That night

"Dear customer, the number you have called isn't available"

Ring ring ring, the phone kept ringing but nobody picked up.

"Dear customer, the number you have called isn't available"

It was the seventh time she called, wasn't seven supposed to be a lucky number ?

The tears started to well up in Qing Jiayi's peach blossom eyes, like a dam that could break at any minute.

Coming home, never felt so cold as today, Qing Jiayi knew her parents wouldn't pick her up from the airport. Never mind the fact that they haven't visited her once when she abroad for the last 3 years or even called or wrote a letter.

But she kept calling anyways, the Qing family wasn't never the warmest place to begin with but she truly believed that her parents had affection for her.

Even if was it misplaced expectations they had for her and wrote it done as love , she would be satisfied with that but it seems just like Mo Fang, her parents abandoned her.

Who would even remember as the beautiful daughter of the first family of the Qing family.

She wondered how black Mo Fang has painted her, to the point of no return.

They would only know of Qing Jiayi as a cold and tainted woman with no bottom line that even death has no meaning to her.

Will she forever be the villainess that became between a true love couple.

As Qing Jiayi was waiting (or wallowing in her dark thoughts) , a beautiful woman with luscious black curls with a lively smile came running to her before she even got to react to the wonderful sight before her, she was embraced with the warmth she missed the past few months.

"Ya, Qing Jiayi why didn't you call me to pick you up" Li Bao couldn't help but scold her best friend since they were desk mates in elementary school.

"Xiao Bao, last time we spoke you were completely in bridezilla mode, it would better if I didn't let you pick me up so you could focus on your wedding, I can't bother you for everything" Qing Jiayi couldn't help but laugh in her best friend hug.

Li Bao looked her dearest friend in the eyes "You could bother me a", she said it with so much conviction in her eyes like she was desperate for Qing Jiayi to not only understand but also to truly believe it but she quickly switched subject

"You lost weight, how did you plan to snag a handsome foreigner if you look like a chopstick" Li Bao started berate her and drag her to luggage claim Qing Jiayi felt like she was truly home as she heard all the nagging

"Still can't believe that I had to hear from Quan Rong … Quan Rong that you were coming back today" Li Bao said with an annoyed voice "Where is he anyways, weren't you together in Paris " he is always doing what he wants how come he hasn't the grown up in the last 25 years"

"He will be coming back soon or as soon as his new vacation romance fizzles out"

"A new one? Wasn't he dating Elliot, the French movie director ?"

Qing Jiayi couldn't help but chuckle at the thought of Quan Rong, the last of their little trio he was just like their clingly little brother, they wouldn't give up for anything in this world without him JIABAORONG wouldn't exist

"Elliot ?? oh they broke up months ago, his current boyfriend's name is Lucas, he is a painter but this one might actually be a keeper"

"Oh, I would love for him to keep a boyfriend longer than 3 months" Li Bao laughed as just thought of the picture of Quan Rong even settling down for a moment "And I would for you to even to go on one (1) date" she told Qing Jiayi as they took her luggage

"You haven't even talked to a man in a romantic since that night"

Qing Jiayi wanted to retaliate but before she could open her mouth Li Bao was already pushing her into the car and was busy giving the location of the Li Family residence

She kept thinking of that night

That night never left her, the night she lost everything.

She was the elegant third miss of the Qing family and she lost everything because of a man.

A man she loved, a man she was willing to sacrifice everything for.

Her pride and composure were easily abandoned for him.

She truly lost everything, no it is better to say he took everything from her.

Her status, her honor, her dignity, her pride, her position ... he took it all.

He bled her dry, used her until she was useless and threw her away.

Qing Jiayi felt like an utter failure, fool, and an idiot.

Mo Fang took all her efforts into their company and used it to spoil that woman, who could easily obtain his love because of a single smile. He abandoned her, their childhood friendship and engagement.

He made her go mad, giving her hope and taking it away step by step. Making her believe it was all in her head, that his affair was all her fault.

No matter she couldn't forget that night, Mo Fang made sure she would always remember.

Qing Jiayi couldn't believe her eyes when she saw the scene before her

Her fiancé brought a woman with him to her grandfather's 70th birthday banquet but not any woman.

It was the woman he was rumored to have an affair with … to be more exact the woman she knew he was having an affair with.

Everybody was looking at her with amusement and laughter in their eyes, waiting for her to make a scene because anybody could see how much Mo Fang was doting that pure looking beauty.

She couldn't help overhear everything they were saying, "We all knew he was with her, what was her name again … ah yes Yi Hua but to think to bring to the Qing family event"

"He truly doesn't have miss Qing in his heart but let's be honest other than her face she isn't much to begin with or even respects her family"

"And that Ji Hua is such a pure looking girl, she is so much better than the seductive looks that Qing Jiayi has, you wouldn't know when you were made to wear a green hat."

"She always acts like she is better and above than everyone else"

"She is always so cold and dull, no wonder he started to look for warmth somewhere else" the conversations around were never ending

The silent laughter in their eyes was deafening to her

"Mo Fang, what is the meaning of this" Qing Jiayi's voice was shaking, her teary eyes looked at him like he was the decider of her faith.

"Exactly what it looks like" he said without even acknowledging her existence like she was just a bug in his way.