Chapter 244 - The Third Gift
In a different location, the sound of classical music echoed within the whole house. A man with a broad back can be seen playing with an Old English Sheepdog in the vast green garden. The dog’s bark sounded happy as he ran across the garden to pick up the chew bone that his owner had thrown.
"Mr.Lu’s people started moving to investigate Zhu Lin’s death." Xiu Su Yi stated as soon as he arrived at the garden.
The man still looked at ease as he threw another ball.
"They’re too slow. I expected much more from Ms.Xiu’s choice of man."
Silence befell between the two. Xiu Su Yi solely focused on the man’s view from behind.
"Send another gift on my behalf." The man ordered. The man pondered for a mont, tapping the ball with his finger as he carefully chose the gift he wanted to send Xiu i.
A broken doll. A blood-red rose. Hmmm,... what should he give her next?
"Ah." The man raised his hand and smoothed out the fur of the dog as he continued his sentence, "A letter."
A mysterious smile appeared on his face as he cupped the dog’s head and rained it with kisses.
"A letter would be nice. What do you think, buddy?"
The dog barked as if to respond to what he said. The man laughed and cuddled the dog into his arms, carried it with ease then went back inside the house.
The next day, Xiu i’s assistant was going through the box full of mails directed to the president. After dividing the mails according to their receiver, she left Secretary Lu’s mails to his table and both the President’s and Secretary Xiu’s on Xiu i’s table. That morning was as busy as the previous weeks, the three mbers of the President’s office were buried in their work.
"An earl grey tea?" Her assistant offered.
Xiu i gladly accepted the teacup and imrsed in the sweetness and bitterness of the tea. Her tensed shoulders gradually relaxed while her assistant briefly went out to pick up the food they ordered in the lobby. Ever since the parcel incident, not many people are allowed to drop by the President’s office.
Luckily, the President and Lu Shao were out on official business she had the freedom of doing whatever she wanted for the day, may it be drowning in work or relaxing secretly in the office.
While she was enjoying her short break with a cup of tea, her eyes darted towards the small pile of mails that she pushed off just this morning.
Xiu i glanced at the elevator door.
"Well, I guess she would still take a while." She muttered under her breath, recalling the long line of people queuing during lunchti.
Grabbing her paperknife, she opened and read the mails one by one, dividing them by priority, importance, and useless mails. Well, it wasn’t like there’s that much mail to go through since a lot of things are now done thru emails. It’s usually special invitations and requests that co in paper mails.
"Oh my, this is so pretty." Xiu i uttered seeing a white envelope sealed with red wax with a few laces in between that made the whole look of the letter look very fancy.
This is probably an invitation for so kind of fancy gathering, huh?
She innocently taught as she nonchalantly opened the envelope. She marveled at the whole appearance of the letter before reading it.
Whoa... whoever made this really made an effort in their design ah.
Every design glued on the paper looked fancy and expensive. Was this so kind of super-rich party or sothing? They even used so kind of red ink. That’s not a really common color to use ah. It must’ve been so expensive.
She slowly read the letter. It was addressed to her, which she already sohow predicted given the girlish appearance of the letter.
Dear Ms.Xiu,
This humble self writes a letter to you hoping that it will reach your hands and feel my sincerity. I couldn’t think of a perfect third gift, except this letter, which I hope will bring a surprise to your face.
Along with my letter is another gift, which shares the sa features as my second. It is inscribed in this paper, as to which you are reading as of the mont. I do hope it won’t scare you, as it is a precious liquid that I collected and kept for quite so ti. Oh, you don’t know how much I would be willing to pay just to see the expression on your face at the mont.
Carrying on, I would also like to know if you’ve enjoyed my previous two gifts that I wholeheartedly and carefully chose as a perfect gift dedicated for you.
So might think that I ant to endanger you, but I assure you that it is not what I intend to do. It is rely my expression of feelings for you, and how far I would go just to make you see in those eyes.
Oh, those pools of hazel brown eyes that I could never forget. The first ti I laid eyes on them, they twinkled and shone brightly under the blanket of darkness, and it looked so charming despite the expression on your face that night.
How I wish to see you like that again.
Look how much I’ve babbled. It seems like I’m letting you on too much at the mont which is not entirely my intention. I do hope that you could rember , even if it is just for a brief mont so that it would bring a smile to my face thinking that I wasn’t the only one who had forgotten our shared mont.
It seems my correspondence is taking a little too long than intended. Unfortunately so, I would have to cut this letter short. Ms.Xiu, I sincerely look forward, to the ti we et again. A mont when you can finally recognize , just like how I’ve always rembered you.
P.S. I wonder how my special present is doing as well? I would not entirely consider it as a present, but since you willingly received it so that makes it a special present then.
"...What?"
Xiu i was confused about the aning of the letter. She thought it was an invitation... but it seems like it was a love letter instead? It even sounded a bit too...weird? It looked like a letter written by soone who reads classical books. She wouldn’t be too surprised if she sees a ’thy’ or so kind of old English word in the letter.
She grabbed the white envelope to look at the back but nothing was on it. No stamp or anything.
T-This... this wasn’t set thru postmail. And that ans it’s a very suspicious letter.
And it’s even addressed to her.
She instantly threw the letter on the table. Her eyes lingered on the words on the paper and thought hard.
Who is it? Who sent this?
Even though she was a bit scared, she continued to reread the letter hoping to understand the aning behind the cryptic ssage.
Wait.
The sender said that this was the third gift. And just like the letter ntion, she already received the two previous gifts. Then on the postscript, there’s another gift. A special gift.
Xiu i tried to recall if she received anything.
A third gift...third...second...
Xiu i paused and a mory instantly clicked in. That’s right! How could she forget?
The third gift! This was the third gift. Then there was a first and second gift.
And there’s only one thing she rembers that it was ntioned as a second gift.
"A bloodstained rose from the first victim I killed as my second gift to you."
A chill suddenly ran down her back.
That red rose dyed red with blood.
She shuddered as she recalled that mory, but she instantly rembered the words that she read from the letter.
It was written that the third gift shares the sa features as the second gift. The second gift was a rose dyed with blood so that ans...
Xiu i’s eyes darted on the dark red ink contrasting to the white textured paper. A thought flashed in her mind.
D-Don’t tell her... that the ink was blood?!
What the hell! Who is so crazy to use blood as ink in writing a letter?!
In the first place, who is that crazy bastard sender?! Why does that person keep sending her strange exotic gifts?!
A broken doll. A rose dyed with blood. Then a letter written with blood ink.
What’s next? A juice made with blood?!
Xiu i felt complex emotions for the entire ti she was washing her hands. She felt scared and angry.
But then, she rembered another part of the latter.
A special gift.
She almost forgot that there was a special gift!
A special gift that she had no idea what it was at all!!
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