It was a midnight and raining heavily...

A black car was running at a high speed towards the old mansion in an outskirts of the capital. The mansion was a bit old and it seems that nobody stayed there but was maintained in a good condition. Only few lights at the entrance were on.

A car stopped in front of a huge iron gate. Car’s door opened and a woman in her late 20’s got out of it. The woman looked like was in a hurry and was searching someone. She entered through the gate and ran inside, making her way through the rain. She looked worried and anxious. While running inside, she stopped midway and instead of going towards the mansion door she moved towards the huge garden area which was on the left side. Except at the entrance only the lights in the garden were on. She started running on the pavement which was directing towards the garden. After crossing few trees, she stopped at a certain distance away from a patio, which was in the centre of the garden.

A circular shade supported with 4 strong pillars having a beautiful design carved on it. There were two small semi circular wooden tables to sit inside it. It located in the centre of quite a big circular fish pond and was connected to the land with small wooden bridge.

Her expressions changed as if she found what she was looking for and got relaxed while breathing heavily. In that shade, there was a figure facing in an opposite direction to where the woman was standing. It was a man in his early 20s. He was wearing a white shirt and black pant. His suit jacket was lying on one of the semicircular sitting table. Shirt’s sleeves were folded upward and his hands were tucked in his pant’s pockets. Top two buttons were undone showing part of his strong chest and collar bones.

His features were sharp, pointed nose, deep black eyes, strong jaw line, thin and attractive lips, his skin was fair and looked radiant in a light emitting from the orange shade light bulbs which were hanging to the ceiling of patio. His build was strong. his black hairs were quite damp and messy may be because of the rain and pointed downward towards his eyes. His expressions were blank with his eyes staring in the dark without any emotions.

The girl soaked in a rain walked forward and stopped few steps away from him.. She called his name, "Lu Lijun!!". He noticed it but there was no reply. She was angry but she controlled it and said again, "Do you have any idea, how much everyone is worried about you? Everyone one is searching for you out there. Let’s go back!!"

"I don’t want to." He said without looking at her.

"Then what do you want to do Haaaaa!!!? Ok let it be then. I am not here to handle your tantrums. Just give me an answers to my questions so that I can explain it to others. Why did you walk out of your marriage at the last moment?? Tell me!!"

Still there was no reply from him as he was not feeling guilty about anything and she got more irritated. Then she just started asking him all the things she had in her mind without a pause.

"How can you do this to Liwei ? Do you know how much you hurt her? If you didn’t want to marry her why did you agree for that? Why did you give her false hopes. And what about father?? How can you make him lower his head in front of everyone?"

She was burning with an anger shouting at him. But there was no reaction from him. He was calm just staring blankly in a dark. There was only a sound of rain and wind.

After getting no reply from him , she yelled again. "Lu Lijun!! I need an answer. What’s in your mind?? What are you thinking to act so recklessly?? Why are you being like this? Just tell me, why did you do that ?? Whyyy??

He turned slowly, took one step towards her and while looking in her eyes he said, "Because I love you YuYan". His voice was calm and when he called her name his eyes were filled with a love and warmth. He looked very relax as if the burden on his heart had been lifted.. He looked calm and compose just staring at her.

She was shocked that her eyes were wide open, shakingly she took few steps back and stood there with a support from the pillar beside her as if she had heard something terrible. She got back to her senses, her eyes were furious. "What did you just say? Are you out of your mind? Are you crazy? how can y....."

Before she could finish her sentence, Lu Lijun Moved towards her, grabbed her hands and pushed her to the pillar besides her. Before she could react he kissed her. She was shocked, tried to push him away but his grip was very strong. More she struggled, more strong it got. after few moments, he stopped kissing but still pressing her against the pole. His face was still close to her as they could feel each others breath. Looking in her eyes he asked, "Why? Am I not allowed to go crazy for you?" And before she could react he kissed her again and this time it was more intense trying to engulf her completely.

He bite her lower lip. She felt a current of pain running through her body. She was still trying to push him away as she was unable to breath. After few minutes he stopped and again looked into her eyes like he was expecting to see something. But there was nothing other than shock and anger. She was furious and asked "w...what do you think you are doing?" She tried to push him away and run but there was no use.

He pulled her back and hold her even more tightly. Caught her left hand behind her back with his right hand and his left hand was on the back of her neck holding her head at a place and then he answered her question while looking into her eyes intensely, "I am loving my wife". Claiming his right on her he kissed and kissed her again like the feelings he kept burried in his heart for long time were exploding at once....

After few minute Lu Lijun felt something was not right. He realised that she had stopped struggling and he felt something moist on his cheek.. he stopped kissing and looked at her, his breath was still heavy. Her eyes were closed and tears were rolling down from them. She was standing there like a lifeless body. He came back to his senses. He slowly let go of her hand which he was holding tightly behind her back followed by the hand holding her head. He released her and moved few steps back.

Still it was raining heavily and sounds of lightning became more frightening. When he looked at her, he felt a pain deep down in his heart, as if the lightning had strucked to his heart and burning it to the ashes. He didn’t know what to say or what to do?? He just stood there looking at her in a daze.

After realising that he had retreated, she opened her teary eyes. Her expressions were painful and full of disgust. She moved towards him, slapped him hard. Then she ran away from there, making a way through that heavy rain. While running, suddenly her feet entangled with small tree branches fell from tree because of the rain. She fell down and hurt her knees and right palm but immediately stood up as if not feeling a pain and started to run towards the iron gate. Sharp rain drops were hitting her body but she couldn’t feel anything because the pain in her heart was more intense than anything else. The agony in her heart was not letting her feel anything. She was running as if this place was a hell and the demon in the hell was chasing after her.

Lu Lijun was watching her retreating back. When he saw her falling down on the pavement and hurting herself, he wanted to run and help her but before that she got up and ran away. He felt pain in his heart as he saw her running in heavy rain hurting herself. But he couldn’t do anything as he was scared to make a situation worst for her and stood frozen at the place where he was and continued watching her, running away from him.

Somehow Jiang YuYan reached outside the gate of mansion. When she saw her car, she hurriedly entered into it, started the engine and with the full speed moved away from that place. After some distance she stopped the car at roadside and was crying her heart out while leaning on the steering wheel.

Some time passed by just like that, crying her heart out. Her face was swollen and eyes were red due to crying. She was drenched in rain but was not feeling cold. She looked lost as if she didn’t know what to do or where to go?

Since Lu Qiang passed away, she never thought about her life. She was very young at that time just 20yrs old. She could have started a new life but she devoted herself to protect the people and things he left behind and tried her best to make all his dreams come true. Her love for Lu Qiang was something that will never end even if he was not with her. She closed her eyes and collected herself. She increased temperature in a car as she felt cold. She started the car engine and drove in the direction of Lu family’s current residence.

When YuYan reached at current Lu residence it was already 3am. Guard greeted her and opened the gate. She drove inside and parked the car. When she got out of the car she suddenly felt breeze of chilled air hitting her body and making her feet trembled. Her teeth started to make chattering sound. She crossed her hand tightly around her chest and dashed inside the villa. She hurriedly walked to the 2nd floor and entered in her room. She threw the car keys on bed and ran into the bathroom. She started hot water shower and stood under it.

As she closed her eyes she remembered what happened earlier, when she went to look for Lu Lijun. She opened her eyes as she felt disgusted. She looked at shelf in the bathroom and took out the body wash bottle from it. She opened it, poured it on her and started to scrub again and again as if something was stucked to her body and was not able to remove it. In that frustration she started crying again. She looked into the mirror on the opposite wall. She was staring at her face and was observing it. When her sight stopped at her lips she started to rub it with her palms. Tears were still rolling down from her eyes.

After being in a shower for a while, she cleaned herself and got out of the bathroom, covered in bathrobe. She sat on the corner of the bed. Her sight fell on the small wooden photoframe which had her wedding pic.

In that pic, YuYan was wearing a beautiful and elegant white wedding dress and Lu Qiang was wearing a black tuxedo. Both were looking adorable while facing each other and were looking into the eyes with love and smile full of happiness. Both of his hands were on her waist holding her close to him and her hands were placed lightly on his chest.

She held the frame in her hand, looked at the picture and said," Why did you leave me here alone?" Her voice was cracking as she was crying and sobbing. "You...you promised me that you will always be there with me a...and will never ever leave me. You pro....promised to protect me. You said that we will grow old together. I trusted you. But why?? W.....why did you break your promise?? I...I hate you!! I hate you Lu Qiang!!! I hate you!!!!.

She hold the frame tightly to her chest. Closed her eyes and started to mumble," I....I miss you!!! Please come back!! P..please!! Lu Qiang!! She was exhausted with all the things happened in a day and because of continuous crying she fell asleep on the bed holding that frame to her chest while curling her legs toward her stomack and mumbling the name of Lu Qiang.

Chapter 3 Anniversary of Elder Lu Couple..

In the past....11 years before...

At the Lu family’s old mansion...

It was morning and the Lu family was discussing about the upcoming important family event in the living room of the mansion. The living room was exceptionally huge. It had a big rectangular white leather sofa in the centre with a beautifully carved wooden centre table. A beautiful chandelier was hanging at the centre of the ceiling giving it a royal look. Most of the interior was in white colour. Walls were decorated with the attractive expensive paintings. Each painting had small wall lamp at their top which made paintings looks beautiful under the light coming from them. Each of the corners were occupied with few antics. There were wooden shelves with glass covers filled with attractive showpieces. Big glass windows allowed the sunlight to enter inside the huge living room and brighten it up.

It was the 55th marriage anniversary of elder couple so their sons decided to hold a grand celebration party for their parents and whole family was excited about it...

The elder Lu Huan and his wife Lu shuang was sitting at the centre of the sofa. On their right side, the elder son Lu Jinhai and his wife Lu Jiahui were sitting and on left side were his younger son Lu Chen And his wife Lu Hui. On the right side behind Lu Jinhai’s assistant Xio Dong was standing. On the left side there was butler of the house Xu Dui and two servants were standing and listening everything with full attention as coming event was important for family and they were going to be super busy by looking after the arrangements.

Lu Jinhai: " Father -mother!! what do you think about our idea of this grand celebration of your 55th marriage anniversary? Should we go with that or not?" As he asked this, everyone could see the change of expressions on elder Lu’s face and were ready to drink vinegar....

Lu Huan : "You punk!!, How dare you even ask this question to us ?? You should definately celebrate it. Don’t forget the origin of all of yours very existance on the earth and that’s our marriage." As expected everyone was speechless while his wife Lu Shuang looked calm as she knew her husband’s nature, never left any chance to show his strong presence by mocking his two sons and has an ability to leave everyone speechless with his sharp and witty words.

Lu Jinhai : ’...’ (father never disappoints me.. :) :) )

Lu Jiahui : ’...’

Lu Chen : ’...’ (what was the point in asking dear brother??)

Lu Hui : ’.

Others :’....’

Elder Lu Huan was an old but very lively person. At the same time he was moody. If he was in good mood, he could be a baby angel from heavenly realm, but if he was in bad mood you could see that baby angel transforming into a devil. No one dared to defy him. Even his elder son Lu jinhai, who was one of the powerful businessman in the country always bowed down in front of his father. Same goes for his younger son Lu Chen.

Everyone in the family respected and loved elder Lu Huan because he always gave priority to his family over everything. He never stopped his children from doing what they wanted to do and always supported them. He loved his wife Lu Shuang a lot, that even at this age everyone could see his affection towards her.

Lu Shuang was very beautiful and a graceful old lady. She was very soft hearted towards everyone but strict at a time. Only she was able to make elder Lu Huan from scary lion to an obedient dog..(wufff. Wufff!!)

Lu family’s men always loved and respected their wives and never betrayed them. It continued from generations. It was as if this family’s men were carrying an extra chromosome other than chromosome X and Y in their body. The special chromosome ’M’ , meant for the characters of "MONOGAMY"..

Atmosphere was silent, Lu Huan looked at everyone and talked again, " As we are talking about your origins, we ( Lu Huan and Lu shuang) want to make ourself more proud and take one step ahead as an originators."

Everyone was confused and looked at each other to understand the meaning. Then elder Lu Huan saw these clueless people and frowned. " I mean to say thaaaat....!! now it’s time for us to see our great- grandchildren". Upon hearing this and understanding the meaning everyone gave sigh of relief.

Lu Chen : "But father we can’t do anything about it. Your grandchildren won’t listen to us. Everyone try to avoid this marriage subject so having great grandchildren is far from reality." Lu Jinhai nodded in agreement.

Lu Huan : " Morons!!!, you can’t even convince your children. Who is asking them to get married??. To make a baby marriage is not necessary. " Again everyone one was speechless. Then he continued, " They just have to get a woman and .....aauuchh". Before he could continue, Lu shuang pinched him hard on his arm to stop her shameless husband and said, " stop being brazen and don’t try to make my grandchildren immoral just like you so stop pestering them to fullfil your wishes."

Lu jinhai : (’ ’) ,. (Exactly mother)

Lu Chen : ’.....’, (why did I speak).

Others : _ _ _ _ ( we should have brought ear buds)

Lu Huan couldn’t say anything cause he didn’t dare to cross his wife and moreover what she said made sense as Lu Huan got her pregnant before marriage and she was quite angry about that.

Everyone new about this fact and they were looking at Lu Huan that how this blantant person became like a scared cat in front of his wife. Everyone was happy in there heart to see this but couldn’t show their happiness on their faces. Lu Huan’s sight passed across his both sons. He knew they were happy inside so he frowned and looked at them with killer gaze and startled them as if conversing through their eyes, " you rascals!!! Why you were in hurry to land on the earth?? You people distroyed my romantic life and took my wife away."

Lu Jinhai and Lu Chen : " father is a lier!! Your romantic life was rocking that’s why we were able to land here that soon...hehe!!!

Lu Huan : " Both of you will pay for this soon..hahaha!!!"

Both brothers could see devilish smile on their father’s face and eyes full of mischief.

Lu Jinhai: ’__’ (where to look?)

Lu chen: ’__’!! (sob sob!!)