Chapter 297 - 298: Trust-I

Xiao Yun was still trying to wrap everything to her head. The gem's power, the taboo magic she had done without the knowledge, the ghouls, and the fact that Andy had turned back time like her. Choi Kang So, Choi Yeon Jun's little brother, he remembered everything and it could be concluded his memory was intact by using something like the gem's power. That would mean there were more gems with the same power than she thought.

Xiao Yun wouldn't lie to herself. She felt surprised when she learned the truth about Andy. When she had just found a puzzle piece to the mystery another piece resurfaced. Just as a sigh escaped from her lips she heard the sound of the door opening and saw Wang Li Lei entering the room.

"What did you find?" asked Xiao Yun as he went to take a seat before her and shook his head. The last time she met Andy, the man had said he would be busy traveling overseas for his work but now that trip sounded more like an excuse for him to disappear and work behind the scene and his next words confirmed her anxiousness.

"He is nowhere to be found, his manager seemed to follow him only until the airport when he suddenly disappears after reaching his destination." He said calmly. Unlike Xiao Yun, Wang Li Lei in his whole life had expected people to betray him since his childhood.

Since the death of his parents, he had hardened both his heart and resolve to see people on both sides of the coins, bad and good, and not to trust his whole trust in one person. He knew well how human will turn their back against their own family for the goal and reason they want to achieve. As much as surprised he was, he wasn't beaten by the fact Andy had betrayed him now but the same can't be said to Xiao Yun who had thought Andy as her own family.

His black eyes moved at her expression which had eased after the time passes. "Do you think he is working with Choi Yeon Jun?" the words she said were directed to herself. Even though she always joked to deny him every time he claimed to be his brother, she had treated him the same way she had treated her Yu Xing Fu.

"There is a possibility." Wang Li Lei said bluntly not wanting to hold back any words as betrayals are not one to trust at.

Xiao Yun understood heard his words clearly where her heart also formed the same reply, "What do you think is the reason? In the past, Andy didn't seem to know Choi Yeon Jun at all."

"I don't know. However the last dream you had was a dream of Choi Yeon Jun and it is save to say that he had met and work with him. For a purpose." Wang Li Lei had his own thought regarding the matters. When the last time he talked with Andy the man had requested to protect Xiao Yun. Had Andy said the words because he was going to betray them and out of guilt uttered those question?

He brought her hands together in one hand, her raven eyes cleared to him from ponder and heard him saying, "There may be a reason for him to work with him and there are possibility that Andy isn't working with him. However," he said with his eyes held a fix emotion to his words, "I will not tell you not to believe Andy but if he works with Choi Yeon Jun, I will not trust him nor forgive him." he confessed.

Even if there was a reason he wouldn't forgive Andy for working together with Choi Yeon Jun who had killed Xiao Yun in the past. He only hoped Andy have a great reason that would help him to forgive him.

"I know, I understand how you feel-" She didn't know what to believe know or what she was feeling as everything felt befuddled in her heart but she knew if Andy had joined hands with Choi Yeon Jun, he would be a different person than what she wants to believe trusting him again wouldn't be an option.

"-But I want to believe him. He may hides something of himself but there were never once where he tried to harm me." Xiao Yun said what her heart felt. There was still a wish in her where she want to believe Andy and that he has a reason for doing so but the wish was faint.

Wang Li Lei didn't blamed her for trusting him instead he said, "There are still things we have to find out," he whispered not wanting to push her on the edge. "Have you ever receive any hints from him?"

Xiao Yun took her time thinking through her memories. "The last time I met him he said odd things but it wasn't anything to particularly note." With no clues left, Xiao Yun heaved a breath, "I don't know." In fact now that she think she only know the bright Andy who was always smiling with jokes and his childish behavior which had a

ways brought cheerfulness to everyone around him.

Since the first time Xiao Yun had met him in her childhood, Andy had always appeared with a smile. Like his golden hair, he was bright with smiles like the sun where everyone would find themself attached to him.

But what if there was something he had been hiding behind his smiles? The last day that they met she had thought of how his behavior was odd and she was correct. She regretted that day to think that there were nothing wrong with him. When she found how strange he was behaving, she should have stopped him and properly asked him.

That was the second time she ever seen the true emotions Andy had to recall the very first time she had ever seen being gloom and it was on his eighteen birthday. The frown Xiao Yun kept on her forehead suddenly cleared she felt as though she was going somewhere with the clues and spoke, "Li Lei on Andy's eighteen birthday did you attend his party?"

Wang Li Lei tried to remember to shake his head, "I was still with Suan Shifu at the time." he noticed the change on her expression to ask, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know, I'm not sure but that was the first time I have ever seen him sad. I think it must have something to do perhaps a little." Then Liu Yan Hui's words dawned on her mind "Believe what you want to believe and don't be swayed." What she would be swayed with? and what she should believe of? Was it about Andy or perhaps the incident hadn't come yet where the hint is needed?

"I will look more into him and what happened that day." he stated. There was never a time he had done a background check on Andy as the man was her closest childhood friend but now knowing that the man is hiding something this was inevitable. "Mr. Liu had left a word that he would finish searching about the gem in another weeks. The spring fashion competition is near do you need any help in preparing it? I can lend you a few of my people to help you in your office."

She shook her head, "It will be hectic but with more people I think it will only make it worse."

"Okay." He reached out his hand and rubbed her forehead to kiss her forehead gently. "You should take a rest now, have a sweet dream." he kissed her lips and she returned his wishes to move to her bed and take her rest where her mind was moving the cogs to think through the night. Her heart felt confused and loss and so was her mind. The thought of Andy had betrayed her was too hard to believe much less the truth where he had turned back time like her and Choi Yeon Jun.