Ken

Soon newspaper started reporting about the engagement between mysterious Mr Ken and Du Ai Sha. The sudden appearance of Mr Ken stirred up a lot of gossips, one, is because his looks has some similarity to Shen Ji Yu. People might mistaken them to be siblings or even cousins.

Ji Yu had people investigating into Ken's background as well. He even called up his father to ask if he had any illegitimate heir hidden somewhere. He got screamed and yelled at before the phone line was abruptly cut off. His mother was cool about it and said she trusted her husband would not wrong her. Either Ken is a doppelganger or they are somehow related. After some pondering, he believed Ken to be his lost cousin. The one who managed to escape before his parents could take him in.

Ken's father was vicious enough to poison him to a slow death, he still remember every full moon, his body would first start to heat up, as if he was laid on a bed of hot lava stone, then the heat will dissipitate and coldness takes over, chilled down to the bones, the pain, the agony was unbearable. The poison originated from Japan, from the Ezo tribe, Ken's mother origin, hence, the reason why his treatment was in Japan. Two weeks before full moon, he had to be covered from head to toe with leeches. The cost of his treatment was expensive as the leeches used were medical grade leeches and the leeches dies after sucking his blood and had to be replaced. Then, a week prior to the full moon, he had to bleed out the poison.

Even with that sort of treatment, the symptoms did not disappear immediately, only after 6 months of treatment, the pain gradually lessened. How do you allow the man that poison you to such degree live? Forgive and forget? Was he cruel to kill his scheming uncle? He suffered for many years just to get rid of the poison till at one stage he was all bones and skeleton. He then had to nurse his health with Western medicine and rehabilitation.

After he regained his health, his father enrolled him in Koga-ryu (school of koga) to learn ninjutsu (art of ninja) including taijutsu (unarmed combat) and usage of various weapons. It was 8 years of hellish training. He persisted in everything that was thrown to him because he has made a promise to himself that he first needs to be strong in order to protect the little girl that gave him the strength he needed to continue living. That was why he did not sought her out earlier. He even had an album of his journey to recovery. He could still remember clearly, the night Ru Ran read the file on him including looking at the pictures of his progress including the treatment he had underwent, she cried while hugging him. Her eyes became all swollen and puffy. She kissed each and every scar present on his body, telling him how sorry she was that he had to suffer so much.

He told her how he tortured his uncle to death to see if she was disgusted by his behaviour as he did not want to conceal anything about him to her. She deserves to know the sort of man he is. She did not shun him or feel disgusted by him, instead she told him that if she was present at that time, she might had requested to join in to torment as well. Such fierceness and protectiveness from her warmed his heart greatly.

Further digging about Ken's past revealed he has been searching for a girl, most likely to be his sister. Why does the girl Ken is searching for feels familiar, and Ken's eyes reminded him of someone he knows. He suddenly had a eureka moment! Mei Xin Xin! He has heard that his uncle's mistress was a Japanese lady. From his investigation, Ken is half Chinese and Japanese, so is Mei Xin Xin. So, the likelihood of them related is probable. He called up Darren to get their people to look into this matter. If Mei Xin Xin is the person Ken is looking for then he has to inform Uncle Tek as well. In addition, it appears that Ken has a hand in the arson of the orphanage and explosion happened in the hospital. If Ken had no grudges against him why would he attack him. Therefore, after reading the reports, he can assume for now that Ken is his cousin with agendas to destroy him.