BOOK 3. Shen Wei works in a bank in the background because he does not like to mix with the customers. After a raid, he is mistaken as the inside man but only briefly which leads to him meeting Zhao Yunlan. The story follows their relationship th...
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Lin Jing was having a better day but didn't expect Shen Wei to visit him at work and went into a total panic when he saw him enter the main office, thinking the worst, that he had changed his mind about trusting him and was here to wipe his memory. Shen Wei almost laughed before he reached Yunlan's office where Jing was sitting worrying.
"Da Qing could you bring Lin Jing a cup of coffee please and a tea for me, he looks as if he needs one, thank you, and yes, I am Yunlan's partner not boyfriend as you called it," he said as hewalked past the remaining desks on his way to the smaller room.
"Lin Jing, good morning, I haven't changed my mind and I'm not going to wipe yours. Da Qing is bringing you a coffee."
Shen Wei's radar was working very well this morning and picking up almost every thought in the room, when Da Qing arrived with the tea and coffee, put it down and left returning to his own desk, Shen Wei smiled at his silent protest of being an unpaid waitress.
"Lin Jing, we didn't get much of a chance to talk in the hospital obviously because I was very tired and I thought that it might help you to relax if you knew a little more about me. Ask your questions, just a moment..." and Wei closed and locked the office door from where he was sitting, really not helping Lin Jing with the show of power.
"When did you become what you are now, were you always that person?"
"Yes and no, officially, on the day of the accident, I had to change quickly for Yunlan's sake, or he would have died. I've been a descendant since the day I was born, but didn't know until after my coma."
"Can you read everyone's minds?" Lin Jing asked out of curiosity.
"Yes, if I want to, but I choose not to, except Yunlan, he's a blank book, he has to tell me what he's thinking. I don't know."
"Why did you trust me with all this knowledge at the hospital, were you not afraid that I would tell someone?"
"Lin Jing, you thought it yourself when you were leaving, 'who would believe you.' But I mainly trusted you because YOU saved Yunlan's life, not me, YOU made the choice to bring him to the right place, otherwise, he would have died, I would not have had access to him as easily as I had."
Lin Jing sat quietly for a few moments taking in what Wei had pointed out, never havingconsidered this fact and not realising that the outcome of his action had saved Yunlan's life.
"Can I ask you something really difficult and maybe classified that you might not want to answer?"
"The hereditary power, yes, this I will wipe if ever I have a reason. The Entity is almost as old as time, and he is a separate spirit. Each generation has a rightful descendant, not necessarily by family. The very first Black Robe lived for over 10.000 years and the lifespan changed as the modern times came along, so there has to be a volunteer host to carry the Entity after the physical person dies, the volunteer obviously is dead already, am I making sense to you?"
