Behind them, the Lu Group southern branch building grew smaller in the distance. Madam Lu, still visible as a distant figure, was now being swarmed by reporters eager for her reaction to Lin Shuyin's transformation.
Let them swarm. Let them ask their questions. Let Madam Lu try to explain why the family had abandoned someone who was now apparently rising back to power.
Shuyin settled back into her seat, Chen Xiao tucked against one side, Yuyan on the other, and let herself enjoy the simple pleasure of driving away from people who no longer mattered.
The convoy merged onto the highway, headed toward the Pearl District and an afternoon of normal, mundane, blissfully uncomplicated shopping.
Or as uncomplicated as anything could be when you were a mermaid in a human body, raising stolen children, married to a man in a contract arrangement, and systematically destroying everyone who'd ever wronged you.
But those were tomorrow's problems.
Today, she was done...
