Zren’s steps halted, she stopped her track and looked at the two familiar women standing in front of her. They were the same people she encountered back at the supermarket earlier. This is it! The exact same people she was trying to avoid suddenly popped out of nowhere and now the three of them were standing face to face. Just as Zren was trying to figure out how she was going to talk to them, the thing she didn’t want to encounter the most finally happened. “Ten long years. I waited for more than a decade and now destiny finally heard me!” Saven’s eyes were already red from anger. Her jaw clenched in madness as she stared at Zren as if she was ready to kill her at any moment. Misunderstanding! There we go again! Another endless series of misunderstandings! First was Weidon, then these two women, who know if there would still be next right?Zren shut her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened them, a trace of calmness could be seen. “Hear me out, I swear I’m not Celestine
"Let them go," Weidon repeated in a calm yet oppressive manner, one could sense the superior aura he was emitting that was enough to make someone submit themselves, however, Zren was different.Not only she didn't let go of the two, but instead, she even tightened her grip on their hair which made Floryn and Saven struggle even more."Didn't you hear me? Let them go." It was not a request but a command, but still, Zren didn't listen.She raised one of her eyebrows and met Weidon's pair of serious ink-black eyes. They were dark and mysterious like a void that contained countless things and possibilities that no one could ever imagine, however, no one knew what these things were.Even Zren, who was good at guessing what was in people's minds wasn't able to predict anything or even had a little sight about Weidon. He was like a mysterious closed box with no openings, the lock was inside, no one would be able to open it and most of all no one knew what was inside.Staring at the tantalizi
Celestine and Zren were like carbon copies of each other, from facial features to their bodies' proportions, however, all their similarities ended with their physical appearance.Because when it came to personalities, they were like two parallel lines that would never ever intersect no matter what the circumstances were. They were completely opposite to each other.If Celestine's temperament was like a calm undisturbed lake who always appeared soft and had a lot of patience with other people, well when it came to her sister, it was the total opposite.Zren's personality was a total disaster, she was like a thunderstorm forming in the middle of the sea, harmless when you were just looking at it, however, it was a pure catastrophe if you experienced it.Her patience was thin as a single strand of hair, she easily got mad and offended by simple little things, and most of all she was an extremely judgemental person.Maybe on the surface, she looked like a dumb and childish person, however
There was a long pause of silence between the two. They just sat there, silently facing each other, saying nothing, Elcid looked at Zren with a complicated expression. He opened his mouth but immediately closed it. After a while, he again tried to convey something but did not dare to do it. Zren, who was sitting opposite to Elcid, furrowed her eyebrows as she watched the other person repeatedly open and close his mouth several times. It looked like he wanted to say something but was hesitating to do so. Seeing Elcid with a conflicted expression. Zren finally couldn’t bear to watch him act like a fool anymore. She put her coffee down and said with a raised eyebrow, “If you want to say something then say it. You look like a fool opening and closing your mouth without any reason, so stupid.”Elcid, who was suddenly called stupid gave Zren a displeased look. His eyes narrowed, clearly disagreeing with her words. However, even though he was offended, he did not dig into it anymore and
It looked like being bad sometimes is actually not that bad. Zren never thought that messing up someone’s mentality was such a fun thing to do, especially the one who always caused troubles to her. The way how Weidon’s face changed from blank to mad in just a few words was extremely satisfying to watch. His reaction far exceeded Zren’s expectations. She never thought that Celestine had such a strong impact on Weidon’s calm personality. Such an extremely helpful discovery. She finally found out about Weidon's reverse scale. A scale that she would happily poke everytime she faced the man.Zren put both of her hands on the back of her head and started to walk leisurely in the hallway while humming some lively tune of a song. She couldn’t suppress the smile forming on her lips as not so good thoughts endlessly poured into her mind.In just a span of seconds, she already formulated so many ways to mess with Weidon and his friends. Just thinking of those scenarios was enough to make Z
The following days, Zren had already lost her interest in roaming around the cruise ship. Thinking that she might encounter those annoying people, she just decided to stay in her room and enjoy the peaceful and undisturbed atmosphere. She spent her days enjoying her me time without any presence of people who do nothing but cause endless troubles here and there. “Finally, it’s time to go home!” Zren happily exclaimed. She pulled her luggage with enthusiasm as she followed the flow of people who were also going the same way as her. The thought that she would finally be able to go home after experiencing those endless troubles and lay on her bed without thinking of any of those people. Together with her luggage, Zren followed the person that Louzvent had sent to guide her where the car that the old man prepared in advance for her to use to drive back home as per what she requested before she left. Originally Louzvent suggested that he would send a person to pick her up from the port,
“You think? What do you mean?” Yashi asked, confused. Zren once again let out a deep sigh before starting to explain everything that she encountered hoping that Yashi could give some advice to her, because ever since then Yashi was the only person who always helped to solve her problems. It was so funny how Zren’s work was to help her clients overcome their problems, however, when it comes to her own she had no idea what to do. Helping other people was her forte but when it comes to herself, her brain looked like a balloon, empty and full of air, floating anywhere without a certain direction. “I met a man who was Celestine’s ex-boyfriend, the one she dated ten years ago. Their relationship’s timeline matched around the twin’s existence. At first, when I discovered that piece of info, I already assumed that he was their father.” Zren paused for a second before she continued, “But someone told me, the reason why they broke up was because Celestine cheated and at that time there was
Zren ended the call and threw her phone on the passenger seat. The smile on her lips remained, making her expression even brighter. What a good news to start the day. “Ma, you’re smiling! What happened?” Xhyne curiously asked in the back seat. Zren gave him a quick glance and answered with curved eyes, “Let’s just say, I’m having a good time playing some game with someone, haha!” “Game? What kind of game?” Zhen, who didn’t seem interested earlier, overheard their conversation which ignited his curiosity.“It’s called, ‘Go with the flow’ game.” “It sounds boring,” Zhen honestly commented and went back to reading his book. “Yeah, it really is.” Xhyne immediately lost interest and just slouched in his seat. He just decided to look outside the window to kill his boredom. “You guys are the boring ones!” Zren sneered at them. When they arrived at the school, Zren dropped the twins off and bid them goodbye before driving off to work. The moment she arrived at the firm, Zren just put
Weidon forgot how to react at the moment, he sat on the bench with a back, not moving or even blinking his eyes. He wanted to open his mouth to say something, but he couldn't bring himself to do it, as if an unknown force was stopping his body from doing anything.At that very moment, it seemed that his world was frozen; everything that surrounded him stopped moving, he couldn't hear or respond to anything, and his connection to the outside world was blocked.Weidon did not expect Zren to make such a sudden, bold move. He thought that she must at least do some preparation. However, it turned out that everything came in an entirely different direction.The direction that he least expected the most.To say such things as if they were just a piece of irrelevant information was truly unexpected; Weidon was not prepared at all.Snapped!Weidon was pulled back to the reality when he heard a crisp snap of fingers.He blinked a few times to regain his focus, only to see Zren's pale long finge
When they arrived at their destination, the four of them got out of the car."Seaside!" Xhyne exclaimed in excitement the moment he saw the crystal blue water from the distance.Without waiting for anything, he pulled his brother to the play on the seaside.Zhen didn't resist and let his twin pull him. Even though he did not say anything, he could not hide his shining eyes. They were bright and full of excitement."Do you guys often come here?" Weidon asked as he looked around. Based on the twins’ expressions it was not the first time they went to this place."Not that much. We only visit here if I have free time."Their surroundings were quiet and peaceful as there were no other people other aside from them.Weidon and Zren sat on a bench facing the sea.The sun started to settle turning the blue sky into a blazing fiery red sea of clouds. The water reflected the light from the ball of fire, making the water seem to shine like colorful glitter. The sea was calm and small waves crashe
Truth be told, Weidon and Vinley actually knew each other, however, they were not acquainted with each other or had any close interaction before.Their family just belonged to the same circle of business, so they met a few times now. However, as for why a young master of a pretty well-off family was here working as a secretary for someone, Weidon really didn't know.But that was not the main issue right now, because if something got out of Vinley's mouth regarding Zren and him, Weidon was sure that in no time, troubles would be able to find their way in knocking on his door.If Vinley spoke outside even a little bit, those people who were watching him would soon gonna know and try to dig deeper about this matter, and worst the twins would be going to be found.As much as possible Weidon didn't want to let the public know about Zhen and Xhyne's existence in the meantime without drafting a concrete plan about the matter. There were so many things that he needed to consider and one of th
Whenever Zren remembered Celestine, her bad temper would always act up and the blood in her vessels felt like they were boiling in extreme anger. Her patience was as fragile as a thin strand of hair that could easily be snapped into two.Her anger towards that woman was immeasurable to the point that whenever she heard the name of that person, her anger issue would skyrocket to the extreme, enough to reach a place outside the earth.Even though it had been a decade, there was no way Zren would forgive that woman.After everything she had gone through because of her made Zren impossibly forget those dark bitter memories. "Stop bringing that woman into the conversation, I don't have time to listen to anything bullshit about her." Zren turned her back to Weidon and continued to search in the bookshelves.After some time searching, she finally found what she was looking for.Out of the bunch of books displayed on the shelf, Zren pulled out a thick brown album and held it in her hand.Bec
The happenings flashed way too fast, and before Zren could react, Weidon's strong palm was already gripping her jaw and forced her to look him in the eyes.She really didn't expect that he would be going to react this way, it looked like his patience wasn't enough to endure everything for a long time just as she first expected.Zren knew that Weidon still highly doubted her identity. He thought that she was just making up another identity to fool him again.That was why earlier, Zren didn't act aggressively and chose the calm friendly approach. She acted dumb and playful when talking while purposely letting Weidon run around in circles.Weidon's main objective was to know the twins' identity, he wanted to know who their father was if it was him or what.However, since Zren set the momentum the moment she entered the room and didn't give Weidon a chance to speak what was in his mind, the topic diverted from the twin to her identity.Zren thought that Weidon was a hard bone to chew that
The call had ended for almost five minutes now, however, Zren was still gripping her phone tightly even though the person she was talking with had already hung up.Zren didn't need to ask herself for the second time because the moment she realized what the other person meant, she knew who it was.Of course, who could it be if not Weidon?But what amazed her was that Weidon's connection was so fast, he immediately obtained her personal contact information in less than a day, just a few hours to be exact.The way he called early in the morning even though the sun had yet to rise completely meant that Weidon was so eager to know everything.He had just seen the twin last night and now he was so impatient that he called first thing in the morning disturbing Zren's good night's sleep.Even though Zren's body still wanted to lie down and go back to sleep, her brain wasn't cooperating. No matter how she closed her eyes, her mind was still running, thinking about possible things that may happ
When they reached their home, Zren accompanied the twins until they fell asleep, making sure that they were okay.After she confirmed that the two were already fast asleep. She exited the room and went downstairs.The lights were already off so the whole house was dark and silent. Only the dim light from the moon that pierced through the cracks of the curtains slightly lit up the place.When she reached her destination which was the kitchen, Zren didn't turn on the lights, instead, she used her phone's flashlight as a guide.She then opened the fridge and took out several cans of flavored liquor and some chips from the cupboard.Placing the things she just gathered on the counter and sit beside them, Zren opened a can of beer and the packaging of the chips.In the depth of darkness, Zren stared at nothing, she just silently continued to eat and drink with an uncaring blank expression.Her mind was full of thoughts, both good and bad. They confused and fogged her clear mind making her
A child’s frustrated scream echoed throughout the hallway as two kids who exactly looked like each other exited the bathroom, running in Zren’s direction.One was wearing a grumpy expression, his eyebrows met with each other as he threw a sharp glare at the boy who exactly looked like him.“He kept interrupting me to pee! I hate him! He kept banging the door even though he knew I was inside!” Zhen aggrievedly told his mom about Xhyne’s annoying tricks. He buried his head in Zren's stomach to hide his teary eyes.“Hehe, s-so are you still able to pee?” Zren asked pretending that everything was fine while trying to look calm. Even though right now her heart was thumping like a wild boar inside her ribcage. She was freaking nervous!Meeting Weidon here was the last thing she ever expected!This damn destiny was really messing with her.Zren pulled the twins near her and squeezed their hands to comfort herself. She looked at Weidon whose expression was unexplainable.His eyes were glued t
Zren leaned on the back of her chair and put both of her feet on the table. She played with the pen on one hand and used the other to hold her phone.“So you guys finally know the truth. Finally.”“How did you know?” Weidon replied with a question.Zren smiled and looked outside where she could see the small-looking building of Weidon’s company from her point of view.“Why don’t you guess? I don’t think you need a clue, I know you’re smart enough to figure it out.”The moment Zren let go of those words, Weidon’s gaze automatically fell on the flash drive plugged into the laptop. He took it out and sure enough, there was a small device plastered on it.Saven was about to curse when Zren spoke again.“I already proved my identity. I am not Celestine so let’s stop this hatred thingy. I don’t know you, you don’t know me. End of discussion.”Zren was about to end the call when she remembered something.“Anyway, Elcid, let’s just meet some other time, I have something to do later.”She swor