Obsession

Separation

Yutang does not like it!

His cat, getting all drained after working so hard at the SCI, then getting called up by that damned center at random times.
It's been a week like that.

Even the others at SCI feels that Zhan Zhao is just torturing himself. So one morning , Bai Yutang entered Zhan Zhao's office which was too silent as the man was busy with all very troublesome stuff and took a chair to sit in front of him.
Zhan Zhao glanced at him and did not say anything. It seemed like Yutang had something to say so Zhan Zhao patiently waited for him to start speaking.

Yutang quickly took a look at the bizzare condition of the working table that Zhan Zhao was using and surprised how Zhan Zhao was still not buried in his own mess. A look of worry was plastered in his face, too much for Zhan Zhao to ignore.

Zhan Zhao coughed, "I was just going to tidy things up-"

Yutang dismissed him with a wave of hand, "Don't bother. It will only become-..... Ah that's not what I was going to say! Cat... Don't you think you are going a little too overboard? Aren't you worried about yourself?? "

Yutang had seen Zhan Zhao going to that center to work even after work, even when he was exhausted. At first he convinced Yutang that it is only once a week thing but he just kept visiting the center everyday. And it was Yutang who drove him after leaving SCI.

Zhan Zhao sighed and said, "I am all right! It's just.... "

Yutang glared at him and said with contempt, "what is so interesting there cat!? Zhao Jue can go to hell, but i don't want you to be sick!"

"I am telling you that i am going there because I am interested! " Zhan Zhao stated placidly.

Yutang scratched his forehead and said at last, feeling a little defeated, "All right cat. But if you pass out or something then I am going to punch a hole in Zhao Jue. "

(Present time)
Zhan Zhao laughed out in his mind thinking of that time. 3-4 months has passed after that time, and now Yutang and Zhan Zhao has broken up.

He is in SCI. All the officers are working as they should but it is only him, drowning into his reverie. He took a look at Yutang's office and saw that it is still empty. Yutang still has not arrived.

Zhan Zhao let himself be emerged in the thoughts of the one he loves so much, but probably has lost the right to be someone dear to him.

Breaking his thoughts, his ear suddenly perked up to the very familiar sturdy footsteps and looked at the door eagerly.

While talking with someone in his phone, Yutang entered the SCI in his busy steps. The members greeted him and he showed a hand acknowledging them. His eyes for a moment flickered to Zhan Zhao, but he did not say anything as if it did not matter if Zhan Zhao was here or not. At least that's what Zhan Zhao thought. Then he continued to talk in the phone, occasionally smiling to whoever was speaking.
And oh-
How much Zhan Zhao wished that it would be perfect if that smile was directed at him.

How did it come to this? How did he become such an neutral insignificant existence to the man who, very shyly with a rare flushed cheek told him, that he loves Zhan Zhao just a few months ago.

But a painful memory again flooded his mind, reminding him that he has the one who has decided to let go of Yutang, because he wanted to protect him.

His very soul missed even that first argument they had after the joining that Research Center after 2 weeks.
Zhan Zhao was being stubborn. Yutang always made fun of him, saying how he can not take care of himself or any household works for that matter. Yutang kept saying mockingly how dependent Zhan Zhao was on him, that he probably would not survive without him.