Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Bad Dog

It is not easy to get Tang Ningyue to keep her promise. Unless there are interests involved, she has never been one to keep her promises. Li Jinglang knew this a long time ago.

The next day, Tang Ningyue was going to accompany Duan Jiayu to shoot a commercial. She told Li Jinglang about it during breakfast and promised to be back before dinner. She spoke with such confidence that Li Jinglang stared into her eyes, convinced and certain that she was lying.

Tang Ningyue's eyes flashed and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She would show this expression every time she lied to him. He could even recall every time she made this expression, but Li Jinglang did not expose her. He said nothing, just nodded and said - OK.

He was still so obedient. Tang Ningyue smiled with satisfaction. What she liked most about Li Jinglang was that he always listened to her. Even if he had conflicts with her or was angry with her, he would be obedient. This was one of the reasons why she allowed him to stay with her.

Tang Ningyue finished the last mouthful of porridge in the bowl, got up and went to the bathroom. She didn't pay much attention to Li Jinglang who was eating porridge silently with his head down. He had been eating for a long time, but the porridge in the bowl was not much, and it was even thicker.

She had just closed the bathroom door when her cell phone on the dining table rang at an inopportune time.

Fortunately, it was just a work call.

Li Jinglang hesitated for a moment, picked up the phone on the table, walked towards the bathroom, knocked twice on the door, and called her, "Someone's calling."

"Who is it?" The voice was not loud through the door, and Tang Ningyue just answered lazily.

"Director Chen Xi." He answered, reading the name of the contact on the screen.

"Oh." She answered through the door, "Please answer it for me. She should send a document to her."

Li Jinglang pursed his lips and answered the phone. As expected, the person on the other end came to ask for documents. He hung up after a few brief words. Tang Ningyue had not come out yet.

"The password is six zeros. Forward the pinned file to her." Tang Ningyue was still putting on makeup and directing the man outside to help her with the work. She seemed to trust him very much and was willing to let him do anything.

"Don't click to read it~ It's a company secret." She joked, her voice as unconventional and seductive as always.

"Hmm..." Li Jinglang just responded sullenly and forwarded the document as she requested.

The moment he unlocked the password on his phone, he was actually a little nervous. The social software he used for work was full of mechanical receiving and instructions, and there was nothing interesting about it. He didn't dare to click on anyone's avatar, but just listened to her orders and did things, and locked the screen and put it back after completing them.

After discovering Tang Ningyue's social software, Li Jinglang never tried to find out more. Those dazzling photos and enthusiastic interactions in the comment section suffocated him. He would rather turn a blind eye and act like a fool. He even woke up in the middle of the night and regretted his dirty behavior. It was really shameful.

However, before he locked the screen and confessed much, Sheng Shiyang's message popped up. He assured that he did not see the message on purpose, but it was exposed in front of him so nakedly.

One after another, ambiguous messages.

[I'm about to board the plane. I should arrive on time. You promised to pick me up, Yueyue. I want to see you as soon as I get off the plane.]

【I miss you so much. 】

[How about we have dinner together tonight? I’ve booked your favorite restaurant. I want to see you right away.]

[Without you by my side, I have been suffering from insomnia. Please stay with me next time, okay? ]

Li Jinglang stared at the messages that kept popping up, and unconsciously his phone was about to hold its breath. He stared motionlessly at the intimate words between lovers on the screen.

He wanted to be an honest person, but it was perfect in his mind. But when he put it into practice, everything changed. The crazy thoughts in his bones spread to his fingers.

He deleted four messages in a row and almost deleted all the contacts. This is what Li Jinglang would do.

When Tang Ningyue came out of the bathroom, Li Jinglang had already sat back at the dining table, quietly holding the spoon in his hand, but the porridge in the bowl was still there. She didn't pay much attention to it, but just rubbed his head with a smile.

"Stay home and don't cause any trouble." She half-threatened, her voice still very gentle. "If I see you looking sick again when I come back, I will not let you go."

"Did you hear that?" Tang Ningyue wrapped the scarf around his shoulders and pinched his chin to make him look up. "Will you be good?"

"Hmm..." He nodded, letting her hold his jaw. Her hand was warm. Even though she forced him to look up in such a humiliating way, he couldn't help but want to rub her hand.

But he didn't dare to do that. He was sober now, and she would not forgive him like she did last night.

"Speak." She tried again.

"I heard it." He answered, his eyes moving twice, as if begging for mercy.

Tang Ningyue enjoyed it very much and let go of his hand with satisfaction. Before leaving, she rubbed his hair twice and said, "Be good..."

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The luxury brand underwear advertisement that Duan Jiayu shot today is the most well-known advertisement and his first big project since his debut. Tang Ningyue even went to accompany him in person.

Duan Jiayu was so ashamed that he refused to stand up straight, but Tang Ningyue, who had seen the world, was not satisfied with frowning and glaring at him. She rolled up the magazine in her hand and slapped it on his butt. A loud bang exploded, and she impatiently asked him to behave himself.

This slap made his face flush red with shame. The staff around him were all laughing. Duan Jiayu lowered his head almost to his chest and stammered, accusing: "You...you are...workplace..."

He couldn't even utter the following words. His face flushed and he was at a loss. He glanced at Tang Ningyue and lowered his head, not daring to say anything. His whole head was like a blown-up balloon, extremely red.

"Okay, okay, you guys go out first." Tang Ningyue didn't want to waste time and helped Duan Jiayu out of the predicament.

After the crowd was cleared away, Duan Jiayu finally stood up straight and was no longer so shy.

"What did you want to say just now?" Tang Ningyue glanced at him. "Want to talk about my workplace unspoken rules or workplace sexual harassment? Hmm?"

"No..." He shook his head. "I...I just wanted to ask, could you please not do this in front of so many people..."

"Can I do it now?" Tang Ningyue raised her eyebrows, making Duan Jiayu's face even redder than before, and even his neck began to turn red, his skin flushed like an allergy.

"Do you want to fight?"

Duan Jiayu raised his eyes innocently and asked this question. Tang Ningyue sneered and poked his forehead with her fingertips, "I'm not interested in a fool like you."

"Why?" Duan Jiayu felt a little aggrieved.

"Inexperienced and stupid." Tang Ningyue crossed her arms and curled her lips. "I hate wasting time teaching children."

"I..." He wanted to make some excuses.

"Okay, start shooting quickly, don't waste time, I have something to do tonight." Tang Ningyue was in no mood to tease him anymore, work was more important.

"I see."

Tang Ningyue is very serious when working, and doesn't joke around. She is rigorous and demanding, completely different from her usual self.

Duan Jiayu still remembered what she had told him before: the only thing that is loyal in this world is the money in your hand.

He didn't have a good impression of Tang Ningyue at first, thinking that she was superficial and worldly, and cynical, just like the playboys in school who would be posted on the confession wall and scolded.

It’s just that Duan Jiayu didn’t know her well enough. He never saw through her, let alone understood her heart. Or rather, no one could get into her heart.

It was already dark when the shooting ended. The Chinese New Year was just a few days away, and the streets were decorated with festive cheer. Most of the people coming and going were pedestrians buying New Year's goods.

Tang Ningyue's concept of celebrating the Chinese New Year is still stuck in the past before she went to Canada. Xu Lin doesn't have any obsession with celebrating the Chinese New Year. She just orders a few boxes of dumplings from a Chinese restaurant. As for putting up Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters, those are things that they would do at Zhou Su's house.

Xu Lin was originally a person with a cold and dull temperament. She loved children, but she would not hug or chat with them intimately and warmly. She was always mechanical and very resistant to intimate things. Fortunately, she had her grandfather, and fortunately, she had at least experienced that kind of love from Zhou Su before she became an adult.

So Tang Ningyue would always subconsciously imitate her and imitate the appearance of Zhou Su's lover. She put the first experiment on Tang Zhaoming, but he said that she was disguising very deliberately. It was obvious that she had the same personality as her mother, but Tang Ningyue didn't care. She said that no one could find out except you.

Tang Ningyue was always afraid that Tang Zhaoming would develop a love-deprived personality, so she always tried to love and care for him in Zhou Su's way. Although her method was very crude, fortunately, Tang Zhaoming himself was such a heartless person, and it was a lucky thing that such a character appeared in their family.

It was already 7:30 in the evening after sending Duan Jiayu back to the apartment, which was long past Li Jinglang's usual dinner time. Tang Ningyue hurried back and bought some chestnut milk tea on the way to take back to appease him.

Sheng Shiyang's call came at a very inopportune time. Tang Ningyue heard his slightly aggrieved accusation as soon as she answered the phone.

"Yueyue, why didn't you come to pick me up?"

"Aren't you coming back the day after tomorrow?" Tang Ningyue thought about it and made sure that she remembered it correctly.

"I told you last night when I called you that I would go back early."

"Ah..." Tang Ningyue sighed, recalling, "I was too busy to remember. Sorry..."

"I reminded you this morning..." Sheng Shiyang felt increasingly aggrieved, his voice hoarse as if he was about to burst into tears, "You didn't reply to me..."

"Morning?"

Tang Ningyue turned around and went into the basement. After parking the car, she looked through the chat history, but it was empty.

“I didn’t receive it.”

“When did you send it?”

"Is there no signal? No signal was sent out?"

After he finished speaking, a screenshot sent by Sheng Shiyang popped up on the screen, with three messages clearly displayed on it, sent in full at 7:30 in the morning.

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The author has something to say: Puppies are like this, they can lick and they can show their teeth, they can act coquettishly and they can roll around.

Bad dog.

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