Afterlife Department

Chapter 133 - Liu Lingling

Huo Ling\'s father – Harry Jackson, is just a simple man with an honest living. He never flaunts his wealth. When he fell in love with Huo Ling\'s mother – Huo Ning, he pampered her. However, Huo Ning is a frugal woman. She never asked anything from Harry, even just a simple dress. Anything Harry gave her, she accepted. Even if Harry pampers her, but she was never capricious. It\'s not that she\'s indifferent. In fact, she is an expressive woman. She loves her husband as much as he loves her. Of course, they also love their child. However, there\'s just nothing that Huo Ning wanted. She\'s disinterested towards everything except her family. Her whole attention is on her husband and child.

When she died, Harry wanted to go to China if she might have relatives. He feels sad for his wife to die alone. However, before he could, Huo Ling became sick. Harry thought it must be due to him missing his mother. That he sensed his mother is gone.

Harry is right. Indeed, Huo Ling really sensed his mother\'s presence disappeared. But, that\'s because he is a yao.

That\'s right – Huo Ling is a yao. More precisely, a half-yao. Huo Ning, his mother, is a yao. Huo Ling is the product between a human and a yao. However, Huo Ling didn\'t know it. As for Harry is he is aware his wife is a yao… he is. He knew the first time they met. Huo Ning has an aura of a goddess.

Of course, Harry isn\'t crazy to think Huo Ning is a goddess. He also isn\'t aware of the existence of another race – yao. He only knew his wife is special. As for when he found out Huo Ning is a yao, it was when she was pregnant. Huo Ning confessed everything to him. She expected Harry would leave her. But, to her surprise and delight, Harry\'s love for her just deepened.

However, despite all that, she still didn\'t tell him about her family. There\'s just too many dangers. Thus, until she died, she kept her family a secret from her husband. Except one thing – Liu Lingling.

Yes. Liu Lingling is Huo Ning\'s friend, not Harry\'s. If not for Liu Lingling, she would have already died. In some words, Liu Lingling can be considered Huo Ning\'s foster father. Harry, when he met Liu Lingling, treated him as a love rival at first. However, after Huo Ning told him Liu Lingling is a yao, and thousands of years old at that, his jealousy had rested and he treated him filled with respect and gratitude for keeping Huo Ning safe all these years.

Liu Lingling can mask a yao\'s presence, thus, Huo Ning was safe all these years. Even if she became pregnant.

Yao can eat humans. Yao can also eat another yao. So, how about a half a human and half a yao? Huo Ling is a delicacy to them, as well as Huo Ning who is a yao, and pregnant, and pregnant with a child who is half-human and half-yao.

However, the yao didn\'t sense Huo Ning\'s pregnancy, nor Huo Ling\'s presence or smell when he was born. It was all because of Liu Lingling – this ancient yao. Huo Ning and Harry are both extremely grateful to Liu Lingling. If not for Liu Lingling, Huo Ning and Huo Ling would have already long dead.

When Huo Ning died, her corpse has been burned. Not even her ashes remained. Harry, after learning of the yao\'s world, had understood Liu Lingling\'s actions despite his grief. Even a yao\'s ashes can be ingested by another yao, or a human, and the power from the ashes can be transferred to the one who ingested the ashes. Thus, Liu Lingling decimated Huo Ning up to her ashes. He even masked her death. With Huo Ning\'s ashes gone, her smell on Harry and Huo Ling was also gone.

However, Huo Ning asked Liu Lingling to take care of Harry and Huo Ling. Because Huo Ling, born from Huo Ning, even if it\'s just half of his blood belonged to Huo Ning, but his smell is more enticing than Huo Ning\'s. His human blood is one of the reason. And his power is another reason. Huo Ling\'s smell is the smell on Harry now. Thus, Liu Lingling remained with the father and son.

But, Harry died. He let Huo Ling think Liu Lingling is his friend and not Huo Ning\'s. It\'s because Harry senses Huo Ning\'s side is dangerous. If Huo Ling finds out Liu Lingling is Huo Ning\'s friend, Huo Ling might have his curiosity take over him and ask Liu Lingling about his mother. Fortunately, this didn\'t happen since Huo Ling is sensible.

So, Huo Ling was left with Liu Lingling. But, Huo Ling died. If someone knew about this three-people family, they would think Liu Lingling brings misfortune and would think he is the cause of these three people\'s death. However, only the truth knows it was the other way around. It was because of Liu Lingling why the three people had lived until now.

What happened to Huo Ling, whether it was an accident or not, is yet to be known. But, for Huo Ling, he thinks his death is an accident. It truly is a pity he died a second after he turned 23.

"Liu Lingling…" Huo Ling muttered as he squatted in front of the door. Kale has already left. He invited Yi Bing to go with him, but Yi Bing refused. So Kale gave Yi Bing the address where the victims of the shipwreck, their corpse lies.

"Shall we go inside?" Yi Bing asked. "It\'s open." He said after he turned the doorknob.

"Oh." Huo Ling muttered. "There\'s not much inside. There\'s nothing valuable to be stolen…" he said as they went inside.

It\'s just as Huo Ling said. Unit 600 is a simple and common apartment unit. Even if Liu Lingling had stayed with their family, but, of course, it wasn\'t in the literal sense. Liu Lingling has his own living space – this unit 600. As for where Huo Ling\'s family stayed, after Harry died and entrusted Huo Ling to Liu Lingling, the property was transferred to Huo Ling\'s name, but Huo Ling chose to sell their property and lived with Liu Lingling. Liu Lingling, of course, taken in Huo Ling. One, it is convenient to protect Huo Ling this way. Two, he lives alone. Adding one more person who can cook for him, wash the dishes and his clothes, and clean the apartment in exchange for security, is a good deal. He can also keep his promise to both Huo Ning and Harry – to take care of Huo Ling.

However, in the end, Huo Ling still died. When they \'fought\', well, it was just one-sided on Huo Ling, Liu Lingling didn\'t forget to place a protection on Huo Ling to mask Huo Ling\'s scent from the yao. But, it wasn\'t enough.

Huo Ling died. Like it was his destiny.

"Why did he leave?" Huo Ling asked as he caressed the table where he and Liu Lingling always eats.

Yi Bing was flipping the pages of a book when he heard Huo Ling\'s question. However, he knew Huo Ling isn\'t asking him and that Huo Ling is just talking to himself. Huo Ling also wasn\'t expecting any answer, since the person he wanted to ask that question isn\'t here. Thus, Yi Bing didn\'t answer and just remained silent as he left Huo Ling to reminisce.

Huo Ling really reminisced the time when he lived in this apartment unit as he looked around. He felt like this apartment unit is small. But, it\'s enough for their world of two.

Ah, no. Scratch that. It\'s only Huo Ling who felt it\'s a world of two. Liu Lingling had never thought that way. Didn\'t he reject him when he confessed to him?

Remembering Liu Lingling\'s rejection of him, Huo Ling felt his chest is heavy. He felt stifled. He took a deep breath to calm himself. He isn\'t here to reminisce the painful past. He is only here for good memories. He expected to see Liu Lingling again. Yet, he was given a surprise when he heard what Kale had said.

Remembered it, he turned to Yi Bing and saw Yi Bing was reading a book. Yi Bing was standing beside the bookshelf. His posture is upright. His dark eyes with a tint of blue, their gaze is on the book.

Huo Ling saw Liu Ling\'s shadow overlapped with Yi Bing. Liu Lingling also reads a book the same way Yi Bing does. However, in his memories, Liu Lingling isn\'t a yao, but a human like his father. Meanwhile, Yi Bing is a yao.

"Yi Bing." He called. "Earlier, you said, Kale\'s amnesia might have caused by a yao." He said. If his neighbors were also like Kale, suffering an amnesia… wait. He thought and felt fear had eaten his heart when a thought registered in his mind.

If a yao wiped out Kale and his other neighbor\'s memories, then what happened to Liu Lingling? Where is Liu Lingling?!