She should have known neither of them would sympathize.
“Moi?” Meilei straightened up, turning a pointer finger at herself and blinking in innocence. “What did I do?” She drew a blank at how her not even being present was the cause.
“Yeah, what did she do?” Suying mimicked, and they both turned fully to Ling. Blinking her way with the question.
Ling groaned, eyes slowly dragging from one face to the other before she let out a dramatic sigh and then placed a hand on each girl’s shoulder. Her expression dropped into an overly dramatic picture of woe, and she screwed up her eyes, petted her lip, and whined.
There was a moment of silence as though each woman was paying some deathly respect to their fallen and pitiful friend before Meilei frowned, and a snort of anger came out of her pretty little mouth. A sudden realization crossed her mind and worked up her outrage.
“How’s that my fault?” Meilei protested. Pouting in a very Yuelin cutesy manner, that made Ling reach out and press her cheeks together with a pinch.
Meilei could be adorable without trying. When she was relaxed and secure with her friends, it was the only time her old personality shone a little.
“Had sex with him?” Suying finished for her, got an unimpressed glare in deadpan seriousness, and Ling shoved her away. Suying was one of those mean little sisters who loved to poke at something raw when she found it amusing and tease you mercilessly with it. For a doctor with a usually warm hug for every scenario, she could have a surprisingly uncompassionate heart when it came to her friend’s suffering.
Well, self-inflicted shame.
It wasn’t outright betrayal, but knowing Ling and Tian had hooked up was still weird. Given Ling’s strong stand against him from day one, she wondered if Ling had always been attracted to him deep down.
She could see why, though. Mr. Wang was handsome and had a mature and capable commanding side that most men aspired to. He had a stable quality and seemed like he could handle Ling at her fiercest. Plus, he seemed to be the one to calm Kai and bring some peace to her shitty situation, and she guessed for that, to him, she was thankful.
“I may resign and move to another country,” Ling replied in utter seriousness, and Suying shoved her for saying something so dumb.
“Unless what? Meilei questioned, Suying.
“Well, someone’s touchy. Does that mean you already faced one another and did not do an impromptu run while he still slept?” The elevator doors opened, and Suying walked out first, turning and waiting for them to follow. Watching as Ling slowly pushed herself off the wall and came out with heavy steps.
“So no future Mrs. Wang title then?” Suying got a slap on the shoulder for her response. Ling was irritable and wished she had not told these two cold-hearted shrews. Neither seemed to take her shame seriously.
She should have known they would be amused by it. They had become desensitized to her outlandish behaviors over the years. Ling mentally made a note never to drink again and, this time, promised herself she would stick to it.
“Ha. Ha.” Ling retorted with a snort, making it clear that Suying was in no way funny in this matter.
She would never admit under the pain of death that Tian gave her not one big oh oh, but several.
She had no idea how one walking iceberg like that could be so on point with his abilities between the sheets. He completely contradicted his entire persona the second he turned the sexy on.
Oh god, she hated him.
Ling shook it out of her head and cursed herself for these repeated stupid thoughts while Suying struggled to be free, and Meilei intervened to unwrap Ling from around her. Trying not to laugh but finally seeing the funny in this.
“No comment. Now shut up before I personally suffocate you.” Ling snapped, shoving her away in a friendly manner rather than genuine hostility, and Meilei trailed behind them again, looking for the vending machines.
Her tiredness slowed her, and her longing to run back up to check on Yue was invading again.