222 SECRET RIDDLE

Before a sweet smile blossom on her face, Xiao Tianyao spoke again with his melodious voice. "Of course I am not angry with you, except I got an earful of threatening words and almost got my head cut off, you didn't cause me any harm." He said kindly.

In an instant, Senja expression sank. Could he stop to make me feel guiltier? Should he mention all of that? What a bully…

Senja lower her head until her chin almost touch her chest. "You are angry." She muttered with remorse. "I am sorry." Feeling guilty was the most terrible feeling, it something that you couldn't wipe away with only a single 'sorry'.

This feeling was so stuffy in Senja's chest until she didn't realize that a single tear trickled down on her cheek. She was crying without a sound.

At first Xiao Tianyao thought it was another trick to make the situation easier for her that was why he just let her be. She needed to be thought one or two lesson to make her aware with what she could or couldn't say. However after sometime Senja still didn't raise her head and the droplet tears that stained her dress was becoming bigger.

Xiao Tianyao reached out his hand and raised her head by her chin. He gripped her chin softly this time. "Are you really crying?" After many times he saw Senja's fake tears, he didn't believe it right away if the girl really cried now.

"Are this tears look like sweat!?" Senja bellowed agitatedly. What he means by 'really crying'? He made me feel bad. Of course I am crying!

Xiao Tianyao sighed helplessly when his hand became wet by her tears. He raised both of his hands and trapped her messy face between his warm palms and wiped away the tears from Senja's eyes with his thumb. "Why are you crying?"

"Because you angry at me." Senja hiccup between her words.

"Of course I am angry at you. Don't you know that your grandfather is someone who is very hard to deal with?" The accusation in Xiao Tianyao words didn't make Senja felt better. Instead the tears streaming down again like a leaking dam. "Don't cry. Stop it."

Xiao Tianyao was panic now, her tears soaked in his hands without a sign that it would stop soon. "Fine. I am not angry."

"You lie!" Senja exclaimed in accusation tone.

Senja always gave her best in everything she did. No matter it were laughter, cunning, cheating or crying she would do everything with wholeheartedly.

"I am not angry anymore."

"You lie!"

"I am not."

"You are a liar!"

Clumsily Xiao Tianyao tried hard to stop the streaming tears from her eyes as he thought of another way to persuade the girl. Well, Senja wasn't a girl with ordinary behavior so she had to be handled in an unusual way too. "Okay, I am angry."

"See? You are angry!" Senja exclaimed.

"There is a way to appease my anger. Want to know?"

"What?"

"Stop crying first."

Senja shook away Xiao Tianyao's hand which was cupping her face and wiped her tears by rubbing her hands harshly on her cheek. "I am not crying."

Xiao Tianyao lips twitched. What a girl! Actually a strategy is needed to only persuade her.

After Senja really stop crying, Xiao Tianyao handed her a glass of water to moist her dry throat.

"Tell me what is it?" Senja asked after she gulped down the entire water on the glass and handed it back to Xiao Tianyao. Instinctively, he received it but then he frowned. Why he needed to accept the glass? Senja can put it directly on the table.

"I need you to take a look at the secret letter once again." Xiao Tianyao decided to not bother about that and put the glass back on the table.

"What happened? Sana had translated it right?" And she had checked it as well, nothing was wrong with that. Despite she still feel something was amiss with that letter.

Xiao Tianyao shook his head. "Maybe she translated it correctly, but I think there was underlying meaning behind it."

"Do you mean there is a secret behind the secret?"

"Clever."

Upon hearing Xiao Tianyao's praise, Senja smile brightly and reached out her hand with open palm. "Give me the letter, I will solve it!" She said enthusiastically.

Senja has been living with this kind of thing since she was born. Thus, she was confident that she could find something in this secret riddle.