OH GOD! THIS IS LESS THAN HALF THE LAST CHAPTER'S # OF LETTERS! ONLY 700! Oh well. Does it really matter?

Alright, thx for the reviews. Yeah, when I re-read this fic, It was pretty cute and all. But still, I have to update. What is the point of a cute fic when you cant read any updates? Believe me, I have read many incomplete ZLxYY fics. They leave me thinking!

Ru Ying Sui Xing – Chapter 10 – Trouble at home

I had Liang's hat on my head and the basket of flowers on my arm when I was running back home. I was running in the opposite direction of the sun so I had no problem with my sight. There in front of me was father's mansion. Trying to calm myself down, I speed walked back to the rope I had right under my room. Regrettably the rope was cut. Who would do that and why? But more importantly, how do I get in without father knowing that I had snuck out?

The back exit. He never looked there. The perfect place to start. When I ran near the back, I was stopped when I saw father glaring angrily and Dai Xian who seemed distressed.

"And just where have you been?"

I didn't say a word.

Father slammed a fist on to the table. The basket of flowers Liang gave me was next to where he had just slammed, burnt completely. Why? "Where were you? Why did you leave knowing that you're pretty much half-dead? What possessed you to do this?"

Father's questions just kept piling up.

"I-I don't know." I said.

Dai Xian looked at me, and then sank in her seat. I did the same.

Father glared at me. "Maybe I'm not making myself clear. First Question: Where were you?"

"I was in the Peach Garden." Lying was out of the question. Everyone knows that lying to your father could cause one of the troubling problems, but I knew I had to lie sooner or later. Better later than now.

"Okay, second question: who were you with?"

"I was with Zhuge Liang."

"ZHUGE LIANG!" Father exclaimed. "Did I or did I not forbid you two from meeting?"

"..."

Father was making me feel so foolish.

"Alright the. Question three: Why were you even with him knowing that I would go BESERK – " Father screamed "berserk" to emphasize his meaning. "When I figured it out?"

I didn't respond. In order to, I would have to admit it.

"Answer me, Yue Ying."

Still, I remained neutral. Father didn't care about Liang. So why should I care about father?

"This is not an option Ying. Answer me."

I lowered my head, wondering what to do next.

"NOW!"

"I..." I began, glancing up, tears starting to form. "I...I-I can't!"

Father slammed another fist into the table, scaring Dai Xian and I.

"Servant! Bring me my daughter's scythe!" screamed father.

After my scythe was delivered, father started with Dai. "Lady Dai, you helped cover for my daughter after she left. Why?" He raised my scythe and pointed it at Xian's face.

"The young miss desired to meet Lord Zhuge Liang! I obeyed her orders!"

Father lowered my scythe and pointed it at me. He was only using the spear part of it, not the actual scythe itself. "Alright, that's all Dai Xian. Yue Ying, what possessed you to go with the young Zhuge?"

"NO!" I screamed. "I refuse to answer!"

"There is nothing stopping me from killing you my daughter." I looked at my scythe quite angrily; thinking father wouldn't understand about Liang and I. That old man couldn't understand a day in my life. "I don't care about my life..." I murmured. Dai Xian gasped and father lowered my scythe.

"I don't understand. Explain yourself."

I was half saved and half killed when a messenger came in. "Lord Huang, My Lady, I have a message from Lord Zhuge."

"Give it to me," said father.

The messenger handed the message to father, bowed and left. Father opened the letter and read it.

That was it.

Our secret was in the air.

Only an idiot would miss it.