5 5_Regret Over His Life

Mu Lihai was just standing there twirling his glass of wine when Xu Cheng came towards him with several more people. Surprisingly, they were all his friends back then when he was in school.

When he was sent abroad at such unexpected time, he couldn't bring himself to get in touch with his friends. Due to his fear, he became a study maniac in the university abroad and spent most of his time perfecting his score. He did that because he wanted to be occupied with things so that he could forget unnecessary memory. And doing that indeed was helping him. His day life was more normal except when night came when he wasn't asleep due to the nightmare.

Because of that, Mu Lihai became one of the top students in Economics and Business Management not only in his university but the whole country where he studied. It was such a great feat that many families started looking up to Mu family for teaching their son well.

Mu Lihai even received an honor certificate for this from the president of the country where he studied.

"Lihai, there you are!" one of his past friends smiled to him. He was a second son of Liu family. He got to know Mu Lihai through Xu Cheng and they were actually quite close.

".. Gaonan?" Mu Lihai raised his brow upon seeing Liu Gaonan approaching him.

"How dare you cut off connection with us! You're heartless!" Liu Gaonan said while he puckered his lips in anger.

Now Mu Lihai remembered, Liu Gaonan was that fellow who was always friendly with people and also a bit childish. He was actually like that too before the incident. That was why they really clicked together and were close.

"Well.. we all heard from your mother that she forbade you from contacting us. She wanted you to focus on studying." another man came forward from behind Liu Gaonan, he was Yan family's youngest son, Yan Weili.

"Yeah.. we all heard that. For goodness' sake, why would you even listen to your mother? You never listened to her before." Liu Gaonan said as if he was complaining. He really missed Mu Lihai's company. They would always hang out together and chat over things.

"Sorry, I really need to focus on studying. It wasn't my intention." Mu Lihai lied with a smile. Of course it was his intention to avoid everyone. He was desperate to be alone at that time.

Xu Cheng saw how swiftly his friend lie and he sighed inwardly. If he wasn't the closest to Mu Lihai, perhaps he also wouldn't know about his friend's condition till this day. And perhaps even if he was the closest, he still wouldn't get to know about it if not for his family business that revolved around being a doctor.

He was the doctor responsible for keeping tabs of Mu Lihai's action and activity for the past years. And because they were basically neighbors, it wasn't hard to monitor his friend. Mu Lihai really did turn obedient.

"Hell yeah! Seeing how mature you've become, I don't remember you anymore! You really did well in your studies huh..!" Liu Gaonan said, hinting on the news of Mu Lihai's achievement in his university.

Liu Gaonan was very surprised to know that the playful and easy-going buddy of his had changed to be a good kid who listened to his parents well. When they were in highschool, Liu Gaonan was the kind who liked all sort of adventurous activity, and Mu Lihai was the one who always went along with his absurd plan.

"At least he isn't like you anymore. You are still playing around since your brother do all the work for you." Yan Weili chided Liu Gaonan with his usual calm voice.

In this group of four, Yan Weili was the most quiet and reasonable although he was the youngest in his family. It might be due to his siblings consisting of only females. He was the only male among his siblings.

"Tsk, I know you said that since you don't have a brother to take care of your company business. Your sisters all ran out to marry someone and they don't need to be trained to be a successor." Liu Gaonan countered back with a mischievous smile when he saw that Yan Weili was irked by what he said.

"Then what about me? I'm the only child of my family. It's too tiring to be me. That's why I don't play around anymore." Mu Lihai said while chuckling. He had forgotten how fun it was to be with his friends.

Maybe he should change...

A thought of him changing stunned him. He never thought that he could change back to the way he was. He was always afraid to be himself again after that incident. He thought it was for the better. But after realizing how mundane and lonely his life had been in the past six years, he suddenly had a regret over his life.