159 Singlehood was heaven (2/2)
He gritted his teeth and pursed his lips. He wanted to smash that smug off Ji Zhou's face. He opened his mouth less but when he did, he made sure to spit venom.
They were all exceptionally high trained ex-assassins, reading the raw emotions on his face wasn't f*cking rocket science.
To rub further salt on his throbbing Li Yuan chuckled, ”The one who is Youhan's mistress?”
”She is not his mistress!”
”My sister is not a wh*re!”
Yu Wang and Jiang Cheng cried out at the same time. It was involuntary for Jiang Cheng as it was his sister they were talking about but Yu Wang had slipped.
And by the way, he was cursing under his breath he too realized that.
A smirk formed on Li Yuan's face that he hid behind the rim of his bottle. ”So why didn't you?”
Yu Wang turned his razor-sharp glare to him, cursed and stood up, ”I am f*cking done for the night!”
The night continued with smoke fueling their spirits. The glass door of the living room slid open and Yu Jian walked in with his usual jolly persona.
”I got foo...where is my lamp?” His smile disappeared at once and his eyes at once filled with panic and horror.
Su Qing had insisted that he place it here so that he can see it whenever he comes home and remembers her. And he did look at the lamp, first thing when he came home.
”Resting in peace.” Jiang Cheng snickered and pointed at the broken ghastly repulsive lamp then at Li Yuan.
He looked at him in horror and astonishment, the take-out food from the high-end restaurant dropped from his hands and collided with the Persian carpeted floor.
”How could you, brother?! Su Qing said it reminds her of me!” Their mirthful expression at once turned to sympathetic.
So, it was confirmed. He really needed a new f*ck buddy!
Yu Jian picked the broken pieces of the once illuminating ghastly leprechaun lamp, gave Li Yuan an accusatory glare and ran up to his room. Muttering something about his broken loves pieces.
Ji Zhou who was spent excused himself for the night. Li Yuan and Jiang Cheng sat in silence smoking.
Jiang Cheng picked the wrapped food from the floor and kept it on the table. Nobody had eaten so they were bound to come looking for food at midnight.
”Congrats about the baby.” Jiang Cheng said after a while in a gruff voice from constant smoking.
Even they didn't know about Baby's reality.
All they had assumed was that he was doing his chick-fiance unprotected when drunk and boom! Calamity befalls. That's why no one was talking about it.
They all knew how sticky a situation can get in that case.
The others were smoking for relaxation but both of them were smoking because of the heavy thoughts weighing them down.
”...Thanks.”
Jiang Cheng threw his cigar in the ashtray and sat back on the sofa, taking a pasta package in his hand, and started unwrapping it.
”You could have gone in any one of your villas but you chose to come here in a house full of men, not to mention you haven't touched a woman since, so it must be because you wanted... witnesses.”
He nodded his head at his own analysis and put a mouthful of pasta in his mouth.
He wasn't the analyst and semi-strategist for nothing. He was accurate to the point it was annoying!
His co-strategist was Ji Zhou. While Ji Zhou was keen on the minute and figural details, Jiang Cheng was an expert in taking over-views and systematic concretes.
He pointed his spoon at him, ”You want the woman but don't get along?”
He could have lived in any other villa of his but if his 'fiance' put the label of an infidel who would prove his innocence? At least he will have alibi now.
Otherwise, the woman didn't have the trust of the size of a peanut on him.
”Want?” He tested the estranged word on his tongue, then shook his head. ”I don't really think if I should call it wang.”
He smiled thinking of her, ”She is a mystery. A f*cking labyrinth. A piece of art, the profound type. You can't help but fall for her. A woman confident in her skin is sacred and she is an epitome of atrocity yet... beyond beautiful. You can't hold her but you can't even let her go.”
Jiang Cheng looked at him in astonishment then quickly shook out of it.
He couldn't imagine Li Yuan speaking these poetic words, that also for a woman, even if he was thrown in a rabbit hole!
”You should visit her. Women never accepts their mistakes, much less apologize. Though she sounds like a person to be seen.”
”She is.” Li Yuan smiled looking at a distance, then turned to him, ”How is your sister?”
He had heard of his sister. She was dangerous to her bones. F*ck she was a Lei and a runaway to!
A Lei couldn't be trusted because their loyalties lies nowhere but with themselves.
She was an efficient one-shot killer and an expert surgeon, that she could bring a man back from the brink of death. She could make poisons and medicines out of leaves and petals, literally.
It was beyond him how Jiang Cheng even trusted her and how could Yu Youhan allow her in his personal Mansion. She was said to be a siren, ethereal and lethal, a terrible combination.
”She is...fine.” Jiang Cheng sighed, she wasn't actually.
”She is acting out of her nature since her amnesia. She is still intelligent but...there is something wrong, I worry...mentally. She is so fragile now... when she is a battalion in real but...I think it is the trauma. She has had a very tough life, somewhere I feel happy that she has lost such bitter memories but...”
Li Yuan looked at him. It was a pity such a talent was lost.
”I know a friend who is a good psychiatrist, Su Qianwei.”