Le Tong was just focused on looking at Ji Baby, unaware that her words made Ji Rui, who had been leisurely eating, pause his hand, and he too turned to look at her intently. How co he didn’t know she would be working here?
"Sister..."
Ji Baby, with a slight sob in his voice, spoke up, and it was like a free-moving rope that tightly strangled Le Tong’s neck.
However, in Le Tong’s view, the rope around her neck wasn’t life-threatening for now, but the danger posed by Ji Rui was enough to crush her at any mont.
She couldn’t understand why she perceived Ji Rui’s destructiveness towards her in this way, but she always trusted her intuition.
Le Tong, still rational, gritted her teeth and steeled her heart, looking at Ji Baby, "Baby, sister has already promised soone else to work here, I can’t break my promise!"
As she spoke, she reached out to gently rub Ji Baby’s head in an attempt to comfort him.
Ji Rui slightly frowned; she said she would work here, could it be related to the ten thousand yuan she borrowed from Luo Yuanyuan?
He wanted to say sothing to stop Le Tong, but seeing his son’s pitiful look, he felt it would be more convincing to Le Tong than himself. After all, even a tough guy like him couldn’t withstand Baby’s trick, let alone the soft-hearted Le Tong.
So, Ji Rui forcibly suppressed his inner irritation and anger, and quietly sat on the side, watching the situation unfold.
Sniffling, Ji Baby lifted his eyelids to watch Le Tong through tears. Upon hearing her response, he didn’t cry hysterically as Ji Rui expected, instead, he took a deep breath, then raised his hand to fiercely wipe his eyes with the back of his hand.
His small shoulders gently shook with suppressed sorrow, and seeing such an obedient and restrained Ji Baby, Le Tong felt the invisible rope around her neck tightening, not to the point of suffocation, but making her chest feel unbearably stuffy.
"Baby..." she couldn’t bear to see the little guy sad, so she wanted to say sothing to comfort him, but she opened her mouth and didn’t know what to say, only looking at him tenderly and gently wiping the tears from his eyes with her fingertips.
"Sister... don’t you want Baby anymore?" Ji Baby pressed his face to her palm, pouting and crying as he asked Le Tong.
Le Tong slightly lifted her head, blinked rapidly, took a deep breath, then very reluctantly squeezed out a smile for Baby.
"Of course not! Baby is so good, so handso, how could sister not want Baby?"
Apart from Ji Rui’s devilish contract, Le Tong didn’t mind continuing to associate with Baby.
But with Ji Rui coming all the way with Baby appearing in front of her, she wouldn’t be naive enough to think a man like Ji Rui would compromise and cancel that contract.
Although today he was friendlier and more easygoing than ever before, the more he was like this, the more uneasy she felt. As the saying goes, all’s fair in war, and Ji Rui’s actions made Le Tong feel he was plotting sothing behind the scenes.
"Sister’s lying... Sister working here ans she doesn’t want Baby anymore?" Ji Baby suddenly raised his voice to question.
Ji Baby wasn’t so easily fooled. He and his daddy had taken a morning flight just to see his sister, and if she worked here, how long would it be before he could see her again?!
Faced with Baby’s clear-minded questioning, Le Tong was at a loss for words, "Sister can occasionally go back to see Baby..." Such words clearly revealed the speaker’s lack of confidence.
Ji Baby had stopped crying, but there were still two small tear drops hanging on his long lashes, making him look especially pitiful. He tilted his head and looked at Le Tong.
"But... Baby wants Sister to be Baby’s mommy... This place is so far from ho, and Sister is so beautiful, it’s easy... she might be taken away by other uncles!"
Le Tong was speechless, a trace of bitterness rose in her heart. She licked her lips, not knowing how to explain to Ji Baby. She couldn’t be his mommy, nor could she beco his mommy!
And Ji Rui, hearing such words from his son, while secretly cheering internally, couldn’t help but observe Le Tong’s reaction from the corner of his eye.
Though it might not be honorable to have his son deal with Le Tong.
But his goal was for Le Tong to willingly go back with him and Baby to R City, by whatever ans necessary.
Moreover, even if he didn’t want to admit it, he had to concede that Baby’s influence over Le Tong was much greater than his own.
He clearly knew that now, any request of his to Le Tong wouldn’t get a response, and would only drive her to desperation, just like that contract. Who knows where she’d hide next ti, and whether he’d be as fortunate to find her!
This ti, had he not been vigilant enough to have soone nad Huang closely monitor Luo Yuanyuan and Zhong Hao, among others closely associated with Le Tong, he wouldn’t have thought she would hide in such a godforsaken place over two thousand kiloters away.
She said she was working here, was it to use the ten thousand yuan to run a small business here?
She could either co back to be his secretary, or she could go ho with him and live as his woman and Baby’s mommy as the contract stated.
Allowing her to work here, how could he ever permit that?!
Even though Ji Rui had internally already XX and XX vetoed all sorts of excuses Le Tong might use to remain in this desolate place, he stayed put, simply squinting his eyes, staring at Le Tong, waiting for her answer to his son.
Le Tong’s face revealed a slight hint of embarrassnt, perhaps because of Baby ntioning she might be taken away by other uncles, sothing inappropriate for children to say.
"Baby, sister will absolutely not be!" These words were spoken with firm determination.
Both father and son raised an eyebrow at the sa ti, Ji Rui continued to watch the situation, while Ji Baby suddenly turned his gaze to his daddy, then back to Le Tong’s face.
"Why?" The young Baby’s montum when questioning was surprisingly not much weaker than Ji Rui, this formidable business world demon.
"Because..." Le Tong paused, "No reason, just won’t be."
Such an answer wasn’t satisfactory to Baby, he again glanced at Ji Rui with the corner of his eye, "Is it because sister likes Baby’s daddy?"
"Uh!"
Le Tong instinctively shook her head, "Of course not! Baby’s daddy is just Sister’s boss."
The light in Ji Rui’s eyes had just brightened, but it extinguished with her uncompromising answer.
And Ji Baby, hearing this response, reacted much more directly and intensely than Ji Rui, who was accustod to hiding his emotions.
He gave Le Tong a resentful look, pouted, laid on his arms on the table, eyes downcast, sulking silently like a sealed jar.
[First update done, second update later tonight. As for extra updates, from next Tuesday, there should be more than now, as for how many more, stay tuned for updates!]
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