An Old Best Friend

Meanwhile, at the Tokyo airport, Ye Jie passed through all the security checks and came out through the VIP arrivals passage.

A man clad in black with a stern look and an earpiece in his ear came up to him and bowed slightly to greet him. "Mr. Ye, please follow me."

Ye Jie nodded and trailed behind him to his BMW parked up front. When the bulky stern looking man was focused on maneuvering the car through the rushed up roads, Ye Jie raised his eyes from the laptop and asked, "Where are we going?"

"I'm asked to bring you to the Ichiko Bar in the northern suburbs." He replied in a courteous but professional tone.

Ye Jie didn't talk again and sat quietly to look through his documents. It took them about an hour to reach the destination and after dropping Ye Jie, the tall bulky man bowed in respect and took his leave. He informed Ye Jie before leaving that, "Your suitcase will be delivered to your hotel room."

Holding on to his leather bag, Ye Jie made his way inside the Ichiko Bar. It wasn't a lavish bar with overly splendid infrastructure. Rather it was a very ordinary bar with a very low-key profile.

It didn't take long for Ye Jie to find the person he was looking for. He heard the sound of a glass bottle breaking and he figured that was where he was supposed to go.

The person he came to see can be described in many ways but Ye Jie liked calling that person a troublemaker. Wherever that person went, trouble followed quietly behind.

True to his expectations, he found 3 young teenagers in their uniforms sitting on their knees with their hands raised high above facing the sky. Almost all of them had a black eye and visible bruises were no exceptions. Their heads were lowered as they sat with an aggrieved expression.

Then he the heard the familiar voice, "So, who's going to ditch school and come to a bar again?" The voice was very lazy but pleasant to hear. But he was more than familiar what lied behind that facade.

"We'll never ditch class and we'll never even look at a bar again." All the teenagers loudly announced.

"Then get the hell out of here!" As soon as they heard these words, they heaved a sigh of relief as if someone gave them a new lease on life.

Ye Jie rolled his eyes as he saw the young boys staggering out. There were shards of glass scattered around and Ye Jie had to take very careful steps. "Look like you still know how to cause trouble."

When the person turned around to look at Ye Jie, the first striking feature was those green eyes. They were green as a calm sea before the storm engulfs it. "Oh, look! If it isn't my traitor but still a best friend."

"Girl! Who's the traitor here?" He asked getting annoyed with that damn smirk on her face.

The girl's looks can be described in only one way; breathtaking. She was wearing an oversized hoodie with the hood over her head and a baseball cap underneath it. Even though her eyes made her even more breathtaking but the look in those eyes was so cold that it could freeze someone easily.

"Aren't you the best friend who stopped contacting me just because of a girl?" Her tone was still silvery but it couldn't disguise the sarcasm from Ye Jie.

"Can we not talk about that? I'm married to someone else now. Do you have a problem with her as well?" Ye Jie sat on the couch opposite of her.

A beautiful sever came to their table and asked, "Sir, What should I get you both?" She was asking both of them but her eyes were looking the person with the oversized hoodie.

The green-eyed one tilted her head a bit to glance at the server. "What does the young lady suggest?" Her voice texture completely changed as she propped her elbow on the armrest and passed her signature smirk to the server.

The poor server blushed and replied, "May I suggest Tangerine Ginger Sake Sangria?" She spoke while staring at those cold yet charming green eyes.

"How can I disappoint such a beautiful young lady?" Ye Jie looked at his best friend flirting with a girl without any shame and had an inkling to punch that damn smirk off of her face.

'She really knows how to charm girls.' He thought to himself with a shake of his head.

The server bit her bottom lip and bowed before leaving them.

The green eyes turned and looked at the glare from the brown-eyed guy in front of her. "What?" She asked animatedly as if she was completely innocent.

"Can you stop hitting on girls? Don't forget you're a girl as well." Ye Jie reminded her.

"Only for you, my dear best friend, I'm a girl. For the rest of the world, I've lived as a man for all my life." She also reminded without an indifferent look on her face.

The server brought the Spanish heritage drink with the Japanese twist in no time. Ye Jie picked up his glass and took a sip. The bursting taste of fresh ginger was the first thing his taste buds caught followed by crispy tangerine and a finish of minty flavor was a pleasure of its kind.

"Like the taste?" She asked as she sat straight with her legs a bit parted completely unladylike. She had not even touched her own drink and Ye Jie knew the reason.

"You're still avoiding alcohol? Then why did you order this?" He asked his own question ignoring her question completely.

"It's not like I don't know what it tastes like. There hardly a taste of drinks that this lor-lady haven't tried before. It's not fun anymore." She replied completely getting over her pause.

"Show-off!" Ye Jie grumbled. "Ru'er, Did you find Murong Yi?" He got to the main agenda.

"Do you take me for a joke? No one can hide from my network." She proudly announced.