Meng Fei dragged the cultivator with him into his office, whose pitiful appearance clearly demonstrated that his mind was completely blank. He had a firm grip on his wrist, walking in a hurry, almost running, to prevent the other from making another stupid attempt at escape. The construction site was huge, close to the highway slope and would be transformed into an apartment complex in the coming months. Meng Fei was the constructor in charge.

His office was a small makeshift prefab structure near where the mess had originally settled, namely the foundation of the main building.

The employees were still in an uproar, someone soon spread the rumor that the chief contractor had thrown the lover into the ravine and opinions were divided between disbelief, astonishment, laughter and pretending not to understand. So when Meng Fei sped past, almost carrying the other man, almost everyone concluded that they did indeed know each other!

"Boss!" Someone else shouted from the crowd. "You shouldn't throw your boyfriends down a ravine like that!"

Li Jiong: "..............."

Meng Fei: "I'm going to throw you into the ravine, Xao Si! Don't think I don't know who you are!" He locked himself in the office and threw Li Jiong into the nearest chair like a sack of potatoes.

"YOU ARE CRAZY!" He grabbed a first-aid kit off a shelf and set it down on the table with a clatter. "Or did the punch I gave you damage your brain?! Look! Your forehead is bleeding!"

The contractor stepped in front of him and began working deftly on a bandage while babbling and swearing nervously.

"Let's do it like this, I'm not going to call the police, your graffiti paint will really be covered... And what a beautiful piece of crap paint! You threw your money away because it's already disappeared! So you take your costume, your sword , piss off and I'll pretend it never happened!" Li Jiong regained his senses and jerked the other's hand away.

"Send me back!"

"Ah, yes, right, Your Majesty. Wherever you like." Meng Fei shook his head and then put the band-aid back in the box. "YOU GO BACK TO THE HELL YOU CAME FROM!"

Li Jiong stood up, shouting as well. "IT WAS YOU WHO BROUGHT ME HERE!!"

"Bullshit! I don't even know you!"

"You don't know me? Are you going to say that you spent a year fighting a stranger?"

"Fighting? I haven't participated in any tournaments in a long time! I've just been WORKING! Got it? Working all this time! See? Building buildings!" He showed the work through the window with his arms outstretched theatrically.

"Enough! Who or what are you anyway?"

"Who am I? I am responsible for this work!"

"Right!" Li Jiong tried to control himself. "Alright, alright!! And what place is this?"

"This is land where they're going to build an apartment building!" Meng Fei took the opportunity and pointed to a well-made model in one of the corners. "It will look just like this model here!"

Li Jiong was more confused than ever, he didn't understand the words that Meng Fei was saying. Apartments? Constructor? What language was that?

"What is a constructor?

Meng Fei: "............."

Faced with this question, he suddenly pulled up a chair, sat down and crossed his legs and arms.

"Let's do it like this. You can ask all the questions you want and I'll answer like you're a five year old until we figure out what's going on here. A contractor is a builder. I build buildings. What else don't you know?"

Seeing that even in a rude way the man was being collaborative, Li Jiong felt free to question him.

"Are you really Meng Fei?"

The man stared at him, blinking his long eyelashes repeatedly as he considered the question.

"My name is Meng Fei. But there are many people with the same name. So I'm not the Meng Fei you know. I can guarantee that."

"It's not just the name! Their features, expressions, their entire appearance is identical!"

"That's great! There's a copy of me out there messing around and I'm going to take all the blame! How is this Meng Fei enemy of yours?"

"I already told you, you are the same, except for your clothes, your eye color and your short hair. And you... it seems that you don't have your powers anymore?"

"Excellent! I don't have any supernatural powers, since you look like you stepped out of a wuxia fantasy world [1], that must be what you mean. That already proves that we are not the same person! Agreed?"

Li Jiong didn't find this very believable. "Meng Fei is a master of the art of cheating. You might as well have changed your own appearance!"

"Let's continue the interview, then come back to this point. Do you remember how you ended up here?"

"You brought me here!"

"Explain it like I'm the idiot now that you don't know anything!"

Li Jiong took a deep breath. "You and I mean, the other Meng Fei were clashing at Howl Peak, when you threw me into a transport array. So I was sent Here."

Meng Fei remained silent. It looks like something out of a movie. Couldn't this be a prank call?

"Listen, did you get paid to do this? It was that asshole Xao Si, wasn't it?"

Li Jiong looked at him in disbelief. "Pay for what?"

Meng Fei lost his composure.

"To stage this absurd story! Do you really want me to believe that you are a cultivator who was facing an evil Meng Fei from another world and was transmigrated here?!"

"What is transmigrated?" Li Jiong snorted. "Ah, forget it! I am a cultivator!"

"Really? So I'm the one who wants proof!"

The cultivator ground his teeth. He didn't recover even a third of his powers and the qi present in that place was very scarce and therefore his body was absorbing the energy very slowly. What he had managed to accumulate so far was to be used to reproduce the transport matrix in case Meng Fei refused to send it back, but even the hologram was already gone and he couldn't even copy a single snippet. There was no reason to hesitate in making a demo then.

He raised two fingers and concentrated the remaining spirit power. A small beam of blue light flickered and he threw it at Meng Fei's chest. It was a light punishment that he sometimes used on some rowdy shidis. The problem was that even these undisciplined students had a spiritual core strong enough to protect them. And what would be a light punch to a cultivator was actually almost like a stab to an ordinary person. And that's what Meng Fei felt at the time, as if he had been stabbed in the stomach. Furthermore, he took the full force of the blow, being hurled against the wall.

The strong impact almost knocked her over and the employees who were nearby thought that the two were making out again inside.

"MR. FEI! MR. FEI! IS EVERYTHING OKAY? MR. DON'T KILL HIM!"

HE'S THE ONE GOING TO KILL ME YOU STUPIDS! Meng Fei thought as he fell to his knees, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Is there any part of his stomach left intact?

Li Jiong for the first time he was really worried about that man. He had forgotten that the one in front of him didn't give off any sign of spirit power from the moment he saw him.

How had those powers gone like that? The array he created had perhaps run out of p? But why would he have come along?

Seeing that if he didn't respond soon, the employees would enter the office, Meng Fei took a deep breath and shouted at them: "IT'S ALL RIGHT! YOU'RE GOING TO KILL SERVICE, AREN'T YOU? THEN I'LL DEDUCT IT FROM ALL OF YOU'S SALARY!"

Silence outside. The group broke away in an instant.

Out of habit, when seeing someone injured, Li Jiong ran to him to help, forgetting that that person was his mortal enemy. To his surprise, the man backed away. Something had changed in that hour. Until then, all Li Jiong saw in those unfamiliar gray eyes was anger and disbelief, now there was a real feeling of... fear. Could the mighty Meng Fei feel fear???? And even more of him!?

For some reason, seeing that look made him feel a deep tightness in his chest, as if he were facing an animal about to be slaughtered. Curiously, he looked like a small, injured animal. He's never had that impression before. Generally speaking, Li Jiong only referred to Meng Fei as beast, demon, monstrosity.

"You..." Meng Fei started to say now cautiously, getting up slowly.

"...Okay, I believe...you...hmm...could you not hurt my people? They have nothing to do with this."

Was he also worried about others? The demonic cultivator he knew used, abused, and disposed of his underlings like trash! Li Jiong then saw the worst. This Meng Fei was not the same demonic cultivator Meng Fei!

"I... am also not the person who sent you here. You were then sent to another world, dimension, universe, something like that. Here is a modern world, we... don't have powers or use magic." Meng Fei spoke slowly, as if pondering what word to use to best explain this.

Li Jiong was paralyzed. Hearing that was worse than getting punched in the stomach. How am I going to get back to the Sect now???

Author's Note

[1] Wuxia: is a Chinese literary genre that mixes fantasy and martial arts. Meng Fei had a slight understanding of it since he was a workaholic and hardly had time to watch dramas or read them. Poor guy, he didn't know what he was missing.

Li Jiong lost in the modern world and finding his greatest enemy living peacefully in it, now I want to see the circus burn.And poor Meng Fei, if he is indeed a poor guy, he had a very painful test 😅.

Mini theater

Meng Fei: "Out of all the possibilities out there, was it fair for me to be a demonic cultivator in another world?!"

Huo Bai: "I hope I'm a powerful and immortal cultivator in this world."

Li Jiong: "I don't know any famous Huo Bai. Perhaps you are a peasant."

Huo Bai: "It can't be! I'll always be a minor character!!"

Meng Fei: "Better than not even existing in the work."

Li Jiong: "For me, there just needed to be you."