"Mhmm…" She murmured her a.s.sent. She was busy probing the data in front of her. She was even frowning from the information.

"What can you possibly get from there? It's incomplete." She concluded. "It only had his early years' record up until around five years old, and it resumed just a few years ago when he was already an adult. Why is it like that?"

"Strange, right?" Chen Linyun agreed. "I've learned from your grandfather that their whole family went overseas when he was around five years of age. So I sought help from Father. We contacted a government agency in South Korea and requested his records over the years on the guise that we are investigating him as a citizen of this country. They granted our request. The doc.u.ments arrived this morning."

He bent towards a drawer on the lower portion of the table. Xue Jinxu released her arms around him. When he sat upright, he was holding a large unopened parcel of the doc.u.ment with stamps all over it. "Would you do the honor of opening it?" Chen Linyun asked the wife.

The lady nodded her head zealously, her eyes glimmered with such curiosity. She was glad that Chen Linyun was letting her into this. Before, the husband was doing everything alone without even telling her.

She opened the envelope with a swiss knife.

Before pa.s.sing it to her husband, she took a good look at it first. "What does it say?" Chen Linyun inquired, dying from his own curiosity.

The lady frowned.

She pa.s.sed the doc.u.ments on to the curious Chen Linyun who was wearing his own probing peculiar facial expression. The lady's frown was such feedback.

The lady did not utter a word.

Chen Linyun studied the doc.u.ments himself. Just like how the lady reacted, he frowned, as well, in dismay.

"He doesn't have records in South Korea until around ten years ago. He would have been in his teenage years. That was his first entry in that country, and he had been going in and out after that."

"He literally disappeared for a few years."

The couple looked at each other with an expression mirroring their own. Their faces were both contorted with utter confusion. The doc.u.ments that they managed to obtain with such difficulty should have brought clarity to the situation at hand, and should at least have an explanation to the gap in the records of the Young Master s.h.i.+.

On the contrary, it not only failed to provide clarity, it even added further perplexity. Being intellectuals, their instincts told them that the matter wasn't so simple nor straightforward. The Young Master s.h.i.+'s existence and ident.i.ty most probably have such profound underlying mysteries that, if probed, might get them into even deeper trouble.

The only question was, should they go and dig deeper? Will it benefit them?

After all, curiosity killed the cat.