Chapter 8: Engagement

  Xia Zhitong took a bath, changed into clean pajamas, and sat in front of the dresser.

  Gently open the exquisite wooden box, on the black velvet, quietly lying a simple style necklace. The necklace is extremely simple in design, with a fine white gold chain and a sky blue earring as a pendant, simple yet clever in design, can be worn as a necklace or taken off as an earring.

  But... the keepsake Mother left behind was just one earring, what about the other one?

  "Bang!" The door slammed shut.

  Xia Zitong turned around and saw her father standing at the door, she smiled warmly, a happy and sweet smile that hid all her grievances and unhappiness.

  "Dad."

  Father Xia You Tian walked to Xia Zhi Tong's side, and a tired but sincere smile immediately appeared on his gentle face. He stroked Xia Zhi Tong's increasingly beautiful face, "Little Tong, these years letting you be alone abroad, I've wronged you..."

  "Dad, no." Xia Zhitong shook his head. "I'm doing well abroad. It was my idea to study abroad in the first place, so I wouldn't be a burden on... 'Mom'..."

  Xia You Tian's eyes closed in pain, and the wrinkles on his forehead also appeared. "It was all Father's fault. If he hadn't believed the rumors back then, thinking that your mother and you two sisters had met with an accident... he wouldn't have married Mei Jing in desperation, only to find out later that you three weren't dead after all... It was I who wronged you three mothers and daughters!"

  "Dad..." Xia Zhitong often thought of the days spent in the countryside, although bitter, but pure and beautiful. If he hadn't returned to the city back then, perhaps his mother wouldn't have died from depression.

  "It's time to repay you... Our Xiaotong is also turning 20 next month. In a few days, at Father's birthday banquet, Father will personally hand over some things to you, and it's also time to fulfill that marriage promise."

  "Engagement?" Xia Zhitong looked at his father in surprise.

  Engagement? Whose engagement? Why didn't she know about it all along...?

  ……

  Late at night, inside a European-style villa on the outskirts of S city.

  A dimly lit study, with only a single weak wall lamp on, the cold silver moonlight spilled onto the man standing proudly by the window.

  The man's black suit wrapped his perfect physique tightly, making him look stern and imposing. His eyes narrowed, his thick eyebrows furrowed, and although the anger between his brows was temporarily suppressed, his icy words were more intimidating than the wild wind outside, striking fear into people's hearts!

  "Young master, I've already sent someone back to the manor to look for it, but your earring wasn't found..."

  The man's eyebrows furrowed deeper, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly, as he suddenly turned around, a pair of eyes like dark obsidian emitting two sharp cold glints!

  "Master, it's my fault! This earring was left to you by the mistress before she passed away as a keepsake and also as a token for you to fulfill your marriage promise in the future. I'll send someone back immediately to find it, even if we have to turn the entire estate upside down, we must retrieve Master's earring!!!" A black-clad subordinate, half-kneeling on the ground, didn't dare lift his head to look at the man.

  The man let out a cold snort! The anger in his eyes seemed to "roar" into flames, and his pupils instantly turned crimson red!

  He turned around again, raised the wine glass in his hand, and savagely gulped down the fiery liquor! The burning sensation seemed to have hollowed out his internal organs, but it was nothing compared to the humiliation and pain he had suffered twenty years ago.

  Twenty years later, he returned to this place that made him hateful again, for two words - revenge!