8 A Series of Unfortunate Events

A series of laughter fills the whole establishment where Lim Xian and his group of three rich friends are always hanging out during their spare time. This place was once a shabby, abandoned school building that they turned to be some fancy place to hang out.

"You mean, you were literally kicked in the balls mate?" Wang Qing He, Xian's closest buddy of them all, repeated in order to tease his buddy. His brushed-up black hair adds up to his arrogant look.

However, Lim Xian doesn't appreciate being the laughingstock in the group, and glared at the boy seated comfortably across him on a coffee-colored couch. Wang Qing He immediately stopped laughing afterward.

"I can't fire the bitch who dares to humiliate me since my obnoxious father was the one who hired her to obviously piss me off. And it's actually working." Lim Xian complains like an eight-year-old kid that has his toy snatched up.

"Dude, your problem is way too simple to solve," Liu Yang, known as the most carefree, playboy and the go-with-the-flow type of guy, chimes in as he wears that arrogant grin of his. Clutched to his right hand now is a bottle of beer that they had snuck in here, and on his left is where his girl for the day is seated who is now caressing his fake blonde wet-look hair.

Lim Xian shoots him a dirty look. "And what is that simple solution, Liu Yang?"

"Yes, tell us, Liu Yang." Their other friend, Yang Shunyuan, adds to their buddy's pressure to spill the tea.

The latter took a long sip from his beer, threw in a satisfied 'Aahh' before answering his friend's question.

"If you can't fire her, then give her a hell life that she so deserves for humiliating you like that. In that way, she will volunteer to remove herself from your life-- forever!"

For the first time since Lim Xian and Liu Yang have known each other, the former has been thankful for his presence in this very room.

He has a point. Lim Xian is the boss here, why does he need to trouble himself to be with that stupid woman? If he can't get rid of her, he will just have to make sure that the girl will be the one to resign herself. And just like that, all of his troubles will go away.

"I'm a genius, right?" Liu Yang says, seeking some credit. But Lim Xian didn't give him the satisfaction.

"Save it. This plan of yours should better work, or else--"

"That would work. Have a little faith, will you?"

Lim Xian only rolls his eyes and concentrates on finding ways to get rid of his annoying maid-- once and for all.

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Li Meilin is now walking alone towards her locker to get the textbooks she will need for her next class when someone happens to pass by as she arrives at her destination.

Without her knowing, a guy swiftly moves his hand to paste something on Li Meilin's back then hurries to pass through without being noticed. Li Meilin has now opened her locker and was about to get her books when she noticed the weird stares that the other students were throwing at her.

"What seems to be the matter?" She tries to ask herself but doesn't get an answer after she's done getting her books and closed her locker once again.

Shrugging, Li Meilin continues on her way to her next subject to meet up with her friends inside the classroom.

"Oh my god, that b*tch is even proud to say it in front of the students, huh?" Says one female student that Li Meilin happens to pass by.

"Shameless, isn't she?" The other one said. And they both giggled as they walked past Li Meilin.

The latter has still no idea what was going on right now until she made it to their classroom. Quickly, her friends saw what was posted on the girl's back.

"Meilin! Did you know there was something pasted on your back all along?" Mi Wei asks in disbelief as she reads each word written on a piece of bond paper.

"What?" Li Meilin scoffs and snatches the bond paper from Mi Wei in haste. She reads each word in an average tone.

"I am a slut and I know it?"

Now, Li Meilin could feel her blood boiling as realization dawned upon her. Those looks that others are throwing at her plus that mean conversation of those girls from earlier, this was the reason behind it!

"Who would even paste this thing on your back?" Zhao Chen snickers, snatching the paper from Li Meilin and tears it to pieces.

"I wish I knew…" Li Meilin replies, though she already has someone in mind who could possibly do it. Someone she knows that now holds a grudge on her right now.

It didn't take long before Li Meilin noticed a sudden change in her life at Shenzhen High School.

For one week straight, she experienced being picked by bullies more often than usual in which her friends protect her from, being purposely thrown a ball once she happens to pass by their soccer field by one of the players, being shut down in the library, and not allowing her to borrow books for a week, and having a live mouse inside her bag the moment she opens it to get her things.

Lim Xian is starting to get on her nerves, but as much as she wanted to confront him and accuse him of all the things he has done to her in the past few days, she can't. After all, that demon is still her master no matter what.

But Li Meilin easily sees through her master's intentions on why he is doing all these. That jerk wants her to give up her job now by making her life a living hell in the school.

However, Lim Xian just messed with the wrong girl, for Li Meilin has the fighting spirit within her that allows her to endure all the pain that he is inflicting into her life.

Lim Xian can do whatever he wants with her… but Li Meilin wouldn't give up her job that easily. If her mere presence alone in their house is what annoys the Black Prince, then she won't give him the satisfaction by resigning from her job.

The following week came, and Li Meilin has been eating more than usual. If she is about to get bullied in school once more, then she needs a lot of stamina to withstand whatever she is about to experience later in school.

Just as she is about to finish eating, Li Meilin spots Lim Xian going downstairs looking pissed as ever. The girl then decides to add up to his foul mood by walking towards him, wearing that sweet smile of hers.

"Good morning master. Care to have some breakfast?" Li Meilin says in her sweet and innocent tone that immediately caused Lim Xian to glare at her.

Li Meilin pretended to be oblivious about it. "What? Isn't greeting you every morning a part of my job? Hmm?"

"Geez!" was all the boy has to say before walking past her and out of this house.

Li Meilin can't help but laugh at his reaction. It was priceless, indeed! She would be willing to endure all the hardships in school, as long as she sees that defeat look upon his face every single time.

You definitely had messed with the wrong girl, Lim Xian!

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Li Meilin is still happy with the fact that she got to annoy her young, devil master once more. She kept on humming happily until she arrived at the campus grounds.

Without her knowing, another surprise awaits her.

A group of male students that Lim Xian paid gathered together on the second floor of the building, holding a bucket full of ice cold water.

Since everyone knows what these boys can do, other students who witnessed such a thing pretended that they haven't seen anything just to stay out of their radar.

Making sure that their target is already in position and is alone for that matter, the boy starts to lift the bucket up and throws all the water right at the girl. They each high-fived each other before setting the bucket aside and ran away, laughing.

Meanwhile, Li Meilin was still stunned by what happened to her, her clothes and hair dripping wet from the water that has been thrown out to her just now.

Other students start to take humiliating pictures of her, some are even stopping by to laugh. But no one dared to help her.

"Li Meilin?" a voice cries out at the back of the small crowd that now surrounds the girl. Li Meilin soon discovers that it belongs to Zhao Chen, snapping her out of her thoughts.

With all the laughter that she is now hearing, only Zhao Chen's voice sounded sincere and is genuinely concerned for her.

It served as the light to her sudden gloomy day, a ray of hope that everything will soon be alright. Not long after that, her friend is now blocking her from those that want to take pictures of her.

"All of you, get the f'ck out of here!" Zhao Chen roars in anger, making the spectators flee from his sudden intimidating presence as soon as they can.

Once the coast is clear, Zhao Chen hurriedly grabs Li Meilin's right hand that is still wet by now.

"Let's go get yourself cleaned up, shall we?" Zhao Chen gently says, in which Li Meilin only answered with a nod.