“Chen Luan?” Lily raised an eyebrow. “He was the one who paid the women to get close to Qin Yuanfeng?” she asked, confused.
“Should be Zhou Huifang and Qi Xia.” Zhou Jingren commented. “Not many businessmen know that you are connected to the Qin Family in mainland China. But I’m sure Qi Xia knows this information.”
“These people.” Lily sighed. She shook her head. “Is there something we can do about this Zhou Huifang?”
“For now? No. Bei Tian and I think that he has someone behind his back. Someone helping him to come up with these plans. We traced a call to various places in Europe, US and even Dubai. Some in Hongkong and Asia as well. This is an encrypted call and we can’t really trace that person that he is calling, except for the location.”
“Dubai?” Lily frowned. “Then… he is calling a frequent traveler. A businessman perhaps?”
“That’s my guess as well.”
Lily nodded at Zhou Jingren’s words. She then walked towards the window to watch the busy streets of Hong Kong below. She eyed the mass of people dressed in business or casual clothing as they walked down the streets like ants, crossing the street and following the crowd.
Sometimes Lily wondered what could have happened to her if she was one of them. Normal, working everyday just to be able to feed herself. People who worked non stop to feed their families. People who struggled to pay rent sometimes. She thought of the time when her mother was still alive and they had argued about her working in that bar.
At that time, Lily thought she would never have any other choice but to work as a hostess. She could earn easy money, pay their rent, buy some food and maybe even some good clothes. At that time, she thought that was the only way— her only way of survival.
At that time, Lily thought her life was already extremely difficult. So when her grandmother trained her, she vowed— she promised never to experience that kind life again. She studied hard— so hard she barely slept. Lilian was a strict teacher and she wanted no less than perfection from her only granddaughter.
Lily was not originally bright so those lessons were excruciating for her. She used to wonder, why did she need to study theories and strategies of dead people from the past. Why did she need to analyze an event and scrutinize it just to see which theory was used? Wasn’t that madness? She was only trying to take over a business. She was not going to rule the world.
At that time, Lily thought studying was hard— so hard she had almost given up at one point. She never learned any other skills, aside from things that would not fill her stomach. Things she needed to know in order to deal with various businessmen. Things she needed to manipulate people and make them do her bidding.
Was that evil? Of course it was. Lily would not justify any of her previous actions. It was evil. She would not say that she did this or that because they deserved it or because they chose to cross her. No. The truth was… she did all those horrible things for herself.
It was for her own satisfaction.
She let out a sigh. Looking back, she never once thought she would one day want a peaceful life. She never thought she would wish to just sit down and think about the beautiful sun or the warm breeze. She turned her head towards Zhou Jingren who was busy signing some papers at his table. Slowly, her lips lifted into a smile.
Zhou Jingren changed something inside her. He made her wish for those people to just stop scheming behind her back.For them to just give Lily and Zhou Jingren as well as their child a peaceful life. Of course, this was nothing but a dream— something that will never happen. Peace was nothing but a theoretically possible idea- a dream that would never come true.
Lily was a horrible person. She had hurt a lot of people that she knew… she knew one day, her own Karma would come to bite her in the ass. It would be a cycle. A never ending cycle of fighting, winning and revenge. This was the life she had before meeting him and this would be the kind of life that she would have in the future as well.
To Lily, the only thing that changed was actually being with someone as strong and independent as her. With them combined, she was sure that they could overcome whatever scheme the world would throw at them. Lily turned towards the street again.
From up here, they looked so little, so vulnerable.
She lifted her head and looked at the other tall buildings surrounding them. “I want them dead.” She uttered in an almost inaudible voice. “I don’t want to give them the chance to retaliate once I give birth.” She added.
Lily knew that killing them would not be possible now. They can’t just beat the body of the snake and not expect it to bite back. No… what they needed to do was cut its head off first. And to do that… they need to find who or what was after them, seeking to sow conflict and hurt her and her precious family.
She turned towards him.”You don’t mind, right?” Seeing Zhuo Jingren’s reaction, Lily instantly asked. Killing was not really Lily’s style. She was the type that would toy with her opponent first and leave them to destroy each other. Surely, her words surprised him.
“Of course, not.” He nodded, his jaws thinned. He could see the fire in Lily’s eyes. Something inside her… must have changed. “That will happen.” He added.
“Good.” She smiled and turned back to the streets. Now that she was pregnant, she should stop the urge she had to play with people and end them as soon as possible. Their child’s safety should be her greatest priority. “All good.” She whispered as she eyed the clouds on top of Hong Kong.
It seems that rainy days were ahead of them.
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