225 AN ABANDONED HOUSE (2/2)

Hu Lei sighed. ”Look, you don't have to work here anymore. I will handle your severance when it is convenient. I have not had time to deal with all the issues with my father's passing. Meanwhile, the payments will probably not stop, so you should be fine.”

Old Bai had always been loyal to her father, so she would not treat him poorly. She had just been delaying dealing with the legal and financial stuff involved in her father's death. It was partially because she could not face it, but also because she planned to pass on most of the things to her brother.

The old butler sighed. ”Alright.” There was nothing else to say.

”Thank you for taking care of this place for all these years.” It was heartfelt gratitude.

After they parted ways, Hu lei walked around the house. She tried to remember her happy times in the house, but she could not. There were flickers of listening to her mother and father quarrel about her. That incident made her connect the dots to her memory of those people in a 'Global Volunteer Doctors' van who took her when she was a child.

Her head started to ache as she felt some memories shake loose in her mind. She felt some recollections of her time with those people coming back to her. Unlike the time in that lab in Antarctica, these ones were interested in understanding the mind. They had poked and prodded their brains endlessly until so many of the other children had gone crazy and died.

The memories of that horrific time caused her to shrink back from her own mind, and the darkness crawled closer into her core. When it would have taken over, the loud clacking of high heeled shoes caused her to awaken from her stupor.

She descended the stairs and found Lu Liang already in the house.

��This place is quite nice for an abandoned house.” Lu Liang declared while looking it over.

”I would not think you appreciate it after living in a grand castle.” Hu Lei raised a brow at her.

”This is a house I chose myself. I took a lot of factors into consideration before settling on it.” The woman seemed to fall into her memories for a moment.

”Oh, is there jade buried beneath it?”

”Perhaps…” Lu Liang laughed in an uncharacteristic manner.

Hu Lei rolled her eyes. ”Let's just sign the documents and move on with our lives.”

The two of them sat down at the dining table which they had seldom shared and started looking over the documents. Both were was meticulous in checking the legal forms. After all, they did not trust each other.

Once they finalised the 'transaction', they sighed in relief.

”All that you need to do is to file the document in the government office, and you don't need to worry that I will snatch it back.” Hu Lei said with irony.

Lu Liang looked around the house and sighed. ”You have always wondered why I have never been close to you, right?”