"When Yating arrived, he was really furious with Zhan Yahui. But what was over was over. He wanted to make a statent in my favor, but it would have been seen as hiding my cri and giving an excuse to save my reputation, so the PR team wasn't in favor. It would negatively impact Dream High too. But he went against everybody and made a statent anyway."
Jun rembered that Dream High did make a statent but after the chaos, it hadn't helped much. Guiying's fans were too unforgiving until the end.
"You didn't tell him about the Yinyin?" Jun asked.
Ai shook her head. "I didn't want to implicate them or drag them into this. So, I kept it to myself. This is exactly why I took the bla in the first place. If I had told Yating, everything would have gone to waste."
He pursed his li incident passed, and then Yating confessed to . Many of the people in Dream High weren't happy with it, especially after the signing incident. But Yating was fierce and intimidating and very pissed off after how the company didn't do anything to save . The other employees were also against . So in front of his anger and resentnt, nobody dared to speak a word against our relationship. Only Guiying and Xing Bi were truly happy for us."
Jun gritted his teeth. He now really wished to turn ti back even more so that he could rewrite the past for Ai.
"Our relationship was going well. At least, that's what I thought," her eyelashes trembled, "But I soon felt the distance Yating was putting between us. He seed to be busier, and we didn't have ti for any more dates. We hardly t, and when we did, he seed really tired and in a bad mood. I asked on many occasions if sothing was wrong, but…he never said anything to . The distance only widened between us. One day, Mom said that he wished to et Yating. But he seed afraid of sothing and kept making excuses to avoid eting her."
Jun widened his eyes.
Ai pursed her lips. "Mom was dissatisfied. I sohow convinced her that Yating was really busy as the Chief Editor, but she didn't buy it. A while later, she asked to break up with him. She didn't like how things were going between us."
He sneered. "Wise woman. I like her."
She helplessly chuckled, but then her smile faded.
Pain shot in Jun's heart, and he pulled, and he embraced her tighter, giving her his reassurance. "I am here with you. You are a very strong woman, Ai," he kissed her forehead.
She felt her vision beco blurry.
"What happened then?"
Ai took the strength from his warmth. "Nothing much really. It was a hard phase in my life. My career was going nowhere and along with it, my relationship too. Both were going downhill, and I didn't know how to save any of it. Xing Bi fought a lot for seeing how Dream High heavily promoted Guiying. But everything went to deaf ears. When I was twenty-eight, Mom was absolutely serious about breaking up with Yating and stopping my writing career too. Nothing was helping grow, and my life was only growing more unstable, whether personally or financially.
But I remained stubborn. Mom got furious and gave an ultimatum to decide things once and for all. Dad too, who always supported , agreed with Mom for the first ti that I had to end things with Yating. I got afraid, and that's when I…I went to Yating and proposed to him to marry . I wanted to show Mom and Dad that everything wasn't over yet. But…"
She felt her warm tears slide down as she stamred, "He re-refused. He rejected . I-It was the sa day when he said that he wanted to break up with . I just stood there. I couldn't think of anything. I ca to ask him to marry , but he was there to end our relationship. I was devastated. It felt like my whole world just crumbled."
She felt Jun's body tremble and his hold on her tightening. She looked up and saw his eyes growing moist with tears too.
"That fucking bastard…Who the hell is he to reject you!?"
At that mont, he really wished to burn this whole world who did nothing but hurt Ai in the worst way possible.
She lowered her gaze and took a deep breath. "...I felt so stupid. Mom was right. She kept warning , but I didn't pay any heed to it. I was standing in front of a reality from which Mom and Dad wanted to protect . But I was an idiot and kept being stubborn. Even more so when I learned that," she softly gasped, "Guiying and Yating were dating now. I couldn't understand what was happening. Why…Why would they be together? Guiying was so happy for us. Then how could she beco his girlfriend now?"
She bit her lip. "That was the last straw for . When I confronted Guiying, she was smiling at . A smile that I had never seen on her face before. It was evil and mocking. She was laughing as she said that she always liked Yating but kept away because of . Sh-she told Yating to break up with , and he did. I couldn't make sense of the things happening in front of . Guiying looked so different. We were best friends, but at that ti…she looked at as if I was her enemy. Our years of friendship broke just like that in a single day."
Ai cried harder as she clutched onto Jun's shirt. "I had lost everything, Jun. My friendship, my love, my career…I had nothing beside anymore. It felt like all the years until then were a lie. I could only stand and watch everything slipping from my hands like sand…I tried holding onto it, but nothing worked.
Xing Bi also lost her job, and I could do nothing to save her. I was useless. She did everything she could to help , but I couldn't reciprocate her kindness. I begged Dream High to let her keep her job, but nobody listened to . Then I had no other choice. I left Dream High. I left the writing world. I left everything behind and returned ho to my city where Mom and Dad lived."
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