When Nightmares Come True - BJYX

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Like the blizzard in a holocaust, impelling every aversion, the frantic figure scampered though the street bumping into anything and everything. The voices around could not be heard by him, like sound erupted in chaos.

The red or green lights couldn't register in his brain, he ran as if only a single path remained.

Huffing and panting, he dashed through the big gate, crossing the corridors and finally into the office room.

He didn't wait to knock, he didn't pick on the perplexed faces of the people inside, in his broken breath he demanded,

"Where is the letter?"

Shook. Dr. Meng Ziyi was shook but kept her professional face, smiling at the patients she excused herself and dragged the disheveled man away from the eyeing crowd.

Opening the rooftop door, she led the man outside and inquired,

"What happened to you? You have an appointment in another 2 hours."

The same cold demand, rang in her ears, this time more vivid.

"Where is the letter, He Peng wrote for me? I know you have it – you got to have it."

Any doubts she had about Zhan referring to a totally different letter were gone. She couldn't deny it but she could hide it. Serenely she begun,

"You are not in the right state of mind to read it. You need to calm down first –"

"Where is the letter?!" Xiao Zhan demanded; his voice pitched high.

"You have to trust me, I was goin –"

"You lied!" He bellowed, "You lied Dr. Meng. I asked if I could trust you. You lied. You all lied."

Blown by that statement, she could only inquire,

"A-Zhan what are you talking –"

"Zheng Fanxing! He isn't your cousin! He isn't your anything! He's an orphan like me, a survivor like me."

Another bolt from the blue. How does he know that? Did he remember anything? Composing the waves down, she clarified,

"G-grandfather adopted him; he is registered as my cousin now."

Another thing she hid. Another thing she lied about. Bringing out another topic, Xiao Zhan revealed a thing which he learnt from his nephew.

"You and A-Cheng have been meeting secretly! You knew what he was planning to do but you all pretended, lied to me and fooled me. What is the value of my trust for you?"

She didn't lie, she just fabricated few truths to make him believe. She did it for the goodness of her own heart but did she think to consider how would it effect the other's world?

"A-Zhan, I-I –"

"And you knew where Wang Yibo was, didn't you?" He laughed bitterly at the realization. What a wag they made him.

"Those months, I thought he wasn't real, he was something fabricated out of my own imagination. My agonizing fictional love. and you didn't say a single thing? You didn't assure a single fact? I made my self a clown for you, I left my family and chose to rely on you! And this is how you tossed my trust away?"

She couldn't deny that, she chose to kept quiet, she wondered herself why?

"It's all a pretense, it had been just an act to show me that you cared but you don't! It's the guilt, isn't it? The guilt that Yubin assisted in killing my grandmother. You didn't want your brother to go behind the bars, didn't you?"