Three days had passed.
When Sera woke up, her body felt rejuvenated. Her mind was quiet, and herself was radiating in a glow she had never been before. Sleeping her tired body for the whole three days made her alive more.
Sera woke up in the hospital bed. Not just a hospital bed but a VIP room that has its own luxuries for a patient. When she thought she was roughly handled by that man, she was wrong.
Lou Bai took her to a room where she will be comfortable.
"You woke up?"
The voice startled Sera, and she stepped back.
Lou Bai had just come from the bathroom and was wiping his hand with a towel.
"Why must be scared? Didn't you specifically sought me out?"
The man stopped on the couch and seated with his legs crossed over. "Come over here and sit in front. Let's have a long talk."
Lou Bai patted the side of the couch. A few inches away from him.
" You know me..." Sera slowly inched forward.
"In the world, who will not know the face of the only heiress of the Tan group who died through committing suicide inside her mansion?"
"Suicide?" Sera's eyebrow quirked up. She consciously drew her body near the man.
"No?" Lou Bai's sarcastic smile broke out. "Your family situation is all over the place. Messed up. I don't want to deal with it. I have called your mansion, stipulating that you are here. You better go home."
"WHAT!" Sera's eyes bulge. "HOW CAN YOU CALL THEM?! No, no no! If they are coming, I must run away."
Sera panicked. In her feat, she picked her favorite bear which she spotted nearby and nonchalantly would jump on the window.
She looked at Lou Bai in disgust. She was wrong at all! She was wrong picking this man!
Lou Bai's eyes widen when he saw her almost climbing down the window! Hell, this is almost the fifth floor!
He only lied to her to know her extent of relationship to her family, who would have thought that the lady had gone mad.
"What are you doing! Come back here."
It's already good that Lou Bai had grabbed her waist before jumping down.
" Stupid! You are stupid! I ran away from home! Why must you call them! Let me out! Let me out! I will run away! Song Ming will kill me! That woman will kill me! Let me out!"
Lou Bai had tightened his grip on her waist. Then carried her up and force her on the bed.
"Alright. I didn't call them. I didn't know this was the extent of your fury."
Sera calmed down for a bit. Stream of sweats run all over her body. The next second, a fierce slap echoed within the four walls of the room.
"Why must you test me! Looked at me now, I'm too pathetic. I don't want to do this but I have no choice..." HUHUHU, Sera broke into tears. Tears that she wasn't able to let out these past days. She let out her grievances, her sorrow, her hatred towards her family.
As the only daughter of her father, Sera has her high dignity. But to seek out a man's help because she has nothing at the moment was already her limit.
"You need my help?"
Lou Bai looked at her without emotion and as if the slap earlier didn't hit his ego. Sera peeked through him and sure enough, he sees a lady yet he didn't feel empathy towards her. Ai, her tears are all useless.
She stopped crying.
" I need your protection." Sera stated. Direct and full of conviction.
"Why must it be me?"
"You have enormous power behind your back. Your backing includes the royal family of the D country. Your massive investments in different firms. You hold the most shares in the Tan group. "
Sera stipulated what the Ai program had told her.
" Just mere protection... I won't need anything at all. I will stand on my own. I will strike back and return all the deeds that they do to me. In return, I will be your loyal backer, I will not turn my back on you. If I betray you any moment, you can kill me ahead."
Lou Bai isn't convinced.
He didn't need that half-hearted pledge of loyalty.
'No? He is still reluctant?' Sera thought.
" Here, look at this. This is what my mother left me. You can take this as a pawn being my guardian."
She pulled out the program embedded in the teddy bear she holds.
" This is an advanced AI program that our facility developed. So far, this is the most successful one. You will not regret it."
Lou Bai looked at the object in her hands. So this is the reason why she had snuff his identity out. Even the most confidential and was kept in the royal museum?
Lou Bai took the thing in his hands and scrutinized it. He will analyze the inside of this data later.
Sera looked at him full of trust and expectation. If this woman will be under his wing, she gotta do something with her brightly sparkling eyes.
"I only have one demand in this relationship." Lou Bai stood up and walked away. Before he could reach the door, he turned around and gaze with a pensive look at her,
"In this relationship, you are not allowed to fall in L.O.V.E with me."