The Devil’s love

"It was a mistake but I overreacted." Pausing for a while, Elizabeth added, "That was the only picture I had of my family members."

"I can understand how important those pictures are for you. I mean, I don't even remember my parents face but I can still understand," he smiled. ​​

Lowering her head, she sighed, "I am sorry, I didn't know."

"It's alright, how can you know anything about me when we just met today?" Pointing towards the computer screen, he added, "This is gonna take some time, if everything doesn't get recovered then just let me know."

"H-How do I let you know? I mean, are you going to come here often?" she inquired.

"We will be working together starting today, we will always see each other whenever necessary." Pausing for a while, he added, "Or you can give me your number and I can give you mine, this way we can be in touch and discuss important things over the phone."

"Yes sure, let me get my phone." Running towards the bedside table, she quickly grabbed her cell phone.

After exchanging the numbers, Jason stated, "I will call you if something comes up and you can call me if there is something important."

Before Elizabeth could say anything, Linhou and Kiara entered the room hand in hand.

"Well well well, looks like you both patched up already," Linhou grinned.

Scrunching his brows, Jason snapped, "Close your button properly Linhou, why is it open anyway?"

"Yes Kiara why is my button open?" Wrapping his arms around Kiara's shoulder, Linhou whispered, "I wish everything was open."

Smacking his arms, she chuckled, "Stop it." Looking at the smile in Elizabeth's face, Kiara inquired, "You look happy, it seems like you just needed to see Jason."

"Kiara, what are you saying?" she frowned.

Glancing at the watch, Jason informed, "It's getting late, we should leave."

Nodding his head, Linhou sighed, "Yes I know, just give me five more minutes."

"Okay, I am waiting for you outside." Smiling at Elizabeth, Jason added, "I'll see you around, goodbye."

"Bye, go safe," she smiled.

…..

Friday.

Afternoon.

Ning and Yichan's place.

"Okay wait, let me get this straight. You went to apologize to him in his office and he invited you for a weekend trip instead of forgiving you?" Meili inquired.

Ziying nodded her head and explained, "Yes he did, I don't know what he is up to." Looking at Ning, she sighed, "Why is your brother so weird?"

Helplessly shaking her head, Ning chuckled, "I don't know what to say, Chen is my brother so I am not going to say anything bad about him and I will also not force you to go on that trip because he is my brother."

"Oh no Ning, you don't have to force Ziying to go because she is already going." Looking at Ziying, Nuying smiled, "Come on, tell them everything."

"You are going on that trip?" When she nodded her head, Meili chuckled, "No wonder you accepted Ning's lunch date invitation at this time of the day. I mean, you are usually working at this hour so—"

"I took an early day off today, told dad to handle things while I am away." When everyone started secretly grinning, Ziying sighed, "Come on you guys stop making fun of me and try to understand why I had to take this decision. I felt very guilty for snapping at Chen when all he wanted to do was apologize for the misunderstanding we had and also because he is Ning's brother, I didn't want to be in bad terms with him."

"Ziying, we are not judging you. It's your decision to go on a trip with Chen, you can and you should. We support you one hundred percent." Taking a bite of the chicken, Ning added, "I mean, I won't mind even if you start dating my brother."

Scrunching her brows, Ziying snapped, "Hey, who is dating him? I am never dating anyone like Chen. He is such a big flirt and—"

Cutting her off, Nuying explained "That is so not true, Chen isn't a flirt or a fuckboy like you said. Yes, he is seen talking to women in variou occasions but that is called open healthy flirtings and it's not like he is sleeping around with any random woman."

Pausing for a while, she added, "In fact, I heard that he stopped dating after a really bad breakup which happened like six years ago."

"How do you know so much?"

"Zi, you can trust Nu's gossip source, they are always accurate," Meili stated.

"I never knew something like that had happened with Chen, who was the woman?" Ning curiously inquired. Chen was her newly discovered twin brother, she was obviously interested to know what had exactly happened with him in the past.

Shrugging her shoulder, Nuying answered, "I don't know what happened, I just heard he had a really terrible break up and after that, he hasn't really dated anyone officially though he is totally into open healthy flirting."

Thinking for a while, Ziying scoffed, "Maybe it is just a gossip or a rumour, Chen doesn't seem like someone who had a bad breakup or heartbreak."

"What kind of logic is that? Do you expect him to cry all day?" Nuying remarked.

"Good point but anyway, even if he had a really bad breakup what can I do about it? It's not like I am going to date him or something like that."

"We will see," Ning muttered.

...

Evening

After everyone leaves, Ning decides to go through the documents that Yichan had left for her to evaluate in the living instead of sitting in the bedroom or study room all by herself. She hated being alone but had no other choice. Yichan would always come home by late evening and Yitian had started coming home later too. Aunt Lin would sometimes spend the spare time she had with Ning but apart from that, she would always end up spending her time all by herself.

As she was about to open the file, one of the guards entered the mansion.

"Madam, there is a parcel under boss' name," the guard informed.

"What kind of parcel is it?" she inquired.

"It's from some kind of a bookstore."

Scrunching her brows, Ning muttered, "Bookstore." Why would Yichan, who never reads books order anything from a book store?

Walking towards her, the guard kept the parcel on the table. "We have already scanned it, it's safe."

"Alright, thank you for bringing it in." After the guard left, Ning was about to open the box when aunt Lin arrived.

Placing the tray on the table, aunt Lin inquired, "What is this?"

"It's something Yi ordered from some bookstore. I am still wondering since when did he start reading books?" she sighed before trying to open the box.

"Let me do it for you." Taking the box from her hand, aunt Lin quickly opened it and took out a book from the box. "These are interesting books, no wonder young master wants to read them."

Taking the book from her hand, Ning widened her eyes in shock. "What this—" Looking inside the box when she saw various other pregnancy books, she frowned and quickly grabbed her phone from the table.

Keeping the bowl of soup on the table, aunt Lin smiled, "Don't forget to drink this, okay?"

Without wasting any more time, Ning quickly called her crazy husband.

"Babe, I was just thinking about calling you. Another proof that we are soul mates," Yichan sighed.

"I have called you to ask something important." Picking up one of the books in her hand, she inquired, "Did you order some books?"

"Did they arrive already? That is a really fast service."

"Hmm they did." Pausing for a while, she inquired, "What kind of books are they?"

"Those are pregnancy guidance books for new daddy's. In fact, they have both post and pre pregnancy tips and guidelines," he explained.

Tossing the book aside, she sighed, "So you really ordered them."

"Of course I did, Guiren and brother Bojing told me about the site. They also told me that it's nice and very helpful so I decided to read it as well."

Scrunching her brows, she asked, "Why would Guiren read it?"

"A little extra knowledge won't harm honey. Just keep that aside, I will start reading them after I come back from work. I have an urgent last meeting now, I will come home after that. Bye, I love you." Without waiting for her reply, he hung up the call.

"Hello Yi—" Realizing that the call had been disconnected already, she tossed the phone aside and sighed. Looking at the book in her hand, she helplessly shook her head. Why was it so difficult to understand what men are thinking sometimes? Yichan always says it's too early to have a baby but all of sudden he wanted to start reading baby books.

Placing the books inside the box., she picked up the bowl and started drinking her soup instead.

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