"Hello!" She said impatiently while holding her phone between her cheek and shoulder.
"Hi, Xiao y!" She was taken aback by the familiar voice that ca from the other end.
Xu y was going through a hectic day at the company and her mind was all over the place from looking through all the planning reports on her table. While she was frenziedly trying to focus on her work, her cell phone on the table rang. She distractedly picked up the call but when she heard Fu Shuang’s voice, she was frozen.
It took her a while to get back, "You don’t get to call Xiao y anymore. And where did you get my contact number?" She asked with a scowl.
"I got the number from soone closer to you." He replied making Xu y’s frown even deeper. "And you’re right. I don’t get to call you Xiao y anymore."
"Cut the cr*p and get to the point!" Xu y was getting impatient.
There was silence for a while before she heard his muffled voice, "Is it too late to say sorry?"
Xu y sniggered. "Are you going to give an excuse with that apology?" Without waiting for his reply, she went on, "Because no matter what you say your words will seem like an excuse to . It really is too late for an apology."
He sighed audibly. "I’m late and I know that. But no matter how hard I tried to muster up the courage I couldn’t bring myself to say it." He paused for a second. "I’m not asking for an apology because I want to be free of guilt gnawing at my soul. I’m asking for that apology because I want you to free yourself from the torture of disappointnt."
"I’ve stopped being disappointed in people. And I’m not torturing myself."
"With the way you talk, I know you hate the most."
’And the way you looked at at the golf course.’ But he didn’t say the last statent.
Xu y didn’t say anything for a minute. "Even if my hate is torture to myself, I won’t let it go at any cost."
"I knew to ask for forgiveness was my wishful thinking but I still wanted to try my best. You know I’m a very prideful person and the only one I’m willing to apologize to is you. So, if I’m saying sorry that ans I’m sincerely apologizing." By all ans, Xu y knew that he won’t say sorry unless he actually ant it.
"Do you have anything else to say or should I just hang up?" Xu y didn’t want to hear anything else from him at all but she still asked.
"I have nothing to say, " ’I have a lot to say but I don’t know how to say anything to you.’ He thought to himself.
"Then I’m hanging up!" Xu y hung up the call without waiting for him to say anything.
He laughed. But why he laughed even he didn’t know. "You seem to be in a good mood." The remark ca from the girl who had just entered his office.
"Happy? I don’t have anything left in my life that could make happy anymore." His tone was bitter.
The girl strutted over to his side and checked his cellphone. The call log made her brows quirk up.
"You called Xu y? What changed your mind?" She asked with curiosity.
"Jun Li Na, " he called her na softly, "I called her to apologise. Why I did it now is sothing even I can’t understand."
"There must be a reason." Jun Li Na noted. "After all, I gave her number to you about 4 years ago. I think it was the day you figured-"
"I figured that President Xu and my Xiao y are the sa people." He sighed thinking about that ti. Although he couldn’t connect Xu y and President Xu to each other at the first eting that was because he never thought that Xu y could have such deanour that could enchant people.
The Xu y he knew was a very quiet person who didn’t like making friends but she was a cheery person who liked to smile all the ti without any pretext.
"What did you guys talk about?" Jun Li Na asked taking a seat at the sofa.
"Nothing much... I just apologized that’s all." He took a pause and laughed lightly. "I thought she was the smartest person yet she didn’t figure out that I knew Xu y and President Xu are the sa people. I really thought that she’ll catch when I sent that wedding gift to her but she didn’t catch on at all."
"Shuang, what are trying to do? I know that you have loved her for a long ti but she always treated you like a brother." Jun Li Na was distressed seeing her best friend in such a pitiful state.
"It’s true that I wanted to marry her but I didn’t have the heart to bring her in the sa hell whose devils were my own blood relatives." He hated his Aunt for everything she did to Xu y from the young age. She really ruined the innocence of a pitiful girl.
"Why don’t you just stop pretending that President Xu and Xu y are two different people?" Jun Li Na was exasperated by his stubborn nature.
"I have two pretext for pretending. First, I don’t want the battle between Xu y and my Aunt Fu Lan to beco disadvantageous to Xu y. No matter what I need her to stay unscathed at all costs." His voice was resolute. "Second, if I tell her that I know her secret, she’ll again start running away from . In the past four years, even if it was just to glare at but she looked at . And even if it was just to yell at , but she still talked to ."
"You’re such a pitiful person, my friend." Jun Li Na lanted. "I still never understood how did you manage to recognise her?"
"I might have forgotten her face but her eyes, I can’t forget them. I tried so hard to convince myself that the girl on Eiffel Tower and Xu y are different but this heart didn’t listen and I had to follow her." He sighed tiredly. "Since I couldn’t help her when she was Xu y, I want to help her when she’s President Xu. I’ll keep pretending that both are different that way it’ll be easier for my heart."
"I just miss the days when you, I and Xu y were best of friends." Jun Li Na was lost in mories of old tis. "Then you moved away so suddenly, I had to leave as well and Xu y... sigh... she was left with no one to protect her from that place."
Fu Shuang felt sothing pricking his heart when he thought about that place.
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