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Chapter 98: An Old Best Friend

Meanwhile, at the Tokyo airport, Ye Jie passed through all the security checks and came out through the VIP arrivals passage.

A man clad in black with a stern look and an earpiece in his ear came up to him and bowed slightly to greet him. "Mr. Ye, please follow me."

Ye Jie nodded and trailed behind him to his BMW parked up front. When the bulky stern looking man was focused on maneuvering the car through the rushed up roads, Ye Jie raised his eyes from the laptop and asked, "Where are we going?"

"I'm asked to bring you to the Ichiko Bar in the northern suburbs." He replied in a courteous but professional tone.

Ye Jie didn't talk again and sat quietly to look through his documents. It took them about an hour to reach the destination and after dropping Ye Jie, the tall bulky man bowed in respect and took his leave. He informed Ye Jie before leaving that, "Your suitcase will be delivered to your hotel room."

Holding on to his leather bag, Ye Jie made his way inside the Ichiko Bar. It wasn't a lavish bar with overly splendid infrastructure. Rather it was a very ordinary bar with a very low-key profile.

It didn't take long for Ye Jie to find the person he was looking for. He heard the sound of a glass bottle breaking and he figured that was where he was supposed to go.

The person he came to see can be described in many ways but Ye Jie liked calling that person a troublemaker. Wherever that person went, trouble followed quietly behind.

True to his expectations, he found 3 young teenagers in their uniforms sitting on their knees with their hands raised high above facing the sky. Almost all of them had a black eye and visible bruises were no exceptions. Their heads were lowered as they sat with an aggrieved expression.

Then he the heard the familiar voice, "So, who's going to ditch school and come to a bar again?" The voice was very lazy but pleasant to hear. But he was more than familiar what lied behind that facade.

"We'll never ditch class and we'll never even look at a bar again." All the teenagers loudly announced.

"Then get the hell out of here!" As soon as they heard these words, they heaved a sigh of relief as if someone gave them a new lease on life.

Ye Jie rolled his eyes as he saw the young boys staggering out. There were shards of glass scattered around and Ye Jie had to take very careful steps. "Look like you still know how to cause trouble."

When the person turned around to look at Ye Jie, the first striking feature was those green eyes. They were green as a calm sea before the storm engulfs it. "Oh, look! If it isn't my traitor but still a best friend."

"Girl! Who's the traitor here?" He asked getting annoyed with that damn smirk on her face.

The girl's looks can be described in only one way; breathtaking. She was wearing an oversized hoodie with the hood over her head and a baseball cap underneath it. Even though her eyes made her even more breathtaking but the look in those eyes was so cold that it could freeze someone easily.

"Aren't you the best friend who stopped contacting me just because of a girl?" Her tone was still silvery but it couldn't disguise the sarcasm from Ye Jie.

"Can we not talk about that? I'm married to someone else now. Do you have a problem with her as well?" Ye Jie sat on the couch opposite of her.

A beautiful sever came to their table and asked, "Sir, What should I get you both?" She was asking both of them but her eyes were looking the person with the oversized hoodie.

The green-eyed one tilted her head a bit to glance at the server. "What does the young lady suggest?" Her voice texture completely changed as she propped her elbow on the armrest and passed her signature smirk to the server.

The poor server blushed and replied, "May I suggest Tangerine Ginger Sake Sangria?" She spoke while staring at those cold yet charming green eyes.

"How can I disappoint such a beautiful young lady?" Ye Jie looked at his best friend flirting with a girl without any shame and had an inkling to punch that damn smirk off of her face.

'She really knows how to charm girls.' He thought to himself with a shake of his head.

The server bit her bottom lip and bowed before leaving them.

The green eyes turned and looked at the glare from the brown-eyed guy in front of her. "What?" She asked animatedly as if she was completely innocent.

"Can you stop hitting on girls? Don't forget you're a girl as well." Ye Jie reminded her.

"Only for you, my dear best friend, I'm a girl. For the rest of the world, I've lived as a man for all my life." She also reminded without an indifferent look on her face.

The server brought the Spanish heritage drink with the Japanese twist in no time. Ye Jie picked up his glass and took a sip. The bursting taste of fresh ginger was the first thing his taste buds caught followed by crispy tangerine and a finish of minty flavor was a pleasure of its kind.

"Like the taste?" She asked as she sat straight with her legs a bit parted completely unladylike. She had not even touched her own drink and Ye Jie knew the reason.

"You're still avoiding alcohol? Then why did you order this?" He asked his own question ignoring her question completely.

"It's not like I don't know what it tastes like. There hardly a taste of drinks that this lor-lady haven't tried before. It's not fun anymore." She replied completely getting over her pause.

"Show-off!" Ye Jie grumbled. "Ru'er, Did you find Murong Yi?" He got to the main agenda.

"Do you take me for a joke? No one can hide from my network." She proudly announced.


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
XiaoMeeHee XiaoMeeHee

Sorry to all for yesterday.

I had to attend the funeral of my uncle and seeing the death worsened my health even more. I came back quite late and didn't get a chance to write anything.

Don't worry like always I'll make up for my absence.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter.

Share your thoughts on Ye Jie's best friend.

P.S. If you like this best friend, don't forget to read her story by the title: "The Inconceivable Flame: A fallen Angel's Disguise"

Chapter 99: Monster Best Friend

"You could have simply replied with a yes." Ye Jie said in a mocking tone.

"You can make me fly all the way from Country R to here in Tokyo and I'm not even allowed to reply in a roundabout way?"

Ye Jie smiled pleasingly. "Your problem is not that you had to come to Tokyo. Your problem is with the plane ride." She passed him an ugly look. He ignored it while clicking his tongue. "Tsk... Tsk... Such a brave person is scared of plane rides."

"Hei!" She bellowed in Korean while squinting her eye. "It's not that I'm scared of plane rides. They just make me nauseous. I can't help it."

Ye Jie laughed out loud at her expressions. He knew about her extreme repugnant feelings. She got up from her seat and left him laughing all by himself. It took a while for Ye Jie compose himself. He noticed that the bar was getting empty and it was already evening, the business should be booming at this time.

He saw his best friend playing with coins as she came up to him. "Come, I'll let you taste the Japenese style drinks today." He frowned and figured that she must have booked the entire bar.

"Was it necessary?" He asked looking around in the empty bar.

"Of course, it was. We have a lot to talk about after all." She replied in her silvery voice. There was a time, Ye Jie used to think that her voice sounded like silver bells ringing; it was beautiful. But with time, he realized, the more her voice sounded pleasant, the worse her personality was.

She got inside the bar counter and beckoned Ye Jie to take a seat at the stool. Then she got busy with preparing a drink. Ye Jie looked at how with the expertise she mixed the drink. He only caught her movement when she placed a martini glass in front of him.

"You're in Tokyo, my friend. Taste the Tokyo Slipper." She said dramatically.

He took a sip carefully eyeing the drink. It wasn't that he didn't have faith in her rather he didn't trust her very much with alcohol. She had a tendency to get wild with alcohol; not drinking it but when she was making the drinks. He couldn't decipher the other mixes but he tasted pineapple. She was asking him about his opinion while quirking her brows.

"Mm... It's good." He said.

"I know that." She replied matter-of-factly. "Now, let's be honest here, it's not that you called me here for Murong Yi."

Then she turned to get busy with something else. Ye Jie stayed quiet for a while. "What do you think of my wife?" She paused for a second before resuming her activities. Ye Jie was looking at the martini glass, he didn't notice her slight pause.

"How can I comment on her? I haven't met her?"

Ye Jie sniggered. "You didn't meet my ex as well yet you had a million opinions about her."

She paused while shaking a cocktail shaker and looked at her best friend. "I literally have no opinions about your wife. She seems like a nice person." She resumed the shaking as she added. "It's not like you looked for me when you wanted to check her background." It was a plain taunt directed at Ye Jie.

"Hei! You weren't talking to me that's why I went to Wayne. it's not like he found anything." Ye Jie tried to justify himself.

"Right..." She snickered. She poured the cocktail in a glass and slid it towards Ye Jie asking, "Do you want me to look into her background?" Her eyes were trained on her best friend's face looking for something.

Ye Jie took a sip of the new drink and closed his one eye on reflex at the citric taste. "No... I don't... I'm liking the slow pace and I like it when she shares her past with me herself." His lips curled slightly upward into a faint smile. Then he frowned at a memory. "I just don't like her being a pessimist about everything."

"Pessimist?" She asked curiously.

"Yes... Pessimist... She doesn't like beautiful things. She said what's the use of a rose, it withers away with time. What's the use of books, they turn old and left untouched. What's the use of music that no one is going to listen to one day. What's the use of a movie that's gonna have no one to watch it an empty theatre. Also, she said, even soap bubbles are not that pretty if we look at the fact that they burst away at a touch." Ye Jie was complaining but she simply found it amusing.

She walked around the counter and took a seat beside Ye Jie and placed her hand on his shoulder. "My dear best friend, I suddenly feel like I haven't raised you well." Ye Jie gave her a glare which she ignored and said,

"A book turns old but leaves a musky smell which wafts into its reader's senses and lingers there as a reminder. A rose withers away but we still keep it in those old books. A rose is not preferred for its beauty but for its fragrance that never goes away. Music can be old but whenever that sound is played, it brings a million feels and memories with it. The theatre might be empty but if there is a single person to appreciate that movie, it was all worth it. A soap bubble definitely burst up at a touch but leaves behind a wet touch on our hands as a reminder that it was us who spoiled such a beautiful thing. The beauty has never been in the world, it needs to be in the one seeing it. Don't forget the world is even beautiful for a blind person."

Unknowingly, Ye Jie listened to her words attentively. He smiled at a thought. "If you act in such a sensible way, how'll I say that you're 4 years younger than me. Who taught you this, Ru? You weren't like this before."

"Life is a teacher in itself, dear best friend but death is even more of a teacher." She smiled bitterly. Ye Jie had so many questions he wanted to ask her but he didn't. She was not the sharing kind of person, to begin with.

"By the way, you were teaching those teenagers to not ditch classes. Have you even went to a school yourself?" He asked sarcastically.

"I'm still more well-educated than you, Ah Jie." She replied with a straight face.

"Oh, I just remembered," Ye Jie said as he remembered something. "My wife has a Sensei and I don't like that person."

Ru choked on the water she was drinking. She composed herself quickly. "Why? What did he do to you?" She asked cautiously.

"He knows about First Emperor Hospital. And the only person who was supposed to know about it was you." He looked straight into her eyes. "You were the one who arranged everything and with your skills, I never thought anyone will be able to find out about it." He had been thinking about it deeply for days now.

"Wow," She said unenthusiastically. "He has such skills." Ye Jie didn't find anything odd with her lack of interest.

"Help me find out more about that person." She again spurted the water out of her mouth at his words.

Wiping her mouth with the back of her hand she thought of something. "Win a game and I'll do it." She offered.

"Win a game of what? Soccer? No thank you... No one can win from a monster like you in that game." Ye Jie commented looking at her like she really was a monster.

"Does your wife know what kind of a person you are, Mr. Ye Jie? Or does she also take you for a kind-hearted, soft-spoken with a noble bearing kind of person?" Ye Jie dry coughed but didn't know how to reply. She glared at him. "Okay... Choose a game yourself. No soccer." She changed the offer.

"My answer is still no. You're a monster that I can't win from. You're so damn smart that it takes you merely minutes to grasp whole gameplay."

"Loser!" She grumbled angrily. Then she shifted closer to him and patted his shoulder. "My dear friend, if you expect your wife to be honest with you, be honest yourself first. Honesty is one of the keys of a relationship and both of you need it badly. No third person can get between you unless you both give that person a chance yourself."


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
XiaoMeeHee XiaoMeeHee

I always thought life was strange. Yesterday, I realized, life and death are day and night. The difference is, we just don't know when the darkness of death will engulf our bright day like life.

The dead just leave on its own and leaves behind his loved ones to bear with his absence. It's true no one dies with a dying person. But he makes the life like a clouded day for the person behind.

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