"Hot Daddy" (Dad Raise Me, My Opium"

A Surprising Message

"Eat."

Riyana just stared cynically at her ex-husband who now stood looming before her. Riyana didn't touch at all the food Cris had brought her.

"Until when are you going to leave your stomach empty? Look at your body that only skin and skeleton remain."

Riyana looked back cynically at Cris. "You don't have to be nice to me. You think I don't know the bad intentions behind this fake good of yours?!"

"It's up to you to judge me. I've obviously been kind to you. You want to eat or not. It's up to you,"

Then Cris got up from Riyana and left. This is the second month Cris has detained the woman in the basement of her home. Both of her legs were pasung, so the woman could not run anywhere.

"Cris, you're cruel, you're a demon, you're heartless. I hate you even more!!'

Riyana shouted and raged inside that dark and stuffy room. But Cris remained indifferent and did not care. He wanted Riyana to feel what she used to feel.

Even what Cris has done to Riyana this time, it really is not comparable to what the woman has done to her in the past.

Too deep the wound that Riyana scratched in his heart, so deep was the wound. It is impossible to heal.

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If you wake up and hear the sound of rain water colliding with the roof of the balcony of his room, Aster must immediately complain.

He hates the rain in the morning. He hated the sound of water clashing violently with the roof of the balcony. He hates the air that gets humid. He hated the scene outside that had become faint from being covered in a thin fog. He hates the streets being muddled. He hated the rain in the morning.

The stormy rain outside forced her to stay home until the rain ended. Aster should be on campus and joking with his three best friends.

And there's another reason why he hates the rain in the morning. The reason is easy, when it rains in the morning, the habit of urinating all the time must be loving it faithfully.

This morning it was like that...

It wasn't the ringing of the clock that kept him awake, nor was it because his blanket was pulled suddenly, his butt kicked or parts of his body groped. What awakened him from his sleep was his desire to urinate which he could not possibly endure.

Predictably, he immediately let out a long grievance. And his complaint made the other occupants who were one bed with him could only snort long.

"Until when will you continue to complain like a boy, Aster Xiao!!" Nathan's anger was a little disturbed because of Aster.

Aster turned his head and looked at Nathan bitterly."Uncle should just shut up and don't make my mood worse" he said cynically.

And the ending of a notch will land smoothly on Aster's forehead. "AW, Uncle's sick!" Aster screams while rubbing his head that was just snapped by Nathan.

"Who told you to be rude to me?!" Then Nathan got up from his bed and walked towards the bathroom.

Aster grunts his head. She doesn't know why Nathan has been so annoying lately. And it feels like she wants to swear at the adoptive father who doubles as her husband.

Aster pulled up his blanket and walked towards the balcony. The rain has not stopped. The whole city was wet, none of them escaped the rain.

Rain in the morning does not bother anything, except the smell of petrichor carried by the wind and greet the ventilation, before finally inhaled by the organs of respiration. 

The white yard is still filled with drops of water on each grass.

While the tanned soil wet under the green grass emits a petrichor aroma that is too thick to soar into the air, creating a faint white fog that is barely caught by human netra.

The color between black and white still envelops some corners of the sky, refracting grimly to the earth that has just left rain.

The window that had awakened on the side of the main door was stained with dew blocking the view. Thin, broken white curtains perfect the barrier of a pair of binaries behind a window to grab what rain leaves in the yard.

"Uncle, are you done?" Aster was a little surprised when he felt a pair of hands hugging him from behind. It felt cold because the skin of his arm had just dried from the water.

"What do you see? Is there anything special?"

Then Nathan lets go of Aster's embrace, the woman turns around and their positions face each other. "I've prepared warm water for you. Take a shower." His ink is then nodding back by Aster.

Aster nodded. "All right."

The woman got out of Nathan's presence and walked towards the bathroom. Not forgetting that he was carrying his clothes as well. This morning it was colder. He did not want to get in the wind if he came out of the bathroom only wrapped in a towel.

Ting...

Nathan's attention was a little distracted. The man in black pants and an open-sleeved grey shirt grabbed his phone that was on the table. His eyes squinted at the foreign number on his phone screen.

I wonder who sent him the message. Nathan immediately opened the message and his left eye widened to see what was in the photo.

#Do you still remember this guy's face? He's alive and in my hands, I'll give him back to you in one piece if you return Aster to Jung Hilman. And I'll give you 24 hours to think. Return Aster to his family, or Xiao Murten dies!!!

Gyutti...

Nathan's hand was clenched tightly and his left eye flashed sharply full of anger. He could not possibly forget the face of the man, who 15 years ago had saved his life. The man who had taught her what life meant to her.

"AAARRKKHHH~BUCKLES!!!"

Aster who had just come out of the bathroom was shocked to see Nathan's anger. Aster didn't know what was going on until the man got this angry.

Then his eyes rolled on the floor. Nathan's cell phone split in two. Seeing Nathan's anger so terrible, it felt like Aster was thrown into another realm. Added to that by looking at Nathan's cold and dangerous eyes.

Aster approached Nathan, prayerfully asking. "Uncle, what's wrong?" Aster touched Nathan's shoulder which was up and down irregularly.

The man looked up and looked at the woman in front of him. "Nothing, it's time for breakfast. Let's go down." Nathan got out of Aster's presence and left.

Aster doesn't move right away. He stared at Nathan's departure with a difficult look. She was confused by what happened to her husband. Why is his attitude so cold, when how many moments ago is still fine.

Aster picks up Nathan's destroyed cell phone. He was very curious as to who had contacted him and made it so angry. But how should he find his knowledge. Because the phone can no longer be used.

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Anxiety enveloped Nathan's heart. He is faced with two difficult problems. The person he thought had died was still alive, and was currently in the hands of his enemy.

The man gave her two hard choices. Between Aster or Xiao Murten. And Nathan couldn't possibly choose between the two of them.

His brain is working hard. About how he could get back Xiao Murten without handing Aster to them. Nathan is unlikely to give up Aster as a means of exchange to save his father's life.

"Uncle," Nathan lifted his face and stared flatly at the woman before him.

"Aster, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Did something happen? Why is Uncle's attitude a little different, and what makes Uncle so angry?" Ask Aster carefully.

Nathan sighed heavily. The man sucked back the nicotine in his hands. "It's nothing, it's not an important issue. You're here, we'd better have breakfast now." Nathan threw away his cigarette butts and got up from his seat. He walked ahead of Aster.

Again Aster looked at Nathan's departure with the same gaze. He knew that Nathan was hiding something from him. And the only way to find out is to find out.

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Seriate.