23 23.'So depressing'...

"Are you ignoring me, Miss Meilin?"

The voice was very stable but she has been with this man for some years now and noticed the slight tremble in it.

She made a sighing gesture and softened her voice by quite a bit and decided not to cut off the phone, even though Qin ZiXuan was beside her.

Even though she didn't want him to know about the man, she just couldn't cut the phone when the other party was sulking.

"I'm not...gege," she said as if coaxing a baby, with XuanXuan by her side, her maternal instincts were top-notch.

Her voice was laced with concern, "Why are you drunk? Did something happen?" she asked patiently as she tracked down the callers GPS through her phone, she was already on her Bluetooth.

The caller was like this once a lunar cycle and she was not heartless enough to not care about the man, something must have happened and she probably knew the reason, but of course, she won't speak about the matter on phone.

"hmm. I'm not drunk!! ", the caller replied a bit agitated.

"En..en..." she replied nonchalantly as she found his position; it was his home, she relaxed her tense shoulders. But then in the next second she didn't know whether to laugh or cry; it seems the people by her side are into drinking these days, yesterday it was XuanXuan and now it was him....

Whenever the men around her got drunk, nothing ever went right!!

"So..."

"Nothing...you didn't call and gege was lonely", the drunk was playing the emotional card.

But who was she?

The veteran player 'Qin Meilin' who plays the max hard level called 'XuanXuan' every day didn't feel anything, she was battle hardened by all his meng acts and puppy dog attacks by now!!

"Oh." she said with a flat voice.

"Oi!! what's with that reaction..hmm...." the man on the other side got agitated but then, like any usual drunkard, his mood swing was hard to control as he went to depress-mode, "I knew it....no one...no one cares about me...."

He almost sounded like a wife who was being neglected by her husband.

Meilin: (^_^#)...haah...' Meilin control, XuanXuan's here .....control', she kneaded her temples lightly.

"gege...it's not like that ba" she was really tired of his once-a-month antics.

"gege..have you eaten, should I go there?"

Meilin knew that it was not good to say these words as XuanXuan was right there and she didn't want to introduce 'that' guy to him right now but what could she do, right?

She always had had shit for luck, his cycle just had to happen today!!

'So depressing'

With the level of curiosity XuanXuan has, he will definitely pester her for answers, ' I'm so tired'.

But thank god for the man on the other side, had a bit of rationality, "hmm...I've eaten and you don't need to come.....I'm sleepy now...bye bye"

Before she could reply he had already hung up, 'Why did you call ba (^_ ^#)?'

She gripped her phone so hard that her knuckles turned white but remembering the TPO, she didn't act rashly and threw it.

She sighed but like a responsible mother hen, called a number.

"Hello...En.....no no I don't need anything....en..en...Housekeeper Xu, he is a bit drunk, please take care of him...en...No, he said he ate already....Yes, just prepare some soup and when he wakes up please ask him to call me....en....Thank you for taking care of him, it's really been hard on you.....He is really....haaah.....en...please do it..."

She had called the housekeeper of that man to take care of him.

She should visit him one of these days, though she saw him today, it's already been over a month, since they last sat down face to face.

She should go back 'there' too

'...haah...' she sighed internally.

She was so tired that she didn't notice the changes in the man beside her, AGAIN!

.....

He had never seen someone who knew her personal number and acted like what they did.

Well, he is also the persistent type but Meilin always picks his call in the first ring so, he had never seen such expressions on her face.

She was a bit flustered and a bit annoyed but in no sense in a bad way, she seemed to be indulgent to the other party, at least, to a certain extent.

She didn't persist on visiting him this late but that didn't mean she didn't care as she called another person to check on the other party.

He had asked her to pick the phone on a whim but never thought the consequences will be this dire.

' She cared for another man, she called him 'gege' in a soft voice, she has never called him that ba!!

She also spoke to him in a soft voice, IN A VOICE FULL OF WARMTH!!!'

He had also gripped the wheel so hard that his veins were popping out, 'once this morning and now too, it was already two times in a day and it was the SAME PERSON!!'

Yes, he had seen the caller ID, it was the same, the same 'PRINCE', he gritted his teeth, 'This bug is getting too much of her attention'

He took a deep breath internally to calm his nerves and tried to feel the waters, "Linlin, who was it? Ah!! I don't mean anything, just that it's rare for..." he trailed off, he had tried his best to sound nonchalant but only he knew that he was waiting for the final verdict!!

She didn't notice anything strange because it was really rare for her to act like she did in front of him and took it as his curiosity acting but it was a bit hard for her to explain it...

There was a long silence, Qin ZiXuan was walking on tenterhooks, he was getting angrier by the second....' is it so hard to tell me? ME?'

"...it's someone I know from my time abroad.....", that was true and she didn't want to explain much and thank god he didn't continue asking, or that's what she thought.

When she said that she knew him from abroad, he wanted to continue asking but didn't, it seems like she didn't want to be asked?

'You are keeping something from me. Haha...Oh, well!! It seems I have to find a little more about that bug. He was close to her in the time I wasn't..hmmph...so damn ANNOYING. I'll confront her after I find out everything, it seems she needs to realise who she belongs to.'

His eyes had turned darker, even he knew how sick his possessiveness and obsession was for her but he couldn't do anything about it.

She was his and if he could he would bind her to a bed and keep him there so that no one could see her, He wanted her everything.

He was already at his limits by giving her enough time to accept herself and her feeling for him, but it seems he has been too lenient!!

His eyes had turned into dark pools of ink, they were like a black hole, they could suck everything in existence, even light itself

.....He didn't want to unlock the beast he had kept in the deepest corner, he was being very careful but when it came to her, he was never sane....

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@ViviCynt....I realized again on how much I suck at giving titles, I thought of giving 'BUG' as the title for this chapter but stopped myself...'gomenasai! dubuqi! Author sucks at this' <(_ _)>