She didn’t know why she was explaining these things to him, but an inner voice told her she didn’t want him to misunderstand her.
"You owe him a debt, and when his people ca to collect, you refused, so you fought in the arena to repay him? Is that it?" Qi Longbing could easily picture such a negotiation.
He just hadn’t expected that while Hua Xiaomo was with him, soone else would actually be using such despicable and shaless tactics to threaten his woman!
Damn it to hell!!
Hua Xiaomo took a deep breath. She stopped looking at him and turned her gaze to another part of the room. "Interpret it however you like. Regarding this matter, apart from answering to myself, I have no need to explain it to anyone, President Qi. Whether you understand or not, that’s all I have to say. Apologies, I need to get back to work. I’m leaving now."
After finishing in one breath, Hua Xiaomo grabbed her purse and headed towards the exit, but Yu Bao at the door didn’t step aside to let her pass.
"Miss Hua, you..."
"Move! I don’t want to say it a second ti!"
Yu Bao looked at her, troubled, then glanced back at Qi Longbing, whose handso face remained cold and severe. This man is truly furious!
It was enough to shock even Yu Bao. Qi Longbing rarely lost his temper so explosively; he usually handled things with quiet, cunning maneuvers, subtly undermining his opponents.
"Let her go!" Qi Longbing said, his handso face growing cold, a deep frustration settling in him.
It seed she had no intention whatsoever of clarifying the whole situation.
Good, very good. It doesn’t matter if you don’t tell . Sooner or later, I’ll catch that man!
Yu Bao stepped aside, and Hua Xiaomo quickly left the room without looking back.
Qi Longbing listened to her retreating footsteps, a strange feeling stirring deep within him.
Finally, he declared, "No one is to breathe a word about what happened today. If anyone ntions even half a word to the Old Master, they’re to get out imdiately!" Qi Longbing’s voice, laced with a chilling ambiguity, hung in the air.
"Yes, President Qi!"
Soon after, Qi Longbing departed with Yu Bao and the others.
...
Qi Longbing didn’t go straight back to Qi Imperial Court; instead, he allowed Hua Xiaomo a bit more freedom.
After lunch, Hua Xiaomo, bored and listless, wandered the streets with her purse in tow.
For so reason, her mind was filled with the image of Qi Longbing’s furious expression...
"Was he really angry?" Hua Xiaomo muttered to herself, a mysterious light she herself couldn’t quite comprehend flickered in her clear, expressive eyes.
It wasn’t until soone tapped her shoulder that she ca back to her senses.
"Hua Xiaomo, what’s wrong? I called your na several tis from behind, but you didn’t respond," said the tall, handso Westerner.
"Zhou Xiyang... Sorry, I didn’t hear you. Huh? Shouldn’t you be at McDonald’s right now? Don’t tell you’re also sneaking away from work to wander around here?" Hua Xiaomo asked with a smile.
"I just ca out of there," Zhou Xiyang said with a shy smile, then pointed towards a store a short distance behind him with the sign "Babygirl," a lingerie store.
Hua Xiaomo followed his finger and imdiately looked at the very pink storefront. "Ah? You went into that won’s store to buy lingerie?"
Hua Xiaomo was surprised for a mont, but as she looked at him, she suddenly smiled with understanding.
Alright, she supposed the gay scene really wasn’t sothing she could understand.
"You’ve got it all wrong; that’s not it! I invested in this store, and I just ca to check on it," Zhou Xiyang explained. Then, as if he’d had a brilliant idea, his eyes lit up. "Xiao Mo, if you don’t want to work for the Qi Family anymore, how about you co be the manager here?"
But as soon as he said it, he regretted it. If she left, wouldn’t he lose his connection to Qi Longbing...? Didn’t that an he would lose his chance...? Right, up until now, he still hadn’t mustered the courage to dial that phone number. He must have looked at it hundreds of tis every night, until his phone battery died, yet he still lacked that courage...
"? Manager of a lingerie store?" Hua Xiaomo was taken aback, then quickly shook her hands, laughing. "No way, no way. Look at . I’m not exactly the well-endowed type. I definitely couldn’t handle that job, and I don’t want to waste your money. You should find soone more suitable."
"Then... then I won’t insist. Since you’re out strolling too, why not co sit in my shop for a bit? I have so much I want to talk to you about!" Zhou Xiyang said with a shy smile, his handso face flushing.
Anyone who didn’t know his personality might think he was harboring a secret crush on Hua Xiaomo.
But Hua Xiaomo just gave him a conspiratorial smile. "I knew you wouldn’t let go easily once you caught ." Then, pulling his elbow, she said, "Co on, this is the perfect chance for you to gift a couple of your store’s best lingerie sets."
"Not a problem at all!" Zhou Xiyang replied with a laugh.
They chatted without any restraint, as carefree and uninhibited as close siblings.
But to the person watching from the sleek black Bentley not far away, it was an entirely different picture.
CLICK! Just as the two of them intimately entered the lingerie store, soone from a distance captured the mont with a cara.
Pan Yutong sat in the car, looking at the photo on the cara, a scheming and malevolent smirk playing on her lips.
An elegant smile graced her features, and her eyes narrowed slightly. "Hua Xiaomo, I saw long ago what a restless woman you are!"
"Even if Ah Bing is montarily chard by you, how could he be bewitched for a lifeti?" Pan Yutong chuckled and soon drove away.
Inside the "Babygirl" lingerie store.
Zhou Xiyang carefully selected three sets of red, pink, and black lace lingerie to gift Hua Xiaomo.
"Hehe, now that I’ve accepted your gift, I suppose I have no choice but to help you out! So, spit it out, what do you want to know?" Hua Xiaomo laughed, accepting the exquisitely wrapped box.
"Xiao Mo, please stop laughing at like that! It’s so embarrassing!" Zhou Xiyang said bashfully.
"What’s there to be embarrassed about? I know you like him, and there’s nothing wrong with liking soone. It’s just that you’re too shy. You don’t even dare to call him? Handso Zhou Xiyang, that’s really not like you!" Hua Xiaomo said, shaking her head with a smile, her amber eyes reflecting amused exasperation.
A thought seed to strike her, and she continued, "If you don’t take the initiative, how will he ever know how you feel? Besides, trying to ’bend’ him is already difficult enough, not to ntion he’s so wealthy. He’s not soone you can just summon or dismiss as you please."
"That’s easy for you to say, but... making that call is just too hard," Zhou Xiyang frowned, his chiseled, handso face etched with a brooding expression.
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