Starting Check-in Reward: Tomson Riviera Chapter 168 - 167: The Sunset in Your Eyes, Even More Beauti

Just as Ye Ling got ho, Ning Ruoxi was sitting in the living room, playing on her phone.

"Welco ho! You’ve had a long day!"

Seeing Ye Ling return, Ning Ruoxi bounced over to him and said with a beaming smile.

"It was nothing, not at all."

Ye Ling looked at the girl before him, a blissful smile spreading across his face. "I’ll get dinner started. You didn’t eat a proper lunch by yourself today, did you?"

"Well... I just woke up rather late, so I ate breakfast and lunch together."

Having been seen right through, Ning Ruoxi stuck out her tongue, a little embarrassed.

Brunch was a rather popular trend among today’s youth.

It was usually a case of waking up too late for breakfast, but with lunchti just around the corner, so... breakfast and lunch were simply combined into one al.

"You piglet."

Ye Ling booped Ning Ruoxi’s nose and couldn’t help but shake his head. He picked up the groceries and headed for the kitchen. "Since you didn’t eat a proper lunch, I’ll have to make you a feast for dinner to make up for it."

"Hehe..."

Ning Ruoxi gave a goofy grin and followed Ye Ling into the kitchen.

"Go sit down for a bit. Dinner will be ready soon."

Ye Ling was just about to start cooking when he glanced over at Ning Ruoxi, who was standing in the doorway, and said with a smile.

"No, I want to watch you."

But Ning Ruoxi shook her head, simply leaning against the doorfra and watching Ye Ling bustle about, her eyes filled with pure bliss.

She didn’t know why, but she found the sight of his back as he cooked to be incredibly attractive. She couldn’t tear her eyes away.

Seeing this, Ye Ling didn’t press the issue. He just smiled faintly and got busy in the kitchen.

Ye Ling had bought a lot of groceries today, probably because he felt a little bad for spanking Ning Ruoxi a bit too hard yesterday and wanted to make it up to her.

He was making Ning Ruoxi’s favorites: sweet and sour pork ribs, Dongpo pork, garlic eggplant, mapo tofu, and stir-fried broccoli with shrimp, along with a simple tomato and egg soup.

When the whole spread was laid out on the table, Ning Ruoxi, still standing in the doorway, couldn’t help but take a deep, appreciative inhale.

’It slls absolutely amazing!’

"Ti to eat, you little glutton."

Ye Ling took off his apron and turned to Ning Ruoxi with a smile.

"I am not a little glutton."

Ning Ruoxi pouted, clearly a little unhappy with the label. Nevertheless, she dutifully grabbed two sets of bowls and chopsticks and handed one to Ye Ling.

Then, Ning Ruoxi began to devour her food. She hadn’t really eaten all day, and Ye Ling’s cooking was simply too delicious. In an instant, her ’goddess’ image gave way to that of a ’little foodie’.

As Ye Ling ate his own rice, he watched her eat until her lips were glistening, his eyes full of affection. He pulled a couple of napkins from the side to wipe her mouth.

"You’re a grown woman, and you still eat like this,"

Ye Ling said with a resigned laugh as he wiped her mouth.

"What? Are you getting tired of already?"

Ning Ruoxi popped a shrimp into her mouth, her cheeks puffing out as she stared wide-eyed at Ye Ling.

"Never. I plan on wiping your mouth for a lifeti."

"That’s more like it."

Ning Ruoxi humd in satisfaction, a hint of sweetness flashing in her eyes.

As evening approached, the sun’s glare softened into a gentle glow. The setting sun’s pale red light set the clouds ablaze, painting the horizon in splendid, fiery colors.

After dinner, Ye Ling and Ning Ruoxi washed the dishes together, then left for a leisurely stroll through the streets of Modu.

The warmth of the day hadn’t fully faded, so the air wasn’t particularly cold. They could still feel a faint warmth as the orange-red afterglow of the sunset washed over their faces.

"Look, the clouds over there are so beautiful."

Ning Ruoxi gazed at the clusters of ’flas’ on the horizon and couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.

"Yes, they’re beautiful."

Ye Ling glanced at the ’flas’ on the horizon and nodded.

But he only gave them a passing glance before his gaze returned to the girl beside him.

"If they’re so beautiful, why aren’t you looking...?"

Ning Ruoxi seed to sense his gaze. She instinctively turned her head, and when she saw him staring at her, a faint blush crept onto her cheeks.

"But I am looking. I’m looking at the clouds reflected in your eyes."

Ye Ling said with a soft chuckle, a smirk playing on his lips.

The sunset is beautiful.

But the sunset reflected in your eyes is even more so.

"You smooth-talker."

Ning Ruoxi shot Ye Ling a playful glare, but inside she was bubbling with happiness.

...

After returning ho from their walk, Ye Ling, with nothing else to do, lay on the sofa scrolling through his phone. Suddenly, a post caught his attention.

[Web Series Adaptation of Net Entertainnt Group’s Manhua ’Rainy Love’ to Begin Filming Soon!]

The post ca from the Net Entertainnt Group’s official social dia account.

This ant the news was undoubtedly true.

Recently, the Net Entertainnt Group’s stock price had plumted. For a newly rged company to hit its daily trading limit on the downside multiple tis was a truly bizarre phenonon in the recent history of the stock market.

As one of Net Entertainnt Group’s key IPs, the importance of ’Rainy Love’ was self-evident.

By choosing to move up the start of filming for the ’Rainy Love’ web series at this critical juncture, Net Entertainnt Group was clearly trying to salvage its reputation.

The stock’s collapse didn’t just affect the company’s revenue; more importantly, its reputation took a severe hit.

There was no shortage of online discussion about Net Entertainnt Group, and most of it was negative—rumors about the company going bankrupt, executives resigning, and the like.

Starting production on ’Rainy Love’ was, to so extent, a move to curb this negative sentint and send a ssage to the public that Net Entertainnt Group hadn’t hit rock bottom just yet.

So, in a way, this was the last straw Net Entertainnt Group was clutching at.

Ye Ling pulled up the stock market and took a look. He saw that ever since the announcent, Net Entertainnt Group’s continuously falling stock price had shown faint signs of a rally.

It wasn’t much, but any upward trend was certainly better than the freefall from before.

’So they finally couldn’t sit still anymore, huh?’

Seeing this, the corner of Ye Ling’s mouth curved into a cold smirk.

In truth, he had been waiting for this exact mont.

The very first ti he saw ’Rainy Love,’ he had noticed its striking similarity to ’Lingxi’s Love,’ but he hadn’t acted on it imdiately.

There were two main reasons.

One was that such lawsuits were not easy to win, and even if he won, the potential payout might not cover the costs. The other reason was that Ye Ling was holding it as a trump card.

’You don’t play a trump card right at the beginning.’

’It has to be played at the most critical mont to have the greatest possible impact!’