Chapter 10

Ye Yan hurried back to his bedroom.

He has a section in his walk-in closet specifically for storing underwear; theoretically, he only needs to take out his underwear and put it away.

But when Ye Yan opened the box and looked at the two pairs of underwear inside, a pair of hands that looked like shaving scallion roots suddenly popped into his mind.

Those snow-white fingers, like jade shoots, were kneading the fabric...

With a "smack," Ye Yan closed the box with a stern face.

Instead of taking out the underwear, he put the box in the bottom drawer.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Ye Yan stepped into the temperature-controlled bathroom, turned on the shower, closed his eyes, and let the warm water flow over his handsome features.

The rising steam blurred the glass, but it couldn't hide his tall and straight figure.

He usually dresses too formally, and only when no one is around does he reveal his well-defined but not exaggerated muscles and perfect V-shaped physique.

As he gradually relaxed, he began to slowly recall the events of the day.

He had everything under control at work, and he observed the Ye family's affairs with a detached eye and made his own judgments. But the most unexpected and biggest change was...

Qin Su.

Ye Yan silently repeated the name in his heart several times, his thick eyebrows furrowing.

His legal wife, whose appearance, aura, and behavior had all changed drastically, had only been back in the country for a day, yet she already left him feeling somewhat confused and troubled.

Whether it's her breathtaking beauty or her cunning schemes, both possess an unfathomable and subtly dangerous mysterious charm.

This allure is certainly captivating, but it is also fraught with uncertainty.

Ye Yan, who is used to being in control of the overall situation, dislikes uncertainty the most.

You should try to keep your distance from her, and it would be best to reduce meetings and contact.

As Ye Yan thought indifferently, he wrapped a bath towel around his waist.

He was used to living alone, and since he was in his own bedroom, he didn't put on a shirt and walked straight out. Unexpectedly, he saw Qin Su leaning against his bedside playing on her phone.

Ye Yan's bed sheet was black, and Qin Su was half-lying on it wearing a red dress. Her calves, hanging over the edge of the bed, were well-proportioned, her ankles were delicate and beautiful, and her skin was incredibly white.

Because the color contrast is so striking, it has a very strong first impression.

Ye Yan's eyes widened, and his heart skipped a beat.

But his first reaction was to look away, and he exclaimed in shock and anger, "Qin Su! What are you doing?!"

Qin Su responded with a puzzled "Hmm?"

She was baffled: "What are you making such a fuss about? Didn't you say I could choose the room?"

Ye Yan turned to the side, veins throbbing on his forehead: "...I let you choose from the rooms that no one lives in, not from mine."

"But you didn't say I couldn't choose my room." Qin Su threw her phone on the bed and said unhappily, "Of all the bedrooms, this one has a circular floor-to-ceiling window, the best lighting, and the most human touch. Of course, I like it the most here."

Ye Yan felt a headache coming on. He endured it, swallowed his other words, and tried to reason with her: "But this is still my room. You should have let me know before you came in. Besides, it's late now, and we're alone together..."

He paused here, not saying anything more, feeling that he had already expressed his meaning.

Unexpectedly, Qin Su asked him in confusion, "What do you want to do to me?"

Ye Yan immediately denied it: "Of course not!"

Qin Su: "That's settled then."

Her face was full of incomprehension: "Don't always be like this. Either explain yourself more clearly, or be more generous."

A question mark slowly appeared above Ye Yan's head. He momentarily forgot his earlier reservations and looked at Qin Su in disbelief: "Am I always like this?"

"If it's not you, then who is it?" Qin Su raised her chin, speaking with righteous indignation. "I asked you to pick me up from the airport, but you sent your assistant to get rid of me. You let me choose the bedroom, and then you complained that I chose the wrong one. Don't you think you're being unreasonable?"

Ye Yan: "..."

Who? Who went too far?

Is it really possible that there are such unreasonable and blatantly lying people in the world?

Ye Yan was about to lose his temper and was about to speak when he suddenly heard Qin Su say something else.

"However, I'm not as unreasonable as President Ye, and I didn't plan to take over your bedroom on my first day back."

She put on an act of being very kind: "I'm waiting for you here because I have something important to do."

Hearing her say that, Ye Yan suppressed his anger and asked bluntly, "What is it?"

Qin Su chuckled, her expression subtly malicious: "I'm here to check if you've treated my gift properly."

Ye Yan didn't react for a moment: "?"

Qin Su slowly swung her legs, her fine eyelashes fluttering twice. Her gaze lingered on Ye Yan's waist and abdomen, which were wrapped in a bath towel, before she repeated meaningfully, "I've come to check if President Ye has used my gift."

Her fair and beautiful calf swayed past the dark bed sheet, her smiling eyes seeming to hold a little hook.

Ye Yan was taken aback, then suddenly understood what she meant.

In that instant, he felt every inch of skin on his waist and abdomen that Qin Su had examined burning in the dark, his blood flowing hot, making him restless and stiff.

His anger subsided instantly, and he forced a straight face, saying calmly, "Don't talk nonsense."

"See? I told you you're always so unreasonable," Qin Su said, feigning annoyance. "As the one who gave the gift, I just wanted to check if it was being treated well, and you said I was talking nonsense?"

She continued to argue illogically as before, but Ye Yan found it difficult to get angry like he had before.

Qin Su deliberately asked, "President Ye, you seem to hate me so much, are you going to turn around and throw away my gift?"

Ye Yan pursed his lips tightly.

Rationally, he felt he could simply ignore such a pointless question and ask Qin Su to leave his bedroom, but...

He whispered, "In the dressing room."

Qin Su then revealed a slight smile.

"Then remember to use it later." She stood up from Ye Yan's bed, covered her mouth and yawned. "It's alright now, it's just a small thing. I was so sleepy waiting for you."

When she walked up to Ye Yan, she even complained, "You've ruined my beauty sleep."

Ye Yan: "..."

It actually became his fault.

"Oh, right." Qin Su was almost at the door when she suddenly turned back and smiled at him. "I smelled the perfume by your bedside, and it really smells nice."

Ye Yan glanced at the bedside table subconsciously; all his perfumes were the same brand.

Qin Su: "It smells just like you."

She seemed to be just adding a sentence casually, completely unaware of the implications it would have, and lightly changed the subject: "Actually, there's something else I'm very curious about."

"Since the gift I gave you is in the walk-in closet, then..."

Qin Su deliberately paused for a second to draw Ye Yan's attention before drawing out her words.

"President Ye, what are you wearing right now?"

She lowered her voice even further, almost whispering, "You're not wearing anything, are you?"

"Are you always talking to me like this?"

Ye Yan's thoughts were already slightly disordered by her talk about perfume, and now, with such blatant provocation, it was as if fireworks exploded in his mind, blasting away all his thinking abilities.

Although his face remained cold and stern, his ears turned almost instantly red, as if they could bleed.

Seeing him like this, Qin Su burst into laughter without any restraint.

When she wasn't smiling, she was aloof and captivating; when she smiled, she was even more radiant, both passionate and bright, making the indoor lights seem dimmer.

Ye Yan's back went numb for a moment again, uncontrollably.

Qin Su smiled and waved to him, "Good night."

Ye Yan was left standing there stiffly, not moving for a long time.

What is this? A blatant temptation?

But she left without the slightest hesitation, as if it were a prank to mock him.

A complex mix of emotions flashed across Ye Yan's face. After a long while, he lay back down on the bed, his gaze falling on the bottle of custom-made perfume on the bedside table.

Strangely enough, he wasn't usually sensitive to smells, but after Qin Su praised his perfume twice in one day, he seemed to notice these subtle things.

For example, right now, in this familiar space, he seemed to smell a strange and enchanting fragrance, with a captivating and alluring aftertaste.

Ye Yan then realized that the spot where he was lying was the same spot where Qin Su had been leaning against while playing on her phone.

Although she has left, her unique charm lingers here.

Ye Yan's breath hitched, and Qin Su's every smile and frown, as well as the words she had spoken that evening, uncontrollably resurfaced in his mind.

"It smells just like you."

"Are you going to talk to me like this all the time?"

"What are you wearing right now?"

"I'll check the gifts."

The gift…the clothes that once lingered on her soft, jade-like fingers…

Ye Yan sat up abruptly, staring at the bulge on the blanket.

He tried hard to clear his mind and calm himself down, but he was, after all, a young man in his early twenties, full of energy and usually busy with work and didn't have the mind for such things. But when he was suddenly provoked like this, his body simply wouldn't let up.

Half a day later, the blanket was still sticking out.

Ye Yan scratched his hair in frustration, but finally gave in and turned on the light to go back into the bathroom.

Meanwhile, Qin Su, who claimed to be taking her beauty sleep, was lying in a rattan chair on the balcony, looking at the light in Ye Yan's room and clicking her tongue in admiration: "Not bad, this light has been on for so long. It seems that the investment is not to be underestimated."

The cat system, which had just woken up after sleeping on her shoulder for most of the day, looked around in confusion: "Huh? What light?"

It had only taken a nap, but the world felt completely different: "Su Su, where is this? Weren't you getting a beauty treatment with Xiao Xiao? Huh, what's going on? Why did Ye Yan's favorability towards you suddenly increase so much?!"

With no outsiders present, Qin Su openly held it in her arms and immediately spread rumors about Ye Yan: "It's probably because he really likes leopard print clothes."

Upon hearing this, the system's cat-like eyes widened in shock: "Meow meow meow?"

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Mini-theater:

Ye Yan's initial thought: I need to stay away from her and keep my distance.

Later, Ye Yan said: He missed his wife and wanted to see her every second.