"I veto to your veto!" Guan Xian replies almost instantly. His forehead creased as he furrowed his eyebrow. He looks grim.
Has he done something so embarrassing that she doesn't even want to be his friend?
Xia Sha scowls, "I don't want to be your friends. I bet your ego can't take that, huh?"
"Why? Are you afraid of catching feeling for me?"
Xia Sha almost couldn't imagine just how confident this man can be. He said it out loud without any trace of embarrassment. Instead, Guan Xian says it in such a rapid face. As if he was asking what she wants to have for lunch.
Xia Sha look to the side and pursed her lips. She takes her moments before she stares back at Guan Xian's pitch-black eyes that intensely watching her every move.
The atmosphere turns intense after no one speaking for 10 seconds. Xia Sha felt her heart beats so fast. Something she did not want to admit, but she knows the answers to Guan Xian's questions.
Honestly, yes.
She was afraid she would have the feeling she shouldn't have towards Guan Xian. It's not hard to fall in love with someone like him. In fact, he made it too easy for everyone to fall in love with him.
Forget about his god-like appearance and body like a washing board. His personality is like an ecstasy, he will make you forgot your trouble and laugh away with him.
Seems like a good plan for her broken heart, right?
But like addictive drugs, what will happen to her once he walks away from her life. Even someone like Ling Guang, who has a good nature could derail, let alone the infamous playboy like him.
"Tell me something, what do you aim for exactly? Do you suffer from a hero complex? Because if you did, I need to tell you after all the bad things happen to me, even though you witness it, those are not your responsibility to help me heals. The only person who can help me is myself."
"Hmm... I know. I'm not trying to help you. I'm trying to help myself." He replied curtly. Xia Sha lazily raised her eyebrow. Making Guan Xian couldn't hold his sniffle.
"I am trying to help myself. I keep thinking about you every day, it's really weird. Sometimes I subconsciously replay the images of your trying to suicide on the building. Maybe you had me traumatize."
Xia Sha: "..."
"I'm not lying. Sometimes I can see you smiling, sometimes I could see your crying when I close my eyes. You appear so frequently that it starts to disturb my work. I feel there might be something bad happen to you and I don't want you to face it alone."
He said everything in a no-worried tone like it's very casual for him to think and worried about her frequently. Xia Sha almost couldn't believe what she just heard.
Is he dumb, dense, or a professional in womanizer fields? She couldn't classify him. Must be the later. That must be it!
Xia Sha stop your heart beating so fast! He's just too sly that he pretends to be clueless. Look, he has almost fooled you right now.
"It's weird, right? maybe I should make an appointment with my psychologist now."
Xia Sha quickly nodded her head after she gains her sense. "Yeah, you should seek a professional. I can't help you with that one."
Xiao Ni and Ruan Jingtian, who stills hiding behind the curtain were dumbstruck when they watched Xia Sha stood up and run away like deer who realized the lioness is aiming for her.
"What did my brother did again?" Xiao Ni said with a dumbfounded face.
Ruan Jing Tian shakes his head, unsure what just happens too. "Errr... I don't know. Xia Sha usually takes her action with logic. Maybe she can't believe your brother...?"
After all, he was a playboy. Trying to use the 'innocent boy's I don't understand love' trick is an outdone.
Xiao Ni storms off from her hiding place to catch Xia Sha. She was so intrigued by her brother's low EQ. Nevermind, she'll just use the direct way.
"Xia Sha! wait!" She yells from behind where she could see Xia Sha turn around and stop walking away.
Xia Sha's face was aristocratic cold. If Xiao Ni were not used to be her mean face she might felt she was scary. Xiao Ni stops running when she saw Xia Sha stopped with an impatient face, walking at a slow pace instead.
Xia Sha rolled her eyes and pursue her lips. "Where is that traitor? Tell him I'm so going to mutilate his body when I saw him!"
"Emm, It's my plan solely. Ruan Jingtian doesn't know anything. I lure him out." Xiao Ni said after clearing her throat. She feels the obligation to explains before homicide news appears on the TV.
Xia Sha looks at Xiao Ni's small impeccable face before she an idea pops out of her mind. Five steps away from Xiao Ni, she suddenly let out a sarcastic laugh. "Oh, I see what is happening. Are you so bored and wanted to continue our fight?"
Xiao Ni clicked her tongue and folded her arms in front of her chest. "I am not so idle now. And why would I use my brother to fight with you? Do you think I couldn't bring you down on my own?"
She raised her eyebrow in the face that says 'are you stupid?'
Xia Sha's face turn conflicted. "So your brother wants to have a war with me now?"
Xiao Ni's face fell. Suddenly she felt there is no opportunity for these two people to be together. "Xia Sha, I think your brain suffers a tremendous setback after being cheated." She frowns and ignores Xia Sha's furious face.
"Sigh... I don't know how to explain this to you and you might don't get it. But my brother is a womanizer by circumstances not by nature."
Xia Sha narrowed her eyes, doesn't seems to understand what Xiao Ni is talking about. There are even types of causes for being a womanizer?
What's on earth is happening in this world?
Xiao Ni was familiar with people's confused face when she explains something. She takes a long breathe in before exhales out. "Let just say my brother is at the kindergarten level in this whole 'relationship' thingy." She uses her hand to quote and quote when she mentions a relationship.
Xia Sha was stunned, still doesn't understand Xiao Ni's explanation. Xiao Ni shooks her head to ask if she doesn't get it and Xia Sha replied with a silent head shooks.
Xiao Ni pressed her lips all together and hold her breath. "Erm... Actually, it's like this..." Xiao Ni's hand gesture was gentle as if she was calming and explaining to herself.
"My brother never pursues a girl, it's safe to say he never fall in love or even a crush." Xiao Ni raised her index finger when she saw Xia Sha was opening her mouth. "No, before you deny it with his horrible womanizer reputation. I can guarantee you the truth of what I said because first of all, I'm a sister and I knew him better than you."
Xiao Ni shows a gentle smile before continuing. Xia Sha raised both of her eyebrows, giving Xiao Ni all the time she needs. "Second of all, he never actually pursue woman because he never really 'genuinely like' them."
Xia Sha nods her head. She understands Xiao Ni's explanation and she also gave her enough time to think and clear her mind. Although she was slightly confused and felt overwhelmed by Guan Xian, she was back with her priority list.
Thus whatever Xiao Ni said, she has the same answers. "Okay. I understand. But still, I can not go on date with him. He's wasting my time and I'm just not into him." She made it really clear now. Xiao Ni should understand and let her go now, right?
However, she saw Xiao Ni rolling her eyes instead. She sighs very loudly this times. "I'm not dumb like my brother, I can see clearly you are not into him."
Xia Sha was wondering how funny Guan Xian will act if he heard his beloved sister calling him dumb.
"Let me tell you, you pushing him away like this will only make him wanted to chase you. It just how a man works. The more you push them away the more clingy they become." She talks as if she was an expert. Xia Sha thought for a second. Well maybe she is, after all, she has been chasing Senior Wang Kai for so long but only when she moves on he wanted her.
It's logically correct.
Just when Xia Sha wanted to say something to Xiao Ni, both of them hear a deep hoarse voice reverberated to every corner of the rooms. It gives chills and a domineering aura, but yet, loving and tender.
"Guan Xiao Ni, I see your plans now. But are you complaining be being clingy...?" He came from the end of hallways, shadows covering half of his profile.
Xia Sha can heard Xiao Ni gasp before she quickly regains her composure. "Ah, I was just saying it casually."
Wang Kai's legs were very long so in no time he has shortened the big distance between them. He was smiling but it rathers look terrifying. Not only for her who not used to be around him, but even Xiao Ni also starts to make a few steps back.
"Still doesn't save you for being in a club so late at night." He fastens his step as Xiao Ni has move 2 meters away from her original spot. But she still has guts to frown and complained.
"It's only 10!" She screams before completely running on the long hallway.
"Guan Xiao Ni, don't run!"
"Bweeh! Catch me if you can!"
"You think you can run away from me with that short leg of yours?"
Wang Kai has run passed Xia Sha, like a wind. Xia Sha was speechless watching two adults play chasing on the hallway of a club. But when she heard Xiao Ni's faint scream for a far she was far more dumbfounded.
"Xia Sha! this is what I meant! If you don't want him to chase you, just completely offer yourself to him, he will definitely leave you alone!!!!"
"Guan Xiao Ni are you leaving me after I offer myself to you?!" Boss Wang's angry voice can be heard too, even more clearly than Xiao Ni's faint screams.
"Wahh!!!"
It was definitely not a normal conversation, but Xia Sha has noted the important lesson from Xiao Ni. Just offer yourself to him and he'll leave you alone. Noted.
With a new brand new mindset and plans, Xia Sha walkout from the club with light steps. Did not realize it might be one of the most misleading advice she ever heard.