Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

A few days later, Ai whistled and hopped in a good mood as she walked down the street, and the reason behind her jolly demeanor was that she was visiting the most favorite place in the whole world after a long time.

She stood before the library entrance, her light brown irises radiating pure bliss. It was the same library where she met Jun for the first time and spent some good, old peaceful days.

As she opened the door, she greeted another important person to her who she missed a lot for these past few months. “Mrs. Quan!” 𝒃𝒆𝒐𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝒎

Mrs. Quan, who was working on a laptop with slow and cautious actions, raised her head from the screen. Imaginary flowers blossomed around her head as soon as she saw. “Ai!!! Oh dear. It’s been a long time!”

They rushed for a warm hug as their eyes turned slightly misty. Ai said, “Mrs. Quan. I missed you a lot. I am sorry I couldn’t visit the library as much for the past few months.”

Mrs. Quan lightly tapped on her head. “Why this apology huh? You are treating me as a stranger now,” she pouted her lips.

Ai vigorously shook her head. “Never! Mrs. Quan is just like my cute and beautiful grandma!”

“Aish…” she waved her hand in dismissal though her cheeks turned cherry red, “You and Jun are just the same. You expertly know how to speak buttery words.”

She slightly widened her eyes. “Jun? He is here too?”

“Oh yes! It was good to see him after a long time too. He brought me a bunch of sweets as an apology for not getting time for his assistant librarian’s work,” she sighed, “That boy is such a sweetheart. Though I told him not to worry about the library, he still feels guilty. That’s why he is so cute, but he just doesn’t agree.”

Ai pursed her lips. “He didn’t tell me or we could have come together. I also asked him if he was going to Sky, and he said yes. He didn’t say anything about going to the library,” she sulked.

“Hahaha. You two are cute as ever. Even your bickering hasn’t changed. But don’t blame Jun.”

She harrumphed. “It must definitely be wanting to prove to me that he remembered you first than me. Then he would tease and laugh at me at how I forgot about you.”

Mrs. Quan smiled. “It’s pleasing to see you fighting over silly things. But he has good intentions. Look, Jun brought a new laptop for me!” She proudly showed off her new laptop to Ai. “Though I scolded him as to what I would do with a laptop and he is wasting money over this, he sternly told me that he would teach me how to work with it. Things have gotten so convenient and digital now and other stuff that I really didn’t understand, but that’s what he said. He even gave me my first assignment,” she giggled. “I feel like I am back in my school days~”

Ai felt betrayed. “Why didn’t Jun tell me anything about this surprise for you?” Her nostrils flared. “I will punish him for this. Where is he?”

Mrs. Quan laughed. “Where he always works. The third floor. Don’t be too hard on him, okay?”

“I think you favor him more than me, Mrs. Quan,” she felt hurt.

“Aish, that’s not it at all~”

Ai harrumphed again and moved to climb towards the third floor. There was a lesser crowd than usual as she reached the floor. She immediately spotted the tall and handsome back of her boyfriend as he was brushing his fingers against the bookshelf and looking past the books with a daze.

His side profile looked so charming that for a moment, she forgot all her grievances and kept staring at his attractive posture. She soon cleared her throat and walked towards him with a serious expression.

Ai poked his shoulder, making him turn and a moment later cough hard. “Ai. What are you doing here?”

“I should be the one asking you that. You didn’t tell me this morning that you were coming here. If I knew, I would have accompanied you. You didn’t me tell me anything about the surprise for Mrs. Quan either. Mr. Liu Jun. Please explain yourself.”

Jun raised his brow, feeling amused at the way she held her waist and confronted him as if he was in grave trouble with his girlfriend.

“I thought you would be going to Sky.”

“That’s not any reason. I would have happily agreed to come to the library whenever that was the case.”

“Aww, are you feeling guilty that I remembered about Mrs. Quan first and came here first too? Do you feel salty that I beat you here~?”

“It was never a competition.”

“Very convenient for the last person to say,” he laughed.

“The last person is always the most charming.”

“What kind of an argument is that?”

“As pointless as the argument of meeting Mrs. Quan first being a competition.”

“…”

Jun smiled and pinched her cheek. “You never fail to amaze me with your comebacks, do you?”

Ai brushed away his hand and asked, “You should have told me.”

“You didn’t tell me about coming here either, did you now?” He squinted his eyes.

Ai stared at him. “At first, I was indeed going to Sky but decided to head to the library first. You haven’t checked your phone yet, have you?”

“…”

Jun promptly took out his phone and saw an unread message from Ai. It said that she was going to the library to meet Mrs. Quan and then head to Sky.

He coughed. “I was busy showing Mrs. Quan her new laptop so didn’t check my phone.”

“I am responsible unlike a certain someone here. I feel like you are ignoring me these days,” Ai watched him with scrutiny.

He raised his brow. “I definitely don’t ignore you in bed.”

“That’s the only place where you don’t ignore me is what I feel.”

“That’s preposterous.”

“Fine. You are being very mean and forgetful these days and missing to talk to me about a lot of things. I can do the same! Don’t complain to me if I ignore you.”

Ai turned in a huff and left with Jun clearly seeing the fumes of resentment escaping the top of her head.

A minute later, Mrs. Quan quickly came by his side and asked, “I saw Ai leaving angrily. Did you tease her too much?” She scolded him.

“I promise I didn’t.”

“She is such a sweet girl. I cannot see her being disappointed like this.”

Jun smiled. “Me too. But it won’t be for long.”

Mrs. Quan squealed like an excited child. So, so! How is the surprise planning going?”

He brightened. “Very well. I know Ai is mad at me right now but once she sees the surprise, she will forget all her displeasure,” he winked. “The only thing to greet her beautiful face would be a big, wide smile.”