Chapter 63 - 63. Sick...

DISCLAIMER: A particular character's views are shown...Proceed with care.

At night, the same day...

He came to her room just a moment before midnight.

His reason was he wanted to be the first and last person to wish her, he was the first and now he also was the last.

He passed her a small pendant and a hairclip, these trinkets were her birthday gift.

They looked really beautiful, as if, in a pair.

Both were heart-shaped, with small red diamonds-like sparkling stones outlining the shape. He said, he made it on his own, that is, both the placing of the diamonds and the wiring, it really looked like the work of a professional ba!! Even Meilin was shocked for a whole second at his skill level!!

Was it the example of a Leopard never being able to change his spots? Was he black-bellied, or maybe a genius at giving the best to his Meilin?

Meilin felt like crying for the first time in quite a long while, she was just too happy.

She gave him a huge bear hug and said with a shaky voice, "I'll treasure them forever...Thank you...thank you for being with me...thank you for everything and coming to me...thank you, Xuanxuan!!

There is this single person in this world who is destined to be your better half, someone who completes you.....less than 0.5% get the chance to meet them.

Keep it in mind, once that person comes into your life, you'll know that you want to spend your life with them....Don't falter and just go for it. It's far better to regret it later than regretting your indecisiveness for your whole life....Time won't turn back...you might not get a second chance.

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6 months down the year, it was mid-spring when Xuan's birthday came.

Nothing dramatic happened except that, after her year worth of practice, she finally served him a full course dinner made by herself and only for him!!

The cake she made was a white beauty....a 5-pound white forest cake.

Xuanxuan loved the color and the simple flavor of vanilla and white chocolate.

The cake was aesthetically enchanting and was designed meticulously with three strawberries dipped in chocolate ganache and lined with white chocolate on top of the white expanse, creating a stunning contrast and exquisiteness, plus it tasted heavenly...

She finally mastered her culinary skills at the age of 9.

It might seem absurd but many children from a diner family or children who are left alone to fend for themselves by parents who went to the upper districts for employment or children going through other such cases, master their skills way before they turn 7!

Meilin was taller than girls her age so, it was easier for her to handle her equipments well, her grip was strong, she was always careful and was smart but then again, she always had Aunt Wang to overlook her progress and safety as she cooked.

Anyway, not just the cake, but the celebratory dishes smelled divine and were mouth-watering.

As if scared of someone stealing his food, Xuan stuffed himself to the very brim, not leaving even a grain for others.

Though the family members wanted to taste her first dishes, with Xuan's ongoing jealousy streak, it seemed impossible so, with a heavy heart, they let the birthday boy be.

To Xuan, it was his best birthday to date too, ba!!

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Their following days passed seemingly peacefully.

On days, Feng Jiajie who had just entered college a year ago, would come to visit them and play with them, he also bossed around them making them call him 'uncle' for no good reason, but it was hard for him too.

When facing these stone-faced children, who didn't act childish, it was like he saw a part of himself on them, it was of him when he was young.

Feng Jiajie's father was the Personal Assistant of Qin Mo, and as far as he could remember, his father has always been out of business and it didn't spend much time with him...as he grew up, he naturally wasn't close but as a child he still felt sad and unfortunate, but as he grew up and knew the man called Qin Mo, he became proud of his father who was his right-hand man.

Anyway, he knew what a life felt like without parents with you so, he wanted to become at least someone, who these kids will look for when in need and not just keep everything inside their heart, their grudges, their hopes, their emotions...at least he wanted to become someone who will support the next generation Qin.

He wanted them to act their age but on a basic level, he loved teasing them too, particularly Meilin.

Though she seemed happy-go-lucky, it wasn't news that she was a very strict person.

She might go with your joke but once you cross the line she won't remain civil, she will just look at you with cold-eyes and make you feel your existence equals to dirt in front of her!

The first day he asked her to call him 'Uncle' when she in her childish voice called him 'Da-ge', she looked at him with strange eyes, but as if, she could read his soul, his reason for doing it, her face morphed into a cold countenance and she had called him 'Uncle'....well, after that, it seems she came to peace with it and nowadays, the little lady called him uncle with a tinge of respect too.

Anyway, except the days he came to disturb them, the days went without any major things happening.

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These seemingly normal days went on for another three months.

It was the Rainy season, it was June...the weather changed like a woman's heart...sometimes sunny beyond reason and the next moment, it would rain cats and dogs.

Due to sudden change in temperature and season, Xuan caught a cold.

He has been tortured by high-tech equipment to supplement himself from a young age, he was kept under the watch of those in white coats as long as he could remember, one this he got from all this, he hated hospitals and the people in it, it may be the doctors, it was psychological rejection in his part, or it may be the patients....he didn't want to feel weak, he didn't want to go through that despair.

He vehemently rejected medicines, even Chinese medicine was rejected because of the smell.

He didn't allow anyone to come close, he really acted like a wounded beast, who with his last ounce of sanity and perseverance, was protecting itself.

Even those hard to please CEOs in the melodramatic Chinese web novels have exceptions and it was only our lovely Xuan ba....Meilin was allowed to come close but only up to a certain distance, he didn't want her to catch his cold, but it was an irony that he would only touch a thing, say medicines, iff Meilin was in his line of scope and vision.

The day he caught his fever, Meilin felt very uneasy.

It was the type of unease, where you have an inkling that the world might actually be coming to an end.

Well, the whole day she sat with him, talking to him, tending to him....it was really a very beautiful sight to see, these kids were off the charts in visuals and with both of them together in a serene environment, it added extra charm and halo to the picture.

He looked pale but because of that, he was like a frail beauty and Meilin who was tending to him with her sleek hairs tied in a pony, appearing very handsome looked like his knight.

But that very day, something changed...which will change the type of their relationship for a long time from now...