"Pitter-patter..."
Outside the window, raindrops trickled down the eaves. The rumbling thunder gradually faded away, allowing the sun to peek through the clouds and cast a rainbow over the streets that had just been washed clean by the heavy downpour.
Inside the hotel, trailing past crumpled tissues stained with a hint of crimson, Sakuramiya Hitomi groggily opened her eyes from amidst the rising and falling bedding, nestled safely in Yan Huan's arms.
"Mmh..."
She lifted her slightly sore arm and groggily rubbed her eyes.
"Am... am I still alive...?"
"..."
A second later, however, her eyes flew open as she belatedly realized what had happened.
Her small face instantly flushed crimson, and her eyes swirled in chaotic, dizzy spirals.
'The President and I first did this and this...'
'And then we did that and that...'
"Waaah..."
Overwheld with shyness, she hurriedly covered her face with her hands, yet she couldn't hide her excitent, allowing her blinking eyes to peek through the gaps in her fingers.
'I...'
'I actually really did it!'
'The President was incredibly gentle, although I inevitably passed out for a little while in the middle...'
'But the outco is good!'
'I actually managed to hold on!!'
'It seems Nara's training was actually useful!!'
"..."
In truth, it was because Yan Huan's Kiss God ability had gained an effect that could eliminate Modifier side effects.
Midway through, in order to comfort the terrified, fragile, and helpless Sakuramiya Hitomi, he had kissed her more tis than he could count.
Sniff~
However, while covering her face, Sakuramiya Hitomi's nose suddenly twitched.
She suddenly caught a whiff of a rather unpleasant scent.
A pungent sll...
'I feel like my entire body slls like this!'
It could only be said that all the preparations An Le had made recently to break Ye Shiyu's hypnosis had ultimately ended up benefiting Sakuramiya Hitomi instead.
"...President, honestly..."
Rembering the cause, Sakuramiya Hitomi turned her head and cast a helpless glance at Yan Huan, who was still resting with his eyes closed beside her. She wanted to get out of bed and head to the bathroom to rinse off.
But the mont she shifted her body, an agonizing, unbearable soreness radiated through every muscle and joint.
"Ugh..."
Unable to move, she had no choice but to obediently stay where she was.
Outside the window, the rain had stopped.
The air conditioner blew a gentle, warm breeze that brushed past Yan Huan and Sakuramiya Hitomi's faces.
At that mont, Yan Huan was still enveloping the petite Sakuramiya Hitomi in his arms.
Sakuramiya Hitomi blinked and looked at Yan Huan's sleeping face beside her, unable to stop a soft smile from spreading across her lips.
"..."
Yet in the very next second, the eyelashes of the boy before her fluttered slightly, and Yan Huan opened his eyes.
Beneath the warm bedding, the two of them lay re inches apart, gazing into each other's eyes.
"Good morning, President~"
"Isn't it... evening already?"
Yan Huan blinked and replied.
"Emm... let's just consider it a practice run for later?"
Sakuramiya Hitomi smiled and reached out a finger, gently tapping Yan Huan's nose.
"..."
Yan Huan simply laid there, staring at Sakuramiya Hitomi in front of him.
She lay against the pristine white bedding and the crisp white pillows, her head sinking slightly into the softness.
Frad by a blooming halo of gradient-colored long hair, she smiled beautifully like a flower. She seed sohow different from before, yet just as breathtakingly gorgeous.
"Hitomi..."
He parted his lips, suddenly feeling the urge to lean in and kiss her.
But the mont he moved, Sakuramiya Hitomi recalled sothing and hurriedly raised a hand to stop him.
"Wait, wait, wait... I sll... I sll a bit..."
"..."
Yan Huan had experience with this and knew exactly why.
Although a simple wipe-down would suffice, it truly wasn't the best way to clean up, especially since it was all over Hitomi's body.
Back at his ho in the South Ward, Yan Huan and An Le would usually take turns showering after they finished.
However, given Sakuramiya Hitomi's condition at the ti, there was really no other option, which was why they had just gone to sleep like that.
"Let's go take a shower."
Hearing this, Sakuramiya Hitomi's face unavoidably flushed a faint shade of pink.
"Everything is so sore, I... I can't get up..."
Yan Huan, however, felt a surge of enthusiasm. He imdiately sat up and reached out to carry her.
"I'll help you!"
"Eh? Wait a minute!"
Sakuramiya Hitomi beca panicked and helpless, but utterly lacked the strength to resist as she was scooped into his arms. Left with no alternative, she wrapped her arms around Yan Huan's neck and let him carry her into the bathroom.
"President!!"
"Honestly, you're...!!"
An hour later, downstairs in the hotel lobby.
Having just checked out and changed her clothes, Sakuramiya Hitomi couldn't even stand steady and had to lean on Yan Huan for support.
"So you're saying Ye Shiyu can now hypnotize and monitor us through the Yezi AI on our phones?"
Upon hearing this, Sakuramiya Hitomi's eyes widened in disbelief, wearing an expression that seed to say, 'How did she learn the secret technique of my sect?'
"Yeah... I already fell victim to it earlier, but then I suddenly recovered just now."
At this mont, both of their phones were still on airplane mode, so there was no need to worry about Ye Shiyu eavesdropping.
Thinking about it, Yan Huan glanced at his own palm in astonishnt; he had no idea how he had managed to break the hypnosis.
But simply breaking the hypnosis wasn't enough. He had to figure out a way to stop Ye Shiyu from continuing to monitor him without deleting the Yezi App...
"..."
As he pondered the issue, an idea suddenly struck him.
"It's getting late. Hitomi, why don't you ssage Nara to co pick you up?"
"Ah, okay... Should I take it off airplane mode then?"
"Yeah."
Yan Huan also looked down and disabled airplane mode on his phone. A flurry of ssages flooded his Plane account, but almost all of them were work-related.
That morning, he had added Brother Zhang on Plane, who had then pulled him into several group chats.
There was also a group chat from the Jinshi Group's side.
But for so unknown reason, it only contained two people: Yan Huan and Spencer.
"..."
Bizarrely enough, Ye Shiyu still hadn't sent any ssages.
At that mont, Yan Huan glanced at Sakuramiya Hitomi beside him, who was currently ssaging Nara.
Thinking along those lines...
This ti, that terrifying hallucination of Ye Shiyu didn't appear to dump cold water on his thoughts.
And Ye Shiyu didn't seem to know about it, nor had she reapplied the hypnosis.
"..."
Yan Huan took a deep breath and locked his phone screen, a thoughtful expression settling over his features.
The next morning at Ye International.
Yan Huan set down his phone screen, which was displaying the erotic manga An Le had forwarded to him, and officially began his busy workday.
Needless to say, while the link looked like a relevant sharing of industry materials, in reality...
It was still an implicit sexual proposition.
Yan Huan had lost count of how many tis he had received such things from An Le since the hypnosis incident began.
Yet yesterday had only been the third day of An Le's abstinence.
Yan Huan could already sense that An Le's resentnt toward Ye Shiyu was growing heavier by the minute.
Anything else might be negotiable, but this sche of pulling the rug out from under her by cutting off intimacy was sothing An Le could absolutely not tolerate.
He had to resolve this issue as soon as possible...
Otherwise, An Le—who had supposedly turned over a new leaf after the Tokyo Incident—would likely kick up a reign of terror under the banner of Defeating Ye Shiyu and Reclaiming Little Yan Huan.
"Hey, Little Yan, take this spreadsheet and read through it with your older sister. Familiarize yourselves with the formatting for Ye International's reports.
"And these are various past docunts and PPT screenshots. You need to understand their formatting as well, so you can emulate them flawlessly when organizing future tasks."
Yan Huan accepted the thick stack of docunts Brother Zhang handed over and nodded.
"Will do, Brother Zhang."
Turning around to head back to the office, Yan Huan instantly slipped on his mask of perfect expression managent.
"..."
Currently, inside their private office.
Ye Shiyu's seat was positioned deeper inside the room, facing the office entrance.
Yan Huan's seat was opposite hers, with his back facing the door.
Enclosed by frosted glass partitions, Ye Shiyu stared at her computer monitor, viewing the AI-surveilled chat logs of An Le's increasingly bitter and resentful complaints.
Remaining entirely expressionless, she rely took a sip of her coffee.
"Click~"
The next second, the door opened. With a re thought from Ye Shiyu, the surveillance feed on the computer screen vanished instantly. "Sister Shiyu, these docunts..."
"..."
Holding the docunts, Yan Huan relayed the work requirents the departnt had assigned them to Ye Shiyu.
Ye Shiyu appeared to be listening, but her gaze was fixated on him the entire ti.
She just watched as Xiao Huan's eyes, focused on the docunts, quivered slightly.
Evidently, he had noticed her intense stare.
On one hand, she told him she only wanted to be his older sister; on the other hand, she continuously fed Xiao Huan ambiguous and suggestive hints.
Subjecting him to non-stop abstinence was like forcing Xiao Huan into a dead-end alley where his only exit was to choose Sister Shiyu.
"Sister Shiyu, I don't want you to just be my sister... Actually, the one I truly like is you... I belong only to you..."
One day, Xiao Huan would definitely say those words to her.
"...Sister Shiyu?"
"Hmm?"
Ye Shiyu snapped out of her reverie, raising her eyes to look at Yan Huan standing before her.
She saw him smile faintly as he suddenly said,
"Sister Shiyu, yesterday at the Jinshi Group, I ran into a younger sister from the orphanage where I grew up. She seems to have beco a big star now, and she even invited
out to eat..."
'Hmm?'
'Why so suddenly...'
'Could the effects of making Xiao Huan turn over a new leaf be this imdiate?'
Ye Shiyu paused for a second before questioning,
"A younger sister?"
Yan Huan nodded, putting down the docunts in his hand as he spoke softly,
"Yeah. Back in the orphanage, all the kids addressed each other as brothers and sisters. In reality, our relationship was just okay...
"But yesterday, she showed this weird sort of enthusiasm toward . I kept feeling like sothing was off, so I thought about dragging you along with , Sister Shiyu."
Hearing this, Ye Shiyu narrowed her eyes, a faint, chilling glint seeping into their depths.
'A younger sister? A big star? Inviting Xiao Huan to eat? A weird enthusiasm?'
"..."
Outwardly, however, she remained exactly the sa as usual. She nodded first, then suddenly tilted her head and asked,
"I suppose I can go, but... for sothing like this, wouldn't it be better to have Sakuramiya Hitomi accompany you?"
'Here it cos!'
Yan Huan's heart tightened, but beneath his mask of perfect expression managent, his face displayed a touch of bewildered realization.
It was as if he had only just rembered it after Ye Shiyu brought it up.
"Actually, Sister Shiyu... Sakuramiya and I had a fight yesterday."
"...Oh? Over what?"
"Originally, I planned to go on a date with Sakuramiya yesterday afternoon, right after keeping her company during her work..."
'A date?'
Upon hearing those words, Ye Shiyu maintained her expressionless face, but her grip on the phone hidden behind her back gradually tightened.
She gripped it so hard that the standby avatar of Yezi on the screen was literally squeezed into view.
"But because of the rain, we had to seek temporary shelter in a hotel..."
'A hotel?'
Ye Shiyu paused slightly, then seed to realize sothing, and the tension in her hand loosened a bit.
"Anyway, in the end, we left on bad terms."
"I see... so that's how it is."
'It was probably Sakuramiya Hitomi wanting to get intimate with Xiao Huan, only for Xiao Huan to reject her because of the hypnosis.'
'So, that's why they fought?'
'As expected, my hypnosis is working.'
"Even though you were willing to accompany her during work, Sakuramiya Hitomi still picked a fight with you?"
"Right? You think so too, Sister Shiyu?"
"Mhm."
Ye Shiyu lowered her phone, then gently reached out and grasped Yan Huan's hand.
Feeling Ye Shiyu's icy-cold hand wrap around his, Yan Huan's heart instantly grew tense.
At that mont, stripped of the affection boost previously provided by the hypnosis, Yan Huan experienced that terrifying, spine-chilling coldness in its purest, most vivid form.
Outwardly, however, he continued to wear his mask of perfect expression managent, pretending to be so shy that his fingers slightly stiffened.
"Sister Shiyu..."
"This lunch invitation—I accept."
"Really?"
"Mhm, let's go together."
Ye Shiyu tilted her head to look at Yan Huan and spoke softly.
The next second, Yan Huan imdiately broke into a smile and gave Ye Shiyu a gentle hug.
"That's great, Sister Shiyu!"
"..."
Feeling Yan Huan's warm embrace, Ye Shiyu couldn't help but freeze slightly.
She instinctively wanted to deepen the embrace, and imdiately after, Yan Huan did exactly as she wished, holding her a little more tightly.
'It seems my strategy was right.'
'Xiao Huan is...'
'He's already starting to like .'
'It surely won't be long before he breaks up with Sakuramiya Hitomi and completely cuts off contact with An Le, Bai Yi, and the others.'
'It's just that Spencer girl...'
"I'll go process these docunts first, then I'll co pick you up for lunch later, Sister Shiyu."
"Mhm."
Watching Yan Huan instinctively reveal a happy expression, Ye Shiyu's cold heart couldn't help but beat a little faster.
She watched as Yan Huan gathered up the docunts. A mont later, he glanced at his constantly chiming phone on the table and muttered,
"Hiss... I've been added to so many work groups, there are so many ssages. If I don't set it to 'Do Not Disturb,' it's too noisy; if I do, I'm worried about missing important updates..."
"Mhm."
Ye Shiyu listened to his words absentmindedly. Currently thrilled by their progress, she was entirely focused on admiring the results of Xiao Huan turning over a new leaf.
"I think I'll get a separate work phone later and create a new Plane account just for it..."
"Mhm."
After saying that, Yan Huan quickly turned his head back to look at Ye Shiyu.
"Oh right, Sister Shiyu, what do you want to eat for lunch? She said it's her treat, so let's fleece her for a good al."
"...Anything is fine."
"Alright, Sister Shiyu."
Hearing this, Yan Huan gave a helpless smile, grabbed the docunts, and turned to leave.
Ye Shiyu watched him walk away, completely unaware that the words she had just heard already contained Yan Huan's true objective.
As the office door clicked shut, Ye Shiyu sat back down in her executive chair in high spirits, casually glancing down at her current outfit to see if it was appropriate...
Along the way, she once again opened the interface of the Yezi AI App.
[Turn Over a New Leaf - Part 2]
[You have successfully begun playing the role of a beloved older sister. Detected that Yan Huan's heart-throb value toward you is 1%]
[Only when this value reaches 50% will you receive your reward~]
'Hmm?'
Ye Shiyu still bore an expressionless face, but a distinct trace of stunned bewildernt appeared in her eyes.
'One... percent?'
'Heart-throb value?'
'Previously, it was always 5%...'
'And now it is...'
'1%?'
'But Xiao Huan clearly just...'
"..."
After a brief, one-second mont of shock, Ye Shiyu seed to realize sothing.
Her already expressionless face grew increntally colder and colder until her entire body sank back against the executive chair behind her.
Creak...
Creak...
The entire building seed to suffer from unstable voltage, causing all electrical appliances to flicker on and off.
But after just a single second, everything returned to normal.
Yet in that office, Ye Shiyu stared coldly in the direction Yan Huan had left, speaking softly,
"Xiao Huan..."
"You really aren't being obedient at all..."
A short while later, at the Golden Lion Mansion.
Humming a tune, Lemon looked at her assistant behind her and paused in slight surprise.
"So you're saying... Brother Yan Huan agreed to have lunch with ?"
"Yes, that's correct."
Behind her, the assistant nodded and looked at Lemon.
"It's just that he said he'll be bringing his older sister along to eat with us."
'An older sister? Ah, soone from the orphanage?'
Lemon tapped her chin thoughtfully, then quickly broke into a bright smile.
"It's fine, it's fine. Let him bring her, it's not a nuisance at all~"
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