She can feel the tears begin to sting her eyes and the last thing Mei Lien wants is to stand in front of him and cry.
He grabs her hand. "Wait."
Mei Lien stops, still facing the other direction.
"Talk to me, Mei."
He's right behind her now, his hand still wrapped around hers.
It is Zhao. Jin. Liang.
Memories crush in her;
A twenty-four years old tallboy hugged a nineteen little girl, his arms were strongly protecting the delicate girl's body.
"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," The little girl said.
"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway." He spoke. The young man touched her forehead "Remember, little M, the only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
"Why, if the boy loves me! Why he would hurt me?!?" The innocent girl asked.
He smiled.
"Because nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
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Every memory clearer than the other,
The young man is the man in front of her.
The little girl is herself.
Jin Liang lost his cold nature, now he looks in pain, full of emotions tightening in his heart, couldn't hold anymore and asks "Why did you never come back for me?"
"I did."
He stands completely still, nothing like his heartless vibe in his company.
She came back for him?
At this moment, he isn't a billionaire and chairman of Zhao Corporation neither Mei Lien is the number one singer in the whole music industry or abused by her own and current boyfriend.
They were just a man and a woman who met again.
"My mother had fallen in a coma, my father started living with his new wife, she wasn't that nice with me, nor I was with her; we constantly had fights. So, my father sent me abroad. I escape my flight and went to country Y for a while, I didn't have any money, I found a job in a coffee shop, while I went to the university with a scholarship. A few months later, father knew that I didn't leave abroad, but he didn't care. If I was far away from his new family it is all right. When my carrier grew, I knew both of us had probably changed in those years and I knew you have the power to search for me but you never did. I thought you forgot about me." Before she finishes speaking he interrupted her.
" I did, I searched you"
After listening to his words Mei Lien's knees felt weak. He came back for her too?
"But I was too late" He pauses for a moment. " I saw you when someone came up behind you. A guy. He dropped to his knees next to you and when you saw him, you smiled and threw your arms around him. Then you kissed him."
He blows out a sharp breath. "I left after that. When I saw that you were happy, it was the worst and best feeling a person could ever have at once. You had a successful life and a famous man beside you. You looked happy. Then I knew, I wouldn't able to fulfill my promise."
He rubs a hand over his face and showing the regret before she even hears it in his voice. "I never appear in front of you. . . You looked happy that night. When I saw you telling him goodbye, it hurt like hell, but at the same time, I was relieved that you seemed to be in a wonderful place. But yet never left your side from that night and on."
Mei Lien wants to ask him why he did it. Why he didn't fight for her. But she doesn't have to ask him because they were never something anyways. Before they start something it ended.
She stands up and makes her way back to the bedroom. She picks her phone to leave the room.
Jin Liang hasn't moved.
A sadness enters his eyes and when it does, Mei Lien knows that leaving is the right thing to do. Neither of them has closure. While she stills processing everything and right now, her awoken feelings for Liang and Zean are on top of the list of most confusing.