Chapter 139: Middleman Destruction

AiLin was curious of who this person that Canary was trying to protect. Knowing Canary, she’s someone who would take care of others and would only protect someone else instead of her own self. The two of them were similar to each other, which was why they were more protective of the other, knowing well both of them has zero concern about their own safety.

AiLin would have asked Canary directly but she knew Canary too well, and she knew that Canary wouldn’t tell her the entire truth to protect the other person in question.

The twins stared at her face hard as if studying the muscles on her face so they could come up with an answer to save their Boss.

She crossed her arms and hummed, "You guys want to help Canary, don’t you?"

"Of course!" The eldest spoke before beating his fist on his chest, "She’s helped us before so it’s our chance to pay it back to her."

"Hm," AiLin thoughtfully recounted anything that might have slipped from her notice. She then looked at the door, taking another peek at it, "So tell me when will Canary come home?"

"Around... two hours?"

"Alright, make sure to notify me if she comes back," she then walked from the chair toward the working desk. Canary kept everything clean and neat, so much so to the point that she made sure that nothing would be snooped out by someone unwanted. This has its perks but right now it’s doing the opposite for AiLin who wanted clues on who Canary was trying to protect. After a while, she stopped looking around and turned to the twins who were guarding the door. "Say, have you been looking to where Canary goes to? Any houses? Orphanage?"

The eldest shook his head, "We know that the Boss hate being followed around, so we never wanted to intrude on her personal times. But other than those personal walks, we made sure to keep an eye for all her roadtrips for her safety."

"Okay that’s good enough, when does she take her personal times?"

"Every Wednesday and Friday," the eldest replied.

"Wait! Now that you say about that, Boss AiLin, usually the Boss goes on Wednesday and Friday only at four o clock evening to Saturday," the other twin answered when the one on the left clipped in eagerness upon remembering something,

"Right! Also, there was a time when the Boss almost missed going out on four o clock. When that happened her face suddenly looked so.. so pale and so... frightened. I jokingly asked if she had missed her date with her boyfriend but she snapped."

"We all thought that’s because Boss Canary hates those type of jokes," answered the eldest.

AiLin bite her lips. So this was as much information she could have now. The fact that Canary always leave the office at four o clock somewhere only on Wednesday and Saturday. She gets fearful of missing those days, as if fearing that missing it will harm this "person" she’s protecting.

Though AiLin hadn’t snooped so much, she wanted to guess that it was a child that Canary was trying to protect. Going by the "orphanage caretakers" who only prey to young children, the one Canary wanted to help was also a child, possibly still too young to make a perfect escape from the orphanage.

But how can she find more informations? The more information she could have the better as she feared the orphanage caretaker will be taking advantage of her best friend. But for now, she has no clue as to how else she could have more information regarding the "orphanage" she looked around at the desk for a while when something fell from the paper she lifted. Her body bent downward and she ducked her head under the desk, picking up an odd brooch. She couldn’t look at it properly when she heard a sudden sound of gasp coming from the eldest twin, yelling, "Oh no! The Boss came early!"

AiLin lifted her head suddenly which only caused her to knock her head hard on the desk.

She cried out a little and fixed everything on the desk before jumping toward the couch with the other twins pretending to be cleaning around the desk so it wouldn’t make too obvious that there was someone snooping around the place.

Canary pushed open the door. Dressed in brown coat, she looked around in surprise and her once gloomy face turned bright upon seeing AiLin.

"You’re here!" Canary rushed toward her, "Why didn’t you tell me that you were going to visit?"

"Hehe, I wanted to surprise ouch!" AiLin closed her eyes in pain when Canary who was trying to hug her head had pressed on the part of her head that she had bumped.

The surprised Canary stared at her in startle, "What’s wrong? Oh god, come here. Look! Your head, it’s swollen."

"I- I hit it."

Canary suddenly narrowed her eyes. AiLin felt nervous as she recalled that every time she had tried to lie to Canary in the past, nothing seemed to have passed through her. She would always found a way to find her lies and sense it as if it was in her sixth sense. Though Ailin knew she was good at lying, Canary was her mortal enemy when it comes to lying.

so when Canary was studying her face, AiLin felt her hands turning sweatier by seconds.

Sure she could feel no guilt to the people she had lied to, only if those people are her enemies that is! She can’t ever bring herself to lie to someone who she knew loves and cares for her, part of the reason why she find it hard being mean to Li ZiChen.

When Canary’s eyes met hers, AiLin felt her cold sweats dropping from her forehead and she shut her eyes tighter, wishing someone would help her. But she realized that it wouldn’t help at all as the twins in her back was worse in hiding their emotions as their faces were drenched in guilt and a silent cry for help.

"You." Canary narrowed her eyes.

She closed her eyes tighter, "Okay listen— it’s not what you think—"

"Did Li ZiChen hurt your head?!" Canary’s eyes bulged in anger. She pushed her long brown coat sleeve to her elbow, "I knew something is weird with that guy! You know what they say? The more perfect a person try to appear, the weirder they are! I knew he would be fucked somewhere in the head, whether it’s his attitude or his sexual tendencies. Is he the type to hit the people he likes?! ABHORRENT! Im gonna have to talk to that piece of shi—"

"WAIT!" AiLin was startled by the sudden diss to Li ZiChen that she pulled her friend back to the couch, "What do you mean?! No, Li ZiChen didn’t do this to me. I just bumped to the desk when I was trying to stand up! I swear. And! What do you mean that Li ZiChen’s going to be fucked up somewhere in his head? He’s normal!"

"Really? And how do you know that?! Have you slept with him?"

"SLEPT?"

AiLin slapped her own forehead to calm down the raging emotions that had caused her neck to flush red. She pinched her friend’s ears and tug on it lightly, "Listen! What does this have to do with sleeping with Li ZiChen?"

"Well? He liked you, and I thought you like him too somewhere. Well even if you don’t like him, it doesn’t matter. You can still sleep with him." Canary shrugged, speaking everything with such ease as it was none of her business. "Think about it. He’s rich and handsome, he has a good body though he’s a piece of shit. He likes you and he seemed pretty loyal to you, though he’s a piece of shit."

"First, stop calling him a piece of shit," sighed AiLin. "Why do I have to sleep with him just because he’s rich and handsome? Or because he has a good body.. and how do you know he has a good body..."

"Well he can’t hide his body, and everyone was raging about how they want to have a one night stand with him. He’s already loyal to you but trust me, kiss him once and sleep with him once, he’ll bend the whole world upside down just to please you."

AiLin’s face was already red but it became even redder hearing what her friend had to spew into her face. She ruffled her hair, trying to ease the loud thump in her heartbeat. "Oh geez! What are you on about?! Wait, who was raging about wanting to have a one night stand with him?"

Raising one eyebrow, Canary pulled her phone and typed a few keywords. She then pushed the phone toward AiLin, opening a part of a news where Li ZiChen’s face was capture by a picture.

He was standing in front of a black car, clearly just stepping out of it. He was dressed in black and that color looked so damn good on his body. A face that was carved out with so much attention to details that looking at his face only made you feel so moved as if you had just seen an angel standing right in front of you. His eyes were paler than other’s, holding a light brown colored tint but his hair was pitch black like raven, smooth as it fell over his forehead.

Li ZiChen had pulled his vest on his black shirt, his sleeves were rolled to his elbow and it hugged his body perfectly, showing how broad his shoulders were but how tight his waist was. His face was expressionless but there was a bit of annoyance in those light colored eyes. Though that anger only made his features more sexier than it should have been.

Down beneath the picture was comments.

Thirsty comments.

[ONE NIGHT PLS PLS PLS PLS PLS! ONE NIGHT JUST ONE NIGHT MR LI!]

[MR LI I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU WOULD DO TO US, JUST ONE TIME. I DON’T CARE IF YOU PUT ME AS A CARPET PLEASE!]

[GOD HAS ALLOWED ME TO LIVE FOR YOU, I’LL GLADLY LAY IT DOWN]

[MY ADDRESS IS ***** MR LI COME OVER I’LL SPREAD MY LEG—]

"WHAT IS THIS?!" AiLin snatched the phone and looked straight at the comment section, checking those anonymous comments put down by the people who were bewitched by Li ZiChen’s appearance.

"Listen listen. I know men really well alright? Specially his type. Pretty sure he’s gonna be a bit weird in bed but hey~ at least you’re getting yourself a protective puppy who would do anything for you, even if it means taking the whole world against him."

AiLin pushed Canary’s mouth and cupped it. She then took five long breathes to control her nerves and found her own heart that was racing so loudly. Then she narrowed her glare at her friend, "I thought you don’t like Li ZiChen."

"No, I don’t," Canary responded at once. "But which friend wouldn’’t want her own best friend to be loved so dearly by someone? If he’s going to die for you, whatever he is, even if he’s a frog I’ll support you to get to him. Of course, my best friend, only if you want him! If you don’t want him, that’s fine too~ but you know I don’t think you don’t like him."

"What do you mean?" AiLin frowned. "How do you know I don’t like him?" When she doesn’t even know her feelings yet herself?

"Would my logical best friend who would sleep on the road regardless of what happens would really move in with a man she doesn’t know too well?" Canary snapped her finger toward her. "Even if it’s a bit. You have affection towards him. It’s why you didn’t really felt so much aversion towards him when you would usually cut people so easily off your life with your tendency to take care of alll of your problems alll by yourself."

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