Falling Dreams, Rising Hopes: Saving Mr. Boyfriend

"How is your stay here Qiqi? Are you enjoying the classes?" Mei Qingyang visited her friend whom she had not been able to entertain properly all these days. Wei Qiqi was put up in the same hostel building as her, albeit she was given quite a normal room. Qingyang was afraid that they would treat her friend like her but it worked out fine. And thus, so she had finally decided to meet her one of the evenings while she wanted to take her mind off of Yu Tian and his request to talk to her through her secret code.

This was the worst timing for those top management guys to bring her here. She was a busy person ah! How could she be with her friend and solve Yu Tian's issues at the same time?

She reflected over the coming days and realized she had too much on her plate. If she did not delegate stuff to other people, her head would explode some day. What was she supposed to do, seriously?

"Hmm… it feels like you have certainly abandoned me. I have not been called by anyone up there, so I guess their focus is not me as of now. Other than that, Xu Yang has been showing me around," Wei Qiqi shrugged her shoulders. She needed some orientation to the place for sure, and also needed to know where she could step in and where not. Xu Yang has been quite helpful over the past few days.

"Xu Yang? That day it felt like you did not really like him, but now look at you, roaming around with him…," Mei Qingyang teased her friend a bit, she had a smirk on her face.

"Hey, stop it, if you say out loud, people will misunderstand," Wei Qiqi covered Mei Qingyang's mouth with her hands. Why did it always become a romantic thing between a male and a female? Could they not be just good friends?

Mei Qingyang giggled, "I am just kidding. It is up to you guys anyway. If you want me to play the matchmaker, I can certainly do."

"Jeez, you will leave no opportunity eh? I won't get interested in him unless he himself shows interest in me. I have had enough heartbreaks to go through one again. So, I am telling you in advance, don't expect anything." Wei Qiqi had always felt used by the guys, and they did not particularly liked her because of her athletic body. She did not have any body image issues of her own per se, but guys… Well, everyone had their own preference and she was happily single.

"Oh well. I won't meddle. You guys take your time. Also, he is a truly great guy, it's hard to find such principled people," Mei Qingyang was trying to sell her one friend to another.

"Okay, okay. Are you done? Let's get to the topic," Wei Qiqi interjected.

"Oh yes, what did you get?"

"I don't know why your agent contacted me rather than you directly. But since he took your name and you work in mysterious ways, I accepted whatever was handed to me. Here, I got it for you," Wei Qiqi took out a thick envelope of doc.u.ments and handed over it to her.

"You were not curious? You did not open it even," Mei Qingyang was surprised. No wonder her agent did not come directly, this was too much information. It would have taken more than an hour for him just to summarize this, but she wanted details. The time was a risk, she could not take. It was a great move, she praised her agent for his quick thinking.

"What if it was a bomb or similar exploding information? I didn't want to put myself at risk doing so," Wei Qiqi smiled awkwardly. At least she could be honest with this girl without offending her.

"Bravo! You know me very well by now Qiqi. You are the best," she lightly pecked her friend's cheek, for she was very happy that she had such sensible people around her.

"Hey," Wei Qiqi protested cutely. She was not used to having such intimate friends. This was totally out of her expectations, but her heart did end up melted.

"So, what is it about?" Wei Qiqi still could not resist asking to the girl who had eagerly opened the envelope right then and there. A frown appeared on her face when she glanced over the doc.u.ments.

"Hmm… Not sure if I should really tell you. But you are a person who has access to outer world more than me. There is bunch of information here, the topics I have been coming across again and again. But again, although you are already involved in my problems, I do not want to get into trouble further." Mei Qingyang bundled them and put the pages back in the cover.

"Ah damn, I wanted to know what it was all about. It's okay though, I trust your judgement," Wei Qiqi's eyes were still fixed on the brown cover which Mei Qingyang had put on the table.

Mei Qingyang chuckled again, "I think I shall take it with me, otherwise you will die of curiosity."

"You definitely ought to take it out of my sight. Keep it somewhere else, and we can still talk some… Oh, Xu Yang is calling me," she showed the screen of the phone to Mei Qingyang, which was buzzing with one of the latest songs out there. Mei Qingyang raised her eyebrow as Wei Qiqi picked up the phone hurriedly.

"Hey, yeah, I do remember. We can do dinner tonight, I will also bring Qing Qing with me. It's been a while…"

"Yes, okay, see you later then," Wei Qiqi cut the call.

"Heh? Dinner? You go enjoy it with him. I want to look at these doc.u.ments while also not disturbing you two. Plus, it will be good if I am seen less with you. I don't want anyone to be thinking you are my spy or something. Let me go, you get ready," Mei Qingyang slowly got up from her seat and hid the doc.u.ments under her tee. Then she completely hid the bulging packet from beneath her t-shirt with an overcoat. She hit the place of packet twice to further thin it out.

"I would have liked you to say but I guess you would want to look at them immediately. I won't keep you then. Since we are in the same classes, let's just meet there tomorrow," Wei Qiq also stood up to see her friend off.

"Thanks so much Qiqi, you are so understanding," with this, Mei Qingyang left and went back to her room. She wanted to open the packet in her shirt there itself but she did not want to take the risk. She headed out to library to go to the friends' secret place.

"Qing Qing, it's been a while," the old librarian perked up as soon as he saw the girl. It really had been a while since he had seen her. First she was holed up in Yu Tian's apartment, then she went on vacation. Old man had been feeling quite lonely.

"Old man, I am so sorry. I have been caught up in bunch of things. I have too many updates for you I wish I could talk right now, but I still have a pressing matter to attend to," Mei Qingyang wanted to hurriedly go off.

"But I have a message from your father," he yelled at the figure which was retreating fast.

She halted her footsteps. Her dad contacted the old man and not Su Lang to give her the message? Then it meant he either would be telling her off on becoming Yu Tian's servant or perhaps ask her to meet him.

"What is it?"

��He said he knew how your status has changed in the school. He said he was very disappointed with you and that he is taking matters in his own hands. You won't be contacting him from now on and that he is breaking this point of communication," the old man narrated her the full message.

"Is that so?" Mei Qingyang was quite calm. She had known this day would come. Her dad was not very happy with how she was doing things. Now it had come to this. This was their only communication channel and he was breaking that too. It meant, he was practically severing ties with her for the time being.

Did her mother know? She guessed that her foster mom had no idea what was brewing. But Mei Qingyang had a bad premonition about her dad acting this way. He was acting crazy last time too, when she had phone conversation with her. Had he finally lost it? Also, what did it mean matters in his own hands?

He was frustrated on his son's death. Did it mean he was targeting Yu Tian then? Was he in danger? Yu Rong had targeted her too, for taking out her frustration. But that was because she had become horn in her path.

Yu Tian had nothing to do with Jiang Bo's death, yet common sense dictates he should be the first person to be exacted revenge upon, just to make Yu Rong and Yu Ming understand what loss of a beloved child meant. But her dad did not even know the dynamics of Yu family. Yu Tian was already a victim, he could not be targeted any further. Leaving the doc.u.ments aside, Mei Qingyang started working with old man to help Yu Tian understand her secret code, so that she could talk to hi frequently and urgently.