The matter between Qin Yu and his son was brought home that night. Qin Yu's overbearing aura and strange smile from time to time would have made Su Ci Yi felt goosebumps. She reluctantly looked at the child worrying if he'll be alright since his father was pissed off to him.
But then again, she was just only an outsider. Qin Yu knew the best for his child
***
Huan Clan's Villa
A doctor was fully scrutinizing the hospital machine and syringe hook to the old man. He had just made a lot of re-examination, analysis and come up with his final findings.
The old master's health deterioration had come to worse. The medical supplies could not any more prolong his life but only added to his suffering. He could tell that it will be months until he was finally gone.
Huan Ro still couldn't believe it. His old man was still strong last year. In just passing of a year, he had been reduced to this?
Life was usually mysterious and unknown.
One moment you're alive and then you've been dead in a fleet of a time.
***
11:55 PM
Huan Ro had woke up again that night and at the very same time. Every time he looked up to his grandfather's room he could always spot a dark shadow leaning beneath the old man. As soon as he took a closer look. It's as if it was just an illusion. All disappeared within an instant.
Xiang Mo Mo hasn't said anything weird happening, so he assumed that his eyes must be playing a trick with him. Due to the hectic business affairs lately, he had been sleep deprived and exhausted.
The doctor declared his grandfather's lifespan would only be for two months and if a miracle won't happen his grandfather will be lost forever. Trap within the darkness of misery of life and death, he never failed to inform a certain someone.
Huan Ro pulled his phone and texted. [Grandpa's dying. Aren't you going to show your face for the last time?] No matter how they had an enmity with each other but since things are going to worst, he had no choice. If it's for the old man, he can forget anything about his feuds.
As soon as he settled his message, he didn't wait for a reply. He went to the old's Huan's side and guarded him until the wake of dawn.
***
Su Ci Yi's phone vibrated but only ended on that. The owner was gone under the prime darkness of the night. She swept over the clouds and her dust cast a dark shadow among the pines trees and streetlights.
Her speed was fast, yet cautious not to make any commotion. Though she only left a note on her bed confirming her night escapade again.
Alone in the darkness, crossing the crossroads under illuminating greenlights. Jumping over a mandarin style roof and sliding within the tiny spaces of the alleyway to avoid public suspicion.
The lists Qin Yu handed was concise and clear. The details of five people who bought the oil-based scented rose perfume can be vividly traced back to those files he gave.
***
The first woman was named Mui Mao. Working as an assistant in the fashion department. The woman was always working overtime and would be home a little late in the evening.
Su Ci Yi needed only to confirm if she had a faint scent of the dark mist.
Since the woman's house was near to her current spot, she didn't hesitate to visit her.
Upon arriving, the door was left opened and a toddler of three years old was peeking over the gap in between.
It was night and it seems the child was curious on the outside.
Su Ci Yi stepped in, open wide the door and immediately sniff the bottle of perfume. Sure enough, it was one in the possession of a woman. Scrutinizing the lingering dark mist on the surrounding, she failed to extort one.
Pacing back and forth. The child only looked at her. Her doe-like eyes was sparkling like a sapphire gemstone. Moist and bleaking.
A lonesome kid in the middle of the night? Who's ignorant would leave a child alone in their house?
Su Ci Yi's been the likes to be smitten with cute things. While the child was looking at her with curiosity, she could not help but to spread her arms and lifted her. It was just a reflex! She had been used being with Qin Tao and Qin Tao's embrace!
She touched the child's body and would have had to lift her but Su Ci Yi saw how the child's face crumpled and twisted into a sour face.
When Su Ci Yi lifted her up, there was a loud *wahhhhhhhhh! sound. Followed by strong twisting against her grasp.
Da*mn, she thought her adversity with kids had ended since Qin Tao was always sticking to her! But it seems that Qin Tao's the only exception. Regular kids would always felt afraid in her presence.
Su Ci Yi squatted in front of a child and patiently waited until she stops crying.
The whole house echoed from the wailing of the child.
Su Ci Yi could sense that there's a faint breath of another person. It must be the one who takes care of the child. Her report stated that Mao Mui would always be late going home, therefore she hired a caretaker to look after her kid.
But such clumsy and stupid helper shouldn't be hired. She left the kid alone here in the open!
"Are you tire of crying now?" Su Ci Yi talked to her as if she can make any sense of talking with her. She already gave up attempting to hold her. In a sense that she would make the whole neighborhood awake by this child's trumpet-like cry.
The kid seems to be exhausted, stop crying and curled on the floor mat.
Su Ci Yi snappily went out of the house, but as soon as she stepped out of the door there was another set of wailing.
What now!?
She hadn't made three steps outside when she looked back.
The next time she went out, there was an extra baggage on her back.
Su Ci Yi flew into the high air with speed unknown to the eye. Her back wrapped a three-year-old child, swinging her arms and now giggling. Funny to think that she had been crying severely like she had been dumped by her boyfriend and now in good spirits.
Su Ci Yi had no other choice but to get her back to her mom and since she would be going there anyway, she'll drop her by.
Nevertheless, it's better bringing her than to leave her alone in the middle of the night.
The kid touched her face and with a gurgling sound, her drool flow endlessly down the cloth on her back. Su Ci Yi's back wetted with spittle in milk scent.
***
Studio Pix was a large reputable company that handles 1st rate fashion models in the country. That studio was located on the middle floors of the tallest building own by the imperialistic Qin Corporation.
Though the rent was far more expensive but the location and prestige it could get cannot compare to any majestic building in the country. The president of such company came from the Qin Bloodline and would have been entailed that part of this building really belongs to him.
Tonight, a rehearsal was scheduled and lists of candidates who will be participating in the upcoming runaway competition outside the country are on the venue. The stage was almost covered in unique decorations and unparagoned designs of ethnic and tribal garments. The theme was about amazon.
A tall woman in lanky stature was sitting in a Mexican style coach in the middle, while her assistant was doing the retouching on her face. When she felt that the make-up was not on par to her liking, she scrunched her eyebrow and ridicule in a bold voice enough to hear by everyone inside the room, "How long have you been working here? Aren't you already used to my usual powder? I don't use stuff like these! Look, even your contouring is amateurish. Do you still want to work at this company?"
Su Ci Yi knew this woman. She's the crazy hot-tempered woman who likes to find fault on other people. This ridiculous person was non-other than Shui Zi. The female goddess of the modeling world.
The one whom she had been together in the supposed to be horror house documentation and would have been the first human ingredient in the soup of Ming Su.
Su Ci Yi turned and saw that the one Shui Zi ridiculing, was this child's mother.