In this closeness with their body touching she could smell the soft fragrance from his clothing like spring petals.
"Miss Wu, are you okay," he had a deep tone that entranced her as the loud thumping anticipation in her chest only increased.
"Uh…" her voice was caught in her throat, unable to answer, those eyes were filled with desire as it touched her thumping heart.
There was a mixed energy that she can feel projected as he held her gently.
It was almost like a breath of light shining into the darkness of her cold heart.
She can feel and hear his breathing as his lips were only inches away from kissing hers.
And her body was trapped under those calm piercing eyes of his and a warm energy coursing through her body relaxing the coldness she tries to hide in the recess of her locked heart.
Since when she did not know, but there was a solitude that mixed with her warm tears that she holds back behind that tough mask she puts in front of the world.
Every time she shares herself vulnerably with the world outside it only leaves her heart a little more broken than before.
Little by little she sees upon her hands a million broken pieces that's impossible to be brought back together no matter how hard she tries.
Alone on those cold nights she finally brought them back together but as a frozen whole of the innocence it once was.
Inside that frozen and cold fortress is a weak little girl inside who's afraid and unable to bear the pains of the world any more longer.
In Tony's arms it was like a tiny creak of light shining into her darkness as a teardrop drips slowly down her right cheek.
Time seems to slow down to a halt as Tony moves his hand gently wiping that warm tear away whispering voice, "I'll never let anyone hurt you again. From now on I'll treasure your precious innocence."
This only made her tears slide down her face even more as those caressing words land like a peaceful white dove inside her frozen fortress walls.
��Stop! Don't let her go," shouts came from the servant afar with a sense of fatigue in his voice from chasing after her for such a time.
The shouts from the servant woke her up from the mesmerizing daze in Tony's arms.
"Sorry," she says in a soft voice to Tony, steadies herself on the ground and resuming her flee from the grasp of the one chasing behind her.
'Her entrance is as memorable as her farewell,' feeling the lightness of her body leave his hands as he watches the wind blowing upon her silky dress as she flees from his sight.
In his mind were still the images of her large eyes brimming with innocence as she turned her head noticing him in the short distance.
He looks down on his hands which had held her soft body before.
Time seems to slow to a halt as the rumbling streets of the city become noiseless.
She came into his life like a goddess of the sky descending upon the mortal realm and forever more his heart urged him to chase after that unforgettable innocence to her beauty.
Ba-dum Ba-dum Ba-dum
Her tiny feet were barely touching the hard ground as she rushed away far from the grasp of the one behind her.
She can feel the tightness in her chest as her lungs take in the fresh air with difficulty.
Her heart was almost leaping out of her youthful body as every beat sounds loudly and audibly in her mind.
In the distance she sees a large crowd of street goers and decides to seep in discreetly to avoid getting caught.
The servant finally catches and finds himself lost amongst the colorful clothing of the crowd unable to perceive where he had lost sight of her.
But he sees a female among the crowd with the same colored clothing and grasp hold of the female's arm, "Ha! You can't run anymore Miss Wu Zhao!"
Instead of seeing a familiar face the servant recognized it was the face of a stranger and quickly let go of his hard grasp on the woman's forearm with embarrassment.
"Where could Miss Wu Zhao have gone?" whispering to himself as he moves his head side to side in observation.
In an empty street alley Wu Zetian speaks out carefully to make sure she has lost the servant which had chased after her for many blocks.
"I'm finally loose," smiling with joy as she relaxes her guard, leaning against the wall of the red brick alley.
The sound of her quick respiration could be heard as she lightened her alertness.
But immediately that energy in her eyes resumed as she searched through her silk clothing as though making sure of the safety of a valuable treasure that she sneaked out from home.
Zetian's eyes beam with joy as she touches upon a velvet ring box with her fingers and brings it up to her sight like holding a dear child.
From a distance Tony who followed along in hiding among the dark nooks of the alley looks with curiosity at the ring box which she has in her fingers.
'What could it be for,' there was such remarkable happiness which he saw upon the smile from her soft lips.
Seeing the safety of the delicate treasure she resumes her journey in the streets as Tony observes discreetly from the distance.
Arriving at a grassfield behind a rural village filled with many trees decorated with bright colored green leaves on their branches.
There were also many bamboo plants shooting out from the ground along with their triangular shaped bamboo shoots coming out of the leaf filled ground.
Her footsteps followed a winding path that the poor villagers walked upon to go up to the high mountains for cutting down materials for building their fire.
The afternoon sun shines down on the road she walks on as she clutches hold of the velvet ring box tightly to her chest.
Soon the road path leads her to the sight of a youth standing under the shades of a large tree among the forest where a large amount of light directs on the grass of its surrounding.