Valkyrie85: Some of you were disappointed that there wasn't a huge confrontation between Syaoran and Sakura in the previous chapter before they reconciled. In fact, one or two of you were so disappointed that you guys wanted me to rewrite the chapter. All I can say is I'm sorry that it didn't turn out to be the way you wanted it to be. Personally,I find it very unfitting to just rewrite something that I've posted already ,as it can make the story very awkward. Therefore, I will not answer to that request. However, improvements can definitely be made in this chapter to make it seem less rushed. Hopefully you will be satisfied with what I have written for this chapter :)

*this entire chapter was created on my phone. The formatting was also done on my phone. If there are any mistakes, please Pm me. Thanks.

Chapter 28


Flashback

"请你们现在翻开我为你们准备的资料。" (Now please flip to page six in the package that I have prepared for you.) Syaoran told his colleagues. After Sakura left for her room to make the phone call, the group resumed their meeting in Syaoran's suite.

His subordinates did as they were told.

"第六页明显的反应了这间公司在零九年和银行借四亿美金的交易。" (It clearly states that in 2009, this corporation borrowed 400 million US dollars from the bank.)

"到目前为止,这间公司还没有办法还那一笔账。试问如果我们昨天真的和他们签下协议的话,我们的公司即将会面临什么样的局面?"(Even until now, they still haven't paid back what they owed. Not a single penny. At the same time, the loan keeps on growing bigger by the second because of the high interest rate of the bank. Now my question is, if we had signed that contract with this corporation yesterday, what kind of situation will our Company head into for the next 10 or 20 years? We would have signed a life-time contract to work our butts off in orders pay off someone else's debt.)

The 10 heads around the table looked up from the information they just read and exchanged looks with each other in complete shock.

Syaoran paused, making the entire room dead silent, as he closed his own copy of the document in his hands. Then, he threw it across the table, causing a few of the staff to jump.

"还有一个很重要的问题就是为什么在没有完整的调查这间公司的情况下,你们会把他列入我们的名单里。如果每次需要我自己去做这些调查的话,那你们就可以不用来上班了." (I have another question. Why was this corporation included in our list of potential partners if no thorough research was conducted on the company? If I have to do the research myself every time, then there's no point in me hiring you all.).

Syaoran paused again. His remark made the representatives, junior and senior members, look down at their hands in shame. He knew they were reflecting on their mistakes as he spoke.

He spoke again, but this time he made sure his tone was no longer scolding. He pulled off an encouraging smile as he added. "但是因为我很需要大家的帮忙, 所以你们不能就这样走掉。你们应该认真的反省一下。以后我再也不希望看到这样的错误发生。"(But because I really need and treasure all of your help and effort, I can't let you go. I hope you can all reflect on today's mistake and make sure it doesn't happen again.)

"我保证以后我们不会再有第二次。" (I promise a second time won't happen again). One of the senior members spoke up, on behalf of the rest of the representatives. The others nodded in agreement.

"很好。" (Very good), Syaoran replied.

He called for a short break and went to the side of the room to make a call. His phone had been ringing during the entire discussion with his colleagues.

As he took out the phone ready to dial back Eriol's number, it started ringing again in his hands.

"Sorry, I was in-"

"Syaoran!" Eriol called his name in distress. "You must go to Sakura's room right now! She is emotionally unstable at the moment and someone needs to calm her down!"

Syaoran frowned. "What are you talk-"

Then, he heard it. He heard an excruciating scream coming from the other side of the phone, as Eriol turned on the speaker of the phone that Tomoyo was holding and held it right next to his own to let Syaoran hear for himself.

"ishouldhavediedwithherwhydid theysavemewhydidtheysaveme? Idontdeservetoliveikilledmym otherwithmyownhand" Syaoran recognized Sakura's voice even though she spoke with long slurs that would have been unintelligible to someone else. That was enough to set him running out of his suite.

His secretary, who stood close to him, followed him out of the suite as she saw him running down the hall.

"Go get the card for this room!" he ordered the secretary as they approached Sakura's room. Behind him, a few of the other members trailed behind in a daze, but he didn't notice.

He banged on Sakura's door, yelling to get her attention. Now the mumbling and screaming he had heard from the phone could be heard from where he was standing.

"Eriol, what the hell happened?" Syaoran demanded from Eriol as he held the phone back up to his ears. His other hand continued to bang on the door.

"I don't really know, myself. Tomoyo sounded fine on the phone with Sakura a few minutes ago, but then she started shouting into the phone telling Sakura to let go or something like that. And then, she told me to call you..."

The housekeeping staff appeared breathlessly with the secretary and handed her card to Syaoran.

As soon as he opened the door, his heart stopped beating. All he could do was just stand there at the door and stare at Sakura.

She was sitting on the bed talking to herself and her hands covering over her ears. Her whole body rocked back and forth violently while she stared off into space. The hotel's phone which she had used to talk to Tomoyo was left hanging off of the night stand. From the threshold, he could hear Tomoyo's voice still shouting through the phone to get Sakura's attention back.

For the first time in his life, Syaoran felt scared. He was scared that the woman before him was losing her sanity. He was scared that he was going to lose her forever.

There was nothing going through his head, or maybe there were too many thoughts but too little time for him to organize them. Regardless, his legs carried him forward into the room without him really controlling them. Behind him, he heard murmurs and he realized that they had followed him to her room and saw what he saw.

He turned around and ordered loudly, "All of you stay out!" As curious as they were, the representatives backed out of the room.

Before they closed the door, they asked if they should call the ambulance, but Syaoran ignored them.

He walked to the bed and sat next to Sakura. He placed a hand on her shoulder, gently shaking her out of her trance. However, she couldn't feel it.

"Sakura..." He was too stunned to say anything more.

"I killed her...I shouldn't have lived...I shouldn't have lived. Why did I go to the airport that day? Syaoran didn't even know me...why did I like him? Why..."

"Sakura, what are you talking about?"

She began to shake even more. Syaoran wrapped one of his arm around her while he picked up the hanging phone by the night stand.

"Tomoyo. Why is she like this? What is she talking about?"

"I'll explain later. First get her the antidepressants," Tomoyo cried anxiously. "They're in her bag."

Syaoran spotted her bag on the table. He fumbled through the bag and finally found a a bottle of the medication with the doctor's prescription taped to the cap.

He returned to the bed. He pulled Sakura into his arms and slowly pushed two capsules into her mouth. Afterwards, he tilted her head a bit and fed her water with a water bottle on her nigh stand.

Thankfully, Sakura did not push him away like he had thought she would. She obediently, and absentmindedly, allowed him to take her into his arms while she continued to mumble to herself.

"I killed her...I killed her Syaoran..." she tightened her grasp on the sleeve of his shirt as she spoke. Syaoran was thankful that she knew he was there with her.

"It wasn't your fault. It wasn't your fault Sakura," he whispered softly

into her ears and slowly rocked her back and forth as if she were a baby. He still had no idea what she was referring to, but once he get the chance, he was going to question Tomoyo.

"It's been a long day. Why don't you close your eyes and sleep for a bit? I'll wake you up in a few hours," he told her. Without any hesitation, he began to place light kisses on her forehead to calm her down.

She nodded. Gradually, she loosened up and fell into deep slumber in his arms.

About ten minutes after she fell asleep, Syaoran gently placed her on the bed and covered her with a blanket.

"Don't go, Syaoran..." As he was about to leave the room to call Tomoyo back, Sakura grabbed onto his hand and pulled him towards her sleepily.

Syaoran froze. Sakura had never been the one to show her reliance on anyone, especially him, when they were still dating. He looked back at her to find her looking up at him with an almost pleading gaze.

He sat back down on the edge of the bed and continued to hold her hand in his as he watched her go back to sleep.


Syaoran stayed in Sakura's room after his late-night visit. He and she did not sleep that night. They stayed up, lying on Sakura's bed, and discussed about their one and a half years apart.

It was still hard for Sakura to bring up the car accident, but something felt different after her breakdown. Both Tomoyo and Syaoran finally got their messages through Sakura, it seemed, and gave her the courage to move on.

Another unavoidable problem was Ruo Xi, Syaoran's fiancée. Both agreed that they were not going to see each other anymore until his engagement with Ruo Xi was resolved. As to how he was going to cancel the engagement, he didn't share with Sakura no matter how many times she questioned him.

For this issue, Sakura once again faced a dilemma. She didn't want to hurt her friend, but she also didn't want to lose Syaoran anymore. On this matter, Syaoran told her that by not ending his engagement to Ruo Xi, he was hurting and using her at the same time because he had no feelings for her and the engagement was merely based on business benefits. He told her that it was only fair if he became friends with Ruo Xi, as their friendship won't involve any business deals. Syaoran really liked Ruo Xi, and he didn't want to use her.

When it was 5 minutes before 6, Syaoran got out of bed reluctantly to put on his clothes and leave her room before the others found out. He kissed her deeply on the lips and then bit down on her bottom lip lightly before Sakura pushed him away. "I'll see you in the breakfast lounge in a few hours after I catch up on some sleep," he said to her and made her blush. She didn't say anything, but slipped deeper underneath the blanket to cover her tomato-red face. After all, it was her first time, but Syaoran jus had to tease her about it.

"See you later, Mises Li," he told her before leaving for his room.

But when he opened Sakura's door, what awaited him was a very stunned Ruo Xi, with one of her hands up in the air, as if she were going to knock on Sakura's door had Syaoran not walked out from the very same room.


Valkyrie85: Dun dun dun dun...sorry I just had to add that to make it more suspenseful, LOL. This is it, the world's biggest confrontation will be revealed in the next and the very last chapter of this story! Stay tuned for more!

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