Several characters on the game screen engaged in fierce combat, and within moments, the screen turned grey.
“Tch!” Lin Ze angrily slammed his mouse onto the desk. “What kind of trashy game is this?”
Seeing this, Yi Yan, standing to the side, raised an eyebrow, the corners of his lips curling up slightly. “Don’t lose your temper. If you’re bad at playing, you’re bad at playing. It’s not like I’m going to look down on you.”
Hearing this, Lin Ze glared at him, his chest visibly heaving. He knew this guy often hung out with Zhou Lu, so he figured he must just be another playboy. Still, Lin Ze disdainfully and sarcastically sneered, “You really are a good little dog to Zhou Lu! You dragged me off here just to stay out of their way and help clear the path for their romance, didn’t you?”
Anyone who heard Lin Ze’s unbridled remarks was utterly shocked! How could he dare speak to President Yi like that?
“Ah, what kind of talk is that? We’re all just helping out a brother. He’s happy, so as brothers, we’re happy too, aren’t we?” Yi Yan looked at Lin Ze with a smiling, crescent-eyed gaze.
“My foot! Anyway, it’s been so long now, whatever they needed to talk about is already done. You can let me leave now, right?” Lin Ze glared at the two bodyguards in black suits standing guard at the door, turning his head to yell at Yi Yan.
Yi Yan let out a soft heh of laughter, lowered his gaze, and gave a slight wave of his hand. The bodyguards took the cue and immediately cleared a path.
Lin Ze let out a hmph and left with a look of extreme displeasure.
Yi Yan watched the receding figure. The smiling expression on his face faded, replaced by an unrestrained, measuring gaze. He gently licked the corner of his lips and narrowed his eyes.
A bodyguard stepped forward, slowly bowing respectfully. “President Yi, Madam asked if you have time to come home tonight. She has arranged for a young lady to have dinner with you.”
What kind of stunt was that old woman pulling this time? Was she completely out of her mind to want to hold a baby?
Yi Yan lowered the legs he had propped up on the counter, stood up to adjust his clothes, and spoke in a free and lazy tone, “Tell my mother I’m busy with work tonight and won’t be heading back.” With that, he strode away.
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“President Yi, how is it that you have time to come see me tonight?” A woman leaned coquettishly against Yi Yan, gazing at him with soft, seductive eyes.
Yi Yan pinched the woman’s chin and kissed her lightly. “You don’t like me coming to see you?”
“Hate you. President Yi is just twisting my words around.” The woman spoke in a soft, gentle voice, feigning shyness as she gave Yi Yan a light push.
Yi Yan laughed even more heartily, wrapping an arm around the woman’s shoulder, picking up a glass of wine from the bar, and holding it to her lips. “Drink.”
Seeing the full glass of yellow liquid about to be poured down her throat, the woman felt a wave of fear and instinctively swallowed a lump of saliva. But she didn’t dare refuse, so she forced a happy expression and drank it down.
When the bottom of the glass was empty, the woman was already feeling dizzy.
Yi Yan looked at the woman’s somewhat hazy eyes with a smile, picked up another glass of wine, and offered it to her lips. “Come on, Xin Xiao, drink another cup.”
Seeing yet another overflowing glass pushed toward her, Xin Xiao widened her eyes in terror.
To be honest, having spent many years mingling in places like this, her alcohol tolerance was quite high, and polishing off a bottle of wine was completely within her grasp. But the problem was that the liquor ordered by the man in front of her was not only absurdly expensive, but it also had an extremely high alcohol content! An ordinary person would be drunk for half a day after just a small sip! Let alone forcing her to drink a second full glass! Was this man trying to get her killed?
Xin Xiao couldn’t help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, feigning a pitiful, aggrieved plea. “Pr, President Yi. Xin Xiao really can’t drink anymore.”
“Can’t drink?”
Xin Xiao thought Yi Yan would let her off the hook, so she feigned weakness and nodded. “Yeah, Xin Xiao really can’t drink anymore.”
Yi Yan pinched her jaw, applying just a tiny bit of pressure.
“Hiss.” Li Xiaoxiao felt a sharp pain that brought tears welling up in her eyes.
He stared at her with a dark, gloomy gaze, his tone chillingly cold to the bone. “You really can’t drink anymore, or are you just not giving me this face?”
The female friends sitting next to Xin Xiao were startled by Yi Yan’s fierce appearance.
Yi Yan’s buddy chimed in with an awkward laugh to smooth things over. “Brother Yi, I think a loser like her probably really can’t drink anymore. How about we forget it? Let’s not lower ourselves to arguing with a woman like this, haha.”
“Ah, y, yeah, yeah.” The people around them wiped the sweat streaming down their faces and chimed in agreement.
Yi Yan didn’t speak. He merely swept a cool gaze over the man who had just spoken. The man caught the glance, sucked in a cold breath, sat trembling back into his seat, and shut his mouth.
Yi Yan coldly looked at the glass of wine in his hand. Xin Xiao immediately caught the look, snatched the drink, and gulped it straight down, taking the full glass into her stomach.
Xin Xiao felt a searing pain in her throat, the liquid in her stomach churning continuously, her digestive tract burning with a scorching ache, her abdomen bulging slightly, and large beads of sweat already seeping out across her forehead.
Yi Yan’s lips curved upward. “Look, wasn’t she able to drink it after all? Xin Xiao is so naughty, trying to trick me by saying she couldn’t.”
Watching Yi Yan revert to his usual gentle, refined-gentleman persona as he teased the woman beside him, he looked remarkably like a vicious wolf draped in sheep’s clothing. Everyone else kept their heads down, not daring to utter a single word.
“Alright, I’ve had a great time today. Take this card and go buy yourself something to eat.” Yi Yan stood up, smiling warmly.
Casually tossing a two-million card, he threw it right onto Xin Xiao’s chest, treating her like a beggar.
Holding the card, a greedy smile spread across Xin Xiao’s face. The physical pain seemed to vanish entirely as she scrambled up from the sofa and bowed to Yi Yan repeatedly.
Even as she watched Yi Yan’s departing back, she didn’t forget to call out in a hoarse voice, “President Yi! Xin Xiao will be waiting for you to come back next time!”
Yi Yan raised an eyebrow, the corner of his mouth ticking upward.
Xin Xiao knew this fellow played rough. Any woman he set his sights on was bound to be caught, and when it came to dealing with his lovers in that aspect, he had all sorts of tricks up his sleeve.
His methods were extremely despicable, but his post-transaction payouts were genuinely generous. Tonight, just by being forced to drink two glasses of wine by him, she had already secured this much money, let alone what his actual lovers received.
With myriad thoughts running through her mind, Xin Xiao couldn’t help gripping the card in her hand tightly. She had to firmly hook him while President Yi was still interested in her!
Seeing that Yi Yan had left, her friends finally breathed a sigh of relief, walking over one after another to check on Xin Xiao’s physical condition.
Xin Xiao’s temples were still slick with sweat. Supporting her stomach with one hand, she slowly sat back down on the sofa and urged her friends, “It’s fine, you guys go ahead and take care of things.”