Eye for an Eye

It was nine thirty at night, and Jiang Ke had just driven Wei Xi home before leaving.

As Wen Xi stepped inside her house, she felt something was wrong. An instinct from the depths of her heart.

It was quiet; so quiet that it made her hairs stand on end.

Slowly walking in, she realized that there was no one home. She passed the living room and the resting room, and saw no one there either.

The members of the Wen family didn't usually go to bed this early. They usually retired to bed at around ten, so something must have happened.

She walked carefully up to the second floor, finding Zhou Ling who was making her way over. She jumped in fright.

"Why do you walk without a sound? Do you want to give this old woman a heart attack?"

Zhou Ling may still have had toxicity in her voice, but she wasn't being too loud. She probably didn't want people overhearing.

People being her father.

Wen Xi moved past her coldy. "I'm looking for dad."

Zhou Ling grabbed her. "Stop! You musn't disturb your father tonight!"

Now it really seemed like something had happened.

Wen Xi turned back and looked at her coldly. "What's wrong with me looking for my own dad?"

Zhou Ling bit her lip, unable to make a retort as she glared at her. "What kind of daughter are you, don't you care about your father at all? Things aren't going well for him! He made a msitake at work and was scolded in a meeting, but that's not even the half of it- he almost got into a car accident! My daughter's trying to console him right now, don't you disturb him!"

Now understanding what had happened, Wen Xi turned away coldly and walked back to her room.

Zhou Ling gave her one last glare before returning as well.

After showering, Wen Xi toweled off her hair as she walked out, looking at the message her teacher had sent her.

Basically, it was about her entrance preparations. After all, it wasn't long until she'd start going to school. She had to take care of certain things first.

The problem now was how she would talk to her father about this. She didn't want to endure the father Wei Kexin had brainwashed in her past life, forcing her to give up what she loved.

Wen Xi thought about it for a moment, and she came up with something. Her eyes lit up as the idea formed. Her lips turned up into a smile, and she quickly replied to her teacher.

It was two in the morning when a shrieking sound could be heard throughout the house, waking everyone up.

Wen Guosheng and his wife ran over to Wen Xi's room right away, only to see her crying with her head buried in her arms as she lay on the bed.

Guosheng loved his daughter, naturally, so he went and asked her what was the matter.

Wen Xi grabbed onto his hands, tears flowing from her eyes. "Dad, it came true, it came true!"

"What came true? Tell me what happened, child!"

Wen Xi tried to calm herself down. "The day I came back from Weihai I met a strange man. He asked my birthday and managed to guess a lot of details about me. He knew what school I went to, what kind of business my family did, and he even prophesized that if I keep going to the school I go to now, I'd be ill-fated! If I don't trasnfer schools I'll get into big trouble involving my family!"

Guosheng frowned. "What?"

Wei Kexin's face looked doubtful as she sat by Wen Xi's bed, patting her on the back. "It's alright, don't worry. All that stuff isn't real."

"But he didn't ask me for anything at all! I didn't believe him at first, but things really haven't been going well after that! Something went wrong with sis' concert, and I keep having nightmares... He said that I'd be having horrible nightmares that wouldn't leave me, and it happend! All the things he said came true!"

Guosheng's hand shook a little as he went into deep thought.

The things he'd been through these last two days, he'd never had any problem in his position at the company before, and to have made such a simple mistake? This had all been happening as of late, too.

Wen Xi continued crying as she grabbed onto his hands. "Dad, please let me trasnfer schools, I don't want to die! He even said that it's because I attracted something evil from Weihai or soemthing, and if I keep going to that school there will be more trouble down the road! Not just for me, but for other people! The only way is to go back to my original path. I don't know what he meant by that, but I don't want to stay in that school anymore!"

Guosheng went over to the window to think about it.

Kexin was doubtful of her words; she wasn't someone who bought in to this sort of thing.

She went to Gousehng. "Xixi must be thinking too much, she just needs some rest."

Guosheng shook his head, a frown on his brow. "Go calm her down first."

With that, he left the room.

An hour later, Kexin helped Wen Xi to bed before leaving the room.

As she shut the door, Wen Xi's red, swollen eyes opened once more, her cold gaze staring into the darkness. She'd finished her performance. She'd done all she could.