Chapter 128 - The truth always comes out in the end

Shen's eyes almost fell out of his head. What? 

She was under house arrest, and it was understandable that she would try to sneak out and go to office or even a cafe, a bar, a club! THE MALL! 

But the Lim Villa?! 

He had kept his wife locked up safely at home to protect her from the smalled harm, but she had secretly walked straight into the lion's den?! 

And how did she even get there? Who let her in? What connection did she have with the Lims?! 

"I can tell you're too shocked to say anything right now. But let me just say something first" Lina said sheepishly, twisting her fingers around. 

She didn't say this much, and she definitely didn't like saying it. But tonight, she had to. 

Lina looked Shen straight in the eye, her lowe lip trembling. 

"I'm sorry." 

Shen's eyes widened even more. She had definitely been a handful, defiant and reckless. She was finally owning up to it? 

"What's in it for you? What do you want?" he asked, looking at his mischevious wife suspiciously. 

"Nothing! Nothing!" Lina defended herself vehemently, throwing her hands up in protest. 

"Don't think I'll go easy on you just because you said sorry. You still have to explain yourself." 

Lina pouted. She thought she would soften his disappointment by apologising, but hubby was being needlessly stern. Wasn't she right here next to him, safe and sound and totally unharmed? 

"Fine. What do you want to know?" she asked grudgingly. 

Between them, she knew the truth would always come out in the end. It was just a matter of time. 

Shen scoffed with a look of disbelief on his face. He got up from the bed, his drool-worthy chiseled body displayed magnificently in the soft moonlight streaming through the window. 

Lina eyed him like a piece of candy, before chiding herself for being too l.u.s.tful in a serious situation. She watched as he pulled on his pants and dragged a chair to sit up straight facing her directly. 

'Great, he's going to interrogate me. I feel like a child being punished for getting my hand stuck in the cookie jar.' she thought to herself, her rosebud lips still forming a delicious-looking pout. 

Shen had to get up from the bed and sit away to have a proper conversation because he was afraid of letting her off too easy. She looked way too cute for him to resist and he would only end up pampering her if she was too close to him, n.a.k.e.d and alluring. 

He covered her shoulder's with the blanket, holding back as much as he could. 

"What do I want to know? Everything. Start from the beginning." 

Lina was a little afraid, she thought he was being too stern with her. But she had no choice. She owed him a massive explanation. 

She walked him through her session with Dr. Hayama, the fainting and the vivid dreams that were more like memories. 

Then she told him about her mission with Country A and how Magnolia Holdings had sounded familiar. 

She continued to tell him that Mei found out her old classmate from Capital City University, Lila Lim, was rumoured to be from the family behind Magnolia Holdings. 

She also told him about going to the Sakura Hospital for blood tests in case Dr. Hayama had drugged her, but finding nothing to indicate he did. 

"So you knew Shu Yi already when we met at the University fair?" he asked her, a moment of realisation hitting him. 

"And that's how you met Lila when I was changing in the bathroom...that's what she was talking about when I overheard you at the Lim villa." Lina had her own moment of realisation too. 

As Shen remembered his wife's hurt because of the misunderstanding regarding Lila, Shen got up from the chair and gathered her back in his arms. 

His scent always calmed her anxious heart. She smiled softly. 

"My angel, you know I would never accept any such offers or advances, right? You are my greatest treasure, and nothing will ever change that. I just cannot outwardly insult the Lims. You know why now." he whispered into her ear. 

There was a beautiful silence in which their bond got deeper as Shen held his dear wife close to him. 

Her mind was fragmented, and her struggles were ones that only she understood. Yet she had tried to bravely confront it all alone. Even though she didn't have to. 

But there was something peculiar about her confidence. The way she disguised herself and fooled the Lims, walked straight into their home and investigated the old master's room was truly fearless and well planned. 

Once again Shen wondered who his wife really was. 

"I wish I knew what I am too, and where I come from. I want you to love me for who I really am when everything is revealed" Lina mumbled, an inkling of grief poisioning her heart. 

Shen kissed her head softly. 

"No matter what your place in this world is, I already know who you really are. I know your heart and I will always love it" 

Lina's eyes were filled with tears, but she quickly wiped them away. He musn't think she was sad, because she was truly happier than she had ever been. She knew this even though she didn't remember her past. 

Suddenly, she remembered something important that she had left out in her story. 

"I met someone suspicious at the University Fair before you arrived there!" 

"Someone suspicious?" Shen became worried instantly. 

"Some strange man who calls himself Loren. I was with Mana when she accepted his offer to buy us cakes at the stall there. He bought me a Battenberg cake and asked me if I liked playing chess." 

Shen's worried eyes turned angry. A random chess reference? Why was it so familiar? 

Lina continued her story. 

"When I said no, he replied strangely, 'That's a pity...a king needs protection, after all.' What do you think that meant?" Lina looked at her husband with puzzled eyes. 

But Shen knew immediately what it meant. 

"The note. Remember the note in the bullet?!" 

Lina scrunched her face as she thought about it for a moment. It was a driveby shooting when she and Mana had snuck into the University. 

They had been followed by Shen, Ayu and Ro-Kun when a driveby shooter shot Ro-kun. She had performed emergency surgery on him and extracted the bullet which had a message on a small paper rolled up in it. 

As she recalled the message, her eyes widened in shock. 

'The King falls when the Queen is weak. Check.'