"Miss, did you hear that? This teddy just spoke with me. This teddy has a ghost." Min Yue ran behind Zhou Liying and hid behind her back.
Zhou Liying already had her doubts that this was not a teddy but a costume with a man inside it. It felt too real to her and when she heard a voice coming from the teddy, it confirmed her doubts.
She looked at the teddy with narrowed eyes. "Remove your costume and show me your face."
Min Yue yelled with fright when teddy moved his hands. From behind Zhou Liying, she watched as teddy removed his head and there stood, Mu Yuehan with his all-so-famous charming and heart-melting smile on his lips.
"I hope you like my gift Lili." He grinned. "Let me show you something which I have prepared."
Mu Yuehan again covered his face with the teddy face. He started to move his hands and legs, doing an awkward dance. He lifted his legs, left-right, left-right, moving his hips in rounds. He moved his hands directionless, making a joke of himself. His whole body was jiggling.
A smile cracked on the lips of Zhou Liying upon seeing his silly teddy dance. The teddy attire was quite huge for him to handle and that was why he was looking funny when dancing.
"Will you stop wasting my time and tell me what are you doing here, wearing a teddy costume?" she hid her smile and looked at him with a strict expression.
Mu Yuehan stopped dancing and again removed the face of the teddy from his face. "Today is teddy day. So, here is your gift." He pointed toward himself from top to toe.
"Today is teddy day and you are not a teddy." Zhou Liying wrapped her arms around her chest and looked at him with authority.
"Why not?" Mu Yuehan smirked and walked toward her. "Tell me, why does a girl love teddies, because they are cuddly and cute. Am I not cute and cuddly? Will you not like to cuddle with me in your sleep?"
He made cute faces. Zhou Liying bit the inside of her lower lips to control herself from smiling upon seeing his cute face.
"You are not cute. Now take your costume away and leave my house, right now. Guards."
"No need to call the guards. I will leave on my own. I have already accomplished my mission and that is gifting myself to you." He looked at her with a sly smile.
"I don't accept this gift. Now leave." Zhou Liying ordered in a firm and aggressive voice.
Mu Yuehan turned and was about to leave when he turned his face and looked at her with a sly smile. "By the way, Miss, why aren't you going on any more dates? Does no one want to go on a date with you? Why don't you marry me then?"
Zhou Liying narrowed her eyes when she heard him. "How do you know, no one wants to go on a date with me?"
"Just a hunch." Mu Yuehan shrugged. "How will the Qin family let you marry anyone?"
Shamelessly, Mu Yuehan put all the blame that every bachelor rejected to marry or even meet Zhou Liying only because of the Qin family. He forgot that the Qin family was still unaware of her real identity. That was why they were scared that she would marry someone for the properties.
"Ignore that, now help me unzip the zipper of my costume, will you? It's quite heavy." Mu Yuehan quickly changed the topic, not giving Zhou Liying a chance to realise that the Qin family was not aware of her identity.
"Why should I? Remove it by yourself." Zhou Liying shrugged with her famous smug expression on her face.
Mu Yuehan smiled at her rejection and asked for help from Min Yue. She eagerly helped Mu Yuehan, making Zhou Liying slightly jealous. She'd have helped him if he had asked her for the second time, but he….
Doesn't he know the words 'asking the second time?' she grumbled under her breath and watched Min Yue unzip the zipper at the back of the teddy costume.
"Can I have your costume, please?" Min Yue pleaded, looking hopeful. "I will like to surprise my brother with it."
"Sure." Mu Yuehan passed her the teddy face and the rest of the costume.
"Thank you." Min Yue accepted the costume and thanked him with gratitude.
"Miss, I will place this costume in my apartment. Then we can leave for the office." Min Yue informed and rushed toward her apartment.
"What are you still doing here? Leave." Zhou Liying hollered at Mu Yuehan.
Mu Yuehan shrugged his shoulders and left her apartment with a satisfactory smile on his lips.
Yesterday, he thought for a long as to what kind of teddy to gift to her. He then remembered the teddy placed in her room, the one he had won at the fair, he wanted to gift her that. But then it clicked, why did he not gift himself to her?
He remembered how one time she had called him teddy because he was cuddly and cute like one.
So here he came, in her penthouse, doming a costume of teddy. Even though, he was having a tough time handling the heavy costume.
Her secret smiles were not hidden from him and that made him satisfied. He was pleased that he was able to make her smile after such a long time.
**
"Min Yue, did you give my shortlisted list of bachelors to anyone?" Zhou Liying asked the moment she was in her office.
"Yes, Miss Zhou asked for it." Min Yue replied.
Zhou Liying narrowed her eyes and cursed. "BingBing always loves to know everything about my affair. Don't know what is cooking in her mind!"
"Prepare another list for me. And this time, the list should stay in between us only."
"Okay miss." Min Yue nodded, feeling slightly bad for Mu Yuehan. She knew Zhou Bingbing asked for the list from her to pass the same to Mu Yuehan.
**
The next day, in the evening, Mu Yuehan was eagerly preparing dinner for her. He wanted to deliver the dinner for her and give her promises to her on promise day.
He was nearly done with cooking the food when Li Tao entered the penthouse, looking alarmed.
"Boss, Miss Zhou is again going on a date."