263 Chapter Sixty Three - To them, this isn’t a storm in a tea cup (2/2)
”I'll leave first,” Maimai told him, before pointing at the tea house. ”My sister is waiting for me in there.”
”Oh, my cousin went to drink tea in there also,” he said, just as the first cracks of thunder rumbled overhead. He shuddered as if subject to an ominous omen. Maimai also felt disconcerted. Their casual steps became quickened ones as they neared the tea shop together. Sure enough...
”History has plenty of pheasants wishing to be phoenixes, but their dreams cannot compare with this miss!” Her sister's voice echoed in her ears, the not too quiet insult seeming to come from a serene and calm throat, yet Maimai was not unable to hear the trembling anger within it. It seemed this argument had been stewing for sometime.
”Has my cousin an enmity with your sister?” Sun inquired beneath his breath as that girl's flustered face burst out with an insult of her own.
”Of course my dreams cannot compare! What dream remains a dream and what can be made into a reality, I am aware! Whether you have such an ability remains to be seen!”
Maimai had shaken her head at first, but was clearly confused. The girl with the long brown hair that Sun claimed to be related to, Merylin had not met this person before... right?
”You jest!” Merylin's voice rose by an octave. ”You dream of obtaining a man that is unreachable for this di daughter of a powerful sect! Are you claiming to be a fox spirit with secret means?”
”What fox spirit? You're a fox spirit! Your whole family are fox spirits!” Carmen screamed in return, unleashing the temper that usually only Sun and his brethren had only been subject to before and even that had been away from the prying eyes of adults. Flashes of lightning brightened the sky now and then, punctuating their curses, but the rain that should have followed did not fall.
Hearing their words tossed back and forth, both Maimai and Sun had an epiphany and turned to each other. ”Jin Li?!”
They both sighed in unison, though for differing reasons. Maimai was thinking of her best friend when she exhaled her exasperation; poor Leon. Yet another girl deluded themselves into thinking that they were the right or only person 'worthy' of his Jin Li. What made Jin Li so special? He was just a man! He had looks and strength, but his tongue was sharper than a sickle and blunter than any spoon! It could pierce and bludgeon at the same time without warning and yet these silly girls came back to be abused some more! He was also a bottomless pit when it came to food, what woman could afford him when poor Leon struggled to?! It was rumoured that he was born noble, but no one really knew the truth and he rarely offers explanation, his 'mysteriousness' which continued to feed the silly girls' imaginations was really just him being lazy.
Sun in the meantime was thinking far more simply. Why did all the girls like Jin Li and not him? Not that he wanted Carmen to like him, that would be gross. He didn't want Merylin to like him either, she was the sort to love not her husband but his position and reputation. Actually, forget it. Girls were all too complicated. Best stick with finding a soul sword for a partner and not worry about the rest...