Chapter 1: Her Name Is Chi Mo, Guan Yizhou's Girlfriend
“Kneel...!”
“21? Amazing!”
“Mm? You want to be my beast of burden? Then I...” “...really?”
“Oh? You don’t want to~~~~~?”
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4:26...
Yu Qiao was jolted awake by a phone ringing like it was demanding her life.
She cracked one eye open and checked the caller ID: “Maimai, what’s up? Do you need me to re-record?”
“Re-record what? Just submit the damn audio first! You promised you’d stay up all night if you had to and get it recorded for me tonight. Where is it?”
“I sent it to you!”
Yu Qiao was still half-asleep in a daze, but she remembered this much: “Sent it at two o’clock sharp. I remember clearly. Didn’t you get it?”
“Are you sure you sent it? I’ve been waiting until now. The post-production guy kept rushing me so badly I had no choice but to call you...”
“Huh?”
Yu Qiao lost all desire to sleep. She scrambled out of bed to check her sent folder: “How is that possible? I really did send it... ah...”
“What’s wrong? Are you trying to scare me to death?”
“...”
“Hey... say something~~~”
On the other end of the line, Maimai’s voice was trembling: “Don’t tell me your finished raw audio is gone? If you dare say that, I’ll die right here in front of you. Hanging myself, with my tongue sticking way out, that kind of death...”
Yu Qiao snapped back to reality, her voice shaking too: “N... no. What do I do? I... I think I sent the audio to the wrong person.”
Maimai let out a huge sigh of relief: “Thank god, thank god. As long as the audio still exists, hurry up and send it over. Don’t mess up our post-production...”
“What do you mean thank god! I accidentally sent it to my boss! That was a sex scene~~ And I was the one taking the initiative, moving on top, and... there were all those tongue-twisting lines! I spent an hour last night hiding in the bathroom pinching my throat and moaning... W-will he want to kill me after listening to it?”
Maimai: “...” Wanting to kill her was a given. How he wanted to kill her was another story.
But Maimai didn’t dare say that out loud.
Just...
“How about you send the audio to me first?”
Maimai loved watching drama unfold. She went from furious to holding back laughter: “After all, if he really fires you, then you won’t be a part-time VA anymore, you’ll be a full-time VA, right?”
“You’re heartless! You’re cruel! You have no humanity!”
Maimai roared like a lioness: “Shut up! Send the audio over, immediately, right now, this instant...”
“Wuwuwu...”
After resending the recorded audio to Maimai, the other side grabbed the file and vanished.
She only perfunctorily sent a yellow emoji sticker.
Yu Qiao wasn’t in the mood to argue with her. She clutched her phone, looking like she’d lost her soul, completely out of it, her mind scattered in six directions...
Was she going to get fired?
She had just officially become a full-time employee yesterday!!!
Or maybe?
She should go kowtow to him? Beg him to ignore the colossal mistake she’d made by accident?
Running away wouldn’t work...
6:45.
Yu Qiao, dressed appropriately, carefully knocked on the door of Sheng Yuan’s suite: “President Sheng...”
The moment she opened her mouth, she got scared into a violent jump...
The tall man leaned against the doorframe with one hand, his entire body wrapped in a layer of cold ice that refused to melt.
He didn’t speak, just stared at her gloomily.
Morning light spilled through the floor-to-ceiling window behind him, falling across his face. That usually soul-stealing face now had heavy dark circles under the eyes.
His hair was messy, his expression sullen, and his whole body radiated an exhaustion and hostility that wouldn’t dissipate.
Yet his bone structure was exceptionally good. His pale, lean jawline was sharp and clean, his eyelashes thick and long. Even with bloodshot eyes and fatigue covering him, it didn’t hide his outstanding looks at all—instead, it highlighted a broken, bewitching kind of handsomeness.
Like a male ghost who had endured the entire long night, gloomy and unapproachable, so cold it made people claw at their hearts.
“Why are you here?”
What kind of question was that...
Yu Qiao hugged the tablet in her arms tighter. On it was Sheng Yuan’s entire schedule for today:
09:00–09:20 Handle online work in the hotel room.
09:30–10:40 Head to partner company headquarters for negotiations.
10:50–11:30 On-site tour of their production base.
11:40–13:30 Business lunch.
13:40–14:20 Return to hotel for a short break.
The afternoon schedule had another long list...
Notes: Vehicles on standby all day, check road conditions in advance to avoid congestion;
Phone reminder 5 minutes before each meeting, separate memos for important milestones;
If the schedule needs changing or meetings canceled, I will immediately coordinate with the other party, etc...
Since it was a business trip, the schedule was packed tight.
It barely wrapped up by ten at night. Actually, yesterday’s schedule was even tighter than this, busy until almost midnight, which was why she could only rush the recording for them in the early morning.
And then, because she was too tired and sleepy, her hand slipped and she sent the recorded audio to Sheng Yuan...
Just thinking about it made Yu Qiao want to die on the spot!
[Ah... why didn’t I double-check last night, just confirm it? Normally after sending audio I always ask if it’s okay? If it’s OK? Why not last night?
Because I was tired!
But save me! I can’t even imagine how he sees me after listening to that segment of me going mm, ah, yi, wu, eh, uh.
Am I selling myself? Offering my pillow? Climbing into bed to get ahead?
But I’m not, ahhhhhhhh~~~~!]
Right now, it was pure regret!!!
She held back the urge to kneel down immediately. Begging him to fire her was fine, but he absolutely, definitely, under no circumstances could tell her older brother. If he did, she really wouldn’t survive!!!
Her small face was red enough to drip blood. She stammered: “President... President Sheng...”
“Straighten your tongue before you speak!”
The man’s voice was very cold, but extremely pleasant to hear!
An icy texture, like cold jade. As a voice actor, Yu Qiao was very sensitive to people’s voices.
She thought right then, that was a textbook male lead voice. If he went to record Tomato Audiobooks with her, wouldn’t listeners’ legs turn to jelly?
Ah... she zoned out!
She was guilty!!!!
“I’m sorry!”
A ninety-degree deep bow!
Yu Qiao: “Um... could you please pretend you never heard it? And then... delete it, is that okay?”
Sheng Yuan frowned slightly: “What?”
Hm?
Why was he reacting like that?
Could it be...
She snapped her head up, cautious but with hope in her eyes: “The thing I... my hand slipped and sent to you last night... did you listen to it?”
“What thing?”
Sheng Yuan looked confused, as if he had no idea: “I’ll listen now...”
Yu Qiao panicked: “Don’t listen... ah!”
Too rushed!
Her left foot tripped over her right, a stupid fall on flat ground.
Yu Qiao screamed as she completely lost her balance.
Her body was entirely out of control. She instinctively reached out, grabbing wildly for any support...
But it was useless. She still crashed heavily into his chest.
Sheng Yuan reacted fast. His arm wrapped around her slender waist, quickly stabilizing them both, but the force of her fall was strong, and her flailing hands tore his pajamas wide open.
And the two of them stumbled and crashed together against the wardrobe in the entryway...
Add in the height difference, and her delicate nose smashed perfectly into his exposed, muscular chest.
Yu Qiao was suffocating!
She jerked her head up in panic, and her lips brushed harshly across his full pectoral muscle...
In that moment, she felt like she saw her great-grandmother waving at her: [Ah... just let me die! Nobody stop me!
It doesn’t even need to be a dignified death, just dying is fine...
Ying ying ying~~~!]