This story is for all the misfits out there who believes there are pieces that never fits any puzzle....

It all started with a coffee, the love between a guy who can hear thoughts and a girl whose words are blunt.

Alexa was hurt after her first boyfriend, Brian, left. She denied, accepts and moved. But moving on was not an easy task for her. She struggles in every day she sees her ex with his new girlfriend. Until, she met one person.

Her life became a confusion— a puzzle. Identities. Secrets. Truths.  Past. Decisions. Fehtan. Pieces that lead her into one choice: for her o for them?

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblace to the name of person—  living or dead, places, things and events are purely coincident.

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I finnaly found my missing puzzle piece, it's you.

Her pain was unique. No one could understand her. No one could feel the emotions swelling in her heart. No one could hold on the thoughts running in her head. No one could feel the way she felt.

No one, but him.

She fears him.

But for him, she is nothing more than a puzzle, an unsolved puzzle.

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Amayra Vice, a new student in Hope academy, a prestigious school in Rysterbia town, has a sketchy past, at least that's what everyone thinks. 

What happens when she comes face to face with the person whom she dreads the most.

Her pain was unique. No one could understand her. No one could feel the emotions swelling in her heart. No one could hold on the thoughts running in her head. No one could feel the way she felt.

No one, but him.

She fears him.

But for him, she is nothing more than a puzzle, an unsolved puzzle.

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Amayra Vice, a new student in Hope academy, a prestigious school in Rysterbia town, has a sketchy past, at least that's what everyone thinks. 

What happens when she comes face to face with the person whom she dreads the most.

"It is here, so I guess all monsters can drop the puzzle pieces for language bloodline skill," said Cade as he was happy with his discovery. 

The language skill needed 20 puzzle pieces just like the language skill from the toad. Cade smiled because it won't take long for him to get twenty of them. 

When Cade looked at the leader skill, he wondered about what it can do. He saw the same one from the big blue tongue toad but that leader skill was for the big blue tongue toad and the one he can get from the slime was for the slime. 

By the name of the skill, Cade wondered if he can be a leader of a group of slime if he were to learn the skill? 

Looking at more of the list of the puzzle, Cade found another familiar puzzle. The slime essence, slime key and slime core. The essence and key needed 100 puzzle pieces while the core needed 1000 puzzle pieces. 

"They must be something really big. Since slime is easy to defeat, should I collect them all and see what I can do with them?" thought Cade. As he had finished looking at the list of drops, Cade chose to get the first part of the figure puzzle to increase his stat. 

With all of that done, it was time for Cade to continue hunting the slime and he suddenly realized how stupid he was. He opened the system and chose the map function. He completely forgot about it. 

When the map opened, Cade can see everything lurking around him. Apparently, just like he thought, no one was around him. He can see a few red dots around though and when he touched the dot, the system said it was slime. 

"So, red mean they are hostile," said Cade as this was his first time seeing the red dot. Actually, that was his second time using the mapping function. He had totally forgot about it. 

With the mapping function, it made it easier for Cade to know the direction and then came to his realization about the reason the level limit increased that fast. 

Maybe the explorers were using the mapping function to locate the slime and find the right way to the floor boss room. 

Cade went to the slime he detected through the map and when he arrived at the location, he appraised the slime and to his surprise, the appraisal showed more information about the slime. 

Name: Slime
Grade: E
Level: 1
Max Stat: 10 per stat
Total Stat Points: 10

"Whoa~ what with this sudden information about the slime? Is it because I kill one? That's right, this happen to the iron ore too. Before I dug the ore, the system only showed me the name of the ore but after I dug the ore, more information can be seen," said Cade.

Cade deduced that it was because Cade obtained the ore and killed the slime that more information about them were available. 

Looking at the slime information, it was a bit different from the past. When the system appraised the monsters before the update, all it shown were the name, grade and level but now, Cade can see the maximum amount of stat it can have as well as the total stat they had. 

Cade got curious of other monsters' stat. Once he had enough looking at the data, Cade went and attack the slime. Just like before, one hit to the core and the slime was killed. Cade chose the second part of the puzzle and complete a figure of the slime. 

Cade absorbed the puzzle and he was a bit disappointed at the amount of stat he got. He only got 10 stat points. Compared to the 35 stat points he got from the toad, that was too low. 

He used all ten stat points on his endurance stat increasing it to 33 points. Cade wanted to raise his vitality and endurance stat first before he considered raising other stat. 

His reason was because he wanted to last longer in a fight. He felt really soured when he lost the fight against the humanoid toad that quickly. He did not contribute anything to the fight and he even needed the help from others to save him. 

He was too useless and he hated that feeling. He was abandoned because he was deemed useless and at his current stat, his family proved to be right. 

As for other stats, he can rely on his equipment especially strength because his weapon was far stronger and more than enough to deal with monsters up to level 20 if they were grade D or below.

Cade had completed one of his objectives and it was time for Cade to continue to complete what he came there for. The slime language bloodline skill. 

With the mapping function, Cade breezed through the dungeon towards the slime he found and killed them. Since they were hostile, he did not feel guilty killing them.

All the killed he made; Cade choose the language skill puzzle piece as his drop. Thanks to the mapping function, it was easy for Cade to locate the slime and his hunting had become faster than when he was in the big tongue toad dungeon. 

He just needed to walked a bit and the map will locate the slime, he headed to them, killed them and got himself his chosen drop. 

It only took Cade about half an hour to kill 20 slimes and collected all 20 pieces of puzzle for the slime language bloodline skill. 

Cade was elated as that was his first time completing a 20 pieces puzzle or maybe he was the first in the universe. From his knowledge, the highest amount of puzzle that was completed was 12 pieces and that puzzle needed 15 years to complete. 

However, Cade knew that that was untrue because the normal bloodline skill needed 10 puzzle pieces and many founders of the big family had the full bloodline skill that Cade cannot found once in any of the monsters he killed. 

Imagine if the normal skill needed 10 puzzle pieces, the full skill will surely need more than that. It just that they never publicize it. Normal human won't even know about the amount of puzzle pieces need and the same goes for explorers too. 

Cade was lucky to get his link growth skill and was able to increase his luck and by chance knew more about the puzzle pieces. If not, he will be as clueless as everyone else. 

Now that he had all the puzzle pieces for the slime language bloodline skill book, the system asked him if he wanted to combine them and Cade said yes. 

Bright light shone but it did not last long. Only a few seconds. Completely different compared to the complete figure puzzle. 

He remembered that time when he was with Jonathan and he cannot absorb the complete puzzle and it kept shone without stopping until Jonathan absorbed the complete puzzle. 

The skill book for the slime language bloodline skill was on his hand. The skill book was thicker than normal skill book. 

[Learn the slime bloodline skill – slime language?] asked the system. Cade said yes.

[Are you sure?] asked the system again. Cade said yes again. 

[Really?] asked the system one more time. 

"??? Yes… Why is the system asking me three times?" said Cade one more time and the skill book disintegrated into lights and it entered Cade's body. Cade felt like something was happening to his body. He can feel it. 

Usually, when learning a skill from the skill book, nothing will happen. The system asked if they wanted to learn the skill and boom, the skill will be in the list of skill. That was it. 

However, Cade can feel something changing in his body and he did not know why. "Is this because this is a bloodline skill?" Cade wondered. The changes happened for 10 minutes when it suddenly stopped. 

After that, Cade felt like usual like nothing had changed. Cade checked his body and nothing was changing. He actually felt a bit scared that he will turn into a slime or something because the skill name was bloodline though everyone knew that the skill was named like that because of its ability to be passed down to the next generation.

Once he confirmed that nothing was changing in his body, he sighed in relieved. When he felt something was changing inside himself, he was scared shitless but he tried to maintain his calm demeanor. 

Cade wanted to try checking his skill when suddenly the system let out another notification. 

[Your body now contain the gene of the slime. Due to this, your body is unsuitable to learn another monster skill as well as getting another monster bloodline skill. Fret not, you will be fine]

Cade stared blankly at the notifications. Once he came to his senses, instead of talking or thinking, he immediately went to his skill list and saw the slime language skill. Cade immediately touched the skill and wanted to delete it, however…

[The skill is permanent] said the system.

"…" 

"…" 

"…"

In an age of magic, space travel and explorations, humans had far surpassed what they were capable of in the past. 

In a small planet located in a small star sector, a young man name Cade was living his life peacefully. 

One day, Cade was playing around with cardboard and he suddenly awakened his system. However, an accident happened and the cardboard he played with became part of his power. 

Followed Cade's journey in making his name as an explorer in the universe.

The drool hanging out of his mouth was long as Robert's story about his passion for completing the jigsaw puzzle sets. Feeling hard done by with what had happened, Robert wanted to shed a tear, but his way of living and the fighter in him was not having it, so he came up with another idea when pressured with the challenge of convincing Theo that solving jigsaw puzzles are chic. 
"Hmm, what can I do to motivate him?" Robert thought to himself. 
Theo stared at him, dead in his face, and this little moment turned into a staring contest between the two divergent thinkers. They made all sorts of wacky faces to come out the victor, such as taking their hands to widen their eyes while sticking out their lips to crossing their eyes and opening their mouth like a hippo with their tongue hanging out of their mouth.
Then it finally hit him as the light bulb over his head lit up. 
"OH!" exclaimed Robert when he glimpsed over in the kitchen from the living room and saw the cupboards. That made him remember a prank or trick you may say that his father had played on him a long time ago. 
The prank in question was when his father hid one of the puzzle pieces. Before giving him to complete one of the puzzles off, and this was before his first win. 
His father purposely took a long time to solve the set because he knew the victory had already been his.
 When Robert had realized that one of the pieces was missing, he said to his father, "I have won by default because a piece is missing." His father looked into the box, then glanced around the room and replied with, "I do not see any missing piece." 
"Are you blind? There is no puzzle piece in here," Robert said as he grabbed the puzzle box. 
His father began to crack up, and it infuriated Robert even more since he felt that he was about to cross the finish line first and capture his first win. Irritably asking, "Why are you laughing!" 
"That is your problem, kid. Not mines."
"Huh?"
"You took one look at the puzzle set believing that all the pieces will be there, thinking everything was already, you began putting it together. But it's impossible to finish something that is incomplete right? The listen to take from this is nothing as it seems in life, and things will always be missing. So, it is your job to either keep it incomplete or find what is missing to make it whole."
"But... that is unfair."
"Oh, I have a lot of pieces to put together. You can go take your default win if you want, kid."
That night Robert looked far and wide for the hidden puzzle piece within the house. He searched tirelessly around the house, turning it upside down. While his father finished his jigsaw puzzle set little by little at a snail pace. 
After a great deal of time had passed, his father was one piece away from putting it all together to complete the set. He watched over at Robert and blurted out, "Phew! all this winning is making me thirsty."
"Hey, kid?"
"Hmph!"
With a massive grin on his face, as he politely asked, "Can you please take the red cup from the cupboard and bring some water for this old man?"
Although Robert was pissed off that he could strangle a cat, he still respected his desires and went for a cup of water. But that did not let his father escape the menacing glares he got while Robert was on his way for the water. 
When he opened the cupboard door and lifted the red cup, the little all-so important puzzle piece was. His father blasted out in laugher as he told him to hurry up before he loses the contest yet again. 
Robert sprinted with all his might, like Usain Bolt in the hundred meters to his unfinished puzzle. But unlike Bolt, he still lost to his father. 
*sips water*
**
"Ah! Good times, I have to bring that up with him next time he calls." Said Robert, while thinking out loud. 
"Mm-hmm, it was.... ah." 
He turned around to witness a Theo who seated upright, taking in every word of the story. 
"So, you like it when I am frustrated and now happy, huh?" 
Theo started to giggle as he asked him if there were more stories to tell. Robert browed across his brain to locate more puzzle scenarios with his father. Then there it was once again, the light bulb over that head of his.
He strung up, "I got it!" 
Robert dashed upstairs as if he had found the last piece of a puzzle set. 
"Hold on, I will be right back!" he yelled while running. 
Not long after going up the flight of stairs, he came back down at the same pace. He returned with one of his old jigsaw puzzles set, with a portrayal of R2-D2 and C3PO on in the Millennium Falcon on it. 
"This one was my favorite growing up, still is, to be honest."
 "Who woulda thunk it?" 
"Hey, I thought you were listening to that part of the story, and where did you learn that?"
"Hehe! From Jellymint on Adventure Buddies, and Linus was listening to your story."
"Anyways, let us put on our Inspector Gadget hats and get cracking."
Robert threw all of the puzzle pieces on the center table in the living room. When Theo saw all the scattered pieces on the table looking like one big mess, he said, "The puzzle broke."
Robert chuckles,
"I guess it broke. Well, then we have to fix it if that is the case, right?"
"It seems like too much work, ugh," Theo said as he fell onto the fluffy carpet.
Here we go again, with like father; like son. As Robert took a similar approach to his old man when he told Theo, "Oh, but I wanted to see the picture of the cool looking robots, oh how amazing those robots are with their robotic bodies. Just so awesome does robots are, huh sigh."
Theo instantly rose from the carpet and asked, "How amazingly awesome are they?"
Robert, in the most dramatic way ever, put his hand on Theo's shoulder as he took a deep breath through his nose and exhaled through that same nose and said in a very monotoned voice, "Super amazingly awesome."
"I want to see the robots, Dada." 
Yes, Theo had fallen right into his trap. 
"Let us get to work and puzzle this unpuzzled puzzle. Then
one, as well as the other, sat down together, trying to solve the jigsaw puzzle set as Robert was seated on the couch while Theo stooped on the carpet. They both were parked at their seats for about two hours, occasionally getting up to use the toilet and get beverages from the refrigerator. 
Even though Robert could have completed the set in less than five minutes, he left most of the work for Theo to figure it out. 
"This one goes here."
"Nope"
"Here for this one..."
"Nah."
"And the next one goes right there."
"Wait.... *chuckles* Unfortunately not."
*Hmph* "This is too hard...ughhhh"
Theo was on the blink of submission as he began to believe that solving the puzzle was getting to be difficult. But being the great father that he is, Robert made an effort to cheer him up by helping him out. 
"There are a lot of tips that I can give to you since it's your first time solving a jigsaw puzzle set."
*Yay* "Thanks please"
He told Theo how to make use of the end puzzle pieces. By doing this first, you can get the border of the entire set. With this outline, it will make it loads easier to complete the hundred-piece jigsaw puzzle set. 
 "Is this an end piece?"
"Yep"
His eyes lit up like a Christmas tree on the 25th of December, with the expression "Aah!" coming out his mouth. 
"Ya see, it is better to have an outline of things before you begin to do it. Remember what your Mama told you, it is better to work...."
"Smarter and not harder."
"Exactly."
Even though Theo got advised to find the end pieces first and put them together by Robert, he still had a rough time with the set. 
Robert glanced at him as he detected that Theo seemed as if he was on the urge of giving up once again. So being as witty as a fox evading a hunter, Robert came up with some other cunning idea to motivate Theo to finish the puzzle. 
"Haa! Too bad for the unfixed robots. They have to remain there, forever broken without a brave robotic wizard to assemble them."
"Huh..."
"How sad it must be for them to endure this mistreated and soon they may be abundant, left it their broken Robo world with nothing to look forward to in the morn, noon and night. How tragic it must feel not knowing if you will never be able to touch your copper arms or not be able to roll on your wheels ever again."
"I...…can be a robotic wizard."
"How I truly feel broken-hearted for what is their fate. *Exhale* At least I have something in common with my friends R2-D2 and C3PO. How awful that they have to stay like this and endure this type of pain, but oh no no no, I know you, Theodore will rise to the occasion. Ah, what are you doing?"
While deep in the course of his motivational speech, Robert saw him murmuring to stuff Imp. He was at sea with what was happening. He felt down since he was not able to finish his passionate speech. 
Theo's response was even more disappointing as he stated, "Yea, Linos said that this whole thing sounds like a drag."
"Ah…ah WHAT?!"
"How was your first-time solving puzzle sets Dada?"
Being flustered by the questions because, for some strange reason, he was not expecting Theo to ask it, he replied with.
"Well…. urm you know, it was easy peasy lemon squeezy, ha-ha."
However, what Robert said was actually "a little lie," he likes to call it. Because the first attempt at solving a jigsaw puzzle set was like watching a tiger trying to cross an ice bridge, it doesn't look pretty, but you can admire its determination as it accepts the challenge and will do what it has to with all of its might. 
He called it stupid countless times and said it made no sense because it does nothing for a person, but every time he had opened his mouth. He picked up another puzzle piece to find out whether it could fit or not. The true essence of the "eye of the tiger." 
Robert was enraptured by robots and any that deals with technology, so the Star Wars puzzle made him excited. That inspired Robert to such a great deal that he went on ahead to study Information Technology in college in the US, and it is where he met his two best friends, Asta Ings and Dilliano Yami.  
The place in which the three friends came up with the manufacturing of hi-tech gadgets such as drones, etc. Three of them always tinkered with electronics in their college after classes, so chemistry among them was never an issue. The trio finishes college to establish their own company, taking the first letter in, all of their last names to produce DIY-Tech. 
Asta had a nose that could sniff out profits like how a dog can sniff out a buried bone, Dilliano was so good at the wiring that you won't put it past him to wire an entire building by himself, and Robert was a jack of all trades when it comes to technology.
However, Robert tended to be homesick and miss his parent while being away for a lengthy period. 
"Eureka!" suddenly uttered Robert as he jumped up from the couch. 
"Eek!"
"Sorry for scaring you, bub…."
Robert had finally come up with the perfect way to let Theo complete the jigsaw puzzle set.
He thought to himself before spouting out the reason to finish the set for Theo.
"There is no way he is not going to bat an eyelid for this one."
Robert's confidence in himself was solemnly over the roof as he told Theo, ".... But you do realize that if we do not finish the puzzle set, then our two robot friends won't be able to go home to their family, right?"
"What Mr. Robert has a family?"
"Oh, for sure. Everyone has a family."
"Uh oh! Mr. Robot would not be able to go to his Mama and Dada..."
"I'm sorry to tell you this, but no, Mr. Robot won't get to see them. Sigh..."
He soon got up as if he was on his way to pack up the jigsaw puzzle set and cleverly said, "Oh my, they love their Mama and Dada too."
That made young and innocent Theo worried about "Mr. Robert" not being able to go home to his mother and father.
"I guess I should put this away...…"
"WAIT!!"
"Eh...?"
Theo got up with bright-eyes and bushy-tailed as he declared, "We have an important mission to complete, Captain Dada."
"Whew, I guess we have a job to do, Commander Theodore."
Robert had a little victory celebration in his head, silently shouting, "Finally!"

Children’s imagination is known to run wild, but Theo’s creative power always seems to have neither boundaries nor limits. 
Due to the unableness, to go out and about in society. Theo’s father, Robert, came up with an amusing idea to keep Theo’s fictitious thinking entertained throughout this period of isolation. We journey along with Theo on his Pure Adventure around the house to track down all fifty of the hidden puzzle pieces. Witnessing the numerous difficulties, he comes across in achieving his goal of gathering every puzzle piece to complete the set. 
With the aid of an advanced prototype VR headset, Theo found it in the attic where his father had hidden it. Turning Theo’s house into a whole new world to explode with his imaginary friend, Linos, and guides his mind into a Pure Imagination made him travel from feat to feat. 
An odyssey that takes him to all kinds of contrasting scenes. Such as a Halloween party, a Caribbean island, a race around the Metropolis of Motor City, and more. He meets a shedload of fascinating characters that gives young Theo life lessons and morals along the mind trip.

Wei Na came home with a packaged, custom made video game. The game was super expensive, so she expects a lot from it. She was never a video gamer, but her husband -to-be is the ultimate champion.

"Heh, let's see if he could win this one." She checked the time on her watch. 'He should be getting off work now. Ah! I want some dumplings and egg drop soup! Let me message him.'

Text Message to Hubby: 

Wei Na: "Babbbeeeeee, can you stop by the Chinese restaurant on your way home? I want dumplings and egg drop soup!"

Bin Guan: "Sure. Anything else? You have 15 minutes before I reach the restaurant."

Wei Na: "No, no. Just those two dishes are fine."

Bin Guan: "Let's see... Mushroom tofu soup, salted chicken congee, duck Thai salad..."

Wei Na's mouth watered as she texted, "Stop!!!!"

Bin Guan: "What? Mrs. Bin, you've been craving more foods around midnight, so I'm making sure you didn't want other stuff~ I'm doting on my wife~"

Wei Na: "Hmph, I want all of the above dishes plus glass noodles in spicy tofu soup. I'll eat you poor and let you cry a whole mountain for teasing me! I'll make you get fat with me too!"

Bin Guan: "Hahahaha, alright. Your delivery is on its way. (kiss emoticon)"

Wei Na sent him three lines of hearts before rubbing her tummy, "I'm hungry too. Just wait a little bit more."

- Half an hour later -

Wei Na hopped to the entrance and helped carry a bag of food to the dining table. After successfully keeping the food safe and steady on the hard surface, she turned around and hugged him around his nape. "Before the meal, welcome back darling~~ Mwahhhh"

She gave him a peck on the lips and told him to wash up before eating. She too washed her hands with liquid soap before having her meal. Seeing the table full of food, she cupped her cheeks and licked her lips, forgetting about the video game she wanted to make him verse her in. 

Her smile was full of happiness. As she ate, she rubbed her cheeks with her finger that had a bit of sauce on it. He chuckled and wiped the stain off the apple of her cheeks using his thumb, "Aiyo, a grown up already and eating just like a kid. Cute."

She blushed from his remark and continued eating her food. Wei Na finished her meal before Bin Guan did and remembered that she wanted to tell him about the video game that she bought today. "I wanted to show you something~"

She walked towards the wrapped package on the couch and had him open it. Quickly, he finished his last bite and started unwrapping. He stared at the package with a dull face, "Huh?"

She walked over after seeing his weird expression, "What? That's your fav-....." The store messed up her order and replaced the video game with a jigsaw puzzle. He looked at her bewildered face and thought that she was upset that he didn't like the gift, so he acted like he was receiving an Oscar award. 

"Ohh! I love this puzzle! Honey, how did you know I've been into puzzles lately? Hahahaha, let's put these pieces together after cleaning up!" He pulled her on his lap and kissed her lips.

She took the puzzle out of his hands and raised he brows, 'Did I order it wrong? Did I not say I wanted the video game? I even paid for it too!!! No, let me secretly check the receipt and call them if there was a mistake.'

While Bin Guan washed the dishes, she double checked her receipt and felt disappointed to see that the store indeed made a mistake, 'Tch. If this was a regular gift, then it would've been fine. But they messed my plan up! Sigh...I'll give them a call now.'

She stepped out to a balcony and called the company to complain about her order. Since it is rare for a customer to spend so much money on one product, once she told them her name, they recognized her. 

Manager: "I am very sorry about any inconvenience this has caused you. The item that you have received must have been another custom made by another customer. If you wish for a refund, we will deposit the money back to your account."

Wei Na rubbed her temple, feeling irritated, "I already opened the Jigsaw puzzle. Can you check for me what the puzzle says, so this time I can actually continue with my plan smoothly? I would like a refund and make the purchase the puzzle that I have in possession."

Manager: "The puzzle had the same words that you originally wanted for the video game. Since it is out company's mistake, please accept the puzzle as our gift for you. We will execute the refund back to your account and that will take up to three days. Is that alright with you? Once again, I am very sorry for any inconvenience that this has caused you."

Wei Na sighed, "Okay. Thank you for your time and patience. I'll check my account again in a few days to make sure the transaction has processed. Have a good night."

After the call ended, she walked back to the living room where Bin Guan had prepared a platter of sliced fruits for her. She smiled, "How did you know I wanted fruits?"

He fed her a piece of seedless grape, "Because I know. Shall we begin with the puzzle?"

She showed a faint smile and nodded, "Mm.."

Sensing that something felt off, he asked her if she was feeling unwell. She shook her head , "Nothing. It's just that I was expecting something else to be in this package. Anyways, let's continue."

He had his arm around her waist while doing the puzzle, "You know, it doesn't matter if it is a puzzle or knitting or anything else as long as you're the one doing it with me."

Her bright smile appeared, "Sweet talker."
Finally, they reached the last two pieces of the puzzle and she said, "Darling, how about we complete the puzzle at the same time?"

"Sure. Anything you want." As their fingers left the completed puzzle, her eyes teared up slightly. She looked at him as he covered his smile and giggles, "Oh my god... oh my god.. oh my god!!!!" He jumped up from his seat and paced around the living room with a joyous smile that looked like Spring. 

Catching his breath, he knelt down beside her and placed his ears on her lower abdomen. 

"Silly, you can't hear anything just yet. Still early." She laughed at his excited reaction.

"Shhhh.. maybe if we stay quiet enough we can hear a little tiny bit!" Her fingers combed his hair lightly as he listened closely to her tummy. 

On the table, the completed puzzle said, "You're going to be a daddy!"

He couldn't stay calm at all, but then again, this was their first baby.

The warmth of the sunlight that was shining through the window landed on the girl's flawless face. Her eyelashes fluttered rapidly as her hands clenched onto her blanket tightly. She chanted, "No! No! Don't.. please.. I beg you stop! Ahh!!" She gasped for breath as she wiped the layer of cold sweat off her forehead. She looked at her phone and laid in bed after realizing that she was in her apartment. 'I'm safe.. it's alright.. safe..' After calming down, she took a quick shower and looked into the mirror. "Yang Ya Nuo! you got this! New day, new beginning!" She got dressed in a male school uniform and applied her makeup and wig. Within the next 15 minutes, her beautiful jade like face transformed into a handsome young man's face. "Aha! That should do it! Handsome like always. Breakfast time~" 
Since young, Ya Nuo learned how to change her voice to sound like a male's voice in case she needed it one day. Unlike girls at her age who liked to hang out with friends and go shopping, she only loves one thing, food! She works three part time jobs and is attending a famous school on a scholarship that covers full tuition. 
She cheerfully walked to the kitchen to see what's there to make for breakfast. When she opened the fridge, she saw nothing, but a piece of sausage inside. Sigh.. "I paid for rent and ran out of money to restock for grocery."
Ding Dong
"Who is it?" she said in a grumpy tone.
"Yo!" Xu Huan Hei greeted her with a hand wave.
"Is it time already? There's still half an hour before the usual time you come to get me for school." 
"Nope! But I do have something I want to discuss with you." he smiled dazzlingly. He was the school's second most popular guy that every female wished to date. The number one ranked male student was Ya Nuo. These two met each other at a young age, but due to some reason Huan Hei never found out about her female gender. 
"I'm hungry. Let's talk food first."
"Here~ i already prepared a bag of groceries and two bacon, egg, and sausage for you" he winked.
Ya Nuo smirked, "Oh? Seems like it's something important hmm? Alright, let me enjoy my breakfast as we discuss your 'favor.'"
In the middle of enjoying her bacon, egg, and sausage, she suddenly spit out the mouthful of food onto Huan Hei. 
"will you be my girlfriend?" he asked confidently.
"Are you crazy?? I'm a guy! 100% male!"
"But you are so pretty, even girls say you have feminine features. I'm sure with a little makeup you'll look very cute!"
"... what's your reason?"
"A girl keeps pestering me and chasing after me to get into a relationship with her. I told her for the past two years that I'm not interested in any relationships, but she refused to listen. I accidentally slipped out and said I actually have a girlfriend... so she asked to meet her.. and I didn't have anyone that is trustworthy enough for this job."
"No."
"Pretty please"
"No!"
"Come on~ I'll buy you lunch~"
"I'm not that cheap."
"Fine, 3 months worth of lunch and groceries!"
"Deal."
In the meantime, at a luxurious restaurant, a man with gray hair sipped his wine, "Did you guys find her yet?"
"No.. sir"
"Then why are you here? Go! Find her and bring her here! Don't come back and report bullshit to me!"
"Yes!"

*THERE IS NO RAPE OR ANY SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THIS NOVEL. BUT WARNING OF 18+ CONTENT*

The book cover is not mine, credits go to the original author. This novel is an original written by me, so please don’t post it anywhere else.

Most children would not have the patience to finish the puzzles. They only clamored their parents to buy for them on impulse. She got one because she saw her then colleague buying it for her child.
Two days later, after she finished her work that night, she saw a tall Eiffel Tower model standing on the table in the living room. The puzzle she had bought for her son was at an advanced level, with more than two thousand pieces of puzzle. The boy only needed two days to figure out the jigsaw puzzle by himself. She could imagine how he had spent two full days inside his room, patiently cutting and piecing the parts of the puzzle one by one. 
After half a month, her then colleague complained to her about wasting hundreds of yuan to buy the puzzle. Apparently, her former co-worker's kid lost his patience with the 3D puzzle halfway through playing it. In the end, she and her husband had to cajole and coerce the child into completing the puzzle. 
Looking at her colleague's woeful expression, the woman replied proudly, "My son completed the puzzle in two days."
Her colleague immediately rebutted, "No way! He must've done it with your help!" To which she objected, "How would I find the time to play with him? I have to work till late at night!"
"I don't believe you!"
She then took out her cell phone to show her colleague a picture of the completed jigsaw puzzle model before the latter took her words for real. 
As the other woman sized her up with a weird look, a question was thrown at her that made her laugh. "Shishi… how did you raise your son?"
Indeed, her son was really one-of-a-kind, and the question tickled her to no end.
"The more patient a child is, the more he's likely to be smart."
"That's right. My kid has no patience at all. No toys can hold his interest for more than three days."
The actress did not have such a problem with Youyou. The boy would painstakingly preserve the toys she got for him inside his cabinet. Every now and then, he would take them out for polishing.
Even though the mother-son pair had moved houses many times, the boy hardly lost any of his treasured toys. Before moving away, he would always ensure that all his toys were kept safe and secured inside a carton.
Honestly, he was a sentimental child. He might have lost interest in these toys as he grew up but he would never have the heart to throw them away. After all, these toys were his companions during his lonely childhood.
The actress beamed to herself all of a sudden. There was nothing more blissful than knowing that her son cherished her love for him.
Whenever she saw how the boy poured his heart into taking care of the toys she got for him, she would teem with a great sense of achievement and happiness.
Regardless of romance or kinship, there must exist a sense of reciprocal pleasure between both parties.
Just as kids would want to please their parents, likewise, parents would want to please their children.
In this fashion, with the store clerks busily exchanging tips on parenting and expressing their envy at her, they helped her into the mermaid dress.
When the actress reemerged from the changing room, they could not help exclaiming with wide-eyed wonderment!
"Ms. Yun, your boy has a good aesthetic sense, indeed! The mermaid dress really brings out your charm and beauty!"
"Thank you for the compliment."
"I mean it! You really look good!"
The moment she pushed the door open, Youyou dashed to her excitedly. He was stunned at the sight at first, then slowly, he circled her a few times while nodding and sizing her up with great satisfaction.
"Mommy, you look better in this dress compared to the one earlier!"
Mu Yazhe and Little Yichen turned their heads to look at her and their eyes displayed their pleasant surprise simultaneously
"WOW!"


She became a surrogate mother in exchange for over a million yuan.

As the esteemed CEO of the most powerful Empire in the capital, he holds absolute power, while she is just an adopted daughter to a family of lowly status. She agreed to bear him his offspring, simply because her adoptive father's business was failing.
 
On the day of her delivery, the elder brother was born healthy, but the younger one was stillborn. Having fulfilled the contract, she disappeared from his sight along with the astronomical sum of money. 


Six years later, he is still that arrogant and high-profile CEO. When she accidentally gets embroiled with him again – like a canary trapped in his cage, he closes in on her. “Woman, do you think you can escape from my clutches?!" 

However, he does not expect a little kid to interfere; the boy pompously points his little finger at him and warns, “Mu Yazhe, you’d better leave her alone! She's mine – this baby's woman!” 

The man is alarmed, simply because the little kid's facial features are identical to his...

Tags: Adorable Child, CEO, Sweet Romance, Scheming, Wealthy Aristocrats, Fluff, Two-faced, Child, Rich and Powerful, Treachery

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