Chapter 3: Preposterous
Thinking back to last night…
Sheng Yuan’s face flushed red. Suddenly, he couldn’t bring himself to look the girl in front of him in the eye.
He’d never been that crazy before!!!
Everyone around him said he was frigid in bed, and he’d always thought so too.
But it turned out…
Abruptly, an utterly absurd thought shot up in his mind. He wanted to hear her call out to him, using that voice from last night: don’t call me Brother, call my name!
The moment the thought surfaced, the man’s entire face changed color.
Was he a beast?
How could he harbor such shameless, filthy thoughts about Yu Qiao?
She was his childhood buddy’s little sister, a girl he’d watched grow up since she was small.
That was blasphemy…
But so what?
She was grown now, not a little girl anymore. She could even make those sounds that made him ( ), couldn’t she?
No, no no, still no!!!
Even if he only reacted to her voice…
Still no, absolutely, definitely no!!!
Afraid this dark coveting would scare her, he could only force his crimson ear tips to stay still and say in a strictly business tone, “Report today’s schedule.”
Yu Qiao had typed out the schedule word by word herself and knew it by heart. She rattled it off quickly, “There’s a video conference at nine sharp, estimated twenty minutes to half an hour, then…”
She’d only reached the fifth item when Sheng Yuan’s breathing suddenly turned ragged!
It’s over!
He actually couldn’t listen to this girl’s voice right now. The second he heard it, he’d…
He shot up from his seat, turned, and walked straight toward the bathroom, saying without looking back, “Order breakfast first!”
“Hey, but… I haven’t finished reporting yet?”
Yu Qiao was completely baffled.
But the guy was the big boss now, couldn’t he be a little willful?
Yu Qiao called room service. Less than five minutes later, a waiter pushed the food cart up.
Taking the cart, she told the waiter not to wait around, just come collect it in an hour.
The waiter tactfully left.
Yu Qiao briskly started setting out breakfast. Ten minutes, twenty minutes…
A full half hour plus, and Sheng Yuan still hadn’t come out of the bathroom.
A grown man, how could he shower for this long?
Was he doing embroidery in there?
Breakfast had already gone stone cold!
Unable to hold back, she carefully walked toward the bathroom. Just as she raised her hand to knock, click—the bathroom door suddenly swung open from the inside.
“Ah~~”
Yu Qiao got a huge fright, letting out a soft gasp and covering her mouth!
But just that warped little ‘ah~~’ made Sheng Yuan’s freshly cooled body flare hot again.
Then, disbelieving, caught completely off guard, dumbfounded, he glanced down…
Bro, can you not cause trouble right now?
Jaw clenching tighter, all he could manage was, “Wait a bit longer!”
Bang. Door shut.
Immediately after, the sound of rushing water came from inside again…
Yu Qiao, inexplicably shut out at the door, still had her hand raised in a knocking posture, but her forehead was already covered in black lines!!!
Just like that, another half hour passed. It was almost eight-thirty.
Knock knock knock!
“President Sheng, we’re running out of time, how much… longer are you going to wash?”
“Done!”
An icy, freezing voice, carrying thick ( ) dissatisfaction!!
Yu Qiao heard it and instantly regretted coming to knock.
Biting her lower lip, she thought: 【But what am I supposed to do! The video conference is at nine, we can’t exactly eat breakfast while holding it! Even though he’s the boss and no one could stop him if he insisted, but…】
Right then…
The bathroom door opened once more.
Cold white light spilled out from within, and the man’s tall, slender figure finally appeared in the doorway.
Thankfully, he was dressed.
But his white shirt wasn’t buttoned all the way up, leaving two or three undone at the top. A dark tie hung casually over his collar, both ends draping naturally over his bulging chest.
Yu Qiao didn’t think much of it and reached out to tie it for him.
The reason she was so practiced was because she was his secretary. During these three months of probation, she’d done this exact thing for him countless times…
But today, the moment her soft fingertips brushed the shirt on his chest, he abruptly grabbed her wrist.
“What are you doing?”
Yu Qiao: “Helping you, tie your tie!”
Her eyes were confused, carrying a hint of flustered panic!
Only then did Sheng Yuan realize his reaction had been too extreme, and he’d scared her after all.
“No need, I’ll do it myself…”
Saying that, he shook off her hand.
Walked toward the sofa without looking back…
Yu Qiao stared at the hand he’d fiercely (not really) shaken off. For some reason, her heart felt sour…
Breakfast was set for two.
Sheng Yuan picked noodles with side dishes; Yu Qiao was having soup dumplings.
Sensing his bad mood today, Yu Qiao didn’t dare make a sound while eating. She picked up a dumpling and ate it cautiously, only daring to take tiny bites.
But soup dumplings were soup dumplings—no matter how gently you bit, the juice would spill out.
She lightly sucked a sip, and some broth slid down the corner of her mouth. Instinctively, she stuck out her tongue and quickly slurped it back.
Accidentally, she still made a little noise…
The man across from her instantly went rigid again.
When he looked up again, his dark gaze turned sticky in a second, falling like a male ghost onto that tiny trace of broth lingering at the corner of her lips.
Thinking of that pink little tongue darting out just now.
The blood surging through the man’s body once again defied his will, desperately rushing toward a certain fatal spot…
He was going crazy!
If this kept up, forget work, something major was going to happen.
Taking a deep breath, Sheng Yuan finally made a difficult decision: “Little… Secretary Yu, you don’t need to follow me today.”
“Huh? Wh… why? Did I do something wrong?” Why suddenly switch to calling her Secretary Yu? When no one else was around, didn’t he always call her Little Qiao?
But the moment the question left her mouth, Yu Qiao realized where the problem lay.
Fine!
Facing a version of herself that had made such a low-level mistake, he was probably worried that bringing her along wouldn’t help and might even mess things up.
So, to avoid ruining his business, he simply decided not to bring her.
It… it wasn’t entirely his fault.
She was the one who acted stupid first.
But he’d only brought one secretary on this business trip—her. If she didn’t follow him, what was he going to do?
Run around by himself the whole time?
“But President Sheng…”
He waved his hand!
Yu Qiao knew that gesture well. Back in the day, every time he didn’t want to listen to her Eldest Brother’s nonsense, he’d wave his hand exactly like that.
She suddenly lost her appetite, and even felt a little let down…
Maybe it was because they’d known each other since childhood!
Even if they were boss and subordinate now and keeping it professional was fine, just because she made one tiny stupid mistake, he had to act like this? Wasn’t that a bit too heartless?
He’d clearly promised when they were kids that he’d dote on her just like her Eldest Brother did…
Tch! Men!