BOOK 5. This is mainly a love story following the couple through their first meeting and going on to finding out about each other, they survive a few difficult situations and have to deal with other problems along the way. Crime, violence, becaus...
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Yunlan was sleeping soundly when the voice filtered through to his dreams, unmistakably it was Shen Wei's but the person in his dream was Black Robe which couldn't be right, they were two different people and he dismissed it as impossible but he remembered the dream.
After breakfast, he phoned the office to arrange for a replacement car temporarily until he had time to shop for a new vehicle, not necessarily the same model, he was open to suggestions but it had to be red. His replacement would be delivered in an hour's time, giving him the chance to look at the paintings in the library.
He walked past the twin portrait, missing out the next couple and going straight to the seventh one displayed between the next set of book shelves, staring as his mind registered shock... Black Robe was kneeling while supporting another version of Yunlan who had been seriously wounded in some way. There was no visible injury but Black Robe's mask was lying next to him and there were tears painted in the portrait while his face was half hidden with the hood. There was no way to tell what the injury had been but the effect was obvious, he was dying.
Yunlan felt the pain in his heart grow for every second that he stared, and he was slowly beginning to wonder if this was Black Robe's memories he was seeing which would mean that the previous lives of Zhao Yunlan were all connected to Black Robe and if so, where did Shen Wei fit into this past life, maybe nowhere. So far he hadn't been included in any of the hanging portraits and he remembered his dream, and what it suggested. Yunlan ran past the three remaining large hanging portraits. he felt disappointed and didn't really understand why but never had time to dwell on the thought before his replacement vehicle arrived, and he left in a hurry, heading towards work.
As usual the staff watched him enter and could always tell from his walk what kind of mood he was in before he spoke, but this morning, it was an emotional state of mind and he was almost dragging himself to work but not wanting to be there. Chu volunteered to take his coffee to him this morning, hoping to find out what was going on in his mind. Yunlan sat back in his chair staring into space, not even aware that Chu had entered, placed the coffee down on his desk and was waiting for him to speak, until he coughed slightly which brought his attention back to where he was.
"Thank you for the coffee, I've got a few things on my mind and I can't settle until I get answers."
Chu studied him for a moment and walked over to close the office door before sitting beside Yunlan and spoke to him.
"Yunlan, Ask me questions and if I can help, I will."
"Shen Wei said that his family owned the house for 60 years but there are no portraits of him hanging in the library, all the portraits that I've seen so far, are all Black Robe and another Zhao Yunlan. I'm disappointed and I don't know why."
"Do you think he lied to you?" Chu asked him.
"No definitely not, he's not the type and he was badly affected the last time that he was in the library, he fainted for no reason that I could see."
