To Love You Again

However, despite seeing those smiles, Lu Yin Ze trembled. He found those smiles so scary.

Lu Yin Ze took a step back.

Ming Zhi Yi still was still smiling.

"Answer me, little Yin. You see, this useless butler and maids couldn't answer me. And see what happened. They are bleeding and lifeless. Can you see their eyes? Some of them could not even blink before they die. Do you think it must have hurt? To die, I mean." Ming Zhi Yi was taking each step as he spoke.

Lu Yin Ze got more scared as his father was talking scary things with that scary smiled of his.

"Looked around. That small mind of yours could still not tell what's happening?" Ming Zhi Yi was even crueler to his own son. He was now like a devil standing tall in front of Lu Yin Ze.

Lu Yin Ze was trembling. He peed on himself.

The man before him held his face and forcefully made him face the bodies on the ground.

"Look at them, little Yin! This is what will happen to you if you don't answer me and obey me! Look! That Lu's blood on yours is now surely trembling in fear! Look! " The man's taunting shouts made Lu Yin Ze cried with tears of fear. This was not his dad. His dad was gentle, always giving them gifts, and sometimes played with them. His dad always smiled like a gentleman. Not like the devil who was standing before him and forcing him to look around.

"Look carefully, Lu brat. I am doing what you have all done to me..."

"Father.." A boy was standing at the staircase.

It was his older brother, Lu Jin.

However, he was not the same Lu Jin that smiled at him and joke with him whenever he looked at him. The young child before him had empty eyes and an expressionless face.

"Leave younger brother to me.." Even his voice did not contain any emotion at all.

"Oh? You've come to your senses now? It seems 'that day' made you sharper." Ming Zhi Yi looked amused. Then he glanced coldly at his younger son. He let go of him and wipe his hands with his handkerchief.

"Fine, I'll leave him to you. I can't stand Lu's dirtiness after all. Make him speak out where that bitch hides my belongings."

Lu Yin Ze who had turned blank because of fear and reality could not get up from the ground.

'What is dad saying? Why he is like that? Why brother looks like that? Why everyone is not waking up? Why..'

Ming Zhi Yi left after he called some people to clean up the mess.

Lu Yin Ze was still denying the fact that his dad pointed his gun to him and acted like a crazy man. Even calling him dirty..it was not his dad. He then looked at his nanny who still had her eyes opened.

"Nanny..what's happening.." Lu Yin Ze hoped that it was just a bad dream. A very bad dream. His nanny would answer him that everything's fine and it was just a prank. Like a prank he pulled off to let his brother played with him.

Yes. It was just a nightmare.

"Yin." A cold emotionless voice that should not even come out from a child sounded behind him. 

Lu Yin Ze turned around. He saw his brother looking at him with those detached eyes. 

Lu Yin Ze shivered. Did his brother change too? Was his brother was taken by a demon like his dad?

"They are dead. Father killed them. Father killed mother too. And soon, he will kill you too." Horrifying words came out from a twelve-year-old child.

Making the young Lu Yin Ze's world crumbled into a nightmare.

*****

A hand patted Lu Yin Ze's back, bringing him to reality. His shaking had stopped and so was his tears. He looked towards the hand that patted him. It was Song Xuantin and his friends.

The three entered the pavilion without him noticing. They looked worried.

"Are you okay?" Song Xuantin asked Lu Yin Ze. They were scared earlier seeing Lu Yin Ze trembled like that.

Xiong Zhi who already seen him having these episodes before walked towards him and held his hands. She also pulled Gu Zhen's hand and put it to Lu Yin Ze's other hand.

Seeing the confused stares directed at her, she explained.

"We are letting you borrow our hand. "

Lu Yin Ze then remembered how he held her hand at that time in the Lu Mansion.

That made him smiled. In reality, Xiong Zhi's presence helped him a lot and made him feel comfortable. And he also wanted to hold her hand at that time. But Gu Zhen's hands?

"I'm not a girl." Gu Zhen was embarrassed and took off his hands.

Song Xuantin pouted at this and drag Gu Zhen's hand and put it to Lu Yin Ze's hand again. Song Xuantin's hand was still on top of Gu Zhen.

"You are also his friend. Let's support him." Song Xuantin doesn't really know how it helped Lu Yin Ze but since it was Xiong Zhi who rarely suggested things suggested it, she believed it would be helpful.

Xiong Zhi looked at Gu Zhen with a gaze 'You said earlier we should support him right?"

Gu Zhen sighed. He could not win against these two girls. So he just let it go. Besides, Song Xuantin's hand was soft.

Lu Yin Ze was stunned by their action. He felt his friends' warmth on his hands. He also felt warmth in his heart. This made him a bit teary as the horrible memory in his mind was slowly replaced by this warmth.

"Alright, Meet my Mom."

Lu Yin Ze looked at the portrait of his mother that was placed on the top of the altar.

"Mom, these are my friends. They are very reliable and I am smiling right now because of them. Please guide them as well, Mom."

"Please take care of us." The three bowed respectfully. They admired the beautiful woman in the painting.

"We will also take care of Yin Ze! Rest assured, Auntie!" Song Xuantin said.

"Mhm. I am trying to be a good friend. I will help in a way I can." Xiong Zhi also spoke her part.

Gu Zhen was embarrassed. But since these people said something he must also say something.

"Uhmm..I will be a good friend too."

"Yosh! So Auntie, rest well. We will visit you again next time!" Song Xuantin's cheerful voice made the three nodded with a smile.

Lu Yin Ze was really moved. He looked at his friends. He could not believe that one day he would make friends and let them meet his mom.

Even though he suffered a terrible past, he was blessed now with good friends on his side.

He was so happy he had his friends with him. He too, would be a good friend.

********

Another jet plane appeared in the Lu Mansion of City Z.

Another group of butler lined up themselves and bowed to the person who had come down.

"Welcome to the Mansion, Young Master Gao Huan!"

Guan Gao Huan raised his hand. His gentle smile was displayed as he spoke in a compassionate manner.

"No need to be so casual. I am here to pay respect to Auntie."

The butler and maids looked at Guan Gao Huan with a smile.

Guan Gao Huan never failed to visit the lady ever since. If he was not present he would send some representatives to bring flowers for the lady. 

They saw the man who always visited this place behind Guan Gao Huan.

As usual, that man was wearing a white mask. It was very suspicious but the servants of the Lu Mansion in City Z already got used to it. They were moved by this representative's sincere dedication to clean the grave once he visits. He also took care of the blue roses on the altar and the garden surrounding the pavilion of the deceased Madam.

As they walked through the living room, Lu Jin felt something unusual. 

"Where is the head butler?" Lu Jin asked. Gao Huan must have not noticed it since he did not visit the Lu Mansion regularly like he was. 

The head butler would always greet him and personally guide him through the burial site. Especially now that a Guan was here, it was very unusual for the head butler to not come and assist a Guan. 

The assistant butler smiled and explained.

"Head butler is in the burial site right now with Second Young Master." This simple sentence gave a huge shock to the two.

Guan Gao Huan kept his emotion and confusion down as he asked with a pleasant surprise.

"That's good news. When Lu Yin Ze arrived?"

"Second Young Master arrived earlier after lunch. "

"I see. So they are in burial site right now?" As Guan Gao Huan asked this, he glanced at the masked man behind him to check his reaction and gesture. But he could not get anything out with that mask covering the other's face. Well, even the man was not wearing a mask, Lu Jin's thought and expression could not be easily read.

'Would it be okay for these two to meet?'

"Yes, Master Gao Huan. Second Young Master and his friends are currently visiting the former Madam as well."

'His friends?'

This thought was not only on Guan Gao Huan's mind. Even Lu Jin had the same question. He was stunned first that his brother finally visited their mother's grave. And now another surprising news came after another.

His brother whom he did not expect to visit here even after another eight years would actually come here and even introduce some people to their Mom?

Lu Yin Ze was surely changing fast.