04 Poor Luo Jingli

~May 19~

After a month (since that one night stand ish incident), Li Zheng had already forgotten what happened that night, but Luo Jingli could not forget it. Instead, he started to fall more and more in love with Li Zheng. After all, it was not easy to forget about being raped, what's more by someone you love. 

Today, Luo Jingli couldn't hold back any longer and drank a little alcohol that he bought from a convenient store to boost his courage. When Li Zheng returned home, Luo Jingli immediately dragged him over, took his handbag over and randomly placed it on the sofa and confessed to him.

"Sir, L-Li Zheng, I like you, hehe. Can you be my boyfriend hehe." The drunk little kitten boldly revealed his heart yet his posture remained shy and meek. 

Not hearing any reply from his crush, Luo Jingli looked up with puppy eyes and pouted as he swayed Li Zheng's arm from side to side gently, "Hey! Li Zheng, why aren't you replying? Hello? Li Zheng..." 

Li Zheng was taken aback and could only stare at the person in front of him, who was shaking his arms and acting childishly. The thing is, Li Zheng usually breaks up with his lover after he finds out that his lover likes him. If someone in the company confessed to him, he would also transfer that person to the branch office. Not only would he make his stand clear, he would also be able to warn others not to follow their step, killing two birds with one stone. But this time, somehow, he didn't dismiss Luo Jingli.

What Luo Jingli didn't know was that his confession was just the start of his nightmare.

Time flew very quickly. A week after Luo Jingli confessed to Li Zheng, Li Zheng called Luo Jingli over after he finished his breakfast and was about to leave for work. "A friend of mine just returned from overseas and he will be coming over in the afternoon. Clean the mansion and prepare some food. Oh, and don't add green onions to the meal, he does not eat them." Li Zheng said to Luo Jingli.

"Yes, sir..." Luo Jingli replied with his head bowed down and went to cleaning the house and prepare the ingredients for the meal silently.

Li Zheng furrowed his brow at the unusually low energy of Luo Jingli, but then shook his head irritably as he remembered the confession made to him.

In the afternoon, Li Zheng returned home earlier than usual and sat on teh sofa working as he waited for the visitor. Soon after, he received a call and walked out of the mansion, "Yandong, have you arrived? I'll go fetch you at the gate." 

"Wow! Your house is so big and so clean." Fu Yandong commented as Li Zheng led him into the mansion.

"Why are you acting as if you haven't been here before?" Li Zheng laughed. It was a laugh that Luo Jingli has never heard before. 

"Hello sir...this...this is...?" Luo Jingli hadn't seen Fu Yandong and didn't know how to address him.

"This is my friend, Fu Yandong, just call him Mr. Fu. Is the meal erady? If so then bring the food out, then you can go and do your own things, don't disturb us." Li Zheng ordered.

"Yes." Luo Jing bowed and followed Li Zheng's instructions.

"Hey, is he your new housekeeper?" Fu Yandong said after Luo Jingli left.

"Yea. Forget about him, let's eat first. How was your time overseas? Are you used to living there yet?"

"Yeah, life there is quite good. The pace of living is way slower than over here. How about you, how have you been recently. I heard that your company is very busy recently."

"Nothing much, I am used to it already."

While waiting for Li Zheng and Fu Yandong to finish their meal, Luo Jingli was in the kitchen cleaning up and eating his own meal. After Li Zheng and Fu Yandong finished their meal, Luo Jingli went over to clean up the dishes.

"Sir, Mr. Fu, would you like to have some tea?" Luo Jingli asked after he finished cleaning up. 

After receiving a nod, Luo Jingli went into the kitchen to make some tea and brought it to the table but almost tripped for some reason. He dropped the teapot onto the floor and the hot water from the teapot spilled on the ground and some water accidentally got on Fu Yandong's clothes and feet.

"What's wrong with you! Be careful when you walk! Tsk!" Li Zheng furrowed his brow and shoved Luo Jingli aside while standing up hurridely before using the tissue paper to help Fu Yandong wipe off the water on his clothes, then he brought Fu Yandong into a guest room to change clothes, not sparing a glance at Luo Jingli on the ground.

Luo Jingli swallowed hard and squeezed out an "OK", even though he was now alone in the living room. He silently returned back to his room and applied some scalding medicine to his feet and arms. 

Luo Jingli could tell that Mr. Fu was a wonderful person. Both his temperament and appearance qualifies are wonderful. And based on the relationship he has with Li Zheng, Mr. Fu must have a distinguished family background and outstanding abilities as well. If the both of them likes each other, then they are more than perfect for each other. Although Li Zheng introduced him as a friend, Luo Jingli could sense Mr. Fu's likes for Li Zheng, as well as Li Zheng's pampering attitude towards Mr. Fu. 

"Look at you, coming from a single-parent and below average family background, with normal looks and you are not even outstanding. How can the light of a firefly compete with that of the moon? You are unworthy of standing next to him and can never be with him..." Luo Jingli once again realized the difference between himself and Li Zheng. 

He had most probably forgotten about that one night stand... or maybe Li Zheng didn't even care about me in the first place... maybe he mistook me as someone else... but... I really like him...

Originally, when Luo Jingli confessed to Li Zheng, Li Zheng did not refuse, so he thought that Li Zheng might have a little affection for him and he might stand a chance of being with Li Zheng. However, it turned out that the other party just didn't care about him. Looking at how Li Zheng treated Mr. Fu, the two of them are a match made in heaven and he was just a clown on the stage with himself as the only audience.

"Don't cry, Luo Jingli, don't cry!" Luo Jingli resisted his tears and forced himself not to cry, then got up from the ground and cleared the cups and water stains before returning to his room.

In the next few days, apart from welcoming Li Zheng home, Luo Jingli hardly dared to appear in front of Li Zheng. After cooking for him, he would leave the meal on the table and quickly go back to his room or do his own cleaning to avoid having contact with Li Zheng as much as possible. Luo Jingli became more and more silent but Li Zheng didn't care at all.

However, it was very different at Fu Yandong's side. After Fu Yandong left Li Zheng's home, he hired some private investigators to investigate Luo Jingli's background and information. That afternoon that he went to Li Zheng's house, he noticed Luo Jingli's admiring eyes when he peeked secretly at Li Zheng. To Fu Yandong, those eyes did not seem to be like that of the admiration of an ordinary employee to his employer, but more like someone in love. 

"Ah! I did not even care if Li Zheng finds some random girl outside or if he has some lover outside, but now he has a housekeeper who likes him and lives with him everyday. What if Li Zheng starts to like him and falls in love with him? Then what about me? Will Li Zheng forget about me? No, absolutely not! I cannot let this happen! I must get rid of that Luo Jingli or what ever his name is! He is not fit for Li Zheng!" Fu Yandong whispered to himself angrily while clenching his fists tightly. 

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Authors’ notes:

J: What’s with L's obsession with the bottom being so weak?! I feel that he’s even weaker than me! 

L: That’ll make him very cute (at the back)

J:...

J: i don’t like this…WTF is going on here (smile cry