CHEN JIANGUO

"Hey I prepared you something for breakfast. I left early for business. Enjoy your day.", that was the note Chaoxiang got from the fridge.

"How can someone's handwriting be as bad as this? So gross!", Chaoxiang crumpled the paper and threw it in the trash bin because of the baddest handwriting his wife has.

Meixiu woke up early and planned to leave early as well. She doesn't know why her heart's still heavy and is beating slow. It started when she saw her husband having a chat with his ex, she seems to feel she's now unappreciated and has no purpose in her husband's wife. Plus her dreams last night brought her back to her dark past again. The part of her life that she really wants to forget is coming back to her again.

When she wrote on the paper, she purposely stroked it bad and even used her other hand to write so that Chaoxiang will not recognize her handwriting. She'd been writing him for three years, in his every concert so he probably can memorize her handwriting now.

"Let's see what did she prepare here. She cooked rice noodles, my favorite!"

He got himself a bowl and went to the couch to watch some early morning shows. "How can she sleep here?", Chaoxiang is bothered about how can Meixiu sleep here in this couch when it's not really soft and comforting.

"How can she cook really good?", after having a sip, he scratched his tummy because the rice noddle tastes really good.

"Oh, she's not in the business said my brother. Maybe she's a cook then. And they've been good friends with Ruomei, who is actually good with cooking. Too glad she's not here, I might end up not eating at all."

He looked to his right and saw a phone in his side. "Is this Meixiu's?"

He grabbed his phone and called Ruomei.

"Bro, why? I'm on a heavy traffic."

"Heavy traffic? At this hour?"

"What do you mean at this hour? It's 8:30!"

"Ruomei, I just wanted to ask something."

"Go ahead."

"Do you know where is Meixiu working?"

"You mean you don't know?"

"Ruomei, don't scold me!"

"How can I not scold you? Meixiu's working to death, she even starves herself just to get work on time. You don't know how stressed she is and you're not acting like a real husband."

"Am I the real husband?"

"Why can you still imagine the two of you having a divorce? Grow up kid! This set up is for life!", he heard her pressing the horns a lot of time.

"She left her phone here and I want to give it to her."

"That's it, be a man. Of course, Meixiu is a Yang. Where else can she be working? Now move your lazy butt!"

"Ruomei, how can you be this disrespectful to your brother?", Chaoxiang just finished his food and went to the shower.

[•••]

"Director Yang, someone's at the front desk and is wanting to talk to you. He said he knows you for a very long time but he doesn't have any scheduled meeting with you.", Meixiu's assistance, Meiying went to her office to tell her about the man on the lobby.

"It might be something important. You let him in."

A few minutes after her secretary Meiying left her office, her glass door was pushed and a man showed up sneaking in her door.

"Chen Jianguo. What are you doing here?", Meixiu stood up when she saw the man.

"I am the man downstairs on the lobby."

"Meiying, can you leave us for a minute?", she asked her secretary and she nodded before going out.

"I told you I am coming to get you."

"Get me? From whom?"

"I know the Yang family, they are holding you like a puppet. Even before when we're still a couple."

"Jian, you shouldn't come here."

"I want to see you. It's been three years since your parents separated the both of us and dumped me across the country. I changed my life, I am now the vice president of a growing business in Japan. We can be together now.", he placed his hands on her shoulder, convincing her to live a life with him.

Meixiu shook her head, not looking at his eyes behind the eyeglasses he is wearing.

"A lot of things changed Jian. We can't be together now."

It was when the door opened, Meixiu was about to scold Meiying for letting someone in, only to see Chaoxiang at her office. "What is he doing here?"

"What is this guy doing with my wife?", Chaoxiang's temper has gone him wild. She brushed the arms of the man that's on her shoulder and looked down again.

He went closer to his wife and handed the phone to her. "She looks unhappy to see me.", he frowned when he saw her not looking at his direction.