Sudden Declaration

Li Meilin immediately heaved a sigh of relief only after she was able to carry Lim Xian in his room and almost tossed him into his bed.

For her, carrying this guy is like carrying one gallon of mineral water container that she used to do way back when she was still living alone in her apartment.

"There. All done." She says proudly to herself and was about to leave to finish her folding duties when Li Meilin noticed that the guy was sweating heavily, a thing that alerted her senses right away.

Instinctively, Li Meilin swiftly looks for the remote control of the AC and immediately turns it on once she finds it.

Afterward, Li Meilin goes back to her master and tucks the blanket in to shield his body from the cold. She could now hear light snores from the guy sleeping in front of her that made her stop and stare at his seemingly angelic face.

Just from looking closely at his facial features, Li Meilin discovers what an amazingly handsome man he can be. Li Meilin finds out how long his eyelashes are, how sharp his nose is, and how kissable his red lips are.

"I never have imagined that he could be this angelic when he's asleep," Li Meilin mumbles to herself and clicks her tongue thrice.

At school, this guy is feared by everyone when in reality, he is just as vulnerable as anyone could be.

Setting aside her thoughts, Li Meilin now straightened her back and got ready to finally leave the room once and for all.

She already began taking a few steps away from her master's bed when she felt something warm grabbed her right hand all of a sudden, making her turn around to face him once more.

Li Meilin was then surprised to see how this guy's eyes are half-opened despite his drunken situation.

She was also taken aback by the fact how his eyes were a bit sad and looked like it was seeking some affection from someone whom Li Meilin doesn't know at all.

"Please, d-don't leave me…" Lim Xian started to murmur almost in a whisper, but Li Meilin managed to hear it.

"S-stay with me…"

In his eyes, Lim Xian thought he is currently seeing a blurry figure of someone who holds a very special place in his heart, someone who has left him a long time ago to chase her dreams.

As his heart ached for longing to be with her again, a teardrop suddenly rolled down his cheeks, and he was once again taken back to his sleep afterward.

***

As Lim Xan's eyes fluttered open the following day, a pang of pain started to overwhelm his head that distorted his face a bit. He immediately lifted his hand up and gently massaged his temples.

Lim Xian then began looking around and was somehow relieved to see himself in his own room. His friends must have called his driver yesterday night to pick him up and dropped him off at his house. That's why he is here at the moment.

He was about to get up from bed when he suddenly hears someone snoring nearby that catches his attention right away.

Suddenly, his eyebrows were hunched together while he searched for the source of that sound, and he was stunned in his place when he saw his personal maid asleep soundly at the edge of his bed while the rest of her body was seated on his bedroom chair.

What the hell is the meaning of this?

"Hey!" Lim Xian tries to wake the girl up but the latter didn't budge one bit. Annoyed by this, he starts to yank her body endlessly until Li Meilin's eyes start to open. "Wake up, you idiot!"

After seeing her master first thing in the morning, all drowsiness from her sleep has left Li Meilin which caused her to peel herself away from him and stood beside the bed.

She was about to scream when she suddenly remembered all the events from yesterday and why she ended up here.

"Who the hell gave you permission to sleep here in the first place?" Lim Xian asked furiously as he looked at the girl.

Li Meilin maintained her composure as she raised one eyebrow at him in disbelief. "It was you, stupid!"

"How is it even possible? Are you out of your mind?"

It was the perfect timing for Li Meilin to draw out her card and smirked at the guy,

"You said weird things last night and you never let go of my hand after that."

Refused to believe her, Lim Xian insisted, "That's not true!"

"It certainly is. I even recorded your voice on my phone. You know, for blackmailing purposes."

That is exactly not true at all. Li Meilin is fully aware of Ms. Yu's rules of not allowing anyone to use their phones during work. But of course, Lim Xian wouldn't know anything about that.

Upon hearing it, Lim Xian's eyes widened, and immediately sat up straight to his bed while looking at his personal maid in horror.

"Delete it right this instance!"

"Sorry, I wouldn't do that!"

Sighing in frustration, Lim Xian repeated, "Delete it now!"

"I would delete it… but under one condition."

This made Lim Xian's eyebrow raised in irritation. "And what would that be?"

Li Meilin maintained her smirk while crossing her arms over her shoulders. She couldn't believe how easily she could fool the almighty Lim Xian that everyone in her school is worshipping like their god.

"I wanted you to stop harassing me in school from now on,"

Lim Xian specifically hates seeing Li Meilin's confidence like this. He hates seeing her smirking in his direction when it should be the other way around.

'Darn, this girl is really something.' he thought to himself.

Running a frustrated hand in his messy hair, Lim Xian finally replies, "Fine with me. Now get out of my room and get me a cup of hot coffee right away!"

'Geez, and here I thought he would even try to deny it.' Li Meilin thought to herself before she began walking towards the door to obey her master's orders.

Li Meilin was about to hold the doorknob when Lim Xian suddenly remembered his conversation with his buddy, Wang Qing He, at the club yesterday night in a flash.

{Why don't you try making the girl fall in love with you?}

"Wait…"

Li Meilin froze in her place upon hearing her master's voice and turned around to face him once again with an annoyed expression plastered all over her face.

"What?" she almost snapped.

"In exchange for your peaceful life in school, I would then hereby declare you as my girlfriend, starting today."

It was now Lim Xian's turn to smirk when he saw that dumbfounded look on his personal maid's face.

Ahhh… that overwhelming look in her face must also mean that she was somehow moved by his sudden declaration, he thought to himself as he slowly nods his head in pure delight.