Aromatic Flesh

Xiao JingLin and AnYuan LiMei agreed to meet at a scenic spot near the reservoir on the outskirts of the city. This was the exact spot where they used to have picnic and barbecue sessions together during their relationship. It was a place that held good memories of the relationship that lost its bright colours and quickly dimmed in a short period of time.

Sitting in the gazebo by the reservoir, AnYuan LiMei stared quietly at the green mountains and the flowing water in front of her. The vast surface of the water shone with clean blue waves, while the rolling hills in the distance were verdant. The scenery was so very beautiful and elegant.

The woman was in a yellow sleeveless knee-length dress with wide shoulder straps, a light blue long-sleeved jacket, a straw sun hat with large brims decorated with similar coloured ribbons as the dress and a pair of white wedge sandals. She looked like a beautiful and cheeky girl straight out of a cartoon.

Upon hearing the sounds of footsteps, AnYuan LiMei turned her head around and smiled brightly at the man who was approaching her slowly. The mountain wind stirred up her dyed flax-coloured hair, causing it to dance lightly around her face while the sun coated the side of her face with a layer of warmth. Her beauty was like Spring, where the wind and sun were warm and gentle.

“You’ve finally arrived.”

At the sound of her clear and soft voice, the man stopped and settled at a position about two meters away from her with an obvious expression of guilt on his face. Both his hands were stuffed into the pockets of his suit pants as he looked straight into the eyes of the ex-girlfriend in front of him. “I’m sorry, Xiao You, but I don’t think we are compatible and it’s better to end things now.” He said firmly.

Upon hearing the man’s cruel words, AnYuan LiMei felt a stroke of pain within her heart.

For an entire month, she had felt helpless and conflicted between her two choices while blaming herself thoroughly for falling in love with the son of the enemy. It was either betrayal of her late family members and the trust of the organization, or reciprocating the feelings for the man who loved her so.

After thinking long and hard – for a whole month, she finally came to a painful conclusion as she accepted the fact that she had truly fallen in love with the man, and could not bear to hurt him. She had wracked her brains on the situation and finally decided to stop her path of revenge, just to find a way for the two of them to be together…

Only to have him here, informing her of the breakup..?

So, what they have told her turned out to be true, after all? In just one month, the man she loved had turned his interest to another woman.

At this moment, AnYuan LiMei felt as if she was a clown, and that all of her entanglements, conflicts and pain were nothing but a joke in the eyes of others. The end of her undying love was so cruelly declared even before it began.

She knew, from the start, that this man was definitely not someone she should ever fall in love with, but it happened so suddenly, and before she knew it, she had already fallen too deep and was doomed to endure the sufferings of the heartbreak.

AnYuan LiMei fixated her stare on the man in front of her, as if wanting to imprint his vivid appearance on her heart. She had miscalculated how important she was to Xiao JingLin, and had taken a few wrong steps in treating the relationship at the start, and coupled with the unauthorized actions carried out by the top management of the organization without her consent, AnYuan LiMei finally realize that the distance between them was too far apart, as if they were already separated by thousands of rivers and mountains.

Love was a gamble and she had lost miserably…

AnYuan LiMei stood up from the bench with her back facing the man behind her, so that no one could see the expression on her face, and asked in a calm tone, “You came here from the city so early in the morning, just to tell me this?”

Xiao JingLin lowered his head and answered in a low voice, “I’m sorry, it’s my fault entirely. You deserve a better and worthier man.”

“That is a subjective judgement, and I don’t need you to make this decision for me.” AnYuan LiMei snapped, interrupting the man and causing the scene to fall into a deathly silence. After a few seconds, she asked again softly, “Was it Zuo XiaoNan?”

This time, it was Xiao JingLin’s turn to be shocked. When he was dating AnYuan LiMei, Zuo XiaoNan – who was still his personal bodyguard, was recovering from a serious injury and he had never mentioned anything about his bodyguards to her as he had intentions to hide his identity to prevent scaring her, who was his current girlfriend back then.

So how could she have known anything of his capable bodyguard?

“Xiao You, how do you know her name?” Xiao JingLin felt faint as a bad feeling crawled within his heart, as if something unexpected might be developing in a direction beyond his control, while the beautiful scenery around him began to turn dark and turbulent as their conversation continued.

Enjoy~