279 He Was Going To Her Himself

He took a step forward in her direction and glanced at the elevator ascending number. Eight… Lu Xinyi's eyes fell on the numbers too and her breath hitched she was still far away from her floor.

He Zheng turned his face sharply to her and kept his sinister smirk, "Where are you coming back from? It's late and here I thought good girls didn't mess around." His tone was light, even friendly but the look in his eyes was haunted with mysteriousness.

Her grip on her exclusive Birkin's bag tightened to the point she was sinking her nails in her bag handle, she attached herself to the elevator wall, "I…I met with Su Qing and Yin Lin today and then I went to visit my family…" Her stuttering was caught mid-sentence by He Zheng.

He Zheng brows shot up to his hairline,. He gave her an incredulous look, "You met Yin Lin?"

Why would Lei Xinyi meet her, even tell the girl her real name and why the hell would she tell her real identity anyway?!

Period. He would never find out but if Lei Xinyi had plans for her and he took her out she was going to be far more than pissed.

He gauged the woman's reactions for a giveaway that she was lying and making it all up but her face expressed general confusion and surprise. Besides, nobody really knew of Lei Xinyi's name on papers. People just assumed that because she was a part assassin she was not registered like a typical assassin. The identity was just another of her alias.

He hastily took several steps away from her and leaned back on the opposite side of the elevator.

"Yes." Lu Xinyi carefully nodded at the change in the air. She swallowed hard, "You know her?" She drawled out knowing if it was a sore subject as it looked by his enraged reaction which was sending chills down her spine.

He Zheng flinched at the realization that he had gone far to retreat unscathed. God! He had almost given himself away! 

He at once burst out laughing and clapped his hand on his other, "I got you bad! You should have seen your face! You looked like a serial killer had cornered you."

He Zheng's eyes were dancing with amusement while his lips were playing a smile of deceit. 

Lu Xinyi gasped and shakily laughed with him, nervously. She placed a hand on her heart as she visibly relaxed but the tension keeping her body on alert didn't falter. She had really felt like he had some appalling intentions.

"You were really creepy there." Lu Xinyi suppressed a shudder trying to give him a smile that was too wry to qualify as one.

He Zheng saw her mind easing yet her heart a little suspicious so he gave a little shrug, "Wasn't I? I should really debut in the Entertainment industry. I am totally gonna give Su Qing a run for her money!"

Awkwardly, Lu Xinyi laughed but in fact, she was a little freaked still, "Yeah… That would be super cool!" She tried to sound amused but her voice came out as a squeak. 

He Zheng gave her a small smile he ran a hand through his hair, "To answer your question: No, I just have heard of her." The elevator dinged then as it reached his floor, "I will see you around."

He waved at her, gave her a small smile, then left the elevator with hurried steps. He then heard the emergency stairs thundering with footsteps and rolled his eyes. They were fast but he would still have gotten away with it.

"Weird." He heard her shaky voice behind him.

The smile on his face instantly wiped at once as he leaves the elevator and run inside his apartment. Something wasn't adding up or rather something was too heavy on the subject. He frowned deep in thought.

He could have alerted Yu Youhan and Lu's Family wrath if he had gone with his plan today but if Lei Xinyi would support him, he could get out of the crises pronto but Lei Xinyi wasn't someone he was willing to mess with.

Lei Xinyi was with no doubt the strongest player around and that too without a team. Lei Xinyi had lived her earlier years in the Lei Family and her Master's Family along the way she grew up to learn their secrets. She learned there all the Lei's history and the heir's identity. If she wanted she could end the game the very minute…

In her Master's Household not only is she the heir to his fortune but also has learned all the tricks the man had acquired in his years of experimentations and expeditions though she prefers to practice as rarely as she can. She doesn't have pleasant memories related to that. 

The He Family owed her practically a life worth of servitude and she knew their trades inside out.

Later she thrived in the Underworld, working her way to the top. She probably knew every nook and cranny. Once when she was in her outrages she had slaughtered the Key players in the Assassin's organization.

Then she worked for Yu's and would have unraveled many things from Lu's Household in her stay there. Not to mention all the advantages she could extract from Li's. Indefinitely she was the strongest player. Every Family either wanted her with them or dead.

Without a doubt, the one with Lei Xinyi on their side was the victor already in this power play.

Since he had known of the identification of Lei's he had been skeptical about everything he had known. They were just too unexpected even for him. All of them were lurking around them and they were unaware. Yu Wang, Su Qianwei, Jiang Cheng and that Yi Yang!

But infinitely any of them weren't ordinary or known with an innocent reputation but this Lu Xinyi was another case…

Lu Xinyi… the girl was definitely a Lei. He had seen her irises and except Lei's none had such obnoxious colored eyeballs, his own was testifying the fact.

He didn't believe Lu Xinyi was just a doppelganger of Lei Xinyi as she was a Lei too. She was a member of their f*cked family, related to Lei Xinyi in some twisted fashion. It was said Lei Xinyi was a carbon copy of her mother. So... What did that make Lu Xinyi who had the same face as them?

Either the girl was another illegitimate daughter of the pompous woman or of another member of the last Lei's generation but he had to find out in both ways. What confused him was her association with Lu's. The Lu Family was people involved with a military influence, they would stand back and let the chaos persist then come later to clean the bloody battlefield.

He could do a medical certification but Lei Xinyi would never give him her blood sample or whatsoever so a little back search on his pompous Aunt will have to do...

"What the f*ck do you mean you lost the sighting of her?!" Yu Youhan shouted at the person on the phone as he abruptly hit brakes on the empty deserted road.

He had been indecisively running around the city trying to make an impulsive decision that could be conscious yet an instinct. Now, he had driven hours away from the city in his heavy thought process!

After looking at the painting he knew the friendship is not where they cut their ties. She felt something for him and even if she was too innocent to deny it, she did see him in a manner that surpassed morally innocent friends' handbooks instructions.

"Si… Sir we are on our way. The elevator is reaching the eleventh floor so are we on the move by the stairs." His commander on the other side tried to mend his report.

He had assigned her five guards the very night he had met her in her bedroom and she had woken up thinking of him as a molester. They were everywhere on her track and their duty was to tail her from when she left, till she reached her home again.

As it wasn't always literally possibly while being discrete one of his men sat in the security room observing her from the CCTV till she slid her door closed.

"How?" He spat out, his anger marring his thought t process.

"Sir, we are inspecting it. But the chances of it being a Technical fault is higher. The last footage shows Ms. Lu to be the last person to have entered the building. Our trekking Team is positive she is alone in the elevator and the enforcement is reaching her as the elevator will stop at her level."

The crash against his Head Quarter wasn't coincident: the place was but the accident wasn't. Her bloodstreams had traces of drugs in it and her brakes were clearly tampered with. 

Someone was trying to get to her and his weak excuse of security had let them get to her!

He clenched his jaw and without a second thought he hung up.

He was going there himself!