It's the evening hours, the employees tried to walk out of the building when they saw a thick dark smoke coming from the top of a building. Soon enough they traced it from the casino, the top of the casino had a fight and then bullet exchange between two clans. They turned it to a fire outbreak.
Suddenly Li turned the television on, he knew it would need up on the news. After a while he noticed the reason happened to be Jade clashing with one of the top leaders of the clan. He was shot and now unconscious at the hospital.
Li gasped for air. He just met the man. Truly maybe their mother was bad luck over him? He drove out of the building and towards the explosion, he noticed the black smoke already reached the bottom floor before he could reach into the building.
He ran up trying to inquire about his father, he noticed the amount of blood at the scene and Zhao already got there flared up at the security. He walked out upset. Li couldn't ask questions and so he followed behind Zhao's car trying to reach the hospital.
They arrived there and asked for his room. Zhao opened the door, "Dad! What happened?!" The nurses tried to calm him down but it was more than too much for him to be calm.
He waited for a signal. They tried to resuscitate him but it felt like nothing worked. Did he know he was going to die so soon. Lan stared at the monitor for a while with tears in her eyes. She held her prayers in her bosom.
Li stood still by the window. His eyes moved towards the side of Jade's body, he saw a syringe stuck to his side. He knew it was planned and not a normal fight, someone orchestrated the whole script for them to have a fight and then use that as a ground to assainate him.
Li walked closer to the bed and didn't understand why the nurses didn't notice it the first time. He pulled it out and noticed the fluid still in, the person didn't succeed but who was it? A few minutes later, Jade opened his eyes. He tried to smell the syringe but it had nothing but a scent he didn't know but felt. It had a hair sample from it. It looked like it came from his mother.
He didn't want to believe that.
Li turned to Zhao. Zhao turned to Li. He knew exactly what he thought. Lan tried to kill their father but who sent her?
Zhao picked his phone up. "Come quick. We've got our first suspect. Take Lan the moment you get here." He hung up.
Lan walked in with the doctors to stare at him.
Jade tried to talk but his words were a bit faint. He had some chest injuries. Zhao signed an undertaking immediately. He didn't want Lan anywhere near Jade anymore.
Li put the syringe filled with the fluid in his pocket and walked out of the room knowing fully well they were coming over to meet Lan. Hiding the evidence would make things easier for them.
He stared at the floor for a while and then he walked into the room after they took Lan. Jade could speak suddenly. "Zhao, your mother…she tried to…" He fainted.
"Nurse! Oxygen!" Li yelled. The nurse ran in. She placed the oxygen mask on his face. She waited for a while, she noticed his consciousness come back although his eyes were closed.
Zhao watched her walk out do the hospital room. The young men watched Jade sleep.
"I need to check on Lan."
Zhao asked, "Why? What do you mean?"
"We can't say she's the one. I think someone else did it. She might be innocent."
"Oh really?"
"I think someone wanted to get to me from the gambling table."
"Wait who?"
"One man." Zhao remembered the few, the fog he saw at the front of Li's house that morning.
"The smoke. The fake dew. The fake gold, the money and even the stones. Someone found out and wants to end Jade. A competitor but who?"
"We'll need to mingle in to find out. Have we checked the other part of the building?"
"What part?" Zhao asked.
"The hidden part. The hotel and the secret room we met."
"Or one of the new employees, one acting as a secret agent. But who?"
"Zhao, we need some time to think."
Jade opened his eyes, "Li!" Li moved closer to the bed.
"I'm here dad. I'm here. What's wrong? Who did this to you?"
"Protect Lan. Now." Zhao ran outside the building with the fullest speed he could use. He ran through until he got to the car, he saw Lan already unconscious. He opened the door but the moment he turned with her body, he met a man holding a loaded gun at him.
He froze.
Zhao held Lan watching the gun closely waiting for the bullets to hit his head or eyes, his chest or his face. He heard a gunshot but it wasn't the gun in front of him.
It was from someone else. He turned his face up to stare at the new savior. It was Shen Zhao. Li's assistant at the office. "Come with me sir."
They walked out together and up into the building, the medical staff took over the treatment. They placed an oxygen mask over her face.
Zhao could barely breathe due to the tension he felt, the anxiety threw his lungs over the board. Li stared at the both of them. Shen watched them from the door, "To be honest. The sooner we leave this space the better. It's not safe here. Someone from the gambling table didn't like you losing Mr Li."
"Who is it? End him." Li said.
"Well we don't know yet but we have a few suspects."
"Thank you Shen. I owe you a lot right now. Thank you so much."
"My pleasure." Shen replied.
Zhao gulped down a bottle of water, they watched him. "What? I nearly died there." Zhao said.