Chapter 124: The Special Side
"Pfft! Hahaha!" Ma Xiaoli never felt more amused in her life.
Zhou Lei felt self-conscious seeing the boisterous laughter of the girl beside him. Little did he know that there was foam left under his nose... forming quite a cute mustache.
Lin Guiying noticed this too, but it wasn't like it was that funny. She giggled a little bit inside, but that was it.
Fan Xinyue felt the same way as her. The two girls glanced at each other before turning back to the laughing Ma Xiaoli.
No one knew why Ma Xiaoli found such a simple foam mustache hilarious. Even she herself didn't know the exact reason.
The truth was, she shared the same opinion as the two girls in front of her. Yet, she couldn't stop the laughter from coming out of her mouth.
Zhou Lei didn't know about the situation at all. He looked at Lin Hanying and had a confused expression on his face.
In response, she raised her pointer finger and brushed it along her upper lip.
He realized what was wrong and grabbed the tissue the waiter handed them, wiping off the foam above his lips.
Despite him taking actions to get rid of the supposed funny element, Ma Xiaoli didn't stop laughing. On the contrary, her voice got even louder.
"Uh... Xiaoli, are you okay?" Zhou Lei was starting to get concerned. This classmate of his never acted so weirdly in class when they talked. The composed image that Zhou Lei had in his mind of Ma Xiaoli was shattered into pieces as he witnessed a side of her he didn't know prior.
This special side of Ma Xiaoli only came out on rare occasions. The last time it showed itself was on her third birthday, a decade and a half ago. From that day on, she never let out her emotions as much as today.
The three couldn't do anything but watch as the built-up emotions inside of Ma Xiaoli let themselves out explosively.
After a few minutes, Ma Xiaoli finally stopped laughing, tears coming out of her eyes.
She laid her head down on the table, her stomach experiencing a severe ache. Of course, who wouldn't after such a display?
"Lei... sorry for ruining the atmosphere." Ma Xiaoli apologized, sincerity finally present in her voice.
Upon hearing her apology, Zhou Lei showed a wonderful smile... "Ruining the atmosphere? You did quite the opposite there – you elevated it!"
Before she laughed her ass off, the tension around the group suffocated every single one of them. He didn't like an atmosphere such as that...
However, now that she disrupted the seriousness, what was left was a blank slate in which they could restart their interactions again, but in a brighter light than before.
Seeing the joyful expression on Zhou Lei's face, the three girls couldn't help but blush.
His face was already so handsome, but his smiling face was on a whole new level.
They couldn't help but capture a mental image of his face to save it for future use... Ahem, let's not talk about that...
"Young Madam, it appears that the group made peace with each other..." Secretly heaving a sigh of relief, Lackey Gao reported the current situation to Ye Muqi.
She scrunched her eyebrows. 'What are those two up to? I thought they were here to stop any development of a relationship between the two transfer students. Having a tense atmosphere would help, but they did the opposite?'
Since Ye Muqi wasn't personally there, she wasn't sure what the two girls that had the same objective as her were thinking.
"Actually, Young Madam... I have fallen in love!" Lackey Gao unexpectedly made such a declaration!
Ye Muqi raised her eyebrow in confusion. She had no idea why her lackey would report irrelevant information through the earpiece. Well, she paid it no heed. "Mhmm."
In actuality, she was quite curious about her lackey's love life. They had known each other since they were five, but their relationship was purely that of a boss and worker.
Ye Muqi could tell that Lackey Gao harbored no lustful feelings towards her, which astonished her because she had been hailed as one of the most beautiful girls in her generation, on par with that famous celebrity Lin Guiying.
Her massive ego inflated even more with everyone comparing her to Lin Guiying, who she considered as her main rival in terms of appearance.
"Go on, tell me then. Who is it?" In the end, Ye Muqi gave in to her ever growing curiosity. There was also the fact that this mystery girl that conquered Lackey Gao's heart bested her in that aspect, which irked her quite a bit.
'Who is this girl that accomplished what I failed to do?'
Ye Muqi listened attentively to the voice coming from the earpiece. To make sure she heard it clearly, she covered her ears.
After a brief moment of silence, she heard Lackey Gao inhale a breath of cold air before continuing to speak, "It's... Mister Zhou!"
At that moment, the curious but confident smile on Ye Muqi's face was wiped out of existence. 'Mister Zhou? As in Zhou Lei?'
She froze for a second. "D-do you mean Zhou Lei? The handsome man within the group?"
"Yes, ma'am!" With a hint of excitement in his voice, Lackey Gao enthusiastically answered, confirming his boss's doubts...
Ye Muqi fell silent for a good few seconds. Her formerly straight back slumped over and fell towards the backrest of the chair she sat on.
"Hello, Young Madam? Hello... "
Not able to stand the incessant voice anymore, Ye Muqi turned off the transmission and stuffed the earpiece into her black shoulder bag instead of her pocket. She zipped the bag shut.
The lackey that sat behind her quietly ate as she waited for her boss's orders. Suddenly, she heard a small laugh coming from her boss's seat.
"Um, Young Madam...?"
Ye Muqi giggled. 'Even with my feminine wiles, I still lost to that man... I must obtain his heart!'
Her palm covered her eyes as an eerie grin crept on her face.
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