Married to his secret crush

His hand wrapped around her waist firmly and he pulled her closer into his arms, ''If you don't want to talk about it, then we can let it be,'' He whispered, ''You don't need to recall all that.''

Mia laughed. She moved her hand from his waist before placing it on his chest, ''Is your heart aching for me?" She asked him teasingly, not expecting his reply to be, ''It is.''

Han Jian Yu tilted his head to look at her, ''It is indeed aching for you. Do you have a cure?''

Mia tilted her head up and looked into his dark eyes for a few seconds before she cleared her throat, ''Are you possessed today?"

''By you, yes,'' came his quick reply. 𝒇𝗿𝙚ℯ𝑤ℯ𝑏𝒏𝑜ѵe𝙡.c𝐨ｍ

She felt her cheeks turning slightly warm and she quickly buried her face in the nook of his neck, ''I came in my fox form for a few seconds before turning into a human. It turned out I had seals on my power and my powers were not unleashed. They killed me and my first life ended there, they trapped my soul in a magical box and I was unable to transform into my human form. It was your ancestor who provided that box which had a crescent marking on it that provided the power to trap me there…''

Han Jian Yu's brows were tugged together in a deep frown when he heard that, ''Crescent mark…''

''Yes, the birthmark that Mei has. Centuries passed and the people who trapped me died, while I was reduced to a stale object in it. The Han Family kept me in their treasury but their descendants were never told about the box's origin or what is inside because those old people wanted to keep their heinous deeds under wraps. My lives also kept passing inside the box…''

''Lives?"

''I had 9 lives, my 9 tails represent 9 lives. This ability is something only my mother was supposed to have for she was an immortal but she wanted me to live more and see more of the world so she passed it to me on her deathbed,'' Though it came with its banes, Mia was thankful for it. Had her mother not done that, she would have never met these people whom she came to cherish so much.

''How many lives do you have now?" Han Jian Yu was curious, having never have known too much about things like these, let alone coming across them.

From the very first time he met Mia, be it when she was in her fox form or human form, he always felt that she was unique and very rare. Little did he ever realize that she was not like them at all. She was different.

''This is my last life,'' Mia said and Han Jian Yu paused for a moment. She continued speaking, ''My lives kept passing inside the box until the day Mei was born, she had that crescent birthmark which is not strange considering that she was a descendant of Hans but she just turned out to be the destined one, who had the ability to contract me, to control my powers. When she was born, my stale body finally had some fluctuations and your family was only aware that the box was passed by the ancestors, they did not know what was inside. Being orthodox with their thoughts, your grandfather shifted me to the upper floor where nobody else was allowed to go because they thought of the box as some evil omen…''

''But Mei went there once,'' Han Jian Yu said as he thought about the time when Yu Mei was just learning to walk, it was the same day when everything happened and they went far away from the Han Family.

''Yes, she did. And I was disgusted by the fact that it was a human, a child who got the whole control over my life just by a mere touch of hers,'' Mia did not sugarcoat her words. There were things that she did not want to tell him but it is the truth. And even if he came to hate her for all that, all she could do was accept his hate.

Han Jian Yu's brows tugged together for a moment as he paused. He massaged the spot between his brows, ''You spent ages inside a box, it is only right for you to have your pent up emotions, your anger and your frustration,'' He did not know how one would feel, spending not a day or month, but years, decade or centuries inside a small closed up space. He had never faced that but all he could do was see things from her point of view. And his heart ached just at the thought of it.

Mia was stunned for a moment as she lowered her eyes, ''I thought you would be angry about this…''

''I am not. No matter what you are, be it human or be it a fox spirit, you have emotions too and Mei was just a stranger to you. It would be strange for you to love her as soon as you come out of your cage.''

Mia paused?and a momentary hesitation flickered in her eyes, ''So, when you protected Mei from that woman and were about to get in the accident, I took you both away and you were unconscious so you did not remember anything about seeing me. That woman who kidnapped Mei saw me so I killed her. Mei was safe because you protected her well but you were injured all over and you lost your memories. I healed your external injuries out of pity but didn't do anything about your memories and all. I just went inside Mei's body because her birthmark allowed my spirit to rest inside her, it was just like how I was able to live inside the box.''

Han Jian Yu laughed, ''Look at you taking pity on me,'' He pinched her waist.

Mia was speechless, ''You were quite adorable to not take pity on…''

''So years passed and I stayed inside Mei's body, waiting for her…''

Her words were interrupted as the sounds of helicopter blades resounded in the forest.