33 Thirty Three: Strange Encounter

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"I actually thought you'd forgive him, guess I was wrong...?"

"Yeah."

Feng Jiun blubbered, clearly bored as she went backwards and hit the surface of her bare back onto the soft bed. Her mind was blank, she couldn't think of anything, she decided to close her eyes and tried relaxing, her eyes still a bit sour from staying inside the pool for too long.

Shao Liling crossed her legs onto the coffee table, no emotions visible from the windows of her soul, arms resting against the armrest, just staring into the blank space without moving a single inch.

"So? Are you eliminating the thought of dating again?"

"Seems like I have no choice."

"Ah, you're too basic. Can't you just try going out for the sake of me? Honestly, I feel like a mom"

"You can go on the behalf of me, I don't really mind."

"That's not how it works." Feng Jiun let out, whining softly, suffering a dilemma in her mind whether to sleep or continue talking to Shao Liling about her love life.

"And I don't want to learn."

"Why are you so persistent about not dating?"

"I haven-"

"Please don't say the cr*p about how you haven't met the right one, you don't know who is right for you. Just date some guys and you'll know."

"You yourself haven't even dated a single guy, yet you're lecturing me about it?"

"Ugh, you're impossible." Feng Jiun's groaned as she rolled to the other side of the bed, getting Shao Liling out of her peripheral vision, and soon drifted off to sleep.

Shao Liling, who was very much awake, gave up thinking and stood up soon. Reaching for her phone on the bedside table and looked through it. Shao Liqin hadn't been doing things behind her back as she observed her sister's account. And from Shao Liqin, she realized Liu Shan and her would have been probably together for the entire day.

She snickered wickedly imagining Liu Shan's reaction when left along with Liqin. They were leaving the hotel soon, it was the third day since they reached there. They had to make their departure tomorrow morning so she packed the clothes lying around quickly, changing out from her swimming attire and stuffed all of them in a laundry bag.

Shao Liling rang the bell connected to the bedside table and a housekeeper arrived soon, bringing both the girls' laundry with them and assuring her it will reach back to their room after being cleaned later during the night. She nodded lazily and closed the door after the lady left.

Looking around, she stretched lazily when she confirmed that there weren't any used pieces of clothes lying around and flopped down beside the asleep Feng Jiun whose brows collided together when she felt the bed sinking down from the weight right next to her.

Her crumbled eyebrows soon ceased as she went back into a deep slumber, Shao Liling decided to join her, not before covering the both of them from the duvet which was kicked down the bed on the floor, and soon drifted off.

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*Other side of the hallway in two rooms which were next to each other*

'Tsk. Liu Shan-ge didn't even talk to me today, would it be because Liling wasn't there? It can't be.'

Shao Liqin's thoughts ventured as she poured herself a newly brewed chamomile tea brought in by the hotel staff, her eyes stared in the same direction throughout some minutes until the tea cup in her hands emptied. The pot being easy to lift up indicating that it's also empty. She rang the bell, trying to squelch her thirst for the delicious tea she dearly loved and waited for more.

Liu Shan was in his own bedroom, probably living his life to the fullest playing online video games with his homies, with no one to bother him anymore. He didn't really mind some company but some isolation would do him good, calming his nerves as he sank into the comfortable bed, still not as comfy as his king sized bed at home though.

There was a knock on the door.

Scaring Shao Liqin who was dazed for a while, as she slowly approached it thinking it was the hotel staff, smoothing out her skirt to look more presentable from all the sitting and the wrinkles that had formed around it.

"Miss Xu, we are going to depart afte-"

Ye MinFeng froze, slightly shocked that it wasn't the person who he was waiting for. He put his fist down gently, after observing the confused looking girl in front of him. He let out an awkward cough, and began talking.

"I apologize for the inconvenience, I thought someone else had occupied this room."

MinFeng bowed slightly, still not reaching her small height even when bent forwards, as he retreated back and continued his search for the young mistress with an aggravated heart.

Shao Liqin didn't knew what to say, she stood frozen like a statue in front of the dashing man she just saw at her door, her thoughts were interrupted when she heard someone rolling something towards her direction.

She looked back and soon saw that it was the gravely expected hotel staff and gestured for the person towards her room, indicating this was her room. They entered the room and exited her vision as Shao Liqing still stood near the door, thinking back to the short conversation as a topic took her interest.

'Miss Xu? Did he mean Xu Shen Qing? Wasn't she the one who kidnapped jie jie last year? What's she doing here?'

"You may leave now."

The beverage server bowed 90 degrees and went back to her post from where she came from, leaving Shao Liqin who twisted her doorknob, barely locking it and hurriedly left for the direction someone had went towards earlier.

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*The Hotel Lobby*

Ye MinFeng looked around, a troubled mind blaring into his ears as he listened closely for anything that would indicate where the h*ll the girl who he was looking for possibly was at.

A group of girls came into his view as they saw him staring at him disgustingly, leaving a bad taste in his mouth tall of a sudden as he frowned, making the girls stare and send him even more winks and air kisses. He tried to not tire himself by thinking about irrelevant objects in the way of his newly made mission as he felt the painful restriction around his lower body through the suit pants he wore.

He cursed as he frantically looked around, searching for a sign of the person he was looking for, as he heard a shriek from behind him. Ye MinFeng turned around to caught the gaze of Xu Shen Qing who had a disheveled appearance along with the girl who was trapped underneath her, one of the girls who he had thrown a disgusted glare at.

Ye MinFeng made his way though the girls who stood around the two thrashing figures on the ground as he picked up Shen Qing in a relatively easy way, helping the girl next who looked like a beggar now.

He made some space in between them as he spoke,

"I demand an explanation now, Miss Xu."

"Why would I tell you?! You were the one who did this!"

"Don't make this more difficult for me, young mistress. Please just clarify the situation." He gritted his teeth in annoyance.

There was a crowd around them, people gossiping quietly by looking at both the girl's disheveled appearances.

"What do I have to say? I swear I'll kill this b*tch if she ever lays her eyes on you again! Everyone saw the sl*tty, hungry gaze she casted at you!"

'And you didn't?'

Ye MinFeng internally scoffed, getting tired from the hysteria he was surrounded within. He calmed himself, and spoke out clear and loud at last.

"I am sorry, but I can't allow the daughter of Xu's daughter to use such a swearing words. Apologize to this lady, right here and now. Then we can leave soon."

Shen Qing gasped in disbelief, as mock was now written on her face. The other party were now shocked as the realization of her being a Xu dawned upon them and regretted ever making eye contact with her man.

"How dare you speak to me this way!? You're just a mere servant working for me and you dare yell at me?! You're such a playboy honestly! First you go out with that Shao Liling sl*t and now you're asking me to apologize to this b*tch? Who do you take me for? Just a stupid, spoiled daughter of a rich businessman?"

"Yeah."

Shen Qing's eyes almost bulged out of her eye sockets as she stared at MinFeng as if she was staring at a ghost, he never insulted her. This was the first time and it hurt like sh*t. Xu Shen Qing left with tears threatening to fall from her eyes and disappeared inside the hotel.

"And you guys. Do not talk about this ever again, I don't expect a headline tomorrow saying a man got into a scandal with two daughters of influential businessmen, and I'll wring your necks personally if I see such a thing, got that?"

The girls nodded fearfully, as he caught someone's figure from the corner of his sharp eyes. He looked in that direction, and came into an eye contact from a familiar looking girl.

"And what are you doing, may I ask?"

Shao Liqin, being the sneaky person she is, rolled her arms around the girl who was beaten up previously, making her flinch.

"Oh, I was just waiting for my bestie since she got into a fight. What about you?"

Shao Liqing tried being the opposite of her usual personality, exclaimed childishly. As she saw it work when Ye MinFeng frowned with her cringeworthy acting, and turned around before leaving soon.

When he was out of sight, Liqin quickly threw the arm forcibly making the girl frown in pain, as she exclaimed while spitting harshly.

"Don't touch me with that filthy arm of yours."

Shao Liqing left after witnessing the scene. 'Scandal, influential daughters, Shao Liling?'

She paired up the words, grinning like a patient who got out of mental asylum with her next thought.