Chapter 33 Did you hear clearly?

Jiang Tingwan sat in the back seat of the car, her fingers unconsciously tapping on the screen of her mobile phone, making a slight and rhythmic sound.

Through the car window, she saw Ruan Yue hurriedly running out of the restaurant.

The little girl's eyes were red and her steps were hurried and flustered, as if she was a frightened deer, feeling full of grievances.

Jiang Tingwan subconsciously wanted to push the door and get out of the car to comfort her. However, the moment he stretched out his hand, he abruptly retracted it.

After thinking about it during the day, she felt more and more that she seemed to always subconsciously care about Ruan Yue, which exceeded the limits of her usual attitude towards others.

The phone screen lit up and dimmed in front of her eyes, but she never received any message from Shen Guan.

“Knock, knock.”

There was a sudden knock on the car window, and Jiang Tingwan looked up.

Chen Guan that handsome face reflected in the glass.

She pushed open the car door, and the cool night breeze blew in her face, carrying the faint cedar scent on his body.

"How do you know I'm here?" Jiang Tingwan looked calm, but there was a hint of subtle curiosity in his tone.

"How can you wait at home peacefully in your current state?"

Shen Guan chuckled, his eyes full of teasing, “You look calm on the surface, but you actually care about the result the most in your heart, right?”

The moonlight was like water, sprinkling on Jiang Tingwan.

She rarely refuted Shen Guan's teasing, but just stared at him quietly.

He was right, she did care.

Ruan Yue was an exception in her treatment of others, and if it were her, Jiang Tingwan would also let her stop the loss in time and know what she should do.

Shen Guan put away his smile, looked at her seriously, and said slowly.

"She rejected me. Her performance was very natural, and there was almost no flaw to find."

"It's possible that she's just a great actress? Or maybe she saw through our plan."

Shen Guan leaned slightly to the side and leaned against the car body.

Hearing him say this, Jiang Tingwan felt much more at ease.

“Boss Shen’s insight should not be so great that he can’t see it.”

Regardless of whether Ruan Yue was acting or not, at least she didn't reveal any clues this time, and she really didn't want to delve into it.

Putting aside other things, judging from how she had been interacting with Ruan Yue over the past few days, she didn't really hope it was Ruan Yue.

"I hope so. She heard me say bad things about you and she cursed me out."

Chen Guan raised the corners of his lips slightly and took a step closer to Jiang Tingwan.

"How are you going to make it up to me?"

Jiang Tingwan found it a little funny to hear him describe Ruan Yue like this.

What did this person say?

"What does President Shen want?"

Jiang Tingwan raised her eyebrows and returned to her usual carefree expression.

Chen Guan raised his eyes and looked at the towering Shen's Building not far away, and said, "Can you please go to the top floor to get some fresh air?"

"OK."

Jiang Tingwan agreed very readily.

The two walked towards the building side by side. Jiang Tingwan subconsciously turned back and glanced in the direction where Ruan Yue left.

I hope Ruan Yue is really innocent.

Although she was not an emotional person, she still felt bad when she thought that it might be her who did it.

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The night wind on the top floor was strong, ruffling Jiang Tingwan's hair wantonly.

Shen Guan stood calmly in the wind outlet, blocking most of the cold wind for her.

His coat was draped over Jiang Tingwan's shoulders, carrying with it his faint cedar scent and remaining body temperature.

He originally wanted to ask Jiang Tingwan what her plans were next, but when he saw her relaxed brows, he swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"Are you feeling better?" He finally asked.

Jiang Tingwan lay on the glass fence, the night wind blowing her hair wildly.

She turned her head and smiled.

"How do you know I'm in a bad mood?" Her voice returned to its usual teasing tone.

Shen Guan also laughed.

"When you are in a good mood, there is no need to be so polite when talking to me."

I asked him for help during the day to test the waters and said thank you seriously.

She herself might not have noticed that when he mentioned that it might be Ruan Yue, she became much colder.

Jiang Tingwan was amused by him.

The moonlight sprinkled on Jiang Tingwan's cold face, making her look particularly vivid and charming at this moment.

Watching her intently.

The wind seemed to be particularly kind to her, lifting the ends of her hair to crown them.

He suddenly felt that he, a businessman who had always been good at calculating in the business world, had actually made a loss-making deal just to get her momentary smile.

Just then, the roar of propellers was heard overhead.

Jiang Tingwan looked up.

I saw a private helicopter slowly approaching, and its searchlight drew dazzling arcs of light in the night.

Chen Guan took her wrist and walked towards the helicopter, but Jiang Tingwan did not struggle.

The sound of the propellers grew louder.

"You shouted?" Jiang Tingwan had to raise her voice.

He watched but smiled without saying anything, and just stretched out his hand towards her.

The helicopter landed slowly.

Jiang Tingwan put his wrist on it without any hesitation.

His palms were warm and dry as he carried her through the strong wind and onto the helicopter.

In the cabin, the two put on noise-canceling headphones.

"Boss Shen is really good at pleasing people." Her voice came through the headphones clearly.

"I will do anything to make Miss Jiang smile."

The helicopter slowly took off into the air, and the lights of the entire Kyoto spread out beneath their feet.

Jiang Tingwan looked out the porthole at the night view of the city, where thousands of lights were dazzling.

The night wind poured into the cabin through the half-open porthole, blowing away the last trace of worry in her heart.

At this moment, under our feet is the bustling and noisy world.

All those conspiracies and suspicions seemed insignificant.

Jiang Tingwan was so engrossed in watching that she didn't notice that Shen Guan's gaze was always on her.

As the helicopter climbed above the clouds, moonlight poured into the cabin without reservation.

Jiang Tingwan turned her head and found that Chen Guan had taken off his headphones at some point and was saying something to her.

"What?"

She moved closer subconsciously.

A calm breath gently brushed past her ears: "I said--"

At this moment, the helicopter suddenly encountered air currents and shook violently.

Jiang Tingwan lost her balance and fell straight into his arms.

Shen Guan caught her steadily.

The two of them were so close in an instant, so close that they could almost count each other's eyelashes.

Jiang Tingwan's cheeks flushed slightly and her heartbeat quickened.

Only then did she remember.

In this game of profit, she would naturally trust Chen Guan, tell him about being drugged, and let him test Ruan Yue.

At this moment, the watching eyes are very close.

In order to hear his words clearly, she got up from his arms and took off her headphones.

"What did you just say—?"

She leaned closer, her hair gently lifted by the air current and swept across his thoughtful jaw.

His contemplative gaze was fixed on her face.

Under the hair blown by the wind, the pair of eyes that were always calm and composed were now filled with curiosity.

Her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and her lips, slightly opened because of speaking, had a delicate color like cherry blossoms.

"I said..."

His voice was drowned out by the din of noise.

Jiang Tingwan subconsciously moved closer, but was unexpectedly grabbed on the back of her head by a warm hand.

A solemn and cautious aura suddenly approached.

The next second——

The slightly cool lips gently covered hers.

The whole world seemed to stop in an instant.

Jiang Tingwan suddenly opened her eyes wide, and the only thing left in her field of vision was her eyelashes, which were so close to her. Her eyes were full of astonishment and disbelief.

Her body instantly became stiff.

This sudden kiss made her mind go blank and she forgot to resist.

Chen Guan's kiss carried a long-suppressed eagerness and impulse, yet was incredibly gentle when it landed on her lips.

The scent of red wine lingering between her lips and teeth swept over her, and the touch of her lips was warm and soft.

The tip of his tongue swept across Jiang Tingwan's lips, and Jiang Tingwan could clearly feel Shen Guan's breathing.

And her own heartbeat also accelerated rapidly at this moment.

The roar of the propellers and the whistling of the wind now all turned into a boiling hum in her blood.

The helicopter passed through the air current at this moment, and the feeling of weightlessness made her instinctively grab the front of his suit.

Shen Guan's other hand was firmly around her waist.

Amid the roar, he slowly deepened the kiss.

In the moonlight, the overlapping shadows of the two people were clearly cast on the cabin wall.

There is a world of dust under your feet.

Above the clouds, only the intertwined breaths were left.

When Chen Guan finally let her go, the tips of Jiang Tingwan's ears were already as red as blood.

Only then did she realize that, without her knowing it, her fingers had sunk deeply into the fabric of his shirt, leaving behind several ambiguous wrinkles.

"Did you hear that?"

Shen Guan gently brushed the corner of her lips with his fingertips, with a dark tide in his eyes.

She looked into his eyes, which were like a mist, so complicated that she couldn't understand them.

There is a kind of emotion that is difficult to conceal, but also a turbulent undercurrent, which seems to suppress unspeakable thoughts and may break through reason at any time.

His lips, red from the kiss just now, had a different kind of temptation.

The calm and self-possessed face of the past has become so gentle at this moment, and the lines are no longer as cold as before, but have a bit more warmth.

The helicopter began to slowly descend, and the lights of the city were getting closer and closer.

Jiang Tingwan didn't know what to say for a moment.

From the very beginning, the relationship between them was like a carefully planned chess game. An ambiguous atmosphere quietly lingered on the chessboard, and every step concealed unknown mysteries.

At first, everything seemed clear and the purpose was pure, just to get what you want.

But since when, under those carefully disguised masks, the truth and falsehood began to gradually become confused.

The moment Shen Guan kissed her.

All the calculations and all the trade-offs are coming to nothing.

Only the heartbeat remains.