On stepping into his bedroom, she peeped, and seeing no one in sight, she closed the door behind her, earning a slight 'thud' before proceeding to walk in proper.
In light steady steps, she walked up to his nightstand to place the bottle of water.
Just as she turned around, she heard the faint sound of flip-flops brushing against the floor.
Zhang Liling paused in her steps and waited for Mr. Fang to appear with an expectant gaze toward the door that led to the bathroom and walk-in closet.
A moment later, Mr. Fang walked in with a towel spread on his wet dark brown hair. As soon as he stepped into the room, his gaze landed on her.
He was still in his ash bathrobe, but it was obvious that he was already half dressed from the pajamas pants that covered the skin on his legs.
With his hands free, he placed his hands back on the towel on his hair and continued to dry it as his steps approached her.
Before he could say anything to her, she quickly explained it to him. "Mr. Fang, ki brought you a bottle of water. I had knocked but…"
"Bring two pills from my bottle of meds." He said, cutting her off as he went to sit at the foot of his bed.
Zhang Liling slowly closed her parted lips in amazement before walking back to his nightstand.
'He is not scolding me?' She thought to herself as she quickly took out two pills from the bottle and capped it.
Picking up the water bottle in the other hand, she walked straight to his side.
"Mr. Fang, here it is." She said as she opened her right hand to reveal the white small round pills sitting on her palm.
Fang Bingwen put his towel away and kept it beside him and reached out for his drug.
As soon as he did that, she uncapped the bottle and passed it to him before going over to his side to pick up his wet towel.
A few minutes later, Zhang Liling reappeared in the room after returning the towel to his bathroom.
Just as she made her way toward the door to leave, she heard him say to her, "I will be working till late into the night, prepare me a hot cup of coffee."
'Doesn't he get tired?' She thought as she walked away.
By the time she had gone to prepare the coffee and returned, Mr. Fang was already typing away on his laptop.
In order to not distract him, she literally tip-toed over to his desk and quietly placed the cup of piping hot coffee on his desk.
But just as she turned her back to leave just the way she came, she heard him call out to her.
"Zhang Liling."
"Yes," She answered as she tilted her head to the side with the tray in her hands touching her lower belly.
Mr. Fang stared silently at her as his brows furrowed. He seemed to find it hard to say whatever that he had in mind to tell her.
And when she noticed it, she quickly urged him, "Mr. Fang, what do you want to tell me?"
A soft sigh escaped from thin lips as it finally parted as his gentle voice resounded in the room.
"Let's go on a date after work on Friday."
Immediately he let out those words, time seemed to stop for the both of them as silence ensued in the room.
Only the sound of breathing and the ticking of the second hand of the clock was heard in the study room as the two continued to exchange glances.
'D-Did I-I hear well?'
Zhang Liling heard his words echo in her ear and suddenly stopped breathing.
'D-Did Mr. Fang just ask me out? Did he just do that at last?' She thought to herself as her heart raced and her fingers trembled.
As if to be sure of what she had just heard, she prompted him. "Mr. Fang, can you please repeat w-what y-you just s-said?"
"What?!" Mr. Fang had a look of astonishment on his face as he ogled at her.
He had just used shed off his pride to be able to say these words in a way it would sound official and here she was asking him to repeat those words?
Was she kidding him?
It's not like he was shy about it, but this was his first time asking a girl out so couldn't she spare him this time around?
Seeing that look of disbelief on his face, Zhang Liling wasn't sure that he would want to repeat those words, so she hurriedly abandoned the tray in her hands on his desk before running over to his side.
"Mr. Fang, please can you repeat those words? I was so shocked a few moments ago that it didn't register in my head." She pleaded as she grabbed unto his arm and swayed it to the sides.
Fang Bingwen narrowed his gaze at her. "If you didn't hear my words clearly, then what on earth shocked you?"
He didn't look like he was going to allow her to fool him into spewing those words again.
Seeing how difficult he was being, Zhang Liling was tongue-tied and resorted to another means.
She fanned her lashes while blinking her eyes, but he wouldn't budge.
His resistance toward her cute moves was on another level. He even pried her clutches off his arm and pushed her away gently.
"Don't think that your petty actions will move. Go away and give me a breathing space." He said and moved his gaze back to his laptop to continue typing something.
Zhang Liling remained standing at his side with pouted her lips in hope that he would be touched and look at her face.
But when that didn't happen, she leaned over, and without warning and her natural pink lips pressed lightly at the corner of his lips before moving away quickly.
At first, when he had felt her shadow looming over him, and her breath fan his cheeks, he had tilted his head to the side to see what she was up to, but who knew she would steal a kiss and run away after that?
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