A girl about 12-13 years old was covered with blood all over her body, head to toe, but it didn't seem like the blood was hers. She was dressed in a simple white cotton dress, that now turned crimson red. Her unrealistic beautiful face was covered with blood.
She stood high in a clift, as her empty eyes looked down at the secluded normal-looking 3 storey building 2 km away from her. Playing with a bomb in her hands, she smirked. With her skinny limbs, she threw the bomb towards the building with unbelievable strength.
She then turned around, jumping off the high clift swiftly. A loud "BANG" sounded behind her, where the clift stood before. It was now obliterated by the bomb, that even ruined 60 m beneath. That finally erased it very existance.
Because of the explosion, the wind became slightly chaotic and made her beautiful long dark hair flutter.
She walked away unbothered, as if nothing happened just now. However, that little explosion gather the attention of many. Because the normal building she just bombered earlier, was the main secret headquarters of the strongest killer organization in the whole history.
After the explosion, dark clouds started to gather up above her. It started to rain heavily as she walked away far as she could from that place.
•••
It was already in the middle of the night and she could already feel her hunger. Because of the heavy rain earlier and her hunger, her body weekend greatly but she still pushed her self to walk step by step.
By the time she got out of the forrest, it was already near dawn and she could see cars passing by on the road in front of her. The blood on her body was already washed off by the rain so she probably wouldn't catch too many attentions onto herself.
"Tsk..." She said under her breath. She could really feel her hunger by this time and she could also feel that her body is already giving up. She still forced her self to walk a few steps but then her body finally fell on the ground as she mumbled "hmm.. Still human." Then she smirked.
Just after losing her consciousness, a limited edition Rolls Royce stopped just beside her unconscious body.
Inside, an old man between 60-70 years old, with a strong aura that surrounded him, he looked at his driver.
"Why did you stop?" He asked with clear indifference on his voice.
Being looked at by that old man, made the driver very nervous. Cold sweat ran down from his forehead as he looked back at the old man.
"M-master there's a girl who just fainted..." He said with all his strength.
The old man didn't reply at him, just glanced at the girl who fell unconscious on the ground. Then gave a side glance at the butler in the front seat.
"Pick her up." He ordered.
"Yes sir!"
The Butler immediately got out of the car and went to the girl's unconscious body. He first looked at her up and down, trying to figure out what made the master took liking to her.
He frowned seeing that she was dirty from the mud because of the rain, but still picked her up from the ground. He walked forward to the car then realization suddenly dawned apon him.
Where is he supposed to put her?!!
There was no trunk on thus car and he definitely shouldn't put her at the back seat where the master was, so was he supposed to put her in front with him.
While thinking about where he should put her, the window from the back seat rolled down, showing the handsome face of the old man.
"Bring her here." He order without much expression on his face.
"H-huh!.. Y-yes sir." He answered quite baffled. He immediately followed what was said and opened the back door to put the girl just beside the old man.
He went back to the front seat after putting the girl inside, then glanced at the front mirror, looking at the master who was examining the girls body.
'The old master isn't a pedophile.... Right?' He asked himself while cold sweat ran down his back.
While he was having a little war inside his head about the preferences of his master, the driver beside him asked.
"Sir, should we go to the first hospital?"
Being asked where to go, the old man who was still examining the little girl beside him. Looked at the driver. He seemed to be thinking about where to go, then replied.
"No, go straight to the main mansion." He simply said. Then looked at the girl again.
He examined her again head to toe, but didn't touch her. He could see dried blood on the side of her face, but didn't see any wound. Seeing that there were many dried up blood on her body, but not a single wound, he frowned slightly.
Looking at her for some time, he finally shifted his attention to the window, not paying attention to the girl anymore.
•••
1 hour later.
The car stopped in front of a large golder gate.
And there stood two pillars, 5 meters away from each other, holding a big name plate. On the name plate, written in strong and bold characters were
"LU FAMILY'S MAIN MANSION".
It was the main mansion of the lu family, one of the riches and strongest family in Asia. And the old man inside the car was the old master of the family, Lu Gao. The business king in the past, and the father of the business king today.
In the past, he was the one who caried the Lu family to this heights, ruling over the business industry. And now he passed his crown to his eldest son, Lu Pei. The one who reign as the business king today.
The driver exchanged some few greatings to the gate guard, then entered the gate.
Driving inside, you could see a big mansion on top of the hill where they were driving through. They drove through many cherry blossom trees on the way and a garden filled with expensive flowers.
There were many servants on the way and gardeners that bowed to them. And they could see many maids running towards the main entrance of the mansion to line up in two rows to greet the arriving of the old master.
A few moments later, the driver stops in front of the main entrance where two rows of maids bowed to them.
The butler of the main house opened the door of the backseat where the old man was seated, but didn't expect that there was some unconscious girl beside him.
He composed himself and supported the old master from the car.
"Old master lu, the master and young master is inside." He professionally informed him.
"Hmm.." The old man simply replied.
He got off the car and walked towards the main door with his walking stick.
"*clears throat* Old master, what should I do with this girl?" The butler politely asked.
Old Gao stopped in his steps, slightly turned his face, and glanced sidewards the butler.
"Clean her up and call the main doctor." He indifferently said. And continued to head towards the door.
The head butler ordered some maid to arrange a room for the girl and buy some necessities for her. And ordered two maids to bathe her and then he called the main family doctor.
•••
30 mins later.
Dining hall.
Old Gao sat it the head chair and Lu Pei San on his right. There was a quiet young boy around 14-15 years old beside him.
"Father, I heard you brought home a young girl?" Lu Pei asked.
"Hmm, I did." Old Gao said, confirming that he did.
Hearing his father's confirmation, Lu Pei didn't asked him anymore than that, and just nodded his head.
As the three of them were in the dinning room, the maids that took care of the girl that old Gao brought home were done cleaning her up, but one made suddenly noticed something.
She frowned, she swatted the girl's smooth long hair to the side to take a closer look at her neck. On the girl's neck she could see there were numbers written on it.
"001" was written in black ink.
"Hey, do you think this is a tattoo?" Asked the maid, pointing at the girl's porcelain neck.
The girl's skin was very white and smooth just like the most precious jade ever made, and that's the reason why the black and bold tattoo stood out.
"Try whipping it off." The other maid suggested.
Then the maid handed her a wet towel for her to wipe the ink away.
She took the towel from her and then she moved the girls hair again to the side, and was just about to wipe the ink with the towel but a beautiful white hand held her hand that was holding the towel, firmly.
She could feel the, earlier unconscious, girl's cold and empty eyes stare at her. And she couldn't look back. No, she was too afraid to look back. She just froze on the spot.
"Don't bother. Its tattoo." The girl said in a cold and clear voice. She then let go of the maids hands and stood up. Looking at her surroundings for some moment and then turned indifferent again.
Examining her clothes, she frowned. She was clothed in a white dress again, but the style was different from what she wore earlier.
The two maids was still dazed at her. Looking intently at her face, they were amazed. With their mouths open wide, enough for insects to come in.
Looking at the faces of the two maids, she was already used to it. Being looked at by people was no different from the usual for her, having experienced it all the time.
The two maids sooner got out of their dazed state and cleared their throat out of embarrassment.
"I-i would just inform the old master that you're already awake." After saying that she immediately flee, leaving the other maid to deal with her.
Having left with the girl, the other maid was feeling kind of awkward because of what happened earlier. So she tried to talk to the girl, to lessen the awkwardness between them.
But before she could speak, the girl spoke first.
"Are there other clothes beside this dress?" She asked without much expression on her face.
"Huh? Ah y-yes." The maid answered. She subconsciously straightened her back hearing the girl's orders.
The maid immediately ran to the closet that contained many types of clothing for the girl to choose from. She took out a girly dress, because she thought that the dress that the girl was wearing was too simple that's why she did not like it.
Showing the dress to her, the girl frowned even more.
"Is this not into your liking young ms.? Should I tell the butler to buy a little more expensive one?" the made asked with clear ridicule in her voice. She thought that she was just like all the young girl out there, a snobbish girl seeking riches and wanted to be spoild rotten. Just how could the old master bring her here?
Noticing the maid's visible change of attitude towards her, she just ignored it and indiferently glances sidewards at the maid.
"No. A plain oversized t-shirt and trousers would do." She calmly replied.
"I hate dresses." She softly mumble to herself, but also enough for the maid to hear.
The maid was silent for a moment. She clearly misjudged the poor girl for someone she is not, and she was kind of feeling guilty.
She soon took some oversized t-shirt and trousers for ladies, as asked, and gave it politely to the girl. The overall look made the girl seem cool, especially with her cold countenance.
On the other hand, the maid who just took off was already at the dining hall where the masters were. She then professionally announced her presence and said in a respectful tone, "Old Master, she has woken up."
Sitting on the table, old master Gao calmly sipped on his cup and glanced at the maid while the other two also stopped eating for a moment.
"Let her join dinner." He ordered.
"Yes sir." the maid then bowwed again and headed towards the girl's room.
Upon reaching the room, the maid was again rendered speachless. This girl, she's too beautiful.... No, she's beyond beautiful itself. Even seeing numerable world class beauties going and coming out of the mansion, to curry favor to the master, no one could match her beauty.
Even though she's dressed in simple clothing, she made it seem as if it was perfect for a runway.
She shooked her head in order to wake herself up from her daze, and cleared her throat.
"Miss, the old master asks you to join dinner."
"hmm" the girl then followed the maid.
As soon as they arrived at the spacious dinning room, the made announced their precence.
The three men in the room synchronously looked at her way, then suddenly the room became too quiet, that you could hear their breathing.
The girl just stood there calmly, her hands inside her pockets at she stared bach at them with her indifferent eyes.
As minutes passed by she raised one eye brow, looking at them impatiently.
"Ahem." Old man Gao cleared his throat loud enought for the other two men to wake up from their dazed selves.
"Little girl, come sit here and join dinner." He gently beckoned her to come over and sit on the chain near him.
Lu Pei also smile at her warmly as a sign of welcoming gesture, as the quiet boy beside him still stared at the girl.
They've never seen a girl this beautiful, and the ones they thought as very beautiful before became so plain in front of this girl.
The girl's cold eyes just gently passed them one by one and calmly went over to the seat pointed for her. There was already warm food served in from of her by the maid earlier so she wouldn't have to wait anymore, and just started eating.
Throughout dinner, she acted as if the three men weren't there but they didn't mind it and just started eating while taking casual glances of hers. And she ate indifferently as if those glances weren't mean for her and treated the men as if they were wind.
Dinner ended peacefully for all of them, except the three men who was having problem if they should talk to her or not, because it may disturb her peaceful dinner and they wouldn't want to make her displeased or something.
At the time when the girl put down her utensils, old man Gao gathered his confidence and talked to her with a warm face, that made him seem like a kind old man next door.
"How was the food?"
Hearing the old man's gentle voice, the girl raised her head and quietly glanced at him, not replying to him and just stared at him with her empty eyes.
That stare made the old man think that something was wrong, and he immediately became nervous. And that is the same for the other two man on the table.
Mean while, the servants was with themthe whole time, almost couldn't help but face palm theirselves.
They couldn't believe their eyes, that this strict old man, their stoic master, and especially their always uninterested young master changed in front of her. Just what was this girl made of?
The servant could only stay quiet on the sides as they watch this shocking events.
"Girl, whats wrong?" old Gao asked in an even more gentle tone. Which made the girl, who was looking at him intently, frown a little.
Her frowning made the old man Gao and Lu Pei think, that she probably couldn't understand english, as they were speaking english to her all this time, she must have been pretending to understand. And because the girl looked chinese.
"Could you understand me now?" he said if fluent mandarin.
Originally the Lu family came from china and just moved in the states later, and lived there for sometime now.
The girl raised one eyebrow at him, and suddenly let out a small chuckle.
"I could understand you from the start, no need for changing languages." She speaked in a fluent english. There was still that coldness and indifference in her voice, but now it was mixed with a slight amusement.
Her cool voice, echoed in the dinning hall. All the people in the same hall felt relaxed just hearing her voice, but also some chills.
"ahem." Lu Pei cleared his throat to catch the attention of the girl.
"Then why are you just staring, and frowning at us?" he asked with his gentle voice, fearing that be might startle the girl.
The girl then shifted her attention to him, staring at him with the same empty cold eyes.
She was quiet for a moment then said, "Nothing."
Guessing that she probably wouldn't tell them more, they didn't pry on that any longer and moved to another question.
"Hmm, then could you tell us why you ended up unconscious on the middle of the road?" He raised a brow at her questioningly.
There was another moment of silence when he asked her that. The girl's stoic face was in a daze, seeming to recall what happened. But on the other hand, she was just racking her brain for a good excuse to make.
She really isn't the type who likes lying, or any sort of that. She's the kind of person who would just be straightforward, unless its unnecessary, she would never lie.
And at this moment she was thinking if it was unnecessary to lie in front of these people. She took a glance at them, judging them by their looks and personality, it seems unnecessary.
"I-" her words were stopped when they heard gun shots out just right outside.
It sounds like there was one sided massacre outside of the dinning hall. Consecutive gunshots were being fired in different direction, as bodies falling down sounded through the corridors.
BANG!! *
A bloody man opened the door with all the strength left in his body. He had several gunshot wound on different parts of his body, but not enough to kill him yet.
"Masters, they successfully entered the premises. RUN!!" He shouted at them, not minding his manners.
As he finished saying that, his limpid body laid flat on the ground, dead. His blood staining the marble floor.
The masters in the room were still dumbstruck by the things that happened. They didn't expect that their guards would fail to fend off those hired hitmans this time, they had full confidence on their guards strength as they were trained for this kinds of things.
Old Gao who first got out of his dumbstruck self, looked at the girl beside him. Seeing her look at the guard's bloody corpse by the door motionlessly, he thought that she was scared out of her wits.
He then nudged at his son, "Take both of the children out first!" he shouted.
Taking off his eyes at the guard who just died, he looked at his father.
"But father, how about you?!" He said, panic written in his eyes.
"Dont worry, I'll be fine. Just take the children away now!" Old Gao told his son in a commanding voice.
Lu Pei knew that he cant disobey his father, so he stood up immediately and took his son's hand and lending his other hand to the girl.
Still looking at the corpse, the girl didn't move from her spot.
"Girl, its okay, dont be afraid." He said in a soothing voice, pushing all his panic aside. He then took her by her wrist in attemps of pulling her away.
But in all of his attempts, she just wouldn't budge even if he put all his strength into his pull.
Just as he was still trying to pull the girl away, footsteps could be heard getting nearer and nearer.
Standing just by the door, 6 men in bullet proof vest carrying heavy guns by their shoulders, looked at them, smirking.
"Tut, tut, tut. Still trying to escape, huh?" A man with a scar on his face said in a carefree tone. He looked like their leader.
They looked very strong as their big muscles bulges out of their black t-shirts. Now they were sure that these six men really killed their guards, as they looked very professional.
All the people in the room looked at their way, including the girl.
Seeing the panicked expression on their faces, the men smirked arrogantly. Then the man with a scar on his face involuntarily glance at the girl who was still sitting at her chair.
She stared at him straight in the eyes, with indifference inside them. Noticing that she didn't have that panic or scared look on her face, like his other victim's reactions, made him frown.
'What's up with this girl?' he thought to himself. He has a very bad feeling about this girl. Something about her made him feel afraid inside.
He then held his gun and pointed it at her.
"Come here." He beckoned her.
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"Come here." he beckoned her.
Looking straight at her eyes, he could see that she felt no fear at all, she even raised an eyebrow at him. As if she was mocking him.
The next second, she stood up calmly, as if the scene that was happening right now was just ordinary.
She had her hands in her pockets, as she leisurely walk towards the man.
The Old man, Lu Pei, and the boy tried to stop her. But their movements were limited as the men's guns were pointed directly at them. Taunting them to move even a muscle.
The girl walked slowly towards the guy, taking her precious time. She then stopped 1 meter away from them.
Probably because of the age difference, the man was taller that her, and she only reached his chest. So she had to stand there looking up slightly.
He looked at her eyes again when she raised her face. The girl was really an exquisite beauty, and he could only wonder what she would look like when she would grow older.
But sadly, this might be her death day.
He focused his attention in her emotions this time. Trying to find if she was just putting on a strong facade earlier, but right now there wasn't her calm and unbothered demeanor like earlier's.
There was clear irritation on her face now.
Irritation?
What's the connection of fear with irritation?
That thought itself left him baffled, until...
"You're too tall." she said with a calm voice, but there was clear irritation behind it. After sayin that, she took a step forward then the next second kicked him on the knee. Causing his knee caps to break.
*Crack* "Ahh!!" the sound of his knee cap breaking mixed with the agony in his voice, sounded in the room, shocking all the people inside. Except the girl, who stood there with her face, now clear of annoyance. She seemed quite pleased with herself.
The men behind the man who was now kneeling, pointed their guns towards her. Anger written all over their faces.
They aimed their guns at her, wanting to kill her right there, right now. Looking at all the guns aimed at her, she frowned.
Seeing her frown, the man who was kneeling infront of her thought that she was now afraid, after being pointed by many guns that could kill her in one click. By that though itself, made him smirk, forgetting the pain he went through earlier.
But the smirk that was etched on his face was wiped off by the words that she was going to say next.
"How rude." she said in a cold voice that sent chill through their spine, which made their breaths stop for a second.
The next second, she stomped on the gun, which the man held earlier, causing it to jump upwards into her hand as she swiftly caught it.
She held the gun with ease, making the people in the room thing that she handled guns her whole life by the way she held it.
Then while they were still dumbstruck by the way she held the gun, consecutive 5 loud gunshots sounded in the room.
By then they could only look at the severed arms of the 5 men behind the man who was kneeling, dropping their own guns to the white marble floor, as their blood dripped from the holes that the girl made.
The 5 men groped their wounded arm, trying to stop the blood from going all out. While they looked at the girl with fear in their eyes.
She just stood there, not minding their heated glares. But she looked at their dripping crimson blood staining the white marble floor, which made her frown again.
Some second later she mercilessly took the man infront of her by the hair, as she forcefully pushed his head down makind it slightly bleed.
"Look at the mess you've done." she shamelessly pushed her doings to the man, making him feel more fear for her.
She pushed his head to the ground fiercely, making him face the bloodied corpes of the dead servant. His blood, from the wound on his head, and the blood of the dead servant mixed on the floor, making it more dirty.
While she was distracted by dealing with their learder, one of the man from behind crouched down to pick up his gun but before he could do that, the girl shot him between his eyebrows without even looking at him.
"Idiot." She coldly remarked at the man she just killed. Then after that she slowly stood up and glanced at the men with bloodthirsty eyes.
"Clean that mess up or else." she ordered them, as if they were just her own servants. She then turned her head towards the Lu's.
She expected to see fear in their eyes, but they where unexpectedly calm, it is as if they knew what was going to happen. Thinking of that, she was quiet amuse and then she smirked at them.
"Was this a test?" She asked them calmly but there was anger between her words. She hated being used, thats also the reason why she burned that organization down to ashes.
"No its not." The old man honestly replied.
"The questions earlier was the test but not this, this..." he pointed at the dead bodies and the men who were barging in to kill them earlier and continued, " They weren't planned by us."
"However, we really are amazed by your abilities. We thought those were lies, but unexpectedly its true." Lu pei said to her with the same gentleness that he had with her earlier.
She could clearly see that he wasn't gentle because he was scared of her, because he was genuinely gentle.
"How did you know me?" she asked. Her voice still had the same bone chilling tone but they knew she wasn't that angry anymore. She just hadn't let her guard down.
"Oh, thats because of the recordings of the building that you exploded. The memory card of the cameras were fire proof." old man Gao said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"So did you take me here because of that all along?" she said with an ironic smirk on her face as if she was judging them.
"In all honestly, no. At first when I saw you I just felt pity and wanted to help you." Old man Gao said to her with seriousness. He did felt pity for her when he saw her lying on the ground unconscious, so thats why he took her home. And the reason why he was there in the first place was to investigate the explosion. So basically its all just a big coincidence.
"You aren't scared of me?" she asked them one last question.
"No, from the first time I saw you, I knew you aren't unreasonable." Old Gao said to her gently.
Then just after he said that, the tense air around them disappeared. Signaling them that she was calm again.
Knowing that she was calm now, they unvoluntarily heaved a sigh of relief in their hearts, 'this girl really is dangerous.' but they are genuine to her, and without and bad intentions towards her.
The next moment, Lu Pei took suddenly took out an envelope from nowhere. 'Was this guy a magician?' the girl thought.
"And we have a small request for you." He said with a smile on his face. Being intrigued to what he was talking about, the girl raised her eyebrows at them. Then feeling her curiosity, he handed her the envelope which she open the next second.
Writen on the top of the peice of paper were, 'ADOPTION'. So these people still wanted to adopt her into theirfamily after what happened?
She slightly frowned, are these people have a brain damage or what? They want to keep a killer by their side? She asked her self those, as asshe look at them weordly. After some time, she finally opened her mouth.
"why?" she asked them simply.
"Nothing, its just that we want to have you as our family even after all that you've been going through. I know that what you need is a family who would accept you right now." Old Gao said thoughtfully, having no other meaning in his words.
He's answer made her speachless, and after thinking about it she simply answered,"Okay."
And by the moment she said yes to them, wide smiles appeared on their lips, including the boy who was quiet from the beggining.
After checking him out, she could tell that he was really dashingly handsome to the point where he would leave any girl breathless, especially when he smiled, but unfortunately she wakes up looking to the beauty from the mirror herself.
Looking at their joyous looks, slightly made her smile genuinely, witjout the malice that she usually show to her enemies before they die.
...
After the unexpected things that happened this day, Old Gao ordered people to clean up and they celebrated until late at night. Just then, a big realization dawned upon them... They still didn't know the girl's name!! How stupid of them.
Then they awkwardly asked the girl her name.
"Fan, means mortal." she told them her name.
"Then we welcome you to the family, Lu Fan." Lu Pei said with a big smile on his face.
They let her rest earlier because they knew that she is still quite weak even after all the strength that she had shown earlier when she beat those men.
Then they moved her to a biggger room, much more worthy for a Lu.
The maids readied her bath and clothes so she had much less to do and just laid in the king sized bed. She just laid there motionlessly, quite daze if you may say. After a few minute on silence she mumbled in her mouth, "Family."
This word was quite foreign to her, as she had never gotten one of those. Even the ones that she had at the organization were just like close enemies to her. One second that you'd turn your back on them, they wouldn't hesitate to kill you.
She then slowly closed her eyes as she forced her self to sleep.
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