After yesterday's incident, several questions of mine were answered.....but on the price of some new questions.
in the novel, Xin was sent to seduce Jia Li by the Black Odyssey, and that's why Xin was desperate to hook up with her....but the question is why?? and why Did Black Odyssey tried to kidnap Little Mei and attack Mr. Jiang.
thus, I decided to find things out in the chronological order.... that's why..
(yesterday)
"I see....so the young daughter of Zhen family got abducted along with the Jiang children....but why are you telling me all this?"
"Mr. Su.... I am gonna be honest with you here, those guys who tried to abduct the Zhen and Jiang heirs were from the same organisation that sent those two kidnappers that day."
"what!?! what do you?? explain!!"
(present)
after that I told him that I'll be meeting him in person tomorrow..... I couldn't have told this to Jia Li, so... I had to tell her that I'm going there to visit Little Mei, since I know that she have a soft spot for children....but I didn't know it would be this effective....
As we arrived at the Su residence, I noticed Little Mei was already waiting with four muscular man who must have been her new bodyguards.
"Little Mei, big brother came just as I promised."
as I said that I crouch on the ground, opening my arms.
" Big brother Xin!! "
after saying that, she ran towards me and hugged me.
and the bodyguards started clapping and one even teared up a little.
"ahem....."
just as I released Mei from my embrace, a realised that Jia Li was also with me..
"oh right!! Mei, meet her, she's my employer... Miss Zhen."
soon Jia Li also crouch down beside me to face Little Mei.
"hello Mei, I'm Zhen Jia Li, nice to meet you."
she said this with a soft smile, for a second I forgot that she's the same women who was clearly acting cold towards me.
Mei who was in front of us, soon hid behind me.
"eh...."
seeing that, Jia Li became speeches...
"ptf!!!!! you scared her!!"
soon we entered the Su mansion. Little Mei was walking beside me holding my hand with her tiny little hand, while Jia Li was walking behind us..
' system..... is it just my imagination .....or is Jia Li staring daggers at my back...'
< why not just look behind and see it for yourself...>
' it's not like I don't wanna look back, but I have a feeling I'm definitely gonna get nightmares if I look back.'
and soon we reached at the Su mansion main hall, where Mr and Mrs Su were waiting...
"I see you finally arri...oh... I didn't knew you were also bring Ms. Zhen with you?"
both Mr and Mrs Su were surprised to see the Zhen family daughter as their guest...
" Xin, you should've atleast informed me about this..... I would've made better arrangements."
"no no it's alright, I was the one who decided to come in the last second.."
soon I told them, how after yesterday's incident, Mr Zhen wants me to stay with his daughter at every moment and that's why she came at such a short notice.
"haha I see....ahem .... anyways, Xin.... shall we talk about what you said yesterday?"
Mr. Su's face became serious as he asked about the talk we had yesterday.
"sure Mr. Su...but I think it would be better to talk about this somewhere private.."
"fine, come meet me at my study room."
as Mr. Su went to his study room, I noticed Jia Li looking at Little Mei intently....
"Mei, big brother is going to have a little chat with your father, till then can you keep big sister Jia Li in your company?"
she nodded innocently and went to Jia Li's side.....seeing Mei approach her, Jia Li startled but soon regained her composure.
"Miss Zhen, can I leave Little Mei to your care?"
and Jia Li replied without skipping a beat.
"sure."
and with that I went to meet Mr. Su.
(at the study room)
"so what were you talking about yesterday.....that my daughter's kidnapping, the attack on Mr. Jiang and abduction of Miss Zhen as well as the Jiang siblings are the same people."
"yes....."
I pondered for a second whether I should tell him about the organisation or not.....but I can't always keep then in the dark, so I decided to tell him afterall.
"those people work for an organisation called Black Odyssey.....and the reason they kidnapped your daughter was not for money.....they must have been after something else."
I know that since, in the novel, Black Odyssey never did anything for money.....they had plenty, that means whatever they were going to ask for as ransom wasn't going to be money...that leaves....
"think Mr. Su, is there something like that in your household?"
"let me.....think...."
after sometime, Mr. Su made a dark face.
"hmm...yes....it could be..."
then he looked at me.
"listen Xin, what I'm gonna show you...you must never tell anyone about this....."
after a moment of thinking, I agreed.
".... I won't.."
"then follow me Xin."
and thus I followed him.
soon he ordered the guards outside to not let anyone in, and the pulled a random book from the shelf and soon the whole shelf shifted on it's right showing a secret room.
Soon we entered the room, and inside the room was a shining artifact placed in the centre of the room, resting upon a podium.
"is it....your family's....."
"no....it's not a family treasure..... it was a gift from an old friend."
'system? can you.....'
<....host, this object!!... it's not from this world..>
the object was a shining gold pendent.
"what is it called?"
I was too mesmerized by the pendent, that what I wanted to ask the system, I blurted it out ..
"hmm.... I don't know .....that man never told us it's name..."
' a key?'
I wondered for a minute that is it the key of [ route to absolute authority] but the shapes didn't match....so I discarded that idea...
after seeing this artifact, one thing was clear, the Black Odyssey is after this artifact and that's the reason they tried to kidnap Little Mei....and if that's true.....then...then they must have found an otherworldly door where they have to use this pendent.....or it could just be my own theory and they might not know that this is a key...
"urgh!!"
I violently scratched my head....as things have now gotten a lot more complicated then they were.....
after seeing the artifact, we both returned to the study room and Mr. Su closed the secret room.
"like I said Xin...."
"I'll keep this secret to my grave Mr. Su, Don't worry about it."
after I reassured him, we both decided to finally join the others.
I found out that it's already evening and started looking for both Jia Li and Mei, when I couldn't find them inside the mansion.... I decided to check the gardens.
and soon I found both of them along with three maids, thus I called both of them out.
"Miss Zhen! I hope you're not too troubled by Little Mei?"
but..
"shhhh!"
as I was calling them out, one of the maids shushed me and gestured at the bench where both of them were.
I saw Little Mei, sleeping on Jia Li's lap...and she was brushing Mei's hair with hand while giving a soft smile.
looking at them, I couldn't help but also smile...
'well I guess I have plenty of time to think about this whole Black Odyssey and these artifacts...for now let's just enjoy this life..."
-to be continued