Pool of Blood

Ye Mufan couldn't possibly run away on their wedding day. Li Ji An will not believe this.

Something must have happened, she had to find Ye Mufan for the answer.

The bride turned to leave.

"Sis, where are you going?" Li Junxu grabbed Li Ji An just in time.

"I'll find Mufan myself. I think I know where he might be."

"Where is he, sis? I'll take you there?"

"No, I can go by myself. I'm going to our new house, you can go find Mufan to his apartment. Who knows if my hunch is wrong. If we split up, one of us would find him sooner. I'll call you when I get there."

Li Junxu was more worried about her sister of course. But he couldn't go against his sister's wishes. Even Madame Li couldn't hold back Li Ji An.

So the woman left the church in her wedding dress.

The wedding is really messed up right now.

...

Li Ji An jumped out of her car after entering the grounds of the new house that she and Ye Mufan planned to occupy after they got married today.

The mansion was just finished a month ago. It was specially designed just like what Li Ji An and Ye Mufan wanted. This place was the place where they both dreamed.

Ye Mufan once promised Li Ji An that this house would always be his place to come home. Under any circumstances, Mufan once asked Li Ji An to make their home to be the main place. So Li Ji An decided to look for Ye Mufan in their new home.

The wedding dress Li Ji An wear was really making things difficult. Of course, the three-kilo wedding dress wasn't meant for running.

It took some effort for LI Ji An to reach the front door.

They no longer use keys. Li Ji An only needed to press the pass code to enter.

Cold silence greeted her. The house should be uninhabited. The house is brand new. Even though the furniture has been added, the glass cabinets have not been filled with things. Li Ji An thought she would style it herself later.

Li Ji An also hasn't placed a servant in the house. Madame Li has been looking for prospective housekeepers, they will only start working after Li Ji an and Mufan move.

"Mufan, are you here?" Li Ji An called out her voice. Only the echo of her voice heard, there was no answer.

Maybe Ye Mufan is upstairs, Li Ji An thought.

Li Ji An's wedding dress swept the floor. She took a deep breath before climbing the dozens of stairs to reach the top floor.

"Mufan!" Li Ji An's exclamation still didn't get a reply.

Li Ji An immediately got upstairs. The furniture on the upper floor is more complete and filled when compared to the lower floor.

Ji An looked around, choosing which passageway she would go through. Then finally she chose to go to the master bedroom.

Li Ji An had to hit another passcode to open the bedroom door. Unfortunately the door didn't open on the first try.

Did Li Ji An enter the wrong passcode? But no alarm was heard.

Li Ji An tried to enter the room code pass once again. But the door didn't open either.

Has the passcode been changed?

Ye Mufan couldn't possibly come and change the passcode. Supposedly their room code pass was the date of their first meeting. It was April 8, 2012.

Their suite of room code pass should be 120408

Why is the door still not open?

"Mufan, are you in there?" Li Ji An raised her voice, hoping that Ye Mufan was behind the door and listening to her voice.

Hesitating, Li Ji An punched the room code pass for the third time. The alarm still didn't go off. Li Ji An didn't know whether she had input the correct number or not. She just tried to push the door handle and thankfully it opened this time.

The main room was so dark. There was no light at all, even though outside the sparkling sun greeted the middle of the day.

"Mufan?" Li Ji An's irritation was further compounded because once again she tried to summon Ye Mufan and there was no answer from within the darkroom.

Li Ji An lifted her dress and stepped into the main room. She felt the wall with one hand, trying to remember where the main light switch was.

Li Ji An's hand seemed to have managed to reach the light switch when her foot tripped over something.

The room lights turning on just as Li Ji An fell.

The pain is not that bad. Li Ji An might have to be grateful too for her super thick wedding dress that protected her knees, but unfortunately, her elbows couldn't survive.

Li Ji An could feel pain in her right elbow.

Li Ji An grabbed her right elbow and now there was blood on her hands. "Oh, my God! Is it that bad?"

Li Ji An wasn't sure which part of her elbow was bleeding that much blood. It felt like her arm had just hit the floor, but why was there so much blood dripping.

Li Ji An glanced at the floor in front of her trying to figure out what had just knocked her down. To her surprise, the scene that unfolded in front of Li Ji An was not a white marble or a carpet of fur, but a pool of blood.

The pool of blood even reached the side where Ji-an fell. So it was definitely not Li Ji An's blood.

"Mufan?"

12 May 2021