174 Hunting Like Rabid Dogs (2/2)
He shook his head, living means staying but Lei Xinyi was always on a run but would pop-up out of nowhere, climbing walls and crawling through wirings, ”...Visit. Visit our house from time to time. Yu Wang had a... thing for her. Yu Youhan got to know about a Lei living in the city with an illegal identity. He wanted to kill her or trade for her but Lei Xinyi told him she was a runaway.”
He took a pause and frowned at the distant memory, ”He asked her why and she told him a brief reason that only he knows. Nobody discussed it later. In exchange of a safe-heaven Lei Xinyi offered her services.”
At the word 'services' Li Yuan head sharply turned to him with murderous aura. There was only one service women offered and did with secrecy. That was...
Jiang Cheng looked at his expression and shook his head quickly, ”Hey, not like that. Lei Xinyi is a peerless surgeon, doctor and an expert in Chinese medicine. She promised to be available in anytime or any day if they paid her the right price and Lei Xinyi skills are known otherworldly in the underworld. They say she can redeem a man from death's front steps. In return, she just asked for secrecy and no wolves chasing her.”
He frowned, ”Lei Xinyi?” he had never heard her name in such aspects and no news in the kingdom escapes from the king and he ruled the underworld.
Jiang Cheng flickered his cigar between his index and middle finger, ”Well, she doesn't go by her real name. They call her 'Siren' there.”
Li Yuan eyes widened, nose flared and his hand fisted in extreme agitation and rage. He had been looking for the infamous 'Siren' for years now and she was living under the same roof as him! He had a bone to pick with her and now hearing that she lived with him for months was an enraging thought.
The first time they met, she branded his body and now she branded his mind and thoughts! Damned woman!
His thoughts drifted to the anonymous letter he received with Lei Xinyi video in his office. It said something about a wild goose chase being over. He should have investigated and given further thoughts into it!
Another crime to add to her endless piles of crimes!
He gritted his teeth and clenched his sharp jaw, ”Why? Why was Yu Youhan chasing her then?”
Jiang Cheng noticed the sudden shift in mood that had intensified Li Yuan's rage but didn't comment, ”Because she had the Yu's heirloom.”
Li Yuan eyes darkened in anger and exasperation and every muscle in his body tensed, she...she had the Yu's heirloom? Did that mean...
He swallowed the bitterness it had evoked in his heart, thinking of her being promised to someone, that too his brother, constricted his heart ”Why would she have that?”
Jiang Cheng licked his lip and stuttered, ”She stol...borrowed it.” He wasn't supposed to tell this to anyone but it had slipped out of his tongue and now it was ridiculous to fabricated stories.
Li Yuan looked at the cigar he had given him. Was he smoking something funny? weed? Since when did people start borrowing heirlooms.
”What?”