Francesca was standing in front of the big mirror in her room looking at herself quite awhile. She was wearing a black formal dress that reached to her knees, a gold heart neckless she got from her parents on her 18th birthday, and a pair of short black heels. She was looking at herself one last time before she went downstairs. Elder Shen, assistant Yu, and assistant Wen (her father's assistant) were waiting for her while drinking some tea.
"Oh, Little flower you are done?" asked elder Shen noticing that she arrived.
She nodded and the three gentlemen got up from the cough walking to her ready to go. It took an hour to reach the Nirvana funeral parlor, and everything was already prepared. The funeral was lasting for three days and the first day was for friends and business partners to pay their respect. The first person who came to pay respect was no other than elder Lee, later on, a few other friends and businessmen/businesswomen came.
Francesca forced herself to greet everyone that came to pay their respect to her parents, and she was so grateful that her grandfather did all the talking. The first day of the funeral was soon over when suddenly Kevin appeared. He was the last one that came to pay respect, do to his big project and some unexpected important files he almost didn't make it, but he luckily made it because chauffeur Vo found a short cut to the funeral. Kevin paid his respect and saw his grandfather (elder Lee) and elder Shen coming forward him.
Elder Lee came forward and smacked Kevin's head "You brat! Why are you coming now?"
"Some unexpected important files came as soon I was about to leave," said Kevin looking at his grandfather and elder Shen.
"Elder Shen my condolences!" he said looking a bit guilty that he didn't come early.
"En, you don't have to come if you are too busy with the company." said elder Shen looking weirdly at Kevin.
Kevin was not looking at elder Shen while he was talking and that made elder Shen look weirdly at him, even elder Lee looked weirdly at his grandson. His mind was only focused on one specific person that he didn't see when he first came. He was looking around until he felt someone staring at him dangerously.
"You know that my beautiful face is in front of you and not elsewhere?" said elder Shen while starring dangerously at Kevin. "If you are looking for my granddaughter, then it's too late I already sent her home."
Kevin was looking a bit disappointed that he couldn't meet her but didn't show it to the elders. "I was just wondering how she is doing," said Kevin expressionless.
"She will soon be fine," said elder Shen.
The two elders and Kevin exchanged a few words before they all decided to leave. Everyone had their cars and chauffeur with them and left separately. Elder Shen's White Bentley GT was the one who left first and right after left elder Lee's grey Mercedez Benz c63 amg. Kevin was standing beside his rolls-Royce ghost black badge looking a bit annoyed, he took his phone out and texted someone quickly before entering the car.
The second day of the funeral was only for families, some of her relatives that she did/did not know came. Francesca's aunt and her favorite cousin brother Lucas Fu from her mother's side came also but couldn't stay and had to take the earliest flight back to Norway right after the funeral was done.
The third day of the funeral was for everyone that didn't make it on the first day or the second day. Surprisingly more people came on the last day comparing to the first day of the funeral, and once again did Francesca force herself to greet people that came over to pay their respect to her parents. She started to get tired of greeting unfamiliar and familiar faces and was about to find her grandfather when she heard someone calling her name. She looked up and saw a man at her father's age and next to him was his wife and daughter.
"Mr. Lu," said Francesca looking at the man and his family.
"How are you doing Francesca? I heard that you were also in the accident," said Mike Lu looking a bit worried.
"I'm better now, thank you for coming over Mr. Lu," she said.
"Hmph, why are you only thanking Mr. Lu? Don't you see his wife and daughter standing right beside him?" said Mrs. Lu annoyingly. While their daughter Stacy Lu gave her an ugly look.
Francesca was looking at Mrs. Lu and then at miss Lu expressionless."Thank you Mrs. Lu and miss Lu for coming over to pay respect to my parents," said Francesca trying so hard not to punch them in the face. To be honest, she never liked this mother and daughter's attitude, they will always play innocent in front of her parents but once her parents weren't there their ugly personality came out.
Elder Shen came out of nowhere and was looking at Mr. Lu's family. "Little flower who are they?"
Mr. Lu and his family were so embarrassed over elder Shen's question. Once they came to the funeral they told almost everyone that they were very close friends of Francesca's parents. Everyone was looking weirdly at the family.
Francesca was about to answer her grandfather when Mike Lu interrupted her. "Elder Shen, how are you? My condolences!" said Mike Lu breaking the awkward silence.
"Do I know you?" asked elder Shen looking a bit annoyed. Elder Shen saw everything when Mrs. Lu was talking to Francesca and didn't already like the family.
"Elder Shen I'm a close friend of Francesca's father," said Mike Lu looking at elder Shen awkwardly.
"But I have never heard of you from my son." said elder Shen not paying to much attention to him.
"Maybe you just don't remember elder Shen," said Mrs. Lu trying to help her husband out of the awkward conversation.
"Are you saying that I'm too old to remember?" asked elder Shen coldly.
Francesca saw suddenly many people were looking at them, and she felt very uncomfortable so she told elder Shen that it was still some people they haven't greeted yet and walked away. She thought that the Lu family left after the awkward conversation, but they were still there, not caring much about them she busies herself with greeting more other people. An hour went by and she felt very tired, so she went outside to take some fresh air. She walked over to the parking space and was about to find a place to sit and enjoy the fresh air when she suddenly heard a voice coming not far from her.
[I agreed in paying you 1 million dollars if you killed Nathan Shen and his family. But how the hell did his daughter end up alive? As long as she doesn't take any actions involving the company, I can still proceed with my plan and slowly take over. Soon, the company will become mine. Wait I will pay you 1.5 million dollars if you move out of this country and change your name.]
Francesca was about to go when she heard the first part of the conversation. She became pale and started to tremble, but tried so hard to look for the person and was shocked to see that the voice that belonged to the person was no other than Mr. Lu (Mike Lu) aka her father's close friend. She immediately squatted down and hid behind some cars when she saw that he was done talking on his phone. After a while when she was sure that he was gone was it when she finally stood up and went inside to find her grandfather.