Love O2O- Beyond a Beautiful Smile

Chapter 22- The little intern

Relating to Episode 18 of Love O2O

I have commandeered some dialogue from the episode but not all of it; there will be original dialogue in and around the borrowed dialogue. If I do my job right, it shouldn't be easy to tell... unless you've watched it over and over. *fingers crossed and whispers* please let me do my job right!

The Monday that working hours returned to normal, with all staff returning from their time off, Hao Mei discovered something... concerning. During the time with just him, KO, and Xiao Nai in the office, Mei had become accustomed to certain behaviours on KO's behalf. As frustrating as the man had been, in less than a fortnight Mei had come to accept the skinship in the office, and elsewhere. Which wouldn't have been a problem except that with everyone returning, the skinship had stopped... but his reaction to it hadn't.

    Walking in to the office that morning, cheerfully talking at KO, Mei had been bombarded with questions about what he and KO had done with their time off. His mind had immediately flown to dark alleys and thick shrubbery and he flushed. His reaction had been duly noticed.

    "Eh! Blushing like a bride on her wedding night!"

    "Something you need to tell us?"

    "Ah! Maybe they went on a honeymoon?"

    "Where did you go?"

    About to open his mouth and defend himself with the information that he'd worked, thank you very much, Mei was dumbfounded when KO beat him to it.

    "Chengde."

    The gaggle of office workers froze, stunned into silence when KO voluntarily offered information. it was short lived silence.

    "Chengde? Wow."

    "Did you get a suite at the Mountain Resort?"

    "Look at that blush! They did!"

    Pink crept from Mei's cheeks and spread down his neck. Mumbling, he fled to his desk, glaring at KO, who was sitting calmly and undisturbed. "Why did you say that? Now they think we..."

    "Was it wrong?"

    "Yes. I mean, no. But yes. You know what they're thinking." It was hard to get his thoughts into order.

    "Again." KO raised an eyebrow at him. "Was it wrong?"

The heat that flashed through KO's eyes sent an echoing heat sliding down Mei's spine and he closed his eyes to block it out.

   "Yes. And no. Don't look at me like that."

   Making a concerted effort to focus on his computer screen, Mei missed the humour that tweaked at the corner of KO's mouth.

The joking and laughter had finally settled down when an out-of-breath A Shuang barrelled through the doors. "Boss bought our future Lady Boss to work."

    "Seriously?"

    "No way!"

    "Laoda is taken already? I was planning on marrying my sister off to him though."

    "You can marry your sister off to me! I'm still single!"

    "Get lost. Not finding my sister a good husband is one thing. I can't send her to hell though, right?"

   "Have you seen a hell this handsome?"

    "Handsome, my ass."

    "Eh!"