Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Weiyoung was scared shitless that she had no time to process what he had just said. She used her two hands to cradle her stomach as she tried to avoid him by moving backwards.

He quickly got to where she was standing and placed his two hands on her shoulders and looked at her intently.

"Liu Weiyoung! Don't you think this is our retribution for messing with Sara? She didn't even come after us directly but the impact is still this great after all!" He said then laughed humorlessly.

Weiyoung was still scared but still managed to ask while stuttering,

"What has Sara got to do with this?"

"Come see something" He said as he moved a hand from her stomach and led her by the hand towards the table.

There was a small envelope on the table. Weiyoung had seen it when she entered but didn't pay much attention to it.

He lifted it and gave it to her.

When she opened it, she saw one picture of Sara getting down from a car, and another, where the driver's face was clearly shown. Her eyes widened in shock when She instantly recognised him to be CEO Li Muchen, her ex-boyfriend's cousin.

"What... What is going on?" She asked as she blinked in confusion and raised her head to look at him.

"How stupid of you to not understand. Did you see the security throw Sara out on our engagement party? Of course not! That was because Li Muchen stopped them. And immediately after the engagement, he cancelled all our contracts. What do you think?" He asked then laughed dryly.

No wonder she had not reacted that much when she saw the both of them. She had been cheating on him with Li Muchen all this while?

That question had been on his mind since he saw the pictures.

Weiyoung had never been so shocked in her entire life. Sara? Li Muchen? how come she knew nothing about it?

"Want to know the worse?" He asked but did not wait for her to answer before he continued.

"Even Uncle Dexi is interested in her! Everyone is interested in her! Everyone is interested in my EX!" He cackled humorlessly as he fell to the ground and continued laughing like a maniac.

Weiyoung was still standing there like a statue, trying to process everything when he stopped laughing and placed a stick of cigarette between his lips.

"You know what happens when two elephants fight right? The grass suffers. And guess what missy? We are the grass..." He said before he lit a cigarette.

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Weiyoung looked at her reflection in the mirror.

Was this really her retribution?

Jinyong had warned her not to contact him again until he called her first. He even threw her out of his apartment that night!

It was as if she was stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.

If Sara got together with Li Muchen, then she would be below Sara in the social ranking. On the other hand, If she got together with Mo Dexi, Then Sara would become her Aunt-in-Law if she married Jinyong.

When she thought about these two possibilities, this provoked a terrible fit of anger on her part. She screamed and pushed down all her cosmetics which was on the table, down to the floor. She did not mind the clattering noises and just stared at the mirror with angry, determined eyes.

"Mo Jinyong you bastard! You dare abandon me now?.... Just watch if I don't abort this child and go after Mo Dexi" She screamed one more time.

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That evening, as soon as Li Muchen's car stopped in the front of his apartment, another car stopped behind him.

It was a midsized orange BMW i8 roadster. The roof of the car was open so Muchen could clearly see it was his cousin Li Minde. Li Muchen also had the same car model but a different colour shade. He felt it was too extravagant to be driving it around so he garaged the car with others.

But Li Minde was an extravagant person who liked to show off wealth. He wondered why Minde was wearing a sunglass when it was evening already. There was so a blaring sound coming from his speaker as he enjoyed a loud hip hop music. 

"Hello big bro!" Minde greeted immediately he got down from the car and gave him a big bear hug. "I'v missed you so much."

Muchen pushed him back before pointing at the car.

"When did you get that?" he asked.

Minde pouted then took off his sunglass as he answered.

"I've been trying to reach you but Ms Long keeps saying you are busy. I was so bored then I saw this beauty and decided to get her" He grinned when he finished speaking.

Muchen looked at him and shook his head. He really didn't know what to tell this cousin of his.

"I'm glad to finally see you. Ms Long said you just left the office so I came ov..." He was suddenly interrupted by Muchen.

"Good you are here! Come help me with these.." He said as he pressed a tiny remote on his hand, then, his car's booth opened to reveal several large shopping bags.

"Big Bro, You went shopping?" He asked in surprise.

He knew Muchen wasn't the type to care about his clothing or go shopping. Especially since he had his own fashion boutique.

All he needed to do was ask Ms Long to get them and send them over.

Muchen ignored him and just lifted some bags, then strode towards the entrance.

Minde also did same and just followed Muchen.

As soon as they got to the door, it opened from the inside. Sara and Heya stepped out together and were both startled to suddenly bump into two people at the entrance.

Sara was about to greet Li Muchen, when she saw someone else with him. He was the very last person she had expected to see.