But the silence of the night was broken by the sound of a loud gunshot that shocks her from her despair.
In the distance she sees the body of the Matriarch fall dead slowly on the empty street ground.
Slowly walking to their home, she was transfixed on him as his each and every step rings in her ears.
As he walked closer and closer Zhi Yan couldn't see his face which was covered in black cloth except his eyes.
Those eyes were like bright burning stars opened wide with a fiery anger inside.
But he was not looking at her, yet she has never seen eyes that were full of hatred.
Eyes that want to burn everything in sight and can pierce the sky in its anger.
And holding his pistol the black clothed man slowly walked past her until he stopped in front of the stunned Patriarch.
This is the one moment he's been waiting for in all those years.
Due to his growing age the Patriarch now has his back bent as he sits with his cane.
His eyes look into his with fear, he wants to scream but no noise comes out of his mouth. He wants to dodge away the danger of the barrel that's pointed in front of his face, but his legs were like they were frozen onto the ground.
Tony loads the gun and has his finger on the trigger ready to shoot the bullet into the Patriarch's head. Patriarch's legs tremble in fear and he collapses on the ground kneeling.
The Patriarch clutches on his leg begging, "Please spare my old life. I can give you anything you want."
Tony only has a feeling of coldness for him, "And if I want your life?"
"My daughters are beautiful, you can have them," tears are welling up as he fears for his life, "just spare me."
Hearing him sacrificing his daughters for survival only made Tony's heart burn with more anger, "You bastard!"
He was reminded of how the Patriarch also sacrificed his mother after she has no use for him.
He utterly hates him, 'If it wasn't for this selfish bastard her life wouldn't have been a tragedy.
As he was about to pull on the trigger to end the old man Zhi Yan shouts, "Don't shoot!!" She kneels on the ground together with the Patriarch.
Tony was stunned that the daughter would actually stand up for her father.
Even when she was being casted out like used water into the garden.
His eyes were fixed up on her in confusion as she kneels on the ground, "Why are you doing this?"
Looking at the face he was reminded of that young girl which he once saved from the gangsters.
The girl who courageously stood up to protect her sister.
The girl she has seen walking down the stairs in the teahouse. The kind smile that warms like a sunflower to him.
The connection that exists as they look into each other's eyes.
That unknown friend, never would Tony have known she was the same sister that played with him when they were a child. It was the lost warmth that he has known in his youth.
He observes that her hands are trembling from his intimidating aura. But she still looks at him with eager eyes, fearlessly staring into his.
He finds this strange that a 'Lamb dares to look eye to eye with the lion'.
"No matter what things he has done to you, please forgive him," she bows to the ground and looks up at him with eyes of hope, "because he's still my father…"
"Get out," Tony shouts at her, turning his furious eyes on her.
"Don't shoot my father," she saids to him in tears. Her weeping was like the rain as it dripped down on her cheeks.
Her sobbing reminds him of a sacrifice his mother from his memory made for him.
"Hui Liang, Mama needs to go somewhere. Run away quickly, don't let anyone from the family find you," her mother's sobbing ran down her cheeks as she warmly said to him.
Her warm hands that had known toiling and pain touched affectionately on his cheeks.
Her eyes enveloping his heart into her sorrow and sadness in that very moment.
But also the faith that she has for her child that he will survive.
To have one last look on the child she loves as she takes a step to give everything in sacrifice.
"Hui Liang...You're the happiest thing that came into my life. Now run!! Don't let them catch you!"
Her eyes were tearful as she pushed him away, to take the step forward that will plunge her in an abyss of darkness.
In this singular moment the hatred that he has inside that made him seek revenge for the last 30 years begins to proliferate and melt away. The bottled hatred liquifies and dissipates from his guarded heart.
This moment was quiet despite the wailing and cries, it was the quiet that belongs to a peaceful grassland.
Time seems to just slow down as he becomes calmer and calmer.
Slowly he lets down his gun and relaxes his finger on the trigger. Zhi Yan stopped her cries as she sees that the assasination stopped.
The room became quiet and noiseless as everyone raised their heads to look at Tony.
And like this Tony walked out the house without even a single glance backwards at the scene of the surprised faces.
It was as though he left his hatred and vengefulness at that room.