Aaron clenched his phone as he drove his car on the busy street. He honked few times at the other cars because he was impatient and worried that something bad might happened to his beloved. 

'I should've stayed with him. No, I should've live with him...'

Aaron was utterly shocked when he got the call from Yunyu just now. He tried to call Yunyu's number again, but there was no answer. Yunyu probably turned off his phone or use the airplane mode.

Aaron was actually heading to Yunyu's rented apartment just now. He bought a dozen of donuts for Yunyu and him to eat while they were watching a movie or something. That was his original plan for the weekend with Yunyu, since Yunyu said he didn't want to go anywhere. But who would've expected that Yunyu suddenly called him and said something like that?

'Boss, I request you to find a new assistant soon. Because I will leave for a long time to bury this painful feeling I have. My time working for you is short, but I appreciate it always. Goodbye, Aaron.'

"What painful feeling? Who hurts him? And why did he need to leave?!" Aaron Xu stepped on the gas as he rushed to Yunyu's apartment. He hoped that Yunyu was still in his room, so he could do something to prevent Yunyu from doing whatever reckless thing he would do.

Aaron opened his car door and rushed to Yunyu's apartment. He knocked on the door politely at first, "Yunyu, open the door. What did you say on the phone just now? What makes you so sad? Tell me first!"

…

No answer.

Aaron tried knocking few more times, until his knock became fast and urging, "Yunyu, please open the door, don't do anything stupid! I'm begging you!"

…

No answer.

He banged the door impatiently, afraid that something might've really happened to his beloved while he was away. After getting no answer for the third time, Aaron couldn't wait any longer. He twisted the handle and found that the door was unlocked the whole time. Which gave him a bad feeling.

Aaron pushed the door open slowly, and the first thing he saw was a messy room. No, it wasn't 'messy' as in... someone broke in, and there was a fight inside. It was more like… someone who had a mental breakdown and decided to break everything.

Aaron gulped. He didn't know what to expect after seeing this. He was afraid that Yunyu might have done something crazy, like… suicide.

Aaron walked slowly, trying to find Yunyu, and the first place that he checked was the bathroom. Because… due to all the bad things that might get to Yunyu's head, he might've done something terrible in the bathroom. That was Aaron's worst expectation.

"Yunyu, are you here?" Aaron turned on the light in the bathroom and saw no one inside. Which made him sighed in relief. He left the bathroom and walked to Yunyu's living room and also saw no one except that the sofa had many obvious torn from a sharp object, probably a knife.

Aaron shuddered. He was afraid that Yunyu might've turned psycho. But he was also worried that something wrong might've happened to Yunyu. He braced himself and walked to Yunyu's bed. He still saw no sign of Yunyu, but he saw pieces of shredded sticky notes scattered around the floor.

Aaron frowned and crouched. He picked one piece of shredded paper and only noticed one word from it,

Love.

"What is this?" Aaron checked collected more and tried to connect the pieces of sticky note one by one, but still, the only sentence he could read was,

Why are you hurting me every day, even though I love you so much, Mr—.

Aaron's frown grew deeper. He looked up and saw an open wardrobe. Yunyu took almost everything from his wardrobe, leaving nothing but some unused dirty clothes.

'Did Yunyu really leave his apartment? But why is it unlocked? If he just wants to have a trip, we can go somewhere together. I will cancel some of my schedules and accompany him,' Aaron thought. He checked the wardrobe once more and found nothing. Thus he went to the last section of Yunyu's apartment,

The kitchen and the dining table.

Aaron stepped carefully to the kitchen but surprising to him, the kitchen was actually clean. There was no sign of breaking stuff, just a lot of plates and utensils that had just been washed. He also saw the trash can was full of many chopped vegetables, bones, and some leftover. The number of plates and utensils, alongside the full trash can, signalled that Yunyu had a big buffet before.

'He said that he'd invite me to taste his cooking someday. Is it not today? Huh…' Aaron pondered.

'Can he even eat so many things alone? I don't know that he's such a big eater, should've bought more donuts...'

Aaron glanced at the dinner table and saw a box. He checked it, and the first thing he saw was a note on top of the box, written on a simple white paper. The writing was a bit messy, showing the emotional distress the writer had.

Aaron frowned. He read the note written by Yunyu.

…

…

Aaron's hands trembled as he tried his best not to fall on the floor after so much despair suddenly attacking his heart. His whole body started shaking as he tried his best to sit on the chair because his leg felt weak.

He read the note from Yunyu again, and he bit his lips. He wanted to cry, but he didn't want to cry, especially when there was that bastard Long Shen written in this heartbreaking note.

Aaron looked at the box. Although he knew that opening it would hurt him, he still wanted to know how much Yunyu treasured this bastard.

Aaron opened the box slowly, there was just a bunch of old clothes, but he knew that all of them were branded and expensive, which was not Yunyu's style at all.

"So this is that bastard's old clothes, huh…" Aaron stared at it, and he could faintly smell the fragrance from inside the box. Yunyu must've taken care of these old clothes so much that he sprayed some perfume on them.

Which hurt Aaron's heart even more. He slumped on the chair and clenched the note from Yunyu. He wanted to tear this note, burn it to ashes alongside these old clothes. That bastard didn't deserve Yunyu after how much he abused Yunyu for a year.

But he was the one mentioned in this note, not Aaron Xu.

Aaron's heart was in so much pain that he clenched his heart while his tears started falling. He didn't know that a broken heart could be this painful, especially since he was truly in love with Yunyu despite all his flaws.

Aaron sobbed while calling Yunyu's name, letting his emotion went wild as he couldn't handle such pain.

"Yunyu, why, why can't you love me instead? Why this bastard? Why not me?!"

"I LOVE YOU, BAI YUNYU! I CAN LOVE YOU MUCH MORE THAN THAT BASTARD!!" Aaron's wail filled the empty apartment, leaving two people broken hearted inside this room, Aaron Xu's heart and Bai Yunyu's heart.