The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

The duo passed by a European-styled coffee shop and Cedric thought about it before stopping her. "Do you want coffee?" 

Cheng Yu silently nodded, so they walked into the coffee shop one after another. Cheng Yu chose a seat by the window and sat down just as Cedric sat in the seat opposite hers. 

Cedric glanced at the menu and back at her. "What would you like to drink?" 

"Espresso." Cheng Yu said without thinking, and Cedric smiled, making the former wonder why he liked smiling so much. How silly. 

They both ordered Espresso and it arrived fast.

"We have similar tastes, it seems." Cedric made a joke out of it and she scoffed at him. Why did he like to make a big deal out of little things? 

Cedric coughed to mask his awkwardness as he lifted his cup to his lips. 

Cheng Yu lifted her cup to her lips too, savoring the strong taste. 

"Everyone thinks Luna did something wrong." She suddenly spoke, catching him off guard. 

Cedric instantly paid more attention to listen. 

"I know Luna isn't exactly a friendly person. I know she is selfish sometimes—most of the time. But I know her better than anyone. She would never deliberately hurt anyone." 

Cedric listened to her and the more he heard, the more he thought something didn't make sense. "You make it sound like they are two different people." 

"Because they are. Xia Luna… is Lanni's twin." Cheng Yu knew Cedric was shocked by the information. Even she couldn't believe she was saying this to Cedric of all people but she had been holding in for too long and now it just came bursting out like a flood. 

"And I feel so useless. I know she has been wrongfully convicted but there is nothing I can do about it. And I have to hear people curse behind her back behind her back and I can't do anything about them either." 

Cedric reached over the table to hold her hand but stopped when his hand was just a centimeter close to hers. He knew she would chew him out if he touched her. 

It was already rare that she would actively talk to him about her feelings. If he messed it up, he might never get such a chance again. He could only keep his distance and comfort her. "She is lucky to have a friend like you—a friend who would still trust her even after hearing her plead guilty with her own mouth. And Lanni is lucky too. 

Cheng Yu blinked as a slight smile formed at the corners of her lips. "You don't have to console me." 

"I'm serious Xiao Yu." He coughed when he realized what he had just called her. But when she didn't show any sign of getting angry or minding the intimate address, he pretended he hadn't realized it either and continued, "you are the best friend anyone could ever ask for." 

"But just being their friend doesn't help." She frowned helplessly. "I should do something that will actually get Luna out of there. Or else I will never be able to face them after everything they have done to help me before." 

"Is there something I can do to help?" Cedric quickly offered his help. 

Cheng Yu thought about it and was about to reject him. But thinking about how she couldn't do anything with her limited abilities, she took  the last sip of her espresso and said, "Nothing yet. Can I call you if I ever need help?" 

"Of course." Cedric was even happier. Now he had an excuse to ask for her contact number, which he did immediately. He took out his phone and gently slid it on the table towards her. "We should exchange contacts. In case you need help, you can just give me a call."

Cheng Yu took his phone and saved her contact number in it, then gave herself a call and saved his number. 

When they left the coffee shop, Cedric was walking on clouds. He had just got Cheng Yu's contact number! He looked around and was just about to find another excuse to go somewhere together when she spoke first. "We should head back now." 

"Okay." He remembered the time and headed back with her. She walked faster on their way back and he understood that it was because they just had a few minutes before their class started. Just as they arrived in the building, they saw Jiang Xingyu walking towards them. 

"CEO Jiang, hello." Cheng Yu politely greeted him when he stopped in front of them.

"I want to have a word with her." Jiang Xingyu coldly shooed Cedric away. 

The latter huffed and walked to the side as Cheng Yu wondered why Jiang Xingyu would look for her. 

"What do you want?" With no one else around, Cheng Yu couldn't bother to be polite to him anymore. The fact that Jiang Xingyu spoke up for her a few days ago didn't mean she had forgiven him for kidnapping and using her brother. Even though it was not kidnapping per se, it didn't make it any better. 

Jiang Xingyu understood this too, so he didn't say anything about her attitude. "I want to talk to you about Luna." He said the words that he knew she would never reject. 

"What about her?" Cheng Yu questioned. 

Jiang Xingyu started walking towards the elevator, and she could only silently follow him. The man led her to the employees cafeteria. 

"I'll be late for my class." She complained as soon as she understood his intentions. "We should talk after my class instead."

"The class will not start before you arrive." He said as tyrannically as he could possibly sound, and Cheng Yu was irritated. 

"Are you simply  going to waste everyone's time just because you are the big boss? You must be sick in the head. I don't know what Luna even ever saw in you." 

"Are you taking out your frustration on me?" Jiang Xingyu laughed. "Then you better hope that I do not return the favor. Because I am very frustrated." 

Cheng Yu stood up with a huff. "If you have something to say, say it after my class." She left after saying these words, and Jiang Xingyu laughed. Was she aware that he could eliminate her from that class if he wanted to?

Of course, he wouldn't do that. Luna would kill him if he did. He could only wait. 

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"Are you that close to Xingyu?" Cedric, who was waiting for Cheng Yu outside the elevator, asked as soon as she got out. 

Cheng Yu frowned but answered, "We are not close. He is Luna's boyfriend." 

When she realized what he had just called Jiang Xingyu, she looked up at him curiously. "Are you close to him?" 

"We are arch enemies. Does this count?" Cedric smirked. 

Cheng Yu recalled how Jiang Xingyu had ignored Cedric earlier. They did seem like enemies. She couldn't help but chuckle. Wasn't this an odd combination of enemies? What did they even do to each other? "What happened between you two?" 

Cedric laughed. "Things happened. At first, I didn't actually like him because he rejected my sister." 

"You have a sister?" Cheng Yu didn't know about it.

"My elder sister. She is beautiful, kind, elegant, intelligent and basically everything a man would want from a woman. However, he rejected her in a banquet—with tens of people as audience to that. He even said such mean words. My sister was so ashamed that she could no longer show her face in public for a while." 

"So you hated him because of this?" Cheng Yu still didn't think this reason made sense. The issue was between Jiang Xingyu and Cedric's sister, not Cedric himself, right? 

"After that incident passed, everyone forgot it. Jiang Xingyu even treated me as fairly as he would treat anyone else." Cedric continued. "However, during Li Yuming's charity art gala, do you know what happened?" 

Cheng Yu shook her head. 

"I had my eyes on the last painting. Actually, my sister had her eyes on that painting. It was going to be her birthday soon and I wanted to buy it as a gift for her. However, Jiang Xingyu made sure he got it by all means. Wouldn't you hate him if you were in my shoes?" 

"I… I would." Cheng Yu bit her lip and smiled slightly in embarrassment. So that painting had been for his sister all along. 

And there she was thinking that it was for her. Even though Jiang Xingyu had got it for Luna in the end, she had still been happy that Cedric was willing to spend so much money to buy her a painting of her idol along with her best friends. After all, he had only given up when the bid prices became ridiculously high. 

But now that she thought about it, just where exactly did she get such an assumption? Was she crazy? She and Cedric weren't even close! Forget being close. She even hated his guts!

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