"Alright. Let's stop arguing. I am here to talk about business."
"Business?"
"You are looking for investors, right?"
Pursing her lips, Sera's face instantly darkened. "Mr. Quinn… May I invite you to dinner?" She asked. This man had been creepily following her around. She knew going to the police wouldn't do anything, as he could probably influence the justice system. So, she needed to be more frank with him. Being direct while it's still early is still better than anything else. "Meet me in this place in about two hours." He showed him her phone with the address of the restaurant.
"How about taking the car with me?"
She smirked at that. "I called the tow services earlier. It was parked illegally."
"…" So mean. He stared at her before turning around. "See you." However, his voice didn't show any signs of anger or irritation.
Maybe this was the difference between being rich and not rich? Surely, someone not rich would get sad if their Maserati gets towed, right? Seeing his back disappear, Sera continued walking towards her apartment. After a few minutes of walking, a pale faced Mrs. Yuan suddenly ran towards her.
"Sera!"
"Auntie Yuan, what wrong? Did something happen?" She asked the flustered older woman who running towards her. Just looking at Mrs. Yuan was enough to make her nervous.
"I was on my way to your office. I tried calling you, but you won't answer!"
"What happened? What's wrong?" Her heart started racing. For some reason, Cross's face flashed in her head. Was it an accident? Did something happen to him?
"No! I mean… someone came! A woman with two big bodyguards. They said… They said I mean… that woman said she was your mother? She was Mrs. Zhang? Sera, do you need me to call the police?"
Sera almost blanked out. The mention of Mrs. Zhang made her mind shut down. Mrs. Zhang? Her stepmother? "Ah, no… I just… where are they now?"
"Inside your apartment. They forced your uncle to open the door for them. They were really intimidating and huge."
"Oh, alright. I will take care of it." Without saying anything else. Sera walked towards the apartment building. Sweat started to trickle down her back. She couldn't help but recall the past and wondered why that woman is here?
She recalled the phone call that she received a few days back. It was a phone call from them inviting her to her younger sister's engagement party. She told them she would think about it, but she wasn't planning to go back to that place and show her face to everyone.
It took her a couple of minutes to arrive at the door of her apartment. Biting her lips, she used her key and walked inside the house. As expected, three people were already in her small living room. The smell of tea wafted through her.
"I hope you didn't mind. I was thirsty. So I asked my people to brew tea for me." The gentle voice of her stepmother, Zhang Xin. She eyed the woman's beautiful face. Despite being already in her fifties, Zhang Xin still looked like in her late thirties. Her skin was still the same, white as jade. She smiled at Sera, her gaze lowered through her simple clothing. "How have you been?" Zhang Xin asked.
"May I know why you are here?" Sera asked. She stood a few feet away from them, by the door. In case the two bodyguards would try to seize her, she could easily use the bat behind the door and escape.
"Why are you so nervous? Unlike you, I am not someone that had ill intentions. I am here to chat."
Sera's face didn't show any emotions. She didn't take a step away from where she was at. "Mrs. Zhang… May I know why you are here?" Zhang Xin wasn't really a Zhang. She just married into the Zhang Family and decided to change her last name to show how much she loves her husband.
"Well? Is that how you treated the woman who raised you? Sera… stop being too guilty and sit down. I am not going to devour you." The smile on the woman's face didn't falter. And it somehow reminded her of the good things that the Zhang Family did to her.
In the past, they never mistreated her. In fact, she was the one who hurt them. She was the one who schemed against her younger sister just because she was the fiance of the man that she liked. The Zhang Family doesn't owe her anything.
After a few minutes, she decided to sit down next to Zhang Xin.
"Good. At least, you didn't forget the manners that I taught you while growing up." Zhang Xin's voice was sweet, it was the same voice that she usually used while talking to them while Sera was still a child. "I came here to invite you back."
Sera blinked. Invite her back? After she tried to kill her younger sister? She hid the emotions in her eyes and lowered her head. "I am fine here. As you can see… I am happy here." Moreover, she wasn't a Zhang. Zhang Xin made it clear that she wasn't a Zhang after she hurt her little sister.
She was the evil, scheming, adopted child that they decided to raise because they were kindhearted.
Why would the Zhang Family want her back?
The older woman's sigh reached her ears. "Your grandfather is sick. He wanted to see you."
Old Man Zhang? Sera frowned inwardly. She couldn't remember anything about that old man. She knew that Old Man Zhang stayed abroad since she was younger because of his weak body. "Mrs. Zhang, I don't understand. By now, Old Man Zhang should have known that I am just an adopted child, whom you pick up from an orphanage. Why would he want to see me?"
"This… I have no idea either." Mrs. Zhang smiled. Since Sera's head was lowered, she missed the evil glint in Zhang Xin's eyes.