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CHAPTER 9 – PLAYBOY
The silence in the room was comforting. Bai Renxiang had her head on her mother's lap with her face upwards, while her mother played with the strands of her smooth black waist-length hair. She was making braids out of it.
"Mum," Bai Renxiang called after a while.
"Hmm"
"Fu Bolin broke up with me," she blurted out. "I think he is getting engaged next week."
"I know honey. But what about it? Do you still love him?" Jiang Meilin asked carefully so as not to hurt her daughter's feelings.
"Well, he was the only guy I loved. It's kind of hard to forget about him. It still jabs my heart when I think of what he said and his engagement," she explained calmly.
They do say first love was hard to forget.
When Bai Renxiang went through the latest news, she saw Fu Bolin's engagement as one of them.
She cried that night and she could not sleep. After a while, she took a bath again to calm her down and went to drink a glass of warm milk before she went to bed.
The fact that her boyfriend was happily getting engaged after their break-up was painful but she has to bear and carry on with her life.
"I know how you feel. Speaking from experience, you just have to move on the way he has also moved on. You can't allow it to keep you tied to one place in your life," her mother advised.
Letting out a sigh, she continued, "Try to pick up your broken pieces, fix them and face the future challenges head-on. You crying over him will not bring him to accept you once more. Life has its ups and downs so you have to be strong."
This mother and daughter pair have both been broken by one thing or another. But they still have to face reality with a strong heart and mind. They need to be supportive of each other.
"Do not worry. I'm with you now. We can move on together, leave the past and think of how to tackle the future. Be strong-willed Bai Renxiang. I did not give birth to a weakling," Jiang Meilin encouraged her daughter.
"Thanks for cheering me up mum. You are the best."
"Well of course I'm the best. If not me then who will cheer you up," Jiang Meilin shamelessly accepted her daughter's praise. If only they knew the big storm that was coming their way soon.
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In a coffee shop, two handsome young men sat in a secluded area. One of them was dressed in casual blue jeans paired with a white long-sleeved T-shirt. His blonde hair fell over his brows keeping the jet blue eyes a little bit out of view due to the glasses he was wearing.
The second young master, Yang Chen of the Yang family sipped his coffee elegantly as he busied himself on a game in his phone.
Beside him was the young master of the Ye family, Ye Chaoxiang who was dressed in black jeans paired with a matching black shirt. He had his black hair gelled backwards living a few strands to fall on his smooth forehead.
Ye Chaoxiang squinted his eyes as he stared at his limited edition watch. It was a Rolex brand. He was the calm before a storm.
"What's taking him so long? Chen, I thought you said he was on his way?" He frowned.
"Yeah, at least that was what he told me," Yang Chen stated, as a matter of fact, his attention totally on his game.
Just then the bell at the door of the coffee shop jingled. There he was the playboy Li Fengjin.
He had his coat folded on his left hand while the other was in his pocket. Aloof, charming and dangerously hot!
The ladies at the shop could not help but fall into a trance as he walked majestically to a table at the corner.
"Did I keep you guys waiting?" Li Fengjin asked as he took his seat close to the window.
"Yes you did you, idiot," Ye Chaoxiang cursed. This friend of his always made them wait. It was like a habit for them to meet at the coffee shop before they left for their various places of work.
"Well the game freak does not seem to be bothered by it," Li Fengjin gestured towards Yang Chen who did not even seem to care about what was going on around him.
Snatching the phone from him, Ye Chaoxiang reprimanded him, "Dude constant staring at your phone is harmful to your body, especially your eyes. How many times do I have to tell you this for you to understand?"
"Hey, give back my baby, you bully. My eyes are perfectly fine," Yang Chen complained like a child whose candy was snatched.
Due to his addiction to computers and his phone, Yang Chen's eyes suffered the damage making him be stocked with a pair of squared eyed glasses his doctor friend made him get.
"We are here to spend time drinking coffee and chatting before getting separated by work. Respect our little time together bro," Li Fengjin reminded him.
"Sigh, okay fine. How are you all?" Yang Chen started the conversation.
"I'm as healthy as ever," Ye Chaoxiang said with a smile, throwing away the stern look he had earlier.
"Well as for me, my head aches. Can you check up on me Xiang?"
"Why? Mum scolded you again?" Ye Chaoxiang inquired teasingly.
"Hoho! What did you do to your sweetheart this time, Jin?" Yang Chen tagged along in the tease. He was always hyped up when it came to Li Fengjin and his sweetheart.
Sighing in frustration, Li Fengjin filled them in. "She wants me to get myself a girlfriend and settle down."
"Hahaha hahaha..."
The two men laughed hysterically. Li Fengjin couldn't get settled. In fact, it was not possible for any of them. What a hopeful situation, one would say!