Wenzhou, who was driving, pricked up his ears, his mind racing: Yes, of course yes, Third Young Master, hurry up and say it! Your spring has finally arrived!
Qi Chenyan’s gaze uncontrollably fell on the girl’s rosy lips, his Adam’s apple bobbing impatiently.
Should he open his mouth and let her kiss him?
Qi Chenyan pursed his thin lips slightly. The word “yes” was already on the tip of his tongue, but when he finally spoke, it was three words uttered through gritted teeth: “Yes, my ass!”
The shimmering starlight in Shi Xing’s eyes instantly shattered. Her red lips pouted slightly, clearly unhappy.
Qi Chenyan took a deep breath, refusing to let himself be fooled by her.
Did she think she could act pitiful just because she was cute?
Pressing a long finger against Shi Xing’s forehead, he pushed her further away. His tone was exceptionally cold and harsh: “Who taught you these things? He Sheng? Shi Xingxing, is this all you’ve got? After spending over a decade with him, is this all you’ve learned?”
Shi Xing frowned: “I already told you I don’t know He Sheng. Why do you keep bringing him up? Who is he?”
Besides, everything she knew was taught by him.
He Sheng didn’t even like her.
Qi Chenyan’s patience was nearly worn thin. Frowning, he said coldly, “How long are you going to keep pretending?”
Shi Xing’s mood sank: “Everything I said is true. I only love you, I only want to love you. Why won’t you believe me?”
Why was Qi Chenyan so difficult to handle at this point?
She thought he would accept her as long as she confessed her feelings to him.
Could it be that he hadn’t fallen in love with her yet?
Qi Chenyan narrowed his cold eyes, staring at her for a few seconds: “You don’t know He Sheng?”
Shi Xing nodded: “Mm.”
Qi Chenyan curled his lips, his tone faintly mocking: “You only love me, you only want to love me?”
“Mm.”
Shi Xing nodded heavily again.
“Fine.”
Qi Chenyan sneered, as if thinking of something: “It’s not that I can’t believe you, but you have to prove it to me.”
“How do I prove it?”
Shi Xing blinked, her ears slightly warm, asking him in a sticky voice, “A Yan, do you think kissing isn’t enough? Do you want to go straight to bed?”
“!”
Holy shit!
Wenzhou nearly lost control of the steering wheel.
This young lady from the Shi Family was bold enough!
Could his pure-hearted Third Young Master handle this?
Sure enough, Qi Chenyan’s ears were even redder than Shi Xing’s. Fortunately, he managed to maintain his composure on the surface, gritting his teeth as he called her, “Shi Xingxing!”
Shi Xing looked at him obediently, her eyes innocent.
Suppressing the urge to throw her out of the car, Qi Chenyan pressed his cool fingertip against her forehead. “Get rid of all those dirty thoughts in your head!”
Shi Xing tilted to the side from his prodding, frowning as she covered her forehead, reluctantly muttering, “Oh.”
She didn’t know who it was that loved these “dirty things” the most!
Qi Chenyan took a deep breath and ordered Wenzhou in a low voice: “Back to Shiyu.”
Shiyu Hotel was owned by the Qi Family and was also the venue for today’s awards ceremony. After the ceremony, there would be a celebration banquet at the hotel.
The reason Qi Chenyan agreed to attend the awards ceremony today was because the Qi Family was the organizer.
Of course, the most important reason was that he knew Shi Xing would be there and wanted to keep an eye on her to make sure she wasn’t bullied.
As expected, no good deed goes unpunished. This foolish thing didn’t deserve his kindness!
Qi Chenyan gritted his teeth.
Wenzhou twitched his lips and turned the car around, heading back to Shiyu.
Shi Xing was puzzled: “Why are we going back?”
Qi Chenyan leaned back in his seat, closing his eyes and crossing his arms, returning to his leisurely posture. His tone, however, was cold and faintly mocking, carrying a hint of sarcastic amusement. “Of course, to let you properly prove just how much you love me.”Shi Xing frowned slightly.
She still remembered the last time, at the celebration banquet at the Shiyu Hotel, when she had been drugged.
When she woke up, she was in Qi Chenyan’s bed, curled up in his arms.
The high-end custom dress she had bought at a high price lay in tatters on the floor, tangled messily with his suit and trousers.
At that time, she was utterly distraught. The first thing she did upon regaining consciousness was slap him.
He, however, remained calm and composed, saying he would marry her. She only cried and told him to get out.
And that drugged drink had been handed to her personally by He Sheng.
Shi Xing lifted her gaze again, looking at Qi Chenyan in the dim light.
He leaned back against the car seat with his eyes closed, the sharp lines of his profile cool and detached. When he was quiet like this, he exuded an unapproachable distance.
Influenced by He Sheng in the past, she had always felt that Qi Chenyan was pretentious and difficult to get close to.
Later, she came to understand that it wasn’t that she didn’t want to get close to him—she was just afraid of getting close to him.
The so-called dislike was nothing more than lingering resentment and unwillingness.
When they returned to the Shiyu Hotel, the awards ceremony was still in progress. Those who couldn’t be bothered to watch the awards had gathered in the banquet hall where the celebration was being held, including many young masters and ladies from wealthy families in the capital.
Of course, they weren’t here to applaud the award-winning actors. They were here to join the fun and enjoy themselves.
After all, although there were a few young masters and ladies in the circle who dabbled in the entertainment industry, actors with no background were nothing more than playthings in their eyes.
But at the moment, the atmosphere in the banquet hall was off. Everyone was glancing intentionally or unintentionally toward He Sheng.
Everyone knew that Shi Xing had been He Sheng’s little shadow since childhood, chasing after him for over a decade. And He Sheng hated Qi Chenyan the most—after all, in the entire capital, only Qi Chenyan could overshadow He Sheng.
Because of He Sheng, Shi Xing had also regarded Qi Chenyan as an enemy since she was young.
But now, Shi Xing had kissed Qi Chenyan on the red carpet in front of the entire nation, then got into a car and ran off with him!
Although He Sheng and Shi Xing had already called off their engagement, and He Sheng had never liked Shi Xing, this situation was still bound to make him unhappy.
So, the second-generation heirs were keeping a low profile, afraid of making He Sheng even more displeased.
He Sheng was indeed very unhappy. He leaned back in a single-seater sofa, loosened his tie, unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt, and irritably scrolled through his phone.
He had watched the video of Shi Xing kissing Qi Chenyan on the trending searches several times, and the more he watched, the more he wanted to kill her.
After scrolling for a while, he tossed his phone onto the coffee table and said coldly to the person beside him, “Have someone take down these trending searches.”
The person beside him was his childhood friend, Su Rui, who was also browsing the trending searches.
Hearing him say to take them down, Su Rui was surprised. “Why take them down? You’re not feeling sorry seeing her get criticized, are you?”
He Sheng frowned. “What good does it do me to see her get criticized?”
Su Rui clicked his tongue. “It doesn’t do you any good, but it does Shi Yue good. The worse Shi Xing’s reputation gets, the better Shi Yue’s will be. Since you like Shi Yue, why bother with Shi Xing?”
Hearing this, He Sheng’s frown deepened, and he kicked out at Su Rui. “Are you fucking crazy?”
Su Rui was taken aback. He Sheng said expressionlessly, “When did I ever say I liked Shi Yue?”
“?”
Su Rui was stunned. “Wait, Brother Sheng, what do you mean? You’re not trying to say you like Shi Xing, are you?”
He Sheng didn’t speak.
But not speaking was the biggest problem of all.Su Rui cursed inwardly, lowering his voice, “Sheng-ge, you’ve been so close to Shi Yue these past few years, yet I’ve never seen you give Shi Xing a kind look. Ask any of the brothers around, who doesn’t think you like Shi Yue? Everyone already treats Shi Yue as our sister-in-law, okay? And now you’re saying you like Shi Xing?”
He couldn’t help but mutter, “What the hell is wrong with you?”
He Sheng shot him a cold glance. “You don’t know shit.”
He tilted his head slightly. “Shi Xing has a terrible temper. I’m doing this just to make her understand—she better not think that just because she’s the eldest daughter of the Shi family, she can throw tantrums in front of me!”
He Sheng pulled a cigarette from the pack. “She needs to know her place and learn how to please me.”
He put the cigarette between his lips, lit it, and took a slow drag, squinting his eyes. “The colder I am to her, the more she’ll cling to me like a lapdog. Besides, now that the Shi family has kicked her out, she has nowhere to go. In the end, she’ll have no choice but to come to me.”
“By then, will she still dare to argue with me, defy me, or act like a spoiled young lady in front of me? She’ll have to obey me obediently. If I tell her to go east, she won’t dare go west.”
“I’m just training her. What do you know?”
Su Rui listened to his words, his eyes nearly popping out of his head. “So, all these years, you’ve been nice to Shi Yue and cold to Shi Xing, just to train her and make her more obedient?”
What a fucking scumbag!
He swallowed hard. “But aren’t you going to propose to Shi Yue tomorrow?”
He Sheng bit down on his cigarette, his tone casual. “My wife will only be Shi Xing.”
Su Rui: “…”
He was speechless for a moment before finally reminding He Sheng, “But right now, it seems like she hasn’t come back to you. Instead, she went to Qi Chenyan, hasn’t she?”
Don’t let this backfire and end up training a wife for someone else.
He Sheng narrowed his eyes, his sneer deepening. “That just proves she hasn’t been trained well enough. She’s still not obedient enough. She probably heard I’m going to propose to Shi Yue tomorrow, so she hit Shi Yue and then went to Qi Chenyan, thinking that would provoke me?”
A mocking curve lifted the corner of his lips as He Sheng scoffed coldly. “She doesn’t even stop to think—does Qi Chenyan, knowing she’s mine, even give her a second glance? She’s just making a fool of herself.”
He tossed the cigarette butt aside and said nonchalantly, “It won’t be long before she comes crawling back to me, begging on her knees.”
And when that time comes, he’ll make sure to ruin those lips of hers that Qi Chenyan kissed!
Not a few seconds after he finished speaking, the heavy doors of the banquet hall slowly swung open. The people inside glanced over casually but paused when they saw the figure standing at the entrance.
A figure in a silver-gray suit strode in unhurriedly.
The man was tall and long-legged, one hand casually tucked into his trouser pocket, his posture relaxed and his expression indifferent.
Just standing there, his presence alone was enough to command attention. An innate air of nobility and aloofness radiated from him, making people instinctively fall silent and hold their breath.
Then, everyone noticed the girl following beside him.
Though not short herself, she only reached his shoulder, appearing somewhat petite next to him.
Dressed in a pink tulle gown, with delicate features, she looked as beautiful as a little princess from a fairy tale.
He Sheng abruptly straightened up, his gaze fixed intently on Shi Xing.
Qi Chenyan’s lips slowly curved into a smile.
Under He Sheng’s darkening glare, Qi Chenyan took the soft, small hand of the girl beside him. His slender fingers tightened slowly, enveloping her hand in his palm as he led her to an empty sofa and sat down.Whether intentional or not, they ended up directly facing He Sheng and his group, separated by over ten meters across the spacious banquet hall.
The hall fell silent for a moment. He Sheng clenched his teeth lightly and spoke coldly, “Shi Xing, come here!”
Qi Chenyan’s pale, thin lips curved slightly as he leaned back calmly against the sofa, his tone casual. “Want to go over?”
As he spoke, he still held her hand on his lap, unconsciously giving her fingers a light squeeze.
He was somewhat curious—the girl really was soft all over, even her hands were soft.
Shi Xing lowered her gaze, watching him squeeze her hand, and shook her head softly. “Who is that? I’m not going.”
Everyone heard her words, including He Sheng.
He Sheng’s face tightened, his jaw clenched tightly. “Shi Xing, I’ll give you one last chance—get over here!”
Qi Chenyan’s eyes narrowed slightly as he tilted his head, bringing his thin lips close to Shi Xing’s ear. “Shi Xingxing, didn’t you say you loved me and wanted to kiss me?”
His breath was scorching, burning Shi Xing’s ears red and making her heart race.
Then, she heard his low, amused murmur: “So, do you dare to kiss me right in front of He Sheng?”
(Shi Xingxing: Guess if I dare!)