She left her phone, her wallet, and her purse with the devil again.
"What is this? A habit?!?!" Shen Yue scolded herself as she punched her pillow in frustration.
And then remembering why she ran out of Wang He Di's condo and hailed a cab to take her home, she hid her face in the pillow.
"IDIOT! IDIOT! IDIOT!", she screamed inside her head, "YOU WILL NEVER EVER GET DRUNK AGAIN!!!!"
"Yue-jie, do you want me to just kill you? I mean... it would be hard for you to lose your breath through a pillow if it isn't another person who does it", she heard her brother's voice and immediately sat up.
"YANG!"
He laughed. "You really should buy your guest downstairs a watch."
She raised a brow. "Huh?"
"I said, you really should buy your guest downstairs a watch", Yang repeated and then added "The last time he was here, dawn had just cracked. And today, we're all about to sleep already. He might not have good watch because he does not seem to know anything about time."
Her throat went dry.
THE DEVIL REALLY WENT TO HER.
"He's with Papa again but you really should go see him already. He seems to really like you, jie. This is his second time at home already."
Her brother left her before she could make a retort and she found herself getting torn between wanting to dissolve into thin air or setting their whole house on fire so that they would have to move and this man won't ever know how to find her again.
She could not wrap her head around what had just happened between the two of them and here he was seemingly wanting to rub it in her face more.
"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T USE YOUR HEAD YUE!", she berated herself as she trudged her feet down the stairs.
It's better for her to finally go and see the man rather than have her Father drag her from her room because he does not like making guests wait.
They were all too freaking accommodating in this house, she thought morosely.
"Ah Yue!" his voice was the first one that welcomed her into the veranda.
WHEN DID SHE AND THIS GUY CALL ONE ANOTHER BY THEIR FIRST NAMES?!?!?!
"Yue, this is the second time DiDi has brought your bag to the house to return it. You really should be more careful next time, ok? You told me Jia Qi had it but apparently, you left it behind his car after he took the two of you home last night", her Father told her.
She had lied about what happened last night.
She told them she was with her college classmates and that she left her bag with one of them because she was rushing to get home. She only realized she had forgotten about it when she was already half-way on the road to their house.
Wang He Di looked smug right behind her father and she wanted to bash his face in.
WHAT WAS HE PLAYING AT?!?!
"I would have taken your bag back this morning but I had a guest at home who woke up late", the man said and she felt her blood go up to her head.
"That's ok, DiDi. I am happy that even if it is already very late, you took this back. Thank you", her Father answered.
"I really wanted to take this back tonight because I would be very busy next week, Sir. And I think Yue would worry about losing her phone and wallet if she realizes they are both not with her friend."
"Again, thank you son. You've done her a favor again", her Father squeezed the devil's shoulder and smiled, "I have to go up now and take a rest, DiDi. You also rest a bit before you leave. Yue, make sure he is comfortable ok? He just arrived around ten minutes ago. It's going to be a long drive for him so don't make him immediately go."
"Sure Pa", she responded, grinding out her answer thru gnashed teeth.
As soon as her father was out of earshot, she turned towards her supposed "guest".
"YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE JUST GIVEN THIS TO ZI WEI!" she hissed.
"I wanted to be the one to take it back to you", DiDi answered, "I wanted to see you again."
She snatched her purse away from him and looked at him sternly. Yue gave him one of her infamous "death eye" stares but he didn't so much as flinch.
He just brushed it off and cheekily pointed towards his lips. "A thank you would be nice."
"HAVE YOU NO SHAME AT ALL MR. WANG HE DI?!?!" she admonished. How could he just walk in to their house and rub in what happened to them the night before?!?
DiDI laughed. "None. I mean, you had no shame when you removed my clothes so why should I have any?"
"CAN YOU SHUT UP?!?"
"Ms. Shen", he started, "you are old enough to marry. I doubt it would cause too much of a commotion that we had sex. And don't look scandalized. We both wanted what happened last night. You even initiated it."
She closed her eyes, willing the mental images his statement gave her out of her mind, and could not believe how casually he mentioned it.
"Are you really not gonna stop about that!!!" she threatened.
"Unless you go out with me again, then no."
"WHAT?!?!?!" Has he become insane?!?!
Weren't they sworn enemies just a day ago?
And didn't he insult her and tell her all she was after was money?!?!?!
HOW COULD ONE NIGHT OF SEX CHANGE ALL THAT?!?!
"I said, go out with me."
"Do you have a screw lose?!?!", Yue exploded, "It hasn't even been a week since you mentioned we part as enemies and now you're asking me to go out?!?!"
"I didn't know how good you were in bed then", the devil answered calmly.
"Are you even hearing yourself?!?!", she told him, "How could you think I would agree to go out with you?!?! What happened was a mistake! And you going here to ask me out on a date just because I was good in bed is more of a mistake! Do you NOT know how insulting this is?!?!"
The man looked like he could care less throughout this tirade and walked towards her – stopping just about three feet away.
"I know that this is insulting because my goal, really, is to insult you", he answered, "You're just really unlucky you gave me ammunition to do what I want to do."
He was a bastard through and through, Yue thought.
"You said yourself that people won't care that we had sex. I'm old enough. So you won't be able to use that against me!"
She found herself disappointed that her words seemed to have no weight to him at all.
"That isn't the ammunition I am talking about", DiDi told her.
Her left brow almost hit the roof with how high she raised it. "Then what???"
"You got a video call from your friend, Dong Xin. I answered it. She was surprised so I told her and explained why I have your phone. She introduced herself as your best friend and then eventually, she invited "US" to a dinner party to celebrate her engagement on Saturday" yue felt the color drain from her face as DiDi continued "She was with her fiancé – Gao Zhi Ting? And there was another woman in the call... a Li Jia Qi, I think? She casually mentioned that it's a good thing you are dating me because she thought you still are not over Zhi Ting. I knew she was joking but I put two and two together and realized something you told me last night."
"You know nothing about what you are talking about", she responded angrily. Was it possible? Did she indeed mention Zhi Ting to him last night?!?!
"Really? Isn't Gao Zhi Ting, you Mr. Perfect? Isn't he the guy who is the very definition of perfection but isn't in love with you?"
She felt the ground being pulled under her.
"You know nothing!", she repeated to him, her eyes burning with fury.
"Oh! But I do know", DiDi told her coldly "And if I were you, you will cooperate with me because I might just decide to let slip to your best friend that you are still in love with the guy she is going to marry."
If she could punch him, Yue believes she could turn his whole face black with bruises.
"Why are you doing this?!", she demanded.
"To make your life a living hell Ms. Shen. Do you really have to ask?"
If her imagination could actually kill a person, Wang He Di was already dead and sealed inside a barrel drum to be sunk down the sea where his friends and family will never see or hear from him again.
He moved to stand by her side, facing the way to their door. "I will only stop if you say you won't write Zi Wei's story."
Of course.
What did she even expect?
This man will do anything to stop her and his sister.
"However, if you will insist on writing Zi Wei's story then take note that we have a date on Wednesday. I'll text you the details. And then, we'll attend your best friend's engagement party on Saturday. I already told her we would."
He then walked away from her, leaving Shen Yue cursing the heavens and her goddamned self.
"YOU ARE AN IDIOT YUE! AN IDIOT! AN IDIOT! AN IDIOT!"