Truthfully your's~ [Beefleaf]

~Shi Qingxuan~

"Hello" Shi Qingxuan quickly flashed a business man smile which Ban Yu caught on.

"It's been a while" Ban Yu replied to Wang Duji's excited statement.

"It's been forever!" Wang Duji said as he stepped forward and took Shi Qingxuan's hand leaving the later startled, "Isn't it Yanzi-ah?"

Yue Yanzi just nodded considering their history conversing didn't seem adequate.

"So what are you guys up to these days?" Wang Duji asked eyes sparkling.

They talked for sometime catching up on eachothers life, it was Wang Duji and Shi Qingxuan who kept the conversation going while the other two looked like they could be anywhere else then here.

"Then we will be going!" Wang Duji said as he leaned forward to kiss Shi Qingxuan's cheek.

"Yes" Shi Qingxuan said with a weak chuckle and the duo left.

"He is still that enthusiastic" Ban Yu said looking at the retreating duo.

"Well you are still the same too" Shi Qingxuan said pulling Ban Yu's cheek.

The later swatted his hands away and caught that taxi to take them to their restaurant.

                                 •°•°•°•

It had been two weeks.

The project for the wedding after party was going well if not for the rumours.

The news had been buzzing with scandals regarding the Shi family and a stolen project.

Paparazzi were admant of wanting to talk with Shi Wudu which got on his brothers nerves.

As Shi Qingxuan never made public appearance and as his whereabouts were always kept a secret, nobody outside knew how the second son of the Shi family looked and the Shi family kept it that way, till...

He woke up some days later to find paparazzi surrounding his building.

"Someone tipped them" was what Pei Ming told him over the call.

The situation was getting worse, the Shi family's profits plummeted, Shi Qingxuan could not contact his family because Shi Wudu did not want him to get attacked like he was.

The paparazzi around him disappeared, the Pei families efforts and he could go to his usual working pace but he couldn't.

"I'll take care of things here, we pretty much wrapped things up either ways, the wedding is in 2 days rest till then" Ban Yu tried to console him but his helplessness made him feel worse.

'I wanna help' was all he could think.

Every life, karma caught the Shi family one way or another.

But should he leave it this way?

This is what his brother would want for him. Forget about the family and live on...

Shi Qingxuan curled up on his bed when his phone rang...

It was his brother.

"Gege!"

"Xiao-xuan..." His brother's voice was tired on the other side of the line and very quiet.

Shi Qingxuan's eyes teared up.

"Father's dead."

What?

"You don't need to come, I don't want the paparazzi to catch you once again. I just wanted you to know, take care of yourself Qingxuan... We will meet soon"

Click.

That was it.

His brother didn't wait for his reply.

He was going to lose everything here aswell, and then himself.

Shi Qingxuan wanted to scream. He had suffered for 67 lives! Was that not enough? He wanted to live peacefully just this once. And if peace meant not meeting Ming Yi.... then so be it.

If there were gods up there he would give up everything just to live in a world where he never met Ming Yi- He Xaun.

Shi Qingxuan had been a constant curse in the formers life as was he in his. They were better away from eachother.

But a strange ache filled his chest. Could he really live in a world without He Xuan? He had fallen in love with him in all his life and inevitably in this one too.

In the end he was truthfully in love with He Xuan in everyone one of them.

But could that be said for the later?

Thankyou for reading the book this far and for all the love ❤️