The room slowly filled with a faint fragrance, which must have been from the bath gel and shampoo Xu Yingying used after her bath; this made Li Yifei's imagination run wild.
"Li Yifei, why did you talk nonsense so much today?" Xu Yingying's soft voice came from the bed.
Li Yifei immediately replied with pride, "I didn't want to, but when I saw your parents today, I felt that what you said wouldn't work, so I improvised a bit. At least you saw the results, didn't you? Your parents are very satisfied with me now. For such a performance, shouldn't you give me a bonus or something?"
"The performance wasn't bad, but fortunately my mother didn't have time to pull me aside for a chat. Otherwise, the two of us would have told different stories. Now hurry up and align our stories with me so that we don't get caught tomorrow."
"Didn't you hear everything I said? What's there to align?"
"You said that we had a few conflicts. What were those conflicts about? And since you're a security guard, how did you attract me? We need to get our stories straight, not just for my mom, but for my sister too. If these aren't clear, she'll see right through us."
"That's tough, I was just making it up on the spot."
"I'm amazed at you. Don't you know that one lie often needs a hundred more to cover it up?"
"Yingying, let's get this straight—this lie was started by you, wasn't it?"
Xu Yingying was left choking on Li Yifei's words, but she couldn't really blame him. At the very least, she was quite satisfied with his performance. As ideas of cliché romantic novel plots swirled in her head, she concocted a few minor tales and relayed them to Li Yifei.
Half an hour later, Li Yifei yawned and said weakly, "Yingying, I've got it all down. Can we go to sleep now?"
"No, there's a detail you haven't memorized. The devil is in the details, and you can't be careless about them."
"You really are a demanding president. Fine, fine, isn't it enough that I memorize them?" grumbled Li Yifei as he yawned again, now regretting his earlier chatter. Teaming up with such a meticulous president was simply looking for trouble.
Finally, after memorizing it all, Li Yifei fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow, not entertaining any provocative thoughts. Even knowing that a beautiful woman was lying in the bed next to him, all he wanted was to have a good night's sleep.
Li Yifei slept soundly, but Xu Yingying couldn't sleep at all. In her own home, she wasn't afraid that Li Yifei would dare to do anything to her. As a president, she had the confidence to manage her subordinates.
But having a man stay in her room was something she was extremely unaccustomed to. There seemed to be a different sort of smell in the room—it wasn't unpleasant, but it was too unfamiliar, too uncomfortable for her.
Listening to Li Yifei's even breathing at first didn't bother her much, but as the night grew quieter, his breathing filled her ears, seemingly growing louder and eventually thumping like a drum. It became a noisy disruption that made Xu Yingying toss and turn even more, struggling to fall asleep.
At the sound of a snore, Xu Yingying suddenly sat up in bed. Her thoughts were consumed by the sound of Li Yifei's breathing, and this sudden snore was akin to thunderclap next to her ear.
"You bastard, you even snore in your sleep," Xu Yingying muttered through clenched teeth, but Li Yifei's snoring went on, relentless.
"Wake up!" Unable to take it anymore, Xu Yingying bent over and gave Li Yifei a shove.
The snoring stopped and Li Yifei mumbled, "What now?"
"You snore, how can I sleep?"
"I snore? How come I don't know?"
Xu Yingying immediately became frustrated. Who would know if they snored while they were sleeping? Angrily she said, "You wait for me to fall asleep first, then you can sleep."
Li Yifei said somewhat helplessly, "You go to sleep first? Can you really be at ease?"
"This... then how can you not snore?"
"Seems like if I sleep on the bed, I don't snore."
"Then you'll just have to put up with it." Having said that, Li Yifei turned over and continued sleeping deeply, and soon the snoring sounds started up again.
Xu Yingying was truly infuriated. This guy clearly wasn't as obedient as he was in the office, even ignoring the president's orders, "Humph, just you wait, when we get back to the company, I'll show you."
Covering her head, stuffing the pillow towel into her ears, Xu Yingying didn't know how long she tossed and turned before finally falling asleep, utterly exhausted.
She didn't know how much time had passed when Li Yifei, deep in slumber, felt several nudges and heard a woman's voice by his ear, "Get up, hurry up, my parents are already up. Why are you still sleeping?"
"Let me sleep a little longer, I'm dead tired." At this moment, Li Yifei's mind was still foggy. He waved his hand dismissively, turned his head, and cuddled into the blankets to continue sleeping deeply. But, not having had enough sleep the night before, all he wanted to do now was sleep.
"You get up!" A hard blow struck his back. That definitely wasn't a slap from Xu Yingying, but a kick instead.
This really hurt, and Li Yifei's sleepiness was instantly chased away. Sitting up somewhat angrily, he glared at Xu Yingying and said, "President Xu, I am employed by you, but I'm just your boyfriend, getting hit is not included in my services."
Xu Yingying's eyes blazed with fury as she gritted her teeth and said, "Getting hit is indeed not part of the service range. This kick is your punishment for groping me indiscriminately."
"I groped you indiscriminately?" Li Yifei frowned, then suddenly thought of the random touch he'd made earlier. Glancing at Xu Yingying's outfit, he said resentfully, "It wasn't on purpose just now."
"Humph, if it was on purpose, I would have killed you." Xu Yingying snorted coldly, "It's already past seven o'clock. Everyone in the house is up, and we haven't gotten up yet. What does this look like?" She turned around, got out of bed, back facing him, and she was already dressed, not in her usual business suit, but in very casual home clothes.
Li Yifei could only get up and then put on the suit from yesterday again. It was the same suit that Xu Yingying had bought for him at the airport, besides which he had brought no other clothes.
After getting dressed and leaving the bedroom, Xu Yingying's mother happened to walk by, smiling warmly at the two of them, "Did you sleep well last night?"
Xu Yingying was somewhat embarrassed, while Li Yifei just chuckled, saying, "Auntie, good morning, I'm really sorry for oversleeping on the first day."
"Hehe, it's very normal for you young people to sleep in. Freshen up, we'll eat soon." After speaking, she glanced again at her daughter, who looked rather haggard, and inwardly she couldn't help but marvel at Li Yifei's stamina, having worn out her daughter over the course of the night.