221. Option to leave

Seeing Seven as stiff as a block, Li Zhilan turned back towards her.

''You better get used to it. This is just the first time. There are more to come. Xav should have told you when you signed up for it.''

''No he didn't!'' Seven couldn't help but cry out her lack of information. Was there something she had to know before joining? What is it? What wasn't she aware? Was it a mistake or did someone do it deliberately?

''He didn't? That's so cruel of him. But I can understand him. You really wouldn't have agreed if you had known.''

'I won't. Even if they gave me double he amount, if I knew you were such a wanted bigshot, I wouldn't have agreed. *sob sob* There goes my powerful life. My powerful yet peaceful life. You will be missed greatly.'

But on the surface, Seven couldn't voice out her thoughts. She could only grief her powerful lifestyle's 'death' silently.

If only someone could tell Seven that following Li Zhilan would make her more powerful. Alas, this was something Seven would know only in the future. The near future.

''Well I do pity you. You have a lot of hard days coming up. So if you want to quit, you better do so right away. You wouldn't get a chance in the future.''

''I wouldn't. Though I don't know certain things and informations, which I was meant to know but wasn't told, I would still complete what I took up. Afterall, I'm not completely faultless. If I had been a little more cautious, I won't have found myself in this pit.'' Seven had a look of determination pasted on her face. She neither showed her earlier flustered self nor was there fear of the unknown in her eyes. She was completely determined.

''Oh? Is that so? Then you better learn to walk first. Why are you still stiff in your place? Comeon, let's go or those people would be too frustrated.''

Li Zhilan had given Seven an option to leave but what Seven didn't know was that the option wasn't the only thing Li Zhilan was looking for an answer to.

What she was looking for was a look of hesitation. A glimpse of fear. Is she had found it, today, Seven wouldn't have had the opportunity to meet Li Zhilan's family no matter what. She would never be able to know who Li Zhilan actually was. Not that she would know anyway if she was dumb. Afterall, no one in her family had the habbit of introducing themselves. They rarely needed to.