If Ye Yuning drank alcohol and didn’t eat a large orange afterward, she would inevitably wake up by midnight feeling as if her heart were being clawed out from the burning sensation!
However, tonight, before she even reached that point, she felt something cool and refreshing forcefully pushed into her mouth.
Even her body was restrained by an irresistible force, making it impossible for her to struggle.
She instinctively waved her hand, wanting a moment of peace, but the other person seemed unwilling to let her go.
Agitated by the disturbance, she forced her eyes open and saw it was Xiao Linye. Her struggling hands stilled somewhat.
But she still mumbled in dissatisfaction, "No, not good!"
"What’s not good, hm?"
Xiao Linye was furious.
Then, before Ye Yuning could react, he forcefully dragged her into the depths.
No matter how much she cried and begged for mercy, he did not let her go.
He didn’t allow her a moment’s respite until dawn.
On the other end of the phone was Xiao Shuo.
He sat in his bright office. The call had been disconnected for a long, long time, but he still hadn’t snapped back to reality.
He just stared blankly at the phone, his mind buzzing loudly!
He only snapped out of it when Yang Jing returned and slammed a takeout container heavily onto his desk.
Yang Jing looked unhappy.
She snapped harshly, "With an attitude like yours, are you trying to drag me into an early grave with you?"
This attitude clearly indicated that Xiao Shuo hadn’t finished his work again, forcing her to work overtime with him.
Recently, the supervision of Xiao Shuo’s workload had become particularly strict; his progress from the previous day was typically checked first thing the next morning.
And Xiao Shuo’s incompetence at work meant Yang Jing also suffered immensely.
Xiao Shuo’s breathing grew heavy.
At this moment, he couldn’t hear a word Yang Jing was saying; his mind was a complete blank!
Seeing he didn’t answer, Yang Jing grew even more dissatisfied. "Tell me, when do you plan to get off work tonight?"
"Running into you is like suffering bad luck for eight lifetimes!" Yang Jing fumed.
She was a single mother and was supposed to go home to her daughter that evening, but Xiao Shuo had now made her late.
Lately, she had very little time to spend with her daughter.
Xiao Shuo’s mind was already a mess because Xiao Linye had answered Ye Yuning’s call.
Now, listening to Yang Jing’s incessant nagging, he finally exploded.
He swept aside the takeout food Yang Jing had just brought back and roared, "Can you fucking shut up?"
Yang Jing was silenced instantly by his yell.
For a moment, she was stunned, but then she came to her senses and glared furiously at Xiao Shuo.
However, before she could speak, Xiao Shuo swept everything off his desk, clearly incandescent with rage.
Yang Jing retorted, "If you’ve got the guts, go vent your anger on your Seventh Uncle. What’s the point of acting tough here?"
It would have been better if she hadn’t mentioned Seventh Uncle; bringing him up made Xiao Shuo completely lose it.
He knew Ye Yuning and his Seventh Uncle had been close recently, but he hadn’t given it much thought.
He had only assumed that Ye Yuning was privately negotiating with Xiao Linye regarding the Nanjia Peak project, which was why Ye Tong had suffered a silent setback.
But just now, over the phone, he had detected the hostility in his Seventh Uncle’s voice towards him!
What did that mean? Could it be they were not only negotiating the project privately but also, also...! Also what?
Having frequented nightclubs for years, he was all too familiar with what went on between men and women.
That Ye Yuning, how could she be so shameless? That was his Seventh Uncle!
The thought made Xiao Shuo incredibly frustrated; he wished he could tear Ye Yuning limb from limb.
Seeing Xiao Shuo fall silent again, Yang Jing stood up angrily. "Lai Shuo will check the work tomorrow morning. If you haven’t finished, I’ll report it truthfully. You know very well what the consequences will be!"
With that, she grabbed her bag and left.
Xiao Shuo kicked his office chair, his whole body trembling with rage.
He ground out her name, wishing he could bite her to pieces.
Xiao Shuo didn’t dare to imagine it. If Ye Yuning really got together with Xiao Linye, he wondered if he’d be angry enough to kill her.
She was his fiancée first, after all. What did it mean for her to get entangled with his own Seventh Uncle? It would undoubtedly make him a laughingstock. How would his friends look at him then? Not only him, but the entire Xiao Family would become a joke because of him!
Ye Yuning was awakened by the chirping of birds. When she tried to move, her whole body ached.
If she hadn’t remembered everything clearly, she would have thought she’d been beaten up.
The pain at the top of her thighs, in particular, made her suck in a sharp breath.
A man’s deep voice drifted through the early morning air. Ye Yuning held her breath and looked over.
She saw Xiao Linye sitting in a wicker chair by the window of the wooden cabin.
He held a cigarette between his fingers, and the coldness in his brow made Ye Yuning flinch.
"You, you didn’t sleep?"
Somehow, looking at him, Ye Yuning felt as if he had sat there all night.
Xiao Linye asked icily, his question direct and to the point, "What exactly is the situation between you and Xiao Shuo?"