Chapter 6: I'm Gonna Use You
Xu Mey followed Ye Jie to a Presidential Suite on the 25th floor of the Star Night Hotel. The moment she entered the room behind him, she closed the door with a thud halting Ye Jie. She locked the door securely before she turned around to face Ye Jie with a scowl etched on her face.
"Why is it you?" How she managed to use her calm and gentle voice in this situation was out of his knowledge. Since her guise was anything but serene.
"Huh?" He gave her a questioning look.
"I can't believe my so-called father is actually giving me a second-hand product. I really didn't expect him to disregard me this much," She was walking in circles in her frustration without noticing that she was saying her thoughts out loud.
When Ye Jie heard the word 'second-hand product' he was dumbfounded. He couldn't believe that someone actually dared to call him that. He was still known as the most eligible bachelor and now someone was calling him a used product.
"Ms. Cherry, I'm not a second-hand product you know," Ye Jie gnashed his teeth, he was seething with rage but he could only restraint himself for the moment.
Xu Mey stopped her walking parade and stood before him raising her head to look straight at him. "Are you trying to tell me that you didn't have a girlfriend?" She challenged him with her chin pointing at him.
She was about a head shorter than him but she still felt really short in front of him. 'He's just abnormally tall.' She inwardly calmed her inferior complex about height. Even though she was taller than most girls but she still didn't like seeing boys who were taller than her.
"Yes, I had a girlfriend but that doesn't make me a used product," He defied her with a confident look on his face.
"Says the guy who got himself drunk to the point of collapsing just for the sake of one girl," Xu Mey retorted sarcastically making him close his eyes and bit his lower lip.
"That's not related to this conversation," He replied after thinking for a while.
"Of course, it is. The person who had that much control over your life that her absence made you lose yourself, that person would definitely won't be a fling."
Hearing her reply, Ye Jie didn't know what else to say. He didn't have the answer to her question. She was right, he did give Lu Yuhan a lot of rights in his life and in his heart. Randomly a thought crossed his mind. "Why did you agree to this arranged marriage?"
"Because my family asked me to," She replied but her words couldn't even assure herself much less the keen person before her.
"Hahaha!" He laughed heartily for a while before taking a seat at the couch. "You want me to believe that a girl who hides behind a million faces is actually such an obedient little girl that her family asked her to marry a stranger and she happily agreed."
Looking at his handsome laughing face, she took a seat at the nearby couch and asked, "Million faces?"
Ye Jie looked at her serious face. It felt weird. There was no calm or gentleness. There was only a silent storm hidden behind her serious look.
"When I first saw you at my friend's wedding, you gave me the impression of a gentle fairy." He started in a soft voice. "At his reception, I took you for a bewitching fairy. On the dance floor, you looked like a carefree and playful kind of person with a hint of wildness. The very next morning, your serene impression seemed like a storm was brewing on an ocean and it actually scared me." He sighed audibly before continuing.
"And today, your whole persona was like a pitiful damsel in distress. You fooled me so much that even I wanted to go up to you to ask how can I possibly save you. Look at your self now, in a matter of minutes, you turned feisty. I don't even know what's hiding behind all those faces?"
Listening to his words, Xu Mey kept looking in his eyes. His brown eyes were asking her a million questions and she didn't know how to answer any of them. Her perplexed mind kept thinking for an answer but in the end, she knew, he'll figure out whether she was lying or not.
"A devil!" She said in a low murmur but he heard it. Before he could say anything, she started, "I'm marrying you because I'm gonna use you." She continued in her soft voice, "I'm gonna use you as my shield and my getaway."
Ye Jie thought about what she just said for a while before saying, "You're gonna use me to deal with the Xu family." He wasn't asking that question, he was stating a fact. "Why are you telling me the truth?"
"Because if we're going to spend our life together then we need to be honest with each other. If it was someone else, I'd have naturally not told the truth but because it's you, I wanted you to know. I wanted to give you a way and reason to back out." She explained her words and silence engulfed them.
To break the awkward silence, Ye Jie asked, "What are you planning on doing? And how are you going to challenge the power of the Xu family?" He was genuinely very curious about her course of action. He knew to fight with Xu's was not easy, they had a history of a century old.
"How I do it is my problem. You don't have to concern yourself with that. I'm ready for the battle. Also, you don't have to worry about spending the rest of your life with me. I won't put shackles on you. It's just a matter of time, I'll walk out of your life." She wanted him to know all his options. It wasn't like she was planning on spending the rest of her life with him. He was just a stepping stone, she needed that stone to reach the battlefield.
Spending another moment in silence, Ye Jie said, "Your appearance really can fool someone. I really took you for a fairy. Gentle and Kind." He had a hint of a smile on his lips.
"'Man cannot be judged by looks; seas cannot be measured by a cup.'* This phrase is for people like me."
*Don't judge a person from their appearance.
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Chapter 7: Then I Can Marry You
The sun was slowly fading away behind the dark clouds. The bright sunny day took a turn toward a dark rainy one. Xu Mey and Ye Jie were still in the suite. Ye Jie ordered some food while Xu Mey made her way toward the tiny bar in the suite.
When the food arrived, Xu Mey had already drunk about 2 bottles of beers. Ye Jie was focused on her movements, the more he looked, the more he wanted to look deeper. She was trying to open the 3rd bottle which was acting stubborn.
Looking at her delicate skin, that frown between her brows and that cherry lips pouted in annoyance, he had a strong urge to touch her milky white skin. And before he could sleep on that thought, he took the action.
He walked towards the bar counter and stood right behind her. As his strong cinnamon scent assaulted her senses, she turned around only to bump into his chest. He raised his hand up to cup her face in his palm.
"Why don't you keep your hands to yourself, Mr. Ye," She suggested as she swatted his hand away from her face with a glare.
He laughed lightly before his arm came around her waist and pulled her towards his chest, completely trapping her with no route for escape.
"But Ms. Cherry, I simply can't resist that skin of yours," He replied with an innocent expression while caressing her right cheek with the back of his hand.
"Don't push me to break that hand of yours," She was at her limit and he knew that but he just loved to see that adorable scowl on her jade-like skin.
"So, you're going to be a violent wife?" He hummed as if this thought enlightened him somehow. Xu Mey raised her head a little to see his pursed lips and a mischievous glint in his eyes. She pushed him with both hands and walked away from him to maintain a distance.
She huffed and sat down to pick some food to eat. She decided to eat some chicken dumplings and egg rolls. After observing her puffed up cheeks, he found it really cute. He also took a seat and took some fried rice to eat.
Maybe it was their good manners or maybe they didn't have anything to talk but they ate in silence. The deafening silence was broken by the pitter-patter sound of rain along with the forks and plates.
They took their coffee mugs and came to stand in front of the glass wall looking over the rain falling down with full force. Looking at the steam escaping from her coffee cup, Xu Mey thought, 'It's a pity that we have to leave our safe havens just to be shattered by the world. And yet we call it independence.' The steam or rain both were like what she thought, both left their safe haven just to be scattered in this world. She sighed and ignored the burn at the side of her face where Ye Jie's gaze was stuck.
"Why do you want to ruin your own family?" His gaze was still attached to her side profile where he found indifference.
"'Every family has its own problems.'" She started indifferently, "And who said I'm going to ruin them?" She took a sip of her Espresso letting its burning taste tingle her taste buds before adding, "I'm going to seize everything they have." Seeing the way her lips curved into devilish mirth, a cold shiver ran down his body making him quiver.
He decided to not pry. He knew she'll eventually come clean with him. He broke his gaze away from her and looked out at the falling drops of rain. Remembering something, he again asked, "Why do you call me 'Rain'?"
She didn't turn to look at him but retorted with a question of her own, "Why do you call me Cherry?"
"Because of your lips," He bit his tongue after blurting it out and saw the way she raised a single brow in a suspicious manner. "I'm not a pervert. Don't give me that look."
She shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly and replied to his earlier question, "I call you 'Mr. Rain' because of Rain's association with sadness and melancholy." Realizing how she thinks he's a sad person because of their first meeting. He facepalmed himself inwardly for leaving such a bad impression on her.
He chuckled a little and sighed. "You're a weird person." His comment was not wrong from not only his perspective but also everyone else'.
"No, I'm merely one hell of a person," She smirked and saw his flabbergasted aspect. "You didn't get the reference?" She asked with a bit of shock in her soft voice. He shook his head with an impassive look. Her eyes widened as her voice rose an octave, "You haven't watched Black Butler?"
Ye Jie pursed his lips and said in a guilty tone, "No." He didn't even know why he was the guilty one for not watching something. But just her expression was more than enough to make him guilty.
"I'm not marrying you. You've not watched my Sabastian. How am I supposed to marry a person who doesn't have a clue about Black Butler?" She was fuming in rage making her milky white cheeks to puff up and become red.
She stomped her foot like a child who didn't get his favorite candy and sat at the nearby chair while clasping her arms in front of her chest. Ye Jie stood at the side watching her throwing a tantrum, he realized how much adorkable she looked with that expression.
He chewed on his lower lip and walked up to her. He sat down on the armrest of the chair as he caressed her smooth black hair and said, "I can watch it with my wife. That is if she wants to."
Xu Mey pursed her lips while biting the inside of her lip and asked, "You will?" She looked up at his face as he nodded his head in agreement. "Then I can marry you."
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