Chapter 297: Green Eyed Man

There was no need for Liu Yan Hui to speak of the name of the other one person who turn back the time like her. The characteristic features were rare enough for them to know who he was. Xiao Yun almost stopped inhaling breaths when she heard the words slipping from Liu Yan Hui.

"Andy." he whispered where her eyes fell on Wang Li Lei.

It was frankly hard for Xiao Yun to digest that Andy turn back time. Her mind was in chaos as question appeared all at once to her head. Was Andy working together with Choi Yeon Jun? Why did he sent the gem? For what purpose? In the past, Andy never met Choi Yeon Jun until the day she died and that was their first time to meet each other. Was that when they started to work together or perhaps even before that?

Xiao Yun saw how Wang Li Lei was surprised but only for a few second. Short enough for one to blink and now his face had turned composed like a surface of a calm water.

"We should call him." Wang Li Lei stated to Xiao Yun then he turned his eyes at Liu Yan Hui, "The other person is it Choi Yeon Jun?"

"Yes," Liu Yan Hui confirmed.

"Do they turn back time by the same way as Xiao Yun?" He needed to know why the him in the past didn't turn back time when the other two men did.

"I cannot say much as I'm not affiliated with black magics that could manipulate times. I need to see them first before I can make any conclusion but what I could say is the way they turn back the time must be different from Ms. Yu."

The doubtless words he gave made Xiao Yun questioned him, "Why?"

"Because your soul are delicious." Delicious? Souls have taste? "It is rare for a person to have a pure white soul. The taboo magic must had succeeded because the sacrifice was your soul and the same can not be said to others."

When the Sky had turned orange, that late evening Xiao Yun exited the restaurant after her discussion with Liu Yan Hui. In the end, she didn't ask him of his identity and the man noticed it as before they exited the restaurant room, Liu Yan Hui spoke to her privately.

"I thought I could have help you from the accident by giving you a hint." By hint he meant when he mentioned her to be wary of water. "Some times even when a person understand and kept my words to their heart, accidents are bound to happen and it would be hard for one to ever escape from fate."

Xiao Yun shook her head with a smile, "That is a little wrong Mr. Liu. If it wasn't because of your warning I could have hurt myself more than the wound in my leg." In that split of second before she fell, she recalled his words and guard her head even when the maid called her to the bridge she felt cautious due to his very word.

"That's great then." Liu Yan Hui said offering a smile. "How about another hint, Ms. Yu?" he bend his back bringing his face closer to her ears and whispered, "Believe what you want to believe and don't be swayed."

This time the essence of his hint was different but the purpose to of the word to guide her from danger still hadn't change.

"Do you perhaps know the reason why Andy sent me the gem?" she asked hoping that she could find a reason but the man shook his head, "It could be possible he gave it with a good intention but it can also be the opposite."

From what Xiao Yun could tell, Liu Yan Hui seemed to know everything but there are limits that he could stray away from. Not wanting to burden the man any further she didn't continue her question.

Smiling she said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Liu for all your help." A grateful smile appeared on her lips to the person for all the help he provided.

"No worries, I owe you a lot too." He gave his few words with an expression that stopped her from asking what he had owed to her. If it was about saving the young lady who almost fell to the pool, then he had returned more than what she had done. But what she felt there was something deeper to his words. Something she didn't know that had a tie to who he was.

Xiao Yun felt a shadow moved over her head and saw Liu Yan Hui had extended his hand to stop at her forehead. At first, she had thought he perhaps wanted to pat her hand when a sudden pain came at her forehead. When he retracted his hand, she look at him with eyes in disbelief and covered her temple. He had flicked her forehead with his finger with a lot amount of power that she almost thought her skull shattered.

"That was a protection for the ghouls," he reasoned but she doubted his words from the smirk curling on his lips. "I'm not lying, trust me I tried to hold back you see. Try to move yourself don't you feel your body lighter than before?" He said and he was correct. When Xiao Yun moved her shoulders for some reason she felt lighter than before.

Then her expression took a sudden turn, "How do the ghouls look like?"

Liu Yan Hui hummed saying, "They look like something that you would never want to try and see." and she can't believe those kind of creatures had been hugging her shoulders the entire time.

Once they arrived back at home, Xiao Yun was in a trance. There were too many thing she had to process in her mind but one in particular was the fact the anonymous sender of the gem was Andy.

Taking the ceramic teapot with warm tea for the cold weather, Xiao Yun poured the liquid to a cup and stopped when the tea had filled the cup. She walked toward the couch in front of the bed and waited for Wang Li Lei to come back. Before the man had left he had said that he was trying to get ahold of Andy but with how the minutes has turned to hours, she can't wait for any good news.

A knock suddenly came over the room, "Miss," Yue called from the other side of the door.

"Come in," Xiao Yun said and the head maid came in. Since their few attempts in making cakes, they had gotten a little closer and Yue can tell of the sullenness Xiao Yun held over her face. She may had hid it well but she was still a young lady at the age of eighteen. Some times, he wondered how could she acted mature then her peers.

Yue came inside to recharge the flowers in the room that the junior maid had failed to do their work on afternoon. Taking the dried hydrangea flowers from the vase, she plucked out the decolored flowers and continued to put the new vase with freshly changed water for her to place the flowers the gardener had just cut the stems.

Xiao Yun gazed on the tea to hear Yue talk, "Are you alright, my lady?"

"Why do you ask so?" Xiao Yun replied to his question with another one.

Yue didn't know how to speak to a girl especially a girl who seemed to be saddened now. When he heard her question, he tilted his head ever so slightly. Was he wrong?

"I'm sorry if I have overstepped my place but you look sad miss."

Xiao Yun noticed the way Yue replied her words to be very polite seeming reiterating what she had asked and smiled, "I'm not scolding you. But I'm not sad."

But Yue had a different answer written over his face. From wherever angle he look he could only see her being sad. After he had done what he came for, Yue left the door with his brown eyes observing Xiao Yun for a moment to close the doors behind him.