In the morning, Yu Rong got to know from now conscious Wang Hao that the guy he had hired never showed up. Well of course, he had not hired anyone in the first place but he needed to tell his lies to keep his life. The closer it was to the truth, the better.

Then he convinced her, how out of loyalty to her, he had decided to take care of it himself but that girl got out of it by injuring him. There was no evidence because he himself had turned the camera system in the lobby off. The thing with Yu Tian, he wasn't involved, so he got out of it easily.

Yu Rong gritted her teeth hard. Her plan had once again failed. But why was that b*tch's room not opening at night? What was she doing inside? An idea flashed through her mind. Did Yu Tian take refuge in her room? That was not right, she had seen Yu Bufan walking around in the party, very calmly, without any hint of panic. If Yu Tian was in trouble or in Mei Qingyang's room, then he would not be out there without being restless.

Yu Rong had known long ago that Yu Bufan had switched sides. That nephew of hers was able to enchant one of her most loyal men to his side. But Yu Bufan could not really go against her so he would send her reports about Yu Tian from time to time, especially when something important happened in his life. She always trusted the information with a grain of salt.

Once bitten, twice shy. She had seen the results when she had trusted him blindly, one of the deals that she should have gotten for Yu empire was snatched by Tian for his own business, all because of false information from Bufan. Thus, she knew. But she had no idea that he could be a great actor too.

"Did we find Tian? Where did he hide from me last night?" she asked one of the servants. Her servant told her that he could not find him anywhere and Yu Bufan was spotted this morning in the lobby without Yu Tian around.

She had gone back to her room leaving Wang Hao alone in frustration. Her last plan failed too. It seemed that her next chance would be only at the new year's trip.

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"Did none of you see her coming out of the room?" Wang Hao flung the papers in his hand towards the two subordinates he had. Since he was assistant of mighty Yu Rong, he had a privilege of having his own subordinates. No one could be as good assistant as him but he still could have some use of people under him. He had a whole gang like that. But for now, he got his top two underlings to answer a few questions.

"Sir, we mixed with Yu Rong's agents to look for her but she slipped past us. By the time we thought of checking her own room, she had locked it shut. However much we tried, it seemed she had put some obstacle behind it," one of them answered with his head lowered.

Wang Hao kneaded his forehead with his hands. These all idiots were useless.

"And you guys could not access her balcony from any of the side rooms? What are your f*cking skills for?" he yelled at them. Did these people not have brains in their head or what?

"Sorry sir, hers is a corner room and the place from where we could easily access her balcony would be Yu Tian's room. We did not have permission to enter his room," the subordinate explained.

Wang Hao sighed. How would he explain to them that they could get into her balcony from rooms above or below hers? He waved his hands and dismissed the two people. So, she had gone to her room, in her condition? She should be a beast of a person if she managed to walk without being noticed with that heavy dose of his drug. His only chance was gone. What if she told Yu Rong about this? He knew she was already growing suspicious of him. Was the only way for him to get out of here helping them? He would be taking too big of a risk though.

He had a lot of things to consider now. It was fortunate that he had this injury, he could take some time off and seriously think about which side he should choose.

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The two people in the room did not know when they had drifted to sleep sitting on their respective sofas. No one of them had dared to get into the bed or lie down on the sofa for they were afraid of what they had experienced in the bathroom last night.

For most part, they were just staring into the space, not knowing what to do. They did not have any strength to talk about them. Or Yu Rong and her plan against her own nephew. Or Wang Hao and his interest in Mei Qingyang.

In the morning, when Yu Tian woke up, he found that he had been covered by a blanket and Mei Qingyang was nowhere to be found. He searched around but she was not in her room. The table had been removed from the door as well. He panicked. He did take a hasty decision last night but he also was unable to hold back because of the drug's effect.

Was she that offended that she decided to leave? His heart dropped at this thought. She must have hated it so much. This place was in the wilderness, how would she go back? What if Yu Rong plotted another scheme?

The door suddenly flung open and Yu Bufan was standing there with breakfast in his hands.

"Master, you are awake," Yu Bufan brought the plate inside. He saw there was something wrong with his master's expression. Why did he look so dejected?

"Master?" he called.

"Bufan, am I pushover?" Yu Tian looked at Yu Bufan with his eyes so full of sorrow that his heart ached for his master. Had his love life encountered some kind of problem?

"Is this about Ms. Mei?" he inquired. His master had never been interested in affairs of other people. But he was unusually attached to this girl who had entered the school just a few months ago. Now she could affect him this much, him who never showed his emotions to even his own assistant.

They had been good friends since the time he had truly accepted Yu Tian as his master. Yu Tian sometimes tried to open his heart but he was not always very forthcoming with his feelings. Now he was asking this question, that meant he really needed some advice.

Yu Bufan was a great strategist and he knew how to read people. He had to ask right questions here to understand what was going on.

Yu Tian nodded, his head hanging low. He narrated what happened last night to his assistant and now he could not find the girl. She could be out meeting Wei Qiqi too or she could have gone for breakfast as well. But given how things unfolded last night with Wang Hao and Yu Rong, she would not be going out without telling him or leaving some note for him or something right?

Yu Bufan laughed in his mind. This side of his master was adorable. Now he was actually behaving like a college going kid. He had met Mei Qingyang earlier in the breakfast hall with Wei Qiqi. Her new friend was lamenting how Qingyang had left the party earlier and how Qiqi could not find any guy at all.

Looking at her, no one could tell that something so horrendous had happened to that girl, an attempt of assault?

But he did not want to break this news to his master just yet, he decided to tease him a bit and squeeze some more information and emotions out of him.

"That is trouble master. You basically forced yourself onto her, especially when she had just escaped that situation. She has every right to be angry," Yu Bufan kept the plate in his hand on the table and took a seat on the opposite sofa. He had a serious look of contemplation on his face, as if all hell had broken loose.

"What should I do? It took me so such effort to get close to her. Will I need to start from scratch now?"

"Master, I think you should just be truthful to her. If you want her to open her heart to you, why don't you start by revealing things about yourself? Something that no one knows. Of course, I know everything about you," Yu Bufan grinned while serving the food to his master. In his mind, he just could not stop chuckling. His master was indeed acting cute.

When Yu Tian saw the mischievousness on his assistance's face, he understood that he was being tricked at once.

"Bufan ah! I am being serious here and you are joking with me? Where is she?" He shot up from his seat, blanket still on him and clutched his assistant's shoulders in fake anger.

"Pfft," Yu Bufan finally could not hold in his laughter.

"Master, my suggestion to you is genuine. You both have gone through much in your lives. She has her wounds and you have yours. And these experiences make you what you are today. You both have come to be lovely people. But like it is not easy for you to tell your side of story, it might be the same for her. Is it not something to celebrate that you both have come so far along?" Yu Bufan really wished happiness to both of them, even if it was not together. Everyone had their own fate and the fact that these two guys met like this, there was definitely some meaning behind it.

"What I mean to say is, just be honest with her. I know you think that she is the only one who has been hanging you in the middle but what are you doing to solve it? Just fulfilling her every wish is not enough. You have to understand her true being. That is something only she can help you with, by opening up to you. And first step would be doing the same from your side."

"Bufan, for a person who has never been in love, you do give sound advice, eh?" Yu Tian understood what Bufan wanted to say.

"Who said I have not been in love? But again, I treat love all the same, you see? For me any and every relationship is the same, the same rules apply to parents, siblings, friends, lover. And most fundamental rule about any relationship is honesty. And communication," he sipped some tea from the cup for he suddenly felt like his lecture had gone far too long. He looked at Yu Tian who was staring at him with worship in his eyes. His eyes were twinkling as realization was dawning upon him.

"Ahem, of course, I am not saying you need to tell everything to everyone. There comes tact into play there. But whatever is out there, it needs to be the truth. Once and for all, tell her how you really feel, not in vague terms, not just by being by her side in her times of difficulty, but in proper words," Yu Bufan was embarrassed by how attentive Yu Tian was being to him. His master was ruthless when it came to business but in the matters of the heart, he was still a kid.

"Okay, I have decided then. Right now is not the right time, we all are exhausted and exams are coming up soon. On the New Year's trip, I will confess to her, properly!" Yu Tian made a resolute decision.