3rd Pox
Ayan and Ajax are sitting at the marbled dining room table mid arm wrestle, the two not willing to be the one that gives up, no matter how long it takes. They both have an unhealthy competitive streak that has sometimes led them and the others into a spot of bother. Especially when there was women involved. The two don't even register Lu-fang and Xio-Rui walking in, the two only noticing when Lu-fang sits down at the table with his laptop, the two knowing that it means something important is going on.
"Everything good Lu?" He looks to Ajax and shakes his head before handing him the note that Xixi got at the auction house. Ajax reads it and then hands it to Ayan just as Zion and Min-su walk into the room. Zion picks the note up and frowns when he reads it.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means that there is a lot more to this than I first thought" They all turn to Xixi as she walks into the room in a pair of Nike leggings and one of her off white hoodies, her hair up in a messy bun as she goes and sits next to Lu-fang.
"Check hospital records around the time I was born. If they are hiding something then chances are my birth date could possibly be out by a few days as it wouldn't rouse much suspicion." Lu-fang starts tapping away whilst Xixi watches over his shoulder.
"Narrow it down to twin girls." They find two matches and, Lu-fang clicking on it as Xixi reads through it.
"This isn't it. Look the eye colour are the same on both sets of babies. Click the other one"
Ayan watches her as she starts to read the second match, wondering what exactly she is thinking that has her looking at her birth records. The one thing he never questions is her train of thought, Xixi was someone he swore had some mythical power to see beyond what everyone else saw. There was a reason she was nicknamed Pandora by Master Yen and it was because she was exceptional at numerous things. She was the top hacker in the world, a master at martial arts and Ayan knew that she had mastered metaphysics, something that only Master Yen had mastered. If people knew her true potential she would become the hottest commodity that they would all want to own. It was something she feared more than anything in this world, even more than death.
"Xixi if you find out that they are not your real parents, what will you do?"
"Find out exactly what they are playing at. Don't you think it is strange that they have gone to so much trouble to get Beichen with Roujin?"
"I did the background check on Beichen and found something interesting."
Ayan gets up walking into the open plan living room and getting a brown envelope from off the coffee table. He walks back into the dining area and places it in front of Xixi. She carefully opens it and takes out the information that Ayan had found out.
"Beichen was kidnapped when he was seven along with his mother. The person behind it was Khan Jung-So, the brother of your mother."
"What's going on?" Zion is completely lost as to what has happened in the past few hours, and by the sounds of it it is something major.
"Xixi was given that at the auction house by the auctioneer along with a jade pendent made by Master Yen, the note is off him"
"Are you sure this isn't a set up?" the last thing Ayan wants is anyone taking her for a ride and hurting her. Not that he doesn't trust her instincts because she is the best of the best, he just doesn't want anything to happen to the only person who truly cared for him.
"He called me Pandora. The only ones who know me by that name are you guys and Master Yen"They all instantly start to see why she is rattled by the note, if he was using outside sources to contact her then it must be important. Master Yen never risked others knowing their identities for something that wasn't seen as great importance to him. He had worked hard over the years protecting not only himself from the darkness of the real world but the five that he deems his children. After all he has been more of a father to them than their own parents.
"Xixi I don't think Beichen is the bad guy in all this, what if the outside forces are trying to keep you two apart."
"That would mean that we had known each other before, the first time i heard of him was when he was marrying Roujin"
Lu-fang takes her hand into his giving it a squeeze as he is staring at his computer screen, he slides the laptop across to her and when she sees what he was reading her blood runs cold. There on the screen is the death notice of the parents of the twin girls. There names were not Chen but Su. The other eerie part is that the couple who had found the wrecked car that killed them, Chen Jihan and Chen Chaeann. Xixi looks to Lu-fang who is just as shocked by that information.
She takes the laptop and starts doing a background check on her parents along with the couple who were killed. If her parents are hiding anything she will find it and deal with it the best way she knows how.
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Ayan walks into the dimly lit dining room at three in the morning to see Xixi still sitting at the table tapping away at her laptop. Her fingers fiercely pressing the screen as she digs deeper into the past of her parents, or well the ones pretending to be her parents. Ever since she saw the death certificate of that couple she has been sitting there finding everything out, looking at news articles, to any information from before she was born. Long gone are her plans of revenge on Beichen, looking at the whiteboard that she has set up on the side with names of people possibly connected to what ever rabbit hole they find themselves in, Beichen seems to be a minor fish in a very big pond.
Ayan walks to her and takes a seat opposite her, he knows that when she gets into this frame of mind she is hard to get out of it he had worked with her on enough jobs in the past to know that Xixi is not one to let go easily. If the word stubborn had a picture definition it would be her. Beichen had been calling and texting him non stop asking why she wasn't home and all he could say is she was working. Sure he knows how much Beichen loved Xixi but the biggest problem they have right now concerning that scenario is that Xixi as amnesia when it comes to the version of Beichen she knew and the one she has in her memory right now is her enemy. The only good thing about this new piece of information concerning her and her family is that maybe it will show her the truth regarding Beichen and then maybe, just maybe they can tell her about their past together. Ayan knows that Beichen will be wanting to make her his completely instantly but he also has a loyalty to Xixi and if she says no then no it is. No matter how much Ayan believes the two are made for each other. And the messed up thing was they were completely made for each other. If there was such a thing as soul mates he would bet his entire fortune, which was ten figures, that those two were the epitome of soul mates. When you got to witness a love like theirs it was easy to see why Beichen couldn't let her go, they worked and when they were together nothing could stop them.
Or so Ayan thought, turns out something or someone has done a near enough perfect job on making her hate the very man she once nearly gave her life for without a moments hesitation.
"Hey, why don't you go home and get some rest? Maybe you can ask Beichen about his parents?" Xixi looks away from her laptop and frowns at Ayan. How would she approach that question.
"Why are you so adamant that he is a good guy?"Ayan sighs before he takes out his phone and pulls up a surveillance video that he had got from Beichens office today. He passes his phone to her and watches as she presses play, Sejins voice suddenly filling the room.
"I am telling you that Beichen has requested a blood test, Luna I thought you said that he wouldn't be aware of being drugged?" Xixi listens to Beichens closest employee starting to sound panicked until he says one thing that makes her instantly question her life even more.
"Luna I am telling you that is not Roujin she looks at me like she doesn't know me when we both know that Roujin is pregnant with my baby. She didn't go from loving me one minute to not knowing me the next."
Xixi stops the recording and instantly stands up walking to the marbled kitchen counter top and getting her car keys. Ayan instantly following not needing to know exactly where she is heading too. He knew her finding out would make her angry, he had known how much she had sacrificed for her sister to not endure the pain along side her. He knows that a choice was given and she gave herself up knowing that her sister couldn't withstand what was in store for her.
The two get into her black out range rover, a car she specifically chose so that they could adapt it to their needs. To anyone else it looks like a costume made range rover but as soon as you get inside if you were one of them you would know that their were added mod cons that others would die to have in their cars. The GPS is the top of the range along with the bullet proof windows. The most amazing feature is the on board AI software that Xixi had created that was connected to their cars along with it being able to self drive, call emergency services if need and many others things. The whole system only works via facial recognition so if any of their cars were to be stolen it would self destruct taking any of their personal information and work information along with it. Like Ayan has always said, Xixi was extra-ordinary, a one of a kind gem that could never be replaced or copied.
Even as he watches her drive, the two sitting in complete silence, he knows she is using the time it will take to get to the compound to think rationally about the next step and also have back up plans for whatever is going to happen. God knows that this is the calm before the storm and Ayan has a gut feeling that things will definitely spiral out of control. This may just be the biggest test of their lives, he just hopes and preys that they come out of it unscathed and just as strong and united as they are now. To Ayan family is for life and she along with the others are his family till death and even after.