Ying Xiaoxiao received a phone call from Rosiley as soon as she got home.
She picked it up and said, “Rosiley.”
“Xiaoxiao, are you free to have dinner with me?”
Arriving at the address Rosiley gave her, Ying Xiaoxiao found a Hong Kong restaurant on a bustling street in the city center.
As soon as she entered, she saw Rosiley sitting by the window, holding her chin with one hand and looking out of the window, her face tinged with bleakness.
Ying Xiaoxiao frowned and walked over quickly.
“Rosiley,” Ying Xiaoxiao said softly as she sat down opposite Rosiley.
Hearing her voice, Rosiley turned around and said with a smile, “Here you are, Xiaoxiao.”
Ying Xiaoxiao acknowledged and teased her. “How come you’ve actually got time to have dinner with me? Where is Mr. Lu?”
Ever since Rosiley had married Sachin, the three besties had been spending a lot less time together.
Sometimes she wanted to ask them out, but one would need to be with her husband, while the other had arrangements with her boyfriend, leaving her on her own. Poor Xiaoxiao.
At the question about Sachin, Rosiley blinked her eyes slightly and answered, “He’s busy.”
Busy? Ying Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows and looked at her face quizzically. Her woman’s intuition told her that something was wrong. Something was wrong with Rosiley.
But she did not ask her right away. Instead, she called the waiter over.
After ordering the dishes, Ying Xiaoxiao took a sip of the water on the table before looking at Rosiley leisurely. “Rosiley, what’s wrong with you and Mr. Lu?”
Rosiley’s expression froze for a second, then she pulled herself together and shook her head. “It’s nothing. What could be wrong with us?”
As she spoke, she picked up her glass and drank water to conceal her unease.
Ying Xiaoxiao chuckled, “Rosiley, you might be able to hide something from Yayoi since she’s silly, but you cannot possibly lie to me.”
Rosiley was grasping her glass tightly without realizing it, and she bit her lips before smiling bitterly, “I guess I really can’t get anything past you.”
Ying Xiao raised her eyebrows. “Then tell me. What happened?”
Rosiley placed the water glass back on the table and hesitated for a moment before elaborating about what she had seen at the entrance of Thunderbolt.
After she finished, Ying Xiaoxiao frowned and asked, “So, you just left like that?”
She sounded incredulous.
Rosiley nodded and said, “What else was I going to do?”
Ying Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes and said, “You should have gone with them!”
Hadn’t she always been pretty smart? How had she become so dumb today?
Rosiley curled her lips and said, “I didn’t want to go.”
Whenever she remembered how close that woman got to Shjin, her heart was in agony.
Ying Xiaoxiao was left speechless.
She really wanted to pry open her friend’s head and see what she had in there instead of a brain that would make her act so stupidly.
Ying Xiao Xiao took a deep breath and tried to sound as gentle as possible. “Rosiley, maybe that so-called blind date is an old acquaintance of theirs and they used to get along? In that case, it wouldn’t be a big deal for them to stand a little too close to one another.”
Although this might be true, ever since she had been with Sachin, she had never seen him so close to another woman. It was normal for her to feel uncomfortable about it.
Ying Xiaoxiao continued. “Rosiley, you shouldn’t be so sensitive as to imagine a whole bunch of things just because you saw something. You could have simply walked over gracefully and asked Sachin who that woman was. I’m sure he wouldn’t lie to you deliberately.”
“Well, he didn’t tell me about his father arranging a blind date for him.”
Rosiley was still a little upset about it.
“… Maybe he just didn’t want you to overreact.” Ying Xiaoxiao hesitated.
Sachin would certainly have his reasons if he had deliberately concealed this fact from her since things were so complicated in the Lu family. Surely, he would not want Rosiley to get involved in it and get hurt as a result.
This was the only way Ying Xiaoxiao could explain it.
Rosiley snorted and said, “If he doesn’t want me to overreact, he shouldn’t hide things from me. He should have told me the whole truth.”