It was Zhang Ling who actually opened the door, not her, but Su Xiaofei surmised that Ye Mingyu would disregard it nevertheless. She was visibly trembling, but whether it was out of rage or fear, Su Xiaofei wasn't certain.
Fear? Su Xiaofei paused at that thought as her eyes remained on Ye Mingyu's face.
It had occurred to her that Ye Mingyu had never looked at her this way before. Sure, this white lily would always show her feigned concern or sympathy to gain the favors of those people around them, while giving her mocking smiles and gazes, which only infuriated Su Xiaofei in silence, but never fear.
"W-what do you want?" Her instinct was telling her she was in danger.
It was only when she heard Ye Mingyu's voice did Su Xiaofei realize that she was spacing out. She chuckled lowly and straightened herself before closing the door behind her. With a quick snap on the door lock, she sauntered towards Ye Mingyu like a predator that had cornered her prey. Zhang Ling would make sure she and Ye Mingyu would be left undisturbed for now.
Ye Mingyu staggered back until her back bumped on the wall behind her. Something about Su Xiaofei wasn't right, as if she wasn't the same Su Xiaofei she knew. Thinking about it, Ye Mingyu realized that she never knew Su Xiaofei at all.
The Su Xiaofei in front of her was too far from the Su Xiaofei she knew in her original life. Aside from being domineering, the Su Xiaofei in this lifetime wasn't as dumb and foolish as Ye Mingyu thought her to be. She was blindsided and thought that with her knowledge from her previous life, she would be able to change her life for the better by pushing Su Xiaofei off track.
"Calm down, Miss Ye. How could you leave the stage without knowing whether you won our little bet or not?" Su Xiaofei said with a hint of sarcasm in her tone. It was clear to everyone who won anyway and this only made Ye Mingyu hate her even more.
"I don't care." Ye Mingyu spat out. "Why did you come here anyway?"
She didn't care to hide her displeasure towards Su Xiaofei this time, which only amused the latter further with her antics. It wasn't everyday Ye Mingyu would lower her mask and allow anyone to see her true self.
"Relax. I'm not here to claim the prize from winning our bet." Su Xiaofei didn't stop, the smile on her face slowly disappeared as she reached the other woman. "I came here to ask where you have taken Xiao Rufeng."
Ye Mingyu shivered and looked away. This wasn't what she had in mind at all. How did Su Xiaofei know she was involved with Xiao Rufeng's disappearance then?
"I-I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not her babysitter. How am I supposed to know where she went?" She whispered, but enough for Su Xiaofei to hear her loud and clear.
Her words only pushed Su Xiaofei to the edge and now Ye Mingyu found herself being choked by her. Panic and fear shook her body as she tried to loosen the hand Su Xiaofei had around her neck, but Su Xiaofei pushed her against the wall harder, trapping her with her own body.
"Miss Ye, lying is unbecoming of you, or have you mastered it from the beginning?" She whispered dangerously close next to Ye Mingyu's ear. Her other arm pressing Ye Mingyu's wrist next to her head.
Ye Mingyu's eyes widened, her body shaking as she struggled to free herself. Damn. Since when did Su Xiaofei become this strong? Su Xiaofei was shorter than her, but even so, her strength had caught Ye Mingyu off guard.
"I don't like repeating myself, Miss Ye, so I'll only ask one last time, where's Xiao Rufeng?"
Her tone was enough to make Ye Mingyu cry in fear. No matter how she struggled, it only made Su Xiaofei tighten her hold on her.
"S-she left…" She stuttered, hoping she could get away from Su Xiaofei as soon as possible. This wasn't what she signed up for when she agreed to Xiao Yunyao's support. She would have never thought that Su Xiaofei had this dangerous side to her.
"Who did she leave with? Where did she go?"
When Ye Mingyu refused to answer, Su Xiaofei's nails dug the soft skin on Ye Mingyu's neck painfully.
"She went outside! I don't know where she went! Her sister only said to lure her outside!" Ye Mingyu answered as her eyes shone with tears. She didn't think Su Xiaofei would leave her unscathed if she continued to pretend innocence over Xiao Rufeng's disappearance.
Su Xiaofei released Ye Mingyu and stepped back, allowing Ye Mingyu's body to fall on the ground as she continued to sob. She hadn't expected for Ye Mingyu to collude with Xiao Yunyao, Xiao Rufeng's younger sister.
However, this didn't give her any lead to where Xiao Rufeng had been taken. She would need her husband's assistance to find Xiao Rufeng as soon as possible. Her eyes went back to the disgraceful state Ye Mingyu was in.
"Ye Mingyu, I swear if Xiao Rufeng is hurt because of what you've done tonight, I will make sure to return the favor twice — no, as many times as possible to you. You are turning worse each time I see you."
She turned around and left, stepping out of the washroom, her anger simmering inside of her. Zhang Ling shot her a worried look, but she remained silent and marched back to the control room to see if Song Yiran and Zhang Lan managed to find a clue to where Xiao Rufeng could be.
Apart from Ye Mingyu, Su Xiaofei wouldn't be able to forgive herself if something bad happened to Xiao Rufeng under her watch. To think that Xiao Yuyao was able to sneak up on them like this, harming Xiao Rufeng through Ye Mingyu.
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