Mu Lan closed her eyes and thought about the people around her, the people she was connected with. She thought, 'I can no longer be like before, can I?' She knew very well that she couldn't put everyone in danger because of her selfish reasons.
She took a deep breath and calmed herself down. She opened her eyes and glanced at Juan. "I won't do anything. I won't stand in your way."
Juan was satisfied with her answer. He patted her head. "You've grown. Now you know how to take responsibility. I'm proud of you."
Someone came into the room without knocking on the door and said, "I'm sorry to interrupt an emotional moment but I've some things to report."
It was Osiris.
Both Juan and Mu Lan glanced at him.
Osiris declared, "That doctor Lu Feng of Lu Family, that guy found out about our elixir."
Mu Lan was shocked. "What did you just say?"
Osiris explained, "He was lurking around our hideout for a while. Guess what, he found another way in to go to the core of the cave. Thank goodness, before he entered to the last stage, Antonio captured him. He is unconscious right now."
Mu Lan exhaled aloud. "He has been missing and people were looking for him madly. And he was there all along! Unbelievable! He was there to look for the greatest antidote in history. He knew where he was going and what he was doing."
She glanced at Juan. "How did he get our most secretive information?"
Juan also looked at her. "Do you want to find that out by yourself?"
She stared at him without talking.
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While Mu Liang was in the meeting with a client at a hotel, he got a text from Mu Lan. It said, 'Hubby, stop your men from look for doctor Lu Feng. We already got his location. I'm going there. I'll come back with him as soon as possible. Love you!'
He was stunned when he read the text. After a while, he excused himself from the client and called Mu Feng.
Mu Feng answered his called almost immediately. "Big brother I was about to call you. It's about Lu Feng."
Mu Liang asked, "What about him?" He began wondering if Mu Lan gave Mu Feng any news.
Mu Feng said excitedly, "Some people saw him on the Caribbean beach of Costa Rica. Can you believe it? I'll personally go there-"
Mu Liang interrupted him saying, "Hold it. No need to go there."
Mu Feng blinked. "Huh? What do you mean?"
'So, Lan didn't tell him.' Mu Liang thought. He said, "He is coming back soon. Withdraw you men. They don't need to look for him anymore."
"…Did you find him? Where is he?" Mu Feng was puzzled.
Mu Liang replied, "I don't know where he is. I only got the news and called you."
Mu Feng asked, "Who told you?" He was getting curious.
"Someone close." Mu Liang said truthfully. But his vague answer reiterated the fact that he didn't want to tell Mu Feng who told him.
Mu Feng understood it. But he still tried to ask, "But who-"
"Someone very close." That was all Mu Liang told him.
Mu Feng sighed. "Alright, I believe you. I'll tell my men to withdraw."
Mu Liang hung up the call and called Mu Lan. She didn't answer his call. He looked outside the window; it was already lunch time. The sun was glaring above the Florence city.
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Mu Lan was on her way to the Atlantic Ocean. As she predicted, she didn't take more than seven hours. It was way to slow, even for her. She was faster before.
She stood on the beach of Dakar the capital of Senegal in West Africa. It's an Atlantic port on the Cap-Vert peninsula. She looked at the bustling place.
Romano reached and stood beside her. "Do you want to rest, little princess? Or do you want a boat?"
"A boat can't take the pressure of the waters in there." Mu Lan was breathing heavily and sweating all over.
Pedro also reached them. "Even though you are this slow, your situation isn't good. You need to exercise more. You are losing your stamina faster than I expected."
Mu Lan sat down on the wooden floor. "I want to take some time rest."
Romano asked worriedly, "Do you want to say here for the night, little princess. It's getting dark. It will be difficult to see in the dark."
Mu Lan suggested, "I want to stay in a resort. Let's go to the Caribbean Sea. It's been a while since I was there."
"Are you sure you can handle it?" Pedro asked. He took her wrist and checked her pulse. After that he said, "Let's grab some food. Let others the wait for you."
As he pulled her, they went to a nearby restaurant to have dinner. Later, they went to Saint Kitts and Nevis, a dual-island nation situated between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. There, they went to a five-star hotel named Four Seasons Resort Nevis, in Pinney's Beach, Charlestown. They rented an entire private area just for themselves.
Mu Lan laid down on the soft bed and told Pedro, "Tell the others to join us. It has been a while since we had fun and relaxed."
Pedro agreed easily, "I will call Juan."
When the others arrived, Mu Lan was already fast asleep.
Osiris saw her sleeping soundly and chuckled. "My, my, I didn't think of seeing this. I thought that she would take the Lu boy and go back to Italy as soon as possible."
Pedro spoke in a hush tone, "She is dead tired. Her body became weaker since she didn't exercise her power."
Carlo said, "But that doesn't cover the fact that for the first time she isn't acting lovesick even being apart from the Mu devil brat."
Hearing such uncouth title of Mu Liang, Pedro gave him a strange look. He wondered what Mu Liang had done to piss Carlo off so much.