"Mr. Secretary, I am sorry. I didn't want to interrupt at first. But seeing her getting out of line, I wasn't able to hold back for a mont. I hope you didn't mind." Li Xue said when they were already away at a distance. Given the personality of the secretary, Li Xue knew it must be hard to take her, a woman's protection.
Gao Fan shook his head. "Thank you, Madam. Without you, it would have gotten tough for . Ms. Zhang held the grudge from before and then …"
He was in the middle of his words when Li Xue turned to look at him with surprise. Was the great secretary with always-stoic face gossiping with her now? Though she doesn't want to believe it, she felt it was like that.
Li Xue shook her head, shrugging the thought off her head. She didn't hear the later part of the words but what she heard before, she replied to it, "Be it grudge or anything, Mr. Secretary, nothing would keep back from helping the people who are on my side. You are one of them so, I stood for you."
She said and hearing her say that, for the first ti in his lifeti, Gao Fan felt like smiling. Li Xue's eyes grew wider at him when she saw him like that. The secretary felt embarrassed and imdiately got back to the stoic expression, to apologize, "I am sorry Madam."
"For what? Smiling?" Li Xue laughed out, but then shaking her head, she didn't plan to embarrass him more. So, switching to the topic that was sothing important, she composed herself to a slightly solemn composure.
"Anyway Mr. Secretary, there is sothing I needed you to help with if you have ti." She said and Gao Fan looked at her with solemnity.
"President Feng has asked to assist you, Madam. You just have to order ."
He stated and Li Xue nodded to him. "Help find out in recent tis if Ms. Zhang has t anyone related to my Royal Project?" She said and giving a slight thought to it, Gao Fan agreed.
"Okay Madam, I will let you know once I find it out."
Gao Fan said and knowing the sincerity of his words, Li Xue nodded with a smile to add, "Fine then, let's get back to your President first. I feel like he must be feeling that I would get swallowed without him around." She said and then again, they started to walk.
And as she had expected him, far from a distance, she saw his grey orbs searching for her. Her lips curled up as soon the pairs found her and his feet advanced in her direction.
Before he could ask her, Li Xue smiled at him to question all innocently, "Were you looking for ?" And Feng Shufen frowned at her.
"I have asked you to sit and wait for . Where have you gone?"
Li Xue's smile grew deeper as raising her hands she reached out to soothe the frowning wrinkles on his forehead. "I was getting bored inside, sitting at a place. So, when you didn't return, I asked Yi Lan to show around."
She spoke and at her explanation like that, the man turned to look around which Li Xue understood very well. So, she added, "Yi Lan was with before but then a maid ca to call her saying that your mother has been calling her for a talk. So, I sent her away. Don't worry I wasn't lost, it's just that on my way back soone halted to offer a great deal." She said and right at the mont from the corner of her eyes saw Zhang Xiaotong reappearing in the hall.
The expression of Li Xue's eyes changed and Feng Shufen didn't fail to notice it. His gaze trailed as well to look in the direction she was looking for a brief second and then turned back to ask with a bit of sternness in his expression, "Did sothing happen?"
Li Xue had tranced off slightly but was snapped back the mont she heard the man's voice near her. Turning she looked at him with so caution at first then smiling, she shrugged it. "What can happen? The plot of every love triangle drama is always cliché. I can only take my chance to play the lead female role. Also, what do you think of ? I am not so easy person who would get bullied by anyone."
She said, virtually patting her shoulders, herself. But at her words, Feng Shufen frowned deeper. "I am not interested in any drama with cliché plot or love triangle. We could only be the leads in our story with no side characters involved." He said and his words scread the seriousness that Li Xue didn't expect to co.
She paused at his words for a mont but then pouting at his comnts, she retorted, "If no side characters get involved, won't our story beco too boring, Mr. Beelzebub? What are you even thinking?"
She said and expected a comnt in return to co, but Feng Shufen said nothing. He just stood there with all firm in his stance, which only ant one thing that he wasn't budging from what he had already said.
Only lead characters without any side ones!
Li Xue pursed her lips and was about to say sothing when Feng Yi Lan ca crashing to her, panting for her breath. "L-Li Xue, darling, y-you have to help now. I am in a dire situation so no matter what you have to do but help coax your Devil husband to support later." She said, looking at her brother standing on the side before turning to look back at her friend.
Li Xue didn't understand any of her words before but she could very well understand from where her heavy breathing was coming. So, patting her shoulders, her first attempt was to calm her down. "Yi Lan, from where are you running? Relax first and cool yourself down before telling everything." She said and then looking at Gao Fan, she signaled him to help her with a glass of water.
But Feng Yi Lan was nowhere near to the calm. Shaking her head, to Li Xue, she again urged her as if her life was at stake, "No, no Li Xue, at this mont I can't afford to relax.. Just assure first that later you and brother would stand on my side, no matter what."
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