Chapter 00

•Pink Camellias •

'Screech'

A latest model black Benelli bike came to a halt in the parking area of X apartment community.

The guy on the bike had a slender yet built body features. The black leather jacket, the white shirt under that jacket and the black denim pants and the brown combat boots; everything he was wearing fitted perfectly on his perfect lines of muscles.

He removed his helmet exposing his long black shiny hair to the gentle evening breeze and then he locked his bike before placing the key into his pant pocket. After adjusting the backpack that was sliding down his shoulder, he got off the bike and started to walk away while carrying his helmet on his hand.

But, even before he could take ten whole steps, he stopped walking as he heard someone calling him from behind.

"Shenyuan?!" A gentle, soft voice of a girl.

He turned around and found a pretty girl smiling at him; her hand holding three pink camellias. Liu Shenyuan looked at her with a confused expression yet, as soon as his eyes came to see those flowers, he raised his brow while smirking.

"And, here I am thinking that I won't receive any flowers today. Just who is this person? Finding my travelling schedule and sending flowers on the starting and finishing day of my every single journey; he must be too free, isn't he?" He sighed internally.

That pretty girl approached him; as she got more closer, her cheeks turned red more. Surely, any girl would blush once she see a face like Liu Shenyuan's.

"Is your name 'Liu Shenyuan'?"

She asked after she got closer to Liu Shenyuan, enough to talk normally with him.

"Yes... and.. you are?" He asked eventhough he already guessed it.

"You look really handsome." She said while her cheeks turned red more.

Liu Shenyuan raised one of his eyebrow while looking at her indifferently.

"Oh, right. Just now,.. a guy gave me these flowers and asked me to give these to you. Here." She handed over the flowers to him.

Shenyuan took the flowers and examined it carefully and found a small tag on saying 'Hope you've been well.'

"Heh! As usual." He thought before turning his attention back on that pretty girl who was staring at him without blinking for almost a minute.

"So... Where's that guy?"

"That guy.. He left by a car just now." She answered as she stared innocently at him.

Liu Shenyuan had a mirror-like memory. His mind always remembers everything he sees. He thought for sometime as he recalled all the car that went out of that parking area ever since he entered before speaking.

"Oh, Okay." He said indifferently before walking away; leaving that pretty girl who's whipped.

When he was about to enter into the elevator, he turned to a side and through the corner of his eyes he looked at a certain dark blue car and smirked.

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A small smile tugged at the corner of the man's lips who was in that dark blue car.

"You're still as careful as you've been."

He said to himself; a tone amusement mixed in his voice. He then waited for Liu Shenyuan to get into the elevator before driving his car away.

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Liu Shenyuan opened the door for his apartment and turned on the lights. It was not any usual apartment common people could afford. Anyone could tell that the owner of that apartment is very rich.

That apartment looked high in quality and in design. Not to mention the French style ceiling to floor glass window. The furnitures looked expensive and comfortable as well.

As soon as he finished changing into slippers, he straightly walked to the flower vase which was on a table by the wall. Taking out the three dried flowers which were already in the vase gently, he spent a few seconds on taking in the fragrance of the flowers which was at the stage where it's petals could wither with a single shake by his hand.

His mind wandered back to the time he received those flowers. It was almost same as this day's, except for the fact that the person who gave those pink camellias is a college boy instead of that pretty girl.

The reason why Liu Shenyuan didn't try to search for that person who send flowers to him when he first received those flowers was, Shenyuan had a small memory of giving the same flowers; pink camellias; to a particular person everyday back then and that particular person didn't seemed to appreciate that according to his memories. And, he had this feeling of sadness deep in his heart whenever he received those flowers. So, he didn't pursue the matter more to avoid facing that sad part of his life; instead he started to enjoy his life.

But, he didn't want to throw away the flowers so that he kept every single flowers he received.

He smiled gently as he opened the drawer under that table. There was a big dictionary which already has a lot of old flowers in it. Opening a new page, he placed the flowers in his hand in it carefully before closing the dictionary. He stroked the cover of that dictionary with a saddened expression on his face.

After closing the drawer, he placed the fresh pink camellias he just brought into that vase after changing the water in it. He stroked the fresh petals for sometime as he got lost in his thoughts. When he looked up he saw a painting of pink camellias on the wall. And at the bottom of that painting, there was a piece of paper with a note saying,

'Pink Camellias; longing for you.'

Meaning of pink camellias according to floriography.

He looked at that piece of paper for a few minutes, and then he went to his room to rest after a shower since he was tired from the journey.

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