To Love You Again

The nightlife was thriving inside the branch of LG Club.

In a certain exclusive private room of LG club, two people were sitting across each other.

The butler quietly poured wine into the crystalline wine cups of the two men. 

"You've been very busy lately, so I did not expect that you would actually agree to meet me at this time," Guan Gao Huan said with a raised brow as he picked his wine cup and sipped lightly.

Lu Jin was quiet for a moment. "I did not invite you for random talk. I am checking something. "

"Oh?"

"Do you know anyone who might know the list?"

"The list?"

"Ten years ago."

Lu Jin did not finish what he was saying, but Guan Gao Huan immediately understood.

Guan Gao Huan leaned back on the armchair. "Are you trying to pick up where we left last time?" he asked with a smirk.

Lu Jin would sometimes try to get the truth out of Guan Gao Huan about what happened ten years ago.

He always attempted to sneak attack with a sudden question whenever he was not guarded. It never succeeded though.

Unexpectedly, Lu Jin said otherwise.

"No. I am investigating something related to that. If… someone who knew what happened ten years ago survived, aside from you and father, then that person will be more likely the person I am facing."

Guan Gao Huan's eyes flashed. Slowly, he said. "There is someone else who knew what happened?"

"I'm not sure, it's my conjecture. But someone is surely investigating the list."

Lu Jin knew that an outsider had gotten hold of the list, or else the three separated files that were guarded by the people working for his father would not be hacked.

Someone was targeting them.

Someone had their eyes on them.

Guan Gao Huan twirled his wine cup silently, and spoke after a while.

"I don't know anyone else who could have known. I was just a green horn back then. And… everyone who knew of what happened already died under father's hand. Well, except me."

Lu Jin stared at Guan Gao Huan. His eyes were unreadable.

A period of silence settled, leaving only the faint classical music playing in the background.

Then Guan Gao Huan stirred. He leaned closer to Lu Jin.

"Well, there's actually one person whom you should be suspicious of."

Lu Jin paused and his eyes narrowed dangerously at his friend.

Guan Gao Huan did not evade his eyes.

"Your little brother. He was there when 'that' thing happened."

Silence.

Lu Jin stared at the red liquid inside his crystalline wine cup.

He knew it.

Guan Gao Huan was throwing the hot potato back to him.

His indifferent voice sounded. "I already tested him. Didn't father and I already shut him in for a long time, just to get as much information from him as possible? We even used professionals to verify, but he knew nothing."

"Heh. He might not know anything when he was still in the hospital, but who knows what he remembered and met after getting out of his cage? Your dead mother might have—"

"Gunan. I already said that we tested him. Investigating him again is a waste of my time."

Guan Gao Huan smiled.

It looked like he had touched his best friend's inverse scale. But he liked it more when he gets angry. It was only at this moment that his friend acted like a warm, living person.

"Why is it a waste of time? You have a lot of manpower and resources. If you are still lacking, I can lend you mine."

Lu Jin's brow faintly frowned before smoothing out. He realized that he got caught by Guan Gao Huan's little trap. He decide to forego of this matter and distracted him with something else.

"No need. You should be the one to use your manpower and resources to the fullest. It appears like there is a lot in your plate."

Guan Gao Huan snorted and raised his brow.

He naturally understood that Lu Jin was trying to distract him from his little brother.

He leaned back in boredom.

"It can't be helped. After all, the King in C's underground society has been vacant ever since Xiong De left. Father wanted me to occupy it. But there is a lot of competitors. This is the capital city after all."

"I think that is not the only thing you should be busying about."

Guan Gao Huan paused. "What do you mean?"

The other man coldly spoke. "One of your pawns is thrown away. However, that pawn left behind another tail. Don't you think you should be responsible in disposing of that?"

Guan Gao Huan understood Lu Jin's metaphor.

"Oh. She? Ha, just a little rat hiding under the streets. She lost everything, there's no way she can pin anything on me."

"Are you sure?" Lu Jin sipped on his wine, before speaking again.

"I think you should not be complacent this time. Her father's downfall, and hers, came one after another. Is it not suspicious?"

"Oh? I didn't expect that you are this interested in the affairs of the Xiong family."

Lu Jin faintly frowned again.

What did Guan Gao Huan wanted to say? Talking to him at times was a headache.

"I'm just giving you an advice."

Guan Gao Huan merely laughed it off. "Even if there is someone directing the stage in the shadows, it will not affect me at all."

He was confident that if the person who targeted Xiong De and Xiong Wuyue moved against him, he would be able to counter attack swiftly. Besides, there's nothing to gain in attacking him, Guan Gao Huan, because he was not the likely heir of the Guan family.

Lu Jin looked at his glass. "I am just saying."

He could not shake off the feeling that something seemed to be moving in the shadows, aside from them.

The recent trends made him feel a bit wary, as if there were threads connecting everything, that there was a main thread to what was happening.

He had a feeling that whatever that thread was, it was slowly pulling everything in a specific arrangement. That one day, it would all connect.

However, he could not think of a reason why he felt this uncanny feeling, and why he thought that the threads seemed to be slowly surrounding them.