Give Me One Good Reason (prev: 13 Reasons) (HIATUS)

(41) A New Point of View?

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My boy stuttered at the end like he thought I would ever consider rejecting him. My reply made his eyes water more, "On one condition can you call me Papa Ying." Taehyung nodded furiously, "Anything!" He replied enthusiastically and a huge grin split my face, "I want to see you call Lan Zhan, Father Zhan." His head tilted, looking confused, but as what I'd said sunk in he opened his mouth and laughed freely, a sound we had rarely heard in the recent months. "Of course Papa Ying! I'll even hug him when I say it. Do you think it will surprise him?" I laughed with him. "Mn, I bet he will even blush." I laughed freely at the image this brought to mind.

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= Back in Liánhuā Hú [time is 03:16] =
Lan Wuxian's P.O.V.

We arrived back at Wàng Jī Lǚdiàn 13 hours after I'd picked my boys up, Lan Win and Nie Xion retired to Mitzuki's old bedroom. We'd completely refurbished it while they were away and, in essence, had erased Kim Mitzuki from the hotel. I made sure to get Seokjin and Namjun to send me through the video of Suga and Mitzuki being killed. I must admit it looks incredibly realistic, and if I didn't know better I would say that the 'kids' I brought home are different people. Hopefully having both of them being gone for the three weeks and their makeovers will make enough of a difference. I need to ask Sizhui to train them both to use their cores; Nie Yunghe's is quite strong even without training as Wei Ying's core was, the one Jiang Cheng still has. Taehyung has much potential and his will be exceptional, once he has trained with our A' Yuan.

I was feeling down because we'd arranged an after hours meeting with our primary employees, the ones who'd had the most contact with Kim Mitzuki and we were going to let them know there'd been an accident and he had passed away. I was also going to introduce them to several new trainees Lan Zhan and I had employed to 'replace' him. It was going to be an interesting meeting.

= time skip to Wàng Jī meeting [time is 22:45] =
Jinhong Eijirou's P.O.V.

Walking into the lunch room at Wàng Jī I greeted everyone there; Sizhui, Katsuki, Jimin, Alec, Magnus and Eileen. There's a few new faces here, though I'm wondering why they're here so late, I wonder if they're related? I also noticed the trio of Lan's were dressed traditionally in white robes, even Lan Wuxian, who was busy talking very quietly to Lan Yibo in the corner of the room. I wonder what happened? Hopefully they'll be able to tell us what's happening with Mitzuki because I haven't seen him for a few weeks. I mean, I know Mitzuki went away with that friend of his that came from Qīpiàn City but did they both have to leave to catch up? Couldn't they have stayed here and caught up? 

We sat around for another fifteen minutes or so to make sure everyone was here and the last to arrive was Katsuki's new husband, Bakugo Eijiro. Lan Wuxian got everyone's attention and we assumed it would be about the new people in the room, though I'm sure I've seen at least one of them before, we were all stunned by what he had to say. "I've got four announcements to make and two of them are shitty, so.. Some good news first? Good. Wàng Jī Lǚdiàn has three VIP guests staying for a while. Make welcome Jeon Jeongguk, his cousin Nie Namjun and his husband Nie Seokjin. Second is the bad news, and 100% confidential. I know most of you know that our A'Yuan is engaged to my nephew Jin Rulan of the Jin Communications Conglomerate.

"Two days ago Jin Ling was kidnapped from outside of his University. They've told us to hand over Kim Mitzuki in exchange for A' Ling's life but we can't do that because of the next thing I'm going to tell you," Lan Wuxian sniffled; his eyes becoming red, glossy and welling with tears, his cheeks flushing a chalky red and his slender shoulders shaking. Lan Wuxian shook his head to let his white suited husband know he couldn't continue, confusing most of us since there wasn't much he couldn't -or wouldn't- say.