7 – Deliberate Provocation
Dressed so beautifully, she must be planning to climb into his bed tonight, sleep with him, get pregnant with his child, become his wife, and exploit him for the rest of her life!
Chi Mi, oh Chi Mi!
I’m not a man you can get so easily!
You’ll have to put in some effort to chase me!
If Chi Mi really insists on offering herself to him, should he accept or refuse?
Or should he pretend to refuse, play hard to get, and then give in?
Chi Mi had no idea about the chaotic thoughts swirling in Ye Zhuohuai’s mind. “Young Master Ye doesn’t lack women offering themselves to you.”
What did she mean by that?
Just because he doesn’t lack them, she won’t offer herself?
Is she the same as other women?
She deliberately provoked him, yet she’s only willing to give a few words!
She’s just dressed a bit more beautifully than when he caught a glimpse of her at the bar last time.
Ye Zhuohuai held his wine glass. “I don’t lack pursuers, and Miss Chi doesn’t lack people willing to lend a hand when you’re in trouble. With your beauty, even without your ex-boyfriend, you have a bunch of admirers, a whole pond of fish!”
Chi Mi felt more wronged than Dou E!
When she was abroad, she was busy with her studies. Even with her official boyfriend, Yang Siquan, she only contacted him occasionally and often didn’t reply to his messages.
There were many admirers, but she rejected them all.
When did she have time to keep a “pond of fish”?
This Ye Zhuohuai really knows how to imagine things, no wonder he’s so narcissistic!
“Young Master Ye is right, I’ll go find someone else to have fun with.” This time, Chi Mi didn’t hesitate and walked away directly.
Ye Zhuohuai stared at her retreating figure, angrily downing glass after glass of wine!
This woman, this woman!
So infuriating!
What is he to her?
The fattest fish in her pond?
If she can’t get him, she goes to play with other little fish!
Are other fish as handsome as him?
As rich as him?
As… smitten with her at first sight as him?
Ye Zhuohuai felt a knot in his chest. Chi Mi, you wicked woman!
Ahhhh!
Xing Chun watched her friend return safely. “Didn’t you see Ye Zhuohuai?”
“I did.”
“And then? Chi Mi, even a beauty of your level got snubbed by Ye Zhuohuai. He’s too despicable! Let’s not bother with him anymore. The hole in the Chi family’s finances isn’t so big that we must hook up with Ye Zhuohuai to fill it…” Xing Chun’s face was full of pity, even suspecting that Ye Zhuohuai might be blind.
He is very handsome, devastatingly so.
Chi Mi is also stunningly beautiful, enough to make heaven jealous!
Xing Chun dreamed of having Chi Mi’s face, Chi Mi’s hair volume, Chi Mi’s figure, Chi Mi’s milky-white skin, and Chi Mi’s intelligent mind.
“I think Ye Zhuohuai might have some interest in me, so I’m keeping him waiting.” Chi Mi fastened her seatbelt. “I haven’t eaten anything. Let’s go somewhere else to eat.”
“Ye Zhuohuai has an interest in you???”
“He knows a lot about me. He knows who I am, that my family is almost bankrupt, and that I have an ex-boyfriend. He must have investigated me secretly.” When Chi Mi was studying medicine abroad, she took psychology as an elective.
With someone like Ye Zhuohuai, you can’t indulge him!
You have to keep him waiting!
“Mi Mi, is there a possibility that… your boyfriend, no, your ex-boyfriend has been spreading rumors all over An City? He says you’re fickle, that you played around a lot abroad, had many casual partners, and that’s why he dumped you… all sorts of slander against your reputation. I just found out about it…” Xing Chun’s expression was timid. “But someone as influential as Ye Zhuohuai must have known about it before we did.””That little bastard Yang Siquan! Deliberately slandering my reputation so I can’t get married!” Chi Mi stared at the scenery speeding past.
You really drive fast!
And this place doesn’t allow U-turns, so she couldn’t go back to find Ye Zhuohuai.
“I must have been blind! How could I have ever liked that dog Yang Siquan before!”
“Men, they all know how to put on an act. Besides, you only saw each other two or three times a year. Putting on a show would’ve been easy for him.” Xing Chun wasn’t surprised at all. “Poor Mimi.”
“If it really comes to it, we might just have to send little An to be a live-in son-in-law. You know more people—anyone who likes my brother’s type? Someone who doesn’t want to marry out but still needs to get married? My brother might not be the brightest, but he’s definitely handsome!” The more Chi Mi thought about it, the angrier she got. Maybe she should just give Yang Siquan a full dose of anesthesia and be done with it.
He was the one fooling around outside, yet he had the nerve to say she was the wild one.
No wonder Ye Zhuohuai misunderstood, thinking she had a bunch of admirers and was playing the field!
“As your good friend, please don’t drag me into this. You just told me your idiot brother is about to go bankrupt and was crying in a bar over some other woman who rejected him.” Xing Chun focused on driving, a faint smile curling at the corner of her mouth.
Actually, she had someone she liked.
It was probably a secret crush.
But that man…
“Done.”
“You’ve won over Ye Zhuohuai?” Xing Chun’s thoughts were interrupted.
“If Ye Zhuohuai were that easy to win over, he’d probably have a harem of three thousand by now.” Chi Mi posted the video she took that day of Yang Siquan openly kissing another woman in public on her social media.
Even though she had been abroad for ten years, with her parents and Chi An around, the video would spread quickly. Soon, everyone in An City would know that Yang Siquan was the one who cheated publicly!
He was the one who got dumped.
Not her, Chi Mi, being promiscuous!
After dinner, Xing Chun dropped Chi Mi off at her apartment building before leaving.
Chi Mi stepped out of the elevator. The corridor in the quiet apartment building felt cold and empty. The motion-sensor light stayed on because of her footsteps.
A dark figure was crouched in front of her door, hugging its knees. It looked up pitifully, eyes red and wet, with a faint smell of alcohol wafting from it.
Chi Mi narrowed her eyes slightly, entered her fingerprint, and with a beep, the door opened.
Chi An followed her inside, changing into slippers at the entrance. “Sis, what were you doing out dressed like that?”
“On a date.”
“With who!”
“Your future brother-in-law.”
“Who!” Chi An insisted on getting a name.
Chi Mi opened the fridge to make him some honey water.
Just like when they were kids, Chi An followed her like a little tail, sticking close wherever she went.
Adorably so.
“I don’t know yet.” Chi Mi handed him the honey water. “After all, my reputation isn’t so great right now…”
Chi An held the honey water and started crying. “Sis, you’re not the morally corrupt woman they say you are. You’re so good. It’s all my fault. I’ve dragged you down…”
Chi Mi patted his arm. “Stop crying. What’s the use of crying now? Drink up.”
When Chi Mi bought this apartment, she never planned for anyone else to live here.
She decorated it entirely according to her own tastes.
The three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment had one bedroom, one study, and one music room. She liked playing the piano to relax.
If Chi An wanted to stay, he’d have to sleep on the sofa.
“Sis, sis…””Stop crying!” Chi Mi couldn’t stand hearing a grown man sobbing. “Your sister is living a good life abroad, no messy private life to worry about, so don’t worry about me.”
Little An is crying so miserably… who exactly is the woman who abandoned him?
How could she bear to see him like this?
Didn’t she feel any pity at all?
So pitiful.
Poor thing, not only abandoned by a woman but also left wandering the streets.
If they really go bankrupt, all four of them in the family will have to move in together.
Then her personal space will be completely gone!
Chi Mi couldn’t imagine it, no, no, no!
She must try even harder tomorrow.
Judging from Ye Zhuohuai’s performance tonight, she should have a chance.
Oh no!
She left in such a hurry that she didn’t even get his contact information.
Will she have another chance to see Ye Zhuohuai tomorrow?
“Sis, did you hear what I just said?” Chi An obediently finished his honey water and saw her spacing out.
“What did you say?”