“First young mistress, what can I do for you?” A stern voice asked.
He was the leader of the group of seven bodyguards who were protecting Jing Sheng. Because of Mu Lan’s mischief last time, he and his group had a rough time. Mu Liang was a scary demon when he was angry. From then on, he and his team members were very cautious of Mu Lan.
“Where is Miss Jing?” Mu Lan asked back.
The leader responded, “Miss Jing is in the flower shop. Do you need anything, first young mistress?”
“Still in the flower shop….?” Mu Lan said in confusion as she glanced at her friends. “Okay, I understand. There is nothing else.” After she hung up, she covered her head. “Did I do something wrong? There must be some miscalculation. It’s my fault that it turned out like that.”
Mu Lan already sat on the floor. “If I didn’t interfere, mother-n-law wouldn’t know, Noel could at least stay by her side and be with her like this. But I ruined it. Not only his job is gone but he is also heading to Africa. Ahh!”
Qi Ying sat beside her and firmly said, “You cannot say that. Mother-in-law stopped taking medicine and her mental illness is now gone because of your plan. Do you think it would be good for her to have nightmares every night? How could Noel give her medicine when she was under bodyguards’ care? More importantly, he would lose all his savings if he treated her all his life.” She touched Mu Lan’s shoulder and continued in a softer tone, “What you did was good for both of them. It’s not bad at all.”
Yan Su was pregnant. So, she couldn’t sit on the floor. She said, “Well yeah, except for both of them split up.”
Qi Ying helplessly looked at Yan Su. “Don’t rub the salt on the wound.”
Mu Lan covered her face. She didn’t want anyone to look at her.
Qi Ying said, “Let’s wait for a while. Mother-in-law might come.” She tried to cheer up her two friends.
But they knew, even if Jing Sheng started her journey from home with a helicopter, she wouldn’t be able to reach. It was almost boarding time.
Two security officers came and politely, “Young miss, are you alright? Do you need any medical help?”
Yan Su replied, “She is fine. She is upset that her future father-in-law just left, making her future mother-in-law upset.” She totally brushed off the security officers.
The security officers seemed confused but they didn’t say anything about it. One of them said, “Please have a seat then. You are catching attention of other passengers.”
Qi Ying stood up and smiled politely, “We won’t be a bother. Sorry for the trouble.”
“No, no, it’s nothing. Just doing our jobs.” The security officers began smiling diotically seeing a beautiful young woman. Yan Su was pregnant, so she didn’t catch their attention. But Qi Ying was different. With all her blonde hair and emerald eyes, she took their breaths away.
Yan Su lightly kicked the upset Mu Lan’s back. “Hey, Lan dear, get up if you don’t want to attract people’s attention.”
Mu Lan stood up with tearful eyes. Her cheeks were slightly red. A beautiful vulnerable girl took the security officers heart away.
Mu La suggested, “Let’s wait till they leave.”
Qi Ying smiled and took her arm. She said, “Alright.”
The security officers said before leaving, “If you need any help, let us know.”
“Sure.” Yan Su curtly said.
They sat on a bench and drank smoothie. An hour later, the plane where Noel was in, flew away to Africa. They sighed and went back to the car.
Mark didn’t say anything since there were two other girls with Mu Lan. He also somewhat felt bad.
After the car reached the entrance of the castle, Yan Su left first. Mu Lan looked at her from open window and said, “You go and take rest. We’ll go and have some drink. Good night!”
“What?!” Yan Su was astonished.
Mu Lan closed the window and Mark drove away again.
“It’s really fun when you aren’t pregnant.” Yan Su sighed. Then, she touched her stomach and smiled lovingly. “But’s it not bad either when I’ll have a soft doll in my hands.”
The car drove to the bar Mu Lan was in, the last time. The two friends got out of the car and went inside the bar.
Mu Lan ordered martini and Qi Ying ordered vodka. They sat down in the corner and stayed silent. None of them were in a good mood.
Mu Lan got drunk right after she chucked down the second glass. After that, she started crying. “Buhuhu… it’s all my fault. I can’t believe that I did something so terrible. I don’t want to live anymore. I want to die. Give me a rope, I’ll hang myself…. Buhuhu…”
Qi Ying wasn’t drunk like her. She only sipped six times and it was a very small amount. She was perfectly fine.
She asked Mu Lan, “Why don’t we leave? It’s already dark outside.”
Mu Lan snapped at her. “It’s not dark! We just came in here. How can we leave? Tonight, I’ll drown myself in the sea of alcohol.”
“Didn’t you already do it? Come on!” Qi Ying tried to grab her friend’s hand but Mu Lan was stronger than her.
Qi Ying realized that she couldn’t do anything. She couldn’t ask Mark since Mu Liang didn’t like other man touching her. What if Mu Liang got mad at Qi Ying for asking Mark’s help? She didn’t know the relationship between Mark and Mu Lan.
She looked around to see some men were eyeing on her and her friend. She frowned. She took out her cell phone and sent Mu Feng a text.
‘Feng dear, me and Xiao Lan are in the bar BlueLake. Please come and accompany us. She is drunk and very emotional. I cannot handle her alone.’
After sending the text, she waited for Mu Feng to come and fetch them. Mu Lan mumbled on and on as she kept weeping.
After Qi Ying waited for ten minutes, a man walked towards them and stood in front of their table. Thinking it was Mu Feng, she looked up and to see someone else. But it was someone she didn’t expect.
