"So that was your plan all this while? To force me to accept the arranged marriage?(scoffs) Did you also kill my stylist?" asked Meilin with widened eyes.
"Well everyone is a suspect, even me, your brother, stepmom and her daughter, and my family. We are all suspects, so it's fine if you suspect me!" said Haoyu playing with his phone.
"Lunatic!! Please leave my house or I will call the police!!!" Meilin screamed her lungs out.
"I won't leave!! So call the police, it's you that will be in a tight spot. Everyone looking for you will know you live here. You know how it will end, I won't tell you." said Haoyu, crossing his legs.
"Meilin, please be smart. Not everyone will like you, not everyone will believe you. Your tears will be seen as crocodile tears. Don't you know this issue has escalated more than you think? Someone somewhere is fanning the fire, and with time it will burn you if you don't quench it right now. Everybody is a suspect, including me!!"
Meilin chuckles.
"Even if no one in this world will help me, I can never request help from you."
"Really? Okay! Do your best." He said smiling.
"If I ever request help from you, call me a dog's baby."
"Okay!!" He said, making a hand gesture.
"So you knew who I was all this while. You knew about me since the day we met in your car." said Meilin.
"Yeah"
"You told your mom that we had met several times, and she asked me." Mei said with a disappointed tone.
"So you knew!! And you tried sleeping with me!!"
"Yes, but point of corrections! I didn't sleep with you. And not yet." He added with a smirk.
"Huh!! Not yet!! Pervert!!" She screamed out.
"You knew and yet, you made me make a fool of myself. Throwing you money to leave my life. You must have really seen me as an idiot."
"Take this money and get out of my life!! I don't want to ever see you again!!" (He laughed while he mimic her) I always knew you were my fiancee that has a fish brain. It's not my fault that you are daft." Laughing at her.
"Though I thought you were cute afterall. Dress up, my mom is waiting for us downstairs."
"What? Why? What do you mean?" She asked surprised.
"She… is downstairs… waiting for us… in the car.."
"Now you get it now? Or should I spell it out for you. Fish brain!!" He mocked.
"I am not a fish brain," Said Meilin, as she threw a pillow at him. He caught it with one hand without looking at her.
She was awed by his skills, she opened her mouth staring at him.
"Really a fish brain!!" He muttered.
"But why didn't you say it all along and I kept her waiting for me." She asked
"She didn't want to disturb you." He answered.
"She is very considerate while you aren't!!" She said, walking away from him.
Meilin went into her room to dress up. After taking her bath, she wore a pink dress. She looked at her figure in her mirror and sighed deeply.
"It's a bad idea! People will notice me quickly if I wear this. I think it's better that I don't wear any branded clothes." she muttered to herself, with a faint smile on her cheeks.
She grabbed a black long gown and took a scarf. She wore a pair of dark glasses.
"No one will notice me in this,"
She dashed out of her room, Haoyu was looking at her photos taken when she was a kid. She clearly saw a little smile on his face, and wondered what was amusing him. Immediately he noticed her presence, his smile faded.
"Whose burial are you attending?" He asked scanning her choice of dress.
"Yours," She replied shortly.
He shook his head.
"Let's go," He said in a harsh tone. Tossing the picture album on the couch.
She shakes her head and sighed, "I guess I saw wrong. Someone as rude as him can't smile."
Meilin followed him at his back, she kept looking around if there were paparazzi or Antifans around.
She got to the car and hurriedly entered, Haoyu's mother was seated at the back seat. Haoyu took over the front seat, while the ladies sat comfortably at the back.
"Meilin my dear," Mrs Li said as she held Mei's hand.
"Good morning Mrs Li, I am sorry for keeping you waiting." said Mei, with a wide smile. Something was poking Mei's butt in the car but she ignored it.
"No Mei, call me Mum. I will be your mom from now on." Mrs Li said, caressing her hair.
"Can I call you Ma? Not Mum please. I am not yet comfortable saying that," said Meilin, flashing her puppy eyes.
"Okay my dear, I am sorry if I imposed that on you. Why not call me Lena? I would prefer that." Mrs Li said with a smile.
"No, it sounds disrespectful. That's your real name"
"Mei, I also call her Lena. Everyone does, even my younger brother. So don't be scared. Just call her Lena." said Haoyu, with a smile.
"Really? American style!!" said Mei happily, everyone in the car laughed out loud.
"Mei, I am happy you are smiling now. No matter what they say about you, don't put it in your heart. For as long as you are innocent none of this will worry you. You are you and your heart is clean like water." she advised.
"Not every water is clean though," Haoyu chipped in with a smirk on his face.
"Not your business though!!." said Li Lena.
Mei smiling, she enjoys the banter between the mother and son.
She couldn't bear the stuff poking her butt anymore, she immediately put her hand under her butt.
"Something down here has been poking my butt," Meilin said.
"What is it? Bring it out," Lena said.
Meilin drags it out, there was a moment of silence as everyone looked at what she held.
What? A bra? Who is the owner?" Mrs Li Lena barked as she stared at Haoyu with horrifying eyes.
"It's not mine Lena," said Haoyu raising his hand up like he surrendered.
"Isn't this your car? Who will know about it if not you?" Mrs Li barked.
At that time, Mei still held the bra up. She was sweating on her forehead. Her hands and legs were trembling, her teeth shaking like she caught a cold. Her cheeks red like fresh tomatoes, her toenails curling together. Mei felt like running away from the car, she was so embarrassed by his soft gazes at her.
Given that she had left the bra in his car on their first day of meeting, Meilin was still speechless and knew fully well that it belonged to her.
"Does he not clean his vehicle? After all this time, how is the bra still in his car? Was he deliberately leaving it in his car to get even with me?" Mei's heart hammered.
"It probably belongs to the girlfriend of my assistant. He used my car to pick up his girlfriend in the club." said Haoyu. Meilin breathed a sigh of relief.
"Young people these days!! They can be quite wild. In his boss' car he did such a thing!! Fire him Haoyu." Mrs Li ordered.
"Yes I will," He answered with a smile, winking at Mei secretly. Mei cursed him in her mind, she felt like poking those sleepy eyes.
Haoyu dragged the red bra from Mei and put it in his pocket.