After that exciting breakfast meeting,
I decided to stroll on the garden inside our estate. I felt so full and I need to release the burst of energy by strolling.
It's been 9 years since I am back home and strolling along this gardens brings back memories. After graduating in senior high, I moved to Italy to study fashion. My family supported my decision but with so much begging and kneeling to convince my father and grandfather with the help of my grandmother, my mother, fourth uncle Bai Zhen and especially my second mother, my aunt Bai Qian. The two male elders agreed but in exchange, I will need to accept the position oneday when the time is right of being the next CEO of Qingqiu corp since I am the only heiress and the grandchild of the Bai Clan and I willingly agreed.
I studied hard. Never used my name to get where I am today. But after I graduated college and started a small fashion botique, my creations and collections was slowly recognized and then... My background, my being connected to Bai family has been divulged to the public.
The clothes I created can only be bought exclusively in every season I released them. Since I released a total of 15 designs every different seasons, from winter, spring, summer and fall collections. I've been working nonstop since then. I am busy with being invited to diffenrent fashion shows to arranging my own fashion show for my clothing line named Phoenix.
People from the fashion industry knew me as Jiu. I gained success and made my own name but the shadow of my family kept up with me.
Since the news broke out 2 years ago that I am the heiress of the Qingqiu Bai Corp, people from this country started doubting my talent and abilities as a fashion designer. That I gained popularity because I used connections since I am a BAI.
Being a part of a powerful family with a heavy responsibility and high expectations made me feel caged all my life. This made me decide to pursue another career. I want to be known not as the next heiress of Qingqiu Corp. but as a talented Fashion Designer using my own ability and not with the power and reputation weilded by my family.
I sat on the pavilion and sighed loudly. How can I express my own thoughts without disappointing my family? I silently thought.
As I stared into nothing, I heard somebody cleared his throat then said,
"A penny for your thoughts?"and immediately, I turned.
My eyes widened and I gasped. What is he doing here?! I thought and I started to panick and I honestly don't know why. To my surprise he said again,
"What is he doing here? That is what you thought right? " then he smiled.
And is he a mind reader too? I thought again. I started to frown. He started to walk towards me and my heart is hammering inside my chest. It feels like my heart is going to burst.
He stopped two meters infront of me and just stared. I stared back at him and then a minute passed and he smiled again. My frown deepened now and I didn't realize that I am pouting too.
He broke the silence by silently laughing. I started to get irritated especially that he evoked this different kinds of feelings and reactions that I never felt and experienced with another man.
"What? " I irritatingly asked.
He smiled at me then replied,
"I remembered something with your reaction just now. " he said.
"What is it? " my irritation is slowly simmering and then replaced by curiosity.
A scared little fox. " then he laughed but loudly this time.
I rolled my eyes and scoffed then said,
"Ha. Ha. Very funny. " then I rolled my eyes again. When I looked at his direction, I saw that he stopped laughing and the seriousness is back again on his face.
"I presume you don't like me. Why?"
All the irritation and annoyance disappeared. Then dread crept in. How could I tell him that Hey Dijun. It's just that, you're making me feel things I haven't felt towards anyone before. Like that will be very appropriate. I thought.
"It's not that I don't like you. I just met you, you know. " I whispered and replied instead.
"Does this mean you like me since you didn't dislike me? " I can hear a hint of teasing in his voice.
My mouth agaped and my eyes widened, How dare he assume. And I realized that maybe this uneasiness is maybe... Maybe I like him... As what he claimed. But he is still thick faced.377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUB0ooEtsH
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I silently thought.
I folded my arms and then loudly snorted and I heard him silently laugh. He sat down and said,
"I never thought you are the opposite as what those tabloids have claimed. "
My brows raised at this then I looked at him and replied,
"So for a handsome guy, you are a gossip monger too? "
My eyes widened when I realized my mistake. Bai Feng Jiu! Have you lost your wits?!!!! I bit my lower lip... Hard. I heard him chuckle then smiled and to my surprise he touched the side of my lips and whispered,
"Stop biting your lips. You'll bruise it. And thank you for the compliment. I know that I am handsome and no, I don't gossip. Even if I don't want to listen to those nonsense, they are shoved in my face for me to read and to be updated by my friends. "
then he withdrew his large and warm hand when I stopped biting my lower lip.
Again I felt the current when he touched me but then again, I shrugged it off. I looked up at him since he is so tall. The top of my head only reached his well defined chin. I scolded myself again when I can't stop myself giving him too much adjectives.
"Back to the gossip thing Dijun-"
"Call me Dong Hua. "
He cut me off and I looked at him surprised written on my face. I continued talking.
"Dijun-"
"That's not my name. Call me Dong Hua."
he said with a little teasing smile playing on his face.
"Excuse me... You-"
I pointed at him to show what our relationship really is and then pointed at myself.
"-and I are not that close. I will call you by your name only if only you can be my friend or my boyfriend."
I saw the teasing smile slowly disappeared and replaced by a serious face. I felt something weird. Like he changed into another person. I heard him say,
"Since you didn't reply or deny the earlier question I gave you that you didn't dislike me, so... I am assuming you like me too right, Xiaobai? "
My heart beat stopped. My blood froze and my eyes widened. I slowly walked towards Dijun. I saw confusion written all over his face when I slowly approached him and then, stopped an inch away from his face.
He looked uncomfortable because of our close proximity with each other but I didn't mind. I want to hear what he just said. I want him to repeat it.
"What did you just called me?"
I whispered. Dijun looked at me and the confussion is clearly written on his handsome face but he still answered,
"Xiaobai... Don't tell me, I am not allowed to call you that?"
"Again. Say it again?" I asked.
Dijun just sighed, closed his eyes and when he opened them again he said in a whisper,
"Xiaobai." when I didn't react, Dijun repeatedly said,
"Xiaobai... "
"Xiaobai...
"Xiaobai... "
I gasped and my tears started to fall. I didn't expect that the guy calling me Xiaobai in my dreams is already infront of me.
I am filled with happiness and my heart hammered in my chest. I haven't really think of anything but because I am too overwhelmed of my emotions at the moment, I hugged Dijun and closed my eyes while tears continuously rolling and smeared my cheeks.
Dong hua on the other hand was so surprised that the aloof and quite heiress became upfront and hugged him.
He didn't know but he panicked when he saw tears started to roll on her rosy cheeks. Maybe I teased her too much?He thought but he doesn't really think so. She asked him to repeatedly say the name he decided to call her, XIAOBAI.
Dong Hua felt his heart stopped and his breath hitched when he heard her said,
"I've been dreaming of you for the past ten years. Atlast I found you..."
Then and there, Dong hua felt that the time stopped then he hugged her back as an impulse. It's as if the missing link he was unconsciously looking for all his life is in his arms right now. He closed his eyes and savor the moment. A little while Dong hua then said,
"I'm here now Xiaobai. I will not leave. I will stay with you. "
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