She stood there in the dim light, the silence around her suddenly thunderous.
Her uncle, the man people only spoke of in whispers, who existed in shadow more than flesh, was on his way. How was she going to face him? After all, they were never that close...
And from the way he had said Yueyao's name…
Something had cracked.
She had no other options; if it weren't that she was powerless, she wouldn't have resorted to asking him for assistance.
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UNKNOWN LOCATION – NIGHT
The man stood at the window of a high-rise suite, city lights flickering far below. The phone, still warm in his hand, hung loosely by his side.
"Lin Yueyao."
This was the girl he always vowed to protect. He had secretly been watching her, but how come he didn't know that she had run away from the Shen mansion in distress? Why wasn't his men telling him anything?
He immediately called his close aide/guard, Jin Zhou, from the telephone, and he immediately showed up in the suite.
