The past and present

It seemed to her that someone had pushed their hand into her chest, pulled out her heart and smashed it into pieces.

Yu Chen was barely able to stop herself from dropping onto the floor and wailing then and there. She somehow looked at Si Xia, heart muttering pleadingly, "No, Xi Xi. Please tell me it isn't true. You are not going to marry her.!!"

But all he did was look down.

Yu Chen did not know how long she stood there rooted to her spot while Yuan Zuan continued rambling about her wedding plans and how they were in love. To stop herself from giving Zuan the ultimate satisfaction, all Yu Chen was able to do was run away from there.

"Yes. She had ran. She ran from the cafe, from the school, from everything." remembered Yu Chen. She had dropped school and went to live with her parents, joined a school there, and got a degree in finance.

It was then that Yu Chen snapped out of her daze, they had arrived at her apartment and the driving was calling out to her with concern. Yu Chen touched her cheek and found out that she had started crying. She wiped them, paid the cab driver and went into her apartment. But as she was closing the door behind her, her tears started to flow again.

She curled up on the bed and let her tears flow however they wanted to. Just then there was a knock on the door. Thinking maybe it was Xi Hua, Chen washed her face and peeped through the door. It was a man she did not know, and he was in a professional attire.

"Did he get lost?" thinking this she opened the door.

As Yu Chen left the washrooms, Si Xia stood rooted to his spot. Her words, "I don't love you anymore." were ringing in his ears.

"Well of course she doesn't. If I had been in her place, I would have stopped loving myself long ago. Actually I think that I did start hating myself long ago."

He said to himself and came out of the washrooms. He was in no mood to stay here anymore, so he called his driver, and asked him to come, and take madam home whenever she wished. He then told his assistant that he was leaving, and left.

As he backed out his Ferrari from the parking lot and got on the road, he was thinking about that week, the week that had completely changed his life around. The week before Yu Chen's competition.

It was a week before the competition and Chi Chi had promised to show him the code that day. She had been working really hard on the code and had completed it just the night before. Si Xia felt a little guilty. Chi Chi had been helping him with his computer course assignments apart from going to school and working on her code. But all was well, today he would tell her about how he felt. Yes he would tell her everything, and then, if she agreed, they could officially become boyfriend and girlfriend.

He went to their spot and waited, but Yu Chen never came....