One Day to Return

Qingling entered her apartment with chaotic's feeling. Her eyes are puffy. During this day she kept crying. She didn't care about the people around her who kept paying attention to her because that. Their gaze showed their astonishment.

Qingling threw her bag on her bed. She went to the sink and washed her face. Her eyes were a little swollen.

Qingling sighed. She walked to her dressing table near the window of her room. She took a photo that she displayed there.

The photo is a photo from her childhood. In that photo, she took a picture with a boy. His name is Renshu. They both live in the orphanage since they were babies.

When they in elementary school, they were adopted by different families. Even so, they continued to be friends. They keep telling each other by mail, call, then email.

Finally they were together again in universities. They both studied in the same department, Computer Science. At that time, Qingling could not regard Renshu as an her ordinary friend. She has fallen in love with Renshu.

However, Renshu refused her love because he has fallen in love with a woman who attended a nursing academy. Her name is Yanmei. Renshu met Yanmei when they were in high school.

Qingling couldn't accept that. She became resentful towards Renshu. She thought Renshu had betrayed het. She thought that Renshu supposedly fell in love with her. Not to Yanmei.

Because of his heartache, Qingling did not want to be close to Renshu again until they graduated from college.

Qingling never met Renshu again after they graduated from public universities. Qingling moved to another city and worked in a large company, Capital M. She tried to forget Renshu by work hard there.

She did not expect after working for two years, Yanmei came to see her. Yanmei told her that she got a job to caring grandmother from the Capital M's director. Yanmei also told her that she would marry Renshu and she begged Qingling to be friends again with Renshu.

Of course, Qingling refused Yanmei's request immediately.

Then the day of the disaster came. Qingling attend the company event at the L Hotel Bar. Hotel L was a large hotel owned by Capital M Company. There, she accidentally saw Zhihuan, the director of Capital M Company giving a pill to a waiter at the bar. Out of curiosity, Qingling watched the waiter.

The waiter turned out to put the pill into the drink. Qingling became even more curious and followed the servant quietly. She saw the maid giving a drink to Yanmei who was sitting together with Zhihuan.

Qingling had a bad feeling. As her expected, Yanmei lost consciousness. Zhihuan took her out of the bar and entered the elevator. Qingling was sure that Zhihuan brought Yanmei to one of L's hotel rooms.

At a moment, a goodwill arose in Qingling's heart. She wants to save Yanmei. However, she abandoned her intention because she remembered Renshu's face. Her heart becomes hateful. A bad idea arose in her heart, she thought if Yanmei belonged to Zhihuan then Renshu would be her.

Qingling finally did nothing that day. She returned home quietly. Do not have guilt.

However, she did not expect that her decision not to help Yanmei finally had a negative impact for herself. Yanmei committed suicide shortly after she was raped by Zhihuan.

Qingling tried to comfort Renshu and hide the incident from him. Renshu didn't know the reason of Yanmei to comitted suicide.

However, a year after Yanmei's death, Renshu finally learned that Zhihuan raped Yanmei and caused his fiance to commit suicide.

Renshu takes revenge. He drove a car at high speed then crashed into the Zhihuan's car. Both died.

Yesterday was Renshu's funeral day.

Today, just like yesterday, Qingling couldn't hold back her sadness. She cried almost everywhere. She cried in the office. She cried on the bus. She cried on the road.

"Renshu, I didn't expect that I would feel very sad like now. If I knew that you would end like this now, I would stop Zhihuan last year. I will save Yanmei last year. Even if you don't belong to me, I'm happy as long as you live," Qingling cried hysterically. She hugged her old photo.

After an hour she cried, Qingling put the photo on the table. Her sadness became out of control. She took her laptop.

She has been investigating the Capital M Company during one year. After Yanmei died miserable, she investigate the company. And now after she losed Renshu, she will takes revenge. She will destroy Capital M by selling the secrets of the company. She published all company secrets and their cheated on the internet.

After she did that, Qingling felt a little satisfied. She took a one-time sleeping medicine.

She hopes that she can sleep tonight after taking the medicine. She also hopes that tomorrow morning the Capital M Company will be destroyed because of the news she spread on the internet.

However, in her heart too, Qingling hope a miracle. She hopes that time can turn to the past. Return to the day when she could save Yanmei and prevent Zhihuan from his will to hurting her. So that Renshu does not suffered and not died like now.

***

"Dingdongdingdong," the bell sounded loudly. Qingling heard that voice and woke up. Her head still hurts.

Qingling searched for her cellphone. Finally she found it in a drawer. Qingling pressed the red button on the cellphone so that the sound of the bell stopped. The sound of the bell is the sound of the alarm she uses on her cellphone. She is always hard to get up, so she makes an alarm with the sound like that in her cellphone.

"Qingling!" A woman calls her name. Qingling felt shocked. The voice was the voice of her mother, Lijuan.

"Since when did my mother arrive at my apartment? Last night, I was alone in this apartment. Mother called me while I was on the bus. I remember she told me that she would come to this city next week to accompany me, " Qingling spoke to herself.

Qingling looked around her. The room where she was at that time was not her currently apartment room. Qingling remembered that the room was her room a year ago.

Qingling hurriedly opened her room's door. She saw her mother cooking in the kitchen of her apartment. Her mother wore an apron and was busy making juice for her.

"Qingling, mother has called you fifteen times. Are you deaf? " Lijuan asked quickly. Qingling did not expect that she would feel very happy to meet his mother like this. She ran towards her mother and then hugged her waist.

"Mother," Qingling cried on her mother's back.

"Gosh! Why are you crying? Are you having a bad dream? "

"Mother, please say that today is Saturday, the fifth month, the year 20XX and I had inventation from my office," Qingling asked her mother.

"My silly daughter. Today is indeed Saturday, the fifth month, the year 20XX. You told me last night that tonight you will be attending an event at the hotel L," his mother said while patting Qingling's hand which hugged her waist gently.

After hearing her mother's answer, Qingling felt relieved and happy. Apparently, she got an opportunity to improve everything. She got a miracle to repair all. She want to jump because of his happinest but endure it. She didn't want make her mother confuse because of his act.

"Mother, I beg you to stay with me tonight," Qingling pleaded.

"I want to stay longer with you here. However, I'm sorry for your father and Minky, our dog. They both will starve if I am isn't there. I must back to our town this day, "

"Mother, I want to live with father and mother again," Qingling spoke earnestly.

"You, yourself say that you want to be independent. If you want to stay with your father and your mother, then you have to go back to our city, " Lijuan said to her.

"I know. I'm thinking to resigned form my job, Mother. Then I go back to our town," Qingling said in a slightly trembling voice.

"If you intend like that, I will talk to your father. He will be happy. He once told me that his friend's needed a computer teacher to teach computer in his course. You can teach there for a while," Lujian spoke enthusiastically.

"Yes, Mother," Qingling answered her mother and smiled. She really hated the Capital Company M and wanted to resigned from there since Yanmei died. According to her, the company is an immoral company because it covers Zhihuan's crime.

After saving Yanmei tonight, she will give her resignation. She'd better work in a small company with a small salary. She doesn't want to be involved with the M Capital Company again for the rest of her life.