Spring lovers: We who are inseperable

Some minutes back,

"Eliana are you sure you want to tell him?" Ethan asked as he listened to Elaina's idea of telling Li Wei 'somethings'. 

Elaina nodded with an expressionless face and then said, "I know what I am doing, Ethan." 

To this, Ethan wanted to confront Elaina, but before he could say anything, he felt a hand on his shoulder, turning around, he saw it was Iris. He raised his eyebrow as a gesture of asking her what is wrong, to this, Iris shook her head, as if telling him to not say anything. He looked towards Alex and Rey who were standing behind Iris. 

Seeing that there was no obstruction from them, Ethan let out a loud and noticeable sigh, and then said, "Fine. I won't say anything. We all will wait outside, call us when you are done," as he started to leave, but his footsteps halted when Elaina said, "Wait! You all remain here. We still need to find Mia. I and Li Wei will go out for a drive. Call me if you find something on Mia."

Saying this Elaina got up and then taking Li Wei's hand, making him stand him, she dragged him with her, outside the office. 

Li Wei remained quiet, but when they reached their car, Li Wei finally asked, "Where are we going?"  Elaina turned around to him and gestured for him to get inside the car. Li Wei raised an eyebrow at this suspicious behavior of his wife but nonetheless got into the car. Soon, their car started and Elaina drove the fastest she could and within twenty minutes, they had reached an isolated area. Although isolated, it was still well maintained. 

Elaina parked the car to the side, and said, 'We are here."

Li Wei nodded, and then getting out of the car, in front of him was a massive mansion. But something was wrong, it didn't look like a mansion, it was more like a deserted mansion, which hasn't been taken care of. It was no surprise to him.

But suddenly as if something clicked to him, he looked around the surroundings and then said, "It's the Wang Mansion" as he looked towards Elaina, who was looking towards the mansion with eyes that had many emotions. Anger, disgust, sadness, loneliness, happiness, and many more. 

Even though Li Wei had never visited the Wang Mansion, he had always heard about the Wang Mansion, the family that was led to domnation by its own heir, this is what people We called the owner of the family as. 

"Yes, it is. The Wang Mansion. The place where I grew up, the place that I love, and the place that I also hate," Elaina said as she walked towards the mansion gate. The mansion gate was opened, but it was worn out. It seemed as if it would break if one were to apply the slightest force on it. As they entered the premises, the shedding leaves of the old trees came into their steps. The bushes were dried up and the grass that covered the ground had now been overshadowed by wild weeds. 

The walls of the mansion were weak but were still able to stand proudly bearing the weight of at least a hundred-year-old mansion. The silence between Elaina and Li Wei remained until Elaina spotted a bench, and sat there. 

Patting the space behind her, she looked at Li Wei, asking him to sit beside her. Li Wei showed a little smile before he followed the wishes of Elaina.

Taking some air in, she started, "This was the time when I was still in my mother's womb, still a growing fetus. One day, my grandfather brought a person home and then introduced him to my parents, his name was Bai. That man had features that resembled my father and grandfather.

He told them that that man was his illigimate son. Because he was older than my father, it didn't take time for my father to realize that my grandfather had cheated on my grandmother, even before he was born. My father was hurt, my grandfather knew of it, but he was bounded by the promise of the woman with whom he had his illigimate son.

So, setting aside my father's hurt feelings, he announced that he would give his illigimate son his name. Eventually, my father gave away and decided to not dwell on this matter more, because he needed to take care of my mom and the to-be-born me. 

After my birth, and over the years my father began to realize that my uncle had no good intentions. He tried to confront my grandfather about this but failed because my grandfather was blinded by the guilt of wronging Uncle over these years. 

Then one day, my father decided that he would show the evidence of Uncle's misdeeds and would confront my Uncle, asking him to leave the Wang Household for good. But when he was doing so, my father came to know that my Uncle was secretly poising my grandfather. 

That time, my father replaced all the resentment towards my grandfather and decided to make his safety the top priority, but what my grandfather knew of it. He knew that his son was poisoning him, he knew that he would die, but he didn't say anything. 

He blamed himself for what was happening to him, he blamed himself for what my uncle had done to him. He blamed himself for everything, and...."

Elaina stopped for a moment, her hands were twitching, but clenching her jeans, she was going to say but was interrupted by Li Wei. "It's enough. There is no need to say anything more. Your past doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter what happened in your family...-" 

Li Wei was cut off by Elaina who said, "Let me say it. For my satisfaction," as she looked towards Li Wei. Li Wei nodded and then keeping her hand in between his big and warm hands, he threw a small smile at her. 

Elaina caressed Li Wei's hands and then continued the rest of the story, she told everything to Li Wei except the 'heirloom' of the Wang Family. 

As Elaina reached the end of the things that happened seven years ago, she could feel her strong mask breaking apart, and she was feeling more and more vulnerable, but unknowingly she didn't hate it, she was rather comfortable with this. 

I guess, this is what love is...When you are in love, you don't hesitate to show your loved one your vulnerable side. When you are in love, you become ready to accept your flaws and open up in front of your loved one.

When you are in love, your insecurities become something that your loved one doesn't hesitate to accept. Acceptance is a major sequel to love. 

Of course, your interpretation of love could be different, but it doesn't matter. If you are ready to accept the person in front of you, including the flaws, the insecurities, the habits that seemed foreign to you at one point in time; that means you love that person, with all your heart. 

Soon, Elaina could feel herself crying in Li Wei's arms, with Li Wei running his fingers through her hair. Elaina could feel Li Wei's handshaking, it depicted how he was feeling her pain. 

It was true, Li Wei's heart pained to see Elaina like this. At one point he was sad about her crying, but on the other hand, he was relieved that Elaina was finally ready to act like herself in front of him.

Listening to Elaina's past, Li Wei could feel how much Elaina had gone through, he couldn't imagine himself going through what Elaina went through, he would surely feel devastated, and would have probably shut himself from the outside world. 

He respected Elaina for that, he felt proud that he was the husband of a woman as strong as Elaina. He was also thankful that she came out of all this, and gave him the opportunity to meet her and love her. 

He broke the hug after he felt that Elaina had calmed down. As he did, his eyes met Elaina's, they were shining, like that of a clear crystal. Planting a light peck on her eyelids, Li Wei took a deep breath of relief. 

After they came back to their original position, Elaina continued, "After eloping from there somehow, I spent seven years in hiding, even if I wanted to tell the whole world the truth, I couldn't bear to do it, I didn't have so much power. In less than two days, my elopement, the news had spread that I killed my father and whatnot. The unexpected disappearance of Wang Bai led to the disbandment of my father's company, and people made the Wang Family an extinct family. 

I never thought that I would step out of my hiding until I met Wen Mei, and after that, you know, what happened. I met you and everyone else."