AiLin gulped down the apple juice, for so reasons her heart was starting to pick up a pace as she looked to Nanny Po’s face carefully. She gulped down another sip of water, "What incident?" She asked carefully. She was worried that she was pushing her nose into sothing she shouldn’t but her curiosity was taking over her and she had been wanting to know about it. She pulled up her left wrist, pointing towards it, "Does it have to do with the tattoo on his arm?"
Surprised, Nanny Po looked back at her with her mouth slightly parted, "Well, yes. You know about it, Miss AiLin?"
"Not entirely," AiLin then humd, "Does it have anything to do with Zi Chen’s hatred toward won who pushed themselves to sleep with him?" She was bring crude but judging by what Nanny Po had insinuated earlier, she guessed that this might be it. If they feared Li ZiChen wouldn’t be holding to any woman in his life after this "incident" she can only guessed that the "incident" was related to a woman.
Nanny Po beca still as she humd her lips with a scrunched nose. The older woman wondered to herself how far should she explained. Truthfully when she first received the news that soone would be living in the apartnt, she thought it would be one of Li ZiChen’s best friend. She found it odd as he never allowed anyone to step into his house, only his family and the servant which was her. To have soone in his house was equivalent to letting soone touch his skin, sothing that he was both against of so severely.
She found it surprising when she found out the guest, Miss AiLin, was a young gorgeous woman. She was even more flabbergasted finding out that the young master’s eyes softened when looking at her and how his lips would curve gently into a loving grin.
When AiLin was still asleep, Li ZiChen told her earlier in the morning that if AiLin ever asked anything to her regarding him, Nanny Po was free to speak at her will. But still... this was a sensitive topic... should she really spill it out as if it was a tea?
"If you can’t, it’s alright," AiLin said with a soft smile, encouraging the Nanny. "I understand that you’re worried and not everything needs to be shared."
"No, I uh.." Nanny Po felt grateful that Miss AiLin was such a kind gentle child who wouldn’t ask such a thing, she felt her heart touched by the young lady’s kindness as she knew that usually no one treat servants well. Here, AiLin treated her like a part of Li ZiChen’s family, politely and kindly. The old nanny sighed, "You see, young master has always been such a handso man since the earliest ti when he was a baby. He was even more pretty, if you would say it, he was so pretty that he would imdiately capture anyone’s heart in a blink."
AiLin imagined the angelic baby Li ZiChen which wasn’t too impossible. Although he is really handso, she has to say that he is also extrely pretty. If it wasn’t for his terrible rumors, his face would almost look angelic. Yes, if he had smiled more and softened his gaze he would look like those angels drawn out of a fairytale.
"It happened during his middle school years," Nanny Po sighed as she sat down. The older woman’s expression appeared to be more marred with stress and disappointnt as she continued her story to AiLin. She noted that the Nanny seed to be digging through old wounds and hesitate to speak because she didn’t want to rember how horrible it was.
AiLin placed her hand on top of Nanny Po’s palms, feeling the rough skin and trying to comfort the woman while telling her that it would still be fine if she hadn’t told her anything.
"He once had a teacher," continued Nanny Po with lips stressed together, "I had seen the teacher a few tis and I thought she was a good person since she was always dressed so well mannered. But—"
AiLin sowhere felt a dreadful grasp clutching her heart as she listened to the Nanny’s words.
"—one day we found the young master hitting the teacher across her face with a box cutter."
AiLin frowned and she shook her head, "You an that Zi Chen had attacked the teacher?" But that’s odd, she thought to herself, "I don’t feel like he is the type of person who would attack soone unless he had been hurt first."
Nanny Po’s face brightened upon hearing AiLin’s words, "Right?" The woman spoke to her with a blossoming smile as if she had seen a ray of light from the thick damp clouds, "Indeed, I believe that was the case as well and so was the Master and Mistress of the house. Both senior Mr and Mrs Li extrely love their oldest son and that caused for so people to accuse that they were protecting the young master despite his terrible tendencies of hurting people. However, we the people who had lived and seen the young master grew up knew well he wasn’t soone who would do such a thing."
AiLin humd. Though he is a bit manipulative, he apologized to her sincerely, listened to her when her family would have never done so. She could easily put him in the rank of the n who had not hurt her. One could argue that’s because Li ZiChen wanted sothing from her, thus explaining his kind action but even Li YingYi spoke so well about his older brother, aning that Li ZiChen had always been respected and feared for good reasons.
"It didn’t help that the young master stayed quiet after that incident and refused to respond to telling what had happened," said Nanny Po. "He only told Senior Mr Li to fire the teacher and never allow her to co close to him again. We would have forgotten the incident and swept it under the rug but one day Mrs Li found the cara from the living room and we all saw what had actually happened.."
AiLin frowned, "What was it?"
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