While Yibo went to his room to wait until his parents also went to sleep and he could sneak into Zhan's room, he sat down at his old desk, turned on his laptop and watched some videos that were made of him in competitions.

After an hour, he shut his laptop and peeked downstairs into the living room. His parents were still awake and he still couldn't sneak over to Zhan. So he closed his bedroom door again and looked at all the medals and trophies he had won in competitions over the years.

And when he finally arrived at his bookshelf, his eyes fell on a book labeled, "The Secret Diary" and took it out. It looked like a real book, but it was really a secret diary that Yibo had once received for his birthday from a girl, a former classmate. She told him then that he could record his successes, dreams and wishes in it.

Yibo found this laughable at first. Writing a diary as a boy seemed like a strange thing for him to do. Boys don't do that sort of thing, and that's it. But when he held it in his hands again at home, after taking it out of his school bag, he didn't think the idea was so laughable after all. On the contrary, he spent the rest of the evening writing in this diary.

Reading what he had written in this diary at that time brought back many memories. Almost every day he had written in it until there was no page left. And he reread page after page and it brought back to him not only memories but also longings and desires that he thought he no longer had.

Although he couldn't be happier right now and his life couldn't be more exciting, he suddenly felt bad. As if he had betrayed himself. Himself, his dreams, his hopes, longings and desires.

When he finally got to the last page and read what his former self had written, tears came to his eyes. "Never will I let anything, or anyone, get in the way of my goals! I know what I want and I will achieve it. No matter how! I will never give up! Only when I have achieved everything I want, I will think about my further life. Until then I remain faithful to my principles! I Wang Yibo, swear that I will not rest until I am who I always wanted to be!"

Yibo sat down on his bed after putting his diary away again. He told himself that his goals and dreams have changed. He is no longer the 15 year old dreamer who wrote in that diary. He is now 19 years old, at the sports and arts academy he always wanted to go to and he has found his dream man and now wants to become an agent.

After a while, his parents were still in the living room, Yibo lay down on the bed and closed his eyes. He thought about Zhan and how much he loves him. He thought about the training to become an agent starting on Monday and his further training to become a "superstar" and that he will probably marry Zhan very soon.

And suddenly Yibo's heart began to race. An uncomfortable racing heart. He felt hot and dizzy. He felt like he couldn't breathe and like someone had sat on his chest. He jumped out of bed, opened the window and breathed in the cool night air. He was shaking all over, wondering, "What do I do now? Am I really ready for all this?"

Yibo knew he had only this one night to find the answers to these questions. So he lay back on the bed, without having closed the window again, and decided to think about what the answers to those two questions might be.

The next morning...

After Yibo didn't join him in the room until 2 a.m., and Zhan assumed that Yibo had simply fallen asleep, he too had fallen asleep. In the morning, after a quick shower, he went downstairs and found Yibo's mother alone in the kitchen. Yibo's father had already gone to the house of one of his other wives and Yibo still seemed to be asleep.

Zhan helped Yibo's mother prepare breakfast and called his parents' house. He was supposed to invite them to the barbecue in the afternoon, after all. He had not reached them in the evening. Although he had reached them now, they could not agree to come because they were with friends and would not be back until Wednesday. So they postponed the barbecue to the next weekend.

When it was already shortly after 10 am and Yibo still had not come downstairs, his mom went upstairs to wake him up. After 10 minutes she came back and was pale in the face. She was holding two envelopes in her hand, one of them was open. Zhan looked at her frowning. "What's wrong? Is he coming?"

Yibo's mother sat down on a step of the stairs and shook her head. She pressed the opened envelope to her chest. "He's gone." She said in a trembling voice and handed Zhan the other envelope.

"Gone?" Zhan asked and hurried upstairs. Yibo was not in his room and from the looks of it, he was in a hurry. Some clothes were lying in front of the closet and on the bed. Zhan looked around in shock and bewilderment. He sat down in front of the bed and looked at the envelope. He opened it and read.

"My dearest Zhan,

please forgive me for disappearing like that. I just had to leave. I know if I had waited and talked to you, you would have persuaded me to stay. But I didn't want to. Please forgive me. I love you more than I can put into words, but I can't be with you.

At just 19 years old, I have my whole life ahead of me. I still want to achieve so many things. Fulfill so many wishes and dreams. I can't get married yet and give up everything I've worked and fought so hard for so long. And I know I would give up everything just to be by your side. Because once we are married and I know that for sure, I won't care about anything else. Because then there's only one thing left for me and that's you.

I want to continue to become an agent and be by your side. But not before I have done everything I always wanted to do and achieve.

I am aware of how much I am hurting you with this and I can't ask you to wait for me either. But if you can, wait for me. Because I will come back and I am sure that I will still love you as much as I do now. I don't know how long it will take, but I will be back and I hope that you can give me a second chance then.

Please don't look for me and don't let others look for me either. Give me the time I need. I hope you can understand me. Even if I hurt you very much right now.

Love, your Yibo."

Zhan was speechless. He slipped the letter back into the envelope and went downstairs to Yibo's mom, who was still sitting on the step of the stairs. "What should I tell his dad?" She asked Zhan.

"That Yibo will go his way and come back." Replied Zhan. He stood up, walked down the remaining steps, turned to Yibo's mom and said, "He will come back to you."

She nodded. "And he'll come back to you, too."

"I just don't know if I'll still be around then. I'm going to head to the academy now. I want to see if he's been there."

"Okay." Said Yibo's mom. She was as speechless as Zhan.

Zhan walked to his car and without turning around again, he started on the long road back to Keno Academy. And although he had already guessed it, it hit him hard when he walked into the room and saw that Yibo had already gotten all his belongings. The House Father told him that Yibo had been there very early in the morning, packed everything and left the academy. Yibo reportedly gave personal reasons as the reason.

Without Yibo, Zhan wondered if he had any reason to stay at the academy now? After all, he had only returned here because of Yibo. Because, even without the training at the academy, he was already an agent. He was already well-known enough in show business to make it without the academy. So why should he stay any longer?

After two hours of just crying in his room, Zhan finally packed his bags. He couldn't stay here. If he did, everything here would remind him of Yibo. Every day anew, the wound of his broken heart would tear again and he would suffer. So he couldn't stay and had to leave.

He called his boss and told him that he wanted to leave the academy and quickly accept a new mission. He then signed out of the academy. He left without saying goodbye to anyone. However, he did not go to his parents' house, but to the secret base where he received a new mission that he will do alone, without Cheng.

In the meantime...

Yibo was sitting on the plane with his uncle next to him. Yibo silently looked out the window while his uncle tried to sleep. His uncle, who just couldn't sleep, tapped him and asked, "Do you think you're doing the right thing?"

Thoughtfully, Yibo looked at his uncle. "I don't know. I hope so."

"I was pretty surprised when you called me in the middle of the night."

"I believe you were. But I had no idea who else to call."

"So what about you and Zhan now?"

"Mhhh, I hope he will wait for me."

"You were so happy that you finally became a couple and even introduced him to your parents. Then why are you running away from him?"

"Not from him. All I know right now is that I can't be with Zhan until I accomplish everything I set out to do. And he should continue to achieve his goals. He can't give up everything because of me. So I'm leaving."

"And you can only do that in South Korea?"

"Yes. The Keno Academy had always been number one for me. But there's a sports and arts academy in Seoul that had always been my No. 2. They actually wanted me, and I hope they still do."

"I'm sure they do."

"At least I've saved enough money to afford it."

"Well, I can give you that money too. I just wonder if you won't regret it someday."

"I hope so, too, uncle. Really."

"Well, I'll try to sleep again now. And we'll see everything else when we land in Seoul."

"Mn. Sleep well." Said Yibo. He was also very tired. But he couldn't sleep. There was way too much going through his mind. And he missed Zhan terribly. But at the same time he told himself that he just had to do it now. And now there was no turning back.

Once they arrived in Seoul, Yibo and his uncle first looked for a hotel near the Sports and Arts Academy. His uncle booked the room with one of his false identities so no one would find them. Afterwards, the two slept through most of the day and discussed what to do next over dinner that evening.

The next morning they visited the academy and talked to the principal there, who was very happy that Yibo had decided to join them after all. And much to Yibo's delight, there was a free place for him there as well.

After the visit to the academy, the two went to see an apartment broker and had several already furnished apartments shown to them the same day. One of them they rented. Of course, again with the false identity of Yibo's uncle. They moved into the apartment the same evening, they didn't have many things anyway.