All along, Feng Xiaoxiao had shied away from friendship and love, the two feelings that hold the most important place in life. She knew her own condition, knew she might die on any given day, and she dreaded that parting between friends and between lovers that death brings. She did not want to die in pain and unwilling to part, nor did she want to put anyone else through that same pain and reluctance, so in her eighteen years of life, friendship and love had remained almost entirely blank!

She had no friends in the true sense, only a crowd of fair-weather companions to fool around with. If one day she vanished, just as now, when she saw less of those street-racing friends, they would not go out of their way to look for her. Soon enough some new racing enthusiast would join them...

Feng Xiaoxiao felt she was but a passerby in this world, a bystander, come in haste only to leave in haste! When the last lesson of her life arrived, she would depart alone, calm and at peace!

But her father's words today had stirred something in her long-sealed heart! Though she feared the hurt that parting brings to friendship and love, she still felt a flicker of longing and yearning, for that bittersweet tumult they bring. To have one bosom friend, one lover in perfect accord with her, then she could surely die without regret?

Only Feng Xiaoxiao felt such a thought would be selfish. Friendship might be forgiven, but love... would she leave her lover to bear the agony of losing her? She found that cruel!

Her father's gloom over these years, though Feng Xiaoxiao had never spoken of it, she had seen it all and kept it in her heart. His longing for her mother ran deep, so deep, yet there was nothing he could do, and he could only drown his lovesickness in desperate work!

Sometimes a tiny thought, once planted in the heart, becomes a seed, and slowly takes root and sprouts within the body, until at last it cannot be held back and breaks through the soil as a sapling!

Before this, Feng Xiaoxiao had not dared to think of love. She knew she had no right to think of such things, but encouraged by her father today, though outwardly she kept denying it, deep inside she had already begun to waver...

How she wished she could fall in love once before she died... well, even if only to taste what love was like...

But no, that would hurt someone else!

Though Feng Xiaoxiao loved her pranks, they were always kept within controllable bounds, little troubles and misunderstandings, and aimed at hateful people. Toward her own lover, she truly could not bear to be so cruel!

"Dad, do you miss Mom?" Feng Xiaoxiao suddenly asked.

"Hmm?" Feng Tianlong froze, and a look of remembered pain flickered through his eyes: "Yes, of course I do! Why do you ask all of a sudden?"

"Then if you make me find a boyfriend, he will miss me one day, and he will suffer too..." Feng Xiaoxiao shook her head: "And my child will be like me, missing his mother... I don't want to make them all suffer..."

"Xiaoxiao..." Feng Tianlong sighed. How could he not understand his daughter's mind? Yet her words only strengthened a resolve in him. He must have a talk with Wei Zhao!

"Ha, Dad, don't worry about me. I'm doing well enough as I am. As long as you stop taking me to see doctors, I'll live happily." Feng Xiaoxiao shook her head and said with forced lightness.

"Xiaoxiao, tell Dad the truth, do you like Wei Zhao or not?" Feng Tianlong did not answer his daughter's words, but turned to look at her with utmost gravity.

"Ah?" Feng Xiaoxiao had not expected her father to cling to this question, and with ever blunter phrasing, leaving her at a loss for an answer! Did she like Wei Zhao? Feng Xiaoxiao did not know. Her first feeling toward him had been anger, a need to get revenge on him!

Suddenly, a thought dawned on Feng Xiaoxiao! Namely, if she pretended to like Wei Zhao, would she not get to taste love all the same? And when she died, Wei Zhao would surely be heartbroken, and would that not achieve her revenge upon him?

Hmph, Wei Zhao, you poured urine on me and set off firecrackers on my butt, this is an utter humiliation! I've decided, from today on I will like you, and once you are deeply in love with me, I will die, let's see if you grieve or not?

Of course, Feng Xiaoxiao could not tell her father this plan; she could only plot it silently in her heart!

Having seen through this point, Feng Xiaoxiao was overjoyed. She could both savor the taste of love and achieve her revenge on Wei Zhao. It was killing two birds with one stone, why not do it?

"Xiaoxiao, ask him out. I want to meet him!" Seeing his daughter's expression, Feng Tianlong knew his guess was pretty much right. Even if his daughter could not yet speak of love for Wei Zhao, at least she felt a strong fondness for him, and it seemed their relationship was already quite close?

When his daughter had fallen ill and fainted while bathing in the bathroom, she must have been stark naked, and Wei Zhao had been right beside her. What did that suggest?

"Huh?" Feng Xiaoxiao jumped in fright, staring at her father in disbelief: "You... you want me to ask him to come see you?"

"Yes, is there a problem?" Feng Tianlong smiled: "Xiaoxiao, don't worry, I only want to ask him about your attack and how he saved you. You know your condition has clearly improved a little. Perhaps we can find a cure from it?"

"Is that so..." Feng Xiaoxiao did not quite believe her father's words.

"Naturally it is!" Feng Tianlong nodded: "If you won't ask him, then I will go find him myself!"

"No... don't go to him, let me talk to him first!" Feng Xiaoxiao cried out in alarm, hastily saying so. Yet inwardly she wondered. She had used this very trick to fool Wei Zhao into coming just days ago, so how was it that her father now truly wanted to summon Wei Zhao for a talk?

Could her mouth really be so cursed? She had only said it and it came true? Feng Xiaoxiao felt depressed!

"Very well, I will stay in Songshan City for a few days. Bring him home as a guest then." Feng Tianlong said.

"All... right..." Feng Xiaoxiao agreed helplessly. Back then, when she told Wei Zhao her father wanted to see him, it had only been an excuse to lure him to the hotel, but now it had become reality, which left Feng Xiaoxiao gloomy!

She was supposed to take revenge on Wei Zhao, but if Wei Zhao met her father, would the whole thing not change its flavor? Once parents had been met, could she still take revenge? She must be careful not to throw herself in instead!