Chapter 344 - Her motive (1/2)
”Are you alright? Are you okay” Yan Mei asked, her eyes wide and her complexion extremely pale, Yan Mei knew without looking that she looked just about the same as the girl standing in front of her in a superhero pose with a tray in hand.
”I'm so sorry miss, I don't know what came over me,” the beleaguered chef asked as he got to his feet unscathed
”It was an accident” she responded, piping up to quell the guilt she heard in his voice
The nurse responded practically by grabbing a mop that was at the far corner of the kitchen and started moping the hot spill.
Yue Yan dropped the tray in her hand with a rattle on the breakfast table and walked to meet her, concern blazing in her eyes. ”Are you okay Yan Mei? Did any of that water touch you? I hope I was fast enough” a vulnerability ringing in her voice.
Yan Mei caught her hand and quickly squeezed it to reassure her ”you were perfect sis”
”Now you're going to make me cry” Yue Yan warned, her eyes glittered with barely concealed tears
”Please don't, if you do, I'll join you, I'm still a bit shaken and it would take little to set me off” it was a shameless plea
”I'm just happy that you are okay.” At that declaration, Yan Mei pulled her into a hug, an action that surprised her too. Yue Yan remained tense in her embrace for a few seconds before relaxing and putting her hands around her too.
She wasn't the type to go for physical contact with someone she just met merely a day ago but here she was, pleasantly surprised.
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Pleading exhaustion from over-excitement, Yue Yan locked herself inside the room after promising to spend the day sleeping. In the safety of her room, she quickly lost the shocked demeanor replacing it with a salacious smirk.
It was almost too easy, it didn't help that everyone was just full of pity for her, poor her.
Tripping the chef had been a spur of the moment thing, she had discreetly flicked a hand to send the man flying while pretending all the while to be deep in conversation with that infernal overbearing live-in nurse.
The lot of them had started screaming off their heads and she couldn't help but enjoy it. The fear, the chaos, the resignation to pain and the desperation to do anything to avert what was currently happening.
In that moment she knew that any of those people there with them would have sold their soul to stop their beloved mistress from being doused by boiling water.
In the ruckus, no one had noticed her wide smile or the speed in which she had lifted up the tray and bashed the water aside. They were blinded by relief, the poor chef scrambling to apologize, the rest of the room trying to comfort Yan Mei.
Poor Yan Mei, dear darling Yan Mei. She had acted out a touchy scene afterwards, receiving a hug in return. Even as her hands encircled the woman, she wondered how easy it was for her to snap her neck and be done with it.
But that would be too easy, too many witnesses, too many loose ends to tie up. But the main problem was that Yan Mei did not deserve easy.