The heavy cell door was aggressively shut behind them.
" Can't you lock the door more politely?" Gisa teasingly asked the guard behind the door.
The guard smiled at her before apologizing.
Gisa just waved it away with a smile and leaned to the wall playing with her hair. Han Dishan just sat down with ease.
" Why don't you sit down?" He asked calmly.
Gisa gave a disgusted look at the floor before stating calmly,"The floor is dusty." But she sat anyway.
"..sigh... This place needs cleaning." She stated. Han Dishan nodded in approval. And then he was suddenly curious.
" Won't you get in trouble?" He asked. Gisa raised her eyebrows at him.
" Why?!!!"
" Sitting here with me."
" Haha. I?? Punished?" She shook her head before finally adding," People treats you the same way you treat yourself. Honorable me treats myself honorable."
" It's obvious."
Before the conversation could continue, the calm voice of the guard outside secretly warned them of the arrival of the young lady.
" What does she want?" Gisa asked in annoyance.
Han Dishan noticed how tense the guards looked as they quickly stood on lines, their heads sweating.
" She might be dangerous." Han Dishan concluded.
" And annoying." Gisa added.
When Han Dishan saw who that ' dangerous and annoying ' young lady was, his eyes widened from surprise. It was that 'saintess'!
"How comes my saintess..." Gisa shot him a fierce look. He cursed under his breath.
" She..." He mumbled.
" Shut it." Gisa jokingly scolded. Stood up and walked to the door.
" Greetings." Gisa greeted all smiles.
" This is not where you are supposed to be." Hua Longxue calmly stated. Gisa sighed dramatically before finally extending her hand to touch Hua Longxue's shoulder. She retreated. Gisa softly clenched her hand before proceeding with holding the bar.
" Xue'er, you really are allergic to me. Right?" She asked with a hint of sadness. With a frown, Hua Longxue unhurriedly answered." More than allergic." She then looked at the guard and then at the lock on the door. The guard knowing what she meant quickly opened the door.
" Get out." Hua Longxue commanded after the door was open. Gisa swallowed the laughter threatening to escape from her stomach but was still able to give a smile. She then moved to Han Dishan's side and softly said,
" Father will be here in three days. You will be released like... uhmmm...,on the day before he comes." She glanced at the young lady just outside of the cell and then at Han Dishan once more like an older sister worried about her sibling.
" If you only keep quiet, no one will know how to help even if they want to. The guards aren't bad people. It's not like those guards will just imagine that your stomach is empty and bring you food. You will have to talk. Well..." she clapped him on the shoulder and stood up. She stepped out and stared in Hua Longxue's eyes with a smile,while she,was glaring at her. The eye contact lasted for a long time before Gisa finally broke it and turned back.
" See you friend!" She waved and went on. Hua Longxue stood for a while, her gaze fixed on Han Dishan. Han Dishan's heart clenched. That hard to understand look gave him goosebumps. For a moment, Han Dishan doubted if this lady was really that 'saintess' he was getting a crush on a while back, or if she was a devil fairy disguised like her. Hua Longxue finally went away.
After all the guards were sure she was really gone, they sighed in relief.
" I was suffocating." One guard stated unbuttoning her overly buttoned suit.
" You were only suffocating???!!!" The guard on the door exclaimed dramatically. He then added," She was only few inches away from I . My whole body wasn't working."
Han Dishan calmly listened to the guards complains without interfering. He slowly lay on his back, his right hand supporting his head while the left one caressed his temple before finally resting on his stomach.
The room was suddenly too quite for him. As his gaze remained fixed on the ceiling, many memories rushed in. In those memories,he was either,clutching himself in the corner of the same cell, standing in the same corner banging his head on the wall,pacing around, knelling while eating food from the floor or being whipped. Those memories all carried pain to the heart.
The background of the memories swiftly changed.
The young Han Dishan was anxiously rubbing his hair as he stared at five corpses lying motionlessly on the supposedly white quilt in the living room, currently dyed red from the blood. He bit his nails anxiously pacing here and there in the room, his breath stalling, his eyes unfocused.
The bodies faces were white from the lose of blood and had a deep raw X cut symmetrical embedded on the faces...
Suddenly,Han Dishan jolted awake, sweat dripping on his 'white as corpse' face. He was suffocating. He swallowed hard and reached out his hands to his neck trying to control his heart pace and breathing.
He hated this feeling.
"Are you trying to kill yourself?" A guard different from the one from early asked him. Han Dishan only shot him a murderous look as a response . The guard was startled but he immediately shunned it away. Concluded it was an imagination. He decided to continue.
" Using your own hands wouldn't work, I can find you a rope instead."
Han Dishan furiously let go of his neck swallowing the urge to pull out the guards teeth.
" Wait, the young master was going to take his own life??" Another guard asked from that rectangular table of theirs.
" Hmmm. Strangling himself as if that can do anything." The guards laughed.
' Laugh before I make you laugh no more.'
Han Dishan thought straightening his neck left and right dramatically. He then heard a familiar voice among the guards. It was Song Yan.
" Watch your mouths, fellows."
Han Dishan was rather annoyed than pleased.
' you really said that too early Song Yan. Don't you think?' He gave a wry smile as he scolded in his mind. His stomach then rumbled for a while.
Slowly, he got up, dusted his outfit before finally walking to the door.
" Hey, friend, any food?" He asked in a low voice.
' My stomach might be digesting my intestines.' he inwardly added as he continuously looked at the guard with pity eyes.
" I will bring something." Song Yan said and stood up. In a few seconds, he was back with a metal plate that carried a roasted fat chicken and a wine gourd.
" Thanks." Han Dishan thanked with a smile up to his ears. The guards were giving him weird looks. He seemed to be too different since the day he was released from this prison for the last time. They all came to a conclusion that it was because of that intense torture he had faced. All those guards counted well the times Han Dishan came in here. The total being fifty times since the day he was brought in by the master of the house. Every time he was brought in, he looked hopeless,lifeless and most of all,empty. But the Han Dishan sitting inside the cell then, looked hopeful. Even got the guts to ask for food . It was surely an improvement. Many guards lips curled up despite themselves.
Han Dishan on the hand was eating with many thoughts flooding his head. He wanted to first know who this Dishan was and then how he was able to live such an honorable life and then this world.