Her Gorgeous Smile

After Lim Xian set up his Playstation on the big flat screen in the corner of his large bedroom, he slid his fingers through the different PlayStation games on his shelf to find the game he wanted to play with his personal maid.

"Ah, here it is," Lim Xian said confidently as he pulled out the case which has the cover of the newest version of Tekken on it.

Upon seeing what game he chose just now, Li Meilin can't help smirking to herself. The last time she remembered playing that was when she was staying at Zhao Chen's place. Ever since she finally understood the controls and mechanics of the game, Zhao Chen hadn't won against her, not even once.

Li Meilin was sure enough that she could take down this arrogant jerk and crush his ego right here and then for what he did to her a few seconds ago.

Once the cd goes in, the main screen of the game starts to pop out of the tv screen. Lim Xian goes over the couch and sits on the couch next to Li Meilin without caring if his shoulder brushes up with Meilin's or not.

Meilin, on the other hand, still hasn't forgotten what he did and goes scooting a few inches away from her demon master as slowly as she could.

The battle soon begins once both Xian and Meilin are now able to choose their respective characters that they are going to use to compete with each other.

"I know peasants like you don't have the privilege to hold a game controller all throughout their life," Xian said all of a sudden as the game still loads on the screen. "Do you want me to teach you the basics? I'm kind enough to tutor you first if you say please."

Meilin only rolled her eyes at her master before replying, "No need."

A look of disbelief immediately flashes across Lim Xian's face upon hearing the confidence in Li Meilin's tone just now.

'Why does she sound so confident right now?' he thought to himself.

Xian cleared his throat first then chuckled. "Are you sure? You still have time to change your mind while I am still being generous--"

"I said there's no need for that," Li Melin repeated herself while cutting Xian midway through his sentence. "Trust me, I know a lot about this."

"Yeah, yeah, as if I'll believe that,"

Xian was still preoccupied with mocking Meilin right now that he didn't notice the latter had already begun to charge in his character's direction, which he picked as Jin.

As Meilin's chosen character, Ling Xiaoyu, was at a close distance from her master's character, she swiftly pushed some buttons in her controller which enabled her character to throw in a powerful combination of kicks and punches that sends Xian's character flying in midair.

Xian's jaws almost dropped as soon as he saw that powerful combination from her character that only a few experts in this game had yet to master. His eyes happened to look at his HP bar as well and it was immediately reduced in half.

Glaring at her, Xian said to Meilin, "Hey! You're being unfair!"

"Oh yeah? Then, stop yapping and start to play like a real pro as what you are claiming earlier," Meilin responded with a smirk. Without waiting for his response, Meilin started attacking his character once again until it was too late for him to dodge her incoming attacks.

In the end, Meilin won the first round which pretty much annoyed Lim Xian.

"Just you wait. I'm just trying to be nice around you earlier. Now you will definitely regret it," Xian fumed as both of them are waiting for the game to load.

Meilin rolls her eyes for the second time. She definitely loves the look of defeat on her arrogant jerk master's face.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say," Meilin shrugs and gets ready for the next round.

For the next couple of minutes, Meilin finds herself really enjoying her demon master's company for the first time since she was hired in this job. Just by seeing that pissed look on Xian's face every time he loses to her was just so funny that it made her laugh out loud a bunch of times.

Since her mother died, Meilin wasn't exactly sure when was the last time she laughed like this. Sure, she also enjoys her friends' company, but for her, nothing really beats seeing Lim Xian's defeated face whenever she has a chance to piss him off.

On the other hand, Lim Xian is getting annoyed every minute as he keeps on losing to this peasant girl in this kind of game. She should be poor, right? That is why Xian immediately assumed that this was going to be an easy task to beat his personal maid for him.

But who would have thought that a peasant like her was born lucky and skillful in these kinds of things that most rich kids and kids born into middle-class families like him can only experience?

However, his irritation soon faded as he began to notice how beautiful Meilin's smile was that he hadn't noticed from the beginning. The way she laughs right now, even though it should be meant as an insult, feels like music to his ears.

What is this? Is he having some ridiculous illusions or what? Sometimes, Xian can't understand himself.

While Xian was being stunned by Meilin's gorgeous laugh, it took long before Meilin noticed the odd look that her demon master is throwing at her now which made her stop laughing right away.

In her mind, she was actually worrying about what on Earth had gotten into her master for him to be like this.

"M-master? Yoohoo! Earth to master!" Meilin kept on waving her hand in front of Xian but there was no response from the latter.

A few minutes of silence took place between the two of them before Xian caught Meilin's hand in a flash which almost startled the girl with his sudden movement.

Meilin furrowed her eyebrows when noticing that Xian had no plans of letting go of her hand.

"What do you think you're doing--"

"You're pretty,"

Meilin's round eyes slowly widened upon hearing what he said just now. Her heart began to flutter before she knew what was happening.