The Mei family
Mei Shao was the uncrowned king of the perfume industry in this nation.
He used to live in a remote village in the mountains. His family made essential incense.
They were quite well off. Mei Shao was the first graduate in the village. Thus, he went to the capital city in order to start a perfume business.
There, he met the love of his life, Jian Shui.
She was a beautiful and intelligent girl. After dating her for a year, he married her. Mei Shao loved her very much. Both of them spent most of their lives expanding their family businesses. He, along with his wife, Jian Shui, worked very hard for the expansion of his business.
As a result, they had Mei Wang in their early forties.
Due to some complications after Mei Wang's birth, Jian Shui's health kept declining. And after eight years of illness, she passed away. Leaving the pair of father and son alone.
Mei Wang was the last memory of his dear wife for Mei Shao; thus, he spoilt him.
He overlooked his every mistake and did not discipline him. As a result, Mei Wang became an indisciplined brat.
He disregarded all the rules and codes of conduct and committed many crimes without facing any consequences.
He always fooled around. He partied all the time. Girls and boys were toys for him. He would use one and throw it away after getting bored, looking for a new one.
He broke many people's hearts this way, destroyed many lives, and didn't give an ounce of care for their feelings.
Due to his deeds, he received countless curses. But he didn't care about it at all.
He was quite happy with his living arrangements. Mei Wang wanted to live this type of life forever. So naturally, he didn't want to marry and be bound by the responsibility of a wife and children.
He hated responsibility the most.
But one day, he accidentally impregnated a girl named Ella.
Ella knew about Mei Wang's nature and that he wouldn't accept this child ever. He might even find a way to kill both her and her child. The child was a threat to her life, but it was her flesh and blood. She didn't want to get it killed. She didn't know what to do.
Therefore, she went to Mei Shao instead, in order to save her unborn child. Mei Shao said that he would take care of her and her unborn child if she chose to keep them, but in the end, it was her choice. He didn't say anything else.
Mei Shao desperately wanted a grandchild, but he didn't want to pressurise the girl. That's why he said that the last choice was Ella's.
After all, it was her life. Although he hoped that she would keep the child.
Ella thought about it thoroughly, and at last she decided to keep the child. She was a soft-hearted girl who fell for Mei Wang's trap. She hoped that her child would take after her and their grandfather in matters of upbringing rather than Mei Wang. She prayed about it daily.
Mei Wang was not happy about it at all. This was another responsibility for him. But because of his father's protection of that girl, he couldn't do anything, and he had to officially marry Ella. Although it was only a marriage on paper and didn't hold any significance in Mei Wang's heart.
One day his patience finally ran out, and in a fit of rage, he aggrieved Ella so much that she had an accident while she was 8 months pregnant, resulting in the premature birth of Mei Wei and him being paralysed under his knees.
It also caused the death of Ella.
Mei Shao regretted his actions and said that he never disciplined Mei Wang. He decided that he would not do the same with Mei Wei. He would teach him manners and discipline him. He didn't want to create another Mei Wang.
Mei Wang hated Mei Wei to his very being from the moment the child was born. Sometimes, he even tried to lose the child in a crowd deliberately, but every time Mei Shao saved Mei Wei, after he got fed up with his son's antics, Mei Shao sent him to live in another house. Mei Wang didn't want to leave the Mei Mansion, which was most appropriate for his parties, but Mei Shao was the owner of the house, and legally, he couldn't live in that house against the owner's will. He couldn't do anything but have to leave that house.
Mei Shao disciplined Mei Wei and taught him good manners, along with handling his family business. Mei Wang also continued his ways like before.
But things started to change 1.5 years ago, when Mei Wang and his three friends went along with Mei Shao to collect some herbs at a very ancient range of mountains.
In reality, Mei Wang and his friends just wanted to smuggle some young girls and boys for fun.
They were going to spend at least a month or two there.
Strangely, after only a week, he came back.
Mei Shao was not there with him. He came back after another fifteen days.
After that, Mei Shao rarely came back to the house. Mei Wei was naturally dissatisfied with it, but after six months, Mei Shao brought a person with him.
That person was beautiful yet a little shy, and he was the new caretaker of Mei Wei.
His name was Aman.
Although it took some time for Mei Wei to warm up to Aman, slowly the beautiful caretaker became his whole world.
Yes, that's right. Mei Wei fell in love with Aman, but he couldn't tell him.
He always thought that he would propose to Aman when he could take care of him, not the other way around.
That was when he would become the president of Mei Enterprises. After introducing Aman to Mei Wei, Mei Shao felt assured, but his health also kept declining, and after three months, he passed away.
Mei Wang was not a bit sad about his father's death. Rather, he was really happy that now he could kick the brat out of his house.
But reality struck him like lightning.
Mei Shao had already prepared his will, and in that, he made Mei Wei his sole heir and also stated that if anything happened to Mei Wei before he reached a certain age, all the property would go to charity. Mei Wang couldn't do anything about it.
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Today is the day of 'the walk.'
Mei Wei dreaded it most. Apparently, Mei Wei needed to socialise, so his doctor advised him to take a walk at a local park and make new friends. But only Mei Wei knew what really waited at the park for them.
And he doesn't like it at all...