Fire—
Flames had erupted everywhere, seemingly from nowhere.
In her deep sleep, the thick smoke nearly robbed her of all her breath…
"Cough, cough…" Yinyin suddenly woke, covering her mouth and struggling to push open the basement door, "Brother, it's on fire…"
As she spoke, a blaze rolled in, swallowing her hair.
"Ah…" She screamed, frantically trying to put it out, and fell to the ground with a thud, her hand touching something hot.
Blood?
All blood…
Yinyin's eyes widened with horror as she stared at her blood-stained hand and then at the person lying on the floor…
His eyes firmly closed, his handsome face—almost identical to hers—was now pale as paper, with a dark hole in his chest from which blood streamed without stopping.
She trembled, crawling over frantically, holding his head and screamed in heart-wrenching agony, "Brother, what happened to you? Brother…"
But he showed no response, and as despair engulfed her, suddenly there came a weak call from behind, "Yinyin…"
Yinyin stiffened, turning sharply to see through the crackling flames, two figures likewise fallen in a pool of blood inside the room, "Dad, Mom…"
She rushed in crazily, kneeling before Mu Wei, staring in terror at the numerous gun wounds on him, "Dad, what happened? Hold on, I'll call an ambulance, sob sob…"
She turned to look at the woman lying beside him, but she was already breathless.
The girl was overcome with grief, "Mom, wake up, Mom…"
Just moments ago they were all fine, she had merely gone to the basement to hide from her brother and had accidentally fallen asleep…
"Yinyin, don't cry, take this, leave here and find your Uncle Chi, quick…" Mu Wei grasped her with his bloodied hand, stuffing a necklace into her hand, "Remember, don't let anyone know your identity, give this to…Bo, Bo…"
Mu Wei died before he could finish speaking, clearly hanging on just to wait for her, to give his last orders.
"Dad, no, ah ah…" Yinyin cried out in despair, her piercing cries echoing to the skies.
…
"Young master, young master, wake up..." The girl in the driver's seat shook her hand worriedly, waking her.
"Dad!" Yinyin startled awake, opening her moist eyes to see not the engulfing flames or blood but her long-time good sister.
"Did I sleep long?" How did she fall asleep? Yinyin gathered her thoughts, that handsome, harmless young face, the short, slightly curled ear-length hair gleaming chestnut, making his delicate features appear as though he had stepped out of a painting.
The long curling eyelashes still had two drops of crystal-like tears, her pupils scattered on waking, undisguised vulnerability inspired pity.
Even disguised as a man she was enough to captivate everyone, let alone as a woman…
Because it was her brother who had been killed, to elude the evil pursuers she had had no choice but to disguise herself as a man, and moreover, the inheritance of Yunmu Medical Group could only be passed to a male, though it now lay in another's hands.
But that didn't matter, she would take it all back.
"Just a bit, did you dream of Uncle, Aunt, and Brother Ke again?" Chi Ying didn't need to ask to know what was troubling her, pulling out a tissue, wiping her tears tenderly.
The massacre from two years ago still haunted their memories.
Chi Ying vividly remembered how that night she had frantically knocked on her door, covered in blood, her hair and clothes almost completely burnt, leaving only her blood-red eyes…
These past two years, although she had been by her side, Yinyin still suffered nightmares every night, reliving that horrifying scene whenever she closed her eyes.
"Mm." Yinyin nodded softly, quickly regaining her composure, her commanding eyes instantly returning to their usual calm and collected state as she sat up from her seat and looked out the car window towards the heavily guarded secret archive entrance, "What time is it?"