1 Chapter 1 Lateness

Shit! I'm late!

DIE! DIE! In mess, I rummage through piles and piles of cloth sprawled all over my bedroom floor.

Damn it! I'm going to be late.

"SiSi! Lady SiSi! Where are you?!" I yell frantically.

Where the hell she is?

Quickly I run onto the stair and throw myself over the bannister.

"SiSi!" I call out her name again.

Then I hear the familiar sound of a wooden spoon bashing at the edge of the glass bowl and SiSi come to surface at the bottom of the stairs. She looks up at me with a tired expression.  SiSi and I have been a best friend since we were five years old. She is the neighbour daughter Auntie Wen and Uncle Huo. 

So since then, we have been playing and gone to school together until now I moved in staying with her temporary. But this apartment belonged to SiSi, she has moved to S city earlier than me after the fallout of her relationship with my brother after my brother went working at B city.

"What?" She asks. 

"My baby key? Have you seen it? I searched everywhere but couldn't find it." I puff at her.

"Aigooo! Clumsy Lady Bei! They are on the table, you've left over there last night,"  She rolls her eyes while taking herself and take her cake mixture back to her baking kitchen.

Immediately I dart across the landing in a complete fluster and find my car keys under a magazine. Then I make my way downstairs from the flat above SiSi baking kitchen, finding spooning cake mixture into various bowls.

"You need to tidy your room Weiwei. It's a fucking mess," she nagged just like the mommy does.

Eventually, I am an interior designer at Deng Tai, one of the top architecture design company in S city. It's true that I spend all day organising and coordinating interior for the client but in reality, organisation skills are pretty shocking to talks.

Haha...

Reluctantly, I took one mini cupcake into my mouth from the dining table.

"Sorry moms, I can't be brilliant at everything," I smirk at her.

Then she put on annoying facial before told me,

'"Go to work now! She bats my hand away with her spatula before I could take another piece of her cupcake. Why do you use the car today, usually you didn't?" she asks, leaning down to her mixture bowl over, her tongue resting on her bottom lip in concentration.

"Ah, I got my first VVIP consultation to Old Mansion Feng. You know that Old Mansion has been list as the oldest historic mansion in S city. And the noble family living there, and it's out from the city so I need my car to reach there," I feed my belt through the belt loops of my navy pencil dress, slip my feet into my heels and present myself to the wall mirror.

"Oh, so finally miss big city got a very high-end project then, and Nobelist too. Good," she says from behind me.

I ruffle my long hair for a few seconds, flicking it from one side to other but give up, piling it up with a few grips instead. My hazel brown eyes look tired and lack their usual sparkle, results, no doubt, of burning the candle at both ends.

As I only move in with SiSi a month ago. 

"Usually if historic involvement is my boss things but this time, I don't know how he gives this big mission for me this time," I say before sweeping the wand of my gloss across my lips, smack them together and kiss Sisi on the cheek.

"It's going to be a very long project since I only fluent most in the modern city. Got to go, see you tonight!" I bid her when I realise the time is ticking late.

"Okay, see you later," SiSi laughs, without lifting her face from her mixture bowl.

Despite my lateness, I drive my baby Beetle with my usual care to my office on S city street and after I spend ten minutes driving around looking for a parking space. Finally, I get into the office and glance at the clock on my desk.

'Nine forty', ohh.

I'm fifty minutes late, not as bad as I thought.

Then I pass Jing Jing and Old Yue empty desks on the way to my own while spying Xufeng in his office before entering my office room. Unpacking my files and lappy, notice there packaging for me.

"Morning Xiao Wei,"  Xufeng low burst greets me as he perches on the edge of my desk, followed by the customary creak under his weight.

"Morning, what have you got there Xu Feng Brother?" I asked.

" It's a new fabric from Yuan Silk. Do you like?" He asks.

I stroke some of the luxurious material.

Wonderful, he feigns interest.

"Don't let Yuling see it. I've just liquidated most of my assets to fund the new soft furnishings at home," he says worriedly.

Oh, then I give him a sympathetic face.

"Where is everyone?" I asked.