Lustful Mistakes

When they both woke up later, a total of thirteen hours passed, and the VIP breakfast was served. Yu Bing realised that he had been lost in thoughts for so long that he had lost track of time. He peered earnestly at Myra, who was feeding herself with much etiquette. So the little princess had really grown up, he thought.

"Myra, would you like fruit?" he asked, stretching his hand out and offering her a small bowl of cut fruits that the stewardess had placed on his tray. He noticed that Myra's tray was packed with sweet treats.

"Why not," she smiled and traded it with one of her sweet treats. He smiled back, and continued with their meal.

They talked about their individual lives, and how their fathers saw them as the inheritors of their fathers' businesses, and how their fates had seemed to be sealed in stone at birth.

"Myra, what if you fell in love with someone your father doesn't think is suitable, who would you choose?" he suddenly asked.

"I would choose my father, of course. But my father would have no reason to not like my choice," she said gingerly.

"You're still young, Myra."

"I'm already an adult," she laughed.

Upon disembarking, Myra grouped up with her 'girlfriends', comprised of four girls excluding herself, and the two boys, and Yu Bing disappeared among the crowd. They enjoyed the view of the beach and busied themselves for the next few days with photograph-taking and relaxing on the white sands of the beach for days, before the vacation ended. A few muscular men would approach her and ask her for her number, but she would deny them with the excuse that they weren't in her league, and since it was obvious she was wealthy, the men would just disperse, likely looking for easier targets on the beach.

While masquerading as Steve's assistant, she would occasionally steal a few glances at Yu Bing as the advertisements were being filmed and she wished she was as mature and confident as Lu Lu. If only she was Lu Lu, and the woman Yu Bing loved was her... But she could only dream that it was true.

That night, she really dreamed that she was Lu Lu, or dressed in one of Lu Lu's long flowing dresses that boasted her full figure, and Yu Bing had confessed his love to her on the white sands and kissed her. At the end of the dream, he had called her by her name, and not Lu Lu's. But it was a dream, after all. Dreams would stay dreams unless they came true.

The last day of the ad shoot, and the night before Lu Lu's engagement party.

Yu Bing sat with Lu Lu as she reclined on a long chair on the sand.

"It's no use, Yu Bing," he heard Lu Lu say. She took off her sunglasses and looked at him sympathetically. "Why?" he asked, with pain in his eyes.

"I've said it so many times over the years, Yu Bing. The person I love is Superman. We can't be together."

"But I met you first."

She threw her arms around him in a hug. "If you see me as a friend, give us your blessing. You will always be my good friend...and a younger brother."

Probably, he would never understand what love was. Compared to the five years he had been pursuing her, it had just taken Superman six months to pursue and date her, and in a matter of hours, they would soon formally be engaged.

Was he even anything in Lu Lu's eyes?

Ten o' clock. He looked at the clock. It had been four hours since the conversation between him and Lu Lu, and it had felt like years had passed. He wanted to get up and get a few drinks at the VIP club, but then, he was afraid and ashamed that people would see him, Yu Bing, the heir of Yi Xiang Yuan, in this condition.

In his despair, he was startled by a sudden knock on the door, and opened it carefully. Realising it was Myra, and someone he knew personally, he allowed her to enter his hotel suite.

"Hello, Yu Bing," she greeted as she usually did, but this time she had a large bottle of whisky with her."

"My girlfriends went out dating instead with people they met on the island. So would you do me a favour, and drink with me instead?"

In the past, he had told his father that he saw Myra as a little sister, but now that she was a grown adult, he had the conjecture that she was no threat to him or his position as heir to Yi Xiang Yuan. In fact, her naivety and innocence was made him trust her, to the point that he had accepted her invitation to join her party with her friends, and as a result, be introduced to them. And now, he was accepting her invitation to drink.

Her white, flowing Bohemian dress barely covered her knees, and her large eyes invited him to give her a long, deeper look. She was behaving so coquettishly that night, that made him wonder if it was really her, and piqued his inquisitiveness further.

"Are you Myra, or are you an impostor?" he joked, and beckoned for her to take a seat next to him on the wide sofa. It would be the first time he would drink with her since she was only eighteen the last time he had seen her, and now that she was 21, he expected that she was an excellent drinker, since her father and his father would often have drink competitions with each other from time to time.

Indeed, she finished half the bottle without feeling tipsy, and they continued to talk about her life in university and how she had classes with his university professor, Mr. Wang. They laughed and continued to drink, and then she got up and faced him somberly. He felt the alcohol clouding his judgment, and when she kissed him, he kissed her back. And while he was kissing her, it was as if he had totally forgotten about Lu Lu. Perhaps it was the pain of her rejection, that all he remembered at that point was the pain and how he wanted to escape from it.

"I like you, Yu Bing," she said, breaking the kiss graciously. Her body had felt so warm and comfortable on his while she was wrapped around him.

"I like you too," he said without thinking, and then he saw her get up and then, the dress fell to the floor. Was she thinking of doing it?

He thought again of how they had just kissed and his hand had come into contact with...her. In his drunken stupor, he had failed to contain himself and his lustful desires. He felt refreshed looking at this girl, who didn't bother with heavy makeup and wear revealing clothes, and yet, was able to gain his attention. She was intoxicated, and him too. And when she made advances to him, he didn't reject her.

He didn't know why, but he wanted her. His desire was strong, and he probably would regret the consequences of his actions, but he couldn't resist her temptation. In a flash, everything had happened, and he had allowed it.

What had they both gotten themselves into?