CHAPTER 12:  Date with Fate

(Final Chapter)

The heart is the one thing we cannot control; no matter how determined we are we, 

we cannot change the direction it goes.

But then it begs the million dollar question, how far can love take us?

Aaron faked a smile at the group of people he was talking to. He took his eyes off the group to see Gui meeting Li Quan. He couldn’t help but tighten his jaw; he glimpsed down at the glass and gulps it down.

“Aaron, we are dying to hear how you met your lovely wife.”

“Believe it or not, I was the one who chased after her but if you ask her, she would tell you it was a different story.”

“You chased after her? Aaron Yan did the chasing? I never imagined you to drop your clubbing days to chase after the girl and a girl at that!”

“I don’t know how I managed to do it; I just wanted to be by her side.”

He looks back at the spot but Gui and Li Quan was not standing there anymore. ‘Where did they go?’ He excused himself from the group and walks around the space, trying to get a visual of where they were but nada.

He was about to go further around the event but he stops when someone approached him, he wanted to talk and Aaron couldn’t exactly reject him—after all, he is attending in his father’s place.

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Gui follows him as they make their way around the hall. He had to admit, under that façade she had when they were in high schoolers, she thrown away that ridiculous dork to be the swan she is. 

“You really changed—I almost couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the news. The famous daughter of Vi Wu and Jason Wu, you really fooled me, big time.” Gui laughs, remembering all the things she had to do to conceal her identity in high school. “Maybe, just maybe…”

‘Huh?’

Away from the party guests, away from the noise, Gui noticed that she and Li Quan have walked to a quieter spot—just the two of them together. She wanted to turn around and look for Aaron but when she heard Li Quan talk to her, she stayed.

“Did you say something?”

For a moment there, Gui could see how perplexed he looked. As if he was debating something.

“We should head back to the party, have you met Aaron yet?” 

Gui turned around, attempting to go back but Li Quan blocked her path and backed her against the wall. He punched the wall with his fist, closing her in on both sides.

“L-Li Quan?! What are you doing?”

“Aaron… don’t you dare say his name.”

He leaned in closer to her and Gui pushed him away. But they were still close to each other. He chuckles, nowadays; he is feeling all sorts of rejection in every form and way.

“Can’t it be me?”

“W-What are you saying?!”

Flashback

Gui could vividly remember the last time she fell for his charms. 

Li Quan was more than the school jock who everyone loved to be with—he seems like he could give her the world.

But what the mind imagines is different than what reality shaped the person.

“We will just be here for a couple of minutes! I promise! If I want to be Li Quan’s girlfriend, I need to figure out how I am supposed to fit into his wo