There were too many memories, souvenirs, and even tapes of Lu Xinyi. The girl sure lived to brighten the world with her pure joy and carefree aura.
Lei Xinyi glanced at a picture frame with a frown on her face. In the picture, the Lu girl was holding a bunny and was sitting on the gra.s.s.
Lei Xinyi glanced at the mirror then turned back to the photo.
She was like a mirror image of her except the honey hazel hair and the innocence, purity, fragility, and virtual allure on her.
The girl was everything she wasn't.
Li Yuan must be blind or something. The girl was a kind that made men protective of her, she would have attracted them like a scented flower attracted bees.
It would have been completely unsensible but she felt a strong sense of familiarity with the girl like she knew her better than she knew herself like she was close to her even when she wasn't.
She wanted to know who the woman was and who was her mother and why was she a carbon copy of her but it was too late.
Maybe the girl would be dead by now or maybe if she really ran away with her lover, she would be starting a family or some chick-flick thing they do.
She tore out a paper from a diary and held a pen, scribbling something on the paper she hid it behind the frame.
Taking a breath she kept the photo in the open carton. Evidence of good days is the most painful of things on bad days.
"All the cartons are packed?" Lei Xinyi turned to maids who were doing the work.
"Yes, Ms. Lu. All done."
Lei Xinyi nodded looking at all the packed cartons that will never move from this place, she had taken a lot from the girl but she wouldn't take her memories away if she ever decided to come back.
"Okay, pa.s.s me a small carton and then you can take your leave."
The maid handed her a small carton and rushed out of the room. Lei Xinyi made sure she was alone then locked the door.
Now she needed to do her packing. The one that belonged to her and the one she will take with her.
She went to the bed and by her dagger rip open a side of a mattress close to the headboard. From there she took out the Yu's heirloom and threw them both in the carton.
Then she stood to survey the place, there wasn't really anything she could call her own. Not even the dagger or the heirloom. One she took from a dead, another she stole.
She was about to leave the room when her eyes fell on the Orchids Li Yuan had gifted her with a handwritten card.
In a trance, she walked to them and took out an orchid and smelled it. The smell had faded but the traces of it were left. She searched the drawer and found the hand-written card.
She would take this as a souvenir from him, she didn't have the heart to ask for more than she had already taken.
She sealed the carton and went out to join Madam Lu on Afternoon Tea. Lei Xinyi would smile often and give a soft reply to Madam Lu overexcited ones.
"Well, my phone battery is out. Can I use yours to text Li Yuan that I will be a little late?" Lei Xinyi asked after a while of chit-chatting.
Her phone was traced and she couldn't risk being caught halfway through her scheme. Any messages or calls she received or sent were being recorded and monitored.
"Yeah, sure. You can." Madam Lu looked pleased that she was texting Li Yuan and for privacy even left the room to get more nutrient foods for her.
Lei Xinyi formated a coded message and sent it on Su Qianwei untraceable number then deleted all the trails of it from the records.
Then she spent half an hour more entertaining Madam Lu then excused herself. If she left right away it would have looked suspicious.
"Can I take a car? I have sent my driver back as I intended to buy a special present for Li Yaun." Lei Xinyi smiled and lied with convenience.
Li Yuan's driver would have informed him of her activities at once so he wasn't an option. She couldn't hire a cab and lose Li Yuan's dogs because sure as h.e.l.l they didn't teach that in driving cla.s.ses. Their major work was to make sure she didn't 'stray'.
So she had to do that other own.
Madam Lu frowned her thin arched brow, "Lu Xinyi, you don't know how to drive." At once the smile on her face turned forced.
"Li Yuan taught me." Lei Xinyi said too fastly for it to be the truth but Madam Lu didn't notice it instead an expression of pleasant surprise took over her face.
"Did he?" Lei Xinyi nodded in response, "That's so good. He cares about you! Lu Xinyi, you are so lucky!"
She had an urge to roll her eyes at the frisky woman. She learned how to drive when she wasn't even legal to drive!
"I know." Lei Xinyi smiled and took the keys from the maid and walked to the garage with a hurried step.
She drove for 55 minutes, 29 minutes to losing the dogs, and 26 minutes to reach her destination.
It was a no-go area. A very underdeveloped locality that was owned by a Cartel Boss. Lei Xinyi parked the Mustang she had taken with her at a little distance away from the locality and then walked to the nearest Pub.
She sat there without ordering anything except water, you couldn't trust a place where a criminal ruled. She really didn't want sc.u.m to kick to the curb on a busy day like today.
She sat here for 17 minutes when she saw a redhead entering the Pub door through the front door.
