Chapter 1

She loves her.

Like an angel was sent down from the garden of paradise by God, she shone sparkly like bright stars in the night sky, dispelling the evil darkness of this world.

Who would have thought that the almighty angel would one day be hers?

Illusory as if coming out of a fairy tale, the devil and the angel fell in love despite the opposites of both sides, and they accepted each other, accepted each other's nature to be able to reconcile...that was the miracle of love. But she couldn't do that.

She couldn't let Kiana Kaslana know

that Raiden Mei was a mafia boss.

Met her on a beautiful sunny day, when Raiden Mei had been in hiding for a few months, temporarily retreating from the underworld, which was filled with dangerous elements of this country, she was fed up with the prospect of going out everyday meeting scumbag subordinates, dealing with leaders from other gangs, and refusing countless auction invitations from VIPs, because those amateur assassins's target would always be her.

So here she was, opening a small tea shop all these months, enjoying a simple and ordinary life, and doing what she loves - making tea.

 On one hand, she was the leader of a famous organization in the underworld, wearing a mask of coldness and cruelty to others.

 On the other hand, she was a gentle, lovely tea shop owner with a love for this drink which brought many different emotional levels, depending on the way of the bartender.

 That was how she met her.

A white hydrangea quietly entered the shop and caused the wind chimes to ring, her pure white hair was tied into a ponytail, giving others the impression that this was the soft fur of a kitten... Although it could be described as kitten-like, it had the strong aura of a white tiger, which was Raiden's first appraisal of the new guest at the door. But what caught her attention, even more, was probably the shiny golden badge that was not neatly placed on the girl's right chest.

She was a police officer.

Sure, Mei had met many policemen at her shop, so she could be 90% sure that these lazy people operating under the name of the law knew completely nothing about her, or even had any doubts about this little tea shop. But in this girl there was something different, she wasn't wearing the usual short-sleeved black uniform, or the white one, erm, or even the blue one, instead, this white-haired woman had a white shirt and two holsters, one on the waist and one on the shoulder. Of course, there wasn't a cop who was crazy enough to wear both of these holsters in this city, except for one special unit.

Schicksal unit - specialized in handling mafia-related problems, each individual in the unit was ready to take action no matter where they were, and the speed of encircling the scene can be said to be one of the best in the area. Most of the members were clinker police officers, or even recruited from the military and the FBI, Schicksal's scope of activity was only in the southern part of the country, the easiest way to identify them by people in the industry and the underworld was always carrying two kinds of holsters.

But that wasn't the crux of the matter.

Schicksal rarely frequented these peaceful areas of the city, as they had mostly listed these areas as "safe", which meant they tackled criminal activity, including gangs. It was difficult to enter this area for thugs, no one dared to risk their lives to organize a meetup or cause trouble here, because the investigative ability of the Schicksal unit could destroy every element in a huge organization, get rid of them, and kick their asses into prison, completely dangerous.

And the fact that a Schicksal employee presenting here told Raiden Mei something bad was going to happen. If anything went wrong, her escape route was already available, and there were weapons hidden under the cupboard in case action was needed.

As the white tiger approached the counter, a faint scent wafted through the air, a scent that was somewhat sweet like a freshly peeled milk candy. Mei greeted her as usual with many other guests.

"Good morning, officer."

"Ah...yes, hello."

"I wonder what brought you here today, is there anything you need?"

"Uhm...usually I don't work in this neighborhood. I came here on purpose today."

Hearing this, the doubt in the tea shop owner's heart rose again, was the series of leisurely days of Lightning Queen finally coming to an end?

"Someone introduced a small shop that specializes in serving very good tea in this neighborhood, and my colleagues also praised it...so I'm curious to see whether the rumors are true. "

She smiled and looked clumsily at the menu, after a moment of hesitation, the young officer picked up a cup of Gobocha and moved to the corner of the shop's window, quietly enjoying her drink while rolling the pair of ocean eyes at the flow of people outside.

Raiden Mei's vigilance did not diminish, while the Schicksal employee was carefreely lost in her thoughts, the head of ME regularly kept an eye on the girl...after a while, Mei's impression had changed, from a mighty white tiger, now the girl looking more like... a silly cat.

Kiana Kaslana was a tea connoisseur.

And Raiden Mei took notice of this.

The white-haired girl a little shorter than her seemed to enjoy exploring around the shop, she would wander around the bookcase in the corner, randomly picked up some pamphlet and read for fun, and then covered it upon her face, fell asleep...then was startled when the wind chimes swayed every time a guest came in, frantically grabbed the book that was about to fall to the floor and dusted it off.

Honestly, was this cop running away from work?

Gradually, the presence of a small white cat in the shop every day became an obvious thing to both the owner and her patrons, and then they became closer, the white-haired girl named Kiana Kaslana confessed that she skipped work because it was really tiring walking around patrolling the areas, and she would frequent to this tea shop to relax and pass the time, surprisingly even though the whole team knew the captain was lazy as hell but no one dared to say anything, which made Raiden Mei laughed, this cute little cat must have a very important position in the city's unit, but instead of acting like a responsible person, she spent the day lazily at Mei's place.

Kiana liked to play with the small plants around the tea shop, she would poke at the foliage, cherished the small flowers, sometimes she would take advantage of when no one noticed to pluck a petal, and then got her cheek pinched by Mei for vandalism. In addition, she would also be excited to help Mei water the plants, or curious about the preparation tools and change direction to play with things that... this girl considered strange. Lady Raiden didn't mind these little things, she would usually sit at her counter and leaned her chin on her hand, watching the little cat squirming around the shop, attentively staring as the cat fell asleep in the process, there were times when the two chatted and Kiana would tell Mei weird or funny stories she had been through, then rambling on until the sun went down that she had no choice but to leave.

Raiden Mei felt like she had one more reason to maintain her seclusion, she didn't hate these days at all but on the contrary, enjoyed each passing day and eagerly awaited the next day, because she knew that there would always be an angel who came to visit her every day. She carelessly kept the thought that she had at least one person to entertain herself with, but not realizing that she had stepped both feet into quicksand and couldn't get out anymore, Raiden Mei had put herself in a trap.

A trap named "love".

And when she realized this, she couldn't help it anymore. She couldn't stop loving a white rose named Kiana Kaslana. No matter how dangerous it was, even if their status were like two parallel lines, she would still defy everything, if she could exchange the whole organization for a little angel, she wouldn't hesitate to do so.

But Raiden Mei, this was a one-sided love, she didn't know if the other person had the same feelings as her.

Then again, Lightning Queen wasn't just a name, she was not afraid to express her feelings, just... she needed a good day to confess.

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