Chapter 817: 817, do you need… to coax you?
10 minutes later, the reception room.
The door opened, and a man dressed in a white shirt and black trousers walked in.
The woman sitting on the sofa stood up, smiling as she raised her hands, intending to offer him a Western-style greeting.
But before her hands could touch his clothes, Huo Jingshen had already sat down on the sofa opposite her.
Dong Manjiao’s outstretched hands slowly retracted to cross in front of her chest, “Jason, I just knew you would co to see .”
“5 minutes,” Huo Jingshen said directly, “I have another eting soon.”
...
Dong Manjiao curved her red lips, “5 minutes might not be enough. We haven’t seen each other for such a long ti, and I have a lot to say to you.”
“Then make a long story short.”
Hearing the man’s cold and unfeeling voice, Dong Manjiao’s smile disappeared, “Jason, I finally got so ti off recently, and I flew all the way from Y Country to Nancheng just to see you, but what about you? At first, you wouldn’t take my calls, and when I ca, you had the front desk try to send away, and now that we’ve finally t…”
“You have 4 minutes and 50 seconds left,” Huo Jingshen interrupted her.
Dong Manjiao: “…”
The reception room fell into total silence for several seconds.
“Fine, I’ll get straight to the point,” Dong Manjiao said seriously, “I didn’t understand before why you would marry Su Wanwan, but a few days ago, soone showed a news report, and then it all beca clear to , it turns out she actually is…”
“This has nothing to do with you.”
“Jason, are you in a hurry? Can’t you let finish?” Dong Manjiao’s tone was also becoming annoyed after going back and forth.
Huo Jingshen’s brows and eyes closed up, “I thought I made myself very clear last ti.”
“Not at all. Last ti you just rejected , but you didn’t tell the specific reason, and now I know the truth, so what does this an?” Dong Manjiao’s expression beca playful, “Jason, are you trying to save the country by taking a circuitous route?”
Huo Jingshen’s eyes narrowed slightly, and his thin lips pressed into a straight line.
It was obvious that he was losing patience at this mont.
“I really can’t understand why, out of all the won from the Eastern Alliance, you would marry Su Wanwan and not , and also go through such a roundabout way. In the end, aren’t you going to be the son-in-law of the Eastern Alliance anyway?” Dong Manjiao asked him, “Am I not as pretty as her? Or is my figure not as good as hers? Or is it because… you think marrying her would make it easier to get my father’s attention?”
Dong Manjiao let out a light laugh, “If it’s because of that, I think you’re mistaken, Jason. After all, there is a difference between one’s own daughter and a granddaughter, isn’t there?”
Huo Jingshen also smiled faintly.
Dong Manjiao rarely saw Huo Jingshen smile at her.
Even during the years when they were work partners and friends, this man had always been calm but indifferent, rarely showing much emotion, let alone smiling at her.
He was handso to begin with, and with that smile, like a refreshing breeze after a clear moon, faintly carrying a hint of devilish charm, it jolted Dong Manjiao’s heart unexpectedly.
Her gaze softened sowhat, looking at the charming man in front of her, she said with almost genuine feeling, “My father doesn’t know about Wanwan’s existence for the ti being, but such things can’t be kept secret forever. If you want, I can help you keep it a secret for now.”
Huo Jingshen looked at her with raised eyebrows, “Since you’ve uncovered so much, why don’t you do a little more research on ?”
Dong Manjiao frowned, “What do you an?”
Huo Jingshen spoke indifferently, “What if I said that I’ve never taken your Eastern Alliance seriously, would you find that unbelievable?”
…
Dong Manjiao had considered that with Huo Jingshen’s capabilities, plus the fact that he had returned to China to take over the Huo Family’s business, and she had heard that he had long since withdrawn his investnts from Yunda, but…
Dong Manjiao had already held the trump card in her hands, “If it hadn’t been for my father’s funding initially, you and Fu Xihan would have had no chance of becoming the Chinese Gemini in the European Investnt scene. You Chinese have a saying, ‘The water that bears the boat is the sa that swallows it whole.’ Since my father could raise you up, he can also bring you back down to nothing. And even if you’ve broken away from the Eastern Alliance, don’t you worry about Fu Xihan’s situation? Don’t forget, you have a sister, Huo Jinghua.”
She recited the na ticulously, “I heard she can hardly rember anything right now, with about the sa intelligence as a five-year-old child. You and Fu Xihan have kept her in a very remote place, but she is not entirely untraceable.”
“Manjiao,” Huo Jingshen, who was usually composed, finally began to show a change in expression, “Are you threatening ?”
Dong Manjiao gazed at him dazedly, not hiding her adoration and infatuation, “Jason, ever since I saw you today, you finally called my na.”
“…” Huo Jingshen watched her silently, not saying a word.
Compared to her, his eyes were cold, unfeeling, but Dong Manjiao didn’t care.
“Jason, you know, I really love you, and I’ve always seen you as the other half of my future,”
“I already have another half.”
“But she doesn’t deserve you!”
“So,” Huo Jingshen narrowed his eyes, his deep voice exuding a warm and magnetic elegance, “who do you think is worthy of ?”
“I!” Dong Manjiao blurted out, “Only I am the most suitable woman for you!”
“Is that so?” Huo Jingshen watched her with narrowed eyes.
In the reception room, it was just the two of them. The man didn’t speak again; his distinctly identifiable handso Eastern face was enough to make any woman fall for him in an instant.
Dong Manjiao couldn’t help the throbbing in her heart. She stepped forward, slling the faint, clean scent of tobacco on the man.
She lowered her voice, softly saying, “Jason, as long as you’re willing, you’ll find that I am indeed the most suitable woman for you, whether in terms of identity, status, capability, or even… in sexual compatibility, I can perfectly match up to you.”
Seeing that Huo Jingshen didn’t step back, she grew bolder and kept leaning closer to his face.
The next second, her wrist was suddenly gripped by a force.
Then, a sharp pain struck her.
Dong Manjiao, wearing stiletto sandals and bending over, had no ti to react. Her body was yanked backwards and she crashed down onto the coffee table.
The sharp pain shooting through her calf made her cry out in shock, and then she completely lost her balance.
The bodyguards outside heard the noise and imdiately pushed the door open.
Only to see their usually proud and noble young mistress awkwardly sprawled on the carpet, her skirt lifted, revealing…
Dong Manjiao, embarrassed and ashad, shouted, “Get out!”
The two bodyguards’ faces changed, and they quickly bowed their heads, turned around, and shut the door.
Dong Manjiao looked down at her leg, where the sharp edge of the glass tabletop had left a red mark on the back of her knee. It was now swelling at a visibly rapid rate, with blood beginning to seep out.
She lifted her face, but before she could speak, Huo Jingshen had already risen and left.
“Jason!”
Huo Jingshen stopped in his tracks, slightly turned his head, but did not look at her, “Manjiao, there are so things I don’t want to repeat. Make good choices for yourself.”
Her pupils suddenly constricted. Dong Manjiao felt both sha and annoyance, “Aren’t you afraid I’ll go directly to Su Wanwan?”
Seeing that Huo Jingshen seed to be threatened, she endured the pain and stood up, continuing, “Aren’t you afraid I’ll tell her that Yan Shunhua is her biological mother, also my half-sister from the sa father! That the only reason you married her was because you had long discovered she was from the Eastern Alliance, and by marrying her, you aid to gain the twenty percent shares promised by my father!”
Watching the man’s unmoving back, Dong Manjiao felt triumphant inside, “Jason, you don’t want to find her, do you? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have co to see today.”
What responded to her was the man’s low chuckle.
Then, she heard Huo Jingshen’s deep voice say, “Since you’ve chosen to stand against , let give you a piece of advice: There are so things you can do, but you also need to consider whether you can bear the consequences.”
After saying these words, he left without looking back.
The door opened and closed, leaving Dong Manjiao alone in the reception room, her hands clenched tightly, her face twisted with an indescribably complicated expression.
**
In the afternoon, in the classroom, Su Wanwan received a call from Huo Jingshen.
Quite abruptly…
Wasn’t it his working ti?
When she hurried to the school gate, sure enough, she imdiately saw the familiar black Bentley.
The car was parked brazenly by the roadside, with Huo Jingshen’s tall figure leaning against it. His broad shoulders in perfect proportion, especially dressed in what was clearly a tailor-made shirt and trousers, and even though he wore sunglasses which obscured his face, his appearance, stature, car, and aura…
The epito of a male god!
It was two o’clock in the afternoon, ti for the junior classes. Many female students, also clutching their books, clearly slowed their pace, walking while continuously staring and whispering, acting love-struck.
Su Wanwan: “…”
Has he lost his mind?
Skipping work and coming here to show off?
Can she pretend she doesn’t know him?
But it was too late.
Huo Jingshen raised his hand, then, like the male lead in a Korean drama, he beckoned to her with a hook of his index finger.
Utterly flirty!
Su Wanwan closed her eyes briefly, then had no choice but to run over to him quickly.
“Do you need for sothing?”
When he got close, Huo Jingshen didn’t speak, he just lowered his head and took her small hands into his own large ones.
As if looking at them.
Su Wanwan: “…”
The little girl had recently been busy preparing for exams, and she had lost so weight.
But a woman’s slimness is in her bones, not her skin. She had a naturally small fra, so even though she was thinner, the places that ought to be plump still were, and her pair of pale, delicate hands felt soft and supple in his.
“What is actually the matter with you?” Su Wanwan felt that sothing was definitely wrong.
This guy had always been a shaless rogue. Behind closed doors, even more, unbridled and rowdy, this was the first ti he was so… laden with worries!
He didn’t speak, just held and gazed at her hands.
What’s with her hands?
One mont Su Wanwan looked at her hands, the next she lifted her head to peer at him, and then her mind started racing with absurd thoughts.
Finally, she asked, “Are things not going well at work?”
But on second thought, that seed unlikely. The Huo Family was the wealthiest in Nancheng, their real estate business booming more day by day, and Huo Jingshen was indeed the legitimate successor. Just this morning when he left, he had been shaless…
“There are so things that have been bothering .”
With that one sentence, Huo Jingshen confird her suspicions.
So he had co to her for this reason?
After thinking for a while, Su Wanwan said timidly, “Then what do we do? Do you need… to cheer you up?”
Uttering these words left her feeling sowhat embarrassed, and Huo Jingshen was montarily: “…”
Su Wanwan quickly reverted to her bold self and said, “Forget it, forget it, I don’t know how to console people. You lack nothing, and I don’t understand your work matters, so I can’t help. You should…”
Her voice got softer and softer until she finally fell silent.
Because she noticed that Huo Jingshen had removed his sunglasses at so point, revealing narrow and long phoenix eyes that seed to hold indescribable undercurrents, gazing at her with a deep and dark intensity.
Suddenly, he said, “I’ll teach you.”
“Huh? Teach what?” Su Wanwan was still puzzled.
Huo Jingshen suddenly pulled her hands.
Su Wanwan’s whole body lurched forward as she was pulled, her waist tightened, followed by her lips being covered by a warm sensation.
The long, elegant hand slowly embraced the body in his arms, deepening the kiss.
Long and lingering.
Tender and repeated.
Eventually, Su Wanwan began to struggle for breath until he finally let her go.
Dazed, she leaned against the man’s chest, panting, and heard his deep voice near her ear, “Have you learned now?”
Su Wanwan: “…”
Dammit!
I’ve been ruined!
Looking at her ravishing, flushed cheeks, Huo Jingshen’s mood seed to suddenly improve. He bent down, murmuring softly, “In the future, just console like this, understand?”
Su Wanwan again: “…”
I don’t understand a damn thing!
She retracted her earlier thought about him being full of worries!
He was still that shaless old driver…
“Get in the car,” the old driver said.
“Where are we going?” Su Wanwan asked reflexively, “You’ve already consoled , aren’t you going back to work? If you don’t go to work, I need to go back to studying…”
“Get in the car first,” Huo Jingshen opened the car door, “It’s not convenient out here.”
Su Wanwan, as if coming to a sudden realization, finally understood that she had perford a passionate kiss right at the school gate!
And she had not noticed it at all.
Looking up, she saw students, pedestrians, and even the security guard standing post were looking in this direction…
Seeing Su Wanwan beca aware of herself, she imdiately turned her face away with a clumsy attempt to pretend she saw nothing.
Su Wanwan: “…”
She was mortified.
She quickly bent down, got into the car, and then imdiately shut the car door.
Once Huo Jingshen got into the car with a calm face, Su Wanwan hurriedly asked him to drive and then began to berate him, “Why didn’t you remind at all?”
It’s always like this!
He obviously did it on purpose!
Huo Jingshen said, “There wasn’t enough ti.”
Not enough ti?
Having thought about it, Su Wanwan glanced at him speechlessly, “Where are you taking ? Aren’t you going to work?”
“To the hospital,” Huo Jingshen said indifferently, “to visit your leader.”
“Did mistress tell you?”
Huo Jingshen did not confirm or deny.
“Right,” Su Wanwan suddenly rembered sothing, “I just found out today that the chairman has a daughter whose na sounds like mine. No wonder she has always been so kind to .”
Huo Jingshen raised an eyebrow but did not respond.
**
Half an hour later, Nangong Hospital.
At Su Wanwan’s insistence, Huo Jingshen bought a large bouquet of lilies and walked into the ward holding them.
Yan Shunhua was on the phone in her hospital bed. When she saw the visitors, she imdiately told the person on the other end of the line, “Finish shooting those Jinghua landscapes I sent you, and I’ll co over tomorrow… Yes, I’ll hang up now.”
She put down her phone and quickly asked her servants to make tea.
“No need, we’ll just sit for a while and then leave,” Huo Jingshen said, passing the bouquet to the servant and sitting down on the sofa.
Yan Shunhua’s complexion had improved a lot since the morning. She looked at Su Wanwan and said, “Shaoting told you ca over this morning. It seems I was talking in my sleep; did I scare you?”
“Not at all,” Su Wanwan said with a smile, “It was just quite unexpected.”
Yan Shunhua explained with a smile, “My daughter is nad Wanwan and has just turned eighteen this year. As soon as her exams are over, she can co to find . Then, I’ll introduce you two to each other.”
Su Wanwan nodded, “Sure.”
After a few words, her phone suddenly rang. Su Wanwan glanced at the screen, “Excuse , I need to take a call outside.”
“Go ahead.”
As soon as Su Wanwan left and the door closed, Yan Shunhua imdiately looked at Huo Jingshen, “Did Dong Manjiao say she’s going to find Wanwan?”
Huo Jingshen replied, “She won’t.”
Yan Shunhua frowned, “How can you be so sure?”
“If she wanted to find Wanwan, she wouldn’t co to first,” Huo Jingshen said indifferently.
Yan Shunhua frowned, “So she ans…”
“When are you going to Y Country?” Huo Jingshen changed the subject.
“End of August.”
“That’s a bit late.” So things probably couldn’t wait any longer.
Yan Shunhua naturally understood this as well. After thinking for a bit, she said, “Since she has co to Nancheng, I’ll find a chance to talk to her.”
This ‘she’ naturally referred to Dong Manjiao.
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