Chapter 46：Handsome Couple (2/2)

Qian Meigui awkwardly smiled after hearing the older woman's words. ”It's not like that—” she began.

”Well, why not? Do you not like him?” she pried.

'It's the other way around,' Qian Meigui thought, puffing up her cheeks. ”It's not that,” she answered.

The older woman looked at her with a disappointing look, and Qian Meigui felt helpless.

She then reached up to Song Sheng and whispered something in his ear, changing his smiling expression into something serious. Qian Meigui wondered what the woman said, but she had already walked away when she revealed her piece to him.

Song Sheng looked at the older woman slightly dazed as if he someone told him the gravest of news. Quickly, his expression changed, revealing no emotion.

”What did she say?” Qian Meigui asked him curiously.

”Nothing,” he said, and his face softened. ”Let's go to the counter.”

The cart was full of groceries after they purchased all their items. Qian Meigui and Song Sheng placed all of them in the back of her Audi.

When they got back to the apartment, Song Sheng said, ”You're such a glutton. How can we get that upstairs?” he asked.

”...” Qian Meigui felt a loss for words. She had not realized it. After a moment of thinking, she slapped her forehead, feeling foolish. Why did I make him buy so much food? She thought.

Song Sheng smiled at her. He then swiftly captured her nose, ”I was only teasing,” he began, ”I can ask the service desk to help us.”

”Oh,” she emphasized, making the face of an 'O.'

At the receptionist, two bell boys approached and helped them carry the groceries up the elevator. When they reached the apartment, they dropped them off onto the floor and promptly went back down. No one was allowed on his level except for Song Sheng and his guests.

Song Sheng buttoned his sleeves over his elbows and took out the pots from the oven. He placed them over the stove, and he began cooking various dishes.

Qian Meigui took out her documents from her bag and read them over. Occasionally she stole glances of him, by peaking over her pages. It's been how long since they've met? Eleven years. And though they were friends in earlier years, she never expected her feelings to flourish for him. But she realized, how can anyone not fall for him?

Song Sheng was a man who valued his family, the prospects of a business, and he juggled everything without thinking about himself. It was no mistake that those women confused her for a fan. It would not take him too long to admire him.

'No,' she thought for herself, 'Don't think about it.'

She crossed him off her heart, and she would ensure that it stayed that way. He was someone she could not have, even if it hurt her to accept the fact.

'I am Song Mei,' she reminded herself, 'Daughter of Song Rui.' She then boldly stopped looking at him and continued to do her work.