Chapter 25, 25th Beam of Light: "He rested his head on his lap."
"I wouldn't dare," Song Xingyun said, bowing and scraping as he spoke, as if he were about to settle a score with her.
Yu Mushang sneered at her reaction, "Assistant Song is really good at being flexible."
"Isn't that right? Touch when you should touch, look when you should look, be cowardly when you should be cowardly, and admit your mistakes when you should admit your mistakes." Song Xingyun was summarizing this in her mind, her lips pressed tightly together, as if afraid that her inner thoughts would run faster than her brain.
Not knowing what to say, she gave an awkward laugh. Just as she was struggling with how to explain the accident in the bathroom that afternoon, Ying Qi's panting voice rang out at the entrance of the booth, "Great, everyone's here."
I should have cursed you in my heart before!
Song Xingyun was almost in tears. With Ying Qi around, she could at least share some of Yu Mushang's attention.
But as soon as she turned around, she saw Ying Qi holding a girl in his arms. "Don't tell me you left the boss here just to pick up a drunk..." She stopped mid-sentence, because the drunk in Ying Qi's arms looked very familiar. "Wenwen!?"
Song Xingyun rushed over in a flash, and Ying Qi quickly tried to hand her the hot potato in his hands, but the person on top of him clung to him like an octopus, saying, "Don't move, I haven't hugged you enough yet!"
Song Xingyun: ?
Ying Qi's clothes were all wrinkled beyond recognition, looking as if they had been badly abused. Song Xingyun looked at the scene before her and said, "You..."
Ying Qi immediately threw the person in his arms to the edge of the booth sofa. "What do you mean 'we'? I am me and she is her. It's one thing for your friend to bump into me, but to do that is to grope me..." He said, while tightening his suit jacket.
Song Xingyun: ?
"Hey, how do you know he's my friend?"
Ying Qi was trying hard to straighten her clothes. "Didn't you post a group photo on WeChat Moments?"
She said "Oh" and was about to say something when Yu Mushang spoke first, "No wonder you're friends? You both like... teasing others? Taking advantage of them?"
Song Xingyun was completely bewildered, while Ying Qi glanced at the two girls and quickly moved closer to Yu Mushang as if he had found his tribe. "Boss, I knew Assistant Song would definitely take advantage of you!"
Song Xingyun: ...
"Don't talk nonsense. I was just doing my job." Whether it was getting him water or taking him back to his room and helping him into the bathroom, it's just that... the process wasn't very smooth. That's right.
Hearing her confident tone, Yu Mushang chuckled lightly. "Yes, Assistant Song, keep up the good work and try your best to do your job perfectly in the future."
Song Xingyun couldn't immediately tell whether he was being sarcastic or encouraging...
But she quickly put the matter of studying Yu Mushang's thoughts out of her mind. She squatted down beside the sofa to check on Wen Ying's current state. "Wen Wen?"
When Wen Ying heard her voice calling her name, she struggled to open her eyes a crack, saying, "Oh, it's my little lucky charm." After saying this, she lost consciousness again.
Yu Mushang: A little bit of luck?
Afraid that Wenwen would catch a cold lying there, Song Xingyun turned to the two people at the other end and said, "You guys continue playing, I'll take Wenwen and leave first?"
Ying Qi had put in a lot of effort earlier and was now munching on a fried chicken leg. He hadn't expected the fried chicken legs at the small bar to be so delicious. Hearing Song Xingyun's words, "Are you sure you can move her?"
Song Xingyun was unsure, "Should I be able to wake her up and have her walk a few steps?"
Ying Qi nodded, "Then you can go."
Just as Song Xingyun was about to leave, Yu Mushang stood up and said, "I'm leaving too."
Ying Qi, who was still eating and playing beside him, asked, "Boss?"
Yu Mushang then said to him, "You drive." This meant that they absolutely had to leave.
Not hearing Ying Qi's movement, Yu Mushang gently tapped his cane in Ying Qi's direction, just touching the edge of Ying Qi's shoe. "Still eating? Go help."
Ying Qi then realized that the boss meant not only that he was leaving, but also that he had to see the two girls off, and that he had to be the driver.
Song Xingyun understood what Yu Mushang meant. Although he couldn't see her, she still gave him a grateful look, "Thank you, boss!" She had found a laborer.
Ying Qi had no choice but to put down the chicken leg and get up, saying, "Boss, go back and order me some fried chicken."
He thought that Yu Mushang would beat him up for asking for an exorbitant amount, but to his surprise, Yu Mushang readily agreed, "Sure, you can have as many as a hundred of them as you want."
Before Ying Qi could even utter a "wow," the boss sarcastically remarked, "You really need to replenish your energy. You're panting after carrying someone like that; if you don't eat more, you won't be able to keep up." Not able to keep up? Those two words were an insult to a man! Ying Qi accepted the words with tears in his eyes.
The four people in the car set off towards the address given by Song Xingyun. Wen Ying and Song Xingyun sat in the back row, and she was fast asleep with her head resting on Song Xingyun's lap.
The carriage was quiet. Song Xingyun looked at the street scene rushing past the window, bored, and turned around. Her gaze unconsciously fell on Yu Mushang's slightly turned face. She broke the silence, "Are you really just here tonight to have fun? What a coincidence that we bumped into each other." He wasn't her boss when they last bumped into each other.
“The boss…” Ying Qi started to speak quickly, but before she could finish, Yu Mushang stopped her, “Drive safely and don’t make a sound.” After Ying Qi shut up, Yu Mushang answered the person in the back seat, “Ying Qi wanted to play, I was forced to.”
Yingqi: ?
Okay, he'll take the blame.
Seeing that Ying Qi didn't refute her, Song Xingyun clicked her tongue twice, her disdain evident.
She didn't think much of it, but she overlooked the fact that Yu Mushang wouldn't be forced by someone so easily.
Ying Qi sighed and thought to himself: You are all my living fathers!
The car stopped in front of Song Xingyun's rented apartment. "Thank you, I'll leave you here."
But Ying Qi had already quickly opened the car door. "Small frame, are we the kind of people who would stand by and watch someone die? It won't make a difference if we take a couple more steps."
Song Xingyun also realized that she really couldn't lift Wen Ying, so she had no choice but to accept it. "Then boss, you wait here..." Yu Mushang's action of opening the door indicated that he didn't want to wait there. In the end, the four of them entered the elevator together and took the two home.
Ying Qi placed Wen Ying on the sofa, looked up and saw the doghouse not far away, and casually asked, "Hey, where's your dog?"
When he asked, Song Xingyun's heart skipped a beat. "Oh no, I forgot about Changming. I have to go pick it up." She couldn't leave Changming at the pet store for the night; that would be too pitiful.
Wen Ying was fast asleep. It took half an hour to get to and from the pet store by taxi. Song Xingyun went to the bedroom to get a small blanket and covered her with it. She looked at the two people who were still standing there and said, "Let's go. I'll take you downstairs."
She meant that she wanted to go herself.
Yu Mushang was the first to step out the door, and then his voice came from ahead, "Let's go, drive to pick up the dog."
Song Xingyun: ?
"That's not what I meant. I can go by myself..."
Yu Mushang stopped at the elevator door. "It's late at night. If something happens to you, the two of us who have been in contact with you will also be implicated."
Song Xingyun was momentarily speechless and could only get back into the car. "Thank you, you've really gone to so much trouble tonight."
She was about to reach for the back door to close when Yu Mushang unexpectedly got in. He seemed unaware that she was inside, and as he got in, he replied to her, "I knew it would be so troublesome for you to come out, but you still did. It wouldn't have been so troublesome if you stayed in the villa."
Finally, his arm touched hers, and he paused for a second before saying, "Go inside a bit. No physical contact with the boss."
The triple assault of sight, hearing, and touch left Song Xingyun stunned for a moment before she said sheepishly, "Boss, I thought you were going to sit in the passenger seat. How about I move to the front?"
As she spoke, she reached for the car door to get out, but Ying Qi had already stepped on the gas and sped off. Song Xingyun, who was about to move and hadn't even settled into her seat yet, suddenly lost her balance and swayed to the side...
"Mmm..." She rested her head directly on the man's firm thigh.
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Author's Note: Five days of consecutive updates, taking a break tomorrow~ How many readers are still reading? [Exaggerated praise]
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