1
Xie Wuyi follows the address her late father left her and goes to Hong Kong Island to find her stepmother. But when she arrives downstairs at the apartment building, she sees her stepmother, dressed in red and soft as boneless silk, wrapped in another woman's arms and about to kiss her.
Xie Wuyi: ...?
Well, that's a whole lot of green.
Thinking that her late father wouldn't want his young stepmother to spend the rest of her life alone, she turns away and lets them carry on.
Her alluring stepmother pushes away the woman holding her, her flirtatious peach-blossom eyes full of menace. "Little girl, take one more look and we'll dig out your eyes and toss them into the deep sea to feed the sharks."
2
Shen Yan was once the heiress to a business empire. After her family fell on hard times, she had no marketable skills and could only pretend to date people every day to earn some extra money and scrape by. Then a young girl suddenly showed up and claimed her as her mother. And she was still a kid.
She kindly takes her in for a few days.
But the girl goes off to police academy, ready to work hard and suffer, saying she wants to make money to support her.
One day, when she comes back from a side job, the girl in uniform pins her against a dark wall and bites her with the last traces of baby fat still in her cheeks. "Stepmom, join the gang and help me find a ledger."
Shen Yan: "You're going to support me? What a load of nonsense."
The young policewoman parts her soft lips but says nothing. Shen Yan reaches up and toys with the cool outer corner of her eye. "You just graduated, and you're already in a hurry to recruit informants?"
The young policewoman pushes her away, looking gorgeous in her uniform. Shen Yan can't help wanting her.
"If you don't agree, I'll stop supporting you."
Shen Yan clicks her tongue, steps forward, and snatches the card from her hand. "You're young, but you've got big ambitions."
3
Xie Wuyi thought that getting the debt ledger would be enough to get her stepmother out of there. She never expected her stepmother to get in deeper and deeper, playing a different role at a different place every day.
She watches her get close to other people, hears her call them darling, and hears her say, "I don't know you."
Xie Wuyi, usually so calm and composed, loses her cool and grabs the woman as she sashays into the venue.
Shen Yan is as cold as she was when they first met. She scoffs, "I'm not your stepmother. If you want milk, go home."
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In short: A little story about me asking my stepmother to become an informant, then her getting hooked on the job and no longer letting me keep drinking sweet water.
Note: They are not related by blood in the slightest!
Theme: A glimmer of light will eventually pierce the firmament
