Him and Her

Yu Chen reached the party venue and started to see to things and give them final touches. Many of her colleagues there complimented her and told her that she looked completely like a fairy. Chen just smiled and nodded at them.

"Hey, who are you? Trying to take my place as the most beautiful in this company? Never!" Hearing this Chen turned and smiled truly for the first time in the whole day. It was Xi Hua, her best friend in the complete whole world. Hua also went to the same high school as Chen but they became friends after they both started working in the company and they met in a reunion. Xi Hua worked at the software department, one of the core departments of the company. She was one of the few people who knew that once Yu Chen had been friends with her.

"So the demoness is pregnant. Huh. What kind of a child do you think will be born out of such a wicked woman? Huh Chen?" said Xi Hua.

Yu Chen: "How many times have I asked you not to talk like that? It will only diminish you."

Xi Hua: "Oh Chen tell me you don't want to stick a knife in her devilish little face. Say it!"

Yu Chen: "You know I do. Sometimes I wonder how different my life could have been if....." and her voice trailed off.

Even Xi Hua did not know what had happened in that one month that had completely changed Yu Chen's life around. How she wished that she could go back to that time, the time she met Yuan Zuan, that little devil. No wait, that's right, she was Si Zuan now.

Yu Chen still clearly remembered like it was yesterday, when Yuan Zuan came up to her and asked if she was entering in the Software-99 open competition. Chen said that she was not as she had no team. But Zuan forced her to enter,

"Oh you know that you need no team to beat all those bunch of bagoons." Was what she had said. But still it was the rule that no individual could enter so Yu Chen and Yuan Zuan had formed a team and entered the competition.

Zuan was Chen's first friend in school and she began hanging out with her and her friends. Although they were really pretentious but Chen thought that at least she had friends. Who knew that this was the person who would stab her in the back and leave her to die.

And it was also with Zuan that she had come to know him, Si Xia. He was a really quite boy at school and was a year senior than Chen and Zuan. Though he did not talk to anyone, especially girls, but all of them admired him for his looks and flocked behind him like sheep.

Though Zuan went on and on about his looks and how cool he was, but the two things that Chen noticed were the loneliness and sadness of his dark black eyes and his king like aura. She could not care less about a person's looks but was drawn to him due to the two factors.

And then came the day when they talked for the first time....