A manic Chen Fei burst into Long Jinjing's office. Long Jinjing looked up from her desk where she was reading and replying to e-mails on her office computer. Her best friend barrelled towards her as if her butt was on fire.
"Is it true?!" Chen Fei asked in a loud voice while banging her hands on Long Jinjing's desk.
"What are you talking about, COO Chen?" Long Jinjing asked in confusion.
"As soon as I arrived at the company, I overheard some of our employees gossiping about you. They said that CFO Long was dropped off at the front entrance by a huge man. And that when you got off the car, your face was all red and your lips were swollen like a baboon's butt! They said that it was obvious that you and the man who dropped you off were fiercely making out inside the car!"
Long Jinjing's face became red as a baboon's butt right in that instant. She covered her face with her hands and wished for the ground to swallow her up. Was it so obvious to everyone what happened this morning?
How naïve of her to think that Lu Zihao's tinted car windows were enough to keep what happened inside the vehicle a secret! To think that it would be her transparent expression that would give it away! Ah, so embarrassing!
"D-did they see the man's face?" she asked her best friend.
Chen Fei's eyes goggled at her in disbelief. "What the hell, Jinjing?! It's really true?! A man dropped you off today?! And you made out with him inside the car?! Who is it?! WHO?!! TELL ME!!!"
"So they didn't see his face?" Long Jinjing asked next instead of answering Chen Fei's barrage of questions.
"Hmph! No, they didn't see the man's face. But a couple of employees said that they saw the man's figure in the short moment that you got off the car and closed the door behind you. They said that he's a huge, muscled man." Chen Fei narrowed her eyes. "The only huge, muscled man that I know you like is…shit. Don't tell me it's him!"
Long Jinjing felt too shy and embarrassed to reply. She couldn't meet her best friend's eyes.
"Jinjing, what's going on?" Chen Fei moved beside Long Jinjing and forced her to look at her. "Was the man Lu Zihao?"
If there was a competition for people who could blush the most right now, Long Jinjing would probably become the world champion. Just hearing Lu Zihao's name was enough to make her feel like having a heart attack.
She hadn't thought that far ahead yet how she was going to tell Chen Fei and their other friends about her relationship with Lu Zihao. At first, she contemplated letting others find out about it naturally because she was too shy to tell them herself but she didn't expect that Chen Fei would discover it this soon.
"Holy shit!" Chen Fei already knew the answer to her own question just by looking at Long Jinjing's expression. They were best friends and knew each other extremely well. "You got together with Lu Zihao?! Is he your boyfriend?"
Long Jinjing bit her lips before nodding.
"Jinjing, you bitch! Am I still your best friend?! How dare you not tell me about this?!" Chen Fei sounded furious but her eyes were shining with extreme curiosity. She grabbed Long Jinjing's arms and shook them. "Hurry and tell me how Mr. Yummylicious Lu Zihao became your boyfriend?"
"Don't call him that," Long Jinjing said with a wince.
"Don't call him what? Mr. Yummylicious? Don't we always call him like that whenever we talk about him?"
Long Jinjing turned even redder. "Only you and the others. I n-never called Nik—Zihao Mr. Yummylicious. That's too…embarrassing."
Chen Fei snorted and rolled her eyes. "Whatever. More important than that, I need the details! All of it! Hurry! I'll never give you peace and will pester you nonstop until you confess everything!"
Long Jinjing hesitated for a few moments before relenting with a long sigh. With a face as red as a ripe tomato, she told her best friend about how she met Lu Zihao on the streets the night of the big storm and how they ended up having a one-night stand. She didn't give explicit details about the deed, of course, although Chen Fei was dying to know every single little detail.
"One-night stand?!" Chen Fei was shocked out of her mind. "Holy fucking fried mackerel, Miss Long Jinjing! You, a one-night stand?! Fuck! Did I wake up in a parallel dimension today?!"
"Sssh!" Long Jinjing covered her best friend's mouth. "Xiao Fei, not too loud! What if others hear you? I won't be able to hold my head up high in our company after this."
Chen Fei removed the hand covering her mouth. Then she talked in loud, excited whispers, asking Long Jinjing about what happened next.
Despite not giving the juiciest of details and most especially not about her 30-day deal with Lu Zihao, Long Jinjing still told her best friend almost everything else that happened. If her best friend were to know about the 30-day deal, it wouldn't be surprising if Chen Fei exploded with fury on her behalf and marched to wherever Lu Zihao was at and kicked him in the balls. Even if the deal was Long Jinjing's idea in the first place, Chen Fei would still defend her no matter what. She was the type of friend who would help bury a corpse if Long Jinjing ever murdered someone.
"Damn. The man's that good in bed?" Chen Fei didn't mince any of her words.
Long Jinjing flushed but still gave a shy nod. Then she gasped when Chen Fei pulled her shirt up all of a sudden, revealing all the hickeys on her skin.
"I knew it! So this is why you've been wearing these clothes for the past few days!" Chen Fei pulled Long Jinjing's long sleeves next and also her turtleneck collar to reveal more hickeys. "Damn. Lu Zihao's a beast!"