Chapter 24

"Sir, we request to bring back Chen Dulan." A man said to Yao Jianguo.

MinYao was being targeted by a foreign power, the fact was evident with all the small threats going around in the outskirts. And it wasn't money that they needed, because the threats were all coming without any demands. This collective power only wanted harm on MinYao and that meant one thing only.

'The safe.' Someone would whisper once in a while and all conversations would stop.

Most people didn't know of it's existence. It was much more of a problem than anything else MinYao would have to deal with. And rightly so, the safe was still unopened. Too many genius workers had been hired to get it to open, but the it was invented in such a manner that, any tampering would cause the inside contents to get blown up. MinYao didn't know the code and no one did, other than the inventor, the woman who had almost become the death of MinYao, and was now dead herself.

"Chen Dulan cannot be brought back." He had harshly replied.

"Young Master! I can go and protect the second Young Master! But please bring Chen Dulan back, we need him here! He was working to find the safe's code, and we all worry that someone is trying to take the safe from us!"

"How dare you so casually speak of my brother and the safe!?" Yao Jianguo was always furious at the mentions of forbidden subjects. "No one should know of their existence. There is no safe and Chen Dulan is in the West. Do not speak otherwise." He glared holes into the guy complaining to him.

Yao Jianguo was no tyrant to his men. He knew that bringing Chen Dulan back would be helpful given the recent happenings. He could even get 'Azure' to find the culprit and kill them silently. And yet he was keeping Chen Dulan away. Why?

"Have there been no demands from them at all?"

"Young Master, the only note we found was useless, as you had examined. What meaning could it have, 'we will take the poison back' as if some crazed cult started." Yes, well that was the only reason Yao Jianguo had decided to keep Chen Dulan away from everything. Chen Dulan had chosen 'Azure' as his name, an identity of a mystery killer, 'Blue' like sorrow showing the 'Lan' in his name.

Another syllable in his name, 'Du' was 'poison'. It may mean nothing but...

"It means nothing. Nothing at all." He repeated and asked for him to leave. If Chen Dulan had caught unnecessary attention, he could not risk losing such an asset to MinYao. Yes, that was all; Chen Dulan was useful, so he had to be hidden.

Yao Jianguo went back to his initial sitting position and thought about the issue. He was only starting looking over some paperwork, and someone called his phone.

"Hello! Young Boss, is this you?" A loud woman's noise came from the other side. Yao Jianguo sighed and held the phone properly to his ear.

"What do you want?"

"Only needed to tell you, your brother has been spending more time with Chen Dulan." She said to him with a change of tone.

"I don't have time for this right now." He tried his best to not sound frustrated at the news, but he did want to break something. "It's fine, I didn't exactly tell Chen Dulan to not interact with him at all. They're the same age after all."

"Wow, Young Boss, they don't lie when they say you've changed! You're okay with your brother being involved in the drug case? Don't you want to keep him hidden?" She asked with her annoying tone. Yes, he did want that but, he wanted his brother to be satisfied with life too, unlike their father who only wanted to keep A-Fang as a prized but caged bird. A-Fang had to choose peace himself, and he hated to say so, but Chen Dulan was just the guy for that.

"My brother is safe with Chen Dulan. I don't like him much but he's capable, I cannot deny so. He would die before anything happened to my brother."

"Really? From what I've seen... Young Boss seems to love Chen Dulan a lot!" She giggled in her annoying way and Yao Jianguo's eyes turned dark at the mention.

"I will warn you. Do not speak nonsense." He growled at her and kept the phone.

Yao Jianguo knew exactly where to use Chen Dulan and exactly how to turn him into the perfect weapon He knew the perfect amount of punishment and love that would turn a boy into Azure. But he did not care for Chen Dulan, he could not do that. No one could replace his own brother.

That was the truth he told himself.