Chapter 161 - 158: Touch Of Kindness-II
Once Li Lian came back home with Li Jun Wei, he led her to make a call using a different phone then the one he often uses. Pushing the buttons numbers, his eyes met her spry ones to pass the phone toward Li Lian who was standing right beside him.
Li Lian took the phone her face having little worries forming on her eyes. It had been years since she last talked alone with her grandfathers. Although Old Master Ryouma was the head of Ryouma Clan and the title often bring him as a strict and frightening figure in fact, the man was a very gentle person.
She could still remember the first time she met her grandfather. It was when Li Lian was thrown in an unknown place in Japan by her kidnappers to be found by the people who lived not too far from the place where she was abandoned at. With no clue to her origin or family, the people who found her tried to talk to her but Li Lian could not understand the single words they used and was instantly taken in by the orphanage.
Although the people on the orphan were people with best interest to the children without parents, she was always in constant worries and fear. Her fear surged from the kidnapping accident and the sudden change of her environment where she could not find her parents or people she knows. She felt like a child thrown to a dark box with no light and the fear ate the little Li Lian’s heart away.
One day as she was unable to keep the fear on her own in deep dark when she dreamt a nightmare, she ran away from the orphanage without being found out by the orphanage caretakers who was also sleeping by the time.
At that time, the Old Master Ryouma had just came after his work in the nearby place when he was attacked by people who wanted to take his life. It was nothing new to him since his earliest age of fifteen he had been hunted by hitmen sent from people from different clans and families that he had somehow expected the attack as his trip was sudden.
The people of his group had finished wrapping the hitmen when he met a girl who was running away from the orphanage. She was alone, her face was delicate but malnourished where her fingers were brittle and her body was full of wounds and scar that came after her kidnapping. When Li Lian glanced up craning her neck to see the old man, she also caught the sight of men being beaten up behind him and shrieked in fear.
The Old Master raised his hand to the little girl but the girl immediately swatted his hand for her to clasp her hand that had slapped the old man’s hand away in fear to realize she had done a big mistake. Once when she was kidnapped this happens and she was beaten mercilessly by the man. She recalled the incident of abuses for her eyes to shake in fear and tears flooded out.