198 Jun Kai's Father

"I have one question, do you not want to know who I am before you leave?"

With that Mi Rong's footsteps had halted, but she had not turned around yet. 

Nevertheless, just beside her, in the corner of the room, a middle-aged man came out from the dark. The little light that was in the room gave his features more prominence. 

Slowly, Mi Rong turned to face the person beside her. When her eyes fell on the person that was only a few steps away from her, she could see he was a well-refined middle-aged man. Though there was some haggardness to his expression and his facial hair had grown out slightly, he was like wine that had aged well.

Hm, all Mi Rong could think was that if her father was around with her, maybe he would look like this person. Their heights might even match with each other since this person was indeed very tall.

However, another person's face had formed in front of this middle-aged man's face. It was someone she had been thinking of all this time, but why could see him in this person's face. 

Their features and their height looked terrifyingly alike. Mi Rong's brows became slightly knitted as she tried to link them together. A vague sense of familiarity hit her bit by bit.

Meanwhile, Mr Li Jian stood patiently as he let her recollect her memories about him. He remembered he had seen her at the event and even saw her dancing with his son. 

Just then, Mi Rong's eyes widened. 

Mr Li Jian smiled softly. He knew this young lady would remember even if she had seen him briefly at the Feng family's celebration. She seemed to be that talented for him to think likewise. 

A chance for a chance, young lady.

She deserved to know and even more, his son should talk it out with this young lady first. Also, he had learned about this from what had happened to him and his wife. If his son truly cherished her, he should not let her go. He did not want his son to be like him and he had almost realised it when it was nearly too late.

This person was Jun Kai's father!? Mi Rong's eyes wandered on this person's face. Then, aunty...aunty was Jun Kai's mother?

Her face then became grave. If aunty was Jun Kai's mother, wasn't he searching for his mother day and night? All along, his mother had been with her. Mi Rong looked up, what a play of fates. They really blew her away with this one.

How on earth would she know that aunty was Jun Kai's mother! However, it was her mistake this time. It was all because of the respect that she had wanted to give to aunty, that was why she had not dug deeper into aunty's identity. However, she did not have much spare time either to search for aunty's background.

This…

"Now, I believe you must go somewhere, but why not go see my son before he makes a grave mistake, hm?" Mr Li Jian woke her from her thoughts. Time was not lenient in its job.

Mi Rong then seemed to have realized something else.

Don't worry Mr Li, my son would definitely come to the engagement ceremony today. You don't have to worry, Li-er is a perfect match for him.

You have my word, he will show up tonight. He said so himself! It is now official. 

Jun Kai...he accepted the engagement. Mr Li..what other Lis out there that could make a connection this high other than Xue Li's Li family, Li Xue Li.

However, how could this be possible? It can't be. Mi Rong's eyes went back to Jun Kai's father full of questions.

On the other hand, all Mr Li Jian could do was sigh, and nodded slowly. His son had something deadly in his heart, a deadly weakness which was that he never talks or tells anyone about what was on his mind. It could be good at times, but at a time like this, would only do more harm than good.

Mr Li Jian reached for something in his coat pocket and pulled it out before walking closer to Mi Rong and gave her an envelope.

Mi Rong looked down at the envelope handed out to her and took it away gently. On the front of the envelope wrote; Jun Kai & Xue Li.

This was like a blow to her heart. She could feel her heart falling to its lowest. Like it was pulled down and then in different places at the same time as if being torn apart. Dear Lord, what was this feeling.

She did not even have the strength to even want to stand any longer. No, this would not do, she needed some air. 

Mi Rong reached her free hand out for the door and quickly pushed it away. She did not even bother to say her farewells to aunty's husband and left. One of her hand had to trail along the wall to support herself from not falling. 

Her thoughts were in a mess, but she pulled herself to walk through the entire hallway and merely followed the walkway until she reached the elevator. She simply went inside and pressed the G floor without thinking twice. It was as if her soul was lost and her face expressionless.

Along her way down, a few people had walked inside the elevator and all showed the same kind of expression for being worried for Mi Rong. They had seen anyone look so dead from the outside. Nevertheless, Mi Rong showed no signs of interest in other people and was staring at the envelope in her hand.

Not long the elevator opened. The few people in front of her all walked out to their own way and all that was left was Mi Rong inside.

The employees who had been waiting in front of the lift to get in had to ask whether or not the person inside the lift would be getting out, "Miss, are you coming out or not?"

Mi Rong was woken from her daze. She looked at the people outside and then looked around the elevator. Her eyes had to blink twice before she could adjust to the orange tinge of sunlight coming inside. Slowly, she got out from the lift, while the other employees were almost pushing her aside so they could get in the lift.

She walked directionless out of the building. There she could see the sky clearly and the sun was almost about to set. It was all red and the sky had a beautiful orange colour. 

Mi Rong raised the envelope closer to her and slowly opened it. She took out the contents inside. She did not even care to keep the envelope and let it go. The envelope stamped with Jun Kai and Xue Li's names was flown away with the wind. Her eyes looked through the contents inside and saw that the ceremony would happen soon and the place was none other than the X hotel that had held so many memories of him and her.

Jun Kai, why are you so cruel.

Finally, a drop of tear fell down along her beautiful face, followed by another and another. It had begun to add up to the point that she could almost not see. Mi Rong did not even care about what others might think of her crying in the middle of every passerby and was just balling her eyes out.

She would almost hardly ever cry about anything, but this was the first and the first time that she felt someone was so important to her. Some passerby came up to her and would ask how she was, but all she did was brush them away.

A few minutes had passed and her eyes were all dried out of moisture. Although she was crying, no tear fell from her eyes. Her nose and eyes were terribly pink and upon her fair skin, it turned redder than ever.

Mi Rong then finally took a deep breath and her eyes had turned a shade darker. Was it all a lie? All the past week, was it all a forge on her? Jun Kai ah, Jun Kai, if he dared lie to her, she would make him regret the decision he did it in the first place. However, she must hear it first, she must hear it from his own mouth!

She continued walking but her eyes were looking further away, beyond where she was standing. It was as if she wanted to see the hotel right in front of her eyes right at that moment. There was only one place she had to go now. She crossed the road without even looking at the traffic and a car had almost hit into her before it took a big twirl in the road.

A loud squeak was heard on the road from the wheels of the car and the road had some black marks from the wheels. Nevertheless, Mi Rong did not stop and simply walked straight ahead without looking back. 

...

Back in the interrogation room.

Mr Li Jian walked towards the chair that had been in the middle of the room. He picked up the red envelope slowly. Ru Yin, I will make it right for us.

Just then, Mr Li Jian's secretary had rushed inside the room anxiously for their captive had broken out. Mr Li Jian slowly turned around to see the newcomer. However, when the secretary saw his boss; his boss was so calm and collected unlike how he had expected his boss to be. Full of confusion, he asked, "Boss, the kidnapper, she got away sir. Do you want me to tell our men to capture her, sir?"

Mr Li Jian merely shook his head, "No, let her go. She will go as my replacement in Jun Kai's engagement. Notify them about this and tell them I cannot be there."

"Boss, where are you going sir?"

A soft smile appeared on Mr Li Jian's face, "To see my wife."