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The whole time, Henry was just silently listening to all of them.

He gently pulls Lina's arm and softly asked her to sit down.

"Mom, what did the person say will happen if I don't marry her?" he finally asks.

"That's what you're worried about?" Lina asks him incredulously before Mrs Grace can respond.

"He said you have been gifted with great skills, knowledge and luck to help you pave the path you choose but if you don't marry the person you are destined to be with, bad luck will follow you." Mrs Grace says worriedly.

Maria tells Lina, "The lady I met came to me all of a sudden and said your beauty and grace will take you to a status where nobody else has ever been but you must let fate lead you to the proper course or your life will turn to that full of tragedy and accidents. It means you must marry the person fated to you! And trust me, had I not had that dream telling me, "You found HIM.", then I wouldn't be telling you to do this."

"But how are you sure I meant him?" Lina questions her mother, pointing at Henry.

"Who were you in bed with last night then?" Maria challenged Lina "And explain to me the rest of the series of events. The fortune tellers, the dreams and the fact that you are here, together! Give me an explanation for all these so that I can accept that these are all mere coincidences and that they have nothing to do with each other and I will stop now!"

"I don't know Ma! I'm not doing this; you can't make me." Lina exclaims then looks at Henry

"Say something why aren't you objecting this? Help me out here" she agitatedly gets up again and started pacing.

Before Henry can get up and try to calm her down, Mr Jian Li gets up and talks for the first time.

"Come outside, let's go for some fresh air, which will surely help." He tells Lina as he approached her and walked towards the door.

Before Lina left the room she tells her Maria, "I'm telling Papa about this."

Maria snickers and responds, "You can tell both your fathers and that's not going to change anything."

As soon as they're outside she takes a few deep breaths to try and clear her mind just a little bit.

"I'm dreaming right?" she asks her quiet companion.

"No, you're not." he says softly. "I am not here to tell you what to do. Obviously, nothing about this sounds reasonable. I agree. But maybe going with how the river flows isn't too bad?

But remember, no matter what you decide on, I will support you."

"But you don't know me?" Lina was surprised by Mr Jian Li's words.

"I like to believe that I have great instinct and I have been letting it guide my life for as long as I can remember. It has never led me astray. I don't ever doubt it. And right now, I have the same feeling like when I met my wife. That you and your family will be a part of our lives from now on.

So even if you marry into our family or not, I will be supporting you." Mr Jian Li seriously said and added, "Besides, I have always wanted daughters, and your sisters are adorable. I want to take them home."

Laughing lightly while looking over the garden where the twins with Grandfather Juanyi trying to identify the herbs. Butler Li not far away helping them with things they don't know most probably.

For the first time that day she laughs and tells him, "You can have the little pests but I don't think their father will like that very much, both him and my mother waited for them for so long. Oh, I have to call my Papa." she remembered.

"I don't know where my phone is." She tells him, trying to think.

"Here, use this," Mr Jian Li offered. Lina took it with a smile

Her father is in the Ethosien which is 7 hours behind Seiliu's time which means she's calling her father at 2AM since its already past 10AM in Seiliu currently.

RING... Ring... Ring...

"Hello?" Tomas sleepily answers the phone.

"Papa!" Lina can't hold back some of the tears now.

"Catalina, are you okay? Why are you calling this early? Why are you crying?"

"Papa you need to come to Miresa Mama said I need to get married before the end of the month she's already planning it with the guys' family help me. PAPA!" she responds without breathing.

"Catalina, mija, calm down. I did not understand a word you said. Say it again slowly."

"PAPA!" she stomps her feet in frustration and slowly repeated what she said, enunciating every word.

"Mama wants me to get married soon. She's already planning the wedding!"

"This is true right, Catalina? You are not just dreaming?" her father clarifies.

Mad that her father doesn't seem to believe she angrily said, "If I get married to an ogre it's going to be your fault. Are you coming or not?"

"Alright, we're coming. You're in Miresa? We'll be there as soon as we process the visa."

Mr Juan Li who heard about the visa, requested for the phone to be passed on to him and spoke to Lina's father.

"Hello, I am Lina's future father-in law-if everything goes as per both their mother's plan. I will send a message to the Embassy in Ethosien to process your visa swiftly. If you could kindly send me the full name of everybody who is coming, then you'll just have to go there once they're open with your passports and you'll get the visa within the hour."

Dumbfounded over the very weird phone call, Tomas said thank you and requested for the phone to be passed to Lina.

"Who is that?" he asked his daughter.

"The ogre's father" she replies and Tomas started laughing at the audacity of her daughter and the situation they're in.

"PAPA! This is not funny" Lina cries harder and started to stamp her feet again. "Come quickly!" she tells him and hangs up.

At the same time the twins were walking towards where she is with Grandpa Juanyu and Henry was coming out, followed by the women. And they have seen her outburst.

"Well, we never claimed she wasn't spoiled, did we?" Senna tells everybody.