Love Began with the First Meeting

When they arrived at the villa, Ximena went straight to the bedroom on the second floor. Everything here was at its previous place, the same as preserved in her memory. Though it was warm spring now and the flowers were blooming, the gloomy atmosphere overwhelming every corner of the villa had not changed. She walked to the window, opened it and look outside. The cloudy sky looked so depressing in her eyes and added glumly to her gloomy mood. She began missing the manor, a place where Aaron had addressed as "home". At that moment, she had been there at the manor with Aaron's arms around her keeping her warm and comfy. Roaming her eyes at the luscious garden, she missed the warm and sweet atmosphere as well as the fragrance of roses at the manor. Then on her mind, she realized that sometimes people were too despicable to appreciate what was good. When they had a little, they would always want more. It was not until in the end that they would realize they had demanded excessively. However, by then the very little they had once would have disappeared. They would regret demanding more and think that it was okay to have that very little.

Curling her body on the beanbag in the bedroom, Ximena held herself tightly with her arms and tried to get some sleep. Even in her sleep, she frowned tightly and her shoulders were trembling slightly. Despite her innocent face and gentle features, she looked rather pitiful like a child that was abandoned and left homeless in the streets.

It was not until midnight that she woke up. The quietness of the empty room told her that there was nobody except her in the villa. The thought that Aaron didn't come back to the villa made her feel even lonelier.

Pulling herself up from the beanbag, she stood by the open window, her hair was blown by the night wind. The chill brought by the wind made her a little sober, and the pitch dark night made her soul feel empty.

Why did she have to be so tired of being alone? Thinking things over and over for the whole day, she felt exhausted, as if all her vital force had been used up. At this time, a silly thought crept through her mind, she wondered whether everything would come to an end and she would no longer feel the pain if she jumped out of the window.

Drained and stressed out, she was really tired of living alone, fighting alone, and struggling alone. She was now on the edge of a cliff. An unprecedented feeling, a feeling of emptiness, hopelessness and worst was the feeling of having no one to call on to. Such bizarre feelings attacked Ximena. She had always been alone in her life before she had met the brothers of the Leng Family. It was not until now that she realized when she had someone to depend on, it would be impossible for her to bear loneliness any longer. By the twist of fate, she had met the two brothers of the Leng Family in succession. James at least had left her something that prevented her from feeling lonely. But what about Aaron?

As James came to her mind, Ximena searched for the jade seal, which James had given her, in her pocket with her hand. She searched subconsciously. However, she found nothing in her pocket. She was shocked all of a sudden. Turning around, she tried to search for the jade seal in her bag, but it wasn't there either. Then she checked every bag she had brought back from the hospital. She poured everything out of the bags onto the floor and checked them one by one. In the end, she found that the jade seal wasn't among them. It was missing.

In an instant, Ximena's face turned deathly pale and her legs became weak. Kneeling on the floor and looking at the clothes and all kinds of stuff that were in a mess all over the floor in front of her, she was unwilling to give up. Instead, she rummaged once again more carefully. But alas, to her frustration, still she didn't find the jade seal.

'Did I leave it in the hospital? No, I saw it after I left. Did I leave it in the car?' she thought. She tried to recall every moment after she had left the hospital.

At the same time, she managed to find her cellphone among the messy stuff on the floor. In a hurry, she made a call to Ken. As soon as the phone was picked up, she said, "Ken, I have left something in the car. Please help me search for it..." Hearing that, Ken took a slight frown. "What's it?" he asked.

"My jade seal is missing. Would you please help me check if I left it in the car?" catching her breath, Ximena asked. After thinking for a while, she added, "Please don't let him know."

Of course, Ken knew who Ximena was referring to. He answered, "Okay." While responding to Ximena, he looked at Aaron, who was now sitting at the desk in his office. In the light of a table lamp, he looked lonely. He was playing something in his hands, he sat there silently, somewhat absent-minded.

"Thank you," Ximena said, finishing the conversation. Then she hung up the phone, she prayed that she had just left the jade seal in the car and that Ken would find it for her. However, to her disappointment, soon Ken called to give her a negative answer. As soon as he told her that the jade seal wasn't in the car now, she felt something heavy in her heart.

It was as if the last straw for her to grab in order to save her life was missing, that would mean she would fall into boundless darkness very soon. Ximena sat on the floor, and her legs bent, between which was her head, and her arms held her legs tightly. What should she do?

She tightened her grip on the cellphone, which was in one of her hand. She was enveloped by the endless quietness and darkness. She looked especially lonely and pitiful in the dim light. In her desperation to find for the seal, her finger touched the screen of the cellphone by accident. She raised her head slowly. The arrogance which had been always in her eyes was absent now as if she had transformed to the vulnerable child she had been once, a humble person who had hidden amidst the dirty alleys alone until he had appeared victorious in her life.

As the man's figure came to her mind, she slid the screen and dialed a number unconsciously. She had never saved his number, neither had she tried to remember it on purpose. But she had imprinted it in her brain by accident after seeing it once by chance. 000000