Mysterious Girl meets Loverboy I

Chapter 57

Miku and Shuji take turns watching over and caring for their mother who is bedridden in the hospital. Miku turned around when the door opened and her father appeared.

"Watashi no ototo, Papa wa anata to issho ni imasu ka?" Miku asked her father, looking at his back.

(My brother, Papa, is he with you?).

Raiden immediately shook his head at his child before approaching his wife, even though he couldn't bear to let go, he had to let go for his wife. Raiden spoke to his friend and the father of his child that evening.

"Even if you're not ready yet, buddy, you need to let her go. You two will just tire yourselves out, buddy. It's also hard for me because I felt the same way when my wife died, and she was a friend of my wife. She'll find peace when you let her go," Jiang replied to his friend over the video call.

"Just a favor, buddy...it's so hard and painful that I won't be able to see him again..." Raiden said, crying to his friend.

Raiden spoke Mandarin to his friend and without hesitation, Jiang agreed to his friend's request before the video call ended.

"Sleep at exactly 12:00am and your favor will happen for me," Jiang instructed his friend before their connection was lost.

Raiden fulfilled the request made by his friend. For the last time, even if only in a dream, he could talk to his wife.

"Ma, I don't want to give up on the hope of being with you again..." Raiden whispered to his wife, crying intensely.

Raiden's wife held his hand. Both of them were crying intensely, knowing that this was the last chance for them to see each other because it would be a long time before they would be together again.

"I'm ready and I'm tired, I also want to rest," Raiden's spouse said to him.

"I love you so much and I'm sorry for the mistakes I've made..." Raiden said to his wife.

His wife told him that she had forgiven him.

"Ma, are you leaving? Can I kiss you?" Raiden asked his wife.

They both approached each other, crying as they kissed because they felt it was the last time they would do this with each other.

"I will enter our child's dream, Rai. I will be sad to be far from the three of you, but I will watch over you from afar," said Raiden's spouse to him when they were separated.

"Miku and Shuji?" Raiden said to his wife, surprised when she shook her head at him.

"Only Shuji, Rai, I always have Miku with me here in Japan, that child, and I love him so much even though he didn't come from me," Raiden's wife replied to him.

Raiden hugged his wife before she vanished in front of him, and he just sobbed after that.

Raiden told his child what happened that night.

"She didn't appear in my dream, Papa, only kuya? Why?" Miku/Mikaelle exclaimed to her father, also crying.

"She knows you will meet again, but she told me that you will take care of us, your brother because she loves you so much, you can feel it, and that will never change she just wants to see your brother one last time since the last time they met," Raiden whispered to his daughter.

Miku asked her father if there was really no hope left to give her mother a second chance at life.

"That's it, this is her last chance," Raiden replied to his daughter.

Miku just burst into tears and approached her mother. They both turned and were met with the serious face of her brother, accompanied by their mother's siblings and their families.

"We will take him home and there she will be laid to rest I have already told your mother's acquaintances that if they visit her, they should follow the restrictions," Raiden said to his children.

No one answered Miku stood up before embracing her brother.

Raiden called his wife's doctor and told his wife's wishes when the doctor arrived, the patient's family members were still looking puzzled.

"Hontoni? Kanojo ni chansu o ataenai no ka?" the doctor exclaimed to Raiden, while Shuji moved his sister away so the doctor could approach their mother.

(Are you sure? We won't give her a chance?)

The doctor's gaze shifted from one patient's family member to another as they lay on the bed.

"Ie, sensei, kanojo mo yasumitai to itte iru no wa wakatte imasu, kanojo wa nagaiai byoki de tsukarete itanode, sensei, watashi wa kanojo ga kore ijo kurushimu no o mitakunai nodesu." Raiden replied.

(No, doc, because I know she also wants to rest, she's been tired from her illness for a long time, doc, I don't want to see her suffer anymore.)

The doctor didn't answer, Shuji and Miku left the room, followed by their relatives who were quiet. Shuji then told the relative to prepare the house for his mother's funeral.

"Watashitachi to issho ni nokotte iru no wa anata dakedesu. Watashitachi wa shitashiku wanaikeredo, tayoreru hito ga hitsuyona nodesu." Shuji told his two cousins ​​as he pointed.

(You're the only one left here with us at the hospital, even though we're not close, we need someone to lean on.)

When Raiden finished talking to the doctor, male nurses arrived to take the body out of the room. Raiden's wife will be taken to the morgue, and Miku is still crying. This is the weakness Raiden doesn't want to see in his daughter.

"Let's go home, Shuji, Miku be strong, if you can hold back your tears at your mother's wake, do it, even though it's normal to cry. It's your training." Raiden said to his daughter, Miku.

Shuji was puzzled by what his father said to his sister.

Everyone who pays their respects and attends the wake wears black. The men wear black suits and white shirts with black neckties, while the women should wear black dresses or kimonos.

A set of prayer beads called juzu must be brought by the mourners along with the condolence money placed in a special black-and-silver envelope.

At the beginning of the ritual, the Buddhist priest will bow and light incense in the urn on the altar in front of the deceased and will read the sutra. While the priest is reading the sutra, the relatives of the deceased will bow one by one, light incense, and bow again. Friends and other mourners will repeat this until everything is finished.

After the priest reads the sutra, everyone will bow at the altar where the ritual will conclude.

Each person who comes to pay their respects will be given a gift as a token of gratitude from the deceased's family for their condolences.

Shuji is quiet in his room, resting now so he will have energy later to take turns with his father in watching over his mother. He and his father, along with some relatives, are always awake; his sibling rarely takes his place.

Shuji looked at the clock on his cellphone and saw that today was Saturday.

Lixue learned from her father that Shuji and Miku's mother had passed away, so it would take them longer to return to the Philippines.

Lixue is now at the modeling agency to inform them that she has returned. She was allowed to train on Monday. They explained the new setup they would be doing. Erika and her cousin were there and were surprised to see her. Akatsuki also arrived with someone he was talking to. When he saw Lixue, he stopped speaking and pointed Lixue out to his companion.

"So you've returned," Akatsuki cheerfully greeted as he approached Lixue.

Lixue was just staring at Akatsuki and the man with him, who blushed when he noticed Lixue looking at him.

"Yeah, that's why I went to say I was busy with a family matter the other day, As Dad's child, I still have to follow him even though we don't get along," Lixue explained this privately to the agency manager.

The manager left when someone called his cellphone after they finished talking in the office they went out together earlier.

"WTF!" they heard the gay manager say from afar, his voice loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Don't you still forgive your dad?" Akatsuki asked Lixue, who immediately shook her head.

"It's easy to forgive someone for the pain they've caused, but healing is not easy, that's why this is what we have between me and daddy," Lixue replied, as she had somewhere to go and Drick was picking her up.

Their manager approached, and when Shuji called him, Lixue was not surprised by what she heard from the flamboyant manager. Before she went to the agency, her father had talked to her about the death of Miku and Shuji's mother. The gay manager spoke to Lixue, but when she turned to him, they saw that she did not react.

"..."

"..."

Akatsuki looked at Lixue and spoke to her.

"Do you know anything about the death of Shuji and Miku's mother?" Akatsuki said to Lixue.

Lixue's gaze shifted around the surroundings.

'Why am I being asked when Shuji's dad is the godfather?'

"I don't know anything yet, this is just how I am, unresponsive to everything happening. I've gotten used to it ever since my mom and brother died," Lixue said to the gay manager and Akatsuki when she immediately turned to look.

Lixue said that later she would call her godfather Raiden to check on them in Japan. Hyo told Lixue earlier when they met, Erika wasn't there yet.

Lixue pretended to know nothing about the Liao family's departure from the Philippines. Lixue just watched from a distance, sitting next to Akatsuki, and across from them was a man Akatsuki introduced as a colleague in showbiz.

"How was your disappearance for a few months, what did you do?" Akatsuki began to Lixue.

"Family matters, Akatsuki, I can't tell you what I did because dad told me not to share it, not even with Shuji or my godfather." Lixue noticed that the man next to Akatsuki looked puzzled.

"Is that so? What business does your dad have?" Akatsuki's companion asked.

"Dad is rich in China and in other parts of the country, and I'm not rich, but dad is a businessman my dad is well-known throughout the country and in other countries," Lixue replied to the questioner, not needing to hide the true status of their family.

"Her dad is a businessman, bro, you know Jiang Chen, he's a tycoon, they were featured in a magazine before that's Leatrice's dad there are things that should only be discussed within their family," Akatsuki replied, they had met Lixue's father before when they visited him at the agency.

"Ah..." Akatsuki's companion replied, knowing that Lixue still didn't believe him.

When they finished watching, Lixue received a call on her cellphone and Drick was already there, Lixue said goodbye to Akatsuki, the gay manager, and the photographer, and just waved goodbye to her fellow models.

On the other hand, Raiden and his two children were busy attending to their visitors during the wake.