Free Load

What the heck is he even doing? Fen Yichen and Hao Muyang both reach out their hands to him to help him up. 

"Are you fine? You shouldn't push it if you're tired."

Turning at the two hands wanting to help him, he saw the shiny gold ring on Hao Muyang's hand. In the end he took Yichen's hand to help him up. Must be because he had a big arm muscle, he managed to pull Mingze without much effort.

"I was just spacing out."

Fen Yichen grabbed the box away from Mingze's reach and returned it safely into Muyang's hands. "You shouldn't give away your wife's cake to someone else."

His smile was polite as he returned the cake Mingze had received a while ago. 

"Mingze you didn't tell me you don't like sweets."

That's right he didn't tell him. He hates sweets because it makes him dizzy if he eats too much sugar. Mingze isn't diabetes, it's just a psychological effect he has if he took a lot it. The times where he eat with Muyang, he would get a lot of headache, but in his defense atleast his heart was perfectly happy. 

"I do eat them though." 

"Enough lying, order your banana bread. Our meeting is about to start." Yichen said while pinching his cheeks. 

"I know. Stuff pinching my cheeks already!"

His white cheeks immediately turned red after being pinched. He rubbed it to ease the stinging pain and glared and Fen Yichen.

"We just became official and you're cheating already?" 

"What cheating? I haven't been cheating."

Mingze traced where Yichen was looking and his eyes landed on Hao Muyang standing opposite to them.

"Are you crazy? He's a married man. "

"Then you shouldn't talked or accept his gifts. I also get jealous." A lot. The last words were not added, he felt like there was no need to show his jealousy so much. This was just the first day of their relationship after all.

Believe it or not Fen Yichen is a big vinegar jar, he tends to get jealous alot. Only this time he have a valid reason to let the other person know. 

"Remember the rules, you should stay loyal with me. You can't date anyone within the one year." 

"I know. You're exaggerating I'm just talking with the senior."

'Am I too obvious?' Mingze thought. This time they wave goodbye to Hao Muyang, he still need to go back home, back to his wife. 

***

Xie Mingze had finished playing alot of ranked games. The sun is setting, but the person they are waiting for never came. 

"Just where the hell he is?"

They already finished sorting the things need to be done, they just need to propose the idea to Mu Bai and if he reject it then they would ask if he got another theme or idea. They had been waiting for more than 3 hours, it did feel like a deja vu. 

Did he forgot again? Or he never had any intention on showing up in the first place. Mingze tried his best to contain his anger, Yichen was doing other assignments for different majors. He is doing dual course so he had alot of things to do.

"Hurry and call him. I'll seriously tell him some profanities if I talk to him. Honestly, when will he be on time?" 

This is the second time this happened. Mingze wasn't even close with Mu Bai, so why the hell should he wait for him without any proper reasons? He is pushing his buttons right now. Only Fen Yichen was calm with everything. Isn't he a business man? He should be critical with the time, but he was calmly working on his laptop like it doesn't matter.

"Getting angry wouldn't be good for your health. If he won't contribute it would be easy to remove him from the group, continue gathering the evidence as you are doing now."

On their group chat the person they are looking for finally messaged them saying he can't make it becaus he was sick. Too brazen, this Mu Bai is honestly a joke. Just after saying this to their group chat he posted something on his stories. It was a picture of him on the beach. 

If he wanted to make a plausable excuse he should have unfriended the two of them. Feeling anger rushing to his head Mingze tried to take deep breaths. 

"I don't want to group with him, let's do this with just the two of us."

"If we kicked him out after he missed the meeting two times it won't be feasible. Let's continue what we are doing, inform him and let's see what he would do."

Xie Mingze can't understand how Fen Yichen could be understanding of Mu Bai. Are they relatives? Even he doesn't have that much patience.

"Are you a saint? You're too nice. I don't have the patience to tolerate him any longer. I want to kick him out." Mingze said while grinding his teeth in anger. He is the type of person who was easily anger. It was only with his will power that he haven't committed murder.

"If you want to crush someone, you shouldn't give them any chance to get back up. Think about it, if we kick him out early he would just complain to the professor. Or in the end he would tell the professor we were the one not updating about the meeting place and would be forced to include him in the final presentation."

His logic does sound right, it would their lost if in the end they would be forced to write his name back in the paper. He was too impulsive, Mingze nearly gave that worm a chance to free ride in their group project.

"I hate to say it, but you're right. Let's keep doing what we are doing, without expecting anything from him. On the off chance that he did contribute something then we could always add him."