'll kill myself!"
When Li Sai Man asked that question, he knew he would still
accept Chun Sik Sik if the guards had tainted her. Yet, it would be a hell of a
healing process for them both. Sik Sik would feel unworthy and he'd feel like a
failure for not protecting his wife. And now, witnessing how she was so ready
to kill herself to protect her honour made him washed with a mixture of
feelings. Relieved and pride for having such a wife, sorrow and anger for her
pain, anger and disappointment for himself for failing to protect her.
"Sik Sik... please don't do that. You're not
responsible for anything that happened to you. I am the one to blame
instead!"
She shook her head. "I've learned how sorrowful you
were when I was kidnapped... this is no way your fault..."
"Still..." he barely knew how bad her kidnapping
impacted her, and yet here she was, the one who consoled him again. When would
he console her in return?
"Just..." she looked at his face, he looked up.
"Just...kiss me." When he lifted his eyebrows, she explained,
"I've missed you so much. I thought I'd never see you again...
and..." he suddenly realised that her breath was shorter. "And now
you're here... I miss you so..."
Slowly, his frown was replaced with a smile. "A
kiss?"
"Yes." Her eyes glassy as she cling on him.
"Kiss me, please."
-xxx-
[Continues at the deleted scene of RDMP part 5, a.k.a. the Pearl Necklace]
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