Prologue: Aurelia Michael Shen Baiyu
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Aurelia Michael Shen1 Baiyu2 is a successful businesswoman yet ruthless when it comes to executing each given tasks by her respective clients. On the face of it, her lucrative firm is providing personal security and/or bodyguards to any paying clients but, in the underworld, Black Hornet Firm is also offering killer-for-hire. Sometimes, the government/s is and/or are also using her firm to kill those that needed to be killed (aka gangsters and/or mob members and/or those who had escaped from the law) which resulted in the smooth sailing business for the wise yet cunning woman. Being one of the richest people in the world is an extra bonus too.
It is not like her family is just like any other ordinary family, Micheal Shen is a well-respected Police Commissioner of Sabah, Malaysia. And, her mother is a former Unduk Ngadau and a famous philanthropist as well. As the only daughter of the loving couple, she has it all but due to her ambitious nature, she wanted to have more so after she graduated, she first worked with one of the famous private security firms in the world to gain more experience and knowledge. As a successful independent woman, she refused to be tied down with marriage. Not that she does not have countless of men for her to enjoy her times with.
She is having the time of her life while enjoying her singledom to its fullest effect. Her relatives especially the older generation scorned seeing her modern and western way of life which is quite funny because despite having men on her side 24/7, she is still a virgin.
One of her best friends once said to her, "Why on earth you are still guarding your virginity like a lioness? It is not like the longer that you are keeping, the more priceless will be. Get any one of those men and have s*x with them!"
It is not like she never thought of it, she did but she does not want to do it with just anyone. She wanted to do it with a man that she sincerely in love with, but that man seems not to exists somehow. She has been looking for the certain someone high and low to no avail so all she can do is to flirt with the others along the way just to fill up her free times.
Being a 34-year old and still not showing any signs of settling down for marriage worries her mother and using her authority as a mother, she forced her only daughter to come to a pre-arranged blind date once her daughter has touched down in Kota Kinabalu all the way from New York.
Still suffering from a jet-lagged, she still insisted on renting a car for her to drive on her own to the so-called blind date that her mother had arranged for her. On her way to the intended place, she cursed at her older brother who is still unmarried but have all the joy in the world to not being forced for a blind date. Why? Because he is a man and it is fine even if he is still not without a wife yet. She hopes one of these days that one of his girlfriends will end up pregnant. That will show him the bittersweet side of (sudden) parenthood.
While being distracted with her thoughts, she did not realize that one high speeding vehicle from behind her rented car is not stopping even though the traffic light has already changed into red light and it crashed onto her rented car with a force. The impact of the crash catapulted her rented car towards the incoming traffic which is a four-way intersection. This is it she thought to herself. She knew that marriage is a no-no and her doomsday for her. Her first time agreeing to go to a blind date, and this is what happened to her.
Within minutes, the world has gone dark for her...
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