4:
"He was rushed to the hospital immediately," DaoMing Si continues, "I only
knew about this from my sister a few days after Lei's accident..."
***
FLASHBACK:
"Ah Si! Ah Si!" DaoMing Si's sister calls upon arrival at the house, dumping her luggage on the floor.
"Madam, let me report to you," the housekeeper offers, "Sir is now out with the other F3."
"What? Call him. Now." She orders.
"Yes Madam."
He rushes to the phone and dials the numbers instantly.
"XiMen! Quick, drive me home." DaoMing Si asks urgently.
They were at a noisy pub, and XiMen obliges. MeiZuo joins in the ride.
AT HOME:
"Ah Si! You're finally home!" DaoMing Si's sister says, "Lei's in trouble..."
***
"Afterwards I investigated the whole incident. Lei's father has many enemies, and all of them are out to take over the HuaZhe business. One of them actually took action and sent a hit man to kill Lei. But he was lucky... he survived.
I haven't found out who did it," DaoMing Si squashes the can drink in his hand, the liquid gushing out, "But I will, soon."
5: "XiMen! XiMen!" QingHe rushes over to XiMen's side in school like a hurried small boy.
"What is it, son of an overnight millionaire?" XiMen rolls his eyeballs, "Why must you always harass me?"
"Isn't it good if I keep coming to you? Our relationship could blossom into good friends! And then..."
QingHe sniggers in his daydream, "There could be an F5!" QingHe laughs madly.
XiMen shakes his head, giving up on QingHe, and walks off.
"Where's XiMen?" QingHe turns to look around, "Hey... How could he just leave like that? I wanted to ask him where ShanCai went." QingHe pouts.
***
"I wonder how Lei is doing," ShanCai thinks, "Will he be at the balcony?"
She smiles at the remembrance of his seemingly know-it-all grin, his cold jokes, his constant needs to sleep.
She leans out of the balcony, and breathes in deeply, relaxing herself. Someone interrupts her chain of thoughts with a pat on her shoulder. ShanCai turns. It is Lei.
Lei gives her his usual casual smile, and for a split second she forgets that he no longer remembers her. Her heart aches so badly at the mere thought.
***
FLASHBACK:
"Whenever you are going to cry, as long as you overturn, your tears cannot fall."
FLASHBACK:
"A friend once told me, when the sun has almost risen, if you light fireworks, it will be especially easy for your wish to come true."
***
ShanCai's tears fall like the rain.
"I've always wanted to ask you," Lei begins, "What your impression of me was."
ShanCai sniffs, and tries to smile. "Don't cry," she tells herself.
"You were... very handsome," she begins, "And very smart. You never liked to talk."
She begins to sob.
"You would always pretend to be happy, but you were always lost in the depths of your own world."
Her voice is now choked, and as she tries to speak, she cannot. The tears would not stop.
"ShanCai," Lei says softly, "If you need to cry, I can lend you a shoulder."
ShanCai raises her eyebrows.
***
FLASHBACK:
"If you need to cry, I can lend you a shoulder."
"Who says I need to cry?"
Pause.
"If you don't mind, can you lend me your back?"
ShanCai sobs, her face down, leaning on Lei's back.
***
"You really don't remember me?" ShanCai asks, slightly frowning.
"ShanCai," he frowns, and drops a hint, "Now you may not understand my plans, but you will later." He walks off, his accident reoccurring in his mind.
***
FLASHBACK:
"Jing," Lei murmurs as he falls with a silent thud on the ground.
The ambulance comes, and he sees the flashing red lights. But he hears nothing, except Jing's voice repeating his name in his mind.
In the Hospital:
"How could he have met with an accident? If anything happens, how is he going to marry Jing?" Lei awoke up in the hospital to Jing's father's voice.
"I just hope that Jing will consent to marrying Lei."
The doctor strolls in the room. To Lei, he is a blur figure of white and Grey.
"I think he should be alright," the doctor gives a smile- a smile he no doubt has given to millions of patients already- a detached, cold smile. "He could have lost some part of his memory, but he can be discharged tomorrow."
"What a relief!" Jing's mother says with a sigh.
If there is anything Lei will never forget: it is Jing. Yet, in his mind he hatches a plan. Jing has to go.
6:
"QianHui?" BaiHe asks in shock, "You mean it was your father who knocked down HuaZhe Lei? Why?"
It is recess, and they sit at a table facing the window, talking.
"To expand his business empire, of course! HuaZhe Lei's father is too weak to take care of the business. If HuaZhe Lei is removed, he could quickly buy over the business."
"Can't he buy it over without any violence?" BaiHe questions.
"My father had tried to buy the business, but HuaZhe Lei's father refused. So, my Dad tried other ways to sabotage the business. But then HuaZhe Lei went to Japan and fixed everything. The second time HuaZhe Lei went back to help his father, my dad decided, violence was the best method."
"What?" BaiHe almost screams, "What if the other F3 finds out? Then I- Oops... I mean we- we won't get a chance with them anymore!"
BaiHe continues, and her perfectly plucked eyebrows raises in anger, "What's worse is that DaoMing Si is HuaZhe Lei's best friend! And-and, DaoMing Si has a bad impression of us! Now that your family has done this, He will take revenge against you...
Oh!
And if I continue being friends with you, soon he will come after me, thinking that I'm involved as well!
QianHui," BaiHe ends, "I think, we should not be friends anymore. You don't want my chances with the rest of F4 to be as bad as yours, right?"
BaiHe gives a 'I'm-perfectly-innocent-you-should-understand' smile.
"BaiHe, BaiHe," QianHui almost bursts out laughing, "You are really stupid!"
"What do you mean by that?" BaiHe retorts back, furious. She cannot let QianHui win, whatever they are fighting about- men or clothes or facial features, she has to win, "I am not!"
"Don't you see," QianHui wipes the tears that leaked out from laughing so hard, "If the HuaZhe business slowly fails- and it will soon, considering Lei's memory loss, can Lei continue at this school? - He would no longer have enough money, he would become poor!"
"So?" BaiHe asks, puzzled.
"I just knew you were stupid," QianHui continues, "If Lei becomes poor, he cannot continue at this school anymore! He would have to automatically leave. Then, DaoMing Si would be too busy finding out the truth about Lei's accident, being best friends.
In school, there will only be the other F2 left."
BaiHe smiles, clapping her hands in her previous lack of intelligence, "Since the other F2 bears no grudges against us, we can easily slip in, in this time of crisis F4 is facing, and grab them!"
"And," QianHui smiles evilly, "DaoMing Si will never know the truth. My father has planned everything- there will be a scapegoat."
"Fabulous, fabulous!" BaiHe grins, "It's time we get what we want!"
The laugh together, so hard, they are both eventually crying.
"Soon," QianHui snickers, "We will make ShanCai very, very sad."
"Yes!" BaiHe nods, "As sad as she made us."
***
FLASHBACK:
"Ah Si! Ah Si!" DaoMing Si's sister calls upon arrival at the house, dumping her luggage on the floor.
"Madam, let me report to you," the housekeeper offers, "Sir is now out with the other F3."
"What? Call him. Now." She orders.
"Yes Madam."
He rushes to the phone and dials the numbers instantly.
"XiMen! Quick, drive me home." DaoMing Si asks urgently.
They were at a noisy pub, and XiMen obliges. MeiZuo joins in the ride.
AT HOME:
"Ah Si! You're finally home!" DaoMing Si's sister says, "Lei's in trouble..."
***
"Afterwards I investigated the whole incident. Lei's father has many enemies, and all of them are out to take over the HuaZhe business. One of them actually took action and sent a hit man to kill Lei. But he was lucky... he survived.
I haven't found out who did it," DaoMing Si squashes the can drink in his hand, the liquid gushing out, "But I will, soon."
5: "XiMen! XiMen!" QingHe rushes over to XiMen's side in school like a hurried small boy.
"What is it, son of an overnight millionaire?" XiMen rolls his eyeballs, "Why must you always harass me?"
"Isn't it good if I keep coming to you? Our relationship could blossom into good friends! And then..."
QingHe sniggers in his daydream, "There could be an F5!" QingHe laughs madly.
XiMen shakes his head, giving up on QingHe, and walks off.
"Where's XiMen?" QingHe turns to look around, "Hey... How could he just leave like that? I wanted to ask him where ShanCai went." QingHe pouts.
***
"I wonder how Lei is doing," ShanCai thinks, "Will he be at the balcony?"
She smiles at the remembrance of his seemingly know-it-all grin, his cold jokes, his constant needs to sleep.
She leans out of the balcony, and breathes in deeply, relaxing herself. Someone interrupts her chain of thoughts with a pat on her shoulder. ShanCai turns. It is Lei.
Lei gives her his usual casual smile, and for a split second she forgets that he no longer remembers her. Her heart aches so badly at the mere thought.
***
FLASHBACK:
"Whenever you are going to cry, as long as you overturn, your tears cannot fall."
FLASHBACK:
"A friend once told me, when the sun has almost risen, if you light fireworks, it will be especially easy for your wish to come true."
***
ShanCai's tears fall like the rain.
"I've always wanted to ask you," Lei begins, "What your impression of me was."
ShanCai sniffs, and tries to smile. "Don't cry," she tells herself.
"You were... very handsome," she begins, "And very smart. You never liked to talk."
She begins to sob.
"You would always pretend to be happy, but you were always lost in the depths of your own world."
Her voice is now choked, and as she tries to speak, she cannot. The tears would not stop.
"ShanCai," Lei says softly, "If you need to cry, I can lend you a shoulder."
ShanCai raises her eyebrows.
***
FLASHBACK:
"If you need to cry, I can lend you a shoulder."
"Who says I need to cry?"
Pause.
"If you don't mind, can you lend me your back?"
ShanCai sobs, her face down, leaning on Lei's back.
***
"You really don't remember me?" ShanCai asks, slightly frowning.
"ShanCai," he frowns, and drops a hint, "Now you may not understand my plans, but you will later." He walks off, his accident reoccurring in his mind.
***
FLASHBACK:
"Jing," Lei murmurs as he falls with a silent thud on the ground.
The ambulance comes, and he sees the flashing red lights. But he hears nothing, except Jing's voice repeating his name in his mind.
In the Hospital:
"How could he have met with an accident? If anything happens, how is he going to marry Jing?" Lei awoke up in the hospital to Jing's father's voice.
"I just hope that Jing will consent to marrying Lei."
The doctor strolls in the room. To Lei, he is a blur figure of white and Grey.
"I think he should be alright," the doctor gives a smile- a smile he no doubt has given to millions of patients already- a detached, cold smile. "He could have lost some part of his memory, but he can be discharged tomorrow."
"What a relief!" Jing's mother says with a sigh.
If there is anything Lei will never forget: it is Jing. Yet, in his mind he hatches a plan. Jing has to go.
6:
"QianHui?" BaiHe asks in shock, "You mean it was your father who knocked down HuaZhe Lei? Why?"
It is recess, and they sit at a table facing the window, talking.
"To expand his business empire, of course! HuaZhe Lei's father is too weak to take care of the business. If HuaZhe Lei is removed, he could quickly buy over the business."
"Can't he buy it over without any violence?" BaiHe questions.
"My father had tried to buy the business, but HuaZhe Lei's father refused. So, my Dad tried other ways to sabotage the business. But then HuaZhe Lei went to Japan and fixed everything. The second time HuaZhe Lei went back to help his father, my dad decided, violence was the best method."
"What?" BaiHe almost screams, "What if the other F3 finds out? Then I- Oops... I mean we- we won't get a chance with them anymore!"
BaiHe continues, and her perfectly plucked eyebrows raises in anger, "What's worse is that DaoMing Si is HuaZhe Lei's best friend! And-and, DaoMing Si has a bad impression of us! Now that your family has done this, He will take revenge against you...
Oh!
And if I continue being friends with you, soon he will come after me, thinking that I'm involved as well!
QianHui," BaiHe ends, "I think, we should not be friends anymore. You don't want my chances with the rest of F4 to be as bad as yours, right?"
BaiHe gives a 'I'm-perfectly-innocent-you-should-understand' smile.
"BaiHe, BaiHe," QianHui almost bursts out laughing, "You are really stupid!"
"What do you mean by that?" BaiHe retorts back, furious. She cannot let QianHui win, whatever they are fighting about- men or clothes or facial features, she has to win, "I am not!"
"Don't you see," QianHui wipes the tears that leaked out from laughing so hard, "If the HuaZhe business slowly fails- and it will soon, considering Lei's memory loss, can Lei continue at this school? - He would no longer have enough money, he would become poor!"
"So?" BaiHe asks, puzzled.
"I just knew you were stupid," QianHui continues, "If Lei becomes poor, he cannot continue at this school anymore! He would have to automatically leave. Then, DaoMing Si would be too busy finding out the truth about Lei's accident, being best friends.
In school, there will only be the other F2 left."
BaiHe smiles, clapping her hands in her previous lack of intelligence, "Since the other F2 bears no grudges against us, we can easily slip in, in this time of crisis F4 is facing, and grab them!"
"And," QianHui smiles evilly, "DaoMing Si will never know the truth. My father has planned everything- there will be a scapegoat."
"Fabulous, fabulous!" BaiHe grins, "It's time we get what we want!"
The laugh together, so hard, they are both eventually crying.
"Soon," QianHui snickers, "We will make ShanCai very, very sad."
"Yes!" BaiHe nods, "As sad as she made us."