Chapter 354 - A friend’s advice(2) (1/2)
Edward Wu remained unmoved and strongly disapproving as he said, ”that was from three years ago and I never liked her, not that I knew her or cared to. In fact, her face is a little fuzzy in my memory but I don't remember being very interested in knowing her, I always thought that as a friend to you that was okay but the whole dating didn't sit right with me. Who knows how a coma can change a person.”
Lei Zhao couldn't quite believe his ears if he had been asked, he would have said they were friends of a sort, ” she's fine, I promise. She and Yan Mei get along so well and I've even given her back her job” but the moment he said those words, it hit him about how wrong they sounded
Edward Wu dropped the snifter in his hands on the table, leaned forward, and pinned him with a glare, ”let me get this straight, she's your ex-girlfriend but she lives in your house, the same house your share with your wife, she's friends with your wife and works with you in the office?”
It sounded so wrong when it was spoken out loud, Lei Zhao winced at laying out facts that made things look even worse for him. ”You make it sound clandestine when you say it like that”
”Because it is” Jun Mo pointed out, his voice impassioned.
”I love my wife,” Lei Zhao felt the need to point it out
Edward Wu nodded easily but waves it aside to make his point, ”I know, you know, your wife knows, probably even Yue Yan can see that but what about the rest of the world?”
”Dammit” Lei Zhao exploded
His friend remained unmoved by his sudden show of anger, ”You'll have to just let her find a place of her own, and a new job”
”I can't do that to her” he answered, it seemed extreme to cut off an old friend for what felt like saving his own skin
”Sure you can, if she keeps working here even living by herself, nothing has changed. If you think people are overreacting now? Wait until that happens.” Edward Wu pointed out unkindly before getting to his feet and going straight for the mini-bar.
A sudden silence descended on the room, broken only by the clink of ice in the glass and the sloshing sound of liquid pouring.
Someone knocked on the door and Lei Zhao asked them to come in, the door opened to reveal Yue Yan in the doorway. ”Please come in,” he said when he noted her reticence to enter his office because she saw a visitor with him.
Lei Zhao got to his feet and introduced the two of them. ”Edward, Jun Mo meet Yue Yan , Yue Yan this is Edward and Jun Mo, you guys outta know each other.”
If Lei Zhao had hopes that Edward and Yue Yan would hit it off or even like each other one bit, that hope was brutally dashed on the rocks of reality. Yue Yan's face was painfully polite as the two of them shared the briefest handshake in the whole of human history.
” I just came to drop a few things that needed your signature urgently” she informed him
”Thank you, Yueyue, please drop them on the desk, I get to them as soon as possible.”
”Of course” she murmured before walking up to his desk and dropping the slim envelope on the table before turning to walk out.
Jun Mo's eyebrows remained arched, the look in them was much more accusatory before it completely cleared off.
”Whatever guilt you think you have about that, you need to let it go. You're too blind to see it but you're about to ruin your own life.” Jun Mo murmured
”Come on Jun Mo”
”Do you remember how life works again?” His friend asked, drawing him to a pause.
”Of course I do ” his voice was testy