bitter exes | beidou x ningguang

chapter iv

contains smirk content

Back to her Jade Chamber, Ningguang was pacing back and forth seemed to be stressed again. Muttering things that were inaudible to Ganyu's ears. After pacing, she would look at her window for a minute then goes back to pacing.

"Mam, what bothers you?" Ganyu finally asks, getting dizzy for following her boss' movements.

Ningguang lets out a groan, "It's been three days and that captain hasn't reported anything to me yet!" she runs her finges through her white long hair.

Ganyu gasped, remembering something that she had forgotten to say, "Yeah, about that," a nervous laugh comes out, "Xiangling said that as Captain Beidou and her crew was sailing, there was a huge storm that left them haggard." she explained.

The Tianquan was shocked, "What?!" she began to prepare to leave, "What happened?!"

Ganyu thinks, "They got into an accident, still recovering as per Xiangling."

"Tell them to take us to The Crux fleet." she quickly said, Ganyu following behind her.

Ningguang felt a different feeling on the pits of her stomach but she did not want to admit that she was worried about Beidou. She does not even know what came to her mind and had the guts to visit her ship.

They have arrived to the Guyun Stone Forest wherein Beidou's ship is always to be seen, they had to take a boat to actually arrive on the ship itself.

The boatmen were surprised to the Tianquan's presence so they immediately let her to their ship, Beidou said that Lady Ningguang must always be welcomed to her ship.

As her crewmen were skeptical, Ningguang instantly storms to the Captain's deck, nkt even daring to knock.

There she saw Beidou, unharmed, drinking beer on her flask. They were both shocked at each other.

"Mi'lady? Are you presenting yourself for payment?" she joked but Ningguang continued to examine her, her hands looking for a sign of scratch.

Beidou was overwhelmed with the other's touch, her heart merely skipped a beat when Ningguang's hand touched her face.

The white haired woman was deceived, "I thought you had an unfortunate incident?" she felt she looked dumb.

The captain chuckled, "That was a false alarm," she sat at her own chair, "I only told Xiangling about that so she could make us a feast." she explained.

"Well yeah, we caught up on a storm," she said, "But I can tame the storms and billows on the sea." she proudly remarked.

Ningguang was ashamed for aboarding their ship in a very rude way so she fell silent.

"Mi'lady," she called, her voice sweet as hell, "Were you worried about me?"

She immediately turned her back against her, "Absolutely not! I was worried about my crystals!" she defended but Beidou did not believe her.

"Then! I shall leave this ship." but she was stopped when Beidou flung her arm around her, locking her to leave.

"Since you are here, might as well join our feast." she invited her. Before she could even say no, her secretary hurries and already chose a seat.

Ningguang had nothing to do but to have dinner with them not as if she hates them but she really was ashamed.

They went at the quarter back part of the ship wherein a long table was prepared along with a few dishes that was done.

Beidou sat at the principal position of the table while the other just sat towards her to the right, "These are yours to celebrate though I was not invited, I should never be present here." she reasoned, not even daring to look at the other's eye in embarrasment.