In the end, Shi Enxi called for the police, the same local police that her husband Lu Mello worked together with. After calling them, she called Lu Mello next as she walked out of the room.

    "Huh? Xi''er?" His groggy voice was heard in the other line.

    "Darling... I''m sorry." She said softly.

    "What do you-" He paused, realizing that she was not there with him. "Where are you?"

    "I''m at Shi Anhao''s place." She replied in a soft, whispering tone. She looked around, making sure that no one was awake.

    "WHAT?!! SHI ANHAO''S PLACE?!"

    "You see, I couldn''t wait and..." She paused and sighed. She was about to continue when she suddenly felt a sharp pain on her back. "Argh..." She g.r.o.a.n.e.d in pain.

    "Xi''er? Hello? Xi''er?"

    The phone fell from her hold, falling on the ground.

    Shi Enxi turned to look at who stabbed her and there she saw Shi Anhao in her nightdress, smiling previously at her.

    "My, my, what a surprise, Shi Enxi. I never thought that I''ll see you here."

    "Enxi? Hello?" Lu Mello''s shout was heard coming from the phone but Shi Anhao kicked it away without breaking eye contact from the wounded woman in front of her. "ENXI?!"

    "You really thought that you can outwit me huh?" Shi Anhao let out a creepy laugh as she watched Shi Enxi stumble. "I''ll kill you, then your so-"

    Shi Anhao was cut off when someone hit her nape to render her unconscious making her fall on the ground.

    Behind her, a woman stood. It was the nanny that Shi Anhao hired to take care of the baby. The woman was staring blankly at the unconscious body that was laying on the ground. "I''ve always wanted to do that to her." She dusted off her hands.

    "You''re... late... Jiang Yan." Shi Enxi said weakly as she leaned against the wall for support.

    Jiang Yan was the woman who once worked with Chen Gao. Shi Enxi contacted her after she found out about Zi Xuan. She was only willing to help her since it was a way of repaying her for setting her free from Chen Gao. She was someone that Zi Xuan didn''t know about, she was Shi Enxi''s back up plan just in case Zi Xuan would try to betray her.

    Chen Gao may be Shi Anhao''s lackey but his group wasn''t known to her so she wasn''t able to recognize Jiang Yan when she was hired as the baby''s nanny.

    "I need to make sure that the guards were truly asleep." Jiang Yan said, rushing to her side to help her balance herself. "The knife''s still in your back!"

    "Don''t remove it..." She replied as she began to pant. "I... won''t die just because of a stab..." As long as the knife was there, she wouldn''t bleed out.

    Just as they were about to leave the place, a thought entered her mind. She stopped and mustered up the strength to remove the knife from her back, making blood ooze out from her wound, dripping to the floor.

    "Are you crazy?!! Why did you do that?!"

    "Let''s get going already..." Shi Enxi said weakly.

    Jiang Yan had to apply pressure in her back just so she won''t bleed out. She tried her best to rush outside towards the car that was waiting for them.

    Instead of heading to the hospital, due to Shi Enxi''s request, they headed to a local clinic just to get her wound treated there.

    After she recovered, the only person Shi Enxi contacted was Fan Xiao Yao during the day of her the Award Ceremony.

    "We thought that you''re dead, Xiao Xi! This is great!" Fan Xiao Yao exclaimed happily. "We should let Mello know about this. I''m sure that he''ll be delighted-"

    "Xiao Yao, can I ask you a favor?" Shi Enxi interrupted.

    "Eh? Well... Sure, I guess you can as long as it''s something I can do." She replied.

    ...

    (Present)

    Shi Enxi was currently in Japan, living in the same town where Lu Mengjie and her brother, Xia Liqin was.

    She was inside the apartment room she currently was staying at with a phone pressed against her ear.

    "This is too much, Xiao Xi, even for me. I tried to keep quiet for months but this is torturing me too especially when I saw how Mello is. This is just too much! I can''t do this anymore!" She yelled out of frustration. "Mello is also my friend and seeing him being in pain because of you hurts me too. You''re being selfish like this, Xiao Xi." Fan Xiao Yao lectured from the other line. "You know what? What you''re doing right now is only making me hate you."

    Shi Enxi knew that what she was doing was wrong, she should have told others that she was alright but the thought of seeing Lu Mello, hearing his voice again somehow scared her. She was scared that the moment she saw him, she heard him, she would end up going to his side. She wanted a break from him, a break from everything back at the mainland.

    The only reason why she called Fan Xiao Yao was to check on her kids from time to time, making sure that they were alright.

    "You''re being really selfish right now. Mello is your husband, you have children waiting for you here. You have a family!" Fan Xiao Yao continued. "The moment you agreed to marry Mello and have a family with him, that''s where you stop being selfish and start being selfless for them!"

    Her words were like a dagger to her, piercing through her c.h.e.s.t, cutting her into pieces since she was entirely right. But... Just because she was right didn''t mean Shi Enxi would comply with her words no matter how painful it was.

    "I will call you some other time then... Once Mello''s not around."

    "W-Wait! Xiao Xi, you can''t just-"

    Shi Enxi ended the call, cutting off Fan Xiao Yao.