Ming Ruqi

Three months quickly passed and I am now completely healed. Actually I am already fine a month ago. My Mama also recovers from her injury and she can now move like in the past.

Thanks with the help of the pills that Elder Fan Zhang Ai brought, from Medical House of Sun and Moon Sect.

The effect of the pills fasten my recovery.

Normally my injuries that time will be completely healed by itself, through my inner force. But it will takes for three to four months.

However, with the help of the pills, it healed much faster and earlier than one month.

Throughout the month of recuperating, Elder Fan Zhang Ai stayed in the hospital and filled my mind with a lot of basic information about the Sun and Moon Sect. 

For me to integrate myself better. People cannot act naturally if they didn't know the surroundings that they want to stays to. So this informations really helps me a lot.

And the person who gave an information about my Mama and I to Mr. Snake was already caught. It was the owner of the restaurant opposite of our own one. 

With an investigation and interrogation, the man was said to be the cousin of Mr. Snake.

He was jealous that my mother's restaurant is more lively than his. So he contacted his cousin to teach my mother a lesson.

The truth came out and he was sentenced with a fifty years in prison. 

Of course I know it was with the help of Elder Fan Zhang Ai.

But I am not satisfied that he was just put into jail.

I want him to suffer.

If not for him. My Mama would not be shot.

She would not be put into danger.

But I owe Elder Fan Zhang Ai a lot and I don't want to add it.

So if I will have enough power. I will personally let him taste how I am to the people who hurt my beloved mother.

'He'll pay for it!'

I am ruthless?

Yes I am.

I , Bai Xiu Lan am not a good and kind  person in the first place.

Your kindness will just be taken advantage of. 

They said people are naturally born good.

I believe that.

But it's also because of people that people turned evil.

***

My life continues to run like usual.

Going to the market in the morning with mother.

Helping at the restaurant 

Going to school.

Training secretly.

My days composed of that things.

But Elder Fan Zhang Ai, still didn't bring me to the sect. 

She also didn't say anything about it when she occasionally visited our restaurant. Thus I didn't also ask her.

However, she already send her people to guard my Mama. She send four people, so I am now more comfortable going to school and leaving my Mama in the house. 

In the morning, they'll pretend to be costumers.

And in the night, they will hide in the shadow to protect my Mama.

It's sunday in the evening now and YueYue and aunt Ming Ruqi, YueYue's mom visits our home. 

My Mama and YueYue's mother are bestfriend since their diaper days as aunt Ruqi's mother and my grandma are also bestfriends and neighbors.

So their friendship is very deep.

They are classmates since preschool to highschool. In their college, they separated because they have a different dreams and different courses, my Mama took Culinary Arts while aunt Ruqi took Entertainment Arts, Majoring in Acting in U.S.A.

However, even though they are thousands of miles apart, they still talk in video chat if they are not busy.

YueYue and I in the same preschool was not coincidence at all. The two mother planned it all along.

Aunt Ruqi decided to come back here in Arinea. Her reason was that she wants to start her acting career here, where she was born and where her love ones are staying. The other is that she wants her daughter to grow up surrounded by her relatives and family.

Because YueYue's dad abandoned her and aunt Ruqi.

My Mama and aunt Ruqi are the same.

Unwanted by the man they gave their heart to.

I know it because I heard my Mama and aunt Ruqi in one of their video chats when I was one year old.

They talked about how they end up the same.

It was that time that I also see YueYue for the first time. 

Aunt Ruqi was carrying her that time while I am in my Mama's arm.

I still remember that moment that she stared at me with her big silver eyes.

She then smiled foolishly at me that I also replied with a smile.

'She was smiling like a child but her eyes contains a pure coldness that was disguise in her adorable expression.'

I have already a suspicion that YueYue might be a reincarnated individual too. 

Like me.

It happed to me so it's not impossible that there are others who experienced the life after death.

Even though she's just a child or an adult in a child's body, her presence and the way she carries herself emits a mountain like pressure.

It's not like Elder Fan Zhang Ai's carefully hidden sharpness nor Bloody Rose's bone chilling and dangerously seductive aura.

She is like a sword in it's scabbard, though not shown and covered, it still commands fear and respect from people who see it. 

"LanLan!"

YueYue's loud voice rang in our small house and then I felt a small body hugging me.

I hugged her back and patted her back.

"I miss you!" She said after we parted our bodies.

"We just met last Friday." I stated plainly but still I feel her sincerity.

I faced her and stared at her eyes, her eyes is still cold but there is a gentleness and warmth in it as she stared back at me.

'Is it her true emotions or she is just a great pretender?'

I know that her life is nothing to do with me but our family is connected.

Her mom's friend is my Mama.

She's too unpredictable and she's the first person I met in this world that I can't read.

'She's way too dangerous!'

One of the traits I developed living in the palace and in the Imperial Harem is being always in guard. I developed being very cautious and meticulous in everything I do.

It helps me survived the life in the Imperial Harem surrounded by scheming, hard to deal with and snake like women.

In this world, people has way more freedom.

But the people living on it is equally greedy, vicious, selfish and evil.

The two words is different but human beings, wherever and whenever you put them, they will stay the same.

So even though I also starting to treat her like my sister.

I can't still stop myself from worrying.

This worry is the thin barrier that stops me from treating her more sincerely.

I glanced at my Mama and aunt Ruqi chatting happily with each other.

I clasped our hand and drag her into my room and my mom's.

I locked the door and faced her again. This time, my face is a lot more serious.

I quietly stared into her, seriousness is clearly written on her always smiling face as she stared back at me.

Then I asked her the question that is bugging my mind since I met her for the first time since we are one year old.

"Who are you really YueYue?"