Huan Hei rushed to the hospital after the nurses contacted him about the attack. His heart pounded like an elephants running steps towards their favorite food. The heaviness on his chest only diminished when he saw Ya Nuo awake and felt her warm hands against his cheeks.
Sigh
"I should have never left you alone. Forget work. Forget going home. I'm staying here with you and our babies until you four are officially discharged from the hospital." He touched her face and attentively examined every part of her body to make sure not even a centimeter scratch was on her body. The nurses already informed him that his babies weren't involved with the incident when it happened, so his attention was focused entirely on Ya Nuo's condition.
Finally, he could let out some of his tension. Ya Nuo frowned slightly, "Are they both dead?" When she woke up, she saw three nurses and Chen Mu standing by her bedside watching her. Startled, she asked them while they conducted a detailed body examination on her.
After asking series of questions, she found out that during her so called short nap, two people died and Hen Qing was arrested for manslaughter. Huan Hei rubbed her head gently and kissed her wrinkled forehead, "It's alright now. Don't think too much okay? It's not your fault."
He sat next to her and dotingly brushed her smooth hair, "You didn't do anything wrong. Auntie Ying Ying blocked the stabs for you while Yang Qiu Rei was shot by the police after the police spotted him with the knife. Hen Qing was the culprit and was arrested. You were drugged and unconscious. It's not your fault."
Warm droplets of salty tears wet the blanket as she softly whispered, "I...When we were living with Auntie Ying Ying, she was very caring and I could tell that she genuinely cared for my well being. I didn't have the heart to hurt her, so I let Hen Qing off that time. If I didn't let her go, none of this would've happened."
"Shh, shh, honey, don't cry. Don't forget that Auntie Ying Ying used her life to threaten you to save the psycho. You had no choice, but to let Hen Qing go. Nobody would've ever known that she would be crazy enough to attack you in the hospital."
"But she.." she tried to continue her sentence, but his index finger shushed her lips.
"You're not the one who stabbed Auntie Ying Ying multiple times and was not the one who instructed Hen Qing to do all this. This mess is made by Hen Qing and her wicked jealousy. You're also a victim in this case. Don't think too much okay? Let the police handle the rest." He leaned over and gave her another warming kiss on her forehead before cuddling with her in the hospital bed.
"Hei... did Auntie Ying Ying die painfully?" She couldn't help but ask this question. All that filled her mind was how gruesome the room must have looked with the splatters of blood over the walls, tainting everything in that room.
"No. Doctor Chen Mu told me that both Auntie Ying Ying and Yang Qiu Rei had a blissful smile on their faces when they died. Their hands were interlocked too. The staff who took care of their bodies didn't have the heart to separate them, so they carried their corpses with their hands still linked." He tightened his hug around her torso as he relived the nightmare call from the hospital.
"Hei... can I ask a favor?" her heartbroken voice softened his expression.
"What is it?"
"Can you arrange their funeral and have them cremated together? This way, they will be together after they're dead. They lost a lot of time when they were still breathing and alive. Even though he's done so much to hurt me, his love for her is still one that is deeply moving. Auntie Ying Ying saved me using her life, so I want to do something for them. Please?" she peeked at him, hoping to find a positive answer coming out of his mouth.
"Okay. I'll do as you say. I'll have them cremated and buried together. If you want, we can also use their cremation and help the environment by growing trees. It's like an afterlife for their lasting love." He smiled while looking down on his teary wife.
"Mmm...thank you." she hugged him closer and slowly closed her eyes. The couple's peaceful time together was disrupted by a phone call from the chief of the police department. Hen Qing had escaped and policemen are now searching everywhere for her. There was an accident leading to heavy traffic on their way back involving gang activity that distracted the police officers who were watching Hen Qing.
Hen Qing escaped while the gangs were fighting and the officers couldn't find her after the fight ended. Huan Hei decided to take Ya Nuo and his triplets home for safety precautions. The Huang's sent their private specially trained bodyguards to the couple's home for the top protection.
Meanwhile, in a dark dusty attic with dust particles floating from corner to corner, a beaten figure is found chained to the walls with metal chains. Her tongue was trimmed brutally, that her deep cut was hideous and uneven. A bucket of salt and spice were on the girl's left and right, waiting for her wound to burn like hell. Her wound had stopped bleeding, but the pain made her spiritless.
In front of the girl, Gu Wing was recklessly spinning a pair of sharpened scissors in one hand, and holding a gross warm fresh piece of tongue in her other hand. She watched as the bloody tongue was squished in her hand and then at the girl, who was none other than Hen Qing, with the most amused look.
"You didn't think that you could easily escape from the police just like that right?" Her fingers let the cut off tongue fall out of her palm. Her pointy heels took a step forward and stopped in midair as she looked over to see Hen Qing's horrific expression. After seeing Hen Qing shaking her head, she smirked and stomped her heel over and over on the bloody tongue.
The moonlight shone into the attic, reflecting some light into the mirror across from Hen Qing's body.
"Didn't I warn you of our deal already? I want you to hand your mother out within the year, but you ended up killing her with your own hands. Not only that, because of you, Qiu Rei followed along and died. They were smiling in their deaths. How dare you do this to me? You took away two of my pleasurable experiments. So here's your punishment." Her smile broadened as she tilted the mirror to angle symmetrically aligned to Hen Qing's face.
"This mirror is ten times zoomed in compared to regular mirrors. Have fun looking at your ugliness. I forgot to let you know that the magical half youth recovery works only temporarily. Why don't you look at your face now and remember it as much as possible? Soon, you'll see more wrinkles covering your face and then bam! You're back to that saggy eighty year old look."
Tears and fear filled Hen Qing's eyes as her limbs struggled to break free from the chains. "Don't worry, I won't let you die so easily. I will have you watch your aging face for a long time and insert nutrients through your bloodstreams. You'll die a slow and rotten one." Gu Wing laughed as she exited the attic, locking the door from the outside.
"Small potatoes really can't do shit. Little babies and Ya Nuo....you four won't be fortunate this time. I'll have you all dead."