"The lady that came by the school the other day, who is she to you?" he asked, taking the opportunity as their faces came close to each other.

"She is my aunt, why do you ask?" since he is being a gentleman, she decided to do the same.

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"Nothing, I just think she is quite attractive, what of the person who came with her, who is he to your aunt?" he narrowed his eyes in anticipation of her answer but she cast him a suspicious glare.

"Why are you so interested in my aunt all of a sudden?"

He smiled to dispel her suspicion, he also couldn't understand why he is being soft with her and not using the hard way when the entire school will make her suffer as long as he is dissatisfied with her.

"I am just curious,"

"If you are talking about the handsome uncle then he might be my aunt's pursuer," she answered.

{Pursuer, interesting...he has time for her but he wouldn't even see me,}

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She finally had the time to return home after having a busy schedule throughout the week with the responsibility of taking care of Han Chen, whether out of guilt or something else.

She was about to enter her apartment when she saw some men with work clothes leaving the apartment opposite hers, she stopped and waited for them to fully leave before walking up to them out of curiosity since she has never seen anyone leave that apartment since she moved in.

"Excuse me,"

The men stopped and turned to her.

"How can we help you?" one of the men questioned with a broad smile at the beautiful woman.

"I just want to ask if someone is living here?" she questioned, pointing at the apartment opposite hers with a quizzical look on her face, they were disappointed thinking she wanted something else that would interest them but it turned out that she just wanted to ask a question.

She noticed the look of disappointment on their faces but she didn't care to ask why.

"Someone would be moving in soon so we came to prepare the place and move the furniture in," the one who seems to be their head answered.

"Moving in..." she repeated to which they nodded in affirmation.

"Thanks," she responded, bowing her head to apologise for stopping them, the men did the same then they left the hallway, she returned to the front of her apartment but she stopped and glanced at the door of the apartment opposite hers.

For a reason she doesn't know, she suddenly feels curious as to who the new occupant is.

She opened her apartment and entered.

She entered her bedroom as soon as she entered then she slumped on the bed with her shoes on and her hands' widespread on the bed, she shut her eyes then inhaled deeply and exhaled strongly. She could feel the soreness all over her body now that she is finally lying on a soft and cosy bed. Ever since he had the accident, she has only returned home a few times to get some necessities.

She has treated many patients and performed many surgeries including the lady who was in a trauma accident and she has had so many people point fingers at her but the ones supporting her gave her the strength to continue working.

But the feeling of loneliness suddenly overwhelmed her, it occurred to her that if she was at her parent's house then her mother would have made her something to eat and her father would feed her and even give her massages sometimes.

Even though her mother always nags her and the twins only ever try to pry into her life, she still misses them, she started wondering how they were doing at school and if the headmistress is still giving them problems.

Many things she forgot during this period suddenly came into her mind, although she managed to keep her parents from finding out about the accident and Han Chen getting injured because of her, she is still concerned that they may find out about it from someone she knows.

"I finally got the chance to return home, I shouldn't spend time thinking about these things," she sprung up from the bed with the intention of taking a nice and warm soak bath.

She has always loved drinking wine, especially red wine while taking a soaking bath so she didn't forget to take that with her, she prepared her scented aromatic bath to relieve her stress then she got into the bath with her phone and the glass of wine on the bathtub tray.

She placed her head on the cushion at the edge of the bathtub then closed her eyes as the felt the warm bath soothe her aching muscles, she dipped her hand into the bath and dragged the soapy foams on her body, her hand caressed her shoulder as she lowered her body into the bath them came up again.

"This is it..." she remarked as the bath did what she wanted.

She placed her head on the cushion and sipped the wine gently before placing the glass on the tray then she picked up her phone to call her mother, she dialled the number.

Hello

"Mom," she called as soon as she heard the weary voice.

Yu Yan...you are finally calling home, I thought you decided to forget your father and me since you have moved.

She sighed, now that she called, she wondered what prompted her to do so.

"Mom, I was really busy so I didn't have time to call, please don't be angry," she pleaded

You have always been busy but never to this extent, is there perhaps something going on that I don't know of?

That nagging but concerned tone she always uses when she is really worried and anxious...she recognised it.

"Everything is fine, you don't have to worry mom, I will come to visit you as soon as I have another day off" she coerced to stop her mother from probing further and to avoid spilling anything that would make her mom take her inquisitiveness to another level.

You don't have to, send me your address right now, I will visit with your dad

"Mom, I..."

Don't you give any excuse, unless you are keeping something from me or living with a man then you had better send me your address.

She saw no point in arguing with her mother since she always wins so she decided to just give in.

"Alright, extend my greeting to dad and tell him I am sorry for not calling for so long," she quickly disconnected the call before her mother could say anything else then she sent the address to her as she requested.

She knew her mother would invade her personal space if she knows where she is living so she lied that she was going to send them her address when she was moving but now....she is not sure she will be able to call her own apartment her personal space anymore.

She placed the phone back on the tray and raised the wine glass to her lips again then sipped gently, she shut her eyes and inhaled deeply.

"You ran towards me and tried to take the bullet for me but thankfully, I pushed you away before you could, you must have injured your head because of the impact on your head when I pushed you,"

The thought invaded her head, she wanted to forget everything he told her and pretend it is just a small part of her life that she has lived without since the accident but everything he said to her keeps replaying in her head.

It bothered her that even though she remembered nothing about their past, she still feels stirred by him, something no one but Chen Kai has ever been able to do and every time she reminisces the kiss....her hands trailed on her lips.

The feeling she felt that night is still clear in her mind, something indescribable that she has never felt...maybe she has in the past but not even with Chen Kai whom she thought she deeply loved to have wasted her years on him.

Ever since Chen Kai's incident, she has always lied to herself that she has forgotten him...no, she doesn't know if she has forgotten him or not but there is someone who makes her feel like she is missing a piece of her and the fact that she doesn't know if it is Chen Kai or Han Chen frustrates her.

One is someone she had a measly teenage relationship with but she doesn't know how she feels about him now and the other is a jerk whom she loved with all her heart but ended up leaving her hurt.

She was worried that she is only using Han Chen as an excuse to fill in the missing piece so she can completely forget about Chen Kai, the fact that Chen Kai wasn't with her when she met Han Chen made her unable to confirm if he is really just a substitute for her.