Hong Kong

39

TIME OF QIANG

Qiang Ling was at the ancestor altar. He placed the incense and prayed. He sensed the presence and looked at her.

-- What's the matter? Why don't you rest in peace? I know... you have regrets... You betrayed me... then you left me here... You know that the only thing I wish is to die to be with you...I hope that you will understand the strength of my love...I still love you as the first day I saw you...Everything is already arranged...Akame doesn't love me...Neither do I...Everything is in its place, you just need to decide.

The transparent figure moved to where he was.

-- I still love you madly...I still need you with the strength of my yearnings...I can't be without you...I got married only to look for a continuity...you left a continuity.... 

the figure became sharper...

-- I know what you want...it is well...it will be so...-- said the count extending his arms towards the figure.

II

YE YE TIME

Ye Ye was breathing in the sea air...he was traveling in a rather large junko.... His other crewman...Ken...The junk was absolutely self-sufficient...its sails were absorbing solar energy and transforming it into electrical energy...in its belly, an office or command center, from where ken was immersed in intricate calculations....

he remembered the beginning of it all... SHe needed to communicate with Lai Chong Wisang...

-b-

III

The marriage of Thomas Zhao and Mei To was simpler; the banquet and feast was a gift from Qiang Ling, who told them that he would soon inform them why; and help them to return to Hong Kong...

At the end of the banquet, the tall, stocky, extremely handsome Thomas Zhao carried the bride into the bridal bedroom.

Mei To shed two huge tears.

-- I have nothing to offer you. Everything was taken from me...I have never made love. I have only been a body that has been torn apart with the ferocity of a beastly man.

Thomas carried her to the bed and whispered to her.

-- I won't do anything you don't want me to do.

-- I fell in love with you with all the strength of my age...I also know that I am a stone in your path. I know you do not love me. But I can't ask my heart to obey reason, I want to be happy even for an instant.

Thomas kissed her softly and tenderly, she reciprocated and whispered intimately.

-- Not even in my worst moments could I imagine that one day I would have you near me. That I would be for you.

Carefully, with the discovery of a beautiful, elastic, youthful body, Thoma and Mei To fell into the vortex of the moment...

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TIME OF AKAME

Akame woke up and saw Qiang Ling beside him...The Count had a beautiful body and in his sleep he showed the serenity that he never had on his face in his waking hours....

He never fooled himself... He still loved the other madly... It was that memory that bit him, that gripped him, that did not leave him in peace, and prevented him from living.

-- If only I could love you," Akame said softly, fixing a lock of her hair.

He stood up and took the poison.

I should use it...I decide...for both of us.....

He saw the other standing in the middle of the room.

-- Leave him alone...you never loved him...you betrayed him...-- claimed Akame

-You don't love him either...

Akame looked at her... The beauty of the other was impossible to comprehend... Without avoiding it, a tear ran down her face...

-- I can't compete with you...I will grow old...you never...and you are bad...you don't let him be happy.... I want him not to suffer any more with your evil memory; I too will rest with him....

The other one left the room and she followed her....

they moved along the gigantic and majestic corridor and they arrived at the door of Kathy's room.

-- Is that it?-- Akame said to her-- ! Please! She's no match for me. Besides, she has her other problems...her boyfriend has just been stolen...-- he was about to continue saying, when he looked at the ghost of the beautiful woman.

-- You can't be!" exclaimed Akame; -----you're not here because of Qiang.

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Melissa's current time...

Melissa put on a legitimate Coco Chanel everyday suit.

-- Dr. You can't expect me to be a decorative piece in your collection.Nor have I taken a vow of chastity.Clearly you with your best efforts couldn't and you're not my type either.You married me under false pretenses....You've treated me like a princess.I don't deny it.But I'm a cop; I have a life.If I'm honest.I have nothing in common and you're not my type.....

Lai Chong Wisang looked at her and almost smiled.

-- I have a controlled cancer... Actually your perception that I belong to or am the head of a triad is very wrong...

-- What is it then?

-- A scientist and investor...

-- Aha... and...?...?... What did I play in this?...?...

-- Ye Ye's husband stole a quantum job from me and a metauniverse that is not holographic; it's real.

---Okay. The movie avatar part 35... What else?

-- You're friends with Ye-Ye... Ye Ye and I have... sort of a relationship. Only this guy Iwo Ken...got in the way.

--- You and Ye Ye... Who would have thought?...

-- Help me look for Ye Ye.

-- You didn't need to marry me for that...

-- Everything has an explanation.

-- In due time... The girl ventured. .... --- And so old and such a liar. --When I met him, he didn't deny that he was from thec. 14K.

-- You said so. I just said that we both have the same goal of finding Ken.

-- you going to kill him.

-- I'm a scientist and an entrepreneur...