Milady's Fine Gentleman

It didn"t quite take him too long to find out though, what had really happened to his G.o.ddess and angel, his tennyo, and where she had been all this while. It did not even take one month of gruesome search to discover that she was with her family in Beijing, and on house arrest. 

He had learned from Chichi, Teng Man Rui"s most trusted maid and Zhu Li Qiang"s trusted one, too, that the madame had marched with full platoon towards Hangzhou and dragged the lady out of her apartment with force. Chichi recounted Madame Teng furious trespa.s.sing to the young miss" abode in full animation. 

"The madame simply snapped, Sir! Good Lord! I was there! I saw it with my own eyes! I saw how the madame surged forward and landed a good crisp slap across the young miss" right cheek. The poor young miss froze in place initially, apparently taken aback from the swift turn of events. Eventually she teared up while questioning her mother why she did it. The madame has been gentle and mild in ordinary times, Sir. I swear! Even I was appalled at the sight of the mother-daughter feud…"

"The madame called the young miss a disgrace and that she trusted her and has given her enough freedom and free will but she said the young miss has only gotten so much more brazen and that she lacks discipline and she needs to be looked upon and be tamed…"

"The madame was truly, TRULY furious, Sir!"

"My poor young miss got dragged out of her apartment. She couldn"t do a thing but sobbed pails and pails of tears… My poor young miss…"

Zhu Li Qiang forlornly listened notwithstanding the animation in the action and voice of his storyteller. He just sighed in acknowledgment that he heard the maid"s retelling.

They were inside Zhu Li Qiang"s heavily tinted, black Cadillac XT4, at the back seat. To avoid getting detected, they went into a shrine the maid servant always visited during her rest day, almost out of Beijing.

In all fairness to Chichi, it was her day off, and she got only one in a week, yet she decided to spend it to meet the young master Zhu and headed out to share this extremely important information.

Though silent, his grat.i.tude towards this person and her loyalty to them, both him and Man Rui alike, and to their love story, was beyond words and even surpa.s.sed the heavens above. She did it on her own accord too.

 "Anything else?" The young master Zhu almost whispered.

"Ahh, that…"

Perhaps Zhu Li Qiang already knew the next part of the maid servant"s tale. It should be about the nearing wedding of the young master s.h.i.+ and Teng Man Rui. He clenched his teeth, jaw tight, eyes as sharp as razors, and inhaled deeply, bracing himself from hearing the succeeding narrative.

It had not been a secret in the elite circle, rather, it was somewhat encouraged to talk about the wedding of s.h.i.+ Fan Hai and Teng Man Rui. The man"s side initiated the spreading of the news, and was quite boastful, too, claiming to be the luckiest man in the world to tie the knot with the most eligible bachelorette. IT was blown out of proportion, and exaggeratedly so.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"The… The wedding… The date has been set, Sir…" Chichi reported meekly. She too was quite whispering now in an almost inaudible voice. She was saddened with the ending of the love story she was vouching for. But then, she thought, if she was sad, almost teary, what more could Zhu Li Qiang feel?

Perhaps he felt a thousand times stronger than the sadness she"s feeling. 

"Is that all?"

"Uhm, almost… Except for the small detail that the young miss has been ill recently. She lacks the energy to function, and she usually just sits in her rocking chair, staring out at the window. Perhaps the rocking chair is the culprit, as it makes her feel nauseated. She always ma.s.sages her head and closes her eyes in deep concentration. Sometimes she empties her stomach from being too ill. I bet it"s because of the bile taste in her mouth, which made her frequently lose appet.i.te. She doesn"t even speak that much now… Even to us…"

"I"m afraid, Sir, that she"s lost her will to live again…" 

At that, Zhu Li Qiang turned his full attention to the maid, Chichi, which she responded quickly with wits that were swift to catch on. "Don"t worry, Sir, I"m watching her carefully! She wouldn"t be able to do anything under my watch. At times like this when I"m away, my fellow servants whom I trust is there to closely monitor her. We care for our young miss, at least I do. Maybe not as deeply as you do, Sir, but I promise that I will take care of her while I"m there at the mansion, and even if I cease to be there, as long as I am still capable."

"Then I would have to rely on you…" He intently relayed his full willful trust on Chichi through his eyes. "Get back now or they might suspect you."

"Is there a message you would want me to say to the young miss?"

Zhu Li Qiang hesitated, but at long last, he retorted, "None."

The maidservant Chichi wistfully gazed at the young master Zhu"s unfriendly side profile. It was obvious that their conversation came to an end. "I understand, Sir. I will go now."

Zhu Li Qiang only nodded slightly in acknowledgment. Before Chichi left his car, he murmured his thanks. The young teenage girl smiled back as if to say, "It"s nothing. It"s my pleasure to help."

Now alone in the back seat, he repeated everything he had learned in his mind. No matter how much internalization he did, he could not get to terms with how things turned out between Teng Man Rui and him. "It should have been me. It shouldn"t have turned out like this."