32 32. Ice Empress...

While commuting to the office, Meilin went to a Bakery shop by the road.

The place they reside in and the QMX building is in is inside a high-end district.

Everything here, from shops to bakeries to restaurants are the best of the best.

Well, this place is a business hub with filthy rich tycoons, second generation heirs and white-collar workers roaming the area like bugs, 9/10 are among them....[ and the rest 1/10 is someone who wants to get into their bed *ahem*]

This French bakery like all shops here is famous and is a hidden gem, it seems, the owner is either a genuine French artiste or was an apprentice of some sort under a real master in Paris, and so the rumors go on...

She, of course, didn't care about these rumors; to her what she needs to know and what matters is that this bakery makes some decent bread and pastries and that is what she goes there for.

She only cares about XuanXuan. Who cares about high-end or low-end?

As long as they can satisfy his taste buds, that's the only thing that matters.

Call it her luck or devotion to him but she got some "la baguette tradition" or the tradition baguette, which gets sold out in about 15 minutes after they are put on sell!

She also bought some "viennoiseries" or pastries viz. "pains au chocolat" or "chocolate croissants", so, breakfast today for him, is going to be French style.

Qin ZiXuan really was a gourmet and loved to try different things.

Each new day in the week he wanted to have a different styled breakfast and so on.

It might have been annoying for anyone to cater to this young master's whims but our Meilin, who was the culprit in making him as such, was happy to feed him different things every day, trying new thing every day is a good thing, she didn't want him to get bored of eating the same kind of food every day.

As he ate his breakfast with relish and with satisfied face, a small smile bloomed on her face; it was like the incident from earlier this morning, never happened.

It's not something that matters, as long as, he is happy and safe, she just doesn't care what happens to this world...

After washings the dishes, she came out of the kitchen to find him sitting on the lounge going through some papers she gave him earlier with a cold and dignified face, it was the face of him as the CEO.

When she went closer, she noticed that he was squinting a bit or maybe something was irritating him.

"Is there any problem in the accounts?", she asked in her usual flat tone.

"No--", he put down the papers and leaned back, sighing.

He didn't speak anymore and Meilin was starting to fret about his condition until she saw his eyes twitching.

"...."

Her brows immediately scrunched up and a vein almost popped out on her temple, she called for him in a flat voice, "XuanXuan?", though unlike usual, her voice was laced with ice.

"ugu", hearing that 'straight -out-of-a-blizzard' voice of hers, he jerked up a bit.

When talking with him, if it is not for official issues, she always uses a gentle and soft tone, though it is not much different from her flat official tone still since it's only for him, he knows that it's different from usual......But there are times, you know, times when she turns into the Ice Queen no-- in his case it's his 'Ice Empress' and uses this tone.

Usually, it's when he does something that goes against her bottom line, that is, 'his health' or more accurately 'the whole of him'.

It is when she gets royally pissed off.

"tsk", she really had a short temper when it came to his health ba.

'She just clicked her tongue!! geh!...She is really pissed...ha-ha...I really never learn', Qin ZiXuan thought to himself as he shook his head inside his mind.

She strode her way through to him.

She put her left knee over the sofa and used her right hand's index finger to lift his face up by his chin as she casually put her left hand over the sofa, it was the usual 'bad boy bullying his love interest' position, it's just that, the gender were reversed, scratch that, the whole ordeal was different as she was really angry this time.

He had his eyes closed as he didn't want to face her but with her state of mind, the more he tries to hide, the angrier she gets.

"Qin ZiXuan, open your eyes", she gritted out enunciating each word.

Her voice was overbearing and cold to the point of Absolute Zero, she was not asking him to do it, she was giving him a command.

It was really different from her usual doting nature, yes, she had spoiled him rotten but that never meant that she doesn't have a leash on him.

She usually lets go of many things that she won't, when others are involved, but that definitely doesn't include his well being!!

She had just used his full-name to call him and believe him, this only happens once a leap-year.

Though the matter is actually trivial but just because he is evading it and didn't tell her about it, she was getting angrier by the moment and he knew this... but still didn't want to face her.

His brain formed many simulations but the end result was always her going on a cold war with him and he hated that.

She would do everything like usual like making breakfast and helping him with the work but her eyes will be cold and she just won't talk no matter what!!

So, with no other choice, he decided to sell away his integrity and bearings and chose the 'meng' route.

It had the maximum chances of success.

So, he will go with it, though he is really really reluctant.

He usually sells 'meng' but that doesn't mean he likes doing it, some of them are his usual reactions but he rarely uses this card with full force.

He is trying to make her realise that he is grown up and no way in hell, acting cute helps ba...still some reactions like his pouting and stuff have become a habit, no way to change them, ' it's really not easy..'

Anyway deciding on the path, he immediately went on to carry it!

From his position, he cuddled up to her slim waist and snuggled his face closer to it.

Meilin, who had a storm rising up in her eyes, almost melted from this gesture, almost.

'Meilin, you can't let him go with this...you can't!!', she reinforced her values.

"Qin ZiXuan, release me and open your eyes", though she told herself not to give in, still, with him acting like this, no way could she continue with that facade, as a result, her voice had lost a lot of the coldness from earlier...

'haaah.... Damn these maternal instincts', she cursed under her teeth.

'It's working', he rejoiced but still continued with the farce.

He rubbed his face against her stomach as he shook his head, he was silently saying that he won't look up.

He used a very childish tone to call her name, "Linlin...Linlin...don't be mad....don't be mad...please don't be mad."

She almost cursed out loud, 'just how does he do it.'

Hearing that voice, her heart turned into a puddle and her frown straightened as she sighed inside her head, 'I can't seem to win against him....'

Noticing that she was not responding, he knew that he was almost there to KO her and now for the final blow--

He slowly looked up from under her, straight into her eyes.

His sharp phoenix eyes had somehow turned into big doe-like ones and his imaginary dog-ears were drooping down, he said in a very soft voice, as if, repenting his mistakes; as if, asking for forgiveness, though he didn't actually think anything near that, "Linlin...please forgive your XuanXuan"..

INDEED THE FINAL BLOW...

MEILIN WAS KO'ed!!