chapter 17

"Yibo, get up....you'll be late for work." Zhan called, he was still in yibos house.

Yibo heard the knocking on the door and got up lazily then opened it.

"Oh, Zhange, you're still here?" Yibo asked while rubbing his eyes cutely, Zhan gulped a big lump of air and his heart increase by an octave.

Yibo looked just so adorable right now and did he just call him Zhange?

"I'll go take a shower" Yibo announced and left to the bathroom leaving an awestruck Zhan at the door.

Zhan went to the kitchen and prepared breakfast for Yibo and himself, today he was not going to the hospital since he didn't have a case.

When Yibo came from the shower, he gave Zhan a new toothbrush and towel and Zhan showered as well, Zhan couldn't help but wonder why Yibo had become so good to him overnight.

"Aren't you going to work?" Zhan asked Yibo who was now dressed in comfortable clothes instead of his normal suit.

"No, I don't have a case today and you know that I only work part time."

"Are you going to hotel?" Zhan asked.

"No...not till evening."

"Can we talk?"

"What do you want to talk about?"

"Us, I want to talk about us"

Yibo nodded, Lily had earlier advised him to listen to Zhan and he planned to take the advice, maybe he could finally get the closure that he very much needed.

They ate the rest of the breakfast in silence.

When they finished, they both moved to the sitting room and each sat separately, no sitting on laps now.

"Yibo, it was your mum, she begged me, she asked me to give you 5 years.

She said that you were still a child and after all, you were just 17...

I told her that I couldn't, I can't let you go, that five years was just too long, but she said that I needed to give you time to mature and find your own ways.

When I refused, she came with your father, he had pictures of us kissing that day, us being intimate.

He said if I didn't leave you, he would take me to court, I didn't really mind him.

I talked to my lawyer and he told me that if I were taken to court, my chances would be slim, I wouldn't win the case and would have to go to jail then I couldn't study medicine.

I feared Yibo, that time, I only wanted to make my parents and you proud, I really wanted to be a doctor...."

Zhan said and started weeping.

"Forgive me Yibo, I didn't mean to leave you.... I..."

"I know it was my parents, I even confronted them about it, they promised to leave you alone after I reached 18.

But, why did you never contacted me again, I was already of legal age?"

Yibo said now confused, it is true that he had found out what his parents had done. He got to find it out from Wang Jackson who  even gave him a full video of the conversation between his dad and Zhan, that's why Yibo did not disturb Zhan in the first year.

He had patiently waited to reach 18 so he could tell Zhan that his parents had finally agreed, but that was shuttered as soon as he got there.

"I did wait Yibo, I even called you that day on your birthday but it was your mother that picked up the phone, she said that you had already moved on and that I shouldn't disturb you again...I called your phone many times from then but it never seemed to go through...."

"Oh yeah, my mum had changed my number " Yibo recalled.

"I sent you many emails, but you never replied." Zhan said and took his phone, opened it and showed Yibo his emails, there were hundreds of emails there all sent to Yibos Id."

"But why didn't I see them?"  Yibo asked.

" I don't know but you see, they are sent" Zhan explained now unsure himself.

"Yibo, never did I cheat on you, that girl, she was my friend, I don't know why she said that she was my fiance, please believe me." Zhan tried to explain.

"Zhan, get out....just go home" Yibo said.

"Yibo....baby, please..."

"Go Zhan, I need to think....am I not allowed to."

"Can I come back tomorrow?"

Zhan desperately asked.

"Just leave..." Yibo said and left for his bedroom, he fell down on the floor just beside the door and wept, he couldn't believe that it was his mom who did all that, he expected his dad to do it but not his mom.

After the talk they had, his mum swore never to do that again.

Yibo stood near the window and look outside where he saw Zhan dragging himself to the car then he left.

Yibo cried out in frustration, his mom was the only one he had, why would she withstand to see him suffering like this.

Later in the day, the doorbell rung and before Yibo could answer the door, it was opened from outside.

Yibo right away knew that it was his mother, she's the only one who had his house keys.

Yibo got out of his bedroom and decided to finally face his mum, he didn't want to live in darkness anymore.

"Yibo, son, how are you..." She asked, then she noticed yibos face..." Why is your face so pale, anything the matter?"

She was now holding and caressing yibos cheeks.

"No mum, I am not okay?"

"What is it baby? Anything I can help!"

"Mom, I need answers " Yibo said seriously and his mother got the clue, they sat down in the sitting room.

"All those times in highschool, I came home with scratches, did you notice, don't lie mum."

Yibo looked at his mother for a full minute till she nodded her head yes.

"Why mum, why you never said anything about it? It's because you knew who did it, didn't you?"

His mum nodded her head in embarrassment.

"Yibo, it was your father, he threatened me , you know how powerful he is, I couldn't do anything when Jack bullied you, I could just watch you and pray nothing happened to you." She said

"Mum, you know when I met Zhan, he saved me from death, I was in an accident and if not him, I would have died....." Yibo said but his mum's expressions never changed.

"At least act surprised mum..."

"Actually.....Jackson told me that last year....." She defended.

"You lied to me, you always did, you said you accepted Zhan but you went behind my back and asked him to leave me....you threatened him mum, don't deny it now" Yibo said almost in tears and his mum nodded.

"Forgive me Yibo....I didn't...."she didn't finish.....

"Mum, there's one thing I want to know....that year after my birthday, I told you that I would go see Zhan, the girl, she said she was Zhan's fiance but she really wasn't.....was it your doing?" Yibo asked shaking, he wished that she could deny it then maybe then, he would be able to forgive her.

"Yibo....your dad....he found her and I assisted, but I really didn't mean it Yibo, please forgive me....I really didn't mean it....sorry..." His mum was now crying after dropping yibos biggest fear, his only family had betrayed him.

"Dad....you still love him don't you....that's why you do whatever he asks?" Yibo asked his final question and with her head down, his mum nodded.

"Mum....get out...just go home" he said.

"Yibo....won't you listen to me, I love you.... please don't send me away..."

"No mum, go....just go home, I need space....just...... leave" Yibo said and left for his bedroom, he slumped down there and started crying, why would his mother do this to him?

Yibo realized that his heart felt more broken than the way it broke 5 years back in London, the pain of a mother is incomparable to all other pains and he knew that it would take longer to heal this one.

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I almost slept without updating today as well. I'll make this story just 20 chapters since our short break is almost finished, don't feel bad if the story will feel a little bit rushed.

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