At 8:00 a.m. on Monday morning, Chi Ruanli struggled her way out of bed. Today, she had to go to work.
She had pestered Sheng Yanqing for ages the night before before he finally agreed.
She did not want to become a parasitic vine clinging to someone else for support!
After washing up, she pushed open the door and headed downstairs. Immediately, she heard a series of loud clanging noises coming from the kitchen. Uncle Zhao stood nervously at the entrance, craning his neck to peek inside.
The moment he saw her coming downstairs, he hurried over.
“Miss Ruan, please go persuade Second Young Master. A man who has never lifted a finger in the kitchen—how could he possibly know how to cook? I’m afraid he’ll blow up the entire kitchen.”
Chi Ruanli could not help laughing.
Then she gently said to Uncle Zhao, “You can just call me Ruanruan.”
“Please don’t say that,” Uncle Zhao replied in alarm.
The woman was carrying three babies in her womb. Her precious status went without saying. How could he dare call her by her name directly? If possible, he would much rather call her Young Madam.
Unfortunately…
Second Young Master was not living up to expectations!
Looking at Sheng Yanqing’s back, Uncle Zhao beat his chest in frustration.
With a sweet smile and a nod to Uncle Zhao, Chi Ruanli walked into the kitchen.
The trash can was filled with burnt fried eggs. The tomatoes on the cutting board had been chopped into pieces that were neither slices nor chunks. Seeing Sheng Yanqing pick up another egg and prepare to crack it into the pan, she quickly hurried over and pulled him out of the kitchen.
Sheng Yanqing sat upright on the sofa, his face dark with frustration. Somehow, a black smudge had gotten onto his handsome face.
Chi Ruanli sat beside him, carefully wiping it away with a wet tissue.
Once she had cleaned it off, the little woman suddenly leaned forward and planted a loud kiss on his face, leaving behind a bright red lipstick mark.
After staring at it for a moment, she burst into giggles and grabbed another wet tissue, patiently cleaning his face again.
When she had finished, she wrapped her arms around his neck and coaxed him softly.
“Brother, you don’t need to know how to cook. You’re already perfect just the way you are, and I like you very much.”
“Mmm…”
Before Chi Ruanli could finish speaking, Sheng Yanqing had already captured her lips in a kiss.
How was this little mouth so sweet?
Everything she said was exactly what he loved to hear.
The two of them kissed for a very long time.
So long that they were about to be late for work.
Only then did the little woman blush and push him away.
Her eyes shimmered as she glared at him.
You’ve ruined my lipstick.
Sheng Yanqing was not annoyed in the slightest. Instead, he insisted on personally reapplying her lipstick.
The two of them fooled around for quite some time.
In the end, they were indeed late for work.
They entered the company one after the other.
Sheng Yanqing had originally planned to hold her hand and walk into the elevator together, taking the opportunity to make their relationship public.
However, the little woman absolutely refused.
There were already plenty of rumors about her around the company. She did not want to become an even hotter topic of discussion.
At least not for the time being.
“Secretary Chi, bring me a cup of coffee.”
“Secretary Chi, print this document.”
…
“Secretary Chi, bring yourself in here.”
Throughout the entire morning, Sheng Yanqing kept summoning Chi Ruanli into his office under all sorts of excuses.
Just like a fish could not live without water, he now could not live without Secretary Chi.
“Baby, let’s put another desk in my office. You can work in here with me, okay?”
Sheng Yanqing hugged Chi Ruanli and coaxed her endlessly.
“That way, you won’t have to keep running back and forth and making your legs sore.”
President Sheng’s hands were not idle either. He was diligently massaging his darling wife’s calves.
“Hmph. If you called me in less often, my legs wouldn’t hurt.”
Secretary Chi rolled her eyes, clearly unimpressed by his tactics.
Hearing that, President Sheng’s handsome face immediately fell.
Yet he did not dare talk back.
A textbook wife slave.
Chi Ruanli belonged to the type who gave a slap and then handed over a sweet date afterward.
Seeing the man lower his head and remain silent, she cupped his handsome face in both hands and first kissed his thin lips.
Then she said,
“Mr. Sheng, if a secretary and the president work in the same office, who knows how many rumors that will create?
“And we’ve only just started dating. We need a little sense of distance. If we’re glued together all the time, I’m afraid you’ll get tired of me.”
“I won’t.”
Sheng Yanqing immediately refuted her.
A moment later, he narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
“Don’t tell me you’re the one who’ll get tired first.”
“Of course… I won’t either.”
Chi Ruanli’s eyes darted around mischievously. Her doe-like eyes curved into crescents as she wrapped her arms around his neck and swayed gently.
Her voice turned soft and sweet.
“Ah, I’m hungry. You kept fooling around this morning, so I barely ate anything.”
Hearing that, Sheng Yanqing gently touched her flat abdomen.
It was completely flat.
If he had not personally seen the ultrasound photos, no one would have believed the little woman in front of him was pregnant.
After a moment of thought, he turned and sent a message.
Not long afterward, all kinds of nutritious meals were delivered and arranged across the small tea table.
Chi Ruanli could not help laughing.
She only had one stomach.
Was this man trying to raise her like a little pig?
“Brother, there’s no way I can finish all this.”
The little woman spoke coquettishly, her voice soft and sweet.
Whenever Secretary Chi acted spoiled, President Sheng completely folded.
How could he possibly withstand that?
Immediately, he held the back of her head and prepared to kiss her.
Just as their lips were about to touch, the office door was suddenly pushed open.
“Old Sheng, you’ve finally decided to come back.”
Jing Xun spoke in his usual carefree manner.
But when he clearly saw the scene inside the office—
“Holy shit!”
Exactly as expected.
Chi Ruanli was so embarrassed that she immediately struggled to climb off Sheng Yanqing’s lap.
Unfortunately, Sheng Yanqing held her firmly with both arms and refused to let go.
Left with no choice, the little woman buried her head in his chest and pretended to be an ostrich.
Unlike a certain someone, she was not thick-skinned!
“Heh.”
Jing Xun snorted and casually sat down on the sofa opposite them.
Sheng Yanqing clicked his tongue and shot him a displeased look.
What are you doing?
Don’t you have any sense of timing at all?
Jing Xun pretended not to understand. Picking up a pair of chopsticks, he began eating without the slightest bit of courtesy while calling out,
“Come on, eat with me. The dishes are pretty good today!
“Old Sheng, you have no idea. While you were gone these past few days, I was worked to the bone. Up early, home late…”
Jing Xun spoke as if he had suffered tremendously, looking as though he might start wiping away tears at any moment.
In just a few short days, someone had stolen his girl right from under his nose.
The other day, he had finally managed to get off work early and planned to take his little woman out on a date. Who would have thought Yang Yang would say she had something to do? Then, not long afterward, he had caught her chatting and laughing with some pretty-boy in a restaurant.
The two of them were currently in the middle of a cold war.
“What about that little girlfriend of yours?”
Sheng Yanqing deliberately poked at his sore spot.
Jing Xun shot him a glance but said nothing.
Turning his grief and indignation into appetite, he ate even faster.
Seeing that the sweet-and-sour fish Chi Ruanli loved was about to be completely wiped out by Jing Xun, she hurriedly gave Sheng Yanqing a meaningful look.
Understanding immediately, Sheng Yanqing unceremoniously moved the entire dish over to their side.
Jing Xun’s chopsticks froze halfway through the air.
Tsk.
He put down his chopsticks and stopped eating altogether.
He was already about eighty percent full anyway.
Straightening up, he leaned back against the sofa and looked at the couple across from him with amusement in his eyes.
Sheng Yanqing did not spare him a single glance.
He focused entirely on removing the fish bones for the little woman before personally feeding the fish into her mouth.
Afterward, he even stole a kiss from her cheek.
Tsk!
Jing Xun’s brows knitted tightly together at the sight.
Not wanting to continue making a fool of himself, he stood up and left.
Back in his own office, Jing Xun had barely sat down and turned on his computer when several large words suddenly appeared on the screen:
“Jing Xun Is a Big Jerk.”
He laughed in exasperation.
Without even thinking, he knew exactly who had done it.
He stood up and was just about to go catch a certain little troublemaker when he noticed the door to the lounge directly opposite him opening.
Quietly walking over, he found exactly what he had expected.
On the bed was a bulging little mound beneath the blanket, looking just like a tiny Mongolian yurt…
Meanwhile, in the president’s office—
Having eaten her fill, Chi Ruanli was curled up in Sheng Yanqing’s arms, drowsy and on the verge of sleep.
Every now and then, she smacked her lips unconsciously.
The sight made the man’s heart soften with affection.
He lovingly kissed her hair and asked softly,
“Want to sleep on the bed?”
The little woman nodded groggily.
The corners of Sheng Yanqing’s lips lifted into a smile.
Then he bent down, scooped her up in a princess carry, and strode toward the lounge.