Flashback (3)

Professor Shin immediately regretted telling his wife everything. How he have not thought about his wife's crazy ideas about finding ladies for Yang's blind dates?! He felt like crying remembering once Mrs. Shin opened a tinder account to look for Yang's potential girlfriends. He immediately face-slapped himself in head.

The Professor had no clue about the girl's name or any other thing. It was hard to find out her whereabouts without a name or anything.

Being known as one of the best medical schools in the country, every year, Z medical college used to receive many foreign applications as well as maximum applications within the country. There were many foreign students in the college. So only the knowledge of the girl having a mixed race face was upto no help.

It had been weeks already.

Prof. Shin was still clueless.On the other hand, Mrs. Shin made it her daily routine to ask her husband about the result.

The administrative sector of college was unable to provide any information.He couldn't recognize her from the photos of 1st year students . Prof. Shin thought he might had an illusion that time.

Even after weeks of searching there was no trace of this 'mysterious girl'. Not even in the cctvs of the parking lot, where the professor last saw her.

Later, the Shin couple tried to find out more about the girl from the orphanage they last saw the foreigner girl during theirnext visit. As the management were well acquaintice with them, they provided them whatever little thing they knew about the girl.

The management used to keep a record of people visiting the orphanage for security reasons. It was their last straw.

In the entry registreer, they found a foreign name on the particular day. The name was enrolled as 'Alexa'.

Alexa Ray.

20 years old.

American citizen.

The local residential address was of The Ritz hotel, one of the most expensive 7-star hotels in the city.

She was a tourist and visited the orphanage a few times in a span of a month time.

According to the register, every time the girl visited, she used to bring lots of gifts, books and foods for the children.

The reverent mother of the orphanage was impressed as the girl even memorised every children's name after just one visit. She loved to spend long hours with them.

"The girl used to read them fairy tales, taught them English and painting, how to play piano. You know what Mrs. Shin she even knew how to play violin and guitar." Reverent mother praised her.

"The children here love her. They grew close to her.They already miss her. She is such a sweet soul." the manager of the orphanage stated. "She promised to come back soon. Let's see."

Li Yun , the manager showed them a photo. The girl, Alexa was sitting in the courtyard surrounded by the children. Some were playing with her blonde hair. Some were fighting to sit on her lap. Some were drawing on her hand while someone was putting on lipstick on her lips. some children were playing with toys. It was a mess. A beautiful mess though.

It looked like a bunch of happy kids having the moment of their life with a big lovely toy. The girl was smiling brightly.

Mr. and Mrs. Shin couldn't help but smiled remembering the days in their youth, coming here and meeting the children. They were pretty same that time.

" Only if Yang had met her abroad..." Mrs. Shin sighed.

They later contacted the Ritz Hotel. Being one of the most shoutout hotel in H city, they were pretty cautious about revealing their customers' info. .

The management immediately declined to provide any information initially but due to the Shin family's influence they were obliged to provide it.

The information from the hotel was quite vague.

Alexa Ray, an American citizen, stayed at the hotel for a month. Her time of staying there matched the time of visiting the orphanage.

She got few visitors during her stay there. But there was no information about the visitors which only proved either the visitors were too high profile personals whom the hotel management would not dare to touch or they were not that important to get an entry in the register.

The statement also showed that she used to leave in the morning and come back late in the evening or sometimes at late at night. The CCTV footages only recorded her arrival and departure and nothing else. It seemed she had special talent of hiding her face from the cctvs.

The investigators were also surprised not being able to trace the number from the Audi carplate that used to receive her in the morning and drop her. There were lots of these kind of car in the country, from where they could find her tail.

Her contact info and address provided in the hotel log book turned out to be fake.

Even her presidential suite was booked through a popular event management company. The company was unable to provide any further information as they were also acting as a third party.

It was just like a riddle. Everyone was aware of her presence. Every information indicated she was there all these time but nothing more than that. As if the person had just evaporated into thin air.

Even the Shin family's influence was unable to unmask her identity. Further investigation bore no fruit. They were sure that someone powerful was backing the mysterious girl or she herself was influential enough to swiftly clean all the records.

Only thing the investigators found from one of the hotel staffs that the girl used to smile a lot for what that house cleaning lady remembered her. She provided another information that on last few days of her stay there the girl used to talk on phone a lot and out of curiosity immoral to her job criteria she eavesdropped and heard her talking about attending some exhibition.

This was the last string from them to pull. They searched guest lists for every exhibition happened that time in the city. Photography exhibition, painting exhibition, art exhibition, decor exhibition. They left no stone unturned.

But, her name was not in there. Not even any of the lists. It was again going back to square one. It became a fruitless investigation in the end.