Something Fishy

"Then, I'll go get my things later."

"Let's go now! We'll help you." Lin Zhu eagerly said.

"I'll be in my room. If you need something just ask me. The door is open." Min Ju left.

... ... ...

"Boss, good morning." One of the guards said when he saw Qing Wu Yao approaching the Fu Manor.

"Where's Min Ju?"

"She's inside, boss. Probably lonely since the others left."

"Lonely?"

"It's your time to shine, boss. Make the young miss happy." The bodyguards laugh together.

"Oi." Qing Wu Yao frown while jokingly backhand slap the bodyguard.

"Don't be embarrassed, boss. Sir Xiao has been spreading rumors in the barracks that you are pursuing the young lady." The male smiled teasingly at his boss.

"Aiya. You all love to tease this young master. Let me enter and I shall make him happy."

Once again, the bodyguards laugh out loud. "Do it, boss!"

Qing Wu Yao entered the gate unhurriedly. He was observing the surroundings to see if there was any suspicious person lingering around the area.

He was here to let Min Ju know that he found this villa not far from the old man Xiao's home. If Min Ju doesn't have the money to buy for it, he'll be glad to buy it for her and give it as a gift. Well, a bethrotal gifts to be exact. Qing Wu Yao chuckled at the thought. There were butterflies fluttering in his stomach as he thought about her.

He entered the living room and found no one.

"Min Ju?" He called out.

"I'm in my room!" Min Ju responded yelling.

Qing Wu Yao climbed up into the second floor. He search for Min Ju's room and find her immediately as the door to her room is open.

He looks around the room and smiled.

"I didn't think that you like pink." He commented. The interiors were colored in pink. There were also pink plushy toys around in the room.

Min Ju glance at him. He was leaning in the doorframe, eyes folded in his chest. She find him oozes coolness. The sultry eyes, the killer physique. Does he realize how sexy he was? Or has he always been this goddamn sexy? Min Ju question herself.

"Well, I like to think I'm a great princess. I never would have thought that I was actually a Cinderella the moment I landed in US. Thank god, I met my godmother." She said.

"Then, who's Cinderella's prince?" He eagerly ask.

"Want to apply? Bring your resume." The two of them laugh.

"Come in. Don't stand in the doorway." She urges him to enter.

"I..uh. Is that okay?" He asked. His a man, okay? And he had never been in a girls room nor in the girls dorm. He was always been the good guy.

"Are you scared?" Her voice woke up the 7th sense of Qing Wu Yao? Wait, 7th sense? What the hell? Qing Wu Yao! Wake up, dude! Why are you talking to yourself?

He sat rigidly in a solo couch in the room and watch her do stuff in front of her computer.

Now that he notice it, she was always been busy whenever he found himself around her. He had never seen her do nothing.

"Do you want coffee?" She suddenly asked.

"You're busy. I don't want to bother you just for a coffee."

"Suit yourself."

Min Ju proceeded to face her computer. As time flies, Min Ju's forehead knitted. Her knuckles turn white gripping the mouse. He can see that her eyes was filled with worry.

"Worry lines have never suited you."

As if on cue, her face loosened. "What's the matter?"

"Qing Wu Yao...do you know Min Zhe?"She turns towards him just to ask him this.

"Hmm. He is a great man. Outsiders may not know this, Min Ju but your father was always been thinking about the two of you."

Min Ju inhaled a sharp breath before parting her lips, "Then, why didn't he go an visit me and my brother?" Her voice cracks.

"He tried and he always fought for that with your mom. Your... mother always tried to stop him and agreement was form. And that agreement was that he will send money to your mother and visit you and take care for the both of you. But I guess, Mrs. Su broke the agreement." Qing Wu Yao watch her expression. Though, others may not read her expression right now but Qing Wu Yao had witness that she was just as vulnerable as a glass. She could break anytime.

"But she didn't..." Min Ju looked away. For a minute, she thought that she might melt under his gaze.

"Well, that was the case. When your father found out about the greediness of your mother, which was he regretted so much, he immediately sent off to the US. That was two years ago before he went missing. We tried everything to contact him, search for him. Even ask the airport's boarding records to see if he really boarded the plane, and he was."

"Do you even entered your mind that there was something fishy going on?"