1 1. Do you know how to read minds?

In a house full of men laughing, and chanting "win" there is a two girl who is so young that they miraculously get passed at the small gambling den. The house is two-story floor without any furniture besides on chairs and tables that is used, the walls look old and not painted that gave you an aura of abandoned house if not for the people talking, laughing and shouting.

"Wow Xiao Xing! Do you know how to read minds?" said by Yang Ahcy who does not know anything about gambling but always come with her friend just so she could reassure that Lu Xinghe is fine.

"Yes, I'm a goddess! Let's go, we already have food for tonight!" Lu Xinghe stands up after winning almost all the money all the players in the table had. What a monster!

"Hey kid, where do you think you are going? You will leave just like that after winning?" the guy with so many tattoo in arms also stand up because of so many money he loss.

"Should I go home when I already lose? Old man you should just let me, a cute girl have this luck so you cannot have so much wrinkles, see you look old when your brows are furrowed!"

"What did you just said?" the tattooed-man walk up to her, this girl tricked me several times, let's see what you can do!

"Hey, what do you think are you doing? Try to harm our Xiao Xing and you will face death!" the old man said who is playing on the other table and several men also stand up.

"Hey! I was just kidding, ok? Little girl take care on the road!" the tattooed guy changed his tone, he didn't know that bitch had so many backers here! He shouldn't just go alone here! He should bring his gang next time to get the money he lose.

"Thank you old man, you should also take care on the road!" Lu Xinghe walk to the door looking so confident that no one will harm her.

When she is younger the people here taught her how to gamble, when they found out she is so good at playing, they play with her so that they could beat her but no one can defeat how good she was at playing mind games until no one wants to play with her because of the money she always took from them so they just make her the representative to play with anyone who visits their little gambling den. So if there is a visitor, there is money for Xinghe.

It is already evening when they reach their house.

"Grandma, I'm home! I bought us food let's go eat!" She looks to her grandma's bedroom but her grandma is not here. Her heart is now beating rapidly. What if her relatives came here and forced her grandma to go with them? She is just 5 years old when her parents died, she remembers that the funeral is so glamorous and many people is there. Her grandma Liao is not there but Lu Xinghe is with her relatives, she did not know anything so she trust everyone that is giving their condolences to her. One night, when she was sleeping, someone kidnapped her, she is so scared but grandma Liao came to her and said it is dangerous to stay at their house alone, her grandma said that they will just be in their little village so that no one will know who they are. But many of their relatives tried to locate them, her grandma just always said that they want them to be back at their house but Xinghe is a smart girl, she knows that it is more than just getting them back at their house. So far, they did not harm them so Xinghe and her grandmother did not have any reason to leave this village.

What if she is forced to go home? What if something happened to her, she knows her grandmother don't go around in the village this late at night that is why she is so nervous that maybe something happened to her grandma.

"Xiao xing, help me here!" her grandma shouted from outside.

"Grandma where did you go? I'm so worried!"

"One of the neighbor invited me to their house because their daughter is leaving to study at university x, isn't it great?" Grandma liao is overwhelmed.

"Wow, good for them"

"Xiao xing, you can also study there if you want, grandma will be fine"

"No, grandma I already has plans to where I am going to study. Now let's eat I'm famished!"

Amidst the cheerful talking inside the house, there is a loud bang being made at their door.

"Little kid, come out! Give me back all the money I had! You little bitch, of all people I am the one you tried to trick!" the voice of Tattooed man from earlier rang through their ears.

"What is that? Xiao Xing what did you do?" grandma Liao furrowed her brows, confusion surfaced in her face but no fear can be seen from it. As the Matriarch of the Lu family, no fear can shake her.

"I came to Mr. Wang's house because there is a visitor who is challenging the players so I played but I think that is the one who lose" Xinghe said worriedly, there is no one here who can save them.

"I am going to look into them and you will call for help ok?"

"No grandma we should just run away together"

"What do you take me for? This old hag still as good as iron, now run and call help"

"Grandma be careful please!" Xia Xinghe run through their backyard, the houses in their place is a remote area so the houses in there is far from each other. After knocking all the neighborhood's door they all came to her house. But the moment they step into the door. Her world falls apart.