At night a lone figure could be seen walking towards the villa. The guards standing on the front gate got alerted as they drew their guns at the unexpected intruder only to be surprised with the smile on the face of their Master's woman, Miss Shi.
Shi smiled sweetly at them when she saw their guns and the alertness in their eyes. She quickly wished them and made her way inside to get in the bathroom for a long hot steaming shower.
Along the way she kept of thinking what her friend told her about loving someone.
In the morning after Xinghe told her about her thoughts, she suddenly got a phone call and had to leave in the middle of their chat with a promise to meet soon and complete the conversation.
"Who knew that walking for ten kilometres would make me so sweaty"
She spoke to herself as she made her way inside only to be surprised when she saw that the whole villa was empty and isolated. As if no one was here. She called the name of housekeeper Ying to look for her.
"Aunty Ying where are you. Aunty Ying, Yang are you here."
Suddenly a voice spoke from the stairs was heard,
"No one is here today Shi expect me and you. I gave all of them an early leave and told them to retire to their rooms in the side house built for the help."
Shi was at first startled to hear the voice but then was relaxed as she recognized the owner of the voice.
Bao Yang.
She looked upstairs only to be surprised at what she saw.
He was standing at the top of the stairs case wearing casual clothes consisting of a black t-shirt with grey sweatpants. He looked at Shi before speaking,
"I was the one who told them to retire early so that the two of us can have a chat as I know that we cannot speak freely in front of them regarding our personal matters."
Shi nodded after hearing him and she too agreed with him. After seeing that Shi is agreeing with him he asked her,
"The dinner will be set so you can go and change your clothes first and then come down."
Shi after hearing him took a look at her clothes and then said with a sigh,
"No can do. Yang you would have to wait for half an hour first, I am so sweaty that I will take a longer time to bathe today."
Yang took a look at her clothes and when he realized that he had missed their state due to his nervousness he quickly nodded his head indicating for her to go on with her plan.
***
Inside her bedroom Shi was staring at the mirror after taking a bath as she wiped her long platinum hair, she looked at her reflection as she steeled her heart to tell Yang to not have any hopes from her as she was not sure where the two of them will be in the future.
She knew that she was being a coward but for her being a coward was better than being hurt in the future.
She was not sure if she could overcome her fears and making a nice man such as Yang wait for her seemed unreasonable to her. He had way too many options to choose from, there were numerous ladies from prestigious families who were dreaming about him every day, wishing to be with him.
After making her mind up Shi decided to go down and tell Yang about it all.
***
Downstairs Yang was nervously looking all around the hall, the reason for his nervousness was simple, he was going to have dinner with a girl he liked and with whom he had an argument in the morning. He still was not sure at how Shi will react to him after what happened in the morning.
He was still looking at the chandelier in the hall which seemed way to interesting at that moment when his eyes noticed movement near the stairs.
Looking up he saw the person who was in his thoughts from the moment he laid eyes on her walking down to him wearing her nightwear which had her shirt with a picture of Boots from Dora the explorer.
Never in his dreams would he had thought that he would be attracted to a girl wearing monkeys, but he was again proven wrong by the person who had been giving him sleepless nights while thinking about their future or dreams about her filing him up with happiness.
He was so attracted to her that he even failed to notice when she had arrived in front of him and had taken her seat in front of him.