Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"Qing Qing, come with us, we will have fun together."

This was their first day in the snowy and extra cold resort and Mei Qingyang was especially reluctant to go out. She had been put up with Ma Shuxin on her request.

After Ma Shuxin's outburst in the morning, Mei Qingyang had to be extra careful. How she was going to spend next ten days with her was beyond Qingyang. Anyway, as soon as the room was allocated to them, she scanned the whole room. Having found nothing, she relaxed.

Yu Rong was certainly becoming a bit lenient with her. That meant she had big plans for either her or Yu Tian. Or perhaps she was getting tired of her and waiting for her to finish one year? No, no. That would be her own death and she would not be that big of a fool.

They then looked out of their windows. It was a vast snow land out there, with pine trees lining the area. It was perfect area for skiing and sledging. They could already spot the students playing in the snow. With such a scene, even these 'a.d.u.l.ts' became kids. People were having snowball fights. Fresh snow had just fallen out there, so it was more fun.

People were also building snowman and snow angels, shunning their images. She guessed that these people did not get to 'play' much in their lives. They had to grow up earlier than other kids, to start taking responsibility for their households at as young an age as ten. Then, they had to follow certain rules and etiquette because of their lineage.

Someone, pity filled Qingyang's heart. In a way, these guys were as miserable as their counterparts.

She could hear peals of laughter out there and she also could not help but smile. These things were okay to look at from her room's window, but she needed to be in the warm heater inside. Finally she had ample heat in her room.

"You are not going outside, it looks so much fun?" Ma Shuxin asked her with scrunched up nose.

"No, I want to rest. We are free to do whatever right?" she replied nonchalantly. Ma Shuxin flared her nose unconsciously. Why did her behavior suddenly change? Was she onto something about her?

"That… that is true. Well, I will go outside and see," she made a puppy face to convince her 'friend' to go with her but Mei Qingyang did not budge. So, she left her alone. Ma Shuxin was regretting the fact that she did not associate with other people. Now she would have to wander around alone.

When Mei Qingyang was about to fall asleep, the bell of her room rang. People could not just let her enjoy her peace eh? When she opened the door, she found whole group was there, including Fan Ruyi.

"Qing Qing, come with us, we will have fun together." The peeps were all packed with their snow gears. Mei Qingyang was wrapped in her blanket when she opened the door. Everyone just barged in and made themselves at home. She g.r.o.a.n.e.d for she had just wanted to relax. Su Lang knocked on her head.

"You sleepyhead, get ready. What's the use of coming here?" He dragged her sorry figure going towards the bed and sent her to bathroom to change.

"Do you even see how many big personalities have come especially to escort you? You can't disregard us!" he yelled to the girl who was locked in the bathroom by him to force her to change.

"Fi~ne," she prolonged the word, making sure that everyone heard her reluctance and rolled her eyes inside. But it was good to see all four of them together. She was happy about that at least. For the time being, Feng Yue and Fan Ruyi would just focus on evaluating their positions in the group. But their presence and participation were enough for her to feel relieved for somewhere in her mind, she was not over the guilt of breaking the group apart.

If she had not come here, things would have been normal among them. So then, somewhere she was to blame and she knew it in her heart. If they learn from this experience to deal with their own conflicts, that would be some good result out of the drama.

"She is becoming c.o.c.ky, I tell ya Tian. You are spoiling her too much," Su Lang looked smugly at his friend who was glaring at him for dragging him here. He was going to do the same thing as his kitten, just lie down in the bed.

"It's okay. All my money is to spoil her. Anyway, what is the plan?" he replied with a poker face.

"See? See this guy? Our friend is not recognizable anymore. Forget about him not mincing his words anymore, he has just turned into a wife doting husband. What is this?" Su Lang made a screaming face and pretended to be angry.

Fan Ruyi, who was just standing at the side, being all awkward as usual, could not help but laugh at the antics of the preppy boy. He had always been the clown of the group.

But he was also nailing the teasing in the head. She had certainly changed the most icy person among them. They had not seen this side of his all these years. But this person now was showing them emotions. Now he was claiming for his money to be hers. He had become too dedicated to her suddenly. Would that be a good thing for him, everyone had to see.

"Let's go," Mei Qingyang came out in ten minutes. Might as well be done with it.

"Let's go skiing first," Sul ang was the most excited out of the lot. He took Mei Qingyang's hand, regardless of protesting glares from his best friend and signed the waiver on her behalf too.

"I… I have never done this. Someone needs to teach me," Mei Qingyang saw the cliff and an adrenaline rush went through her whole body. She loved adventure sports but she had not gotten exposure to snow sports at all. But she had seen people getting into accidents as well, so she would have loved to get proper training before she would venture on her own.

"Here, here. Take your guy. He is expert in skiing. He can teach you," Su Lang pushed his friend ahead and then signaled other two to leave them alone. Yu Tian, in his heart, resolved to reward his friend for being the best wingman.

Yu Tian nodded and went on to tell her the techniques. Mei Qingyang was again worried, she had purposely avoided him on the way here but Su Lang was ruining her plans. It was sweet of him to give them alone time but rather than concentrating on her training, she was more busy in looking around for Yu Rong's spies. And she already spotted a few.

He obliged for her and made sure no one was getting the wrong idea. In half an hour, Mei Qingyang was touching the fast winds and howling with happiness. This was something which was missing in her life. People saw her expert moves and they were awed how she was ruling the whole slope.

If Yu Tian did not know her before, he would think she was just a normal kid who was given a favorite toy. But this was the first time he had seen her so happy. He made a mental note of it. When this all is over, if and when, he would bring her here more often.

"Are you tired?" He asked her after doing the same thing again and again for an hour. She was sweating from top to bottom.

She panted some and then shook her head. She could do this all day.

"Want to go back?" They were at the bottom of the slope. They would need to take a snow lift and go back to the top of the hill.

Earlier she had thought he was going to end the session. She was still not an expert so it would be better to have some kind of supervision. Her eyes sparkled when he asked her if she was interested to continue.

She nodded vehemently. Yu Tian smiled, he would have loved to walk hand in hand with her. But he had to restrain back as usual. Why were there so many hurdles in his love story?

Mei Qingyang still had her eyes around, she saw a few more people looking at them. To have so many people pursuing after them, she could not really do anything.

"There is a barbeque later in the evening, a lot of people will be there. But we four have a hidden corner here too. Come with us then," he told her when they were on the lift.

Barbeque? It won't do any good to her because she would not get the vegetables. But she would accompany them if it meant doing this more. She found her thing to do for next ten days.

"You have hidden corners everywhere eh?" she chuckled.

"In our field, we need to. Otherwise we would never have any privacy at all," he replied stoically. They had reached the top. Wang Hao was waiting for them on the top.

"Young Master Yu ," Wang Hao greeted.

"What do you want?"

"Master wants to see you on New Years eve at 9 p.m. in her office here," he said bowing.

The alarm bells went wild in Mei Qingyang's heart. Her happiness did not even last two hours!