Chapter 358: Unt.i.tled
Bai Ye was very patient. He accompanied Ning Ning to watch the naval battle after watching the performance of the gladiators and lions. However, the young kid had no reaction to them. His eyes were still blank. Bai Ye sighed. Ning Ning was indeed very ill this time. He carried him out of the Colosseum and then gave Ning Ning a ride through the streets of Rome. Over and over, he patiently introduced the ancient Roman civilization to him.
There were a large number of cultural sites that remained in ancient Rome. It was an ancient civilization. If one really wanted to visit them all, it might take a few days. Bai Ye was only taking the young kid for a walk and they returned to the castle after the sun had set.
The young kid had been very quiet. He was like a marionette that allowed Bai Ye to carry him around. He had just reached the castle when Chu Li sent someone to invite him over to the study room. Bai Ye handed the young kid over to his most trusted maid and then went to the study room after telling her what to take note of the young kid.
Chu Li’s study room was on the third floor of the castle. It was more than a hundred square meters and was surrounded by electronic pa.s.sword doors, which acted as a defense mechanism. First, one had to key in the pa.s.sword, followed by the pupil detection and then voice recognition.
Other than Chu Li, only a few high-ranking officials of the terrorist organization can enter and leave the study room freely. There were surveillance cameras operating at every corner on the third floor. There were many hidden infra-red recognition lasers as well, which showed how tight the security was. It could be said that the security was watertight, just like Chu Li’s work style.
Bai Ye entered the study room and only Chu Li, Ye Wei, and Eleven were there. Ye Wei asked him about Ning Ning’s situation upon seeing him and Bai Ye explained it to her once. Ye Wei frowned deeper.
The woman who had always been reckless and arrogant turned melancholic.
Bai Ye felt uneasy. ‘Did something happen?’
“What happened?” Bai Ye asked. Chu Li silently handed him a stack of information and signaled for him to look at it himself. Bai Ye sat on the sofa beside him and glanced at them several times. Their expressions did not look good.
Bai Ye paused his thoughts and read the information. He stood up suddenly and widened his eyes in shock. “Xu Yaozu’s granddaughter?”
“That’s right. That’s what the data showed.”
Bai Ye’s expression changed. He looked at Ye Wei and Eleven, then Chu Li. He proceeded to sit down and looked at the information carefully again. Three minutes later, Bai Ye looked up. In a deep voice, he asked, “What are you planning to do?”
“What we are planning to do doesn’t matter now. I’m afraid that Jason would go crazy.” Chu Li said flatly. “It’s unexpected that he still has descendants. What’s more ridiculous is that Xu Mingyang, Xu Yaozu’s son and Xu Nuo’s father, is an important figure in British politics. He has a huge network of relations and even the prime minister has to give him face. Xu Nuo’s mother is even more impressive. She is half Chinese and half British, has royal blood, and is the successor of the School of Arts. Furthermore, she is also the most favored daughter of the royal family. The Xu family is almost the most powerful family in England and no one could ever touch them. I have met Xu Mingyang several times, how could I have not realized it?”
Ye Wei shrugged and said in a tone of resignation, “You guys, don’t take revenge on my nephew. This has nothing to do with him. Besides, Xu Nuo is Xu Nuo. Xu Yaozu is Xu Yaozu. That kid had nothing to do with these things. Don’t get mixed up.”
Ye Wei sounded indifferent. Her long eyelashes were fluttering like a thin and sharp blade, as if she was planning to kill someone. She looked very grim and ruthless, as though she was covered with a layer of ice.
Bai Ye went deep in thought while Chu Li was kept quiet. After a while, Bai Ye raised his eyebrows. “Wei Wei is right. Xu Nuo has nothing to do with these things. Ning Ning as well. Chu Li, this is a matter between us and the Xu family. Don’t mix it up. Baby is baby. No matter how much we hate the Xu family, Xu Yaozu was already killed by us. As for how Xu Mingyang got into the British royal family, it is none of our business. He is only Xu Yaozu’s illegitimate son. The hatred that had developed then has nothing to do with him either. We wouldn’t want the son to repay his father’s debts. Whoever did it has to pay for it himself. This is enough. As for the rest, let’s forget it.”
“It’s easy for you to say. In fact, I don’t think there will be any results in finding trouble for the Xu family because Xu Yaozu is dead anyway. The problem now is what if Xu Mingyang takes the initiative to find us trouble?” Chu Li said calmly, “I’ve started to investigate the people helping Louis behind the scenes. If it’s proven that Xu Mingyang was involved, don’t expect us to let him off. Think about it carefully. If Italy takes over North America, who will be at a disadvantage in the end?”
No doubt, the First Terrorist Organization.
“Well, wait for the result,” Eleven said. “I stand by Ye Wei. Don’t involve Xu Nuo and Ning Ning in this. I quite like that little girl.”
Chu Li raised his eyebrows and said in a tone of resignation, “Jason and Iron will arrive tomorrow. According to what you all wanted, we are not going to tell them about this?”
“If we find out that Xu Mingyang has something to do with it, we should tell them.” Bai Ye a.n.a.lyzed calmly. “I never thought that someone managed to escape. Since someone stays alive and has lived for so many years, it’s no fun to dig up the past. However, if he really has something to do with it, we’ll settle him immediately.”
“Okay, then we’ll not tell them first,” Chu Li said and tapped his fingers on the table. “Wei Wei, Eleven, if Jason goes crazy, you two handle it. I don’t want to reason with him.”
Ye Wei cracked her neck, did wrist exercises, and laughed. “I understand!”
Chu Li looked at how Ye Wei responded and mourned for Jason before giving a smile. As long as Ye Wei didn’t treat him like this, everything was negotiable.
He was not called ‘Scheming Chu’ for no reason.
Bai Ye picked up the information again and knocked on the handrail. “Looking at the background of the Xu family, Xu Nuo’s treatment or dignity must not be worse than the British Princess. Why was she on Paradise Island then?”
Ye Wei smiled coldly and gave a sarcastic look while Eleven sneered. Bai Ye raised his eyebrows and Chu Li gave him another piece of information. “Have a look!”
Bai Ye was really curious about why a girl with such a family background was living there. It was indeed perplexing. He frowned upon reading the piece of information. “It’s ridiculous.”
“It’s indeed ridiculous!” Ye Wei taunted.
Xu Nuo’s grandmother was the head of the School of Arts and her original surname was Miao. Women had always been in control of the family matters in the Miao family. She then married into the British royal family and gave birth to Xu Nuo’s mother. The Miao family had a curse that said that there are bound to be deaths if anyone in the family gave birth to twins. Who knew that Xu Nuo’s mother would really give birth to a pair of twins. Xu Nuo was born three minutes earlier and strange things happened. Her natal chart was said to have jinxed her parents and her family, which would cause deaths. Coincidentally, right at the moment when Xu Nuo was born, her healthy grandmother happened to fall to her death. The time of her death coincided with the time when Xu Nuo was born.”
Xu Nuo’s mother had no choice but to leave her at the custody of the Miao family far away in China. A year later, Xu Nuo’s aunt also died of illness. Everyone in the Miao family knew that she was an ominous child and avoided her as far as possible. The young Xu Nuo grew up lonely until she was three years old.
She still could not speak yet when she was almost three because the Miao family avoided her whenever they saw her and no one spoke to her. The children ran away from her every time they saw her and Xu Nuo had been by herself like this until she was three.
Meanwhile, in those three years, the Miao family had confirmed their fate. Twins would bring deaths and they had become weaker year by year. The Miao family had no choice but to let Xu Nuo’s mother take her away. As soon as Xu Nuo went back to England, Xu Mingyang got involved in a car accident and fell into a coma. The doctor had said that he would most probably stay in a vegetative state.
Xu Nuo’s mother threw Xu Nuo to the Xu family in anger. Eventually, she was in the hands of Blue Wolf.
“I’m so angry,” Eleven said. “The weird thing was that after her mother had thrown her to the Xu family, Xu Mingyang woke up. Do you think that Xu Nuo’s fate was really this bad?”
Ye Wei chuckled coldly. “What natal chart? It’s all fallacy.”
“No, don’t say that. The Miao family practices Taoism, but Xu Nuo might be…” Chu Li shrugged and said nothing more.
“Chu Li, if Rong Yan gives birth to your daughter and is diagnosed by the Miao family that she will jinx the family, will you really throw her away?” Ye Wei raised her eyebrows and asked with a sneer.
“Of course not,” Chu Li replied firmly.
“Then, come on, what kind of nonsense is that? I never believe in fate.” Ye Wei snorted coldly. “I bet Xu Nuo’s family doesn’t care about her sufferings at all and might even wish that she had died earlier.”
“Why are you so agitated? It’s not that your daughter has been abused.” Chu Li shook his head.
“She’s someone my baby likes, so how can I not be angry? Now, it’s still a matter of life and death. I’m still considered calm given that I haven’t killed those two heartless parents at Xu’s house.” Ye Wei sneered.
Bai Ye kept quiet. Eleven said, “How can she and her sister differ so much even though they are of the same parents?”
One was lonely and had suffered a lot, while the other was loved by everyone.
They were like heaven and earth.
Suddenly, a thought sparked Chu Li’s mind. Looking excited, he said, “Right, doesn’t Xu Nuo have a younger sister?”
“What does it have to do with us?”
“There’s a way to save Ning Ning,” Chu Li said. “Twins look the same. Isn’t Ning Ning looking for Xu Nuo? Isn’t it all settled once we give him a Xu Nuo?”
“Chu Li, you want to be beaten, don’t you?” Ye Wei exercised her wrists and coldness flashed past her beautiful eyes. The sound of her bones cracking could be heard. ‘What a bad idea. It wouldn’t work at all. No matter how similar she looks, she is not Xu Nuo.’
Besides, looking at how Xu Nuo lived as compared to Xu Xing, who had been loved for so many years, she could not calm down. Ye Wei was extremely protective of the weak. Xu Nuo addressed Mo Jue as her second brother and even risked her life for Ning Ning. She had long regarded Xu Nuo as her own family. No one can replace her or take away everything she had.
Chu Li smiled and waved quickly. “Come on, come on. Don’t vent your anger on me. I’m afraid of you. Happy? I mean, it won’t hurt to help Ning Ning regain his eyesight first. I’m not asking you to replace Xu Nuo with her.”
“Bad idea.” Eleven sneered coldly.
Bai Ye twisted his eyebrow and said, “We can try.”
Ye Wei and Eleven gave him a death stare. Bai Ye said, “Don’t you feel sorry for Ning Ning? I’m confident that he can get better on his own, but I’d rather agitate him a little for him to heal faster. I really feel sorry for him.”
Chu Li clapped. “I knew you’d agree. I’ve sent someone to do it and the plane had already taken off. It’ll arrive in about two hours approximately.”
Chu Li had always been efficient.
The three of them looked at Chu Li at the same time. Ye Wei laughed. “Chu Li, did you just act before telling us about it?”
“The results are the same. Didn’t you all agree on it?” Chu Li said in a tone of resignation.
“No. I say, are you kidnapping someone else’s little princess?”
Bai Ye touched his chin and shrugged his shoulders indifferently. “This is what we do. It’s okay.”
Ye Wei and Eleven were silent.
For some things, the process didn’t matter. The result was the most important, wasn’t it? It was more important than anything to restore Ning Ning’s eyesight. Whether it was a kidnapping or not, they didn’t care.
“It’ll be great if that spoiled little princess is one percent like Xu Nuo,” Eleven said coldly.
Ye Wei smiled. “I’d like to see how much they look like each other.”
Two hours later, at the castle’s parking ap.r.o.n.
“I want to go home, I want to go home… Boohoo… Let me go, a**hole.” A man in black took Xu Xing out of the plane. At the sound of Xu Xing’s cries, Ye Wei and Eleven knew that the girl was definitely different from Xu Nuo.
However, this voice was very similar to hers, although it doesn’t sound as indifferent as Xu Nuo.
“Shut up. Continue crying and I’ll feed you to the wolves.” Eleven threatened, not treating her like a child. The young girl in the arms of the man suddenly dared not cry and gave Eleven a death stare with her red eyes angrily, showing that she was not weak.
Ye Wei and Eleven frowned.
Indeed, they looked alike!
Her facial features were almost a duplicate of Xu Nuo’s and were as delicate and beautiful as her. She was indeed a beauty. In a few years’ time, she would grow into a beautiful woman who’d mesmerize everyone. In a white lace princess dress, she looked pitiful and adorable at the same time with her eyes and nose red from crying.
But…
“Who are you? I want to go home… My father will throw you in jail. Do you know who I am?” Xu Xing cried. She was from a well-off family and was ill-tempered and rude.
“Who cares who you are?” Ye Wei sneered. “Knowing how to oppress people with power at this young age, not bad.”
Xu Xing stared at Ye Wei angrily and wiped her tears.
“I want Mommy… I want Daddy…”
“Shut up! Your sister doesn’t even have the chance to call daddy and mommy,” Ye Wei said coldly. Although she knew that she shouldn’t be angry with a little girl who didn’t know anything, she just couldn’t help being angry.
Humans had a kind of mood, which was called venting their anger on someone else.
How powerful was Ye Wei? Xu Xing did not dare to cry anymore even though she was tough.
Mo Jue frowned. “She is not Nuo Nuo. Who is she?”
“I’ll tell you later,” Ye Wei said. Chu Li ordered someone to bring Xu Xing to take a rest. Ye Wei said, “Change her into a red dress before bringing her to Ning Ning.”
Chu Li nodded and ordered his men to do it.
Bai Ye went into deep thought. “We would be out of ideas if Ning Ning still doesn’t respond.”
There was a moment of silence. Ye Wei asked Chu Li, “Will there really be news of Xu Nuo tomorrow?”
“With the Interpol around, it’s a bit difficult to search for her. If not, we would have gotten the news tonight,” Chu Li said.
Half an hour later, Xu Xing changed into a red dress. Chu Li was really capable. According to Ye Wei’s description, he found a similar dress for her. They had looked the same at first, and even more so after she had changed into the dress.
Ye Wei urged and reminded her repeatedly. “Don’t you ever cry, get it? When you address him as ‘Stone’, your voice must sound indifferent, understand?”
Because of Ye Wei’s aura, Xu Xing nodded despite her unhappiness. Ye Wei forced her to call him ‘Stone’ and she had practiced for nearly two hours. Xu Xing’s temper was completely diminished by Ye Wei and she was about to cry.
When Ye Wei and Eleven were satisfied, Bai Ye and Chu Li then took her to the room where the young kid was in.
The young kid was still sitting on the bed with empty eyes silently. Bai Ye held him gently, smiled, and said, “Baby, look who’s back?”
Xu Xing looked at the beautiful young kid curiously. Curiosity filled her big eyes. For a moment, she had forgotten about Ye Wei’s orders. Ye Wei poked her shoulder to remind her. Then, in an indifferent tone, she said, “Stone, I’m back.”
Her voice was indifferent, just like Xu Nuo. The young kid who had never moved his fingers moved gently. Bai Ye’s eyes brightened and signaled Xu Xing to go closer quickly. “Ning Ning, you see, Xu Nuo is not dead. She’s really back.”
Bai Ye let Ning Ning touch Xu Xing’s face gently. “Feel her. Is she Xu Nuo?”
Although he couldn’t see her, he could feel it with his heart. Xu Xing had received an upper-cla.s.s education and with her distinguished status, she had always maintained his dignity. No one had dared to touch her like that except for her parents.
His hand had no warmth of a human at all. Hence, it felt cold on her face. Xu Xing saw that his eyes were covered with a strange, thin layer of redness and was afraid of them. As soon as she was about to step back, Ye Wei stopped her and warned her not to step back.
As soon as Xu Xing lost her temper, she glared at Ye Wei. Ye Wei narrowed her eyes dangerously, and she stayed still again. Bai Ye grabbed the hand of the young kid and stroked Xu Nuo’s face for a long time before slowly releasing it.
The young kid, as if he was conscious, touched Xu Xing’s face, eyebrows, eyes, nose, and lips with his hand.
“Nuo Nuo…” There was a path of light in the empty eyes of the young kid. It was so bright, as if sunlight had pierced through the dark clouds. “Nuo Nuo…”
“Baby, you are willing to speak at last.” Everyone was elated. Xu Xing pursed her lips and looked at him. She was even more curious. Ye Wei warned her with her eyes and she did not dare to disobey her. She could only look at the beautiful child in front of her curiously.
‘Why is he so happy?’
‘Who’s Nuo Nuo?’
“Nuo Nuo…” Ning Ning called out this name repeatedly and hugged Xu Xing with excitement immediately. Xu Xing was stunned. Although he did not use great strength, she felt breathless.
Ning Ning stopped suddenly, grasped Xu Xing’s hand, and touched it nervously. Bai Ye was a quick thinker but it was too late to stop him. Ning Ning pushed Xu Xing away with such great strength that she fell off the bed.
The young kid’s face was as cold as Yama and his eyes looked like he was going to kill someone.
“Scram!”