“Women around CEO Su’s age really do get pressured into marriage easily,” Xu Le said as he found a seat and sat down. Maybe tonight he could farm some rewards again.
“But I don’t like finding men, and I don’t like men being around me either,” Su Qingcheng said calmly.
Huh?
Xu Le raised an eyebrow. Wasn’t he a man too?
“You’re an exception,” Su Qingcheng said while looking at Xu Le. Seeing that he did not react too strongly, the corners of her red lips curved slightly upward.
She leaned against her chair, her pale fingers unconsciously tracing across the cold surface of the desk.
“You don’t understand. If other men touch me, I feel disgusted. But you’re different.”
Su Qingcheng recalled the moment in the car when Xu Le had touched her. She had not felt any resistance toward it at all.
Damn.
Xu Le was genuinely surprised after hearing this. What kind of constitution was that supposed to be?
Just then, Su Qingcheng let out a yawn.
She suddenly bent down and hooked the thin heel of her black high heels with her slender fingers, casually slipping them off as though nobody else was present.
Her jade-like feet were immediately revealed without obstruction. Her toes were small and rounded, her arches pale and elegant, while faint red marks from the heels could still be seen around her ankles.
Holy crap.
Xu Le was startled. He was still sitting right there, and she was exposing her feet directly in front of him?
“Xu Le, do you know how to massage feet?”
“I…”
Before he could finish speaking, hurried footsteps and the laughter of coworkers suddenly sounded outside the office.
A trace of panic flashed through Su Qingcheng’s eyes, mixed with embarrassment.
If someone saw her subordinate massaging her feet, she would die from shame.
She quickly pulled her legs back. Her toes skillfully hooked the high heels before she slipped them back on at astonishing speed.
What was wrong with her?
How could she possibly think of something like that?
If any other man dared touch her feet, she definitely would not let him leave alive.
“You can get off work now,” Su Qingcheng said coldly.
[Completed Su Qingcheng’s task. Reward: 2,000 yuan. Favorability +3.]
Xu Le was more than happy with that outcome. Without saying much, he went back to gather his things.
If you were not enthusiastic about getting off work, then there was clearly something wrong with your mindset.
What he did not notice was that Su Qingcheng’s ears had already turned slightly red, and even her breathing had become a little faster.
Biting her red lips lightly, she felt completely confused.
“Why is this man making me become so strange?”
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After getting off work, Xu Le rode a shared electric scooter all the way to the university entrance.
Not long later, a young girl walked out energetically.
“Bro, what good thing happened to you today? You actually came to pick me up,” Xu Yi asked curiously.
“I’m taking you out for Western food. If you don’t want to go, forget it,” Xu Le replied calmly.
“I’m going!”
Soon, the two arrived at an upscale Western restaurant. Xu Yi widened her eyes curiously while looking around, immediately taking out her phone and snapping pictures nonstop.
After the dishes arrived, she even recorded a video and sent it to her best friend.
“You’ve been chatting for that long?” Xu Le asked after noticing her constantly holding her phone.
Unexpectedly, Xu Yi immediately became alert.
“Of course chatting with my best friend takes time. Don’t tell me you have some kind of plan? I’m telling you right now, I’m absolutely not introducing my best friend to you. Treating me to dinner won’t help!”
Xu Le cut into his steak and snorted.
“You’re overthinking things. She’s several years younger than me. Why would I be interested in her?”
“That’s more like it. Don’t even think about my best friend!” Xu Yi warned him again before happily continuing to eat her Western food.
“Oh right, go look for a new apartment. Find a bigger one. It’s about time we moved,” Xu Le said. Since he still had work, he naturally handed this task over to his younger sister.
“A new apartment? Bro, did some rich woman really take a liking to you?” Xu Yi asked excitedly, nearly dancing with joy.
“Eat your food and shut up,” Xu Le replied.
He knew exactly what she was thinking. She was obviously hoping he would latch onto a wealthy woman so she could skip struggling for the next twenty years too.
…
That night, Xu Le checked WeChat and immediately saw that Gu Qinghuan had sent him a cute sticker.
It was a blushing little cat.
“I’ve been busy lately. Sorry, sorry.”
What bad luck.
He had just been thinking about meeting Gu Qinghuan again, but after seeing the message, he gave up on the idea.
No wonder she had barely updated anything recently. She really must have been busy.
Just as he was preparing to sleep early, his phone suddenly rang.
Seeing that it was Su Qingcheng calling, he waited a few seconds before helplessly answering.
“Xu Le, drive to this location.”
After checking the time, Xu Le thought he must have seen it wrong.
It was 11 p.m., and she wanted him to go back to work?
Was she serious?
“CEO Su, it’s already really late.”
“Come here.”
Xu Le had thought that since their favorability had reached the Familiar Stage, things between them might become different.
But even with familiar people, Su Qingcheng was still exactly the same.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Le decided that once he saw her, he absolutely had to bring up overtime pay.
With the system rewards added on top, earning several thousand yuan a day was still acceptable to him.
After driving to the entrance of an upscale residential complex, he waited thirty-four minutes before finally seeing Su Qingcheng walk out.
The moment he saw what she was wearing tonight, he almost failed to recognize her.
Su Qingcheng had casually tied her chestnut-colored long hair into a low ponytail. She wore an extremely white dress shirt, with the bottom two buttons left undone, revealing glimpses of her pale waistline whenever she moved.
Below that, she wore washed-blue denim shorts that revealed her long and evenly shaped legs, while a pair of off-white canvas shoes rested on her feet.
No one would doubt she was a university student.
After getting into the car, she relaxed and crossed her legs casually before saying, “I’ll give you a day off tomorrow. Tonight, you’re acting as my bodyguard.”
Hearing this, Xu Le instantly perked up. A full day off. Now that was more reasonable.
Still, she needed a bodyguard too?
With a kick like hers, if she struck a man in the crotch, who could possibly endure it?
When he saw the location she sent over was a bar, he did not ask any questions and simply drove there.
After arriving, Su Qingcheng tugged lightly at his clothes.
“Follow me inside, but don’t sit together with me.”
Fine then. Xu Le had no idea what she was planning, but he followed her into the bar anyway.
The music inside was soft, and the customers were dressed fairly normally.
It looked like a lounge bar, and it was surprisingly crowded too.
Xu Le found a seat and sat down. Instead of alcohol, he ordered a glass of fruit juice.
A somewhat chubby man walked over. After seeing Xu Le’s face, he paused.
After staring for several moments, he finally recognized him and burst into laughter.
“Xu Le? What a coincidence. You’re here too.”
The man sat down beside Xu Le as if they were old friends.
Xu Le forced a fake smile. He had not expected to run into his university classmate, Zhang Dong.
Although Zhang Dong had been his classmate, they were not particularly close.
That was normal. Some people graduated after four years of university without even remembering all their classmates’ names.
Zhang Dong came from a wealthy family and loved showing off back in university. Xu Le still remembered clearly how Zhang Dong had managed to win over the campus belle from another class.
That matter had become a major topic among many students.
However, because Xu Le had also been dating a beautiful girlfriend at the time, now his ex-girlfriend, the attention he received had overshadowed Zhang Dong’s.
Because of that, Zhang Dong had always held a grudge over it.