Chapter 50

Of course, whether Ye Yan and Qin Su actually rested the next day is unknown to anyone other than the parties involved.

However, the two of them did not step out of the hotel for two consecutive days.

They stayed in this northern city for a week, but had to return due to work pressure.

As the year draws to a close, Ye Yan has a mountain of unfinished business.

Logically speaking, Qin Su should be much busier than Ye Yan, having just finished a chip launch event and dropped such a bombshell announcement.

Strangely, she only went to her own company a few times, and seemed to have no work every day, appearing even more idle than before the press conference.

What she did most often was to stay in Ye Yan's office and play the claw machine.

She won all the plush toys in the claw machine, so Ding Bo had to buy new ones to fill it up.

When he was directing people to move the plush toys upstairs, he encountered a senior executive, the same one who had first seen the claw machine brought into the CEO's office and called it a joke.

Ding Bo frowned slightly, worried about what the other party might say, but he saw the executive with a kind smile, asking amiably, "Preparing a claw machine for President Qin?"

Ding Bo was surprised, then nodded: "Yes, most of the previous dolls have been cleared out."

The executive clapped his hands in admiration and exclaimed, "Great job, Mr. Qin's skills are truly superb."

He also sincerely suggested to Ding Bo: "I heard that President Qin likes red. Why don't you change the color of the claw machine so that President Qin will find it more pleasing to the eye?"

Ding Bo: "?"

He thought he had misheard: "What did you say?"

The executive thought he was unhappy and whispered to him, "There are so many people who want to see President Qin but can't. Let her arrange things however she likes. It's just a president's office, it's not a big deal."

Ding Bo: "..."

He vaguely remembered that the executives hadn't said that before.

Ding Bo remained silent for a long time before finally agreeing with difficulty, "Okay, I'll change it after the New Year."

And this item was added to the work list under the supervision of senior management.

***

The annual leave started on New Year's Eve, and Ye Yan didn't start resting until that day.

He and Qin Su went back to the Ye family's old house for New Year's Eve dinner and stayed overnight.

A countdown began on the TV screen in the living room, and festive fireworks lit up the dark night sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Ye Yan turned off his constantly vibrating phone and, listening to Ye Yuanqing's incessant coaxing of Ye Hongchang not far away, frowned slightly, almost imperceptibly.

He adjusted the red furry earring on Qin Su's earlobe and complained in a low voice, "Spending the New Year in the old house is really boring. Let's go on a trip next year."

It couldn't be more comfortable and relaxing to travel with just him and Qin Su.

Qin Su leaned her head on his shoulder while watching TV, seemingly engrossed, only letting out a soft "hmm".

Seeing that she wasn't in high spirits, Ye Yan asked, "Are you sleepy? Do you want to go back to your room?"

Qin Su lazily fiddled with his cuffs: "Anything is fine."

Ye Yan grasped Qin Su's hand: "Then let's go back to our room and rest."

But perhaps because everything around him was too noisy today, Ye Yan felt irritable while lying in bed.

The nerves in his temples were throbbing, as if it were some ominous premonition.

Qin Su seemed to sense something: "What's wrong with you?"

Ye Yan hesitated for a moment, feeling that his state was strange: "It's probably because it was too noisy today, and I'm inexplicably a little irritable now."

Or perhaps it's a feeling of anxiety and unease running rampant in the body.

Qin Su paused for a moment.

She patted Ye Yan on the back and whispered, "Go to sleep. When you wake up, it will be a new day."

Ye Yan wrapped his arms around her waist, feeling her breath, and gradually relaxed, falling into a deep sleep.

Qin Su stared at him silently.

To be fair, Ye Yan's bone structure is very sharp.

His brow bone and nose bridge are higher than average, his lips are thin, and his jawline and facial contours are clearly defined. When he frowns slightly, he exudes a sense of pressure.

It's really hard for outsiders to see how pure-hearted Ye Yan is inside from his seemingly indifferent face.

In this world, people are used to saying that a little bit of liking is a lot of infatuation, but few people clumsily hide their love and only reveal a little bit of it on their lips.

Every detail, every exciting moment, every desire to share, and every future plan are all included.

Ye Yan gave it all to her.

But she could give him nothing in return.

The system perched on the bedside table, tilting its little head to look at Ye Yan, and asked in a soft voice, "You should have forgotten by now, right?"

After completing their missions, it would sometimes erase all traces of its existence.

It thought the world didn't need to do this, but Su Su insisted on erasing everyone's memories.

A new year, a new beginning; no one needs to remember her.

Qin Su hugged the cat's soft body and said softly, "Let's go."

The last thing she could give Ye Yan was a sense of forgetting.

Without memories, there would be no worries.

He just needs to forget.

...

The next morning, before fully regaining consciousness, Ye Yan habitually tightened his arms.

However, unlike every time he had embraced Qin Su in the past, this time he found nothing.

Ye Yan opened his eyes in a daze.