"There is a lake?" Shi Lian exclaims. Is the forest enchanted?

Glittering waves come and go, making the brown ground shine. Shi Lian is in awe of the scenery in front of her. With the twinkling stars along with moo shining brightly at the sky, the waves look to shine as well. It all looks magical.

"There's more" Zichen whisper in her ear and without her noticing, he takes a small remote and presses the green button. Within seconds, something lit up on the ground.

Shi Lian's eyes go wide seeing the creation of Zichen's. "What's this?" she whispers, her hand reaching in the air to read what's written.

YOUR TOUCH, YOUR SMILE,

YOUR PRESENCE AND SOUL,

MESMERIZE AND ENTANGLES ME COMPLETELY.

IF I HAD BUT ONE AMBITION, ONE UTTER GOAL,

IT WOULD BE TO STAY BY YOUR SIDE FOR ETERNITY.

Shi Lian's chin trembles reading the lines. The handcrafted piece of wood had Zichen's handwriting. Even the wood is decorated beautifully with small lights by its corners and the carving is covered by pearls.

She is not yet over the heart-touching poem when Zichen taps her shoulder and tells her to look up.

She tilts her head up and after two three seconds, fireworks erupt in the dark sky. It isn't a normal firework show. There's actually something written.

"Forgive me" Shi Lian spells out when the word glitters in the night sky.

Tears pool in the corner of her eyes and her lips quiver because it is too heart-touching for her. She has never received such kind of warmth from anyone in her life. Her heart is drumming so hard that her chest hurts.

Tears start rolling down her cheeks and when Zichen notices that he panics. "Shi Lian, did that upset you? I am sorry if it did."

He gently wipes the tears apologizing continuously. "Shi Lian, baby, say something" he begs.

"You are giving me a heart attack. Shi—"

Shi Lian plants a kiss on his lips cutting him midsentence. Zichen for a split second is surprised but his eyes melt and he kisses her back. He holds her by her waist and pulls her closer, deepening the kiss.

The anger she felt earlier is now gone. All she wants to do is to kiss him all night. He never fails to make her heart thump. He is the only one who can make her heart shatter snd heart thump all at once. He is the only one for her. He is hers.

"Does that means you like it?" Zichen asks, his voice husky. He is still holding her by her waist.

She smiles, leaning a little closer to touch the tip of his nose by hers. "I love it."

"How did you think of this?" she asks, tilting her head to look at the poem again.

"You wouldn't forgive me this easily so I had to come up with something that will blow your mind."

She giggles and rests her head on his chest. She can hear his heartbeat and she loves how peaceful she feels right now. "Do you forgive me now?" he asks.

"Yes" she answers, closing her eyes and with a smile on her face, she rests her head on his chest. With the cold wind blowing, it makes her want to curl up in a bed with him. "I like you so much, you know that right?" she whispers, her eyes still closed.

He breathes out air. "I don't. Tell me every day and I'll know" he teases. Shi Lian chuckles as well and they stay there for a while.

**

Evelyn's house,

"I said I can't! Why can't you understand?" Evelyn shouts at her mother. For the past month, her mother is forcing her to make her stay here and work at the company. Evelyn is against that. She has no interest in handling a bigass company and she had told that to her several times yet her mother is determined to make her stay.

"What's even there at America? What we're you going to do there?" her mother yells, narrowing her eyes at her.

Evelyn grinds her teeth. Her mother never acknowledges what she does. She, in fact, never voluntarily went up to her daughter and have a normal talk. Since Evelyn's birth, she has been managing the company and there wasn't a time Evelyn went to have fun with her mother. It was her father who took her.

"I have freedom there. And I already got a job-ready in which I am interested" she snaps.

"Why would you go this far? You are getting everything here." Her mother worries that Evelyn will not be able to handle herself there. Even if she is a big girl now, responsibility is something she never took and that's what she wants to teach her here.

Her health is also not in a good state. She had always imagined seeing her daughter on the chair of CEO of her company one day.

"I don't have freedom here! I feel suffocated with your commands and rules! All I want is to live my life with no restrictions" she expresses.

Her mother gapes. She never thought her daughter will think like this. She feels hurt by her words because Evelyn is her lifeline, her only daughter. She loves her to eternal. She knows she doesn't spend much time with her daughter and she does feel guilty about that but she also is in a tough situation too.

Her heart feels choked and a jolt of pain rushes inside her chest. "Eve... Evelyn...." she tries to say but fails and suddenly falls to the ground.

Evelyn shocked goes to her and holds her. She panics seeing her in this state and she assumes if it is because of her venomous words. "Mom... Mom, what happened? Mom... Open your eyes!" she tries to wake her up but her mother's eyes are closed.

"Fuck.. Fuck! Fuck!" she gets up and hastily calls the ambulance.

"To the East district. Leng house. Please comes fast it's an emergency" she tells and hanging the call she goes to her mother again.

"Mom...please open your eyes, please. I am sorry if I hurt this bad...I'll behave..... Please get up" she begs, tears starting to roll down from her eyes.

All the housekeepers come as well. They too are worried snd tries to calm Evelyn. "Miss, the ambulance will be here in a minute. Nothing happened to her, Miss calm yourself" one of the maids says.

The ambulance arrives five minutes later and they quickly take her mother to the van. Evelyn sits inside the van holding her mother's hand. The nurse puts the oxygen mask and other things on her. After that, the ambulance starts moving and will reach the hospital in less than twenty minutes.

"Mom...hold on...please," she begs, crying her eyes out. Evelyn has never faced this kind of situation and she never wishes to face it ever.