From Contract To All My Life: I Own You

A cold wind was howling in the winter night. A silver Volkswagen Santana was speeding along the snow-laden asphalt road.

In the car, Joy Mu, a sixteen-year-old girl, looked nervously at the man next to her. She had called him father for more than ten years.

The man was gripping the steering wheel so excitedly that his knuckles had turned pale.

"Dad,"

said Joy Mu cautiously as she reached out and tugged on his sleeve.

He shook off her hand and yelled with a twisted expression, "Don't call me Dad! I'm not your father."

"Waa, waa!"

Police sirens wailed in the distance behind them.

"Attention, car number 6758! Please pull over."

The man was not affected by the warning. He stepped on the gas and sped ahead. Then he fished out his phone from his pocket and tossed it to her. "Call up your mother and ask her to save you. Hurry up!"

The phone rang and her mother answered the call.

"Hello? Do you want money again? I have already told you... You cannot call me on this number,"

a woman said irritably in a hushed tone.

"Mom? It's me."

It felt so strange to say that word. Joy Mu had thought she was different from others as she was born without a mother.

The woman on the phone paused for a while. She never expected the person on the other line to be her daughter.

"Marry, listen! You have lied to me for so many years. I'm going to die with this bastard child. I'll make you regret it for the rest of your life!"

roared the man, who had grabbed the phone. He threw it out of the window after he was done.

"Watch out!"

The surge of adrenaline coursing through him distracted him from the road and he failed to notice the road ahead. A large truck of containers suddenly appeared on the highway. The man swerved sharply to avoid a collision but it was too late.

"Bang!" The car rammed into the truck. In a moment of desperation, Joy Mu raised her arm to protect the man's head.

The Imperial City, an entertainment club, was located in the center of A City.

It was known for being the favorite haunt of the rich and famous who spent more money here in one night than three years' salary of ordinary people.

waist and a gold necklace. He looked nouveau riche. Behind him was a large group of strong

decoration in the Imperial City was particularly magnificent. The man with the golden necklace seemed to

led them to room 414, where another

was the biggest drug dealer

in advance and changed into it. Amy Shen waited at the door with a room service cart. As soon as Joy Mu stepped out of the bathroom, Amy Shen handed her the cart and made a gesture discreetly, indicating that she and the editor would be waiting for her

forward and secretly

at the gate of room 414. Joy was about to walk in when she was

"What are you doing?"

"Here's the lobster!"

so nervous that her palms were sweating, but she pretended to be

were wary. They immediately

nothing unusual inside,

and pushed

in the gold necklace was talking to an American man with a dragon tattoo on his arm. When he heard the door open,

the lobster on the table and

she was done, she

said the drug lord

she turned around with a

need anything

is there no number on

to her for a better look. All the waiters in

have left it in the bathroom,' Joy

"Knock, knock, knock!"

excuse when there was a knock on the

was Amy, who entered

Joy and opened her hand.

bathroom. You'd better pin it on your uniform. If the manager catches you without it, he will deduct your

put it on. She was about to hug Amy gratefully, but when she saw the people in

at the number 116 on Joy's chest and seemed mollified.

Joy estimated that they might have finished eating and accompanied the other two waiters to bring back the dishes. There was a big mess in the room. Empty wine bottles

quick peek at the people in the room.

cleaning up the mess, Joy was about to push the

inadvertently swept his eyes over the

"Stop!"

Joy pretended not to hear him and continued to

"Hey! Stop her!"

dozen big guys emerged from the shadows and

"What are you doing?"

the bug behind her and held up her hands. She smiled