There is a tempting CǍO MÉI ZHǏ BÈI DÀN GĀO (strawberry cupcake) inside it. I am a bit hungry since all day. Then I immediately take one of the cupcakes from the box and start eating it. I can't control it anymore, I said to myself while eating it. I keep on eating it. This cupcake is something different. I haven't eaten this kind of cupcake ever. It tastes different, really very different. I keep on eating it. Then I took another cupcake from it and started eating that too. There are total 6 cupcakes inside this box. I have eaten 2 of them from it. Then I grab the third one and eat that too. There is something unique in this cupcake, that's why I am not able to control eating it. While eating it I think maybe Yang Lulu made these cupcakes by herself or maybe she is going to open some bakery or cake shop, that's why she is busy and didn't come. But whatever it is, I am enjoying eating it. It makes my day best. And I know people used to say that eating sweet will uplift your mood and see it's working. I am feeling like I am on the top of the sky. No worries, no tension, just me, me and me breathing in this fresh air just like a free bird. A free bird without boundaries who can fly wherever it wants. I think I should eat this cupcake regularly, it's lowering my worries of life.
But I didn't realise while eating it that only one cupcake is left in the box. Oooo nooo, I said to myself. I need to keep this for Wang Ruoxi also. I thought there were 6 cupcakes so we'll divide it into 3 and 3. 3 mine and 3 for Wang Ruoxi. But while eating it I didn't realise that I have eaten whole 5 cupcakes alone. Noo noo, I have eaten too much. My tummy is feeling like it's so full and I think the tummy also comes out a little bit after eating it. Ooo noo, it definitely spoils my body. I'll become fat. No no no, I can't handle it, I can't. Then in exactly that moment the bus arrived.
It's almost becoming 7pm in the evening. The whole Shanghai covers with the darkness of the lights. In the cold weather Shanghai looks so beautiful in the night. Christmas is about to come and Shanghai is decorated with lights everywhere, making Shanghai look more attractive and beautiful.
Xu Yuan is in his car, maybe he is on his way home. He is sitting in the back side of the seat of the car. His driver is driving the car and he is talking to someone on his phone saying, "Ok I'll do that advertising shoot tomorrow. Yes, and what are the timings for that hm? Ok ok then I'll be there on time. Bye bye." The call ended.
His car is moving on the road. Then he suddenly hears a voice, a familiar voice comes to his ears, and he immediately pulls down the glass of his car and sees a girl arguing with an uncle. From the back side he didn't able to see who is she, but the voice… the voice sounds so familiar to him. He said to himself that she seems like a school girl fighting with her bàba to buy her favourite snacks. He smiles a little while saying that. His car is coming closer, closer, and more closer to that spot where the girl is standing, and then stops. Xu Yuan said in hurry. He immediately opens the door of his car as fast as lightning speed. He comes out of his car and reaches the girl who is still arguing with that uncle.
"Stop you girl! I'll call police otherwise," that uncle said.
And then I said, "Yes call the police, call it right now! You are looking so old. You need to look young at this age. Look at you, just look at you. Tell me which girl will marry you in future if you look like this so early?"
"Listen girl—" the uncle said in an angry tone, pointing his finger towards me, "—and I am already married, and even I have 2 daughters of your age. But it seems like your parents don't know what their dearest daughter is doing at this hour of night. I must call police."
"Yes I am also saying the same! Call the police! I need to tell them that you look so old at early age and didn't want to look good. I am just giving you a reality check, understand? A reality check," I said. My body loses its balance and I am about to fall.
But then suddenly I feel protected arms around my waist. It feels like the safest place in the world.
But that uncle interrupts that moment and said, "Listen you spoilt girl—"
"Sorry sorry sir, I am so sorry sir," Xu Yuan said while still holding me in his arms.
I recognised his voice. Of course I always recognise his voice even in this state also. And I said, "Xu Yuan why are you here? I need to tell this uncle that he is looking old at his early age. He needs to understand it."
"Zhao Shiza enough now. Don't utter a single word from your mouth," he said in a bossy tone, behaving like he is my father.
The uncle said, "Are you with this girl?" he asked Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan answered him and said, "Yes, she is with me."
Uncle gets more angry and asked another question to him, "Is she your girlfriend?"
He hesitated, takes a long pause, and then looks down to me in his arms. My eyes are closed but I am still murmuring in my closed eyes that he is looking old, he needs to look young, he needs to work on his looks.
Then before Xu Yuan can reply anything the uncle already assumed it and said, "Do you really know that your girlfriend is drunk? She is so much drunk. She was just walking on the road and stopped me and started saying this nonsense to me. From past 3 hours she is arguing with me. If you really have your girlfriend then you need to take the responsibility of her. Look, at this hour of night she is alone doing this nonsense behaviour. Here, take her home otherwise she'll grab another person and will start arguing with that person too." The uncle went from there after saying this.
Then Xu Yuan helps me to stand and supports me so that he can lift me up on his back. But I slightly push him away and said, "No you can't lift me up, I too heavy, your back will get—" and then I start moving forward from there leaving him behind.
But a car came in front of me on the road. He immediately grabs my wrist and pulls me towards him and said, in a very very angry tone of his that I haven't heard yet, "Are you out of your mind you silly childish girl? Can't you see the road is full of traffic and you are just walking here like you are walking in a mushroom garden?"
I started laughing at what he said and repeat it again, "Mushroom garden…" I laugh more harder this time. Then I say to him in my drunk tone, "Xièxiè Xu Yuan but I can go my dorm on my own. I don't need your help. You just go to your home. Look at the weather, it's becoming colder and colder in night. You may catch cold," and patted his shoulder while saying it.
Then he holds my wrist and said, "How do you know that it will get more colder in night? Are you Queen of Shanghai?"
I laugh again and said, "Yes I am."
"You… you are so stubborn. Come with me," he said while holding my wrist.
"No Xu Yuan you go home. It's not good for you to be here at this time. It will affect your health," I said while trying to pull back my wrist from his grip. But no use of anything, his grip is tighter than my strength.
He bends down his face a little and said, "I am not fragile. Are you thinking me that fragile?"
I smiled a little and said, "No you are not fragile I know. But you are precious. Most precious one."
"And what about you?" he asked.
"Me?" I laugh again. "Nothing to worry about me. I am just like this. I'll fall again then I'll stand again on my own. Then again I'll fall and again. This is the way I live."
"This girl is such a… something. I really don't know what's going on in her little mind," he said to himself. And then said to me, "Come with me, I'll drop you to your dorm," and pulls my hand.
But I push it back and said, "Nooo nooo, I'll go on my own. No need to worry. You go home safely. And when you'll reach there text me that you reach safely. Bye bye." I waved my both hands towards him and was going to leave from there.
Then he closed his eyes for a while and said to himself that this silly girl is testing my patience. And he grabs my both shoulders and holds them with his both hands, looks straight into my eyes and said, "Don't you know? Or you just don't wanna know it hm? You are the one here who is fragile, not me. But you… so stubborn, so so stubborn that you keep on insisting me to go home. Have you seen yourself? Do you really think that you are in a state to reach your dorm safely?"
He shouted at me. My eyes filled with tears and they start coming out from my eyes. And I said while crying, "You are yelling at me… you yelled at me…"
"Hey hey you silly girl, I didn't mean to. Really I didn't." Then he hugged me tightly while saying this and said to himself in a voice tone that only he can hear, "What should I do with this girl? What should I do? Why is she making me so helpless with her? Why… why I just didn't leave her here and go to my home? Why is she start affecting me… why?" He asked himself the questions which didn't have any answers. But there is something that he feels but couldn't name it…