**Blood flows out of her wound as she tries to escape her pursuers. She entered the most dangerous forest in their kingdom, the one that she treated as her backyard before, but now with her cultivation crippled, she doesn't even want to think about what will happen to her anymore. She tried to stop the tears in her eyes as she tried to stop remembering that one of the pursuers behind her back, is the person she trusted the most.

Because of the heavy feelings weighing in her heart, she unconsciously stumbled in a tree root and leaned on it, while clutching her chest instead of her deep wounds, and muffled a sob.

She asks herself, just why? What did she do to deserve this? Why is the world so cruel? Of all the people who will betray and shatter her like this, why does it has to be the first person who taught her to see the positive side of the world? The first person who said that he will always be with her no matter what? The first person who stood up for her when the world said that she is just a garbage? A trash?

Sounds of hurried footsteps entered her senses, urging her to run again.

As a the little girl inside her tough facade constantly tells her that he was just forced, that he didn't want to do this, reality proved otherwise.

" Xueyue, just give up and give me your heart. It will be better to just give it to Lan'er than for it to continue beating for a trash like you - -"***

" Ahhhhhhhh, you bulls*hit of a man!!!", Ava almost threw her phone in front of her when she remembers that she is inside the jeepney. Her action garnered the attention of the people inside, in which she just raised her brows and rolled her eyes to everyone who makes eye contact with her.

' People who just can't mind their own business', she thought.

She looks at her phone again, intending to write a comment to the 'bullcr*ap' chapter she just read.

But her eyes widened as she realized that she is already a few streets away from their house.

" Manong paraaaa!!", she shouted, making the jeepney abruptly came to a stop and the passengers to bump with each other, there was even two male passengers who almost kissed!

The inside is filled with angry murmurs, in which she completely ignored, even when all she wanted to do is to laugh maniacally, and ran back to the street where their house is located like a madwoman, while checking the time in her wristwatch.

4:55

' Damn, is this the end of the world?', she thought as she remembers the hell she went through when she once came home past her curfew.

' Dude, that was the worst', she continues running fast as the memory of her, kneeling in a basin filled with mung beans outside their house while trying to hide her embarrased face to their neighbours who were curiously watching her, maybe wondering why an already 18 years old young lady has to have a very childish punishment. Her face can't help but to turn red whenever she remembers how her crush next door laughed at her before entering his house, resurfaced in her mind again and again like a curse.

Because of that, she uncrushed him and did her best to never endure such humilliating punishment all over again.

She ran faster and almost burst into tears when she can already see the roof of their house from the street she's currently in.

' Hallelujah!', she almost shouted her thoughts when she reached their door at exactly 4:59.

" I'm homeeeee!!!!", she loudly announced, as if afraid that all the people in the house can't hear it.

" I know", her spirit almost jumps out of her system when she saw her mother putting the slippers she washed this morning exactly the same time she opened the door, and her mouth, amazed that she seems to know her arrival all the time.

" Mom, why don't you just admit that you are a cultivator but just want to have a more peaceful life, so you and dad secluded yourselves in Earth and get married then have beautiful babies?", she said with an exaggerated hand movements while displaying an ' I - already - know' look.

Her mother's lips twitched slightly, looking at her as if she already needs to visit the mental institution, the sooner, the better.

" Please do me a favor and stop reading that kind of novels because I think I am going crazy just from listening to you", her mother replied and shakes her head while turning her back to her 'sick - in - the - head' child to go to the kitchen and starts cooking for dinner.

" You just have to tell me the truth and I will wholeheartedly accept it! ", she shouted while grinning, earning a 'you're - unbelievable' look from her mother.

She always teases her mother this way. She always marvel about how her mother can sense that someone is arriving, how she knows that she is still not sleeping even if she always did her best to keep quiet in her room just to continue reading, and how she always know whatever happens to her and her siblings, outside. There were even times when she though that maybe she was a secret agent, but now since she's reading books about cultivation, she'll rather think that maybe she is a cultivator.

'*Though it would be better if what I am saying is the truth, though. Who wouldn't want to live in a cultivation world, have magical power and use it to do househould chores? Or maybe use my powers to just blast our house so that I can't wash the dishes anymore?'

' Kidding'

" Please just change your clothes and sweep the floor after", her mother shouted back from the kitchen.

'See?'

She just changed her clothes and remembered the diary that she bought for her performance task in English and wrote something in the front page first, of course which was required by their teacher, before sweeping..

*Being normal is boring...

Dull...

Monotonous...

Simply gray....

So...

I read books!!!!!

Well of course not educational ones, how boring would that be!

I read transmigration and cultivation ones, you know,

The cultivation life,

The overpowered female lead,

The mind blowing scheming,

The powerful prince charmi - - -.*

...

" BANG!!!"

Ava just found herself flying out of her house without being able to wipe the stupid grin from her face, due to her writing turned daydream, and landed on their lawn, face first.

" What the f*ck?", she murmured while pulling her sorry *** up with a bleeding nose.

~~ whoosssshhh ~~

'What the hell?', curses sprang again and again in her mind as she looks at their house, being consumed with red flames in one moment, and then green flames the other minute.

As an ordinary student who barely listens to their class discussion,

" Just what kind of chemistry is this?"

Ava's jaw has been wide open for a few minutes that it already aches but she never seem to feel it because of the bizarre things that she's been seeing.

' Who the hell can explain what the **** is happening?'

She once again stared at the green transparent film - like dome that is currently surrounding their house and the oblivious looks of their neighbors around them.

' Am I in hogwarts?', she thought to herself while laughing like an idiot.

' Have I mistaken my mother for a cultivator when in fact she's a witch?', she laugh humuorlessly again while staring blankly in their house which is in verge of collapsing. She heard a cry and saw her 3 years old sister running away from the house together with her youngest brother.

' shit', she went back to her senses and took her precious baby sister from her brother, calming the already hysteric child while still looking at their already run down house.

She felt like fainting when a man, dressed in all black, shoots out from the house and landed 10 meters away from them. She was about to scream but got choked instead when the man flies back to their house fiercely as if the world killed his family.

' Can anyone explain what the crap was that? When did flying became easy? Wait, what?'

' Since when can humans fly?'

Ava feels like she really needs to go to a psychiatrist right now but she just can't even move her feet. When she is already on verge of losing her sanity, the world seems to want her to already lose it when she saw her mother floating outside the' ruins', called their house, fighting fiercely with almost twenty black robed men with a sword in her hand.

She just can't take it anymore and decided to just faint but abruptly stopped when she remembers that she is still holding her sister.

' Just what kind of a God damned situation am I and my family is in? Why are they using swords any way? Why so old fasion? Dammit! Why are they flying again? Hell, I can't even faint', she laments while on the verge of tears.

' Well, witches do fly, but should it be with broomsticks? And should they use wands instead of swords? Who do they think they are, Neville Longbottom?', she laughs at her thought.

But she remembers that she still has a brother and immediately went looking for him. Luckily he is just standing like a statue behind her, staring at the fight in awe, which annoyed her.

" Why the hell are you looking at them like that?", she stomps her feet in annoyance because she feels like she is the only one who is experiencing a mental breakdown right now.

" Are you dumb? Can't you see that this is the best fight that I have ever seen? It's literally the fight of the century! ", he exclaimed but composed himself afterwards, as he suddenly realized that it is his own mother who is now surrounded with 20 something strange men, trying to kill her maniacally.

The siblings frowned, worry is visible in their eyes. But they just stared agape again as they looked at how graceful their mother looks like right now, she looks like dancing while swinging her sword to her opponents. Wherever her sword is pointed, blood will immediately gush out. The problem is that, the strange men's wounds seems to heal whenever they eat something. But no matter how many times they eat those things, they can't still even wound their mother, until the blank face of the strange men cracked in panick. Then it suddenly dawned to Ava,

" Bro, their taking pills!", she suddenly shouted in excitement. Her mind was in haywire a moment ago so she can't think straight but now, it suddenly dawn to her. Swords, flying, colored whatever radiating from them and the transparent like dome, now it already registers in her mind.

" Bro, their cultivators! I am positive that they are cultivators!", she once again shouted but realized the strange silence in her back. She looks at her brother nervously, trying to check if he is still alive but he mouthed 'idiot' to her. '

' hmp how ungrateful! How dare he say that I am an idiot? Can't he see that I'm just worried? '. She turns her head back to look at her mother again when she saw one of the man is already in front of them, approaching them like a predator to his prey, then she realized that she really is an idiot for shouting, thus gathering their attention, but then she just can't help it, so she did what she is good the most, again,

She screams...

She screams as if the man already ****** his sword to her when in fact he didn't, yet.

But her mother immediately teleported in front of them. Protecting them from the man and continued fighting, leading those strange beings away from her little chicks. Annoyance can already be seen in their mother's face as she looks at the people who can't just die.

The siblings almost didn't blink while looking at the battle that they are seeing right now. Both of them can't believe that what they have been reading before is already performed by their mother with black robed men right now.

'Is this an opera?'

They didn't blink as they saw their mother closed her eyes while a fiery red cute little dot surrounded by green color immerge in her forehead, she opens her eyes and spread her arms, looking murderously at the men in front of her.

" Flame of Nirvana"

They heard her say in a very cold and distant voice with a dead eyes that almost made the strange men pee, well some of them did, 'which explains the stench around us I guess', Ava thought.

While they all thought that that was it, the black robed men suddenly found themselves being consume with greenish purple flames and shouted in anguish one after another. The siblings can clearly see that nothing happens to them, they were just engulfed in the greenish purple flame but as a cultivation novels reader, they both knew that flame of nirvana is a torture to the soul, well they just think so of course.

'Who knew what the hell is really happening with these poor grilled ugly ducklings?', they both thought.

For them, the bloods that they saw at the beginning is nothing compared to the begging and anguish cry that they are seeing right now. The looks of insanity in their distorted faces is already enough for them to have nightmares for at least a year.

And now both of them is wondering, as the awe they felt is already subsiding and the situation is already sinking in their brains,

" Just what the hell is going on?"

" Ma, what is happening?", Ava asked her mother while looking at how her mother is currently reconstructing their house. The strange thing is that, it is not your - usual - reconstruction as there are still blasts of green and red fire that can be seen in the house. It is more like a rewind of what happened a while ago, in a slow motion. She can't help but to widen her eyes as it is actually what she thinks it is, it is reassembling the house through the usage of time! She can clearly see how the bricks slowly reassembled in  the designated part of the house the same way it was blasted a moment ago.

When she was a little bit sure that maybe her mother is a cultivator a while ago, now she can't be so sure. From what she read from all those novels, cultivators can manipulate nature and space but she never encountered a cultivator who manipulates time, or atleast who can rewind time wilfully.

' Or she really is a witch? With a sword?'

Ava can't help but laugh at her thought.

' Why confuse myself right now, if I can just ask her myself?'.

" Mother, just answer us honestly, you look very well versed in assembling the house, has this kind of incident happened before?", she asked, emphasizing her observation as she tries to sound her mother out.

" Yes", her eyes widen as she did not expect her mother's curt reply.

" When we were not around? Or when we were not born yet?", she asked again, with confusion in her eyes.

' Like dude, I will surely know if something like this happens before because I' ll make sure that I will pester my mother to teach me these cool stuffs! '

" You were around", her mother answered curtly again before taking their little baby who is already sleeping and entered the newly finished house, leaving her dumbstruck daughter and son behind.

' If that's the case then... '

" You freaking erased our memories!?", she shouted at the top of her lungs, not caring about the curious looks of their neighbours as she also failed to realize that the greeninsh transparent dome that was covering their house has been long gone.

The family of three is already sitting in the sofa, one with a hardened face while the other two are confused.

They silently watched as their mother stands and wave her two hands above their heads. Ava had an ominous feeling about it, so when she saw that her mother's hands are already glowing with strange green again, she immediately covers her head and ran farther away from her mother.

" There is no way in hell would I let you to erase my memories again!", she shouted hysterically as she looks at her mother's face which is currently frowning deeply.

" The **** would I also let mine!", her brother covers his head and follow suit.

Well, of course they knew that their hands covering their heads are useless but, so what?

They convinced their mother about the pros and cons of erasing their memories. One is that, the memories are too good to be true, that maybe erasing their memories too much is bad for their health (which is a plain bullshit), and they are just very unwilling to robed by the only good thing that they has (another dramatic bullshit again).

Their mother is just looking solemnly at her already hysteric children who are wracking their brains just to convince her.

" Ma, I want to learn!", Alex, her brother, said with a determined face, in which she noded her head in approval. Her mother took a deep sigh and closed her eyes.

" Don't you know how much we sacrificed just for you to live peacefully in this world? You want to learn? For what? Just so you can live your imaginations, forsaking your safety? Are you just going to throw away your normal life just to experience a momentary bliss? ", their mother cups her head and grops her hair, feeling stressed at her two starry eyed children.

" Mother, have you seen how useless we were at that moment? How we can’t even protect ourselves? What if in the future, there will be thousands of them instead of just 20 something? We will just going to die while our eyes are wide open?", Ava said drammatically with teary eyes, emphasizing her point and mustering her most ' I'm - really - disappointed' look to guilt trip her mother.

" Ma, what if we will be abducted? We'll just goung to be abducted like chickens? All we can do is to just flap our hands hoping that it will do magic? Ma, no matter how you want to hide us from who - knows - who, they can still catch up! See, this is the 5th house that we bought yet, wait were they the reason why we have to stay at different houses?",

" Anyway the main point is, we also need to learn how to protect ourselves against them! ", she breathlessly reasoned out.

" No matter what you say, you know that you can't always be with us three forever. Please give us a chance to atleast make a decision for our selves", the siblings both look at each other with a knowing look and a grin,

" And we decided to learn whatever magic you are using to protect ourselves", she finished her little speech with a bow which make their mother speechless.