Chapter 128 - 127: Last Gift

"Really?" Xiao Yun asked with doubt. She had never heard such kind of martial arts that only use hand before...

Tian Yi hurriedly nodded with as fast as he could. 

Xiao Yun shrugged her shoulder and faced up to Wang Li Lei with a smile. "That's what he said, you don't need to worry." 

"Mn." Wang Li Lei's cold eyes calmed for a moment. 

After their talk, Wang Li Lei prepared himself to go back to his house. Stopping in front of the entrance while waiting for Mr. Shuan to drove the car. 

Xiao Yun chatted on his side with bright eyes, filling their time while waiting. "So then, after I talked with her, Zhi Ling Ling agreed to try and take the audition! With how beautiful she is, I believe in less than a year after her debut that she would soon become the number one hottest model in the capital!" 

Wang Li Lei gave a positive "Mn" as an answer. His black eyes gazed at her whose face would brighten and change her expression as she told her story of the day like a storyteller. 

Perfectly as Xiao Yun finished her story, Mr. Shuan stopped the black car in front of them. Although Xiao Yun still felt that her time wasn't enough, with a slight disappointment, she let go of him.

Wang Li Lei noticed her adorable face and caressed her head with a gentle voice. "There's something I have to tell you..." For the first time, Wang Li Lei trailed his words.

"What is it?" Xiao Yun asked as she swept her hair that was tied in a braid over her shoulder. 

Wang Li Lei paused. He averted his sight with a thoughtful gaze and replied. "Tomorrow I'll come a bit late."

Xiao Yun nodded and gave another solution. "Then, tomorrow, I'll come to your house."

"Mn." Wang Li Lei answered before entering the car.

Before he completely left, Wang Li Lei turned his face toward Xiao Yun and bend down. Xiao Yun had just realized Wang Li Lei turned back when his red lips had already kissed her forehead. The fragrance of sandalwood mixed with chamomile that lingered on him reached to her and overlay her fragrance.

"Good night."

"M- Mn... Good night-" Xiao Yun answered while covering her forehead which was still warm after parting from Wang Li Lei's moist lips.

With a satisfied smile, Wang Li Lei entered the car and left. On the other hand, Tian Yi and Hi Gu Yan couldn't apprehend how Wang Li Lei, the demon lord could change drastically in front of Xiao Yun...

Inside the car, Wang Li Lei cast his eyes away to Jang Hyun and ordered. "Prepare Hydrangea Flowers from Japan tonight and plant them in the garden. Make sure the flowers would fully bloom after three days. "

"Hydrangea Flowers?" Jang Hyun asked as he noted down his master's order. 

Wang Li Lei didn't reply and added. "Call Tian Yi and Hi Gu Yan, I need a talk with them."

"Yes, sir." Jang Hyun made many different faces with his thoughts.

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Morning arrived and as usual, Xiao Yun began her day at the school by a walk. While giving a morning yawn, Xiao Yun could feel stares aiming at her after she passed the school's main entrance. 

In a silent state, Xiao Yun drifted to her thoughts. After yesterday, she had guessed that most of her classmates would start to put some distance with her out of fear that they would be targeted next by the bullies. 

These "bullies" seemed to have the same motive as the past and hatred against her for getting close to Xue Xiu Yong. Because Chong Rang and Qu Mei Xing aren't in the school anymore, her suspect alleviated into three girls. 

The three girls that Xiao Yun suspected as the bullies haven't yet shown their face first. Her first suspect was Jiang Ying, Mu Ruo, and the last one Ji Gu Nan.

Although Xiao Yun didn't remember much about their role and parts in bullying her, she did now that those three have an undying love for Xue Xiu Yong and have some kind of rule that said no one could get close to Xue Xiu Yong without their permission. 

They were also called as the top three guardians of Xue Xiu Yong in Xue Xiu Yong's fan club.

However, this time, took a different action than how they were in the past. Before, the bullies blatantly showed their faces while bullying her, but now, they seemed to be hiding from behind. 

These changes must have been for either two reasons. The first was that perhaps because her fame had been skyrocketing in the school as 'Angel' or perhaps because they don't want Xue Xiu Yong to know who they are. 

The conclusion was that the ringleader of these bullying seemed to have planned on harassing her without wanting their name to be revealed. 

'Should I start by collecting those three girl's backgrounds first?' Xiao Yun muttered in a quiet voice. 

"Xiao Yun!" 

"Xiao Yun!" 

Suddenly as Xiao Yun was planning her next moves, Nie An and Zhi Ling Ling arrived next to her and stood beside her. 

"Good morning, Nie An and Zhi Ling Ling." Xiao  Yun greeted them with her usual mature and soft voice. 

Nie An eyes sparkled brightly and speak her mind out loud. "In the morning seeing Xiao Yun's smile is like receiving a holy blessing!" 

Zhi Ling Ling chuckled softly while nodding her head like a chicken pecking on her food. 

Xiao Yun laughed as she covered her mouth. "To be called a holly blessing, what a great honor."

Nie An shook her point fingers. "No. No. No. You have to belive me, every time someone is feeling down, just by seeing your smile- even ghosts could leave the earth peacefully!"

Xiao Yun waved her hand. "You're praising me too much. If you keep on praising me- I would soon grow a pair of a wing."  

Nie An perhaps had sweetened her mouth in the morning with a spoonful of honey and answered smoothly. "That would be bad~! If you have wings then your real appearance as an angel would be shown and many people would start to crowd you!" 

The two girls laughed at her words. Remembering something important to discuss, Nie An hesitantly brought the topic. "Er... Xiao Yun, about what happened yesterday...I asked my friend in the neighboring class and they told me something about that could be our lead for searching the person who did that to your table."

Xiao Yun lifted her brow. What Nie An was trying to mention must have been about her desk which was horribly ransacked by the bullies as a warning for her to disappear from Xue Xiu Yong's side. To their eyes, her friendship with Xue Xiu Yong which was translated as clingy behavior and irritate their heart deeply. 

"Lead?" Xiao Yun asked. 

Nie An looked up to the ceiling of the hall and continued. "Yes. She told me that in the past, there was this one girl in the middle school that has been friend with Xue Xiu Yong since the start of the first year. However, not soon after that- when Xue Xiu Yong took a leave for a week, they bullied her. After that, in the course of a week, that girl never went back to school out of fear. "

Imagining herself in the girl's position, Zhi Ling Ling shook her head with a sympathetic expression. 

"How horrible." Xiao Yun replied while crossing her arms. Xiao Yun could also felt the same pain as the girl, if in the past she wasn't as crazy as she was before, perhaps she would've been like the girl and quitted the school... Narrowing her eyes slightly, Xiao Yun rubbed her chin. 'I haven't heard anything about that story in the past...'

Nie An expressed her agreements and added her report. "And so, at that time, there was this certain girl who had been following Xue Xiu Yong since then. Some also rumored that she was the person who started this whole bullying to that girl. Her name was... Jiang Ying..."

"Jiang Ying?" Xiao Yun asked with a slightly surprised face. Jiang Ying's name that Nie An mentioned fall right to one of Xiao Yun's suspect of her bullies. 

"Yes..." Nie An replied before she continued. "But strangely..."

"Strangely?" Xiao Yun hurried Nie An to continued her words. 

"Jiang Ying was supposedly now on a leave for about a month, so at the moment she isn't at the school- so I don't think it's her..."

"Hm..." Xiao Yun nodded. Thankfully she has Nie An to help her gather some news- 'Well then, now it's cut to two... Mu Ruo and Ji Gu Nan...'

Suddenly, Xiao Yun had a bright idea to search for her own bullying in a faster way-

Rather than searching, wouldn't it be faster for them to reveal their own identity? 

With a cold smile, Xiao Yun squinted her eyes. For this, she has to wait for some time, play according to their tune and then gathered some of the actors and the players- before staging a new stage. 

Playing with those bully's charade would be their last gift from her.