The Devil who devoured Snow White

299  What kind of homework?

"I saw you with Si Hongqi. I guess everything is going well between you two now huh?" He chuckled as he looked at her with a teasing gaze.

"Well…" She held the word in her tongue as she plopped down beside him. She couldn't stop her lips from curling up into a wide smile.

Bai Jingye raised a brow. "Looks like something good happened."

"It's better than good! He confessed to me, Jingye! He told me that he likes me too!" She exclaimed happily.

He blinked a few times as he watched her get all excited. "Oh wow, I didn't think that it would happen so fast. Who confessed first?"

"Him of course." She huffed.

As Tian ruyi continued to chat with Bai Jingye, she told him everything about what happened earlier while she prepared for dinner.

"So you're not going to date him yet even if you already have feelings for him, huh?" He shook his head in disbelief. "Of course! I have to know him first. What if he's hiding a weird hobby?"

"You mean like he's into S and M?" He smirked as he raised a brow at her.

"S and M?" She blinked a few times in confusion as she turned to him rather innocently.

He sighed a bit before he elaborated, "sadist and masochist play." "Ah…"

In an instant, her face turned red. There was a possibility that Si Hongqi could be into that kind of play. He looked like he was. Under that friendly, smiling face of his could be into something twisted. He was, after all, a two-faced man.

Tian Ruyi instantly shook her head at the thought. She shouldn't think of such things. She was ruining his image without even having proof of it.

"Anyway, if you are going to stay here, you have to pay up, okay?" She pouted. "Now that you have been released from the hospital, shouldn't you go back to work?"

"You should tell that to my mom and brother." He sighed. "Oh well, I have other things to do anyway." He pulled out his phone and checked his inbox. "I need to finish up the homework Mr. Yong had given me."

"Homework?" She blinked a few times. "What kind of homework?"

"As much as I want to tell you, I can't." Yong Liwei had instructed Bai Jingye to keep it to himself.

Even if Tian Ruyi was curious, she knew that she shouldn't ask. She knew what kind of business they were working with. Bai Keran may be dead but the person who killed him was still running free somewhere around them.

…

As days passed, ever since Yong Liwei had left the country, Lu Mengjie had lost contact with him. She was sure that the reason behind it was because of what he said.

She had tried to contact Cecilia but failed to do so. It was as if she had been avoiding her. Lu Mengjie's only way to meet her was to go straight to her place. She was currently standing in front of a door. It was easy to find the apartment where Cecilia was staying. She had the skills to do so.

As she rang the doorbell, she waited for someone to open the door for her.  Lu Mengjie waited and waited but no one answered for her. Could she not be at home? Nôv(el)B\\jnn

She rang the bell once again and waited. This time, she heard movements from inside. Before she knew it, the door was finally pushed open.

Instead of seeing the woman she was searching for, a blond-haired man stood in front of her.

Slowly, Lu Mengjie's eyes began to widen. "You…"

Just like her, the man was surprised as well. Who would have thought that they would end up seeing each other once again?

"Cian? What are you doing here?" Lu Mengjie questioned him. He was the man that she saw on the playground a few weeks ago.

"I should be the one asking you that. What are you doing here, Mengmeng?" He raised a brow.

"I'm looking for Cecilia Bai." She eyed the apartment number just to make sure that she was not mistaken. "This should be her place."

"Yes, it is. Cecilia Bai is my sister."

"Sister…" Now that he mentioned it, Lu Mengjie soon realized that the man before her has some similarities with Cecilia.

"Is she at home?" She inquired.

"No, she isn't. She's at work. Why?" He replied.

The side of her lips was stretched into a thin line. How could she be at work right now? According to the schedule she got, Cecilia should be at home. "I have something to talk about with her. What time is she coming back?"

"She said that she'll be back after lunch. She just had to take care of something." He sighed. "She's such a workaholic you know. She goes to work even if she has nothing scheduled today."

"Ah…" She trailed off.

"If you want, you can wait for her here," he invited her, flashing her a smile. "It's already lunchtime and she might be on her way back now."

Lu Mengjie knew that she should decline but she needed to meet Cecilia. It was urgent. The other woman knew something about what Yong Liwei told her. With a small smile plastered on her lips, she replied,  "If you don't mind."

"Of course I won't." He chuckled. "You're always welcome in our place. I'm just about to prepare food for lunch, have you eaten yet?"

Lu Mengjie shook her head a bit. She intentionally came during that time. She smiled shyly. "I hope you don't mind having an extra plate with you."

He grinned. "Of course not! Come, come!" He stood on the side, allowing her to enter and as she did, he took extra indoor slippers for her to wear.

"Thanks." She mumbled. After wearing the slippers, she followed Cian to the living room.

She sighed inwardly. Lu Mengjie couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable inside a stranger's house. Even if Cian was someone from her past, as he had told her, a childhood friend, she had no recollection of him. "By the way, where's that bodyguard of yours? Spider?"