Chapter 258 - Embezzlement. (1/2)

”I love Christmas” A little girl said to her mother as they both walked home hand-in-hand.

”Why?” Her mother looked down at her and asked with a smile.

”Because, everyone seem to be really happy. Isn't that right?” She looked up at her mother to ask.

The older woman stopped walking and squatted down to meet her little girl's height.

”Hmmm...Well, to some people, it can be the best Christmas of their lives....”

In one part of the city, Li Sun smiled as she looked at the family picture they had taken together that morning.

In another part of the city, with a light kiss, Muchen waved Sara goodbye as he drove home.

The woman continued to narrate.. ”To some others...it can be the worst day of their lives...”

In a part of the city, Jianjun remained seated by the side of the field and cried his eyes out.

In another part, Changyu lay on her bed in a curl and cried to stupor.

Cixi on the other hand, was still inside their used-to-be restaurant as she kept thinking about the past with bloodshot eyes and a liquor bottle in hand.

”Some others, get what they deserved...”

Weiyoung wailed as Aotian kept working on her without mercy.

Whenever she tried to cry louder, he simply shoved his tongue inside her mouth in a forceful kiss and even her bite seem to do nothing to him.

”Some...do not actually feel anything.. To them, Christmas is just like every other day so they simply continue their various jobs”

Kim Eva looked through some documents in the office before eventually dozing off.

In another city, Hani and the driver looked around a tiny dark compound as they waited for whoever was inside to open the door for them.

”And some...make resolutions”

Heya who was quietly sitting in the back seat of the car Muchen was driving, rejected yet another call from Jin Cearo before looking out the window.

And in another country, Dexi looked out the window of his hotel room and wondered what he was doing there when he was supposed to be cerebrating Christmas somewhere else.

Dexi hadn't bothered to let go of Sara's case. He was still very much curious and wanted to find an answer no matter what.

He had stopped at a point and decided to just let her be. But he realised he couldn't. She was always popping up in his mind; from the first day he saw her, to the second, to the third and so on. He couldn't stop remembering every of his encounter with her.

Maybe if he was able to uncover some dirt from her past, she was probably going to leave Muchen and come to his side if he threatened her with it right?

It was the reason he continued with this.

He closed his eyes and imagined Sara beside him.

The past night, he was not able to sleep a wink after seeing her picture appear all over the internet.

She was pretty. So pretty. And someone like her, deserved to be beside him.

He had never been the type to care for women or struggle to have one to the point where he had to come to the country she had disappeared from years ago. But Sara was simply driving him crazy.

”Still nothing” His PA said to him as he continued to look out the window.

”For two days, we still haven't been able to find anything?” He said without turning to look at him.

”It's been nine years already. Most of the workers are no longer working here” He explained. ”The ones I could find didn't know anything about it. Apparently, it seemed there was no case of a missing guest reported as at that time. So no one knew about it.”

They were currently lodging at the hotel where the girls had lodged back then.

It was not that just the building that changed to look more 'modern' and refined, majority of the workers were also changed and it was going to be a problem for them to get any useful information since they were not able to find any CCTV footage from that time.

”One more day. If there's still nothing, I'll have no choice but to ask her myself.”

***

Sara carried the sleeping Joreen on her back and climbed the dreaded stairs to their apartment.

As she was about opening the door, she found it was slightly ajar.

She furrowed her brows before gently pushing the door to walk in.

She wondered whether her Aunt or Father was back. But, why would they leave the door open?

”Dad? Aunt?” She called softly so as not to wake the sleeping Joreen up.

When she got to their room, she found out her Aunt was not there.

She carefully lowered the sleeping Joreen on the bed a d went to check for her father but even after checking his room, kitchen, and bathrooms, he also was not in.

As she walked past the sitting room again, this time, the door was even wide open than it was before.

Now, she knew something was wrong somewhere.

She had locked the door after entering but now, it was wide open?