Chapter 77 - Reintroduction

As soon as Zhuang Wei had entered the room he could feel the daggers being glared into him. He knew he shouldn't enter but he had already given them enough time together. An hour had passed since the lady was dragged away and he really couldn't hold his curiosity much longer. It was obvious she held importance to Xi Long but he needed to confirm her identity. As his best friend it was rather interesting to see a usually cold man be so feverent over a woman. A mischevious smile grew on his face right before he spoke. "Honeyyy," doing his usual call he looked Xi Long in the eyes while he started walking over. However, when he got close he switched to the other woman and repeated his greeting. "Honeyy, I miss you. It was rude of him to take you away from me." Adding in a wink he flashed a playful smile at her before stopping right next to her. He was going to place his elbow on her shoulder too but could tell that would be pushing his buttons too far.

At this point he could feel the daggers burn into him more aggressively but he just ignored him. Keeping eye contact with the lady he could see her vaguely smile behind her mask. Her eyes were twinkling with mischief and her cheeks were raised to her eyes proving there was a smile on her face. Following his lead she answered back ignoring Xi Long who grew more annoyed with every passing second. "Oh I did miss you, how could you let this mean man take me away and so roughly at that! I'm just a fragile little lady huhu...." Hearing her reply he almost burst out laughing just from theatrics of it all. He had a feeling that he liked her before and her seemlessly following his prank made him be sure of it.

"Don't worry my lady, your knight in shining armour has arrived, the bad man won't be able to hurt you anymore!" Adding a bit of flair into his words, he kept his face phrase as he made his "promise."

"Can I trust you? Though I feel so much safer already."

"Scout's honour." Holding two of his fingers up against his chest he signaled the movement. When he finished he heard a couple of claps from in front of him. Looking towards his friend he saw him give a deadpan expression before speaking. "Are you guys done with your acting? I really think you should switch professions Wei, your talents are going to waste."

"Ahaha," not being able to hold in his laughter he finally broke character and let himself laugh. "See XiXi I would but you'd miss me too much. Now we can't have that now can we? Don't worry I'll neeeeevvveeeerrr leave you."

Ying Yue was enjoying their interaction from the side. She had her suspiscions before but by the looks of it they were very close friends. It wasn't surprising that a man who caught her eye was more than a simple employee. He had probably gained the role of Director this young because of his skill but chose the company completely based on personal affiliation. It was refreshing to know he had close friends on his side that could irritate him this lovingly. He had confidentally entered without a knock and immediately jumped into teasing him meant that there was a strong bond between them. Even though she could feel Xi Long glare at him there was a fair bit of love in them since he made no moves to stop the act.

She followed along on the banter when Director Wei had entered and laughed as soon as he childishly help up the motion for a boy scout. To interrupt them Xi Long started clapping and added in his sarcastic comments. She noticed that he spoke to Director Wei on a first name basis so she had bets on the fact that they were friends for years now, give or take since childhood. It was a stretch to guess how long they were friends but from what little she knew of Xi Long, he was not overtly sociable. What brought her back into the conversation was the nickname given to Xi Long.

"Wait XiXi?? You call him XiXi? That's quite a cute name for such a mean looking man. Very....oxymoron." She pinned a look at Xi Long while she made her comment. It was a bit suprisingly to know someone went around calling the big bad CEO by a cute pet name. I mean it was a very simple shortening of his name but isn't really common past elementary school. She quite liked the sound of it as well, it wasn't decided that she would call him that too but she could add it to a potential list. Right now she preferred calling him a pineapple head and other creative insults.

Focusing on his reaction she watched to see if he would give away any hint that he liked the petname but other than a slight ripple in his eyes nothing was given away. That ripple could be either good or bad, though she couldn't make much insinuations from it. In his response, he said "Oxymoron huh? Someone's getting a little cheeky Ki-babe." He almost called her "Kitten" again but quickly changed it mid-sentence. Though he called her it often she wasn't sure how she felt about others knowing the nickname he insisted on calling her. It was a very descriptive petname that easily gave away their relationship and honestly, she was just wary of others making fun of it. If Ming Ming or Neo knew that a man was going around calling her kitten, they would have her head. She could already imagine the amount of insults and jokes thrown her way by them.

"Babe?" Zhuang Wei lifted an eyebrow and glanced between them. "So I think its time for me to reintroduce myself. My name is Zhuang Wei and I am a director here. You are?"