It was an elegant royal night and everyone in the castle was enjoying the party. There she was walking into the hall, dressed like a beautiful princess from the heaven, wearing royal blue ball-room gown, putting hazelnut brown hair into a messy but beautiful bun and pairing her dress with crystal glass shimmering stilletos.

Soon enough she became the centre of attraction of the night. Someone approached her for dance from behind, he was a tall guy with an attractive figure and fruity voice, but as she was about to look at his face, there was a loud scream.

"Lifen, you crazy girl, Can't you get up early in the morning and help me in work? Get up before I reach you, or you will be our only delivery girl for the whole week and that too without any pay!!"

She woke up, as if it's an emergency. It was like her sleeping has become a dangerous thing. She jumped off her bed, running towards her mother, rubbing her eyes to get the clear vision.

" Mother, you never let me see his face. How can you be so ruthless to your own daughter? " she complained while hugging her mother from behind.

"Again you got into your dream fantasy land. When are you going to grow up girl? You will soon be having your entrance exams , focus on that. And for now go and wash up & give me a hand in my work. You know, today it is going to be a real tiresome day as the staffs of my coffee-bar is on holiday". Lifen nodded her head and went inside the room to freshen-up.

Wu Lifen belongs to the Wu family who runs a small coffee-bar, 'Impresso-Expresso' which is quite popular in the area, as it is located near Yanzhi University. The coffee-bar is run by Father and Mother Wu and the income from it was satisfying their personal needs as well as the educational need of her daughter.

Lifen came to help her mother in the coffee-bar, but was still thinking about the guy, who appeared in her dreams.

"Only if the sream was after 60 seconds, I would have been able to see his face" she was murmuring in her heart. Suddenly two girl enter the place *****-footing behind her. Then there was a sudden eruption of a loud voice near her ears to make her surprise. "Ah! You scared me to death" she rebuked.

"Darling, we just wanted to wake you up from your dream. Don't you get bored of your fairy tale dreams" Daiyu glared at her while Guang was busy checking the likes on her recent pic on her SNS.

Zhang Daiyu and Zhou Guang are the beloved best friends of Lifen from her school days. They had shared a lot od memories together and had seen all the best and the worst sides of each other. They have always been concerned for Lifen.

"Leave all these stuff guys. Tell me first, how can you both be so late on this hectic day. "Because of her" both Daiyu and Guang broke pointing towards each other.

"Okay, now just come and help me soon or we won't get any time to chit-chat today" Lifen shouted.

"Who wants your chit-chat? Just tell me, was there anything new in your dreams" Guang asked with an expression as if she knew her answer already.

"No dear, it was as usual with little bit difference in its themes and backgrounds. And again the dream was left incomplete" Lifen said with a lower voice.

"Who know, maybe it was left incomplete to become the reality!!" Daiyu exclaimed .

They went to complete the work. And soon the sun was in the west, allowing the street lights to take its place.

Daiyu and Guang bid farewell to Lifen reminding her to be ready in time tomorrow as they have to attend a small reunion party from the high-school, which made the three faces full of excitement.

The next morning, Lifen got ready and left with her friends to attend the reunion which will be going to held in the famous 5-star restaurant of the city.

"How did Chang managed to get the booking in that restaurant. If I am not wrong, isn't it the restaurant which is included in the hotel chain owned by Wang Corporation and is very much expensive " Guang said in a gossiping tone. She loves to gossip.

"I don't know much about it, but as far as I have heard from my parents , their small manufacturing industry has earned a lot after signing the contract with Wang Corporations. As the whole country knows that Wang Corporations becomes fairy wand to the companies under them and devil's wand with evil intentions to the companies against them" Daiyu informed them.

"So that's how Chang have organised this. I am impressed" Lifen said giving less importance to the talks related to Chang. She has been always like this ignoring Chang, he was less than a friend to her. She knew that he loves her but she knew herself too. She never wanted to give false hopes to him knowing his love towards her.

They arrived at the venue. Many familiar faces were present there,enjoying the time with each other. "Hey Lifen, we met after so long" a voice from midst of the crowd got everyone's attention towards them.

"Isn't that Chang's voice" Daiyu reacted.

Chang came near them with glistening eyes. The smile on his face gave the evidence of his happiness after seeing her.

Lifen greeted him with a hug and asked about him in a formal tone. Soon there was a change in his eyes and expression. "Why you always become so conscious around me Lifen? Can't you just consider me as a friend" Chang said to Lifen creating an uneasy environment .

She did not knew how to react to his question. "There is nothing like that Chang, we are friends" she replied to him.

The warm atmosphere suddenly started dropping the temperature. " Hey Chang, are we invisible to you? Won't you greet us?" Guang uttered the words in haste attempting to warm the atmosphere again.

"By the way, you are looking quite handsome today. I mean look at his tousled dark brown hair which is complimenting to his handsome face and his mesmerizing blue eyes. Uff! are you going to make the girls in the party go crazy for you?" Daiyu added to Guang's attempt in a teasing tone.

"Hey girls don't tease me like that. You both know very well whom I want to make crazy for me" he said with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah actually we know everything but don' you dare ask help from us because won't be able to help you" Daiyu said him giving a friendly glare.

Yhey penetrated into the party to meet and greet other friends. Everyone was busy reminiscing about their old days. They were having a whale of a time, while Chang was continuously looking a Lifen with love in his eyes.

Daiyu suddenly stood up from her place and asked Lifen to accompany her to the washroom. Lifen nodded and went with her to the washroom.

In the washroom, she asked her why don't she give a chance to Chang as everyone knows he had truly loved her and is still in love with her. In addition to this, now his family is financially stable and can support her and her family.

On hearing this Lifen snorted and gave Daiyu 'not expected from you look'.

"Dear how can you think I would accept his love for this petty reason and I know he love me but I have never thought of him like that. Relationships should be made out of love, then they have long life" she reasoned her.

"But you cannot always live in your love fantasy world. You have to be practical in real life" Guang interrupted entering the washroom.

"I am not and for now I will just concentrate on the exams and ask both of you to do the same too" Lifen said with an unreadable expression.

Crossing the corridor they heard a chaos across the other end. When they reach there ,they saw a waitress being harrassed by a rich girl. She was looking quite elegant, more like a princess which is being spoiled by her parents.

"Do you even know, whom you have offended. I am Miss Long Jie, the heiress of Long Industries" she said the word so fiercely as the fact being Long Jie alone can change the world.

The waitress kept sobbing while kneeling down in front of her. Lifen was unable to stand with this type of behavior but still she remained quiet for some moment as she was asking others to respond.

"I am sorry Mam, it's just that I got tripped and the coffee was spilled over your dress" a timid voice came from the waitress.

"What...what you have just uttered...'it's just that'... and what will I do with your sorry? Do your sorry can compensate my dress. Do you even know whom you have offended, I'm Long Jie " Jie said in an accusatory tone.

Daiyu and Guand was ready to speat something but Lifen signalled them that she will take the initiative. Then something expected but unexpected at this moment occurred. "And will the fact that you are Long Jie, the so-called heiress of Long Industries can change a small mistake into a crime?" Lifen interrupted her with a disgust look.

"Who are you? " Jie said in a baffled tone.

"No one if compared to you in your world. No, no wait how can I compare myself to you, a girl with a lowly heart. And in this moment you just have to know me as the one who can stand and ignore the tone with her" she said while glaring into her eyes.

Jie wasn't able to collect her thoughts , until today no one has interrupted her while she was scolding anyone.

"Are you covering her mistake? " Jie asked.

"Exactly!! It's just a mistake which you are portraying like a crime" she explained.

Speaking this she moved forward and handed Jie some money out her purse and then politely asked the waitress to bring another coffee for Mam.

"What are you trying to do? Your this petty money can't afford this dress. Do you even know how much this dress cost?" Jie said with a smile of disgust on her face.

"Sorry Miss, but I don't wanna know. I am really not intrested in your high-end dress. And by the way, this money may not bring your dress back nor it can afford the another similar dress but can surely solve this small chaos as now you can send your dress for laundry" Lifen said with a smirking smile on her face.

This irked Jie and she left the place giving a glare to Lifen. She was feeling highly insulted today. She took out her phone and speed dialed 1 and said with teary eyes and sobbing voice,"Brother let's not meet today, I'm not feeling well".

There was a concerned cold voice on phone," What happen Jie, why are you sobbing? Is everything okay?"

"There is nothing like that Brother Ming...I am totally fine , it's just I am not feeling well today. I am sorry for today, I know today we would have met after 3 months..." Jie said while she was interrupted by the one on the other end of the call.

" That's completely okay dear. Your health comes first. Go and have some rest. I love you"

"I love you too" then she hung up the call and got into her call.

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" Wow! That was impressive Lifen. You never let go off the opportunity to help others" Chang said from a distant while clapping his hands.

"We need to talk Chang", she said while looking at him. She asked Daiyu and Guang to go inside the party and help her ask farewell from others as it's getting late and they need to return soon. They nodded to her and returned to the party leaving Chang and Lifen alone.

Lifen and Chang walked towards the garden. There was a feeling of uneasiness in her eyes. She doesnot wanted to hurt Chang's feeling but she knew the false hopes will hurt him more.

"Chang...I wanna ask you something", she said breaking the silence between them.

"Okay....But you know you never needed a permission from me for that", he chuckled.

"Do you really want to be in my life", she asked. Hearing this, there was a sudden shine in his eyes. He overjoyed. But he could say anything to her she interrupted and said with extreme warmth in her eyes, "Then you have to give up on loving me because I really wanna see you hurting yourself. We can be friends...real good friends. Now the choice is yours."

She didnot wanted to be rough but it was there was no other ways left to her. She left him there alone.