Third person POV
Gong Qing National Forest Park in Yang Pu district is Shanghai's second largest park. Here you can ride horses,boat on the lake ,go for the Zipline or play soccer. Bring a picnic lunch or have a barbecue at one of the grills. Over 200,000 trees , lot's of gardens, and multiple lakes make it easy to forget that you're in one of the world's largest cities. Because it's a trek from the city center, weekdays are the perfect times to come to avoid crowds. But since today's the dragon festival,the park won't close at 4:30 pm but at 7 pm.
It's 6 pm and everyone is at the main garden. All is sitted by the benches and the road in between is cleared for the ending scene. A man in traditional clothing was playing the zither , accompanied by ten more men playing the flute and five other's playing the trumpet. Everyone cheered as they saw the parade starting,small cars began moving, adorned by fine craftsmanship. The beautiful lights that glistered around the place brought joy to the eyes of those that caught sight of it. The crowd cheered loudly. One with ear problems would be crying their lungs out. Whilst the parade was still going on, Nina felt her phone buzz and opened it to check. She felt a little hesitant to answer the call because it was her father calling. Wei Guang noticed and asked who it was. He checked the screen and uttered, " it's Mr Zhang. Answer it."
Nina nervously nodded and answered it in hopes that he won't find it suspicious. He focused his eyes on the show but kept his ears on Nina's. Though he could only hear a one sided conversation.
"Hi father!" Nina had to raise her voice cause it was loud here.
" I'm at the festival"
"I'm with a friend!"
Wei Guang choked on his saliva.
" After it's done!"
"Thank you!"
Then the call ended. Wei Guang looked at Nina with a side eye when she put her phone down.
"A friend?"
" Well aren't you my friend?"
"Boyfriend." He corrected.
"Yes."
"Wow!"
"What?"
"Oh no it's nothing"
" Oh come on. Really. Don't tell me you're already upset."
" I'm not."
"Sure." She replied with much sarcasm.
" I said I'm not."
He folded his arms, pouting a little and focused his eyes once more on the parade. Nina pouted cutely and also folded her arms and stared at Wei Guang. Some how not surprised. After 5 minutes, she started moving her head looking around until she spotted something that immediately attracted her. She turned back to him and tried to get his attention but he chose to ignore her .
"Really, wei Guang? The silent treatment." He still didn't look at her direction.
" How can I make it up to you?"
He finally looked at her for a split second cause just when she thought he was going to say something, he looked backed at the parade. Her smile dropped . She felt like giving up but just then an idea came up when she looked at a specific stand nearby. She smirked. Gently placing her hands on his arms and resting her hands on his forearm. She uttered with a sweet voice.
" Wei Guang My love, please don't be upset with me. If you're upset , I'll also be upset, then I won't be able to give you my surprise"
She observed as his eyes lit up but stubbornly refused to talk. Not willing to give in.
" You always love the little surprises I give you. But this time I want it to be bigger and sweeter but too bad I can't "
She pealed herself off of him and internally counted : 3.....2....1...
"A surprise you say?" He quickly turned his attention back to her while fiddling with his hands. Nina giggled and later smirked mischievously. "Yes. A surprise but because you're upset with me I can't give it to you.".
" I'm not upset." He immediately defended. "Yes you're." She protested. "No I'm not." He made her look at him in the eye and continued, " If I'm upset with you then I won't buy the Ice cream over there."
Nina internally smirked. This was working better than she thought.
"Then do it"
"Huh?"
" Buy the Ice cream"
" Oh ,yes yes! Then I get my surprise."
Nina nodded but couldn't help but smile. Wei Guang loves surprises. He lead her to the ice cream stand and got her her favorite vanilla flavour. He also got one for himself; banana flavoured. Immediately, she licked the ice cream. Wei Guang chuckled at her cuteness but forced her to stop. She pouted and looked at him confused.
" I want my surprise."
She stared at him continuously, looking as though she was clueless of what he was talking about. He repeated himself once more and she made an 'O' with her mouth. She laughed nervously.
"Yh about that,"
Wei Guang sighed knowing full well that she tricked him.
"Sorry." They only thing he could do was smile cause she looked adorable when guilty.
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*Earlier that day*
Mr Zhang was in his study when he got an unknown caller.
" Hello?"
'Mr Zhang '
"You again. Stop calling me with different numbers all the time. It's confusing."
He could hear the one at he other end of the call laugh menacingly through the phone
' Oh Mr Zhang, you're so funny.'
"Yeah yeah ,so why are you calling?"
' Serious business here, let's meet up.'
" Meet up where?"
' I'll send you the address.'
"But-"
' Don't disappoint me ' Right after that they cut the call .
The same person not after a few minutes sent him the address and he got worried. He called Nina and confirmed of her whereabouts just to make sure. It was 6 pm and Nina will be coming home at 9 pm. He had to hurry. He immediately got up and left.
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Later that evening Nina got back home very happy. She really enjoyed the time she spent with Wei Guang. When wei Guang's with her all her problems seem to disappear. He brings the best in her despite all the things she went through. This just increases her dilemma cause with a lovely soul like Wei Guang, she can't leave him when he's the only one she has . Not even her own father is close to her anymore.
She opened the main door and got inside, welcomed by the house helps. They all greeted her and informed her that dinner will be served soon. Nina smiled and walked to her bedroom. She could tell that the house helps were very happy for her. Ever since wei Guang came back she coped with her life and began slowly becoming a bright girl. Although her nonchalant character was still there. Still they felt happy. It hurt them to see the girl they partly raised be on her lowest.
At dinner time, Nina was settled on the dinning table and ate regardless of her dad not being there yet. She wasn't unnecessarily worried about him, just curious as to where he'd be cause hadn't had work for today because it's a holiday.
Just before she left the room after finishing her food, her dad walked in the house. She walked through the living room and greeted him without paying much attention to him but was stopped right after she took two steps up the stairs. She finally looked at her father and besides him was a woman she had never seen before.