“Y-you!” Qi Ying didn’t know what to say, seeing the person before her.
The man put his hands on his waist and said, “Just because I’m pregnant, doesn’t mean that you can just leave me at home and go drinking by yourselves.”
That wasn’t a voice of a man but a voice of Yan Su disguised as a man.
Qi Ying looked at her from top to bottom. “What are you wearing? Is this-”
Yan Su nonchalantly said, “One of the bodyguard’s uniforms. It was hanging to dry and I borrowed it. It would have been hard for me to drive out of the main gate without it.”
Qi Ying thought, ‘I need to tighten the security around the castle. What if some other person tried to enter and leave secretly? I can’t let that happen.’
Yan Su grabbed Qi Ying and pulled her up.
Qi Ying hurried asked, “What are you trying to do?”
“Taking you two out of this place. Don’t tell me you didn’t see how those jerks were checking you two out from afar.” Yan Su knocked Mu Lan’s head who was burying her head on the table. “Oi, Lan dear, get up. I’m taking you home. Jeez, you’re making the situation worst. You look like my older cousin broke up with you.”
Mu Lan snapped out of her pitiful cry and looked at Yan Su with her moist eyes. Her face flushed. “Why are you here?”
“Jeez, aren’t you acting like a kid? Let me take you to a place where you will feel better.” Yan Su grabbed her and pulled her up.
“Where are we going?” Mu Lan asked. Although she was drunk, she was still able to process everything in her brain.
“You will know, once we’ve reached it.” Yan Su dragged her away.
Qi Ying paid the bill and followed after her friends.
Yan Su put Mu Lan in the back seat and she sat in the driver seat. Qi Ying told Mark to leave and then she sat in the passenger seat. Yan Su drove down a familiar street and stopped the car. When the lights of the car turned off, darkness surrounded them.
Qi Ying asked, “Why are we here?”
Yan Su replied, “Just wait and see. Lan dear, get up.”
Mu Lan was trying to sleep in the cozy seat. Upon hearing Yan Su’s voice, she sat up and placed her face between the front two seats. Her head was feeling dizzy. She mumbled, “What’s going on?”
None of them talked and waited for some unknown reason.
After thirty-five minutes of waiting, the three girls almost dozed off, Qi Ying’s cell phone rang, startling everyone.
It was Mu Feng. If he didn’t call, Qi Ying would have totally forgotten that she texted him.
When she answered the call, Mu Feng asked frantically, “Ying, where are you? I came to the bar and you were gone! You haven’t reached home either.”
Qi Ying said, “I’m with Xiao Su and Xiao Lan. We are fine. Don’t worry. We went out to hang out. We’ll go back to the house as fast as possible.”
How could Mu Feng not worry. Although his fiancée was with two of the strongest women he knew; one was drunk and another one was pregnant. There was no way he could relax.
“Alright. I’ll wait at home.” Mu Feng lied and hung up. After that, he tracked her GPS signal and went after her.
Qi Ying just hung up the call when a car passed their car. It was a taxi. It stopped right in front of a car. A silhouette was seen exiting the taxi, then another followed with some luggage.
The three girls carefully watched the suspicious people. Mu Lan and Qi Ying were stunned seeing Jing Sheng and Noel exit the taxi together and then entering Jing Sheng’s apartment.
!!!
Mu Lan rubbed her eyes. “Alright, I’m so drunk that I’m hallucinating!”
Qi Ying said, “I’m not drunk. Why am I hallucinating?”
Yan Su nonchalantly said, “You aren’t hallucinating. It happened after you guys left me alone at the castle and drove away.”
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After Yan Su was left alone, she was super upset. She was climbing the stairs, that’s when she heard a commotion. She went downstairs and found Jing Sheng. She was looking for Noel all over the castle.
Yan Su asked, “Aunt, why are you here?”
“Where is Noel? I’ve something to say to him.” Jing Sheng spoke in hurry.
Yan Su opened her mouth but nothing came up.
———
In the darkness, inside the car Yan Su scratched her head. “During all the excitement I totally forgot to tell her the time of Noel’s flight.”
Mu Lan and Qi Ying froze when she said that.
After that, Mu Lan screamed, “You idiot!”
Qi Ying sighed and shook her head. ‘This girl is hopeless.’ That was going in her head at that moment.
Mu Lan shook Yan Su. “What happened next?”
Yan Su said, “Oh, after that…”
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After finding out that Noel already left, Jing Sheng was stunned. But then, she grabbed Yan Su’s hand and said, “You have a special permit to contact the officers at the airport, right? Please take me there. I have something important to tell Noel!”
Thus, Yan Su borrowed one of the bodyguards’ uniform since she couldn’t leave without an escort while she was pregnant. In a full bodyguard disguise, she escorted Jing Sheng out of the castle and drove to the airport.
When they arrived there, it was already an hour and half that since Noel left.
With Yan Su’s special pass, Jing Sheng was able to enter the announcement room and pleaded to Noel, “Noel, I don’t know if you are here or if you can hear me, but I realized that I want to be with you. I… I had fallen for you. It’s not a new feeling. Please don’t think that I have fallen for you just because I found out how generous you were to me. I fell for you after you gave me courage when I wanted to kill myself before. I’m divorced and have three children. That’s why I never thought that I could be good enough for you. To tell you the truth, I thought that I was too dirty for you. You are an angel who protected me when I was at my worst. But my children made me realize that I can have a good life, I can be with you and they won’t mind. Moreover, they will be happy knowing that I’m at my happiest when I’m with you. They gave me the courage to start a new life with you. I know I selfishly turned you down before even though you did so much for me. And that’s why I wanted to declare in front of the world, I have loved you for twenty-five years. And I still love you. So please, wherever you are, come back to me. Don’t’ go and sacrifice your precious life. You deserve the best. I know I’m not the best, but I will try my hardest to give you the best things of in the world, with whatever I have. We have so many things to do and see together. So please, don’t leave. I have the courage now. I can face it now. I want to be with you.
