"Do all the busses in this place have the same destination?"
Cherry was asking Stella as the three of them entered a bus.
The bus had four seats in a row, two at the left and two at the right, Cherry and Stella were quick to sit together, leaving Jiang to sit elsewhere. He sat right behind them, but no one else dared sit beside him.
Stella turned her head to face Jiang
"Why don't you answer that for us Jiang."
Finally, they remembered he was alive, he was about to smile when he realized that the moment he answered, they would continue discussing, completely ignoring him, but what other option did he have.
"They go different ways, two busses a place."
'Now that's the end right, they won't speak to me again right.' he thought to himself.
"Oh! So are we gonna see the whole Eastern part of the Island today?"
He turned to look at Cherry and couldn't help but smile.
"No, that's impossible."
"So how am I gonna visit the remaining places in the East?" she asked with a frown on her face and pouted lips.
"Actually, they have a record for that reason."
"Oh! That sounds better."
Jiang felt like hearing her voice some more, but didn't know what to say to start a conversation.
"You have an idea where we are going?"
This sure was not Cherry's voice, there was no need to use a gentle voice.
"I'm not the tour guide."
"Geez."
They both ignored him after that till they got to their destination .
*
"Whoa! Where are we?"
Stella was marveled, she didn't even know a thing about the Eastern part of the Island. And right in front of them was a mansion that looked more like a castle.
Jiang smirked before replying sarcastically
"In the bus."
Those around them laughed silently, but Stella was not disturbed or she just didn't care.
The bus went into the large compound and parked right in front of the mansion's door. They all stepped out and listened to the instructions the tour guide had to say.
Stepping in, along the corridor were paintings, it did looked like a story, so out of curiosity, they turned their heads to the tour guide, giving him a signal to start the story.
"This house was among the buildings that were built on this Island, but it is different from other houses for a particular reason. The reason being that his childhood story was painted on the walls of the house, and it also stores his history with his mother. "
They all payed attention to what their tour guide was saying. There was next to no information about the diamond masked man on the internet, in fact, no one knew who the golden masked men were.
" Growing up in a society where crime was the order of the day, having a drunkard as a father, a man who would beat up his wife if she refused to hand over the money from her business.
When his mother could no longer tolerate him, she took her son (the diamond masked man) and settled in a town far away, back then, he was just six years of age. His mother worked as a maid in a rich man's house, so she and her son lived in the maid's quarters. His mother's beauty returned after the bruises healed, even though it left spots on her body. Six months after the lady started working in the house, the master of the house returned from a business trip. He fell in love with the woman, but he was married, so he made her his concubine.
He bought a house for the woman and her son to live in and he took good care of them, but his wife and children were not pleased with him. On the boy's tenth year birthday, returning home from all the places they visited, the car blew up, the woman died but her son survived. He grieved her death but knew he had to protect himself. Though injured, he went back to his home to pack their valuables, called a truck and loaded it, moved to a city far from that town, and since that day, disguise became a part of him. "
The tour guide stopped the story to let sink in, and hear their opinions.
" Such a young boy had to go through such a thing."
"His mother was murdered."
"What if he was the one they wanted dead."
"But he was still young back then."
Cherry's line of thought was different from the rest
"He still wears mask, does that means he still hasn't found those after his life?"
The tour guide was forced to go on with the story.
"Ahem, why don't I take it from here."
They all kept quiet again as they waited for him to continue
"At the age of twelve, he built his first app, a game app, popular among students, THE GUARDIANS OF FATE. Introducing the game to his classmates, from there the whole school played the game, six months later, the game was the talk of the town among teenagers. At age fourteen he found a right hand man ( the golden mask man with emerald stars), together they bought companies at the verge of falling, these companies were brought back to glory and he named them NOVA WORLD.
He bought shares in International Companies, bought estates, also going into the real estate business.
When he was sixteen, he bought an Island, let's just say this Island, he built it according to a painting his mother did years ago. She so much loved to paint and she ended up painting and Island which he promised to give to her when she would be forty years of age. It's just a pity she died when she was just thirty two. Nevertheless he fulfilled his promise. The buildings went on for two years, and within those two years, the Nova World almost went bankrupt, but he endured till the Island was fully constructed. His mother's ash he kept in this mansion, along with some of her paintings which were not auctioned. "
They all went around looking at the beautiful paintings, a particular one caught Cherry's eyes. It was the painting of a young boy, whose back was covered in bruises, but when he turned his head back as if his name was called, the smile on his face was infectious, and she found herself smiling.