Chapter 95 - The "Good" Twin

Long Mei still could not face Jin Qing since breakfast.

She had dreamt about him the night before, and it felt so vivid, so real that she felt the tremors when she awoke. She did not know she had an actual orgasm in her sleep until she went to the bathroom. 

Long Mei was mortified by what she found, which led her to believe that Jin Qing must have heard her. 

When she confronted him, he did not deny that he heard something, which made her more humiliated than she already was. 

He then tried to make her feel better by saying he'd do anything with her, and Long Mei knew he was jesting, and she played into it. She asked if he'd go down on her, and he responded that he would do it on the spot, which did nothing to stifle the fantasy she had of him in her dreams. 

Why did he have to say something like that? It gave her ideas she could not act out on. 

Jin Qing would be good, and lately, she had wanted to test it out. 

He was unaware how much his friendship helped her in the four weeks they've lived together, and the last thing she wanted to do was ruin what they had just because she was psychically attracted to him. 

Jin Hu was handsome, but Long Mei came to realize he was darkness—and not a beautiful darkness that Long Xia and Long Yat-sen exuded, but one of an abyss where light did not peer through. Jin Qing was the opposite. He acted unpolished and unrefined in retaliation toward his family, but he had always been beautiful, a light from the end of a cave. Long Mei spent years trying to pretend Jin Qing was less. 

She remembered seeing Jin Qing with women wrapped around him, practically begging him to take them home. He often ignored them, but when his gaze collided with hers, Jin Qing would then disappear with the women with a grin on his face. 

Long Mei would grit her teeth, and then Jin Hu would ask what was distracting her. Nothing, she'd say. 

How foolish she had been. Long Mei realized she had always been attracted to him, even as she tried to be faithful to Jin Hu. 

But perhaps, she had known Jin Hu was not right for her since the beginning, and she pretended he was perfect for her while pretending Jin Qing wasn't. 

Long Mei realized this was years of tension building up, and the more she ignored it, the more it became intense. 

Still, it had gone to a point where she might attack him one day, and she realized she needed to start doing things that did not involve Jin Qing! Perhaps that would help preserve their delicate relationship. 

After her photo shoot, Long Mei met with Luo Nuying to treat themselves to some iced lattes. 

"You're blushing," Luo Nuying said, breaking her from a daze. 

Long Mei drank from her paper straw with wide eyes. "Mhm?" 

"You have this starry-eyed look," Luo Nuying added, wearing a smile on her face. "Is everything going well with your fiancé?"

Long Mei blushed deeply. "I suppose," she began. "Things are going great." 

Luo Nuying's eyes sparkled. "Tell me everything." 

As much as she loved having Luo Nuying as a friend, Long Mei was not ready to give the details about her pre-marital life. While living with Jin Qing went well, he was helping her through some issues she kept hidden. And she could not outright say, 'everything is going well. Jin Qing and I are in a fake relationship, but he helps me sleep at night. He takes me to therapy. He supports what I do, and I might have a crush on him, but everything is complicated, considering our history.'

Instead, Long Mei asked, "What about you?" 

Luo Nuying clicked her tongue. "Oh, you know, failed relationship after failed relationship," she began. "You'd think men would want me longer than a one-night stand, but most don't view models as relationship material." 

Long Mei frowned. She put a hand over her friends. "You definitely deserve more, and there will be someone for you." 

Luo Nuying smiled warmly, tilting her chin high. "You're right. There will be someone for me. And I will make them wait. I often put out on the first date, and though I enjoy the sex, it does not feel great when they sneak out of my apartment in the middle of the night. Even women like me want to be comforted. I want a man that will make me feel secure. Do you know anyone?" 

Long Mei couldn't help but chuckle, shaking her head. Her laughter died when she saw someone at the counter, purchasing a coffee. "Kun?"

Long Kun turned around. He was wearing a well-pressed suit, his elegant glasses framing the bridge of his nose. "Mei?"

Long Mei stood up to hug him. 

"Baby sister. How have you been?" he asked her. 

"Well," she answered. "I rarely see you." 

"I know. I've been busy. I'm sorry I haven't visited you, but I heard from Ken, you weren't taking any visitors." 

"Yes. At least for now, but it's great to see you! This is Luo Nuying," she pointed at her friend, "She was at Xia's engagement party, but I know you only stopped by for an hour and must not have had the chance to speak with her." 

Luo Nuying's lips parted as she took Long Kun in. "No, we have not had the pleasure of speaking," Luo Nuying responded. "I only got to meet your twin." 

Long Kun smiled. "I hope Ken did not give you a hard time. I know my brother can be a bit of a scoundrel," he said to her. 

"Yes," she answered. "I mean no. I mean, yes. Long Ken is certainly…something, but nothing I wasn't able to handle." 

Long Kun's smile grew. "I'm glad." 

Long Mei watched as her friend stared at her brother as if he was the only man in the room. 

"It was nice seeing you ladies, but I must go now. Have a nice day," Long Kun said, looking at Luo Nuying once more before he walked away. 

"Have a nice day to you too!" Luo Nuying said after him, but he had already gone. "Fuck," she said. "Where have you been hiding him? I know Ken, and he's a dick. I had no idea he had a good twin." 

Long Mei laughed. "Don't be fooled by Kun's charm. He's just as bad as Ken. Kun was being polite now, but wait until he you meet him again. He won't be so nice. He likes to give good first impressions, but then after, he's unpredictable. At least, Ken is himself since the first meeting." 

Luo Nuying stirred her drink with her straw. 

"Don't think about it," Long Mei warned. "The twins are the type of men you were just venting about five minutes ago." 

Luo Nuying only sipped on her drink, and Long Mei realized her friend would never learn.