Magic Moment - Yizhan

Chapter Fifteen

Zhan gets out of the taxi and rushes into the duplex. He threw his bag on the table and threw himself on the sofa.

"Damn. Damn!" he said desperately in anger at himself. He was stupid for behaving like that!

He practiced several times the dialogues he would say to Yibo the moment they met. He didn't think that even one of them had completely disappeared from his mind earlier.

And he knew they could meet. She's moving in his circles now. Thanks to Aunt Yingchun. In fact, he saw Yibo once. Seven months after he left Gāodì, Gusu Island.

He and his aunt are shopping together at a department store. She walked farther from his aunt and when he returned, he saw Yingchun was talking to Yibo.

He quickly hid himself in the clothes rack. What's more painful is that Yibo is with a woman. She was so beautiful that he felt even more insecure. He promised himself at that moment to completely bury the old Zhan. He will also be sophisticated like the girl he is with after his problem is over, his problem that without his Aunt Yingchun he is not sure what will happen to him.

When he left Gāodì, Gusu Island that day he went to the bank in town and took all his own money. He looked for his Aunt Yingchun's address in Beijing. The address was written in his mother's diary.

Although she still owns the big house that according to his mother belongs to her and her sister, Yingchun is no longer there. She rented it out to someone else. From the tenant, he got his aunt's address. Yingchun lives in a well-known subdivision in the city. A beautiful duplex.

He couldn't be sure which of the two doors his aunt was in.

A woman in her mid-forties came out after being called by the maid.

"Yes? Do you need anything from me?"

Zhan cleared his throat. "I'm Zhan. Xiao Zhan."

The old woman's eyebrows came together as if she was wondering if she had other relatives.

"I am the son of Xiao Fengmian and Xiao Ziyuan."

He saw the loss of color in Yingchun's face. A few long moments passed before he let her in. And from Yingchun's mouth he was sure of the truth written in his mother's diary.

Xiao Yingchun is the legal wife of Xiao Fengmian. The couple and Ziyuan live in the house that the siblings inherited from their parents. Yingchun is an employee in a small company and Ziyuan is studying in college.

The two had been together for five years when the company Fengmian worked for closed. It was difficult for Fengmian to get a new job because of his education. Agriculture. In addition to stiff competition.

Yingchun at that time was currently looking for another job and was hired as the secretary of a start-up cement company. A good salary and high demand for work, because it was just starting, is what caused the gradual gap between husband and wife. Adding to Yingchun's irritation is the fact that she is the one who supports her husband. Little things that ended up in constant arguments.

Ziyuan sympathizes with Fengmian. Fengmian finds peace and love in Ziyuan. And Ziyuan became pregnant with Zhan. Pregnancy that Yingchun couldn't give at the time because of work. Or maybe because of her admiration for the handsome mestizo boss.

Yingchun only found one letter when she came home from work one afternoon. She felt disgust and depression. She will not forgive the two. But nothing will be forgiven because Fengmian and Ziyuan never came back. They didn't even write, nor did she know where they were.

Resentment, wounded heart, anger, and wounded pride, all of that was erased by her boss. Yingchun fell in love with the man who did not wish to be married again. But that doesn't matter to her, she would be willing to die for him. Her boss and Chao Cement became her world. Fengmian and Ziyuan were completely forgotten in her mind and heart.

Then nineteen years later, Zhan appeared at her doorstep.