So humiliated

But something snapped inside Xuan as she stared at the face she knew so well. The first face she saw every morning, whether hers of Xi's, contorted in anger.

Ying Xuan took out her phone and nodded in direction of Ying Xi's phone, that lay on her bed. Xi glanced in the direction she was pointing and then crossed her arms, indicating she wasn't going to do what Xuan was asking. But Ying Xuan paid her no mind and began to type on her phone.

She typed for a few seconds and hit send, and Xi's phone lit up with a notification. Both the sisters ignored it as Ying Xuan continued to type, and Ying Xi stared at her.

After a few more notifications of Xi's phone, Xuan pocketed her own phone and crossed her arms to, mimicking Ying Xi's pose. A few seconds after the stand-off, Xuan sighed and shook her head. She turned, gave one last disgusted look to Ying Xi, and went towards the bathroom.

As soon as the door of the bathroom closed, Ying Xi's facade crumbled. Her expression of anger was immediately replaced with one of sadness as her lips drooped down and tears threatened to fall from her eyes. She knew she had really crossed the line with the play last night, but something inside her had snapped when Wei Jingyu had looked at her like he wanted her to disappear from the face of the earth, and had turned around to give Xuan one of his most heart-felt smiles.

Ying Xi had been so humiliated when she had been dragged from backstage, kicking and screaming, like she was some villager. Jingyu and his friends had dragged her to a storage room, used for storing spare equipment. Once there, Wei Jingyu had really looked like he wanted to strangle her, and his hand had almost come up, when one of his friends had grabbed his hand and whispered something in his ear. Jingyu had nodded, and after giving one last look to Ying Xi, which made her feel like scum, he had turned to walk away. "Make sure she does not cause trouble for us." he had said, tossing the words over his shoulder before walking away.

"You are so going to regret making young master Wei angry. Especially if it concerns Miss Ying. He does not tolerate anyone who disrespects his queen." one of his friends had said with a sigh. Ying Xi had actually been worried for her life then, wondering what these boys were going to do. But all they had done was to find some rope and tie her to a chair. The boys had also found a cloth to gag her, and had just left her there, barely able to move and not able to utter a word.

Xi had finally been saved by Mo Feng'er, who had come looking for her. Ying Xi had no idea how much time had passed, her wrists and ankles ached, and her throat was so dry that she felt it was about to come off in pieces. Tears had also dried on her face when Feng'er had rescued her and asked if she wanted to go to the infirmary.

But Ying Xi had been too embarrassed to be seen in such a position.