" You know you are very beautiful," said Xiao Hua as he gazed at the manager of the bar where he was working.
As Little Zimo suggested to him, he came to look for a beautiful woman who will let him get rid of the guilty feelings that he was getting every time, he thought about Yu Dong and the first person that came to his mind was Gu Ke Xin who was the newly appointed manager of the bar.
Gu Ke Xin was a young woman, she was beautiful, smart and nimble—- she was even exceptionally witty and knew what she was doing, if not Yu Dong wouldn't have appointed her as the manager of the bar. And from what Xiao Hua heard, she was also single and hadn't married, her family conditions were good and all her brothers were married, now she was the only one who stayed alone at her home with her parents.
From just one look it was clear that she was an ideal candidate for him to start dating and get married to but —- to his annoyance, Xiao Hua found out that Gu Ke Xin wasn't shiny...shiny at all! Not even half as shiny as Yu Dong who shone so bright that sometimes, she blinded him with her shine.
" Are you looking for a fight?" asked Gu Ke Xin as she raised her head from the account book that she was checking and looked at Xiao Hua with a disgusted expression. " I am telling you for the last time Xiao Hua, it's mers who look beautiful not women!"
Gu Ke Xin was born with a tiny frame and she was even smaller than her brothers who were mers—- if she was living in the world from where Yu Dong came, then Gu Ke Xin would have been liked by a bunch of men but the thing was ... she was born in this world where women were supposed to be the dominant section of the society. And because of her tiny build, there were many times Gu Ke Xin was taken as a mer and sometimes women even proposed marriage to her...much to her annoyance.
She was a woman damn it! But no one could see that at first glance, which was why Gu Ke Xin was often bullied and teased by her peers.
Now every time she heard anyone call her beautiful, she will blow up her top and explode like a firecracker.
" How very sexist of you," Xiao Hua rolled his eyes and then leaned back on the chair that he was sitting on in Gu Ke Xin's room. " Just because mers are beautiful doesn't mean that women cannot be beautiful, I mean if we call men handsome..there are some mers who are more handsome than beautiful, have you seen them get upset when they get called for being handsome??"
" That's a different altogether," said Gu Ke Xin as she placed a hand on her forehead, a quick sigh and then she was looking at Xiao Hua again. " Anyway, why are you in my room, disturbing my work? Shouldn't you be busy with the usual gossiping you do with the young mers from prestigious families? What did you got bored with the story of why the young man servant raised his pants for the madam?"
Xiao Hua blushed as he glared at Gu Ke Xin. " You ... are you eavesdropping?"
" Do I need to?" shot back Gu Ke Xin with a blank expression. " I mean you and the rest of the mers discuss about it so loudly that I can hear it from my office, it's not my fault that you all gush loudly every time the man servant's pants are raised or dropped." She paused and then looked at Xiao Hua before resting her chin on her knuckles. " I don't mean to pry but what's so good about listening to a story where the man servant is slowly groomed by his madam?"
She received her answer with a cushion flying in the air and smacking her in the face. " And there you go, ruining the essence of the entire story! It is not grooming but love!" He clasped his hands together and with shiny eyes, a gushing voice continued, " How can you not sense the love flying in the air? A young madam from a high-class family and a poor man servant... entangled together because of fate. My heart races every time I hear about the young madam saving the man servant from the troubles that he gets into and then securely holding him in her arms before saying —- 'You naughty boy, you always make me worry.' Damn even now I can feel my cheeks heat up!"
With that, he patted his cheeks and turned to look at Gu Ke Xin whose face was just as blank as before, if not she looked even more disgusted than earlier. She shook her head and puffed out a breath before saying, " So, all in all—- you are gushing over a young man servant who was in distress being saved by a young madam, who then bullies him physically instead of taking care of him?"
Again Xiao Hua sent a cushion flying in her direction but this time she was prepared, and thus dodged it easily. " What do you know? You have not a single bone that knows what bird is called 'romance', I bet even if romance dances in front of you naked with a big, bold tag that reads —- ' Hello, I am romance', you wouldn't be able to recognise it!"
" Oh come on, it's romantic because the madam is rich and good-looking —- if you replace her with a poor, ugly, fat pig-like woman, I wouldn't see you all gushing like that." Gu Ke Xin's retort completely pissed Xiao Hua off but he had to admit that what she said was right, with an angry face, he narrowed his eyes and sat down with a huff. " Are you happy now that you have ruined it for me?"
" Why? Wasn't love the main spice here? How can you be such a hypocrite, Hua Hua?"
