When Tungmei heard about the house-warming party, she was elated.
"Finally! When I thought my brain was going to get fried from studying, you showed up. What time, and where is the address?"
"You can come to my place at noon, I will text you the address as soon as I drop this call!" Zhang Liling replied.
Tungmei smiled and complained, "That will be perfect. Prepare something chilled to welcome me. Coming out at noon can cause me a heat stroke."
"What are you making a fuss over? You are not walking down to my house, you are coming in a taxi! Are you purposely trying to add to my headache?" Zhang Liling asked as a small smile played on her lips.
Tungmei waved her hand. "Your highness, I didn't mean to add to your headache. By the way, I need to finish this topic I'm on, to enable me wake up early tomorrow to clean up before I start coming over to your place."
"Alright, good night!" Zhang Liling understood and had to drop the call. She very well knew what it felt like to have ones' study interrupted.
After dropping the call with Tungmei, Zhang Liling went on to make some other calls. She got someone to clean her house the next morning, go shopping and cook simple meals that would last two adults for the entire day.
After informing the person of where to get the spare key to her apartment, she sighed.
(The entrance door to Zhang Liling's apartment needed a password, but it also had the option of a metal key to lock and unlock).
The next morning, Zhang Liling who consciously slept till around 8 am, finally woke up.
Her room was dimly lit, making her to still feel a bit groggy. She didn't have to squint her eyes to adjust to any brightness, and that made her feel more lazy to get off her bed.
"I just feel like going back to sleep!" She grumbled to herself as she raised her head slightly to glance at her surroundings.
Releasing a deep breath, she rolled to her side and slowly closed her eyes again. "Mr. Fang said I can't do any work today, let me sleep some more." With that, she closed her eyes again and went back to sleep.
When she first opened her eyes, she asked herself why she was bothering to get up by that time when she didn't have any work to do. It was after that question was asked that laziness immediately set in.
Zhang Liling slept till almost noon. The next time she opened her eyes, it was already past 11 am.
Something in her which had the consciousness that she was supposed to meet with someone soon, woke her up.
Immediately, Zhang Liling's brain rebooted, and her eyes shut open. 'What's the time?'
Quickly, she got out of bed and went straight to open the curtains before rushing back to her bedside to check the time on the table clock, positioned on the night stand.
"What! How come it's 11:30 already?!" Zhang Liling broke out in alarm when she saw the time. She hurriedly ran into the bathroom while crying over split milk.
"I just closed by eyes for 5 minutes, how come I slept for 3 more hours?! What do I do now?"
Zhang Liling was worried about appearing late because Tungmei is still unaware of the fact that she doesn't live in the apartment she rented, but elsewhere.
If she was late and Tungmei gets to her apartment before her, she would have to find a lie to cover up with.
Meanwhile, in the sitting room, Mr. Fang was asking about her.
"...she hasn't come out since morning?" Dark lines appeared on Mr. Fang's forehead while asking about Zhang Liling.
Butler Gu replied politely, "Sir, Miss Zhang hasn't left her bedroom since she retired for the night."
'I asked her to take the day off today, and not to frighten someone!'
"Go and check on her to make sure she is still breathing. Hurry up!" Mr. Fang ordered.
"Yes, Sir!" Butler Gu replied with a slight how before leaving his presence in quick steps, while thinking, 'What can happen to that vibrant young lady?'
Butler Gu was not worried about Zhang Liling in any way. In the course of their little interaction, he has seen how capable she was.
Butler Gu stood in front of Zhang Liling's door and knocked gently, like the reputable man that he was. "Miss Zhang?"
Zhang Liling was dressing when she heard the knocks on her door, coupled with the familiar voice of the butler calling out to her, but she didn't respond immediately.
'What does he want? Is Mr. Fang looking for me? Has he changed his mind about letting me have a day off?'
The Butler did not hear any response from inside the room and had to increase the sound of the knocks, and raising his tone a little higher as he called for her again.
The second round of knocks compelled Zhang Liling to respond while hurriedly zipping her dress.
"Butler Gu, please give me a minute!"
'It looks like she is okay.' He thought.
When Zhang Liling finally opened the door, he spared her a minute glance to make sure she was actually okay.
"Butler Gu, today is my day off, and you came to look for me, is anything the matter?" In case he was not aware, she had to inform him of the benefits she was ripping at the moment.
"You didn't come out for breakfast," Butler Gu said. He figured that it would be better to put the question that way than to make it look like he cared about her. And besides, it was Mr. Fang that sent him on that errand.
There was no way he could straightforwardly say that Mr. Fang was afraid that something might have happened to her and asked him to come and check on her
"Since today is my day off, I appreciated sleeping in to having breakfast." Zhang Liling replied with a big smile on her face.
If Butler Gu did not know better, he would have thought that she was rubbing her benefits on his face.
"Then, I will take my leave," Butler Gu said and marched away to go and report to Mr. Fang.
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