Chapter 281 - Queen Of My Life

Coming back to a certain office located on the top floor of the building...

Darren's mood was quite complex seeing the interaction between Dylan and Xiu becoming franker and franker in the past hour. It really seemed to him like they were the best friends and he was the extra person there. Well, there was no need to even mention that he wasn't a big fan of this situation before him.

But he was also quite helpless...

The worst part was that both of them weren't taking their kitty party to another place and he was able to do nothing with their chattering in the background. Dylan was like a curious little fanboy asking everything and anything while Xiu was the calmest and patient he had ever seen her around Dylan. She was actually willing to accommodate Dylan's curiosity and that was huge progress in his opinion. 

While he was lamenting at his own situation, all of a sudden, the door of his office was pushed open and a certain secretary strode in with the clinking sound of her heels on the floor. Darren noticed Paige narrowing her eyes at him. "You! You already gave me enough headaches in the morning when you came late without even informing me. And now, you want me to clear your itinerary for the whole damn day? Have you lost it?!"

"Well, I informed you this time," answered Darren with a smirk feeling proud of himself.

Paige's eyes twitched as she showed her phone screen to him, "With this stupid text that only read, 'Clear my itinerary for the day.' What is this?" As Darren opened his mouth to say something, she held up her hand to stop him. "If you're doing this because of your best friend's visit let me tell you, that's really unreasonable! How can you ignore such important meetings? It's just a best friend not the President of the country!"

Darren stood up from his revolving chair and began, "You're right, it's not the President of the country. But..." he moved towards the sitting area of the room at a slow pace as he continued, "It's the queen of my life."

Paige's furrowed brows eased up slowly as Xiu's figure slowly came to her view. Xiu who had found Paige's reaction quite similar to her own smiled brightly at her dazzling the already starstruck girl. Paige held a hand over her chest as she muttered, "Damn! I didn't think the attack was so lethal in person."

Xiu who had no idea about the other girl's inner thoughts actually came to her side and stretched her hand towards her. "Hi, I'm Bai Xiu. I'm really sorry for today. He was late because of me in the morning and even now he's not able to work because of me. I sincerely apologize for troubling you like this."

Seeing that sincerely in Xiu's eyes, Paige was speechless. Not because she really had nothing to say but rather because the girl before her looked so damn adorable that she couldn't bring herself to say anything. Oh, shit! This crush was really getting to her head!

Calming her nerves, she held Xiu's soft hand to shake and introduced herself, "Hi, I'm Paige. Paige Turner."

Xiu pursed her lips before whispering, "Paige Turner?" She bit the inside of her mouth but still couldn't hold back her laughter. And the one to join her was none other than Dylan himself who had long found Paige's name to be funny. Seeing her reaction, Paige wasn't the least bit annoyed. Instead, she stared at Xiu with an even more intense look.

She gave a look to Dylan and Xiu before shifting her eyes to her boss as if saying, 'They both share the same brain cells.' Darren had to shrug his shoulders nonchalantly as if to reply, 'I know.'

And he certainly knew, didn't he already mention that Xiu and Dylan were quite similar. Their sense of humor just matched at a different level. 

Xiu controlled her laughter with much difficulty as she looked at Paige apologetically. "I'm so sorry for laughing like that. I really don't know what came over me."

"You looked cute, so it's alright," replied Paige while she even rubbed Xiu's head catching her off-guard. However, a certain possessive boyfriend pulled Xiu to his side while hissing at Paige. She laughed at his reaction and said in Norwegian that only she and he could understand, "She attacked me first with her smile, I could just kindly flirt back a little subtly."

"Turner!" Darren's voice took a sharp turn as he directly called her by her last name completely omitting the first name.

Paige laughed at his reaction as she moved towards the door and said, "I'll clear up the rest of the day for you. But don't make it a habit."

After Paige had left, Xiu tugged at Darren's sleeve. "Babe, why did you get so possessive?"

"I did not," answered Darren.

Xiu placed both her arms on her h.i.p.s as she stared him down, "You just hissed at your secretary."

"She was touching your head!" retorted Darren as if that was most reasonable answer he had. "I don't like it when someone else touches you."

"That's what being possessive means," she replied.

"Whatever."

Xiu could only sigh at his response and so did Dylan who watched their exchange and wondered out loud, "Can you both refrain from this show of wind, flower, snow, and moon? At least, when I'm around."

Darren looked at him in confusion. "Wind, flower, snow, and moon? What does that mean?"

Xiu chuckled lightly at his adorable reaction. She pinched his cheek. "Babes, wind, flower, snow, and moon is a Chinese term used to describe romance. It literally means romance. Dylan wants to keep our romance show away from his sight."

Darren finally gave a look of realization. "Didi, you could simply just say romance. Do you have to use such terms for me? I can barely understand simplified Mandarin. I have never read Chinese literature!" Dylan had no comments about that even though he knew that his best friend was not that proficient in Mandarin as he appeared to be.

Since Darren wasn't saying anything anymore, Xiu turned to Dylan and said, "Watch out, Didi. You never know the next day you might be having a wind, flower, snow, and wind show before us."

"Huh! That can't happen." Dylan looked certain of his words.

"You never know," said Xiu mysteriously with a hidden meaning.

"What do you mean?" 

"Well, isn't it a shame? All those hair and no one to run her fingers through it?"

"Pfft!" It was Darren's turn to laugh while Dylan stood dumbfounded.

"Don't you think it's a pity? Don't brood over other's happiness, spread your wings and look for your own."

Dylan narrowed his eyes at her and replied, "If I can't be happy whilst being single, I can't possibly be happy being in a relationship. Happiness doesn't come from a relationship. Happiness is a warm cup of milk and gingerbread in my cozy bed!"

"Tsk. Tsk. Poor Dylan. You still don't know." Dylan quirked his brow at her while she continued, "My dear boss, happiness comes from the heart." She shrugged her shoulders as she concluded, "But it doesn't matter what you say. No matter which way or how far you run, I believe that God has a way to tie your red thread with the right one. And trust me, when that happens, it'd be you running after her, not the other way around."

If only Xiu knew how her momentarily slip of tongue was going to turn into reality in the near future, she'd have rolled on the floor laughing at Dylan's fortune or maybe misfortune? Whichever it would be, she would be the only one who would be laughing at the end!