After revealing her true feelings, Esnie spent some special time with him.
Only after her bonding scene with him ended did Miss Esnie reluctantly leave.
When Esnie left, Miss Beigong Ling, who had been eavesdropping around the corner outside the door, felt her heart jolt. She instinctively hid in the shadows, unwilling to let Esnie discover that she had been listening outside all along.
Only once Esnie's presence had completely vanished from the office did Beigong Ling breathe a sigh of relief. Then, as though something had suddenly occurred to her, her heart tightened again. Rather than walk straight into the office, she silently counted the time outside. More than ten minutes later, she finally knocked softly on the door to Jonas's office.
Naturally, she did this to conceal her eavesdropping. If she appeared right on Esnie's heels, it would look far too suspicious. Even Beigong Ling herself would have had trouble believing it was merely a coincidence.
About four or five seconds after she knocked, Jonas's voice came from inside the office:
"Come in."
The first thing Beigong Ling saw upon entering the office was the obvious indentation in the sofa a short distance away. In truth, what she had overheard outside was enough to guess what had happened. Having forced herself to wait outside for nearly forty extra minutes, Beigong Ling felt somewhat indignant, but she did not show it.
The girl had never liked letting others see her emotions directly, but certain details still offered clues to how she felt... her earlobes, for instance.
The vivid red of Beigong Ling's ears betrayed what had really been going through her mind during those dozens of minutes spent eavesdropping outside. It also betrayed that she had guessed at the intimate scene that had just unfolded in the office.
Although