Chapter 99 - Monster Best Friend (1/2)

"You could have simply replied with a yes." Ye Jie said in a mocking tone.

"You can make me fly all the way from Country R to here in Tokyo and I'm not even allowed to reply in a roundabout way?"

Ye Jie smiled pleasingly. "Your problem is not that you had to come to Tokyo. Your problem is with the plane ride." She passed him an ugly look. He ignored it while clicking his tongue. "Tsk... Tsk... Such a brave person is scared of plane rides."

"Hei!" She bellowed in Korean while squinting her eye. "It's not that I'm scared of plane rides. They just make me nauseous. I can't help it."

Ye Jie laughed out loud at her expressions. He knew about her extreme repugnant feelings. She got up from her seat and left him laughing all by himself. It took a while for Ye Jie compose himself. He noticed that the bar was getting empty and it was already evening, the business should be booming at this time.

He saw his best friend playing with coins as she came up to him. "Come, I'll let you taste the Japenese style drinks today." He frowned and figured that she must have booked the entire bar.

"Was it necessary?" He asked looking around in the empty bar.

"Of course, it was. We have a lot to talk about after all." She replied in her silvery voice. There was a time, Ye Jie used to think that her voice sounded like silver bells ringing; it was beautiful. But with time, he realized, the more her voice sounded pleasant, the worse her personality was.

She got inside the bar counter and beckoned Ye Jie to take a seat at the stool. Then she got busy with preparing a drink. Ye Jie looked at how with the expertise she mixed the drink. He only caught her movement when she placed a martini glass in front of him.

"You're in Tokyo, my friend. Taste the Tokyo Slipper." She said dramatically.

He took a sip carefully eyeing the drink. It wasn't that he didn't have faith in her rather he didn't trust her very much with alcohol. She had a tendency to get wild with alcohol; not drinking it but when she was making the drinks. He couldn't decipher the other mixes but he tasted pineapple. She was asking him about his opinion while quirking her brows.

"Mm... It's good." He said.

"I know that." She replied matter-of-factly. "Now, let's be honest here, it's not that you called me here for Murong Yi."

Then she turned to get busy with something else. Ye Jie stayed quiet for a while. "What do you think of my wife?" She paused for a second before resuming her activities. Ye Jie was looking at the martini glass, he didn't notice her slight pause.

"How can I comment on her? I haven't met her?"

Ye Jie sniggered. "You didn't meet my ex as well yet you had a million opinions about her."

She paused while shaking a cocktail shaker and looked at her best friend. "I literally have no opinions about your wife. She seems like a nice person." She resumed the shaking as she added. "It's not like you looked for me when you wanted to check her background." It was a plain taunt directed at Ye Jie.

"Hei! You weren't talking to me that's why I went to Wayne. it's not like he found anything." Ye Jie tried to justify himself.

"Right..." She snickered. She poured the cocktail in a glass and slid it towards Ye Jie asking, "Do you want me to look into her background?" Her eyes were trained on her best friend's face looking for something.