Ten minutes before the agreed time, the four of them arrived at the law firm. They entered the large, modern office building and had to register at reception. The nice, pretty lady at reception picked up the phone, dialed speed dial 4, waited a moment and then announced that Zhan and Isko had arrived and that they were accompanied by a police officer, Chief Wen Rouhan, and a government agent, Agent Wang Yibo. She listened, nodded and hung up. "You can go up." She said, pointing to the elevator.

Zhan, Yibo, Isko and Wen Rouhan went to the elevator, pressed the call button and waited until the elevator arrived and the doors opened. Then they entered the elevator and went up to the sixth floor. The elevator doors slid open and they found themselves in a bright hall with a few chairs and tables, a vending machine for hot drinks and a vending machine for snacks.

Confused, they looked around. Four doors led to four different office units. The door to their left was the right one. They walked towards it and tried to open the door, but it was locked. Annoyed, Zhan rang the bell there too and shortly afterwards they heard a voice coming from a small speaker next to the door. "Yes, please?"

"Xiao Zhan and Isko Isari. We have an appointment." Zhan announced.

"I understand." Replied the voice and then the door opener sounded. They went in and a stern-looking woman in a business suit approached them. Zhan examined her. She had gray hair tied in a tight knot. She wore glasses that reminded him a lot of his grandmother's glasses. Her smile looked false as she greeted them and told them to follow her.

They were taken into a small conference room and told to sit at the table. "Mr. Lawyer and Mr. Notary will be here shortly." She announced in a high-pitched voice and with a stiff posture. "May I bring something to drink?" She asked, but the look on her face said they'd all better say no. And somehow everyone seemed to realize that and declined. She nodded in satisfaction and stood next to the conference room door. Zhan had the impression she wanted to keep an eye on them all. Just in case they did anything stupid in the room, where there was nothing but white tables, chairs and a large flat-screen monitor.

After about 10 minutes of just standing there stiffly and watching them, the door finally opened. She straightened up, bowed to the lawyer and the notary and then hurriedly left the room after the notary said, "Miss Lei, you can go then. We don't need you now."

The lawyer and notary greeted the four of them and handed them all a document to sign before they sat down. "Please sign. This is a declaration of consent for Chief Rouhan and Agent Wang to attend the reading of the will." Said the notary as he pushed the documents to them.

Everyone signed it, then the lawyer said to Zhan and Isko: "I would like to see the ID cards and an original death certificate now." They handed him their ID cards, and Zhan also gave him the death certificate that Isko had given him a few days ago after he and Wen Rouhan had taken care of the funeral of his former dead boss and received the death certificate from the mortician.

The lawyer and the notary checked both, handed them back the ID cards and finally the lawyer fetched a black suitcase with a lock. The lawyer turned the suitcase around, took out the key for the lock and opened it in front of those present. He then flipped up the lid of the case and took out a long, flat box that looked exactly like the box Zhan had received from the last lawyer. Only this one also had a lock, which the lawyer opened in front of them.

He placed the contents of the box side by side on the table. A thick letter for Zhan. A smaller letter for Isko. A large brown envelope. A bunch of keys with different sized keys. Securities. A few pictures. Two birth certificates. And a CD in an envelope containing a letter with Zhan's name on it. The notary wrote everything down on a document.

Finally, the lawyer and the notary sat down and the lawyer opened a file, which he also took out of the case. The will! As Zhan saw. What followed was the usual: "I Isla Isari, in full possession..." And so on, then the lawyer read out: "I hereby give all my legally earned wealth to Xiao Zhan!" Zhan gulped and didn't know what to think. Then the lawyer came to Isko and read out: "I leave my villa and my Swiss bank account to my dear Isko." Roughly summarized, because the author doesn't feel like describing it at length. Hahaha😅

After the lawyer read this out, he let Zhan and Isko sign more documents and then handed them the letters. Zhan also received the rest from the box, apart from the securities that Isko received. Isko opened and read his letter immediately and began to cry after the first few lines. Wen Rouhan put his arm around his shoulder to comfort him, while Zhan and Yibo turned their full attention to the CD, on which was written: "Decryption software". Could this be the decryption software for the data on the USB stick?

Zhan opened the letter that came with the CD and read that it was indeed the decryption software in question. Isla Isari also wrote to him that he had to decide for himself what he wanted to do with the data on the USB stick. Zhan thought he already knew exactly what to do. But the moment he held the software in his hands so that he could finally read the data on the USB stick, he was no longer sure. He first wanted to see what the mysterious data contained.

Next, Zhan took the brown envelope and opened it. He pulled out lots of papers, all of which appeared to be Isla Isari's own investigation results concerning the fire 26 years ago in the birth house. Among them were pictures of the people who had died there. Zhan handed the investigation documents to Yibo and then looked at the pictures.

Zhan's eyes filled with tears when he came to the pictures of his parents. They smiled back at him from the pictures. A dull ache spread through Zhan's chest and stomach. Yibo wrapped his arms around him and said, "Now I know why you are so beautiful. Your mom was a stunning beauty and your dad was really handsome." Zhan nodded and hid his face on Yibo's shoulder. He had expected everything. But not pictures of his parents beaming with happiness.

After Zhan had calmed down a little, he opened the letter and read through it. There were 10 pages and 8 of them were about Isla Isari's past, which Zhan already knew, and the explanation of how she became the cold-blooded murderer. One page was about the information that the men she tortured and killed were the men who had committed sexual assault on her. The friends of her American ex-husband. The other men, she wrote, she never tortured, but usually killed immediately. With one exception. Her last victim. And she had only tortured him because she knew that he had repeatedly abused underage girls and boys. She didn't write what she had done with James Abberline's body.

The last page concerned her assets. She wrote that she had decided to leave all her legally acquired wealth to Zhan because, over the past 26 years, she had somehow always regarded him as a kind of son. She wrote that she loved him like a mother in a way. Which was probably because she never had the chance to raise her own sons. As well as her daughters.

The two birth certificates were those of her two sons. But he didn't know what to do with them. Isla Isari hadn't written him anything about it. And the lawyer didn't know either. So Zhan put the two birth certificates in the brown envelope and decided he would think about them once he had let everything sink in. Maybe, he thought, he would try to find her sons and tell them about their mother.

After they had gone through everything, all that was left was the really thick bunch of keys. And those were all for lockers in a company that belonged to Isla Isari and, if Zhan had understood correctly, now belonged to him. Isko also looked at the bunch of keys and smiled. "She had lockers installed in the basement of her company. Each of these lockers contains a teddy bear with a bow. She bought them every year for her children's birthdays." Isko explained.

"I see." Zhan said, feeling uncomfortable. He handed Isko the bunch of keys and said, "You know what? You take this. And we'll have to talk about all these companies of hers. I don't want anything to do with it. I wouldn't even know what to do with them."

"We could sell the companies." Isko suggested and thanked him for the bunch of keys, which he clutched to his chest.

"Yes." Zhan said and asked the lawyer if he knew a lawyer who could do it for him. The lawyer nodded and told him that he had a colleague at the firm and that he could let him know. Zhan nodded and asked him to get him an appointment with this lawyer.

The lawyer hurried out of the conference room and returned just two minutes later with the other lawyer. Zhan explained to him briefly and clearly what he wanted, the lawyer's eyes lit up and he immediately made an appointment with Zhan, where they would talk about everything in detail. Then the lawyer left with shining eyes and it was time for the four of them to go.

When Yibo and Zhan were back in Yibo's car, they called Agent Fang, told them what had come out of the appointment with the lawyer and left out the information about the decryption software for the time being. Agent Fang thanked them for the information, then addressed the email that Zhan had received and Yibo had forwarded to his team leader, explaining that he would look into the matter immediately.

After the phone call, the two of them drove back to Zhan's apartment, where he hid the CD by the USB stick behind the living room cupboard. Then Zhan packed a suitcase and they made their way to Yibo's apartment, where Yibo's parents were already waiting impatiently for them. Yibo also packed a suitcase, while Zhan showed Yibo's parents the pictures of his biological parents and explained that he wanted to visit his grandparents as soon as possible.

An hour later, the four of them were on their way to Zhan's parents, which Zhan informed by phone that they were coming. And when they finally arrived at his parents' country house, his parents came rushing out of the house, wrapped their arms around Zhan and plastered his face with kisses before pausing when they recognized Wang Yibo.

They greeted Yibo excitedly, repeating several times how incredible it was that Zhan had really met his idol and also greeted Yibo's parents, who immediately felt at home. Even though they hadn't even entered the house yet. "It's picturesquely beautiful here." Yibo's mom said and his dad agreed.

"Yes, we love it here too." Zhan's mom said, smiling as she watched her husband give Zhan another big cuddle while Yibo played with the kittens.

"You have a very close and intimate relationship with your son. Don't you?" Yibo's mom asked.

Zhan's mom nodded. "He's our sunshine. Our miracle. And our greatest happiness. We love him more than anything. And we are grateful for him every day. He's the best thing that's ever happened to us." She said proudly and with tears of joy in her eyes. Then she rushed to Zhan and her husband and wrapped her arms around Zhan again.

"Why can't it be the same for us and Yibo?" Yibo's mom asked herself, looking at Yibo, who was still laughing and playing with the kittens.

"Well, you know, wife. Our son is different. He's never wanted us around like this. He's always been a bit colder and more reserved." Replied Yibo's dad.

"But with me more than with you." Yibo's mom complained.

"Mhhh, maybe so. And now come on. Let's go to them." Said her husband and they went to Zhan and his parents.

They were about to go into the house when Zhan's dad tensed up and looked in a certain direction at the edge of the forest. Zhan's mom noticed her husband's gaze immediately. She rushed into the house and came back just 10 seconds later with a air rifle. She handed it to her husband, who pointed it at the spot that had attracted his attention and pulled the trigger! There was a loud bang and Zhan's dad ran off.

Zhan's mom ran alongside her husband. Yibo and his parents froze, not knowing what was going on. Zhan took the air rifle and looked through the scope. Yibo's gaze locked on Zhan, who held the rifle like a pro, and immediately froze again when Zhan fired a shot. "Very good son." Yelled Zhan's dad as he ran.

"What the hell is going on?" Yibo's dad asked in a shaky voice.

"A wolf tried to chase one of the ponies." Replied Zhan without taking his eyes off the scope.

"A wolf?" Yibo asked, startled. "You killed a wolf?"

"Killed it? No. Just chased it away. We never shoot them. We just shoot next to them so they get scared and run away." Zhan explained.

"But how could you even see that? I don't see anything." Yibo's mom wondered.

"Mhhh, I don't know." Said Zhan avoidantly, bringing out Yibo's skepticism again.

Once again, Yibo looked at his beautiful boyfriend and wondered who Xiao Zhan really was? A normal graphic designer? He believes this less and less. Even though he had seen Zhan working as one. Who or what is Zhan?