Chapter 71 A Stopgap Measures
"Mom Ju... asked me to call you for dinner." Jian Mo felt guilty.
No one believes it.
Liang Qiu smiled upon seeing this, still looking uninhibited and carefree, "Miss Jian, oh no, sister-in-law, are you eavesdropping?"
Jian Mo was startled by his address and subconsciously looked at Huo Qichen, but he didn't say anything.
"No need to look at him. Ah Chen almost destroyed my place for you. If I can't guess it, I'm really stupid." Liang Qiu took the initiative to answer, then held her face, "Let me see, in the whole Haicheng, except for you, no one dares to take the initiative to provoke Li Qianjing. You became famous all of a sudden."
Jian Mo smiled bitterly, grimacing in pain as she pulled at the wound. "I have to thank Manager Liang for not saving me. It's all thanks to you that I'm able to get my face disfigured."
Her irony made Liang Qiu laugh. "You can't blame me for this. I still have business to do. Finding Ah Chen for you is the greatest kindness I can offer."
Jian Mo rolled her eyes, paused, and said, "My brother is causing you trouble, let's call it even."
"Don't worry, I will definitely train him well for you. In a few years, I will turn him into a sensible and well-behaved little brother."
Liang Qiu patted her shoulder and waved to Huo Qichen who was sitting there, "Let's go."
The study door was carefully closed. Jian Mo stood there, her toes subconsciously curled up, and she began to get nervous. "Your friend is so smooth-talking, it's better to stop talking to him as soon as possible."
Huo Qichen didn't move, looking at her, "It doesn't hurt anymore?"
Jian Mo was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "I'm just worried about leaving scars."
"Why wouldn't you be afraid if you have the courage to go to Heaven on Earth?" Huo Qi Chen had a calm expression and took a cigarette out of the cigarette box.
She had always been afraid of him, but now she mustered up the courage to step forward and said, "Master Li threatened me with Jian Zhou's life, so I had no choice."
He didn't light the cigarette, but played with it in his hand, "Why didn't you call me?"
"How can I call you?" Jian Mo blurted out.
Huo Qichen met her gaze, and she shrank back, stiffening her neck. "I mean, you have no obligation to save me. I can't always trouble you."
He seemed to have heard a joke, "You've troubled me a lot."
"But I realized later that we are not the same kind of people after all. We should just take what we need from each other. It is inappropriate to have any more communication." Jian Mo simply said it bluntly. This was an idea she had been thinking about for many days.
Huo Qi Chen's eyes fell on her bruised knees. The hidden addiction in his heart overwhelmed his urge to smoke, so he put the cigarette back and closed the lid.
"Still angry about what happened in the meeting." Declarative sentence.
So he knew. Jian Mo was silent for a while, "Not all of them."
"What is that?" There was a hint of coaxing in his tone.
She didn't say.
Huo Qichen hooked his finger and said, "Come here."
Jian Mo was unsure of his thoughts and walked very slowly. Finally, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer to him, where she smelled a faint scent of tobacco.
Huo Qichen turned on the computer and saw a surveillance video, which showed her and Mr. Li arguing in the box.
The sound is very clear.
"Let me serve you and have fun tonight."
"You are my first guest."
"Master Li can do whatever he wants tonight..."
“…”
When Jian Mo heard the first sentence, she wanted to escape, but she was held tightly by Huo Qichen and could not move.
She was about to cry, half-kneeling on the ground, "This is just a temporary solution. How's my performance? Is it vivid?"
Huo Qichen sat in the dim light and shadow, smiling, "I didn't know that you were still a novice."
Jian Mo was furious, her face flushed, "I! Of course I can't compare to Mr. Huo's experience!"
"Who told you that I have seen so many things?"
She was about to retort, then was a little surprised. No way, Huo Qichen was so self-disciplined?
But come to think of it, she had been in the Huo family for three years and had never heard of any scandal between him and any woman. At most, there were some rumors about him and Mu Yi. Since she married him, she had never seen him intimate with anyone.
While Jian Mo was stunned, Huo Qi Chen lowered his head and stared at her. The two of them were very close.
She raised her head, a little surprised by such an intimate gesture, and before she could say anything, he touched her face.
"You're really capable! You almost ruined my entire business by yourself."
"I..." Jian Mo was trembling a little. It was hard to ignore the burning sensation of physical contact. "I didn't know you were also in Heaven on Earth."
That wasn't in the plan. Yesterday, Huo Qichen had been planning to leave the Huo family when he suddenly received a call from Mu Yi, saying that several of Wanjing's CEOs had an appointment at Paradise on Earth. So he had no choice but to change his schedule. Unexpectedly, he bumped into Jian Mo.
"Do you know what would have happened to you if I hadn't gone?"
Jian Mo trembled under his touch, "Will I die?"
"There are many ways in this world that are a hundred times more cruel than death." Huo Qichen said fiercely, her bloody appearance last night was still vivid in his mind.
Jian Mo really cherishes her life. She stood there frozen for a long time. Everything that happened last night was too thrilling. For the first time, she felt the distance between life and death. Then she understood that it didn't matter whether there was a substitute or not. Life was more important.
Thinking of this, she took the initiative to move closer to Huo Qichen's warm big hand.
"I am your nominal wife now. You will protect me no matter what, right?"
Her eyes were filled with water, which was extremely moving. The easiest way to control a man was to make him feel pity for her. Jian Mo had a great talent for acting.
Huo Qichen looked at her for a moment and then withdrew his hand. "You don't need to go to Huo's until the wound on your face is healed."
Jian Mo blinked and said cunningly, "Will you ask for leave for me?"
"Um."
"In what capacity?"
"What do you think?" Huo Qichen ignored her and walked outside with his phone in hand.
Jian Mo fell to the ground, the darkness completely enveloped her. She touched the gauze on her face and made up her mind that no matter what, she had to climb up the big tree of Huo Qichen.
Perhaps from the moment they got married, he could no longer stay out of many things. His world was too complicated. He could just clean up a local tyrant in Haicheng and a loan shark just by saying so.
Without him, these storms and waves would be enough to kill her ten times.
Huo Qichen asked for a two-week leave for Jian Mo. When he called Mr. Li from the Human Resources Department, he was a little surprised, "Are you Jian Mo's husband?"
Huo Qichen cleared his cough and changed his voice, "Well, she was sick and had an operation."
"What surgery?"
"…to remove the appendix."
The other end burst into laughter, "Okay, I understand."
What's so funny about having an appendectomy?
Jian Mo found a bottle of water from somewhere, unscrewed the cap, and carefully handed it to her from behind, "Are you thirsty?"
He didn't answer, his eyes fell on her fair feet, "Don't we have any shoes at home?"
Jian Mo was used to walking barefoot at home. When she heard him say "our home", she felt a little strange, but a frivolous smile appeared on her face: "How about Mr. Huo carry me to wear it?"
"You can seduce Li Qianjing with this look, but you can't seduce me."
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