章 16: Troublesome Group

After leaving the hotel, Su Ruan and Lin Qing headed to their favorite restaurant downtown to have a hotpot. Su Ruan swirled a piece of meat in the dipping sauce and looked at her friend.

"Lin Qing, you always said that the way I look at Zhi Yi would give away my feelings. Tell me, everyone seemed to know that I like him but why can't he see it himself?"

Lin Qing listened to her words and frowned as something came to her mind. "It couldn't be that Miss Shen knew something about it?"

Su Ruan flashed her a weak smile.

"Just now in the restroom…"

"Mhm… She suspected something but I quickly denied it."

Her eyes widened in surprise. Lin Qing looked at her friend with worry. She wanted to give some consolation words but looking at Su Ruan's expression, Lin Qing found that she could not find the right word to say.

"Don't look at me that way. I told you that I will stop harboring any feelings toward him. I meant what I said."

"You'll find someone else soon," Lin Qing spoke. "Someone who you love and reciprocate your feelings."

Lin Qing knew that these words would have no effect on Su Ruan, but in the end, these were the only consolation words that Lin Qing could think of.

Even though Su Ruan might not want to hear these words, Lin Qing sincerely prayed that Su Ruan would find someone better.

Su Ruan laughed. "Thank you. But I decided that I'm going to stop thinking about love matters. Right now, I'm going to focus on my career. Let me tell you a secret. My editor assigned me to interview a big shot for the upcoming issue. If I do it well, perhaps I could get a raise or something. I'm thinking that once I made my name, I can get a new job at a new place as well."

Lin Qing pursed her lips as she listened to Su Ruan telling her about her job. Lin Qing knew well that Su Ruan was only trying to cheer herself up but the sadness in her eyes was unmaskable.

Although Su Ruan had said that she was alright, Lin Qing could not help but worry.

…

The Orchid Hotel.

Long Yu Heng entered the room and found Long Fei seated behind his desk. Sensing his appearance, the man tore his gaze away from the documents to look at him.

"I have investigated Miss Su and Mr. Yu's relationship," Long Yu Heng announced. He walked over to his desk and placed the documents on Long Fei's table.

The man merely glanced at the documents before he nodded. "Un. Thank you. You can leave it here. I'll look at it later."

His attitude was the same as if he did not care about it.

However, Long Fei soon realized that his cousin had not left but instead, continued to stand where he was.

"Do you have something you wanted to say?"

Long Yu Heng hesitated before he spoke, "Long Fei, we received news that that troublesome group was now in Capital City."

A frown deepened on his face. Long Fei was about to ask about this person when a thought came to his mind.

In this world, there were strange creatures like him, although not many. Some people believed in the existence of creatures like him and had wanted to look for them.

Those groups of people were hunting creatures like him in the name of research.

The Long family had long known of their existence and had always avoided them like plague.

"What are they doing here?" Long Fei's expression turned darker as he recalled running into one member of their team in the past.

His father had especially warned him to be careful around those people. If his secret was out in the open, then their whole family will have to suffer.

"It was said that they were here for a personal matter. One of their group members seemed to be someone from this city."

Long Fei tapped his finger on the desk a few times. Then, he stopped abruptly and looked at Long Yu Heng again. "Continue to monitor them but don't get too close. Those people are quite sensitive. We don't want to do anything that will alert them."

"I know." Long Yu Heng turned around to leave. But a few seconds later, he paused to look at his cousin again. "Long Fei, you have to be careful."

What Long Yu Heng was worried about the most was for Long Fei to use his power and let the others notice his presence.

Not too long ago, Long Fei had made it rain using the water from the nearby pool.

If this kind of incident happened again... If Long Fei accidentally used his power again... those people might know that someone like Long Fei existed in Capital City. If he was hunted and caught…

Long Yu Heng did not dare to think of the consequences.

It would be best if they could settle with everything in Capital City and head back to D Town soon. However, everything will be up to Long Fei to decide.

Long Fei sat in his office silently for a long time.

When he finally moved, the sky outside had long turned dark.

Long Fei grabbed the phone on his desk and saw that there were a few messages from his cousin. He was too preoccupied with his mind to notice Long Yu Heng knocking on his door a few times to remind him about dinner.

In the end, Long Yu Heng left after leaving him a few messages.

Long Fei replied to a few messages and his gaze shifted to the brown envelope that Long Yu Heng had delivered. He took the envelope and took out its contents.

As he read what was written on the documents, Long Fei's expression gradually turned solemn.

Su Ruan and that Yu Zhi Yi's relationship was not just friends from the same university. According to what Long Yu Heng had found out, the two of them were very close. They were best friends.

His eyes darted at a sentence on the report.

Su Ruan was reportedly had romantic feelings towards this man for years.

He raised his hand and clenched at his chest area.

Long Fei did not know why but his heart was aching at this time.