I buried my face in the pillow. I didn\'t know what to say and what to do to face Meng Bao right now. I was just too pissed and heartbroken.

The more he said things about sweetness and love, the more it became unbearable to me. Because he kept saying it as if it meant something for him. While we both know that everything he said was utter bullshits!

I didn\'t want to meet Meng Bao right now, and I didn\'t want to meet my family as well. It was just too embarrassing.

"Bao is probably packing up right now and leave tomorrow morning…." I sulked, knowing that was probably the truth. Even though I knew I could do nothing about it, it still pained me so much.

I closed my eyes, hoping that the memory of Meng Bao would simply disappear tomorrow, alongside the person..

If it was possible, then I wanted him to disappear from this world as well! How could God blessed someone terrible like him, who played with the heart of a woman who desperately wanted a love like me?

That was so unfair!

I cursed Meng Bao in my heart, hoping he would get erectile dysfunction on his first night with that childhood sweetheart, or it\'d make him unable to have a child.

Yes! I will curse him so he would never get a child, make him infertile, and let him wear a green hat when his childhood sweetheart cheated on another man!

"ARGH!"

I punched the pillow frustratedly. There was nothing good about all of this. In the end, I would still be the same woman who always stood by my own.

"It\'s alright, I can handle it. I am a strong woman after all," I said to myself. But whenever I thought I could return to my previous daily life without Meng Bao around, I got immediately reminded of all the sweetness we had together.

I wondered if I could return to my old life without Meng Bao anymore.

People kept saying that women didn\'t need men to stand by themselves, and I believed that.

Because I could stay with my own feet and provide for my family even as a woman. But at the same time, I\'m still a woman who dreamed of being loved.

I wanted someone to love me wholeheartedly, even though I wasn\'t as attractive as other women.

…

"Aish, I refuse to marry a man twice my age, just because I\'m a leftover woman now. I can manage. I can handle everything by myself!" I shook my head, refused to yield to the situation.

"Get up, Shi Ying! You can do anything even without that Bastard Bao!" I took a deep breath and got up from the bed.

I checked my phone and saw that it was already midnight. I spent the last six hours thinking about Meng Bao over and over. It was so stupid, honestly.

Since I didn\'t have any mood to leave my room, I turned on the lamp and then took the box filled with my BL and also the stuff about the tale of Batman Jie and Robin Meng.

I took out my childhood memories one by one, from the Batman mask, the small cape, and also the Batarang.

Oh, there was a Batmobile. I asked for money from Mengmeng back then to buy the Batmobile toy and Batarang from the store in front of the village. It wasn\'t expensive, but I inflated the price by ten times, hehe.

I mean, Mengmeng was filthy rich. Even if I inflated the price to 100x, she wouldn\'t even budge. Because she could just ask her late grandmother, and she\'d get any amount of money she wanted.

"Ah, I wonder where she is right now. I want to meet her, really…." I sighed, thinking about Mengmeng.

"Maybe she\'s already married ah. Someone as beautiful as Mengmeng, maybe she married a young CEO or a Young Master from a rich family. I hope she has a good life with her new family since she\'s such a sweet girl…."

I took out the ring and the bracelet that she bought for me. Apparently, this ring and bracelet were gifts, and she wants me to show them once we met again. It was like a Cinderella\'s glass slippers for both of us.

"Ah, it has no use now. But I just can\'t sell it…."

It was a real diamond as well, so it must\'ve been expensive.

I wanted to sell it during tough times, but I still had a stupid idea that Mengmeng would come to me and marry me instead.

Although we were both women, I liked her nonetheless.

"To be honest, whether she was a man or own, as long as it\'s Mengmeng, I will marry her," I stated. "I think, even she also has the same thought as me. Maybe she\'ll also fall in love with me even if I\'m a man instead of a woman."

"Ah… Mengmeng…"

Really, for some reason, I had a strong feeling that my soulmate was Mengmeng. I thought it was Meng Bao for so long until I realized that Meng Bao wasn\'t as loyal as Mengmeng, even though they emitted the same energy of familiarity and warmth whenever we were around.

"Hmph! That man can go and screw himself. I don\'t even need him!" I yelled again, cursing Meng Bao that he\'d be impotent in the future.

I took the ring from Mengmeng and wear it in my pinky. Since it was too small, it could only reach half of my pinky finger it got stuck.

But I laughed at it. Maybe Mengmeng and I would laugh together once we saw this promise ring now.

\'Promise that Ying Jie will marry Mengmeng in the future!\'

That was the promise Mengmeng demanded, and I complied.

"It\'s all memory now…." I thought. I shook my head and then put the ring inside my drawer. The more I wore that ring, the more I realized this big urge that I wanted to marry my loved one.

I stared at the red circle around my ring finger, the sign that I had been married to Meng Bao by fate.

Maybe Meng Bao was truly my red string, but I refused to be with someone who didn\'t even love me, even if he was my red string.

"Then, what to do with this red string of fate…." I wondered. Since I knew that it was once in a lifetime, that meant Meng Bao was truly my soulmate, and it was undeniable.

"Well, not every soulmate needs to stay together, right? He had given me the sweetness that I\'ve been craving for in my life. I think that\'s enough for him. He can leave and marry the woman he loves…."

"Besides, I bet Bao wouldn\'t be able to satisfy his wife, and he would get cheated on. Then I will be the one who laughs in the end, HAHAHAHAH!"

…

"Okay, I still hate him. But I don\'t want him to get cheated nonetheless."

I kept saying that, but I still hated the fact that Meng Bao might\'ve married someone else other than me.

"Ah, whatever, I don\'t want to think about it…."

I closed my eyes, hoping the morning would come soon, and Meng Bao would leave my house forever.

Even better, leave my life forever!

**

The sound of the rooster woke me up in the morning, I checked my phone, and it showed seven am.

I heard the sound of my mom busily preparing for breakfast for all of us while my dad was feeding the chickens and opened the barn gate, so the cow and the sheep could eat outside.

It was a normal thing to do here, and I\'ve been used to it since I was a kid.

I stretched my body and yawned few times before going to the bathroom to wash my face.

\'Hm… Meng Bao must\'ve left last night or at dawn. That\'s better honestly, who wants to see his stupid face anyway?\' I scoffed.

I brushed my teeth and then went out of the bathroom. When I was younger, I would help my mother to cook, but since I\'ve worked in the city, Meili and Yanyue were the ones who helped mom instead.

"Shi Ying, go and check your father, tell him that breakfast is ready," my mom ordered me.

"Alright."

I walked out of the house and took a long walk until I reached the spot where my dad led all the cows out.

I saw him riding a cow, watching the view as usual.

I cleared my throat and shouted, "Dad! Breakfast is ready!"

I thought my dad would turn his back and walked to our house, still riding the cow.

But when the man riding the cow turned his back, it was a whole different person.

Meng Bao was riding the cow instead of my dad, he waved at me, and he had a big stupid grin on his face.

"Jie! Look at me. I\'m riding a cow!"