3 Do You Really Care?

When Yiqun saw the colour drain from Rulin's face, she got worried. " Miss, are you feeling alright? You look very pale!" As she said this, she started to wonder about what was wrong. Rulin had always been a very calm and collected child and had little emotion. So when she saw that her young madam's face turn pale, she immediately assumed that it was because she was sick.

When Li Rulin heard the concerned voice of Yiqun, she immediately snapped out of her dazed state. " There is no need , what sort of assistance would they be able to render anyway?" Rulin said as she calmed herself and adjusting her tone to her 18 year old tone.

Seeing her young madam's complexion return to normal, she assumed that perhaps she was just nervous about her first day of work. " Miss Rulin, since everything is fine, may I help you get ready for your first day of work? " Hearing her words, Rulin confirmed her theory that it was indeed exactly a week before her birthday. As she remembered, she had just been threatened to leave her only friend and crush, not long ago and have been ignoring his relentless calls and texts. Today would be her first say at work and one week from now, she would have amazed her father and mother and all her colleagues enough, with her abilities despite being a 18 year old, and would be crowned as the new Vice president, ranked directly after her mother's extremely intelligent best friend, and would then go on to take over the tittle as CEO in less than a year.

'So everything has happened like they did in the past so far..' Rulin thought to herself. 'But this time, I am going to make it different. No more regrets Rulin!' she declared to herself.

" I think i am going to prepare on my own. Now that I have entered work life, i am no longer a child and I have to learn how to be independent. To do so, i have to get rid of all possible forms of help for the time being. Please take a few days off, as well as all the other maids, butlers and chefs. My siblings will not be home until four days later and my parents 10 days later. All of your time will be wasted if you stay here." Rulin said in her cool, stoic voice. 'If I can get rid of everyone , then I would be able to run off without as much difficulty.' she thought to herself.

Upon hearing Rulin's request, Yiqun was skeptical but the more she thought about it, the more it made sense, either way, knowing her young madam's workaholic ways it would be likely that she would not be home until the weekends. Thinking about her four days off that she could spend with her son and husband, she was elated. Smiling warmly at Rulin, she quietly said," Then I shall excuse myself now. your work starts at 8 am and you have to . be there by 745am today. I will relay the message to the others. Thank you Ma'am" after which, she did a small curtsey , quietly turned and left the room, closing the door silently behind her.

About 7 minutes after Yiqun left, Rulin looked out her window and just as she had calculated, a whole bunch of workers of the Lin Family here streaming out of the grand doors of the Lin mansion. three minutes later, after she was sure that everyone in the house would have . gone, she sneaked out of her room in a creamy white flowy dress matched with a white gold-platted limited edition Louis Vuitton handbag, and Gucci custom sneakers. After loking down both end of the hallway, Rulin walked silently down the long hallways and then down the grand stairs to the Hall where the Grand piano stood.

Rulin sat down at the piano and started playing all the songs that she had been forced to remember since she was 4 years old. From Mozart to Beethoven, she played the songs flawlessly while recording everything. after a full thirty minutes, she stoped recording on her phone, saved it, and then wrote a note saying the very sentence that her lover would tell her today if she had done what she did the last time. " Just like these songs you drilled into me, you have drilled the idea of becoming a robot into me for all my life so tell me, mother and father, who do you truly love and care for, me or the company?" after writing the note, Rulin placed her phone of the top of her piano and the note on top of it. She knew that her mother would be the first to see it as she was a pianist and practiced every time she came home, while her siblings and father did not care of the piano or the corner where it stood, at all.

After finishing everything, she slipped through the secret emergency exit and ran off, into the city with her own secretly obtained, untraceable burner phone and black card.

The moment she left the mansion's grounds, she texted her lover, " meet me at our usual café at 10. Love you - Rulin"

She then headed towards the main road to hail a cad to get to her destination.

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