When Love Beckons Twice

The entire Wu Mansion had turned topsy turvy early in the morning, wrecking down the peace of the place. Maids were running up and down the mansion trying to get everything ranging from toys to every kind of food they could get, to pacify a three year old child that was crying on top of its lungs in a room that was just next to the room of their second young master. 

Housekeeper Jingli stood next to the large bed and looked like he was soon going to have a breakdown. He had tried everything he knew but this girl just would not stop crying. He did not even know who this girl was, and where did their second young master bring her from.

But the housekeeper was already experienced enough to know that if the little girl was given a room next to their second young master's room and not a guest room, she must be someone important. But the most important question right now was, when was their second young master returning? Wu Zihao had gone to handle some work on behalf of Wu Zhang early in the morning and was not back yet. 

He had told him that he would be back before the little girl wakes up but if he couldn't make it then they were ordered to take good care of her. But it was totally not happening right now. The girl was crying so loudly that if one didn't know better. they would think that she was being beaten up.

However it wasn't entirely Wu Zihao's fault either because he had not thought that Xiao Li would wake up just in thirty minutes after he was gone. It was barely 6 right now!

What were they supposed to do?

"Miss Xiao Li, how about you stop crying and brush your teeth, and then I will make you some yummy breakfast?" The housekeeper tried his luck for the nth time.

"Xiao Li wants mama! Find mama," the girl spoke between her howls and her little body trembled. She had no idea how did she come here and she recognized no one in this place. To have recently gone through such a horrible experience with her aunt, she easily got scared when she failed to find a single recognizable face.

Housekeeper Jingli wiped his sweat and brought the doll that a maid had just given him, to Xiao Li. "Here Miss Xiao Li, would you like to play with this doll? Look she is wearing such a pretty dress." The old man had put on his best smile and his voice was literally pleading the girl to take the doll and stop crying.

Xiao Li who was at the opposite corner of the bed paused for a second and looked at Jingli and then at the doll, and she then looked at Jingli again. Housekeeper Jingly immediately widened his smile further to the extent that it was now reaching his ears, and seeing that... "wuhaa" the girl started crying even louder than before.

One of the two maids who were standing in the room after their failed attempt at coaxing this little girl because she would not let anyone touch her, whispered to the other in a hushed voice, "Do you think this is our second young master's daughter?"

The other maid widened her eyes and looked at the former one. She then whisper-yelled in response to not let the housekeeper hear them, "Are you mad Yiyi? Don't say something so preposterous! Where would he get this big a daughter from?"

"Who knows, he might have a mistress outside. Rich people all have some. I mean look at her, she looks so similar to our young master, doesn't she?" When the other maid heard what Yiyi said, she looked carefully at the girl that actually looked very similar to Wu Zihao, especially her eyes. "I can bet she is his daughter!"

"Yeah, you are right." 

The two maids jumped at the voice that came from behind them and immediately turned around to see Wu Zihao walking inside the room. "Se-second young master!" They both said unanimously and bowed.

Jin Qingling immediately lifted the crying Xiao Li up in her arms who immediately clung onto her like a koala bear and started patting her back. "Don't cry anymore Xiao Li, mama is here."

As if she was given a shot of some tranquilizer, Xiao Li immediately stopped crying and buried her head in the crook of her mother's neck and complained in a muffled voice. "Mama left Xiao Li alone."

"I am sorry baby. Mama won't leave you alone next time, okay?"

Wu Zihao kept looking at them for a while until Jin Qingling took Xiao Li to brush her teeth and help her take a bath. He then turned to the maids and housekeeper who were still standing there like statues, trying to figure out what the hell was going on here. "Get Jin Qingling's luggage in here and help both of them settle. Make sure the little young miss feels comfortable here."

"Li-little young miss?" The housekeeper looked at Wu Zihao as if he had seen a ghost. That girl was their little young miss?

"Yes, that's right. She is my daughter."

He then turned to the two maids standing there and glared at them. "If you two have so much free time in the world to stand here and gossip, then you can leave your jobs in the mansion and get lost to gossip as much as you want. You are not paid to gossip here."

All the color from the face of the two maids drained out hearing that "We are sorry second young master. It won't happen again!" 

Wu Zihao just gave them a final glance as a warning and then turned around and left leaving the three people behind him dumbfounded.