Jealousy

"When will the two of you stop?"

Roulan and Lanying look at the woman in front of them, seeing Yanmei with her eyebrows furrowed as she looks at the two in disgust.

Roulan closes her mouth as Lanying puts the spoon down, leaning on the chair with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Why? Are you jealous?"

Lanying asks, her mouth twitching into a smirk as Yanmei scoffs before putting her utensils down loudly, causing people near them to glance at them.

"Why would I be jealous?"

Yanmei asks, her mouth forming a smile as she glances at Lanying, her eyes darting towards Roulan.

"Why would I be jealous? It's not like something's going on between us."

"Did I say it was between you two?"

Lanying raised her eyebrows, pointing between Roulan and Yanmei. The older woman stops before she grabs her utensils, ready to devour her jealousy.

"And besides, why would you be jealous? As you said, nothing is going on."

Lanying grabs her utensils, scooping a dish and putting it in front of Roulan's mouth.

Her eyes darted between Roulan's lips and eyes before she raised her eyebrows as if inviting the taller woman to open her mouth.

Roulan looks uncomfortable with Yanmei's glare and Lanying's entusiastic stare. She didn't know who to agree with.

Is it Lanying? But Yanmei would certainly be angry at her for accepting the woman's offer while also giving her reasons why she should avoid accepting it.

Or Yanmei? But that will look rude because Lanying is only kind to her.

Heck, why would she even care about the feelings of these two women? She can take care of herself anyway.

Roulan smiles widely at Lanying before grabbing her utensils and scooping a dish onto her plate.

Yanmei smirks as her eyes land on Lanying, seeing the woman slowly pull her hand away and look at Yanmei, only to be greeted by a boastful woman.

"I can eat by myself; thank you for the offer."

-

"The red one looks good around your neck."

Yanmei sassed out, her eyes rolling as Lanying puts the lingerie she's holding down on her sides. The latter scoffs before putting it back onto the racks, where she grabs it.

After eating lunch with Lanying, who said it'd be her treat, she pulled Roulan inside a lingerie store to buy a new collection that just went out in public.

Yanmei couldn't help but groan in annoyance, imagining Lanying seducing Roulan with a couple of sets of lingerie.

Lanying pulled out an almost-string-looking lingerie. Roulan couldn't even understand how a woman could wear lingerie like that; she could already tell that she could use it to fix the broken drawer.

And she couldn't help but snicker when Yanmei told Lanying those words.

"Roulan, do you think this one will look good?"

Lanying pulled out another lingerie set, seeing a maroon-colored one in her hands. Roulan furrowed her eyebrows, seeing the weird design of the undergarments the woman pulled.

"How can you wear that type of undergarment?"

Roulan asks. Lanying looks at the set she got and points at the darker area on the bra.

"That's for the nipples."

Then her hands travel down towards the thong, pointing between her center area and the item.

"That's for this."

Lanying said, her smile turning wicked as she quickly raised both of her eyebrows, looking at Roulan teasingly.

"Are you imagining me in them?"

Yanmei's eyes were quick to look at the two, as Roulan widened her eyes and blushed intensely.

"What? No! Why would I do that to a friend!?"

Roulan defended herself, her eyes looking at Yanmei, but she was quick to look away, seeing the older woman's glare at her.

"Why would she imagine you in it?"

Yanmei stands between the two, her eyes staring at Lanying's soul as the woman shrugs her shoulder, putting the lingerie on the rack again.

"I don't know; my friends do that."

"Well, Roulan's not your friend!"

Yanmei yelled at her, her hand balling into a fist as she couldn't help the feeling of jealousy arising in her system.

She looks at Roulan as the taller woman flinches and takes a step back in a hurry as Yanmei takes a step to approach her.

"You, talk."

Yanmei grabbed Roulan's wrist and dragged the woman out of the store. Seeing the puppy eyes projected at her, Lanying chuckles and waves at Roulan, causing the woman to cry in the process.

Roulan let Yanmei bring her to a more secluded area in the mall, inside a staff area where not a lot of people walk by.

"We're not supposed to be here."

"Yeah, we're not supposed to be HERE."

Yanmei emphasizes the word at the end as Roulan looks down on the ground, her hand caressing her nape as she feels embarrassed about what's happening.

"Sorry."

"For what? Did you imagine her in it?"

Yanmei's heart shutters as Roulan looks up at her with her face blushing. She breathes a sigh of relief as Roulan shakes her head aggressively, waving her hands as well.

"No! I'm not a pervert to do that!"

"Good."

Yanmei nodded, satisfied with Roulan's answer, as the taller woman sighed in relief, her hands grabbing the bookshelf on her side for support.

"I thought I'd be death meat."

"Oh, you're about to; good thing you declined that woman."

Roulan takes a step back, her eyes looking around as Yanmei looks at her with those eyes yet again, her mind drifting into another memory she couldn't believe she had.

"What the fuck!?"

"What?"

Roulan jumps in surprise, causing Yanmei to take a step back, looking at the taller woman as her hands rub Roulan's arms.

"The hell!? So we did do it?"

Roulan looks at Yanmei, seeing the older woman looking at her confusedly at the sudden bringing up of a subject about which she had no idea.

"What?"

"Nevermind."

Roulan shakes her head, not wanting to ask for more details, but her body gets goosebumps as her mind travels back to Yanmei's crazy eyes.

"Damn, why do I remember that now?"

Roulan whispers, and Yanmei raises her eyebrows at the sudden words that came out of Roulan's mouth. She couldn't help but smirk, as she assumed that she had something to do that night.

"You remember something?"

"What? No!"

Roulan pushes Yanmei away from her, walking towards the door as she holds the doorknob and twists it open.

"I'm sure it has something to do with that-"

"I forgot my fish! He needs to be bathed!"

Roulan said quickly, running away from the staff room they were in. Yanmei walks out of the room, her eyebrows furrowing at what Roulan just said.

"Wait, fish should be bathed?"

-

"Welp, a bad excuse!"

Shihong chuckles as Roulan tells him what happened at the mall earlier. From meeting Lanying to Yanmei getting jealous, they almost had another round in the staff room.

Of course, Roulan removes some explicit content that should be between the two of them, such as getting dragged into a lingerie store and getting accused of imagining someone in it.

And the short memory she remembers from the night.

"You didn't have to tell me that."

"I know, I just wanted to rub it on your face."

Roulan huffs a breath of annoyance as Shihong laughs loudly, grabbing his glass on the small table as he takes a sip of the alcohol.