After Zhang Yuqi had rested that whole morning, she insisted on going to find Ouyang Ziyuan to talk to him. Luo Qiqi couldn't stop her and so she tagged along with Yuqi incase something unexpected occurred.
Ziyuan was at a restaurant, talking with some clients. Zhang Yuqi waited for the meeting to be finished, the clients left and then she went inside.
"Brother Ziyuan, Are you really getting married to Zhang Youwei?"
"Yes, Yuqi. I...really love her."
"Then...what about me? ...All these years I loved you and now you are marrying my cousin??"
After hearing those words, there was no shock on Ziyuan's face. He seemed to be troubled and his face had a slight touch of annoyance. Zhang Yuqi felt as if Ziyuan knew everything long ago.
"Brother Ziyuan, am I really nothing to you?...I always stayed by your side, always helped you whenever you had a difficult situation, stayed by your side for 10 years....Did I ever have a place in your heart?"
"Yuqi-ah, you are my sister. I really care about you. But, I only see you as my sister and friend....Xiao Youwei is the one I love...I'm sorry Yuqi....I really love her...I cannot let her down."
"heh...", Zhang Yuqi had a mocking smile on her face. At this moment she finally understood, Ziyuan had never been hers. It was something only she had wished for, in these long 10 years.
It was just a wishful dream on her part.
"Did you really not know how I felt for you in all those years?.....Did you really not know or were you pretending to not know?"
"I'm sorry Yuqi, I did not want to make you sad....I thought you would understand."
Zhang Yuqi staggered back, so he knew, he knew but still did not tell her to stop liking him or that he liked someone else. He had made her like him for 10 years but never told her that he didn't like her.
"What about that night?...a year ago?...that was my first....", Zhang Yuqi weakly asked. She knew that the answer was something she wouldn't like to hear, but she still needed to know. Her virginity was lost that night.
A mocking female voice sounded, "That night??.....hehe.....you thought it was Ziyuan gege?...sorry, that night you were drunk and slept with a bastard stranger, now you want to make Ziyuan gege take responsibility???.....You are really desperate, Zhang Yuqi!!!"
"Zhang Youwei....what do you mean???", Luo Qiqi yelled out.
"Ofcourse it's as just as I said. Ziyuan was not the man Yuqi slept with!"
Zhang Yuqi felt numb and a shiver ran along her body. That person, she did not know who that was! She had thought it was Ouyang Ziyuan because she heard his voice when she woke up. No wonder....no wonder, Ziyuan had never mentioned that night! It was actually not him!!
"Then why didn't you tell me?...you could have told me it was a stranger!"
"I thought you would get hurt.....I thought you would feel better if I didn't mention that night."
Ziyuan said.
At this point, Zhang Yuqi was speechless. She had been played by the nose, by these two people.
Her whole body felt cold. Her 10 years of love earned her 2 sentences, 'I see you as a sister' and 'I cannot let Youwei down'. She was a joke. Her family, her friends, her love....she was a joke to them all.
Yuqi lifted her self up and walked towards Sheng Yue, which was nearby. Only alcohol could make her feel good.
"Qiqi.....I want to be alone....you go back and rest..I'll be back by night time."
"Let me go with you....I don't feel good leaving you alone."
"You are jetlagged...go get some rest. I'll be fine. Don't worry!!"
"Then....alright!...give me a call if you need something."
"hmmm...."
Zhang Yuqi sat in the bar downing drinks after drinks. She recalled the times she had been with Ziyuan, wondering what went wrong. Where had she made a mistake? Was it because she had lost her purity? But that was only a year ago.....Then she remembered what happened today. He had known all along about her love, but, never reciprocated her.
She realized, she had lost herself in loving Ouyang Ziyuan. She had lost all her reasoning, all her thinking. She had trusted him blindly.
'Heh! It's true that love makes us fools. There were so many holes and I actually didn't realize. He never let me hold hands or hug him and I believed when he said he didn't like physical intimacy. Yet, he loves to do that with Youwei. He never mentioned that night and I thought, he was just shy. But, It was actually not him that night!'. Zhang Yuqi started to feel dizzy due to the alcohol she had drunk. She rested her head on the counter and cried.
This was the last time she would cry for that bastard. She would be a new Zhang Yuqi from tomorrow. Her life was in her hands. She had dreams and promises to fulfill. She couldn't give up because of love.