Chapter Ten: Eavesdropper

She picked up her chopstick with her right hand and fiddled with her phone on the other one. She was busy looking through Hu Le Qi's news uploaded on a website. 'President Hu is to choose between Yan Xinyi and Zhao Ting Xin Yan. Who is he to pick. Leave your comments below?' She asked herself. Was Hu Le Qi really going to divorce her and marry Zhao Ting Xin Yan.

She smiled when her phone blinked indicating that a call was incoming. Her phone did not ring as she had set it on silent mode so as not to disturb anyone incase someone called her.

Yan Xinyi looked at the screen of her phone. It was Qiu Yingyue who was calling.

'Finally.' She said to herself.

Yan Xinyi put down her chopsticks and swiped her finger on the screen to answer the call.

"Where are you?" She headed straight to the conversation escaping the greetings.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Xinyi! I was in a meeting" Que Yingyue said sounding apologetic.

"I wanted to ask you a question, is Zhao Ting Xin Yan coming back from Canada?"

"Of course,haven't you recieved the invitation to the welcome party?"

"No. Maybe it was sent to Hu Le Qi. I am now doubting that we will get help from the Hu Family because of her return."

"What are you saying? Where are you?"

"Don't bother coming,we will meet there I guess."

"If Hu Le Qi loved her,he would have opposed and since he did not then do not worry,your family's group will get help."

"You are really my best friend. Next time I go out I will call you."

"Yes when I am not so busy. "

"What happened?" Yan Xinyi inquired, "Didn't you say he would let you leave early today since you will be going on a business trip tomorrow?" She concluded.

Qiu Yingyue sighed on the other side of the phone.

"Suddenly he thought that the proposal isn't good enough and he wants us to redo until everything is picture perfect. Everyone else is stranded in the office. I am not sure when I can go out of this building." She said.

Yan Xinyi could imagine the facial expression she had. Very disappointed after preparing for the early leaving.

Speaking of that hard to please boss of hers.

That was not the first time she had heard complains about him. Once she had the idea that he wanted them to work overtime day and night because he was a workaholic then she got rid of the idea.

According to Qiu Yingyue, there was no way that someone as cold and expressionless as her boss could think of anything else but work.

"Its fine. The more work, the more the money right?" She was trying to cheer up her bestie.

"And the less the enjoyment." Que Yingyue added while frowning.

"Okay,bye."

"Bye."

Yan Xinyi hang up, placed her phone om the table and took a sip of her cold homemade orange juice to clear her throat. She then continued eating.

As she was eating, she heard a phone ringing beside her. Yan Xinyi caught a glimpse of the man's face when he turned around to pick his phone from his leather backpack.

She picked up the glass of homemade orange juice and drained it's contents before the man could label her as an eavesdropper.

"Yes,hello."

Her ears perked up again. He lowered his voice to be polite and friendly to his blind date, but his voice was still echoing.

"Can I call you back later?" He said as he distanced his phone from his ear and paused when he heard the other person call out his name. Then he listened to the other person attentively.

Yan Xinyi glanced at the couple beside her casually. In that fleeting second and turned around before his eyes met with hers.

Then Yan Xinyi heard the man beside her say, "Alright, I'll be there soon."

Soon, he hung up and placed his phone gently on the table. "I'm sorry, that was my sister." He informed his blind date.

"You have a sister?" The woman asked seeming interested as her eyes lit up like fairy lights.

"Tell me about your family." She continued.

He hesitated for a few seconds, "I would love to but I'm sorry. I have to go now. My sister called me to inform me that there is an emergency and..."

Yan Xinyi let out a chuckle at his lame excuse. Wasn't that an old fashioned way to escape from an unwanted blind date? He was really terrible at that.

'Liar.' She said to herself.

Wait! What if the man had planned with someone else to give him a call at the time to escape the blind date?

Feeling the man beside her turned to look at her, she coughed a few times and drank up her orange juice but to her surprise, the glass was already empty and not to mention that the glass was transparent. There was nothing she could do but pretend to be ordering some while looking at her a la carte menu.

"It's fine," The girl said sounding disappointed. "We can continue next time." She concluded.

The man turned around to pick his backpack and said, "Rain check?"

"Sure."

Yan Xinyi looked away, pretending to pick up some meatballs from her plate when he pushed the chair behind him to wake up and stood up.

She watched the man pay the bills and headed out through the corner of her eyes.

Yan Xinyi wondered if the two had exchanged their contacts before that or had the mam successfully executed escaping from his blind date.

Anyways, it was not her problem.

She picked up her phone from the table and left and realized that something was off. Where was her teddy bear that hanged on the chain.

She was holding the same model and size but the colour of the phone cover was not the same proving that the phone in her hand was not hers.