Chen Liling tried to pacify him. "Jianyu, please calm down first."
"I cannot calm down, Mom." His voice sounded weak and frightened.
Naturally, she understood he must be facing so grave matter. She decided. "I want to see you, Jianyu. et at XX caf in fifteen minutes."
"En."
---
Yukito just stepped outside his school when a lavish Lamborghini stopped in front of him.
The windows rolled down, and Jing greeted his love with a cheeky smile. "Hey."
Other students standing near the gate looked wide-eyed at such an expensive car, especially boys. It was a dream car of every guy. The girls were squealing when they saw Jing co out. He looked dashing with his casual shirt and jeans, and a scarf wound around his neck.
"Hey, hey, who is that hot guy?"
"I have never seen him before."
"Gosh, he is so handso! I think I'm in love"
"Hey, hold your horses. You already have a boyfriend."
"He looks a little older than us. Wait! Is his girlfriend studying here?"
"That must be it! Tch, he is already taken. That must be one lucky girl."
So girls were courageous enough to approach him, but Jing shot a cold glance, halting them in their steps.
Yukito silently observed, and his eyebrows twitched.
Everybody was eager to know the girl to whom he ca to et here. Their sight was following his every step. But to their shock, he stopped in front of a boy.
Jing flashed a wide grin. "How was school today?"
Yukito sensed everybody's dumbfounded gazes. He sighed internally.
"Usual," Yukito comnted. "Why are you here?"
"To pick you up. Shouldn't I take so effort to impress you?"
Huh? Impress? Who? Yukito?
Did they hear it, right?
Jing pouted. "There were so many things going on for the last few days, and we didn't get to spend much ti together. So, I thought we can go for a movie."
So, is this a date? Yukito wondered.
Jing smiled. "Yes, it's a date."
Yukito coughed.
Is he a mind reader or sothing?
Jing said, "If it's you, then yes, I can read you like an open book."
The girls got the biggest shock of their lives.
He is gay!!?
So he ca to et hisboyfriend?
All the girls felt a terrible loss finding out that such a handso man likes a boy.
In particular, one girl furrowed her delicate brows. She stepped forward and asked, "Yukito, do you know that, man?"
Yukito froze. He had a complicated expression on his face. He didn't want to respond, but he cannot not give a face to her in front of everyone. She would be embarrassed.
"He-"
Jing noticed it and dangerously glared at the girl. He sneered at her. "Yes, he does. I'm pursuing Yukito as his future lover."
---
In the dark, cold place, the woman heard a man say, "She is Nana."
She looked at the girl; her eyes were gentle, her smile was warm, and her skin was milky white. She was undoubtedly a beautiful girl.
She saw how the woman in the mories looked a little uncomfortable eting Nana for the first ti.
The woman understood.
A sense of crisis
Then at their wedding anniversary, her husband and Nana had the last dance, everyone praising them as the perfect couple.
She saw the anger the woman tried to mask in her smile.
Soon, the resentnt began to grow for Nana. The jealousy, the hatred took its form when she slapped Nana in a fit of rage.
The woman faintly mumbled as she saw Nana's painful expression being accused as a howrecker. "I know you are angry, but you shouldn't have done that. Why didn't you give her a chance to speak?"
She apologized later on, but the woman couldn't see any sincerity in it. She sadly shook her head.
Days passed by and then ca the night when she, Suyin, and Nana were kidnapped.
The woman didn't understand why, but as this mory was taking its form, she felt a strange restlessness grow inside her. She felt like this was the turning point that she had to realize.
An important key was in this incident that could free her from this cold, isolated place if she could figure it out.
The five n grabbed her and Suyin and trapped in a shed. She saw Nana tumbling down a slope. The woman in the mories heard Suyin's screams as she was getting brutally violated. She fainted, and the mory blacked out.
---
Exactly fifteen minutes later, Chen Liling opened the door to the private room of XX caf.
Jianyu raised his head to look at the incoming figure. His eyes rimd in tears, eting his mother after so long. He sadly smiled. There were faint lines under her eyes that said she probably had not slept well for many days.
Chen Liling quickly took him in her embrace. Her heart ached to see a sense of loneliness and helplessness in his smile. Her eyes turned slightly red.
"JianyuHow are you?"
"I'm sowhat fine. But look at you. You have turned so ugly. In which sea did you dump your grace and elegance? Keep this up, and Dad will divorce you one day."
Chen Liling twisted his ear.
"Ouch!" But he laughed. He missed her so much.
She sat beside him and softly asked, "What have you been, upto?"
There was a mont of silence. She didn't urge him and waited patiently.
"I" Jianyu held her hands in his. "I have fallen in love with a girl, Mom."
Chen Liling was stunned. She hadn't expected this. "What? Love?"
"Yes."
She was a little enthusiastic at first but then got on guard.
Jianyu noticed her reaction and said dryly, "Mom, I know I made a mistake being with Suyin all those years, but that doesn't an I will make the sa mistake twice."
She said indignantly. "Well, you cannot bla for being skeptical."
"So, who is she? Where did you et?"
"Mom, she" Jianyu slowly told her about everything regarding Serena.
She was shocked. "Serena?"
"Yes."
"I rember her. I an, I have never t her, but she was the one who did Nana's makeup and hairdo before the banquet night."
Jianyu felt heartbroken. "Mom, what will I do now? Nana is her best friend. Ishe would hate ."
"Jianyu" she patted his head. There was only one way. "You have to tell her the truth."
"Mom, she would leave . She would never forgive for hurting Nana. I don't want to lose her, Mom." A tear trickled down his cheek. "I really love her."
"She will be angry for sure. She would need so ti to accept it. Maybe she won't talk to you. But she also loves you. Youjust have not to give up chasing after her. One day, your love will surely lt her heart."
"I..."
He already knew the answer that he had to tell the truth.
But he was scared to face her. Her disappointnt, her angerwhat if she fell out of love? What if she never gave him another chance?
He had already lost everybody's trust. Would his one mistake haunt his new life with her too?
"Jianyu. You are already suffering because you once chose to hide the truth."
He froze.
"You disappointed Nana. Don't do the sa thing with Serena. We make mistakes so that we learn from them. Don't repeat it that caused you and others so much pain."
She smiled. "Even if you hid it from her, it would never make you happy. You will get peace of mind only when you know that Serena has wholeheartedly accepted you with your past, your faults, and your imperfections. Until then, you would feel nothing but insecurity."
---
Nana tiredly made her way to her room when she reached Liu villa.
"Jinhai is such a bully." She muttered. She was caressing her sore waist. "Can't I even joke with him? He is a devil. Why does he always punish ?"
Now that she realized her face blushed furiously when she thought back to how she continuously scread his na in pleasure and cried and begged him to let her go. But, Jinhai simply ignored her pleas.
She was wondering if sobody outside heard her moans.
S-so shaful!
She covered her face in embarrassnt.
She now only wanted to take a nice, warm bath and collapse on the bed. She entered the room and found so of his office files scattered on the bed.
She sighed.
They forgot to clean it up when he took her to the hospital. Before he loses any important papers, she quickly thought to clean the ss. She picked them up and opened the cupboard.
There was one drawer at the side where Jinhai kept his files. As she kept the last one back in place, it knocked out sothing, and it fell.
Nana bent down to pick it up, and as she saw closely the thing that fell, she furrowed her brows.
She held the bunch of it in her hands.
They were small size colorful papers with a light floral design.
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