In the modern days of the 21st century, starting from the pollution, global-warming, fatal diseases, politics, rush-hours, financial issues, terrorism, natural disasters, cities with cars and buses roaming by faster than you saying 'TAXI!', robberies and tragic accidents to advancing technologies, private schools, zebra-crossings and all the little problematic things. You would find yourselves in a situation that in the tough world out there, there is barely space for you to slip a tiny fantasy of true love in the above mentioned signatures of the flow. Let alone time for you to actually have the fantasy.
People with MBAs and even PhD could barely escape the fate of being jobless and sometimes even homeless. Even when they have used up all their savings in all their bank accounts for their monthly education fee, all that's left in the end for them is a piece of paper with a photo-stated signature from some minister, that probably didn't even look twice while signing a copy for the education institution. Sometimes when you think about it, you just couldn't help but say, 'Da-mn, that is ridiculous...'
Even the oh-so-famous, Xyn Hitsugaya: lady CEO of the glamorous modeling agency, BliNk, said 'Hello!' to bankruptcy when her handsome husband, Kenshin Hitsugaya died of a plane crash on his way to Milan for a fashion show. He was a designer known for his spiral and curvy designs but even the ones like them couldn't escape what fate had in store for them. And the best part of it, is that she still have a son, who was barely five, to raise. Her child, after the incident, became mature despite of his unreasonably short appearance and the heritage of white natural-spike hair from his father. He became a poker-face with no emotions but a deceiving empty smile plastered onto his face every second.
Her childhood sweetheart from Taiwan moved to Japan with his daughter to take care of her and her son. Xyn Hitsugaya paid off her debts and was removed of her bankrupt statues after a long suffering of six years. She successfully became a senior fashion editor at Celeb FoCus, an internationally known magazine when she went back to her own country: Taiwan, along with her son.
After regaining her financial statues, she started planning to revive her career that has been long neglected. Back in Taiwan, she remarried with her sweetheart, Yang, a son of the richest family in Taiwan, and was provided a better life after her precious son turned twelve. He became colder than ever and behind that gorgeous smile of his, lies unrevealed pain and a scar that could never be healed. To make things worst, when he knows that his mother is remarrying a man that she'd loved even before his respectful father, he didn't even make a simple attempt to smile anymore. For some time after their marriage, he had a slight hatred towards Yang, his stepfather. But that all changed when he witnessed his mother's happiness throughout the whole relationship. The time when he first heard the familiar yet so long abandoned laughter of his mother that he loved so dearly, the slight hatred was quickly replaced with appreciation and acceptance.
After a year, Xyn has successfully revived her agency, BliNk, in Taiwan with the help of her newly wedded husband and everything went back to exactly how it was suppose to be before her husband's untimely death. But Xyn died tragically 6 months later of blood cancer. She left every single cent of her hard-earn money and every piece of property under name to her son, including BliNk, of course. Her son's life was once again turned completely upside-down. He lost faith in the people around him just like the time when his beloved father died a tragic death seven years ago just half-an-hour before his birthday. After the long years, he had finally started recovering from this family tragedy and this happens. He continued staying with Yang but kept his surname eventhough his mother changed it again after she remarried.
Honestly speaking, Yang had treated him like his very own son even after his mother died. He continued supplying him with daily needs and education, but most important, a shelter. A home that he can come back to everyday after the long hard day out in the crude world. Besides a few short answer to Yang's common questions, he rarely talked to anyone except for his older stepsister since six. Yang had already divorced a year before he and his mother met each other again. His eighteen-year-old happy-go-lucky daughter, happily accepted him and his mother into their family when she heard their parents, who was suppose to be just friends, were marrying each other after returning to Taiwan. He doesn't know what it is, but he and his stepsister was unreasonably close together.
Her name was Yang Zhi Jing. Jing in Mandarin dialect means quiet, silence. She was tall and very beautiful. With elegant postures and a forgive-and-forget attitude, he grew closer and closer to her and became a very protective and loving brother to her. Under his coldness and poker-face, he was sometimes very annoyed by her silly ideas and fantasy, not to mention her sudden mood swings that happen so often in a few minutes. But he always listened and accepted her advices. He have to admit that he's very helpless around her because he was completely under Jing's lead and wouldn't, or so to say, couldn't help himself but to follow her instructions that sometimes make no sense at all. Which was quite often actually.
She always have her way of softening his harden expression and making him laugh and even go by with her silly and naughty plots of making fun of other people. Which always ended up in a situation where he finds himself going to apologize to the person in question on her behalf. But without her knowing, of course. Well, at least in front of her he didn't have to give out cold and unfriendly vibes, didn't have to carry pretense as a burden on his back like he had to in front of other people. He can just be...him. The simple-minded, twelve-and-a-half year old him. He could let down his guards. He can walk out of the tall and strong barrier he built around himself and present the truest of himself to her.
His world has already started crumbling down around him by the time he was transfered to study in a famous local school that was teaching the things that he had already been taught in Japan, which was also the school that Jing had studied before she moved onto xxx University of fashion designs. Despite his mother's financial difficulties, he studied hard and was given the title of 'Heaven's Gift' when he participate in an international math competition for his country and won the first degree honor, earning his a full scholarship to the school for geniuses in Tokyo.
He hated his birthdays but had also allowed Jing to quietly celebrate it with him every year in his spacious room. Deep in his heart, he appreciate these people around him, which had extended a helping hand towards him while he was in difficulties. When he had no family whatsoever. When he was left lost in his own world with nothing more than sadness, pain and wounds that had grown deeper over his mother's death. They gave him a meaning in life. He never complaint about his lost and quietly bare the darkness that had totally engulfed him whole since the age of five. But sometimes when he looked at his past, he just couldn't help himself of experiencing the heartbreak he had endured so many years ago, all over again.
But that's how it is. That's what's so commonly referred to as: reality.