Jun Cheng, who was reading his newspaper looked up at the door hearing the sound. Hearing the second knock his lips slowly turned into a grin.
"Come in," he said stiffly, keeping aside his newspaper. Though his face was serious Xiulin thought otherwise.
"Why did you come to this old man? Aren't you leaving him tomorrow?" He said with a small pout.
If someone heard that the great tiger Jun is pouting here like this they would die of a heart attack, but only one young teenager made him like this in a span of months.
Xiulin tried to stop her laughter and looked at him seriously. A sudden wave of sadness hit her. She couldn't help but think how this old man will spend his weekends without her. But she wasn't there before right? Will he be fine?
Jun Cheng turned his head towards the window in a sulky way when he didn't hear a word from her. Xiulin sighed, seeing her Old man behave like this. She went to him and kneeled beside him to turn his head towards her.
"Grandpa, it's a small trip. I'll be back before you know it," she said with a smile catching his hands in hers.
She thanked him and this whole family for showing her that there was still humanity left in her. She smiled at him with tears in her eyes, which were threatening to fall.
She got up and turned her back to him, wiping the tears swiftly.
"Grandpa, if you don't talk to me like this, I will not talk to you either," she said, turning to go near the door only for her hand to be caught by him asking her not to leave him.
She giggled and they both played chess for some time. Though Chess was a common game to her and she always lost to her brother. She was a greater player than Grandpa Jun.
Then while playing something caught her eye. A painting which seemed really old but it looked quite preserved. She couldn't help but look at it as she saw every stroke of it being completely mesmerized by it.
It was a picture of a girl who was running in an open field in a white Qipao. She slowly got up to touch it. She felt like it was calling to her.
"You like it?" a voice asked in the back as she moved near it. She couldn't help but nod while chastising herself why she had never noticed it before.
Jun Cheng smiled, looking at her.
"That's the last painting of Lao Tao the 3rd"
Xiulin who was about to touch it couldn't help but stop herself from touching it as she heard who was the painter.
No wonder she thought as she heard a knock on the door. It was a maid calling them for lunch. The time passed so quickly she thought as she helped grandpa Jun to go out of the room.
She ate her lunch with everyone only to see that Jun Zixuan was the only one who was not there.
She told everyone that she was going to meet someone and thought Jun Bohai would have loved to ask who he wasn't in a mood to or had the energy to. So he let it pass as he watched her go out.
Xiulin took the driver and went to the cafe. She took a reservation under her name and told the waitress she was waiting for a certain person so that they would be brought right into the room. She looked at the time to see that it wasn't 3 pm yet.
She scrolled through the social media only to see that a video has been trending since yesterday. Only to be pleasantly surprised when she saw that the person was none other than her who was in the video. Everyone was contemplating on how to find the girl. While some called her vulgar some called her a badass bitch.
She burst into laughter as she saw the names she was called. But someone was seriously analyzing her moves from the other side of the world.
Russia
Adrian walked inside his sister's favorite restaurant which he wanted to surprise her later with because he bought it just for her.
His eyes had dark circles, the usual coolness which he eluded out of authority now seemed like he was sad and depressed.
He moved to a corner seat as he got his usual order while he looked outside.
"Omg have you seen this new video? It's a video of a girl from China. You should see how she hits in Systema," a customer said.
Adrian picked up the call when he saw that it was someone calling from his company.
"Boss, I know this sounds absurd, but we just saw a video of a girl from China fighting exactly like a young miss. We know that it's nothing related to her but we wanted you to check it out." the voice from the other side said nervously.
Adrian couldn't help but understand how this is related anyhow but turned to check the video he has just received.
The girl in the video wore a black dress and seemed to be at a party, but when suddenly a guy charged at her, she started hitting him as she pleases and he indeed understood why his team sent this.
Because he knew better than anyone how her style varied and he knew it only had a pinch of Systema and some other style the next hit.As that's how she liked it.