Mian brought Nina a glass of water, and held it before the latter's mouth, "Drink it, you will feel better."
Nina pushed the glass away weakly, still sobbing. After a few seconds, she returned Mian's gaze, then spoke in a somewhat high and trembling voice, "He left me! He is a liar!"
Mian gently rubbed her fingers through Nina's hair. Pain weighed her heart down, some even welled up in the throat. She tried to hold the tears in check, which was threatening to spill over, in order to console Nina. "No, he is not. Drink the water first, I insist."
After having Nina drink one mouthful of water, Mian looked at her and held both of Nina's hands.
She squeezed Nina's palms gently in reminder of reality. "You have to move on. It's been six years already. He won't be able to come back to us. Stop confining yourself in the past. He is not happy seeing you in this state. Seeing you happy, will make him happy. Don't you want him to be happy?"
Nonetheless, nothing Mian said worked out in making a shred of variation.
Nina wiped her tears using the tissues Mian handed over, wadded them up, before throwing away. Her breathings hadn't yet settled.
After the loud crying, she was worn out, and struggled for air.
Calming down a little, Nina looked at Mian, then said slowly, "In order to make him happy, I'm still living. I'm still alive and living my dream not to disappoint him. I worked my way through China's highest paid model and professional car racer. Nevertheless, this is all, I can do for him to be happy. I can understand what you are implying. But, just to make him happy, I can't move on with anyone else. Why should I be the one to think about him always? Did he think about me? Let me be selfish for this once. I'm happy being single."
Keeping back the heavy memories in the locker, Nina went to the sink, and splashed some water on her face. She forced calmness into her voice as she said looking at Mian in the mirror, "Mian, please don't mention anything about moving on ever again. I love you sis, and it hurts me to turn any of your wishes down. However, this is something I myself can't change. Nobody can replace him."
Mian sucked in some air, before nodding her head. She couldn't say anymore, since Nina kept pushing for her own decision.
Originally, she didn't think Nina would oppose the moving on idea that strongly, when her mother told her to persuade Nina for dating. Although, she knew Nina was still hung up on him, she didn't expect the feelings to be so intact even after six years.
She could only hope that Nina didn't wrong herself by holding onto the past. She loved the person her sister was and growing into.
Nina was a very successful woman without a question; running around the clock, she achieved all the things she once dreamt about. However, was she happy at the end of the day?
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Inside a meeting room, twenty people were sitting surrounding a long, white table.
This room was located on the 80th floor. Both the right and west sides had a bunch of French windows, built for flooding every nook and cranny of this room with sunlight, fill to overflowing.
Nonetheless, the brightness was blocked out by thick black-out curtains, as it did not allow for projection equipment.
This sound-proof room had all its chairs prepared to provide best of comfortness, and it was absolutely external distractions free; as poorly run meetings, bootless errand, and waste of time was disliked by the President.
Hu Ming opened the door for Mu Yuhaan, and he walked into the meeting room with his usual magnetic steps.
Everyone rose up from their seats immediately, displaying their respect.
Before the minute hand could take a step forward from the scheduled time, the meeting began.
Serially, all department heads, executive officers, and managers read reports of the current projects they had been working on.
After the meeting ended, Hu Ming would collect all the files, bringing them to the secretariat department for a second check, before sending them to Mu Yuhaan for signature.
Mu Yuhaan's eyes skimmed through all the people casually, and stopped at the far end of the second row of the right side. "Mr. Huang, It's been a week. What's about the Amusement Park Project?"
Manager Huang stood up immediately, and got to the point straightly, as he knew Mu Yuhaan hated excuses. "The land chosen for the amusement park had been already bought, however, little portion of it wasn't registered until yesterday as the owner strongly refused to sell. Apparently, he demanded tenfold of the original price, after a wrangling, we finally bought it yesterday with three fold of original price."
After Mr. Huang finished his report, another one began. Mu Yuhaan, with his indifferent expression, was listening to the reports with full attention.
All the executives were very alert and careful, knowing Mu Yuhaan's monstrous brain was recording every single detail word by word, and he could recite every single report backward.
"President Mu, this is a new contract we are going to sign with Roy Industry from India. If you take a look, and approve the documents, we can proceed with it." Saying this, Manager Zhao handed a blue file to Hu Ming, who put it before Mu Yuhaan.
Without a second wasted, Mu Yuhaan's eyes went through the documents like a scanner. However, suddenly they stopped in a line which stated 80% to 20% profit share. Obviously, formal was his and latter was Roy Industry's. With a frown, he lifted his eyes from the papers, and looked at Hu Ming, before instructing, "Change the percentage to 99% to 1%."
Hu Ming had been working with Mu Yuhaan for eleven years. He knew his superior better to be astonished at this sudden change; thus, without further ado, he took the papers immediately, and left the room to draft another copy.