1 The Fated Encounter

I am on my way back to home from a very tiring day at office. I had to work few extra hours today which I absolutely hated. My senior is an old cranky lady who picks on the younger ones who works under her. Sometimes, she is too much to handle but thankfully I has my friend Kang Meili who helps me navigate myself.

If this job was not what I has always wanted to do, I would have already resigned by now. The another reason is it pays well, almost too well.

It is around 11 at night and not a single taxi can be seen anywhere. I just want to go home and have a cup of soothing tea. My car has to have some problems today only. Thankfully, I have had my dinner otherwise I would have died from hunger by the time I reach home.

I decide to walk and try to find the cab on my way home. It is not safe for me to stay out for long for waiting for the cab. I has just walked few meters when my cellphone rang. It was my mother Ruan Qiya.

"When are you reaching home?" My mother question comes instantly.

"I did not find cab, so I am walking back home." I mumbled afraid of her lashing.

"I don't know all these. Do you not by yourself get into thick head of yours that it is not safe to stay out so late. Your Father's leniency has really made you so thick-faced. I want you home in half hour. " She shouts at me and cuts the call.

My mother is very strict when it comes to me but that is not the case with my older sister Xuan Wang. She stays out late, does not work and have been in many relationships but still my mother only scolds me. Sometimes even calls me names when she is angry.

Its not that she is a bad mother to me but is too strict with me. I can't fault her for that but I hate it when she scolds me unreasonable. Nowadays, she has another fascination of setting me up with that Jiang Yuan whom I hate.

He is in relationship already but pretends to be as innocent as a child. He is a white lotus. I just want him to go away from my life.

Thinking about all these I did not realise that I have taken two wrong turns and I have entered into some dark alley. Why did not I know that this kind of place exists somewhere near my office? Or I have walked for too long while thinking. I take my phone out to check the time only to find that I have been walking for more than a hour. It is just few minutes to midnight.

This place is not giving me good vibes. The silence of night was scaring me. Not a single person can be seen in the sight. I turned about and almost ran when a grunt of pain from someone stopped me in my tracks.

The noise came from the adjoining alley. Nothing can be seen in the dead of night so I turn on the flashlight of my phone. My steps take me deeper in the alley.

A gasp escapes my mouth as I take in the situation. A gravely injured man is lying in a pool of blood grunting in the pain. The scene before me is gruesome wanting me to be fickle minded and ran from there but heart says otherwise and that is to be kind hearted and help him. Xuan Nuwa, come on you can do this.

I am in dilemma but faint plea of help from the man helps me decide faster. What do I do? Now, I have another kind of problem. I am panicking. I cannot decide what to do? With my trembling hands I take off my cardigan and wrap it tightly around his head which has a wound size of my finger. What has happened to him and since how long is he lying here? Who was so stone-hearted to have left him here in this condition?

I am not going to flee but help him after this conviction I dial the emergency number. I am getting busy tone. I continously keep trying and finally it connected.

"Ple..please send an ambulance.. near Z Street. There is a situation." I somehow was able to provide the operator with necessary details.

I put the man's head on my lap. "You don't need to worry. We will reach to hospital very soon. Nothing.. will happen to you." By this time I am full on sobbing. I just hope that he will be okay.

"You need to take revenge on those who have harmed you. So, don't die on me. You need to bring those bastards and their ancestors on their knees. Do you understand what I am saying?" I feel that there is a strange kind of connection between us and I just want him to be safe and sound. Why is it so?

The ambulance arrives and he is being taken to the hospital. I don't know what transpired in between when I find myself in hospital and the nurse asks me to fill the details.

I with shaky hands take the form and force myself to calm down. If I tell them the truth that I don't know him then it will lead to complications. The hospital might deny treatment before the Police arrives or they can make me preparator.

So, I filled in the false details of him. There is only one man in mainland that I can think of the moment. Zhang Cheng. He an never be found in an alley as I have seen the news of him leaving for America this morning. And who in the whole of Republic does not know the power Zhang Cheng and Zhang family holds. It is the most influential and powerful institution and Zhang Cheng leads that entourage. Why am I thinking about that ruthless man? He is way out of my league even when it is only thinking.

The cold and ruthless President of Zhang Conglomerate - one of the leading corporation in the world. Even thinking about that cold-faced President sent shivers down my spine. It is like he will jump out from nowhere and have me executed for thinking about him. I shudders at the thought of facing him.

Buddha! I pray that I never in my lifetime has to face that cold blooded President. I will die of fear as soon as I came in front of him. The stories of his ruthlessness are famous to scare children away. He is a legendary existence in the upper-society of Country C who is both respected and feared for the very reason that you can't even amass a portion of his bank-balance in seven lifetimes. Atleast, he is of some use. In the relative section, I filled as in wife as that is the only relation that no one can deduce from.

If I fill in as sister or something and what if blood is needed for him. It will be a huge problem. Not only I will be sent into the prison for who knows how long, I will also fall in the eyes of society. Now, atleast I can fabricate a lie that his family and him are estranged as my mother-in-law is an evil lady who does not see eye to eye with me?