290 Novel Rejections

"Who the f*ck is it?" A harsh husky male voice stunned her to stone on her place. Apparently, he was sleeping and was rudely awakened and he was in no way thrilled about it.

Lu Xinyi opened her mouth to open her mouth to ask him if he knew where Yin Lin was and why did he have her phone when clearly she told her earlier today that she didn't have any relationship with a man but the responders' next word shut her to silence.

"And before you opened that sh*tty mouth, that will be sewed soon, book a surgery for yourself if it isn't worth disturbing my Raven's sleep!"

Lu Xinyi gasped and stuttered a shaky response, "I.. Is Yin…"

Before she could finish her stammering there was shuffling on the other side followed by a woman's distant shout, "That's my phone!" Then the receiver introduced a groggy growl of Yin Lin, "Who is it that wants their ass handed to them in a surgical plate to call at this f*cking hour?!"

Her breath hitched and her eyes widened at the threat. Clearly, they were a perfect couple custom-made! Both equally violent in dishing out threats...

She wanted to hang up the very moment out of scare of wasting more of their time than was granted but who knows if these violent lot would chase her down for doing so.

"Yin Lin..." She drawled out in a whisper, unsure, not any more confident, "It's me Lu Xinyi. We met today at the restaurant. Su Qing was the…"

In a sleepy fading voice, Yin Lin responded in a rather calm tone than before, "Yeah… Umm, Good. What do you want?"

Lu Xinyi took a deep breath and smiled in relief, apparently, it was just because they didn't know who she was! Yin Lin did recognize her! "Firstly, I am extremely sorry to have woken you up…"

Yin Lin groaned and snapped, "Just get to the point!"

Her eyes ran around frantically looking for the right words and then she evaluated that there was no better way to phrase it. "Yu Youhan! He is in my condo! I almost hit him with a bat because I thought he was a demon spirit!"

She heard distant giggling followed by an almost inaudible whisper, "The girl is hallucinating, probably drunk!" 

She heard the groan of a man, followed by shuffling and Yin Lin squeals and protests, "Come here. Sweetheart!" The voice all but a frustrated growl.

She heard distant whispers followed by shuffling, 'Ahhh...Stop it! You pervert, I am … Ahh…'

Her phone nearly fell from her hand. Lu Xinyi felt her cheeks reddened in shyness hearing the inappropriate sounds, no doubt there was something very intimate taking place, she had seen enough chick-flicks to know that, and she felt like she was intruding. 

She contemplating hanging up when Yin Lin's voice re-emerged, "Umm... Yeah! Lu Xinyi, try to have s*x with him. It usually fades before the climax but if you are lucky you may actually cum. Good Luck!"

As a writer naturally Lu Xinyi knew all about the bees and the birds but her world stopped with the verdict, she could never do that, Or could she… But this is crazy!

She was shocked by her words and felt herself getting redder than she already was to the point her ears and neck too took the burnt. Getting hardly out of her trance, she shakily double-checked, "Th… This will do the 'trick'?"

She heard her sleep hum, "Hmm… Always does. Ahh…sh*t, I said wait!" 

'Sweetheart, I am doing nothing you don't want me to.'

Lu Xinyi wanted the ground to swallow her whole. Swear to the Lord she was never calling anyone after ten!

There was another shuffling on the other side followed by a hastily conjured ending speech, "I was saying a kiss would do too if you aren't dildo drunk but if it doesn't then Ahh… Stop it, Jerk! Just go on, Okay!"

After that, the phone disconnected. Yin Lin had hung up on her and there was no way she was making the courage to reconnect the call after hearing the voices she previously had. Too much information!

Promising herself that she will obey everything she says with the exception of the conversation they had. She got out of the room to face the actual demon who must be waiting to suck her soul.

Sitting still in the living room which most certainly was occupied by her a while ago, he let his eyes wander. The screen was playing a gory scene of a psycho man slaughtering people, his eyes trailed to the coffee table where several novels and books of action/mystery/horror genre were kept. Their markings, highlights, and folded papers screamed they were read over and over again but their paper texture indicated they were still new.

He really didn't need to guess where all her 'unique' ideas this evening came from. He felt like a headache approaching as he scrolled through the collection of her watched movies. 

She came in the living room sheepishly and sat on the other end of the loveseat. Her eyes trailed to all the things he had been going through and she winced.

All in all, she must look like a crack case right now. She cleared her throat and mumbled under her breath, "I have been 'exploring ' different genres for my new novel So…" She trailed off.

The awkwardness was calling dibs on everything that was inhabitable in the house, to have a breather, she stood up, "I… I will go to make coffee."

"I thought you ran out of coffee." With his brow raised, he was mocking her.

She was halfway through standing but sat back down, "Ye… Yeah! I forgot." 

Taking a deep breath she turned to him, "So why were you here again, I thought you were too high and mighty for little old me?" Although her question was toned inquisitively she made no effort to disguise the sarcasm.

He stared at her innocent face set in a scowl for a fleeting while, then sighed and shook his head. He wanted to first ask her about the lift incident but here was hardly a way to remark anything regarding the subject without sounding like a stalker. In her current 'exploration' he didn't want her mind to jog on the information. GOD knows where she will reach...

And just when she hardly believed he wasn't a 'demon' or 'psycho imitator' wasn't the time to talk about his obsession with her whereabouts.

"I missed you." He uttered after a short lapse of silence.

Her resolve slipped for a second before she shrugged nonchalantly in almost boredom, "Clearly you didn't, if you did, you would have picked a call or two. And you shouldn't as it was clearly you who shut me out of your life."

He sighed before inching closer to her so there was hardly two feet distance between them, he ran his hands in his hair, "I was enraged and confused. The… rejection was a novel experience. I didn't know how to deal with it but I am guilty."

She felt like lunging her arms around him and sobbing with her every tear trickling down with forgiveness but it will be like gutting every single one of feminists in the world!

So she snorted and rolled her eyes in an attitude, and retorted heatedly. She sassed him sarcastically imitating his voice, "Well, Now I am enraged and confused. The apologies are new for me. I don't know how to deal with forgiveness!" her voice ended in a high-pitched mock.

It was her first time misbehaving and she wanted to pat her shoulder for the good job she was doing!

Yu Youhan's eyes flickered with a bit of surprise, a pleasant surprise. Her standing up for herself was such a growing aspect he couldn't help but his eyes softened and he barely contained himself from bursting out laughing, "I am sorry. Can we go back to how it was?"

Lu Xinyi shook her head with a frown, "It is too easy to say, isn't it? After you ignore me for weeks, you come by one evening, 'Hey! Lu Xinyi, I am sorry because now there is nobody to tell me the cool jokes, you can.' which is the truth for the record, and everything falls back like how it was?!"

"It's like you are the only person in this friendship! If you want to keep in contact, we will. And when you feel like I am bored today of her so let's ditch her for weeks!"

"Lu Xinyi, I was upset. I didn't mean…" Lu Xinyi raised a hand to stop him.