Poison

"Send the kids home."

Zhou You raised his brows, confused yet he still bowed respectfully at his boss, "Will do. Have a nice day, Sir."

Hao Shen nodded and strode into The Paradise lobby. The manager rushed and bowed deeply at him before he passed a card key to him. "We've prepared your room as usual, Sir. Have a nice stay."

"Wait. Gave me the surveillance footages in the past two hours," Hao Shen demanded, as he took a seat in the waiting area.

"Pardon?" The manager thought his ears played some tricks on him.

"I don't felt repeating myself again," Hao Shen impassively uttered and tapping his foot, showing how impatient he felt with the manager's incompetence.

The poor middle-aged man wiped his forehead, "Right away, Sir."

He scrambled to the security room and soon came back with a tablet and quickly handed it over to him. Hao Shen took it and just as he wanted to play the footage, he noticed the manger is still standing beside him.

"I'll call you later if there's anything else that I want," he dismissively flicked his wrist and waited until the manager went away before he opened the tablet.

He fast-forwarded the clips until he found what he was looking for. All along, he tried his very best to stay calm even though he felt like smashing the tablet on the floor when he saw how close the pair was and eventually, his fury spiked when he saw them ambled into a presidential suite and he waited for a while, in case the man went out to another room yet no such thing happened.

Hao Shen rose up and walked towards the exclusive elevator, hit the floor button for his room with his mind jumbled with numerous thoughts. He strode towards his room the moment the lift opened and paused to look at the room diagonally across him, feeling a sudden impulse to pounded on the door.

Eventually, he extinguished his intention and unlocked his own room. He throws the tablet on the couch yet it landed on the carpeted floor with a thud but he did not minded it before he deposited the shopping bag with his clothes inside on the coffee table.

"I searched for you all these years yet here you are, coddling with an older man," he mumbled and a mocking sneer emerged at the corner of his mouth. Nobody knows either it was for the woman or himself.

In the other suite, the men talked and after some time, laughters could be heard around the small bar as Zarco shared with Li Jun his first encounter with Fu Mingxia while they sipped on their drinks.

Meanwhile, in one of the bedroom in the suite, the young woman leisurely took her time dressing up in loungewear after submerging herself in the warm bath as soon as she arrived in the suite and the moment she opened the door, she could hear her name in their conversation.

"I could hear your hyenas like laughters from inside," she quipped and maneuvers her wheelchair towards them, jolting the men from their chatting. "What's so funny? I heard my name too."

Li Jun cleared his throat, "He told me how you both met the first time."

Fu Mingxia rolled her eyes at Zarco and smirked, "That's sure one hell of an encounter."

She rolled her wheelchair towards the sitting area before she grabbing the remote control from the table. She fiddling with it for a while and eventually put it down after she found the television channel that she preferred, which is business news.

"Oh! Come on, man~" Zarco whined when he heard the gruffy voice of the news anchor. "Could you please not spent your time watching the business news when we're here?"

He rushed towards Fu Mingxia, intended to pick the remote control to change the channel, yet in the next second, he yelped. "Ouch! Fu*k!"

He jumped on his right foot as he stroking his sore left calf while accusingly staring at the woman whom still concentrating on the news. "Bully!" He bitterly spat.

"Yeah. Do you want more?" Fu Mingxia gave him a long side glance, eying at the area between his thighs as she pushed a button on her wheelchair and a long rod with clippers at the end popped from under her wheelchair towards the man.

Zarco leaped backward. Horror apparent on his face as he cupped his nether region. "Fu*k you, X. Big bully!"

Fu Mingxia gave him a victorious smirk and focused her attention on the news once again, ignoring Zarco's dissatisfaction.

Li Jun was left dumbfounded by their interaction while at the same time, he felt awed with Fu Mingxia's defence. 'Who would know there's a weapon built-in the wheelchair?'

Meanwhile, Eric just shook his head helplessly before he sauntered towards them and patted Zarco's shoulder, "You knew fully well you will never win against her, dummy."

Zarco shrugged his hand off, "I thought she had became more gentler after the unfortunate incident. Who knew she still the same, if not more barbarous and heartless. Luckily, I had fast reflexes. If not, my lineage might come to the end with me."

Fu Mingxia raised her brows and a mischievousness dancing in her eyes, although her face still looked indifferent at the direction of the television.

Without a word of warning or even a tiny noise, she hit another button and a tiny dart flew in between her and Zarco before it struck him on his right calf, right below his kneecap.

"Ouch!" Zarco looked down and widened his eyes when he saw the dart that had pricked his flesh.

Eric and Li Jun looked down too. They exchanged secret glances, agreed not to notified the only woman in the room, lest they will alert the hidden enemy. Feigning doing something else, they surveyed their surrounding yet they could not found anything odd.

At the same time, Zarco gritted his teeth and pulled the dart from his leg.

Thud!

Losing his balance, he fell on the floor as his leg is numbed. Eric rushed towards him, "Hey! Are you okay?"

Zarco grimaced and passed the dart at him. "My leg is numbed."

Li Jun crouched down too, near them as Eric inspected the weapon.

"My guess..there's a poison inside this dart," Eric sniffed and passed it to Li Jun, when the older man outstretched his palm.

He drew Zarco's pant and observed his leg. Noticing there is no change in colour of his skin, he unknowingly heaved a relief sigh. "The poison is not poisonous."