8 8. Unsaid Words

"Young miss, we have arrived."

"Hmm." RuQian got down from the car and entered the mansion. Old butler Wong was pleasantly surprised to see her but masked his surprise quickly. He greeted her with a professional smile but one could see the adoration in his eyes. Old butler Wong had helped his grandparents take care of her mother during her pregnancy and also take care of her when she was a toddler. Both her grandparents were business minded people. Even though in that day and age when business women were less in number, her grandmother was a force to be reckoned with. In fact when she started working for Zhang Tech she had heard how the employees and all the rivals feared her grandmother more than her grandfather.

This came as a surprise to her seeing as Zhang LiQian, her mother, was a meek and timid woman who usually kept to herself, never raised her voice even when she was angry and was very sophisticated even during the time of her death.

"Young miss? Young miss?"

"Huh?" RuQian was pulled out of her thoughts when she heard old butler Wong calling for her.

"Young miss should I prepare the room for you? Would you be staying the night?"

"Yes I will be staying the night."

"You must be hungry seeing as you just came from school. Would you like me to prepare some snacks for you? In the meantime your room would be ready."

"Some fruits would be fine butler Wong. I don't want to spoil my appetite for dinner."

"Sure, young miss." Seeing the secretary lugging two heavy looking suitcases, the butler called the servants to place them in her room, then he directed a few maids to prepare her room while he went on to get her some fruits and juice. Ren Wei stood there taking in RuQian's face as she peacefully sat down on the couch, laid her head back and closed her eyes.

"Are you just going to stare at me? Don't you have to inform grandfather of my whereabouts?"

"R...Right. Rr..Report." Ren Wei was so busy trying to think of what caused the sudden change in the young miss's behaviour that he forgot he had yet to report the old master about the young miss. He instantly called the old master.

"Yes, Ren Wei. Did she scream at you again?"

"Master, the young miss is home."

"Oh? So you dropped her at that zombie house?"

"Umm. Master, the young miss is at the Zhang mansion."

"What!? What do you mean by that? She came home? Was she angry that I didn't receive her so she went there to destroy a few vases?"

Hearing the master say a few vases, the secretary cringed instantly. Because the last time the young miss was here she had destroyed not just vases but she broke the expensive television, the prized painting collection of old master, she even ruined the couches and chairs in the dining room cutting them open with a knife. 'Master, do you call all this destruction a few? How come the differentiation between your granddaughter and the rest of the world is so different? Don't you shout at your employees when they miss even a single comma in the report? Not a contract which is very important for the company but a report which is made only for your observation and there is no other use for that. You don't even allow a single mistake there but here you are spoiling your already spoilt granddaughter.'

"No, master, the young miss said that she would stay the night and also brought her luggage from the zombi... umm.. I mean from the Su mansion."

"My granddaughter is staying the night? I am coming home now!"

"Yes, master."

"Young miss, the master will be arriving in a while."

"Hmm"

"Young miss, the fruits. And you should probably have some juice as you've just finished school. You should replenish your energy."

"Old butler Wong, you're nagging again." RuQian replied with a small smile on her face. She still did not understand her old self. How did she leave all these people who cared about her to stay in a place where no one even saw her as a human being? Here she was always cared for and she was loved. How could she stay away from a place like this? And that too for people who killed her in the end.

"Young miss, I just wish you to be healthy and happy." Old butler Wong looked at her with loving eyes while still maintaining his professional face and rushed her to eat quickly.

After finishing her small snack RuQian went up to her room to take a shower and change out of her uniform. She then changed her clothes in her walk in closet where she always had a few clothes, the ones she had just brought back were already neatly placed on hangers. Looks like she had to change her style of clothes. Even though she was a teenager by her body, she wasn't really one. These girly clothes felt embarrassing. That's when a maid came up to her room to call her downstairs. Her grandfather was waiting for her.

When she went downstairs she saw her grandfather, who looked much younger than what she remembered, seated on the couch in the living room. 'Well of course he's younger, he is more than a decade younger' was what she thought, laughing at herself.

"Xiao Qian[1]"

"Grandfather." She looked at him while her eyes started to fog up.

Her grandfather stopped in his tracks all of a sudden. Because at this age, she had never referred to him as grandfather but grandpa or when she wanted something from him grandpoppy but never did she call him grandfather. She only got this habit when she spoke to him after she came out of her depression. But now even if she wanted to call him grandpa, she wouldn't be able to, even if she looked like a 15 year old girl she was still the 27 year old woman at heart, oh! and soul too.

"Grandfather, I thought you still had work to do. Why did you come home so early?"

"Uhh... It's all because of this Ren Wei, he told me to come home early."

Ren Wei who was standing to the side minding his own business, looked at the grandfather and granddaughter duo who sold him out with just single sentences. 'Young miss, weren't you the one who wanted me to report about your whereabouts? Old master weren't you the one who left everything and came home as soon as you heard your precious granddaughter was home? Why am I being slaughtered here?'

Unbeknownst to the ignorant secretary the grandfather and granddaughter duo had a lot of unsaid words which they did not want to talk about and they just turned the emotional atmosphere into a comical one with just a single sentence.

[1] Xiao is used in front of a name when referring to a person of younger or of same age to show a close relationship.