The beauty of the fans
Chapter 1—First meeting
11 Years Ago…
Xiao Qiao was a beautiful girl, even at age five. One day, she and her older sister, Da Qiao who was six at the time, decided to play in the fields. Their favorite game was "Pretty War". It was a game where they pretended to have a war with their favorite dolls. It was a funny game sometimes, since they were pretending to call each other names. They giggled as they fought with invisible swords or spears.
"Da Qiao, sister, you will fight me!"
"I accept your challenge, younger sister!"
The two giggled and giggled, until a boy stepped out from behind a rock. He had long dark brown hair and looked very strong. He looked older, around a teenager's age, and blushed at the sight of the Qiao sisters.
"Sun Ce, I accidentally revealed our covers." He smiled. Another boy, around his age, stepped out from behind a tall tree.
"Sun Ce…you are apart of the Sun family?" Da Qiao asked the other boy.
"That's right. I'm the oldest, and strongest, brother of the Suns."
The Qiaos giggled.
"We are the Qiao sisters, daughters of Qiao Xuan. I am the oldest sister, my name is Da Qiao." Da bowed at the two boys, but Xiao Qiao kept on blushing.
"And this is Xiao Qiao, my younger sister."
Xiao blushed at the boy who didn't introduce himself then snapped to attention.
"R-right, that's my name."
"Nice to meet you two." Sun Ce went over and kissed Da Qiao's hand. Da Qiao blushed and giggled.
"I am Zhou Yu…forgive me for my rudeness of not introducing myself earlier…" Zhou Yu bowed and kissed Xiao Qiao's hand. Xiao blushed, but didn't giggle. She was absorbed into this boy.
"Sun Ce! Zhou Yu! Come on, father has an important meeting with this guy that I don't know!" Shouted a girl's voice from a nearby mansion, the Sun's mansion.
"We're coming Shang Xiang!" Sun Ce shouted back. "We must be going now, I want to spy!" Sun Ce bowed and left. Zhou Yu was about to leave too, but he turned around and faced Xiao Qiao.
"I will return to see you again as soon as possible. Believe me." He then turned around and left, fading away from the distance.
11 years later
Xiao Qiao woke up from another dream. It was another dream about that boy many years ago. What was his name again? Xiao Qiao got out of her bed and looked at her still sleeping sister and outside. The moon was shining brightly. Xiao Qiao got into her white garments and carefully opened her bedroom door. She tiptoed all the way downstairs and past her father's room. She got past the lazy sleeping guards that protected the mansion and left the front gates. The grass was sopping wet with the early morning dew. She stopped walking and tiptoeing and began running through the small forest. There were many tall trees, and then stopped when she saw the large rock.
"This was where he was hiding." Xiao smiled at the rock and looked behind her to find the tall tree that the other boy was hiding behind. She paused and stared at the rock for a few minutes then continued running freely through the forest. The forest ended a couple minutes later and she saw the Sun mansion.
She kept running and stopped when she saw awake guards guarding the front entrance. She pouted and hid behind a large bamboo plant.
"Ah, Lord Sun Ce. Where are you off to?" A guard suddenly spoke. Xiao Qiao turned to see a large man, who was quite tall. Sun Ce…this was the other boy!
"I'm off to fight Dong Zhou. He is around this area, and Qiao Xuan needs to be warned. His daughters are said to be more beautiful than any flower or star in the sky." Xiao was about to giggle, but she didn't want her cover to be removed.
"Sun Ce, you can't go out on your own. I must come with you." Another voice appeared. A man with long dark brown hair came out to see Sun Ce and the three infantry guards. It was him. It was the boy, what was his name?
"Zhou Yu, you came too?" Sun Ce laughed. Zhou Yu. That was it. Xiao put her hand on her heart to find it beating quickly but lightly.
"The Qiaos are fragile ladies, they must be protected." Zhou Yu said. Then a woman stepped out on the dew covered grass and looked at the five.
"Zhou Yu is right. Dong Zhou is such a pervert. He would want any woman to be his bride." All five nodded. Xiao was worried about this Dong Zhou guy. Who was he? Then, the dew from the grass she was sitting on accidentally went up her nose, making her sneeze loudly.
"Who's there?!" Shouted a startled guard.
"Is it that beast Dong Zhou?" The lady asked.
"I don't think so. Dong Zhou wouldn't have such a cute sneeze." Sun Ce laughed, looking at the bamboo that Xiao Qiao was hiding behind.
"You can come out." Sun Ce said. Xiao gulped and stood up, nearly slipping from the wet dew. She turned around and saw the six stare at her.
"I-I…"
"Don't be scared." Zhou Yu smiled.
"I'm Xiao Qiao. I-I wanted to…run away from Dong Zhou…" Xiao lied.
Then, a scream was heard from the Qiao mansion, and it sounded a lot like…
"Da Qiao!!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
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