Ye Xian wished she could slap herself. Why on earth did she bring up the food expenses? Wasn’t she just digging her own grave?
"Ten million... I’ve put ten million in a fixed deposit at the bank, it can’t be withdrawn right away!"
Bo Tingshen pulled out his phone, "I’ll call Xiao Sui to confirm."
Ye Xian, with a face full of curiosity, asked, "Who’s Xiao Sui?"
"The hacker I mentioned to you last time."
The super incredible hacker? Wouldn’t he be able to track down the whereabouts of her ten million?!
"Hey, hey, hey, don’t!"
Ye Xian lunged forward to stop him, "CEO, please don’t call! I..."
Bo Tingshen set down his phone, his gaze especially sharp behind his glasses, "Tell me the truth, where did you use it?"
"I..." Ye Xian thought about the fake background story she had told him, "I sent it back to my hometown!"
"Isn’t your hometown in the mountains? To fix the mountain roads, is that it?"
Ye Xian: "..." The CEO’s remarks were too cutting.
"I bought gifts for the Ye Family!"
Ye Xian blurted it all out at once.
After she finished, the air went silent, and she braced for the impending storm. She had a myriad of explanations already forming in her mind.
She had bought gifts for the Ye Family because they had taken care of and helped her for so many years. She needed to learn gratitude! It was absolutely not because she had a secret affection for Ye Shaowen...
But unexpectedly, Bo Tingshen just asked indifferently, "Did you spend it all?"
Ye Xian was confounded, "CEO, aren’t you going to ask why I bought them gifts?"
"You bought them, so you’ve repaid your social obligations. There’s no need for further entanglements in the future."
Ye Xian: "Ah~" It was rare for the CEO to be so understanding, and she suddenly felt a little uneasy.
Bo Tingshen: "But..."
How could there be a ’but’? Ye Xian’s nerves tensed up again.
"Only they got gifts?"
"???" Ye Xian looked at him puzzled, reading from his face, ’Don’t I have one?’
"Of course not. I also bought a gift for you, CEO, it’s just less expensive. I was afraid you wouldn’t like it, so I didn’t give it to you."
Two minutes later, Ye Xian ran over from room 2002, hiding a box behind her back.
"CEO, guess what’s inside?"
"Ta-da! Your favorite strawberry-flavored lollipop! It’s also my favorite!"
She opened the box, revealing a whole box of neatly arranged beautiful strawberry lollipops, as if a child were showing off their beloved toy. She took out two, handed him one, and said, "CEO, don’t look down on this because it’s cheap. This brand’s strawberry lollipop is the tastiest I’ve ever had, super sweet! Don’t believe me? Try it?"
When she mentioned ’sweet,’ her eyes curved, and the sweetness seemed to overflow from the corners of her mouth.
Bo Tingshen unwrapped one, placed it in his mouth, and crunched it. It didn’t seem that sweet, certainly not as sweet as he was.
Seeing him crunch it down, Ye Xian was a bit surprised. Who eats a lollipop like that?
"CEO, haven’t you eaten a lollipop before? You’re not supposed to eat it like you just did."
"Then how should it be eaten?"
Could he really never have had one?
"Let me demonstrate for you."
Ye Xian unwrapped one, brought it to her lips, lightly licked it with her delicate pink tongue, and then placed it in her mouth. Her speech was a bit muffled as she said, "Lollipops must be savored. You’ve got to suck on it with strength to really taste its sweetness!"
Whether it was her suggestive movements or the ambiguous words, Bo Tingshen watched her intently as she licked the lollipop, feeling an inexplicable heat coursing through him.