Kim Eunji got out of the house with an unreadable expression on her face.

She had to beat those men who wanted to stop her from leaving since Andrew Johnson didn't order to set her free.

The car that brought her there was parked right in front of the house. The driver was not there of course. She had tied him down already together with the others.

Kim Eunji took her phone to find her location but to her dismay, her phone was already out of battery.

She had no choice but to get inside the car. Since the car had no keys, juts like on the movies, she had to break something and manually ignite the car's engine to start.

When the engine finally came to life, she turned on the GPS system and found out where she was. She was brought near the Southern outskirts of Beijing. She looked at the time and saw that it was an hour before twelve o'clock in the evening.

Her stomach was rumbling in hell. She decided to pull over on the first convenient store that she had driven by.

She bought two bags of chips that she could tolerate to eat since it's a potato baked chips and a can of soda.

After paying, she immediately went back inside the car and continued her journey to Imperial University.

As soon as the car entered the main gate of the school, SD He and the rest of the head of school's security team where waiting for her at the guard house.

"Is it her?" SD He asked his assistant.

"Yeah. It's Master Bai's car, SD He." His assistant confirmed.

As soon as Kim Eunji alighted from the car, everyone sighed in relief.

Then seconds later, ten cars arrived in the main entrance at the same time.

Their door simultaneously opened and Kim Eunji could see Iris running towards her with Derek and Darren following behind her.

"Mistress!" Iris cried in relief.

Only heaven knows how restless and worried she was when she learned that Kim Eunji was possibly being kidnapped by someone.

"I'm sorry Mistress. Please punish me for neglecting my duty!" Iris was about to kneel but Kim Eunji stopped her mid-way.

"What do you think you're doing?" Kim Eunji scolded her.

"I failed as your body guard. I should be punished!" She truthfully said.

"No! This is nobody's fault." Kim Eunji told her.

"Everyone, I'm sorry for making you all worried about me. I'm fine. Nothing bad happened. It's already late. Let's call it a night. Shall we?"

"Student Kim is right. Everyone, let's retreat to our sleeping chambers now." SD He agreed with her though he had a lot of questions in mind as well.

"I need an explanation of what happened tonight in my office first thing in the morning tomorrow. Understand?" SD He added.

"Yes Sir." Kim Eunji answered.

"SD He, wait!" Kim Eunji then called him making the latter to pause on his tracks.

"Have you informed Nathan about this incident?" She asked him.

"Don't worry Student Kim, we didn't got the chance to inform Master Bai about this. But if you didn't show up after twelve, I have no choice but to call him." He truthfully answered.

"Thanks SD He. I owe you one this time." Kim Eunji didn't want Nathan to know about what happened. However it was already too late since Derek had already messaged Marco about what happened.

Nathan knew about it but he didn't go back because he was confident that his wife could handle the situation.

But still, Nathan was angry with his granduncle. He would never forgive him for what he had done.

He vowed that after Friday, he would definitely put him on the right place.

Nathan called Kim Eunji the moment he knew about the news.

"Hubby, you called. What's wrong?" Kim Eunji answered groggily. She must have awaken by his call.

"Did I wake you up? I'm sorry." Nathan apologized.

"No!" Kim Eunji who had just gotten herself to sleep immediately got up on a sitting position as soon as she heard his sad tone.

"It's okay. I was about to wake up to get a glass of water. I happened to feel thirsty while sleeping." She added while commending herself for finding a good excuse.

"I heard about what happened. I'm sorry if I was not there to accompany you when facing him. I failed as your husband." Sadness was evident in Nathan's voice.

"I'm fine. You don't have to say sorry. It's not your fault anyways." Kim Eunji managed to tell him.

Though she herself was in deep thoughts after that conversation with Andrew Johnson.

What if what he said was true? What if he was indeed not over that woman? What if she came back and wanted him back?

Those were the thoughts that kept on running on her head.

Kim Eunji was insecure with herself. She felt that her past was beyond awful. That she's the dirtiest person alive because of her past.

She thought she had gone forgotten about that since Nathan was with her and had been so good to her ever since day one. She could tell that all of his affections towards her were all real and no pretense.

However, she would definitely be lying if she would say that she was not hurt after finding out that another person also experienced being loved by him and was the reason why he changed and became bad towards women.

That woman must have been really important for him if that's the case.

"No..." Kim Eunji whispered to herself.

"Wifey?! What's wrong?! Did he do or say anything stupid that kept was bothering you? Tell me. I'll answer them now. Did he hurt you? Eunji!" Nathan's distressed voice from the other line got her out from her chain of thoughts.

"Y-yeah! I'm fine. He didn't hurt me physically. His men could not beat me while I'm awake anyways. I'm just sleepy. That's all. Can I go back to sleep now?" Kim Eunji told him.

"Sigh. Alright. Go back to sleep. But I still wanted to know what happened...when you're ready, okay?" Nathan had to retreat for now. What ever happened today must have been affecting her thoughts. He didn't want to agitate her.

"I love you." Nathan said lovingly.

"I love you, too." She replied which made Nathan to have a beautiful smile on his handsome face.

***

The next day, the same as usual, all afternoon classes were cancelled to give way for the dance practice which everyone should participate as a presentation during the party.

But before afternoon came, Kim Eunji had to pay SD He a visit on his office to explain about what happened as what he asked to her last night.

"It was just a false alarm really. I was not kidnapped. It just so happen that when I was on my way back, Mr. Andrew Johnson called me on the phone and asked if we could meet up. Ever since I got married to Nathan, we didn't got the chance to meet due to each other's busy schedule. It was our first meeting yesterday." Kim Eunji had decided to alter the story a bit.

"Oh…" SD He could only nod as he weighed her explanation.

Kidnapping is a serious crime after all. And it would be ridiculous to sue Andrew Johnson given their relationship as in-laws.

After their talk, Kim Eunji went out to attend her morning class.

Everyone were very busy with decorating the venue of the party.

Their party would be having a ball theme. So all of their dances would be ballroom dances.

"A ball?" Kim Eunji asked them. 'Why does it have to be a ball?' She inwardly asked.

They could decide to choose other theme though like Chinese Dynasty themes.

However, since Imperial University had became an international school, they chose a more international theme.

"Yes! A ball!" Guo Xiaolan excitedly said.

"So come! Let's go to the gymnasium to practice!" Kim Eunji had no choice but to let Guo Xiaolan and the rest to drag her.

When they arrived at the gymnasium, a lot of students were already there.

"So everyone's included? The party's not only between the freshmen and transferees?" Kim Eunji asked Guo Xiaolan this time.

"Of course! Imperial University was well-known for their lavish parties! Everyone would never want to miss it for the world! And...the more, the merrier!" Guo Xiaolan explained. Since she's one of the members of the planning committee, she's very hands-on.

"Should everyone really have to join the party? Can I skip? Will the media be invited?" Kim Eunji anxiously asked.

"Well, well, well...a few media affiliates might. And besides, the drama team would be joining too." Guo Xiaolan explained.

"Really? Why?" Kim Eunji was surprised.

"I don't know. They wanted to experience this, maybe." Fu Rong butted in.

"And oh! By the way EJ, the school publication wanted to put you on this week's feature." Yun Mei suddenly said.

"Oh," was what she all said as her response.

"Will you allow us to film your day? The students were really curious about you. Please!!!!" Yun Mei pleaded her. The girls were also looking at her expectantly.

Kim Eunji looked at Iris who had been silent all this time to ask if she had any idea about it but Iris only shrugged her shoulder.

Aside from Iris, the girls thought that Kim Eunji would decline but to their surprise she agreed. "Okay."

"Really?!" Yun Mei asked just to make sure they heard her right.

Kim Eunji only giggled.

"Let's go!" Kim Eunji called them out as the practice would be starting.

Kim Eunji thought that since Nathan would always be in the spotlight, she better get used to it. Also, there's no point hiding on the shadows of her past.

If her enemies would come and look for her, she's ready to protect herself and everyone.

Danger had always been lurking in the dark. If it's time to happen, it will eventually happen. It's simply inevitable.

She just hoped she won't get too much attention after this. She's a hot topic on the campus because the students were all curious and interested about her.

But once their curiosity was gone, they would stop making a fuss about her. Her daily life was not interesting after all.

As soon as everyone settled on their seat as they waited for the dance instructor, Kim Eunji asked Yun Mei, "When are you going to film my day? I mean, is it going to be a vlog?"

"It would be more like a documentary approach rather than vlogging." Yun Mei explained.

"And oh! It will start now!" As Yun Mei exclaimed.

Then Director Li slowly made his way towards their group.

"Hello ladies! How are you?" He greeted them.

"Hello Director Li! We're good." They greeted them back.

"I happen to pass by and heard your conversation about making a documentary about our dear Eunji. Would you mind if I'll help you make it?" He didn't beat around the bush.

"Seriously?!" Yun Mei asked in delight.

"Yeah. I mean the whole crew decided to have a three-day break since we're already ahead of schedule. That's why we decided to have fun within that three days." He explained.

This explained why they got the chance to join this acquaintance ball.

"That would be fantastic Director Li!" Yun Mei exclaimed in delight.

As they were happily chatting, Kim Eunji who was sitting on her seat could only raise her brow as she could feel something was off.

"Are you okay with that student Kim?" Director Li asked her.

Of course, Director Li would never miss this opportunity.

"No problem Director Li." Kim Eunji decided to hide her observation on her face.

"Good. Then, shall we start?" Director Li came prepared.

Like on cue, one of their camera man came forward to start filming her.

"Wait!" Kim Eunji said and she took her phone from her pocket.

She then opened an app which controlled her running computer somewhere else and made some quick adjustments on the program that she made that caused devices to not be able to save her photo.

After she was done, she then placed her phone back to her pouch as if nothing happened.

"This is awkward. Should I do something?" Kim Eunji didn't know what to do. It would always be a different feeling once the spotlight was focused on you and that's what Kim Eunji was feeling.

"No. You may sit still."

After a couple of minutes later, the dance instructor finally arrived.

"I'm sorry I am late everyone! I know we're behind the schedule so let's start?" He asked everyone.

They started practicing Waltz.

Since there's too many of them, he taught them by batches.

Since the students were familiar of the dances, it was not hard to teach them. They were now working on with the formation and the execution of every steps.

"Good! And now, the last group please?" The last group was where the girls belongs.

Everyone stood up with their partners except Kim Eunji and Iris. Well, Iris had a partner but he got sick last minute.

On the other hand, majority who didn't join this dance didn't want to pair with Kim Eunji as they were afraid of Nathan.

There's this one guy who wanted to dance with her even in practice but decided not to.

"Student Kim, is it okay if you'd be paired with student Iris for this practice?" The dance instructor asked Iris. Iris didn't give it a second thought and immediately agreed.

The practice went smoothly and everyone was amazed at how good Kim Eunji dances.

After the Waltz team finished their practice, other groups started to practice as well.

On the other hand, Kim Eunji and the girls together with Director Li decided to leave the gym to continue filming.