Chapter 37 A passionate French kiss on the spot!

Su Ruan casually tossed out her words, lifting the veil of subtle tension between the Yan family father and son.

Yan Tingnan slowly turned to the side, a hint of sarcasm playing on her lips.

"Assistant Su does know how to assign me tasks."

"What should we use to coax him? Should we teach him?"

"Isn't that simple?"

Su Ruan's soft voice carried a hint of playful seduction.

"President Yan is incredibly resourceful; isn't deceiving people a piece of cake for him?"

"A bone, a kind word, and your precious fatherly love and care."

Yan Tingnan let out a short, cold sneer, and placed his wine glass lightly on the railing with a clatter.

"Assistant Su's skill in shifting blame is unparalleled."

"You want me to coax him?"

"Adults should learn to take responsibility for their choices."

"You have to swallow the bitter pill yourself and clean up the mess yourself."

"If you choose the wrong path, you have to bear the consequences and move forward on your own. Tears and turning back are luxuries."

"Others' comforting words can't save you from the embarrassment you've brought upon yourself."

His tone was flat, yet every word was like an icicle, carrying the coldness of someone in a superior position.

This is not a mockery of Yan Yunye, but a statement of a cold, hard rule of survival.

Su Ruan felt a slight chill in her heart, but a smile spread across her face.

"President Yan is really strict."

As soon as he finished speaking, the yacht shuddered slightly and then steadily docked at the pier.

Yan Tingnan didn't look at her again, but nodded slightly in the direction of the dock.

"They're gone."

He uttered two words, his tone unreadable, and turned to walk towards the bow of the ship.

Su Ruan looked at his straight and indifferent back, pulled her slipped blouse tighter, and followed him.

As soon as they got off the yacht, Huo Siyue rushed over with a skewer of barbecue.

He handed her a sizzling string of squid.

"Su Daji! It's freshly baked, have a taste!"

As soon as Su Ruan took the squid skewers, Huo Siyue couldn't wait to start gathering information.

"What have you been doing at sea for five hours?!"

"I taught them sea fishing for a while, and then..."

She paused, her tone frank.

"I'm asleep."

"What?!!"

She clutched her chest in anguish, her face showing a look of utter dismay at the waste of such a precious resource.

"Sis! That's a portable ocean-view king-size bed! You used it to catch up on sleep?!"

Su Ruan was amused by her exaggerated expression and pushed her towards the edge of the crowd.

"Siyue".

Su Ruan's voice calmed down, losing its usual teasing tone.

“What Wen Wanwan said at the dock was not entirely a rumor.”

Huo Siyue was taken aback.

"What do you mean?"

Meeting her astonished gaze, Su Ruan recounted her messy affair with Yan Yunye once more.

After listening, Huo Siyue stared blankly for a long time before she could find her voice.

"Holy crap?!"

She gasped sharply, her voice cracking.

"You and my nephew?? You really slept together???"

This shocked her even more than Su Ruan sleeping soundly on the yacht!

"Never done it."

Su Ruan took a bite of squid, her tone calm.

They've never even kissed.

Speaking of which, she and Yan Tingnan were very close, kissing and hugging each other.

Huo Siyue's expression froze, as if she had been struck by lightning.

Six years?! That's it?!

"Um."

Su Ruan shrugged.

"Just a one-sided simp."

Huo Siyue was processing this bombshell news when she suddenly grabbed Su Ruan's hand.

"Sister, does my brother know?"

Su Ruan nodded.

"He's such a perceptive person, he knew it a long time ago."

"What can be kept from him?"

The amount of information was too much, and the Huo Siyue CPU overheated.

"My God! What an epic, dramatic scene!!"

Su Ruan waited for her to recover before slowly speaking.

"It's not a glorious history, and I was too lazy to mention it."

“But Wen Wanwan revealed it in public today, and you will find out sooner or later, so I don’t want to hide it from you.”

Huo Siyue put her arm around her shoulder and patted her hard.

"Sisters! Don't worry, when it comes to shipping couples, I, Huo Siyue, only consider the present and the future!"

"Besides, even my brother doesn't mind, so why would I, a shipper, mind?"

Su Ruan raised an eyebrow: "How do you know he doesn't mind?"

Thinking back to that night in Nebula, the reason Yan Tingnan finally stopped...

That's precisely because she's known as Yan Yunye's girlfriend.

"Who is my brother? If he didn't want you to, would you be allowed within three meters of him?"

Huo Siyue got more and more excited as she spoke, and the more she talked, the more reasonable it seemed.

"He even let you board the boat? He even taught you how to fish? He even let you stay in his private suite!"

"My brother never does anything meaningless."

Huo Siyue shook her finger triumphantly.

"He knows everything, yet he indulges you in everything and doesn't stop you. What does that mean?"

"That means he wants you!"

"This is fucking even more exciting, isn't it?!"

She paused, then suddenly became serious and lowered her voice.

"As for Yan Yunye, all I can say is, well done!"

"That blind bastard, dumping him is the best way to cut your losses!"

She squeezed Su Ruan's hand, unusually without her usual playful smile.

"Six years of sincere feelings were wasted, it's not your fault."

"It's not shameful for girls to stumble in relationships; what's shameful are those scumbags who treat sincerity like toilet paper."

"You look so good right now, so clear-headed and beautiful."

"Only a man of my brother's caliber is good enough for you!"

Huo Siyue's comforting words were like warm charcoal, making Su Ruan's heart soften.

Her eyes welled up slightly, and she was somewhat moved.

"Siyue, thank you."

Huo Siyue pinched her cheek.

"No need to thank me."

"I'm telling the truth."

"Let's go! Let's have a barbecue! We can talk about anything else after we've eaten!"

She dragged Su Ruan towards the bustling area.

On the beach, the campfire crackled.

The catch from daytime sea fishing sizzles on the rack, while champagne bottles are piled up like small mountains on the sand.

Colleagues sat in twos and threes, their laughter rising and falling.

Su Ruan was caught up in the atmosphere and relaxed as well.

She listened to Huo Siyue's jokes with a smile, occasionally responding with a few words.

His gaze, however, unconsciously pierced through the crowd and landed on that calm figure in the distance.

As night deepened, the party atmosphere became increasingly lively.

Huo Siyue jumped into the center of the crowd, carrying an empty wine bottle.

"Drinking on the go is boring! Let's have something exciting, how about a game of truth or dare?"

The atmosphere was instantly ignited, and cheers erupted.

Whoever the bottle lands on is the lucky winner tonight!

"There's only one rule: be willing to play hard and let loose!"

"The coward will automatically be punished with three cups of wine!"

The game begins.

The empty wine bottle spun rapidly on the sand, drawing everyone's attention and cheers.

In the first round, the bottle pointed precisely at a new intern in the planning department.

The little girl's face turned bright red as she chose truth.

"Where was your first kiss?" Huo Siyue blurted out.

"High school playground..."

The laughter nearly overturned the waves.

In the following rounds, the scale steadily increased under Huo Siyue's guidance.

Yan Yunye was somewhat absent-minded all night, his wine glass emptying and refilling repeatedly.

His gaze swept through the crowd and landed on Su Ruan.

She was chatting and laughing quietly with her colleagues, the firelight illuminating her vivid profile, her eyebrows and eyes relaxed.

She is no longer the shadow in my memory who would only try to please him cautiously.

Her dazzling transformation, like fine needles, pricked his heart, making him feel both stifled and bitter.

"Oh—! Manager Yan! Miss Wen!"

The bottle stopped abruptly, facing Yan Yunye and Wen Wanwan, who was sitting right next to him.

The crowd erupted in the loudest cheers of the night.

The administrative manager's eyes lit up.

"Hey! Chosen one! Come on, truth or dare? Pick one!"

Wen Wanwan glanced at Yan Yunye shyly.

"Yunye, you choose."

Yan Yunye's gaze involuntarily drifted towards Su Ruan, who was diagonally opposite him.

She was lazily swirling her champagne glass, looking completely detached.

A sudden urge to prove something surged up within me.

"The Great Adventure".

His voice was somewhat hoarse, carrying a sense of desperation and resignation.

"readily!"

The HR manager clapped his hands.

"Let's have a passionate French kiss right here!"

"Ten seconds! One bottle deducted for every second less!"

Wow!!!

Whistles, table-banging, and screams nearly overturned the beach.