PRECIOUS PRINCESS

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN (S2)

Xuan Lan was getting closer to there. He crouched down to look at the skull. His eyes were toward an object worn by the skull. He then looked at the bracelet and necklace that were there.

"Ren Zu" Xuan Lan said as she clenched her hand.

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Just as Xuan Lan was still busy with her thoughts about Ren Zu suddenly heard the sound of police sirens coming into the warehouse. The police immediately arrested the two suspects, Jackson and Xuan Xi, along with several men who helped them. Not to forget they also thanked Zhao for reporting the criminal act as they both did.

"Zhao did you take care of my request back then?" xuan Lan asked without looking at Zhao as the policemen had already left.

"Of course, I've been looking for evidence as you wish but the investigation will be carried out tomorrow. Don't you want to see the drama first?" zhao asked as he rubbed Xuan Lan's cheek gently.

Xuan Lan whose cheek felt rubbed immediately looked at Zhao's eyes and grasped Zhao's hand that was on his cheek.

"Thank you" he said with a sincere smile.

"I am your husband-to-be and will forever be yours. You don't need to thank me Lanlan" Zhao said as he carried Xuan Lan into his arms.

After the warehouse, Zhao then drove Xuan Lan to go home. Zhao escorted Xuan Lan all the way inside the house and naturally in the living room there were already two people waiting for their arrival. One person with her panicked face and another with her crimson face held back emotions.

"Xuan Lan" said his father. He then approached Xuan Lan and checked her condition.

"Are you okay?" ask her father to worry.

"Yes" Xuan Lan said briefly.

Her stepmother began to stand up. He looked at Xuan Lan from top to bottom.

"Take your demands off to your own sister" he said sharply.

Xuan Lan looked at Xiu Juan with a petty look. Then he laughed cynically.

"She's not my sister and even if I drop her claim, her name won't necessarily be clean. Oh, yeah, did the news show up on tv?" tanyanya while smiling mockingly.

"You!" xiu Juan said as he pointed at Xuan Lan's face.

"Wait on! What does this mean?" xuan Lan's father asked puzzled as Zhao only said that Xuan Lan was being kidnapped and he did not know who did it.

"Your eldest daughter teamed up with someone to kidnap Xuan Lan" Zhao said flatly as he folded his hands over her chest.

"What?" tanyanya surprised.

"Do you know Xiu Juan?" asked Xuan Lan's father while the one he spoke to was silent then he waltzed away just like that.

"Xuan Xi" his father muttered.

"That's the result of overindulging one of your children. He became big-headed and wanted to have everything that his sister had even the love that Xuan Lan already had" Zhao flatly said.

"Come in" Zhao continued turning softly to Xuan Lan.

"Yes, be careful going home" Xuan Lan said then walked into her room.

After Xuan Lan entered his room Zhao then left not forgetting to say the words that pierced the heart of Xuan Lan's father.

"Now Xuan Xi is languishing in jail before his crime is processed tomorrow and I hope you guard Xuan Lan from all sorts of dangers as she will be a key witness tomorrow" zhao said as he stepped out of Xuan Lan's house.

Xuan Lan's father sat back down to the chair that was in the living room limply. He neutralizes all his thoughts and mind that are raging. He did not expect that Xuan Xi was planning a kidnapping for his own sister.

"I have to how" he exclaimed confusedly.

"Son" call Xuan Lan's father.

Xuan Lan only glanced for a moment then she returned focus to her handheld phone.

"Can you drop the charges for Xuan Xi? After all she is your sister" Xuan Lan's father said. He could not imagine if one of his children was crouching in iron bars.

"Hah" Xuan Lan took a breath then exhaled it.

"Why did you say that? He even told people to harass me just so fortunately Zhao immediately came to the place if not somehow my fate" Xuan Lan said in a very disappointed tone.

"Why do you always put Xuan Xi first over me?" xuan Lan asked after all this time she harbored him.

His father became silent. He did not expect that Xuan Xi would want to do such a fleeting thing coupled with Xuan Lan's last question.

"Because you got everything you wanted when you were a kid. Dad wanted to give Xuan Xi what he wanted because as a child he didn't get the affection from dad" Xuan Lan's father said without hesitation.

Xuan Lan smiled obliquely. He looked at his father with an unreadable look.

"You'll regret it after this" he said, wiping tears from his eyes.

"After the case is over I want to get married and move in with Zhao. I don't need your approval to do everything I want and I won't release Xuan Xi from the police's grasp anyway" Xuan Lan said then walked over to Zhao who had already come in her yard.

Zhao who saw Xuan Lan grieving frowned in surprise. Shouldn't Xuan Lan be happy that he will soon put Xuan Xi in jail?

"Why?" zhao asked gently as he clasped Xuan Lan's hand.

"When do you want to marry me?" xuan Lan asked without looking at Zhao.

Zhao who heard the question had his eyes perfectly rounded. He had not expected such a question to come out of Xuan Lan's mouth.

"Now I can do it if I'm told to marry you" said the steady Zhao who made a smile appear on Xuan Lan's face.

"Are you not strong enough to be in there?" zhao asked cautiously who replied a nod by Xuan Lan.

"After everything is done I will finish my promise immediately" Zhao said as he kissed Xuan Lan's hand.

After giving some information to the police Xuan Lan finally came out with a bright face. Xuan Xi and Jackson were immediately tried that day and Xuan Xi was sentenced to the same degree while Jackson was found to have other nationalities so that his country requested that Jackson be tried in his country.

Xuan Lan's father and Xuan Xi's mother were due to hear the judge's verdict. They stared at his daughter one last time before they could visit her again the next few weeks inside the bars.

Xiu Juan then looked at Xuan Lan nyalang. His hand was ready to grab Xuan Lan's hair but his hand was held back by Zhao who made a slanted smile appear on Xuan Lan's face.

"Everything you did to me has paid off" Xuan Lan said.

Because the commotion that occurred made the police who were guarding around the court go inside.

"Xuan Lan why don't you give some leniency to your own sister?" asked Xuan Lan's father disappointed.

"I told you she's not my sister!" yelled Xuan Lan in front of his father's face. He already did not care that his image would be damaged which was important that Zhao still loved him.

He then threw an envelope at his father. His father received the brown envelope and opened it. His hands shook and his eyes turned red.

"Th-this?" tanyakanya.

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