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Here's an extra chapter for my missing the promised weekly upload. Gosh, the busy-ness of having a job!
Chapter 45: Teasing the Demon Li (Extra Chapter)
"How about Jing Xing?" Syaoran asked Natsume.
"He said he and his wife still needed to attend to some last minute things on their wedding present for you and Sakura."
"I don't know why I'm feeling a bit bothered by this information…" Syaoran grumbled.
Well, if it's just Jing Xing, he would definitely find it suspicious. But since Shen Miao has a hand on this, then it mustn't be too bad, he mused.
"Ah, do you know Sakura's cousin named Jiang Muye?"
Syaoran took his personal mobile out from his pocket when he felt it vibrate suddenly.
"Sakura invited him over for lunch."
He glanced at his mobile's screen and his expression suddenly turned ugly.
"What?"
Knowing this is his personal number and only a few people can contact him here, Natsume thought something might have happened to his baby chick and little nephew.
Syaoran typed a few words before placing the mobile on the table.
"Nothing important. Rachel reported to me that Su Corporation has been calling the office within the last hour, demanding for a meeting."
His perfectly symmetrical slightly tanned face clearly showing annoyance for this report.
"Eh." Natsume settled back in his chair, relieved that it doesn't concern him at all. "Isn't the Su Corp. the one Sakura will be partnered with?"
"En." Syaoran nodded as he got up to pour himself a glass of cold water with some fresh lemon slices.
"Isn't the Su young lady the one who you've saved before?" Tsubasa enunciated every word, successfully irritating Syaoran more as he remembered what happened that day.
"He did? What happened? Did he like her?" Kitsuneme gushed dramatically, acting like a total gossiper.
"Well I don't really know if he LIKED ——or should it be LIKE—- her, but I can tell you what happened that day."
Syaoran downed half of his lemon water before shooting Tsubasa a deadly glare.
Which of course, he ignored as he continued to tell the others what he knew.
"We were in a business party held by that dirty old tycoon Wang in his private property in Hokkaido.
It was late in the evening, the whole manor was opened to everyone and so guests mingled all over the place."
Leaning forward, the four dufus placed their chins on top of their palms as they wait excitedly for the rest of the story.
"And then? What immoral thing did my brother do? Hey! This time, that really hurts, Gege!"
Xiao Shi rubbed his forehead where Syaoran hit him with a small pebble. A bit of blood dripped from where he was hit.
"What the f* are you thinking about? You really think your brother would like a female like that?"
Natsume called for someone to treat Xiao Shi's wound. What would his mother think of them once she sees her long lost son's face was ruined by her other son? And just because of something this stupid!
"Ne, ne, Tsubasa-nii!" Koko acted cutely just how Sakura would as he leaned closer to Tsubasa. "Go on with the rest of the story! When was this?"
"Ahhhh, child, it was during winter on the night of December back in 2010."
"Ooooooh, Sakura will be really pissed when she hears about this! I remember that they've met again only in 2012. So that meant that our precious little baby princess was the third party in —-OUCH!"
Mochu abruptly stood up when he also got hit by a sharp pebble on the left cheek. Like Xiao Shi, the wound is so tiny and yet deep red blood oozed out from it.
"Sakura was never, is never, and will never be a third party in our relationship!" Syaoran growled at Mochu. "Do you want me to turn you to mush, you stupid little kid?"
Knowing the difference in their strength, Mochu made a face and childishly stuck out his tongue at him before signalling for the servant to treat his face.
Man, I hope this won't scar my perfect face!
"Ahem, so what happened next, Tsubasa-nii?"
Tsubasa slapped Koko's forehead before continuing. "Stop acting like Sakura! It's disgusting!"
Clearing his throat, he continued his story in a low,dramatic, soft voice, as if he was a storyteller and the listeners were a bunch of kids.
"Anyway, so it was late in the evening, around 10, I believe, when our young master Li here arrived at the party.
At that moment, snow flurries fell from the beautiful starless night sky, making it appear as if the young, handsome man wearing an all black suit and button-up undershirt look devilishly dazzling as he crossed the expansive lawn.
The hundreds of small japanese lanterns that were hung on the trees exude a soft, warm glow around the said young master, who at that time, if I remember it right, appeared similar to the Ashura (a demon deity), not looking at anyone's faces nor even had the politeness to smile back at the people who greeted him."
Tsubasa agilely moved to the right and left as he easily avoided being hit with five consecutively thrown pebbles.
"F* you Andou!"
Ignoring the fuming mad Li clan head, Tsubasa stood up and used his hands and legs to re-enact that night.
"Anyway, everyone stopped what they were doing when they saw the dashing devil walk slowly on the stone-paved walkway. Then, as if he himself initiated it—"
"I f*ing did not, you d*khead!"
"—-the flurries turned to slightly bigger snowflakes and in just a span of less than three minutes, fresh snow covered the stone paths on the manor."
Tsubasa paused and slowly shook his head as he look at Syaoran's flushed face.
"So disappointed with you, Li Xiao Lang. Tsk tsk tsk." Tsubasa said to Syaoran's direction in a small voice.
Bam!
A normal-sized stone hit the nearest tree behind Tsubasa.
Tsubasa took a deep breath to add more drama to his story which made the four young ones highly anticipating for the continuation.
"And then?????" Kitsuneme urged on.
Touya, Tono, and Natsume were also present that night and they saw with their own eyes what happened.
All three was watching at Syaoran with interest, as they try to hold back their laughter as they don't want to ruin Tsubasa's teasing.
Meanwhile, the ML or the Male Lead of the story has been trying his utmost best not to go over and strangle Sakura's older cousin.
Damn it! He rarely regret doing something but this one is for the books!
"What did he do Tsubasa-nii!!!!!!" Kitsu, Koko, Mochu, and Xiao Shi urged Tsubasa altogether.
"Quiet!"
The four immediately quieted down and they looked like a bunch of newborn birds looking on excitedly for the mother bird to feed them breakfast.
"Then, one of the lovely young misses present started to walk back to the manor when she slipped accidentally—-" Tsubasa did an air quotes, "—-and started to fall backward."
"But alas!"
Tsubasa slapped his palm on his forehead
"Right at that exact moment, our most handsome bachelor that women all over Asia wanted to bed with, was standing right behind her and what do you think he did, children?"
"He quickly moved away to prevent the female from dirtying his clothes!" Xiiao Shi shouted.
"He pushed the dirty lady away from him and quickly wiped his dirtied hands with his handkerchief and threw it towards the dirty lady!" Koko clapped his hand as he yelled his answer.
"He punched the dirty lady!" Mochu sent Syaoran a thumbs up.
"He lifted his leg and kicked the dirty lady hard on the ass!"' Kitsuneme piped up.
Syaoran's face has turned deep crimson by this time.
Right now, he wanted to issue an assassination order on that stupid female who ruined his reputation.
Tsubasa wagged his finger at the four dufus and made an end buzzer noise with his throat.
"You are all wrong!"
Animatedly, Tsubasa placed his right hand on his forehead as if trying to see someone in a dark area of a room.
"I see someone holding back his laughter over there at the back! How about you tell us what you think happened, young sir?"
Natsume couldn't hold it back anymore and he curled up on his chair as he let out his laughter.
"Man, I can still envision it clearly!"
Syaoran kicked his thigh before leaving the patio
Entering the villa, he went to the wet bar where Natsume keeps his liquors. Knocking seven times on a secret hidden partition, he took a half-empty glass bottle of a renowned whiskey.
He needed a glass of Natsume's most expensive whiskey to calm his nerves down, and of course, to get back at him.
Stupid dirty female! Syaoran fumed.
Meanwhile, everyone was laughing so hard on their seats as Tsubasa finished his story.
"I can't believe my brother was too surprised when the woman fell on him that he grabbed her to keep her from falling. That alone was a total shock for me! But man, for him to stand there frozen the moment he realized what just happened and then finally realizing that he was in a romantic position with a stranger, man! I wish I could have witnessed that!"
"Dude, did you even hear about that Su lady grabbing on his shirt and accidentally—"
Koko air quoted on this
"—- ripping his shirt open, exposing his upper body to everyone on the scene? Damn, that woman is lucky to still be alive hahahahahaha"
"Syaoran almost punched that lady Su back then but Natsume walked over to calm him down and issued for Ye Sha to take lady Su from Syaoran's deadly arms and send her back in the manor." Tono explained to them.
"But the sad thing is, this lady Su was too dumb struck by the nearness of Syaoran that she failed to read the atmosphere."
Touya uncharacteristically snickered as he said this.
"Ha? What does that mean?"
"She failed to feel the murderous aura from Syaoran the moment he snapped back to his senses. She only thought of her romantic feelings for him and from then on, she has always tried to find ways to get in contact with him. Lucky for her, she is from a big family who has long been doing business with both the Lis and AGC. So you can always find her in every business meeting or business gathering when Syaoran is expected to attend."
"Whoa, what a total weirdo!"
Tono shook his head in disagreement. "I think she is just in love with Syaoran and couldn't shake off that feeling she had then when Syaoran held her intimately—"
laughter erupted again in the outdoor patio.
If that can be called romantic or intimate, then the same can be said to the times when Syaoran holds an opponent in his arms with the intention of doing nothing but to kill.
"—- that she must've been seeing him as some kind of a valiant prince who did everything he could to save her from falling hard on those cold wet pathway."
"Hm. You have a point, Tono. So how do you think she'll act since Syaoran and Sakura's wedding has been broadcasted all over the world last night?"
Tsubasa seriously asked for his older cousin's opinion.
"She'll constantly plot against her. That's for sure."
Everyone nodded in agreement,
"But then, who is Sakura?" Touya took out another cigarette and lit it up.
With a proud smile and tenderness in his eyes, he continued.
"She's our little tiger who will simply see this Su lady as nothing as a pesky fly. Let her bring it on."
