Li Mian
Li Mian was sitting in front of a table, with many small bottles, scattered across the table. All of them were neatly named, and she was mixing liquids from different bottles, in a beaker. Li Mian was feeling frustrated and angry. She almost had Lan dancing on her palm, how could she be so stupid. Everything was perfect until she wore that bloody backless dress, Lan had gifted her. At first, she was very happy, it was the first time Lan had given some attention to her, but she never thought that Lan had an alternative motive in it. The Lan she used to know during the middle school was playful, perverted but pure. She never expected such a thing from her only love.
She still remembered the first time she saw him, it was her first day in middle school. Back then she was a nerd with a short donkey cut hair and big glasses. She was often bullied, because of her looks. On the first day, Li Mian had been late and she had asked a passing by student for directions to her classroom. For her unluck that passing by student was supposedly the school's biggest bully. That person had given her the directions to the old janitor's room that the seniors used as a small bar. When she got there, some seniors who were already high on boosters were lying on the ground. As soon as they get a whiff of the female hormones, they had tried to harass her, but for her luck, she was able to get rid of them and ran out of the room. While she ran she had bumped into Lan, who was returning to the class from the library.
The seniors did not want to give up so they chased Li Mian and as soon as she saw them, she hid behind Lan. Lan had always been fast to understand situations, so as soon as he saw the boosted seniors and the timid looking girl they chased, he understood that the girl was their victim. Lan always stood up against injustice, he had beaten those seniors and saved Li Mian that day, to her Lan had been her knight in the shining armour. Li Mian had started to stalk him everywhere, for many years she went everywhere behind him. The walls of her bedroom started to get filled with photographs of Lan, which were taken from different angles. Truthfully, she had intentionally delayed Ming coming out of the arrivals that day, Li Mian was planning of approaching Lan. She had changed her appearance of the nerd, to a hot chic. But all her plans backfired when she saw Lan staring at a man with lustful eyes.
Lan had always been a pervert, but Li Mian knew that he had not even had his first kiss yet. She had dreamed of sharing Lan's first kiss. It was the first time Lan had that look in his eyes, it was love and admiration, coated with lust. She wanted him to look at her that way, she had always tried to get noticed by him, but he never even once spared a glance at her. Li Mian thought that she was unnoticed by Lan because of her nerd look, she was really beautiful, but her glasses and normal clothes hid it well. She changed her style and became a brand new person, hoping Lan would notice, but all her hopes crashed down as she saw Lan looking at another man with a look that only she was supposed to receive. She stalked that man day and night, she was happy when that man did not approach Lan even after a week. She was starting to calm down, but the next day that man was in front of Lan's company, she was beyond rage. On the same day, she received a call. She clearly remembered that conversation,
"Hello"
Li Mian picked up her mobile phone that rang non stop, she was already annoyed when she saw her rival standing in front of his man's company. She had come home to calm down her nerves, now she was going through a photo album that contained photos of Lan during the time he spent in university while having a double chocolate milkshake.
"Young mistress Li Mian,"
She recognized the voice right away, it was her favourite big brother who worked for the wolf race, Li Min. Li Min had always doted on Li Mian as long as she remembered. She was his young mistress, when she wanted something, he would definitely bring it to her.
"Big brother Min,"
Li Mian replied with a childlike voice. All her anger had disappeared. She was actually thinking of contacting her big brother as she was sure that he will find a way for her to get rid of the man that bothered her Lan.
"Mian, is that man bothering your love life?"
Li Min spoke in a monotone voice as usual, but for Li Mian who had known him for a long time, could easily recognize the anger in his tone. She had no idea how his big brother knew about this issue, but she was not ready to let go of this opportunity,
"Yes, brother. Can we get rid of him?"
Li Mian asked without any hesitation, it was not like this was the first time that her big brother got rid of someone for her. There was a silence from the other side, then Li Mian heard a female voice speaking,
"Do you want to get rid of him, dear?"
The voice sounded sweet, but Li Mian could easily recognize the evil nature of the speaker.
"Of course, I do. Lan can only belong to me."
Li Mian replied. A smirk was heard from the other side, as a reaction to her statement.
"Do you know who I am, dear?"
The voice questioned from Li Mian, it did not matter to Li Mian who the speaker was. If that person was going to help her get rid of the obstacles on her way to Lan, she was going to get that help for any possible price.
"So, who are you?"
Li Mian asked back, in an arrogant voice.
"Well, you are a little feisty, aren't you? I am Wang Yan."
As Li Mian heard the speaker's introduction, she froze, it was Lan's mom, the wolf race leader's wife.
"Ah-"
Li Mian was momentarily at the loss of words. Another smirk was heard as a reply to her dumbfounded expression.
"Darling, I want you to do something for me. After that Lan will fully belong to you."
Yan spoke in a coaxing tone, knowing very well that the girl would even go against the whole world to have her son.
"Tell me what it is."
Li Mian replied with confidence, if she could own Lan for herself, she could do anything. Unknown to her, an evil look spread across Yan's face on the other side.
What Li Mian was asked to do was simple, she had to deliver a letter to Lan, without him getting to know the deliverer. She transformed into her snake form, got into Lan's office room, and left it on his desk, early in the morning. It was not a difficult task for her anyway. She was already happy knowing that he will belong only to her the next day. A victorious smile flashed on her face, thinking of her Lan. During the next night, she had received the call that she was dreading to get. Li Min had informed her about Lan's condition and asked her to come by to the hospital. Even though she was afraid that the troublesome Ming would destroy her plan, Aunty Yan had tactfully got rid of him and his friends. Everything was going smoothly until the night of the ball, where she wore that backless dress. She had no knowledge of Lan's mate symbol. If she had known, she would have got the same symbol on the back of her left shoulder, but her big brother didn't say anything about it, so she was ignorant about it until Lan left her, because of it.
After that night, Lan had avoided her on every possible occasion. They both lived in Kris's house for a while, but after that night Lan never came to that house. Li Mian spent a few more nights there alone and moved back to her house after she left Lan returned back. This made her rage to come back, then she received another call from her big brother, as usual, Yan spoke from the other side,
"As plan number one failed, I give you permission to use the plan number two."
Yan said and hung up immediately. It was not like Li Mian was going to reply anyway, she had long prepared this plan number two. It was a simple chemical solution and she was sure that she could catch Lan in her net easily this way. She just needed Yan's permission to execute it, and now she had it. With an evil smile on her face, she opened her text box and typed a simple text to Lan.
'I want to talk to you for the last time. Let's meet for dinner at your place. Tomorrow night.'
With a triumph laugh, she sent it.
Lan raised his head from his computer as he heard the 'ping' of his mobile phone. It was a text from Li Mian, he sighed and opened it. A blank look was on his face as he read the text.
'Ok'
Lan simply replied and kept his mobile phone away, going back to his work. Li Mian smiled at the reply and looked at the small glass bottle in her hand, which contained a colourless liquid.
"It's time for your show, babe."
She said while kissing the bottle.
On a different side of the city, Kris shifted uncomfortably in his sleep, as an uncomfortable feeling started to creep into his heart, making him breathless.