The Devil Doctor's Spicy Love
Chapter 157: A repeated misunderstanding

Chapter 157: A repeated misunderstanding

The food arrived at the table and Meng Rin oddly remained silent. Her glassy gaze looked deep in contemplation.

Mingshen was starving so he was already happily digging into his food.

"Em~ Delicious. Yes, this is what class food is," he nodded in appreciation.

Jia shook her head at his enthusiasm and looked at Meng Rin. "Is it okay if I ask some questions? I am a little curious."

"Yeah sure. In fact, I am of the same opinion as Haoyu," she pursed her lips. "I don’t think Meymey would have killed Director Wan. So if my answers could help you in decoding something then please ask by all means..."

Jia smiled. "Thank you. You told me about Chow Mey. What can you tell me about her equation with Wan Guanting?"

Meng Rin said, "It’s not so friendly if I may say and now you can understand why. Director Wan didn’t want her at first for the role. These were the rumors floating around then. It was hard to say if it was true or not. But when the shooting started, Meymey always kept her distance from him. She would only interact with him on a perfunctory and need to basis. I had even seen her blatantly ignoring him one day. Director Wan looked quite furious that she didn’t give him any face."

Mingshen chimed in as he elegantly sipped on his wine. "He doesn’t have a very handsome face to give face to begin with."

"..."

"Ignore him," Jia said. "Is that the only source of friction between them that you are aware of?"

Meng Rin gave it a thought. "Yeah. I don’t think there was anything else. This was mainly the gossip I was hearing."

She jolted with her phone buzzing again.

Jia said, "It’s fine. You can attend it."

"No, no. It’s fine. Just some spam messages..." She quickly replied.

"I see," Jia took a bite of her food and continued. "Can you guess why Chow Mey would be having a key card to Director Wan’s room?"

Her countenance immediately changed and a tense wave of anxiety glinted in her eyes. "I don’t think it was like that between them..."

"I am not insinuating that. But it’s quite strange for someone to hand you their key card. I am simply trying to understand the reason here."

"Honestly I don’t know either. I found it shocking myself. Meymey never hung around him, so it’s hard to fathom why Director Wan would give her his key card or why she would accept it."

"And what does Dong Haoyu think about it?"

Meng Rin scratched her chin. "Yeah it’s obvious that he has feelings for her though they aren’t officially together. But he would think the same as me. He won’t doubt Meymey even for a second. He is very devoted to her. Honestly, I feel jealous."

Jia stared at her plate in a thoughtful daze for a long time.

"It hurts when you ignore me, Spicy~" Mingshen commented.

Her eyes squinted at him. "I am surprised something actually hurts your stone heart."

Meng Rin choked. She then asked with a hint of eagerness, "Are you two dating?"

"..."

"Oh my God, no please God no!"

How many times will this same misunderstanding occur!?

Mingshen’s face blossomed like a sunflower opening up its petals in the sun. "I like you! You have good eyes~"

He was sitting to her right so Jia couldn’t even kick him lest her injury worsen. She did jab the stick on his leg hard though. She then practically begged Meng Rin. "We are just colleagues."

"But you look so good together," her once withering gaze was now beginning to shine. "Are you seriously not considering him?"

"..."

Mingshen held a solemn gaze. "Yes please answer her, Spicy. When will you consider me?"

"Not even when the world ends and you will be the last man in this universe," she jeered in disdain.

"Hahahaha..." Meng Rin burst into laughter. "You two are cute. Your banters are hilarious."

Jia looked horrified. "Please don’t say such things that will give me a heart attack."

"Worry not Spicy~ Your doctor is right here to save you," he teased.

Meng Rin sheepishly grinned. "Don’t worry, Dr. Yang. I will be happy to date you~ So, so! Will you consider me?" She asked expectantly.

"My heart is only set for Spicy~"

She pouted. "I promise I will be a good girlfriend."

Jia dryly said, "Don’t go down that path, Meng Rin. It’s my sincere request to you."

"Aish, are you already feeling jealous, Spicy?" His eyes twinkled.

"Hahaha..." Meng Rin continued to laugh, which soon made her eyes shine with mistiness.

Jia’s eyes slightly widened. "Are you okay?"

"Ah? Oh this..." she quickly wiped off the corner of her eye, "It’s nothing. It’s nice to have someone you can bicker with..."

It’s not cute bickering, it’s firing jabs back and forth, Jia grimaced.

She cleared her throat. "If I may go back to the topic, when you reached your room, did you immediately go to sleep?"

Jia noticed her going stiff. It was very faint to catch but a hint of a discomfort darkened her bright eyes.

"Not immediately...I was really drunk. Caishen and I have rooms on the same fourteenth floor in A wing. Director Wan’s room was on the twelfth floor of the B wing. He literally had to carry me across the whole swimming pool in between the wings and back to my room. But I didn’t really feel sleepy," she slightly averted her eyes. "I got bored after an hour or so, so I just staggered out on the balcony for some fresh air. That’s all."

"This must be around?"

She shrugged. "I guess three-thirty or so. I was so drunk. Everything was spinning in front of me. I was even hallucinating that somebody was walking on top of the pool’s water," she laughed. "That was funny. Anyway, that’s that and then I went back."

Jia was slightly inclined to think that for some odd reason, Meng Rin was trying to end this line of conversation as quickly as possible as if she didn’t want to dwell on it. Her fingers fidgeted on her wine glass with her gaze looking furtive. Her phone rang again with a call this time but she ignored it.

As Jia was lost in her thoughts, unexpectedly, Mingshen dropped a question, "Who was sitting close to that director when you all were partying in his room?"

That snapped Jia out of her stupor and she leaned in to listen.

Meng Rin frowned. "I don’t remember...I mean our places were not really fixed. We were all walking around the room. Sometimes Caishen or Haoyu would talk to him, other times Manchu, then I would approach him. As always, Meymey kept her distance."

Mingshen then asked, "Who was handling the drinks?"

She scratched the top of her head, vaguely recalling the events.

"Yeah I think it was Manchu serving the drinks to everyone."

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