Niu Xiaolin…
That was her name. Her birth name, at least. And her grandfather, the man that ruled the Eighth syndicate had been looking for her.
"Why is he looking for me?" Shao Lin questioned, breaking from her daze.
"He felt like he failed with his son. Niu Wen told your father that he would take you one day and bring you to the Eighth Syndicate. It's the reason your father confessed to mine. He wanted Long Jie to spare and protect you, but my father did not want a girl raised without hers, so he sent you all away instead, hoping that Niu Wen would never find you."
Shao Lin then closed her eyes for a moment. "Until a certain detective must have figured it out."
Long Yat-sen glanced at her with wariness. "I don't know much about Zhong Bai's history," he admitted. "He was adopted when he was eleven by the Zhong's. There are nothing of his birth records, and everything in his early childhood was unaccounted for."
