Chapter 11: To live or to die

October 22, 20XX (Friday)

H Hotel,

After the event ended, it was already 8PM. Luciella went to the resting lounge to rest. "You've been too reckless, I thought I told you to just put on a smile!" Lan Jie rushed into the room while she was still changing.

Not that she mind, Luciella continue to change into black cropped top, pairing with a two piece suit. Where her shorts and blazer are both black. Giving her a whole badass look, "I can't possibly smile during those situation, right?" she took out a cigarette, before puffing at it.

"You are already on the headlines now, it is best you don't look at it!"

"It's fine, I'm already used to it." She shrugged.

"Do you really have a thing with that Ji guy?" Lan Jie turned to the side, and looked at the care less woman leaning against the wall.

"Depends on how you define dating?" She frowned, 'isn't it just hanging out between a man and woman, does it always have to be in a relationship to hang out with the other sex?' she felt annoyed thinking about it.

"His not your boyfriend then?"

"We are just casually hanging out, what is so wrong about that?" She threw the used cigarette away before turning to open the door.

"There is nothing wrong, the only wrong is you being caught!" Lan Jie tried to explained, she knew how wild and unrestraint her artist was. She knew she could not be controlled, hence she prefer to give her some space but just giving her constant reminder.

Luciella was about to go out, but she stopped in her tracks. Her looks became serious as she looked at Lan Jie with a estranged look, "It does not matter how the public perceived me, I will not change for others." with that said, she walked out of the door.

"Wait!" Lan Jie chased after Luciella, "The entrance and back exit are all flooded with reporters and your fans, you cannot leave now!" she tried to stop her, as she received news saying the whole road was too crowded for her to walk past.

Luciella clicked her tongue in annoyance, "Did you book a room?" she asked without turning back, as she continued to walk.

"Already did, just stay here for the next few days before going back to London." Lan Jie informed before placing the room card to her, while escorting her to the room.

Annoyance was apparent in Luciella face, ever since her mother had caught her. She was being restraint, her every action was being monitored. Her mother had freeze her cards, which coincidentally Alessandro also did.

Her mother may had just freeze the card that she and her dad gave her, but Alessandro freeze all the credit cards under her. She needed to live off her personal savings throughout her showbiz and modeling career.

Alessandro did that because Luciella went to meet up with Ji Mo Fan again, and luckily the man was not around. Hence, she was not being annoyed by the man. Meeting that man was the worst day of her life, she realized her mother did not tell her dad.

If she did, she would not just be having no money. She would be sent straight back to London, and help her father to do business. Which she hated the most, those dark and messy dealings was not something she was found off.

She knew in the future she would still need to learn the dealings in her dad's company, but having be able to delay as much as possible would be the best for now. Her dad had set a rule for her, which she can play as much as she wants till she reach 21, where she was off legal age.

She knew bearing the name Luciella de Luca bear a lot of responsibilities, and she knew her dad could never keep her safe and under his roof forever. She bit on her nails, as she frowned in annoyance.

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London, Fate basement.

In an underground basement, many thugs were hanging around that area. Few luxurious car was park along the road of the dark alley, which does not match the dark and eerie atmosphere. Usually those people would be captured by the thugs to rob some money, but nobody dared to.

Since the car had an insignia, which belong to the De Luca Familia. Nobody in their right mind would dare to offend them, Alessandro came down from the car after the driver opened the door for him, with his hair being combed up, showing his extremely mysterious yet attractive deep blue eyes.

Especially in the night, the deep blue eyes could be seen glowing, the man wore a black suit pants with a grey dress shirt which had his top two unbutton. Walking right through the thugs without looking at them, he looked majestic with the neat and sparkless look.

He does not seem to belong in the dark world, as he walked pass the crowd. Those thugs would bow down 90 degrees so as to pay him respect, "The sly spider has been caught, he was the one that hijacked our dealer car." John explained, knowing very well what would happen to the sad man.

"How many?" Alessandro asked in an indifferent tone, before heading few floors down to the place where people were isolated at.

"We only caught one, the spiders are slippery." Christian informed, before opening the metal door for Alessandro to go in. While John grabbed a chair for Alessandro to sit, "We injected the new worm that was invented, and yet to be issued in the black market." John informed, standing by his side.

All the while Alessandro had on a bored expression, he wanted to find out who had the balls to hijacked his car. Who would knew it was a small fry in the spiders, usually the lower ranks would not have a mark on them.

While the higher ranks, the underworld would call them the reapers. They are more hard to catch and had been causing disruption for Alessandro, he frowned in disgust. Taking out his gun, he cleaned it with the handkerchief John passed to him.

The man who had his limps cut, laying on the ground with maggots around felt extreme hate towards the man. He knew all too well who he was, the underworld all knew the well-known devil incarnate.

Who has absolutely no morale, he kill without batting an eyelid. The blood on his hands, were beyond salvation. "Add on?" Alessandro looked down at the sorry sight of the man.

The man scoffed, 'is this the end?' he smiled sympathetically, "Are you not afraid for the others that you killed to hunt you back?" the man asked in a tired tone.

Alessandro remained undazed, his eyes bore not hatred, no feeling. It was extremely cold, "To live or to die, that is how the world works." with that he shot the man right in the mouth.

Earning a loud growl, tears went down the pitiful man eyes as he felt suffocated. "Handle it well." Alessandro threw the gun to John, before walking out of the room without sparing another glance at the dead man.