“Why are we here?” An Xiulan asked as he parked his bicycle outside a restaurant and brought her inside. She saw him ushering her to the table and he passed her the nu.
He gently knocked on her head. “Little blockhead, why do people go to the doctor?”
“To get treatnt for sickness, ” An Xiulan replied as she blinked her eyes.
“Why do we go to lawyers?” He asked once again.
“You know why we do, ” An Xiulan said. “But the question is why are you asking these questions? I know we both know the answer to this question. Isn’t it stupid to ask the questions?”
“Exactly, “Han Zixin said. “If you know they are stupid questions, then why do you ask one?”
An Xiulan pursed her lips. She just realised that he called her stupid for asking what they were doing in the restaurant. What she ant by the question was why they were in a restaurant and not his house. She had parked his car in his building and he could have gone ho and cooked. She would have seen him in action. Every ti, she would see him cooking on video calls but this was the ti she could see him live and it seed she missed the chance.
“Fine. Fine. You win, Mr Secret Superstar, ” An Xiulan rolled his eyes.
“You still sticking to that nickna?” He asked her, amused.
“Yep, ” She smiled. “It makes feel as if I know sothing that no one else does. You know, I’m the person with your deepest and darkest secret.”
Han Zixin leaned in and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and whispered in her ear, “You know two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”
An Xiulan’s eyes widened as she looked at him in horror. “Did you just threaten ?”
Han Zixin had the audacity to shrug. Yes, he actually shrugged at her as if what he did was not a big deal at all.
“You are deputy chief Han, ” An Xiulan reminded him. “Behave like one instead of a gangster.”
“I’m a gangster?” Han Zixin asked, amused.
“Of course, “She said without waiting.
A grin spread on his lips as he went on, ” Tell what kind of gangster am I. What did I do to you to have you call a gangster?”
An Xiulan opened his mouth to reply but when he saw his whiskey eyes shining with mischief and he was biting his lip to stop the smile from spreading on his lips. Gosh, he was evil.
She pointed her finger at him and said putting a hand on her heart, “You…you…you just flirted with ?”
“Did I?” Han Zixin blinked his eyes innocently.
“That’s morally wrong, ” An Xiulan said. “We are best friends.”
A waitress ca to serve them food and she placed the food on the table, he turned to look at her and asked, “Miss, do you think it’s morally wrong to flirt with your best friend?”
The woman laughed as if it was her favourite kind of question. She showed him her left hand and went on saying, “Known him for thirty years in total. Best friends for ten years before he confessed his feelings. Ten years of being married. Have two kids in school. Say, you think it’s morally wrong to flirt with your best friend?”
An Xiulan was as red as a ripe tomato as she buried her head in her plate and dared not to look up. This Han Zixin made a fool out of her in front of the waitress. She would avenge this for sure. Her ti would co and all they had to do was wait patiently.
She pouted and began murdering the steak that he had ordered. He sighed and took his plate and put his own in front of her. When she saw that he had cut the steak for her, she reluctantly forgive him for teasing her.
“Do you know Nanxian is planning to expand to China?” An Xiulan asked after a while.
Han Zixin nodded his head. “He told about it. Actually, I asked him to co ho. He is so far from and Yeye. His father used to care but ever since the man found his dead wife’s doppelganger, he had been obsessed with her.”
“You asked him to return?” An Xiulan asked, once again shocked.
Han Zixin nodded his head. “If he has a family, why should he suffer in a foreign country all alone?”
“Can I ask you sothing?” An Xiulan asked.
“Go ahead, ” He said.
“Are you and Nanxian fine now? You don’t hate him?” An Xiulan questioned. She knew one thing for sure that only she could dare to ask him this question and if anyone ever did, he would break their face.
“When you fell from the stairs in the examination venue and were taken to the hospital, ” Han Zixin said in a trembling tone. “I saw your helplessness. You were so desperate to be alive. At that ti, I realised how Nanxian would have felt. I reached out to him because I didn’t want him to be desperate for love like you. My parents were good people. They raised with love and care but the bond I have with Nanxian was sothing that was beyond anyone’s understanding.”
He paused for a mont and then went on, “He was barely five when we t. The teenage would be ashad to bla a kid for what happened to but the teenage version of was just angry at everyone. That didn’t know how to deal with the ss that Yeye’s son made in our lives. It took ti for all of us to forget and forgive everything and start a new life together.”
An Xiulan smiled through teary eyes. She knew that this man always had a heart of gold. How could soone hate him? She couldn’t imagine why Mr Han and Ms Yang did what they did to her. She never told him that she was the reason why Miss Yang was taken away from his life.
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