Working for Free

Ying Yue reached out for her friend when she saw Feng Mian about to get angry. "Feng Mian, calm down-"

"No! How can you do this to me? You left for 5 years and now you want to leave again after 6 months? That's hardly fair, did you even miss me?" Feng Mian stood up in anger.

"Feng Mian, what are you saying? of course I did. I also don't want to leave you but it's either I go or he comes, this decision definitely wasn't by choice so calm down ok?" Ying Yue also stood up, raising her hands towards her in attempts to calm Feng Mian down.

"Don't make me mad and then tell me to calm down. That's no different from how I stabbed you and asked you why you were bleeding"

"Oh, so now you admit that you stabbed me?"

This one time when Feng Mian was cooking instant noodles in the kitchen, she 'accidentally' stabbed Ying Yue whom at that time was behind her. Don't ask how and why she needed a knife to make instant noodles ... but she did. And because of that Ying Yue has never stepped foot into the kitchen as Feng Mian.

"That's not the goddamn point right now." Feng Mian snapped out in anger.

"I can't stay in China, Feng Mian. I'm not going to let them meet."

Feng Mian wanted to say more but she knew just as much as Ying Yue did the consequences of letting them meet. "...every year, 6 months you must visit me. The other half you can go back to Ying"

"Deal" Ying Yue walked up to Feng Mian and embraced her friend. "Why do I feel like I'm Persohone and you're Hades?" muttered Ying Yue as she released her friend. Feng Mian laughed before shaking her head and turning around to grab her coat.

"Come on, let's go get a bite to eat before continuing work"

"You mean starting work right? I haven't even started yet," Ying Yue muttered while following behind. "In fact, you didn't even give me a job"

"But you're self-employing yourself, are you not?" Feng Mian turned back to look at her friend with a brow raised.

"...I regret self-employing myself now. This is essentially just working here for free"

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, I'll pay for lunch," Feng Mian said as they both waited for the elevator to arrive. Hearing that she would receive free food, a smile instantly made its way to Ying Yue's face.

Feng Mian tsked when she saw the grin. "You own a damn country and you still can't break your habit of freeloading of others in 5 years?"

"What can I say? I like free stuff. Who doesn't?" Ying Yue was not a bit ashamed of being called someone who enjoys the thought of obtaining without paying. Feng Mian just shook her head and wondered why she ever agreed to be friends with this crazy person.

"Because at that point in time of our lives, I was the only person you could win over with a block of chocolate"

Feng Mian whipped her head over to look at Ying Yue, eyes wide.

"What? Don't look at me like that. You said it out loud," Ying Yue said defensively before her friend decided to send her to a hospital for the mentally disabled.