The next morning, the world received a very shocking news: Weiyoung was not a Liu.

The news was properly detailed and they all saw Mother Liu as a scam who had cheated on her husband and brought in a bastard child.

When Weiyoung saw the news, all she could do was close her eyes and allow tears begin to fall.

Her father had really done that. Her father had actually done what he promised!

Whenever the Mo elders wanted to meet her, they sent for her through the maids. But now, they barged inside her room like she was not even guaranteed privacy.

"Have you seen the news?" Elder Mo roared with a cold face.

Weiyoung remained seated and said nothing to them.

She continued to apply make-up on her face like the people there were irrelevant to her.

"Are you deaf? Did you not hear him?" Madam Mo screamed at her. If not for her pregnancy, she would have given the disrespectful girl a hard slap across her face.

"It's just a rumour. Don't listen to them" Weiyoung said with her gaze still fixed on the mirror as she wore a dangling earring on one ear.

"A rumour? You are the daughter of a scoundrel! Is that why you were sneaking your way inside this family?"

"So what if I am?" She stood up and looked at the both of them in anger.

"What if I am a bastard and the news was really true? Does it make any difference? I am carrying your son's child and we are going to get married." She stated coldly.

"Dare to throw me out and see if the media will not turn their attention to your family next."

"Weiyoung! Are you threatening us?" Madam Mo shouted at her and could no longer control her temper so she gave Weiyoung a slap on her face.

The slap caused her to fall to the ground and she cried out when she fell with her hands covering her belly.

But it did nothing to stop the pain. And Madam Mo seemed to not care anymore because she continued to hit her out of anger and frustration.

She was not only disrespectful, she had tried to tie the Mos with her pregnancy. What if she was just like her useless mother and the pregnancy was not their grandson's?

Elder Mo sighed deeply as he watched both women.

The news was all about her. Which was also affecting his family.

It was bad enough that her family had nothing. She was now even a bastard child?

His only daughter who had abandoned them for a long time finally called them today and told them to make sure they got rid of Weiyoung from their family.

Even though Mo Aida now hated her son and did not want to include herself in his life affair anymore, she was still never going to allow him get married to that manipulative thing from the Liu family.

"Enough!" Elder Mo hit his walking stick on the ground to stop both women.

He could not believe his old wife had the energy to fight with a younger woman.

But he believe it must have hurt his wife a lot because it was going to be embarrassing for her to go out now when such news was going round about her supposed daughter-in-law.

"You. Give birth to this child. When you are done, a DNA test would be carried out. And if it is a Mo, we would pay you handsomely for you to go live well. You could go abroad if you wish. That is the best this family can offer you"

Once he was done telling her, he left the room and his wife followed.

Weiyoung lay fully on the ground and began to cry aloud.

She had never been so humiliated in her entire life.

Now they had even reduced her to be a surrogate?

As she was still crying there, she saw her bodyguard, Aotian come in.

Now, he did not even bother to knock also?

She was a bit scared when she saw him enter. After that Christmas night where they both had sex and he had raped her, he always had this smug look on his face whenever he looked at her.

She tried to sit up but she could not.

"You always acted high and mighty. But look at you" He mocked before helping her up.

"I was asked to take you to the hospital. So get dressed"

He smirked at her before leaving the room.

****

Dexi had also returned from his little 'gossip trip'.

After he got dressed for work and went outside, his secretary showed him the news that was circulating round.

For days, he had had a serious expression on his face. But today, as he saw the news, he began to laugh.

"Poor Nephew. He must have betrayed his country in his past life to have such a messy life now"

Even without anyone telling him, he knew Jinyong was with his mother, Aida, planning something everyday.

But no matter how much he planned, he was always dragged to the spotlight one way or the other. Now, it was about his fiancée?

"Serves them right. Such a perfect news to start the day"

He began to hum a song as he got inside the back seat of his SUV.

"About Sara Wang... We saw something strange" His Secretary informed.

"Something strange? What is it?" Dexi asked curiously.

"Miss Changyu. She slept in Sara's house. I think she is close with Sara's father" He dropped the bomb that surprised Dexi.

"What?" Dexi shifted uncontrollably in his seat when he heard it.

He began to scratch his head. Why was everything going bad for him.

He had thought Changyu was just a bit close with Sara. But now, the woman had even spent a night in their place and was close with Sara's father?

He remembered what his secretary told him when they were returning from country V.

"Mr Mo. I did not want to say this earlier. But I thought I should remind you of something."

"What is it?" Dexi had asked when he saw his secretary's serious face.

"You asked me to remind you to never get on Sara's bad side. You might not like the outcome"

The reminder had reminded Dexi of what Sara was capable of doing.

He was still thinking about how to handle it but now, Changyu was sleeping in her house!?

He could only conclude that Jinyong must have transferred some of his bad luck to him.

Sara did not only have her scary self, she had Muchen beside her, who looked like he would kill for her. And now, there was also Changyu.

"Damn it!" He said in frustration

****

While most people in the world were awake already, Sara was still deep in sleep.

In her dream, she saw herself plunging deep into that particular river she had drowned in years back.

Everything replayed again just like that night, and she had thought she was going to drown but she suddenly heard someone call her name.

Inside the water, she forced her eyes open when she was about giving up to look for the person who had just called her name.

Was she not in the river alone? Was someone else inside?

The water was dark and scary, but she was able to see the person because light radiated all over Muchen as he swam to where she was.

"Sara" He called again.

She looked at him in surprise and wondered what he was doing there.

This dream felt different. Other times, everything played out the original way. But now, it was as if the script was changed.

As she looked at him, his mouth was not moving but she could clearly hear his voice.

He used his hands to point upwards and told her to swim up with him.

He smiled at her, and she smiled back.

She soon found her energy and swam up with a smile plastered on her face.

She woke up with tears sliding down the corner of her eyes. They were not years of sadness or defeat. But those were tears of joy.

She had never felt so free in years. Now, she felt like a heavy load had been lifted from off her shoulders.

Once her eyes opened fully, she saw Muchen staring intently at her.

"Are you alright?" He asked with a worried look.

He had seen her jerk like she was having a nightmare and had called her name. He noticed she stopped jerking once he called and began to gently tap her so she would wake up.

Sara's eyes focused on him, and when she saw he was still there sitting down beside her, she began to cry.

She quickly sat up and hugged him with her hands around his waist.

For like a minute, she just cried and said nothing.

"I don't know how I'll ever repay you Li Muchen." She said in between tears.

He continued to pat her back like he was trying to soothe her spirit.

"What is wrong? Was it a nightmare?"

He felt her shake her head.

"No. It was a beautiful dream. You were beside me"

She said in a low, raspy voice.

He sighed in relief and moved his hands to her hair to help her smoothen it.

"I am glad it was a nice dream" He said in relief.

"Thank you. Thank you so much."

He heard and felt the emotion in her voice. And he smiled.

"Do you and your father plan to embarrass me with your many appreciation? I'm beginning to get shy" He said with a laugh.

"My father?" It was at that point that Sara realised she had slept out and had not called home.

She began to search for her phone. "I have to call my father" She said.

"I already called him last night to tell him you'll be back this morning."

Sara giggled when she heard that. "What did he say?"

"There was this awkward silence that gave me the chills. I really got scared" Muchen told her before he began to laugh.

Sara also began to laugh and once they both stopped laughing, she used her tiny hands to cup his face, looked into his eyes and raised herself to plant a soft kiss on his forehead.

"Uh oh.. What was that for?" Muchen asked with an embarrassed look.

She blushed and used her hands to cover her face.

"That's for thanking the most perfect man in the world."

Muchen grinned widely before adding.

"I'm not sure your father is going to like that if he heard it."

"You're the most perfect man to me. I'm sure he's the most perfect man to my mother."

Speaking of mothers, Sara remembered to tell him about Song Changyu.

She narrated from how she had seen the things scattered on the room's floor and Muchen was surprised that it was actually true that Changyu was her mother.

"Wow."

He looked at her and was dumbfounded for like a minute.

He had suspected. But hearing her confirm it was something entirely different. Changyu was really her mother.

'Oh my God! I'm in trouble' He said to himself.

It was one thing to please Sara's father. But Changyu on the other hand was unpleasable!

"What's wrong?" Sara asked when she saw the strange look on his face.

He did not want to mention it so he shook his head.

"Your father must really be awesome to make someone like her fall in love with him. She is quite... Let's just leave it there"

Sara laughed when she heard that.

She was not yet ready for those two people.

She wanted to settle this case with the Blacks and once she was done, she was going to make sure they both got married. She was not blind. She knew they obviously still had feelings for each other.

"And guess something else that really surprised me?"

"What is it?" Muchen asked.

"Miss Changyu and I actually share the same birth date. I was born on her birthday."

"My father had actually made me celebrate my birthdays on the wrong day. Now that I think about it, no wonder he always takes me out and buys me gifts on that particular day. I've always wondered why but he always blew it off—"

Muchen listened to her and wanted to say something when she was done talking but he paused and laughed.

"What is it?" She asked inquisitively.

"I don't think Minde would be happy to know that you are actually older than him with a month."

He knew Minde would literally die if he was asked to call Sara big sister.

Muchen laughed again as he imagined Minde's reaction.

Another person's reaction he could not wait to see was his mother's.

--

During breakfast, they still continued their conversation. Muchen had seen the news about Weiyoung but he did not want to tell Sara about it. He wanted her to just keep smiling and laughing like she was doing at this very moment.

Sara updated Muchen more about the Blacks.

She told him how they had asked her to steal the painting and that she suspected Medusa was behind everything.

Muchen listened attentively and knew that his target was really Medusa.

He did not think that would be quite challenging for him.

"But Medusa never appears in public. How did you say you met her?"

"She came to drive her daughter home. Seems she did not want Cherry out."

"Cherry? How did you know her daughter?"

"I met her—" Sara suddenly paused and began to cough.

Muchen instantly knew there was more to that 'cough' and raised his brow to look at her.

"Why are you not saying anything?" He asked her.

"I think I have sore throat." She stood up from the dining and began to head towards the room upstairs.

Muchen knew she was trying to digress from the topic and stood up to follow her.

When she saw he was behind her, she began to run and laugh.

She had not told him about the manners class she was taking because it was very embarrassing. So all she could do was run.

He continued to chase her and they both ran around the house like two kids playing around.

As Mr Lin watched them, he shook his head pitifully.

He could not believe what the lady had subjected Muchen into doing.