HURTING KNUCKLES
TEN YEARS LATER
A tall muscular man in his late twenties walked around the room as he frowned at the letter in his hand.He sat on the bed and rolled his shoulder blades. The pressure of all the workload hurt his head. He settled the letter on the small table next to his bedside, away from his sight.
Apollo Zhong laid on his bed and stared at the ceiling. He clenched his jaw, he hasn't been able to focus on his work nowadays.
He had been away from his house for ten years. Maybe the homesickness he had pushed down are finally resurfacing so strongly that he couldn't ignore it anymore.
Talking about homesickness…
Apollo got up and walke
SOMEONE YOUNGERApollo held June's hand and opened the door. June's main maid had arrived and was talking with Opal. When Casey saw them come out she quickly bowed."Casey, pack up and go to the main house without me and June." Apollo ordered."Yes, young master." Casey bowed."You follow Casey," Apollo said to Opal, "She will give you a room there. You can stay there if you like.""Yes, General." Opal said."General?" June repeated and looked at Apollo, "You are now a General?""See? How many things we have to talk about since I never sent you the letters." Apollo said."Sent?" June said, "I thought you never wro&
DEAL WITH FAMILY HISTORY"You never sent him any letters why?" Orion asked and sipped on his tea.Apollo raised an eyebrow, silently asking his father if he was really asking that question."You are the one who said not to sent!" Apollo said, and folded his arms against his chest, "And I know you would read the letter first for yourself!"Orion and Apollo were drinking tea in Orion's room. Orion shrugged at Apollo's accusations and muttered, "Well, that is true."Apollo scoffed. He stared at his reflection on the tea and said, "I need to go to the base in the afternoon and position the soldiers at the border.""The teahouse across the street have seen some strangers disguised as manuel workers coming." Orion infor
BAD JUDGEMENT"The Bai family—that is your mother's family name." June clarified and continued talking, "Kept a lot of secrets, the healing pills which would lessen people's diseases were sold in such high prices that only the rich would have access to it. There was also a grain that one of the members from Bai family had found. Legend has it the grain was the tear drops shed by the god of life when his human lover died. The grain of tears could grow in any kind of environment making them extremely precious."As June was talking Apollo started noticing how close they were, he stared down at June's loosely tied robe and gulped."The Bai family wanted to increase their wealth and power so they kept the grain of tears to themselves. When the emperor learned of this, the most trusted aid of the Bai famil
LOVE WITH A CANON FODDEROpal hadn't seen Apollo for a few weeks. To her own surprise she hadn't missed him, at all.Instead she was having the best time of her life with Casey.Opal was the only survivor of a war and was picked up by the old General and she was raised as his own daughter. She grew up to follow her adopted father's footstep and became one of the greatest warrior.She wanted to be a General but gave up on that thought when she saw the way Apollo led his army.It was a moment when despite being short on supplies and men, Apollo managed to strike his army's heart with courage and power. They won battles even when the odds were against them.Since then Opal had decided to follo
RED LANTERN WISH"I have bought a land and the construction of a free public hospital will be ready," Apollo said.Orion nodded, "Good and what about the grain?"Apollo sighed, "The map is too old and I can't figure out the riddle. I will look into it as soon as I can.""Riddle?" Orion repeated."Yes," Apollo answered, "I—""There is a riddle master in the capital, I think," Orion said.Apollo nodded, "Yes, we are met before in the Capital. I will go to him once I finish my work here.""Well, I am going to take a nap, goodbye," Orion said and stood up. Apollo followed his led and bowed.
PLAY OUTSIDE OF THE THEATEROn the second day of the carnival, June's student— Levi would be performing.And on this very day, Apollo would be attacked by assassins.June was getting ready for the day, suddenly nervous because he would fail this mission, if either he or one of the main leads die. He was not ready to see Cupid yet after his humiliating withdrawal from a mission last time.June took in a deep breath and slide his room door open, to his surprise he saw Apollo and Levi standing there, glaring at eachother."How long have you two been here?" June asked.Levi broke the eye contact first to smile at June. June saw a small victorious smile flash on Apollo's face before he too faced him.
ANOTHER ADVENTURE "Well, your information was quite correct, June," Apollo said as he made his way to June who was sitting on a bench by the garden eating snacks. "Hmm?" June said, looking at Apollo. Apollo smiled and rubbed his thumb over the corner of June's mouth. "You had some crumbs there," Apollo explained. June looked down feeling embarrassed and swiped his sleeve over his mouth quickly before looking up at Apollo. "I was right about what?" "The assassins," Apollo said and sat next to June, "We intogorrate them and they spilled everything." "Finally?" June asked and Apo
ARREST AND DEAL [Transferring memories…] [Mission Intro : The female lead of the story is Grace Lan. She and the supporting actor met when she was getting robbed. The supporting actor helped her. Since then they had formed a friendship. Soon, the supporting actor started falling in love with Grace. One day the supporting actor gets into a fight and is arrested. He calls Grace to help him bail out. That time Grace mets the male lead—Samuel Ting, who was one of the officers who arrested the supporting actor.Watching Samuel and Grace interact made the supporting actor realised that Grace deserved someone better and not a street hooligan. He abandoned his feelings for her and remain as her friends. Soon, the main leads fall in love and get married. They live a happy life afterwards.][Host, your mission is to
Apollo's smiling face was the last thing June saw. When June opened his eyes he found himself standing in front of the entrance of a huge white building. He recognised the place, it was the head quarters of Love Crop. June stepped inside the building and looked around the huge lobby. People were buzzing all around. June looked at the couch were he first found himself sitting and sure enough there were couple of people looking dazed and confused. The Doves were prancing around in their white suit and seemed busy as usual. June walked through them and approached the Dove at the reception. The Dove was a tall lady with high cheek bones and a slicked back sliver ponytail. "Hi, I am June Weng—" The Dove typ
GOODBYEAnsel swiftly walked through the palace hallway and entered June’s study room unceremoniously.June was quietly discussing with a student about the new pills they were making. Both of them jolted in surprise when Ansel had barged in the room.Both of the herbalist bowed to the prince.“I want to talk with Dr.June alone,” Ansel said, looking at the scrawny boy who quickly nodded and walked out of the room in quick steps.June looked at Ansel with a waiting face.“Why do you want to resign?” Ansel asked.June shrugged.“I am tired of travelling. I miss my family and I have enough points to retire.”Ansel nodded. He and June were strangers but they were connected throu
RESIGNATION[Host, I was unable to get through the employee files but there is an employee named June Weng who has been in Heavenly Affairs. He works in the same cooperation as you are in but is department is different.]“So, he is bounded to Heavenly Affairs,” Ansel stated, “What department does he works in?”[Yes, host. June Weng works under the unrequited love department.]Ansel was surprised. Things like this ever happened. Souls were sent to completely different worlds and the employee of Heavenly Affairs hardly met each other in the same world.“Unrequited Love, huh,” Ansel said as he laid down on the bed. He wondered what must have happened in June’s real life.“Was there a mistake when you ass
NEW SYSTEM[Entering new world.]June was still getting over the suddenness of getting ripped away from Ian's arms.He blinked still dazed as he listened to Venus' voice. She was briefing him about the next mission.[Mission Intro : The male lead—Ansel Chu is the crown prince and the supporting actor is his personal doctor and one of the head herbalist.The prince and the female lead—Sara Lan meets with each other when they were fighting with the some rebels. Ansel gets injured while protecting Sara who had wandered into the fighting area while searching for herbs. She heals him afterwards.The prince takes interest in the jumpy and quirky Sara and makes her one of the herbalist in the palace fulfilling her biggest dream. Soon, Sara starts to fall in love with Ansel.
COUPLE RINGSToday, was the day.June would feel it.He had been spending the last two days in the hospital with no improvement and according to his system's countdown, ten months was over.The body was going to die.However, June struggled against the growing heaviness. This morning, Ian had promised to come to him with the couple rings he had ordered for their marriage.[Host, the body's countdown has started. If you don't leave the body in five minutes you will be forcefully ejected from it.]"Venus, please do something,"June pleaded, "I will go willingly once Ian and I exchange our rings."[I am sorry host but if you do not leave the body the Reapers from Hades Inc. will take you in questioning and sue you, since it is against the pr
IN ANOTHER LIFEIan opened the hospital room and smiled at June who raised his head from his book."Hi," June said, with a smile. He closed the book and waited for Ian to settle down next to him."Hey," Ian said, and took June's hand.June titled his head at Ian and raised his eyebrow."I wanted to ask you something." Ian began slowly.At June's encouraging nod, Ian took in a deep breath."Marry me," Ian blurted out.Ian winced at his own bluntness. The words that he had practiced in front of the mirror were long forgotten.June looked at him with widen eyes. June was sure he misheard Ian. He had only a week before he will be forced out of this body, he wanted to spent all this time with Ian but what Ian said surprised him.
NEVER FORGETIt was raining.The loud chattering against the roof was somehow pleasant to listen to. Ian buried his nose under June's hair, they tickled his nose lightly but Ian hardly cared, as he breathed the watermelon like scent from his hair.June sighed softly and leaned closer to Ian, his back pressed against his chest.They were sitting on the floor wrapped in a blanket as they watched the rainfall."I wish we would stay like this forever." Ian softly muttered, against June's hair.June stiffened at Ian's words and turned his head to look at him.Those wide set of hazelnut eyes still manage to knocked Ian out of hid breath. Ian was still recovering from the sudden lose of the light smell of watermelon. His chest clenched painfully as he realized the impact
MARRIAGE PLANS"You want to what?" Alicia gaped at Ian.Ian shifted uncomfortably in his seat and avoided Alicia's eyes. He caught Jeremy's eyes who gave him a sympathetic smile, he gave him a quick one back."I want to marry him before, you know." Ian muttered.Alicia shook her head, "You two are minor and-""No one needs to know!" Ian said, "You know that June does not have enough time left. I will head off to college after some months. I-I want to do this!""This is like modern Romeo and Juliet." Alicia muttered, as she rubbed her chin."Please," Ian quietly said, "I love him. I-I don't know what to do anymore. I know he could go. Bu-but it feels too fast. I-" Ian choked back his words and looked down at his shoes."Ian," he heard Jeremy call his name softly. I
DANCE GONE WRONGIn a blink of an eye two months had passed, since June and Ian started dating.Every morning, Ian would catch the morning bus to met June in the hospital and as evening rolled in he would stay with June whistle doing his homework in the hospital room with him.Alicia and June ended their relationship on a good note and she often visited him too.Today, was a weekend and June was finally allowed to go home. He had asked Ian to come to his place.Ian was standing in front of a large mansion and ringed the bell.A butler opened the door and guided Ian through the staircase and towards a room with huge oak door.Inside, June was by the window reading. As the butler closed the door behind Ian, June walked towards Ian and kissed him.Ian smiled against the kiss and