March 10, 20X2 (Tuesday)
Zhao Manor
Yang was sent to go to the dining room first because Mei Lin did not want Yang's playful help when dressing up the children. Everyone in the manor knew that Yang helping out means more work was going to be done. Mei Lin had no patience to deal with more work, so she shooed her husband away, woke up the children, and prepared them for the day. It was easy even if she had a large stomach, and the children were independent and reliable than Zhao Yang could ever be in the mornings.
Whistling, Yang went into their large dining room looking happy and satisfied, but inside his mind are plans of torture. He had not forgotten what he had heard from Elias and Mei Lin's phone call; it was still in the front of his mind, but when he was inside the room, Yang saw his father looking like he was staring into outer space- dazed and confused.
Yang tapped his father's shoulders and asked, "Is something wrong?"
