A Billion Dollar Exchange

182 Bitter is born

Da Xia stretched her arms when she finished her day\'s work. It was already past seven in the evening and she was sure almost everyone had left for their homes.

She rubbed her eyes and temples and tiredly stood up from her seat. Closing her laptop, she picked up her bag and took her phone from the table.

As she made to walk out, her eyes swept over the package she had received earlier which was lying abandoned on her table, and she hesitantly picked it up.

It was in a letter envelope, she stared at it strangely, not knowing who it came from since it did not bear any sender information.

Anxious and a bit scared, she decided to open it when she got home. It was quite unsafe to open an unknown letter in a place where there was no-one .

Putting the letter envelope into her bag, she hurried out of her office.

Her parents already knew of her schedule and had warned her to stop overworking herself, but she never listened. When she arrived home, she was quite glad when she was told by the cook that they had not returned since morning.

Rushing upstairs, she took a quick shower and changed into her Pajamas, then went downstairs to eat her meal. After the meal, she rushed back upstairs to her room. She walked over to her bag on the cushion in her room and took out her phone from it. Her eyes met the package once more. She took it out and walked over to her bed.

Lying on her bed, she stared at the envelope for sometime, her heart beating against her chest.

She wondered why someone would send her a letter in the 21st century?

After contemplating for a while, she finally tore open the envelope and took out a folded piece of paper.

Slowly, she opened the paper and read through the contents. Her hands on the paper suddenly froze and goosebumps washed through her skin.

She remained transfixed staring at the paper for a good three minutes. After sometime, her eyes fluttered, pulling her out of her daze. She folded the paper and placed it back into the envelope.

She pushed the envelope under her pillow and immediately covered herself with her duvet. Her mind filled with different thoughts.

....

"I said to call me later and not after four days!"

Xin Yong screamed over the phone, she did not wait for Liling to reply before she continued.

"I will scold you later, keep that aside, guess what? X welcome party is on Saturday and my baby bought me a. a.. gorgeous ...a magnificent... breathtaking dress. it\'s so... "

"Xin Yong!, it\'s pretty, I\'ll see it tomorrow, okay? "

Liling cut her off, while giggling softly. Her friend was overly dramatic.

"Oh, Liling, you need to see this dress, he surprised me yesterday. I was so blown away! Jin Yue is so cute! so cute! I love him so so so! "

"So much! "

Liling completed the sentence again, still laughing.

Xin Yong asked, her tone seemed so happy. Liling was sure she wouldn\'t get scolded this time.

"Sorry, I forgot, but I would have remembered if you weren\'t doing stuffs under the sheets and had picked up my calls!"

"When? wait... you mean four days ago? oh my God! "

Xin Yong burst out laughing, her mind recalling the events of that night.

"I\'m so sorry! I couldn\'t reach my phone that night and I forgot to call the next day... oh my!"

"Yeah, you couldn\'t reach your phone because you were extremely busy!, don\'t worry, we\'ll see tomorrow, it\'s been so long! "

"Yeah, and I\'ve missed you so much. How is our handsome Liu Wei? "

Xin Yong asked giggling lightly.

"He\'s sexier than yesterday. I\'m looking forward to seeing you tomorrow, the prettiest girl in gahll, please don\'t make Jin Yue jealous by seducing all the men in the..."

"Liling, you didn\'t just say that, did you? . We all know who\'s Gahll\'s no1 beauty, wait, who\'s talking of gahll?. In the whole of China who can compare to you?.

Right now, I\'m afraid that others won\'t even get admirers because of your enchanting beauty, and Liu Wei would have to cover your face to prevent other men from coming after you. Don\'t just flatter me this afternoon! "

Liling couldn\'t help laughing.

"Xin Yong!! you flatter me too much! I\'m not even as beautiful as you and you talk of the whole of China!... "

"You know what, I\'m cutting this call now! we\'ll see tomorrow! "

Xin Yong screamed at her friend and quickly cut the call, amidst Liling\'s laughter.

Xin Yong knew her friend, she would never accept that she was excellent at something!.

....

Later that night...

Liling kept on checking out the dress and shoes she was to wear the next day, her body overly excited.

It was past eleven but she couldn\'t keep her eyes off the dress on the hanger. Liu Wei had begged her to come to bed several times, but she kept telling him to wait a little bit longer.

"Wifey, it\'s past eleven already, I\'m feeling sleepy!."

Liu Wei whined. He was sitting on her bed watching her pace around the long dress on the hanger. Liling turned around to look at him, her eyes widened in realization.

"Baby, don\'t tell me you\'ve been sitting there with groggy eyes all along?, hurry, go get some sleep, I\'ll join you soon!"

She waved him off and turned back to look at her beautiful dress excitedly.

"How will I be waiting for you if I could sleep without you?, come on! it\'s tomorrow night, you have the whole day to look at that dress! "

Liu Wei complained. He was visibly sad, throughout that day, Liling had not paid any attention to him.

From the spa, to the skin treatment centre and back home, he didn\'t have any time alone with her and now they were to sleep, she chose to spend the rest of the night admiring inanimate objects!

Thereby choosing the dress over him!.

Liu Wei couldn\'t take that, his eyes swept past her to the dress she was keenly observing, glaring daggers at it.

If it were human, it wouldn\'t survive a second longer.

"Wifey, you\'re hurting me and you know it."

Liu Wei\'s voice sounded hurt. He stared at Liling with those irresistible eyes of his, making her to finally give up on her dress and come to him.

When she approached where he sat on the bed, she walked in between his legs and put her arms around his neck, then leaned down and kissed him briefly on the lips.

"Baby, you know how much this means to me, I am too excited that I can\'t even wait for tomorrow to come, you understand me right? "

"I do, but you\'ve been staring at the dress for over thirty minutes! "

Liu Wei complained as he pulled her closer into his arms.

Liling giggled and pecked his forehead, while brushing her hand through his hair.

"Okay, let me look at it for the last time, then we\'ll sleep, okay? "

She smiled at him, and quickly released herself from his arms, then made to go back to her dress, when all of a sudden she was swept off the floor.

"Ahh! _ Liu Wei! "

Liling yelped as she found herself in someone\'s arms.

"We\'re going to bed and now! "