CRESTHAVEN MANORS

Taking out her phone, she called Mu hoa, and waited for him to pick, but he didn't, calling again, still no answer she sent him a message that she was done and he should come and pick her up.

After sending the message, she looked around feeling famished, she walked across the street to a restaurant at the other side, this one was different from the one she went to meet Zhi jie, this was much crowded, it looked like a restaurant for locals.

Walking to an empty seat on the left she sat there and a waitress walked up to her with the menu, taking it from her she ordered her favorite dishes and returned it to the waitress and she left.

Taking out her phone, she started planning her next step, she needed to renovate that building to fit her business, originally it was a newspaper company but she wanted to run an entertainment company so she would need to make some adjustments.

Researching some top architecture firms, she hired a renowned architect to lead the design and renovation of the building, booking an appointment with the architect in three days time, seeing everything was in place, she placed down her phone and looked up at the waitress who had brought her food.

"Thank you" she said to her and immediately dug into her food, bitting and chewing ruthlessly, soon after she was done eating and sat back relaxing on her chair, touching her already filled stomach in satisfaction, she rested a bit before paying for her food and leaving the restaurant.

She pulled out her phone, and dialed My hoa's number again and noticed he had dropped a voice message for her, playing the voice message she heard something that shocked her.

"Hey sister, I'm too busy right now and can't pick you up, pls hail a cab or contact the butler to send a chauffeur to pick you up, I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, and I promise it won't happen again, your dear little brother Mu hoa" every word she heard shocked her more than the last.

'Sister, dear little brother, was she in another planet?' she thought invisible question marks appearing on her head, when was Mu hoa ever so talkative or nice, had he been kidnapped or had someone hacked into his phone, she thought suddenly feeling worried, calling his number again but this time it wasn't reachable.

She felt honestly worried for him, taking a cab, she went home alone for the first time. On her drive home she noticed the weather was turning dark like it was about to rain and as expected a heavy downpour soon followed after.

The driver stopped in front of cresthaven manors gate, "can you please drive me in, I will add extra charge it's raining and I don't have an umbrella" she said to the driver who agreed on hearing the extra charge.

He pulled up to the gate, honked the horn and waited for the gate to be opened but it remained closed.

Li yinxun rubbed her forehead realizing what had happened, yesterday she remembered when they had gotten to the gate, a green light had come out of the gate scanning their car and then the red light at the side of the gate had turned green before the gate opened but this time the light had remained red cause it didn't recognize the taxi, she thought face palming.

'Did it only scan cars' she thought taking a good look at the gate, then she spotted a biometric scanner at the other side of the gate close to the side gate.

Turning to the taxi driver who was already looking at her in a confused gaze, "you don't have to go in anymore, I will drop here" she told him too embarrassed to explain the situation to him, taking out cash she had withdrawal earlier, she paid the taxi driver and stepped out of the car into the heavy rain, running to the gate she placed her finger on the biometric scanner but it denied it, frustrated she placed all ten fingers but it denied all.

Looking around urgently for a shelter, she noticed a big tree at the other side of the gateway, running to the tree, she stood under the tree taking shelter, cleaning her wet face with her hand she took out her phone, she dialed Mu hoa number but the customer line kept saying, the customer you are calling is not available at the moment, "pls try again later" feeling frustrated and annoyed at the same time she kept calling not having any other choice but she got the same reply everytime.

After calling for so long she finally gave up as tears gushed out of her eyes, she stood at the roadside under the big tree crying her eyes out, she felt so helpless, she thought in frustration, she stood there crying for a while when the blinding lights of a car's headlight flashed across her eyes, using her hand to block the light, she looked away from the car when it's horn brought her attention back to it.

Turning to the car her gaze met with very cold ones, "get in.."