Imperfect Desires

On the other side...

"Brother Han, I think we should visit the hospital. Your headache is getting worse," Wen Qing immediately put his long coat over his shoulders after the scene ended. 

He still refused, "It's my headache. How do you know if it's getting worse or not?"

"I can see it on your face," replied Wen Qing. "Don't bear the pain. Your scenes are over for the day anyway, let's go."

"Brother Han, the director is saying if it's okay with you can we do another shot?" Wen Qing glared at the director's assistant who came to them. "He just thinks it's good to stay ahead of schedule."

"It's fine with me," replied Han Bohai.

"Great! I'll call you once we are ready," saying that he went away.

"Brother Han, would you please look at your condition?"

Han Bohai waved off her worry offhandedly and leaned his head back to rest. He had promised himself earlier that he won't check his phone repeatedly like a lovesick teenager but failed miserably when the first thing that came to his mind after sitting in his vanity was, 'Did she text me?'

And that's how he ended up taking his phone and when he really saw the text of Ying, his eyes went wide in disbelief. He kept staring at the screen for a while before he lifted his hand slowly and even slapped himself hard. Apparently, he really was in disbelief. So, as a way to confirm that it wasn't a dream, he ended up slapping himself.

Good thing that Wen Qing had gone out to arrange coffee for him. Otherwise, he would have been asked a million questions for this dumb reaction of his that came out of nowhere.

Without wasting time, he texted back, 'Always free for you.'

His eyes were glued to his phone screen while he anxiously waited for her reply but to no avail. Growing impatient, he texted again...

'Hey! You there?'

He still got no response.

'You're not planning on going back on your words, right?'

When Ying didn't reply, his anxiousness grew and so did his headache. He rubbed his temples to ease his growing headache while staring at the phone without even blinking.

'You can't leave me hanging like this after that one text!'

He thought he might have lost his chance for that meal because he was late in replying to her. Now, he was blaming himself for being careless. But there was more to it. He was worried.

'Oi! Are you okay?'

'Say something!'

'Can you please say something? I'm getting worried now.'

'????'

A million possibilities were running through his mind when Ying didn't reply to him. It was like every single negative thought of his was coming out all at once to attack his brain.

Meanwhile, while he was texting her, Ying had been driving out of Xin Villa. She drove a bit further and parked the car. When she looked at her phone, she had already gotten over ten messages from him. Her brows shot up in surprise. He was asking for a reply and wasn't even allowing her to type when he had been texting non-stop.

He certainly was one impatient guy. Ying shook her head and was about to type when another message was received. It read, 'Don't scare me like this. We can forget about that meal but can you please let me know that you're okay?'

The corner of her lips curled up on instinct when she read the last text. It wasn't a surprise that she was unable to understand why he was so insistent on having this meal with her. They only had one proper meeting and even that couldn't be counted as something very special. Then why would a person like him flirt with her?

In her opinion, he was just playing around. And since he was playing around, there was no harm in playing along. After all, she had nothing better to do at the moment anyway.

Han Bohai was biting his lips when he saw that she was 'typing'. He opened his eyes wide to wait for that message to be received. And when he did, he jumped up in excitement.

'Stop bombarding me with texts. Take a break. I didn't die.'

He grinned at her reply. It sounded so like her that he could literally picture her expressions right now. "Cute..." He muttered to himself. Well, someone really needed to fix his definition of cute. Because, to a normal person, Ying didn't sound cute at all. In that text, definitely not!

'So as you said, should we really forget about that meal then?'

He frowned at her next message and rolled his eyes. 'You'd do anything to avoid seeing me huh? What? Scared?'

'Me? Scared? And that too of you? Why?' Her reply was faster this time around.

'Well, maybe you're scared you'll fall in love with me.'

Ying could scoff only as she read his narcissistic reply. Oh, he really was something.

'Dream on! If you want that meal, meet me at the same place where we met yesterday in twenty minutes. If you're late. The deal's really off!'

"What?!" Han Bohai was left speechless at her domineering and threatening reply. That was a threat. She was going too far. How was he supposed to get there in twenty minutes?

"Brother Han, what happened?" Wen Qing came back with his coffee but seeing him holding his head with both his hands, she was worried yet again. "Is it hurting too much?"

Hearing her voice, something clicked in his brain as he said, "Yeah. My head is going to burst any minute. I really need to see a doctor now."

"Oh, let's go then." Wen Qing held his arm to support him as she took him out while grumbling, "I told you not to overwork yourself. You never listen to me."

"Xiao Qing, you're increasing the pain." It wasn't that he was annoyed to hear her complaints. He was feeling guilty for partially lying to her. He indeed had a headache but he was just exaggerating it now to get out of the shooting set.

Wen Qing didn't take long before she brought him to the car and drove away with him. She was a good driver but she didn't know much about the An City. So, Han Bohai easily misled her to the mall he was at yesterday. But when she parked the car, she was like, "Bro, that's not a hospital."

He unbuckled his seatbelt while saying, "I know."

"Then?" Seeing how he smiled at her, she frowned, "Did you fool me again? Why?" Apparently, it wasn't the first time he did something like misleading her directions because she wasn't very surprised at the outcome.

He put on a cap and a mask as he replied, "Because I have someone very important to meet here."

"It couldn't wait? How important was it that you had to lie?"

He opened the door as he got out saying, "Love doesn't wait for people."