Xia Zheng curled his lips into a smile, "Alright, alright, you’re the boss, so what you say goes. But burying things in the ground is too tiring, and I wouldn’t want to soil my lady’s delicate hands. Let me do the labor."
As he spoke, he took her little fist, placed it close to his lips, and gently bit it, his tongue teasingly flicking against her skin, tickling Lin Yuan’s hand and eliciting a giggling laughter from her.
The two of them frolicked all the way back to the Fuman Building. As soon as Lin Yuan walked through the door, she asked Shopkeeper Liu about Jeng Ruyue’s condition. It was the first thing she always inquired about upon returning each day.
The second thing was where Xiao Linshuang was.
Shopkeeper Liu was still feeling a bit stuffy from Yaner’s earlier impertinence. Upon seeing their return, he mentioned that Jeng Ruyue had gone out shopping and scratched his head with a frown, "The Boss took Miss Xiaolin out too, but he didn’t say where to."
Lin Yuan knew that Lao Fan found it hard to sit still within the restaurant, and Xiao Linshuang was one to get restless easily. She had behaved quietly for the first few days, but now that Lin Yuan was not around, she had slipped out.
"Not even a word about it, it really makes one worry," Lin Yuan murmured.
Xia Zheng wasn’t worried at all; in fact, it was better that Lao Fan was absent, sparing Lin Yuan from being pestered by him to cook delicious food, which deprived the couple of any chance to be alone together.
But today was different; with Lao Fan gone and the little wolf cub out too, they could finally do whatever they pleased. Xia Zheng led Lin Yuan upstairs, his fingers playfully scratching the palm of her hand, causing her heart to itch and her cheeks to blush.
Seeing the couple’s sweet antics, Shopkeeper Liu’s mood lightened considerably. Just as he was about to return to his accounts, he suddenly remembered that Miss Su was in the elegant room on the second floor—they hadn’t had the chance to inform the Young Master yet!
Hand in hand, Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng were about to push the door into Xia Zheng’s private room when suddenly, from behind them, a feeble voice that seemed boneless made Lin Yuan shiver—not because the voice was alluring, but because she simply couldn’t accept that form of address.
Even from the private room, Su Qiuyu’s ears and eyes were always alert to the downstairs activity. As soon as Xia Zheng and Lin Yuan had entered Fuman Building hand in hand, Su Qiuyu had seen them.
Especially Lin Yuan—watching through the crack of the door as the two held hands tightly made Su Qiuyu wish she could chop off Lin Yuan’s hand with a knife! Besides being slightly more delicate in appearance, what did this girl have that could compare to her, Su Qiuyu? And yet, Xia Zheng watched her so intently, smiling so brightly.
Knowing that she had known Xia Zheng for many years, he had never smiled at her in such a way, let alone held hands!
Filled with anger and jealousy, Su Qiuyu didn’t rush out to meet Xia Zheng right away. Instead, she had angrily smashed the teacup on the table in her room and waited until her emotions had slightly calmed before she walked out weakly and tenderly, intending to give Xia Zheng a big surprise.
However, what in her eyes was a surprise was quite the shock for Xia Zheng—a huge shock!
Lin Yuan only had to glance at Su Qiuyu to recognize the traits of this girl from her watery eyes and frail figure.
A white lotus, a true white lotus, and an extremely, extremely white one at that!
"Qiu Yu, how come you’re here?" Xia Zheng was somewhat startled, and not until he noticed that the room she came from had no one else did he breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed she had come alone, which was fortunate.
No wonder that guy had disappeared since early morning and wasn’t even troubling Lin Yuan anymore; he must have known Su Qiuyu was here and escaped in advance!