Comeback (I)

Tang Wu Yao aka Du Ru Ran looked at her reflection in the mirror. The past 20 years, she had ran away from her identity in order to grow stronger and be free from the evil clutches of her uncle. She gripped the newspaper in her hands, the time has come for her to return. In a few days time, a banquet will be held for her cousin Du Ai Sha, heiress of the Du Group.

Her uncle managed to rebuild the crumbled company with some mysterious help 20 years back and people hailed him as a hero and people had long forgotten about her existence.

She never once forgotten her identity, every night she still suffers from nightmares of the accident that took the lives of her parents and unborn brother. She remembered her mother's screamed the most, removing her own safety belt in the midst of accident just to offer her extra protection from the oncoming lorry towards her side. Her mother even covered her eyes to prevent her from looking at the imminent danger looming at them. She could only hear noises and see bright lights rushing towards them fast.

She wiped the non existence tears on her face. After so many years, she finally had managed to stop tears from streaming down everytime the flashback reappears. Wang Lei gege, now her adopted father, tried to get psychiatric help for her post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It was her that refused. She needed to remember the pain. She wanted to remember the pain. Sometimes, as she was growing up, in the loving environment provided to her by her now adopted mother, Sister Fong and Wang Lei gege, made her forget her identity, it was the flashbacks and the nightmares that kept her burning desire to move forward, to improve, all for the sake of uncovering the truth.

Till today, despite sending people to look into the incident 20 years ago, no evidence can be found of foul play and it is still not known, who is the one helping Du Wen Hai in the background. Looking at Du Wen Hai's ability, he is truly lacking to pull off such big feat like reviving the Du Group but he somehow managed.

Du Ai Sha has been in the headlines since she was five years old, hailed as a genius and the angel of luck in contrast to her the star of doom and bad luck. Du Wen Hai has been using his daughter's timely arrival in this world that brought him all the luck he required to succeed. She had a feeling Du Ai Sha is groomed just to oppose her.

These years, after leaving Country Z, her country of origin, to Country X, she initially led a quiet life with Sister Fong. Wang Lei gege arranged for her to be sent to nursery while Sister Fong works. The nursery is actually one of his friend's base, Uncle Shen, there she had private tutors to teach her etiquette, business, art of war, calligraphy, music, chess and strategy. Things went on that way until Wang Lei gege proposed and married Sister Fong. Her education then no longer required to be hidden. The private tutors then came to the house to teach.

She left for Harvard to pursue a degree in business at the age of 15 years old. She stayed on to learn the business of trading and started her own company. She had also took over the companies her father had left her except for the Du group. She did not want to return as she felt she impose herself on Sister Fong and Wang Lei gege. In addition to that she did not want to steal their attention away from their own children. Sister Fong gave birth to a pair of twins, Gan Woo Bin and Gan Mochen and a girl, Gan Huey Yi. They all adored her and looks up to her like an idol. Their parents had explained that Ru Ran had to dressed up as a boy because to protect herself from bad guys.

Her uncle Du Wen Hai, did not quit in searching for news for her. Initially he suspected the single mother than Gan fella married was the nanny that ran away with the girl but she is a single mother to a boy two years younger than Ru Ran, so he scratched that notion off, plus he did a background check on them, nothing seems out of place. Plus the two lived quite pitifully for many many years. A lot of people disdain that Gan fella's marriage because they did not think that woman was good for him but the Gan fella never cared about others opinion about him as does as his pleased, so he uprooted himself and left to Country X. Love does make people stupid.

Ru Ran stared once more into the mirror and then stared at the article in her hand. The time has come for her to resurface. She needs to reveal her identity here in this foreign land and then go back to take what is hers. She needed to plan things well because the moment she announced her identity, she will be put in danger.