A Beautiful Misunderstanding

"Go ahead." Thinking of this, Essie sighed in relief. She would do anything as long as his list of requests weren't asking too much
of her.
"First, no affairs. You don't cheat on me. Second, you'll have to take care of me,"
he said seriously as his lips straightened into a thin line.
How dare he? The first condition didn't even make any sense! The second one was that he obviously intended to treat her like a
slave. As they say, if one handed you lemons, you can just go and make lemonade. She shook her head at the thought.
But as long as she could win the bet against Sunny, then she could bear all of it. After all, it was only for two months.
"Fine, but you should also behave yourself. Don't take advantage of me," she warned him.
"I've seen every part of your body, and there is absolutely no part that I haven't touched. What else can I take advantage of?" he
teased.
Essie flushed, wishing that the ground beneath her could swallow her right up. She wanted to curse him into the oblivion as she
turned and walked towards the bus stop.
When they were waiting for the bus to arrive, a woman walked up to them. "It's you two! What a coincidence!" she exclaimed.
Essie furrowed her eyebrows, thinking that the woman must've mistaken her for some other person. "That day when you
registered at the Civil Affairs Bureau, my husband and I were also registering at the same time." It seemed that the memory was
still fresh in the woman's mind.
"Hello." Startled by the lady's sudden appearance, Essie rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly.
The woman smiled and glanced at Zac gently. "Handsome boy. You two really shocked us that day. The registration staff said
that you two were drunk, so you can do it once you're sober, but you grabbed his collar and threatened him to approve it or else
he'd disappear from the ends of the earth."
She laughed, turning to Essie. "You're more powerful. You grabbed a paper knife from the desk and pointed it at your wrist
saying that if you aren't going to be registered that day, then your blood will drench the office. We were so touched that we just
had to tell the staff to serve you first."
Zac coughed in embarrassment at the memory. It was better for him to not have remembered it at all.

Essie's cheeks flushed.
'I'll want to marry the man over my dead body!
The last thing I want is to be married!'
When the bus arrived, she waved at the woman and dragged Zac inside.
"It seems our separation's blocked yet again," he said with a faint smile.
Luckily, Essie didn't divorce Zac today, or else they would be the talk of the town.
As soon as they got back in the apartment, they began to fill each other's void.
They've said that when a man and a woman stay in the same room, they are either passionate or infatuated with one another.
Essie was neither. The only man she had been infatuated over wasn't even in the room.
The next day, when she woke up, Zac was already gone.
After getting along with him for a few days, she realized that she didn't like him very much. Not only was he incredibly picky, but
he's rude and unpredictable. The only upside about him was that he was handsome.
As long as he had the looks, he could definitely get by even with his horrible attitude. She snorted at the thought.
After yoga, she went to the bathroom to take a shower. When she came out, Zac had finally arrived, holding a cup of coffee in his
hand.
The luminous moon replaced the bright sun in the sky.
The light in their room became a mix of silver and gold, looking as if God had descended in the midst of their household.
Zac leaned against the handrail of the balcony, admiring the scenery above him. His eyes were similar to the brightest stars in
the night sky, illuminating even the darkest of hearts.
The collar of his shirt was popped open, revealing his well-defined chest muscles.
Asshole!

She swallowed hard.
His eyes fell on her, and a sinister smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.
It was then when she realized that she was just wearing a bath towel. Her face flushed. She wanted to hurry into her room, but
when she passed through the sofa, the bath towel got stuck around the corners and fell from her grasp. Her entire body was in
display under his lustful gaze.