Chapter 94 I have no appetite when eating with me
Shen Lai's hand holding the spoon paused slightly.
Pei Jingyan glanced at the caller ID and picked up the phone casually, "Hello."
A mature and sexy female voice came from the other end of the phone, "Jing Yan, I'm already at your company."
Hearing the word "Jingyan", Shen Lai
Pei Jingyan looked up at the clock on the wall and frowned slightly, "Didn't we meet at nine o'clock? Why are you here so early?"
"I happened to have nothing to do, so I left early." The person opposite smiled and said, "I also brought you coffee, your favorite iced Americano."
Pei Jingyan hummed calmly, "I understand. See you in twenty minutes."
The restaurant was very quiet, and Shen Lai could clearly hear the conversation between the two. She unconsciously clenched her spoon, and her fingertips turned slightly white.
After Pei Jingyan hung up the phone, Shen Lai unconsciously stirred the porridge in the bowl with the spoon in his hand and asked casually, "Who called you?"
Pei Jingyan said calmly: "A friend."
Chen Lai thought that she was a female friend who would go to the company in advance to wait for Pei Jingyan and who also knew what kind of drink Pei Jingyan liked.
Even she didn't know what kind of coffee Pei Jingyan liked to drink.
Thinking of this, Shen Lai suddenly felt frustrated. She suddenly realized that she seemed to not understand Pei Jingyan at all, and only knew what he liked from other women.
Pei Jingyan put down the knife and fork in his hand, picked up the handkerchief on the table and wiped the corner of his mouth elegantly, "Then I'll go to the company first, you eat slowly."
Shen Lai lowered his eyes and didn't look at him, "Oh."
Noticing that she was in a bad mood, Pei Jingyan's eyebrows twitched. He was about to say something when a sudden prompt sound interrupted his thoughts.
"Jingyan, I want to eat the wife cake from the shop at the intersection. Can you buy some for me when you come later?" A voice with a bit of coquettishness came from the loudspeaker.
Shen Lai's heart tightened slightly, and he stared at the dining table in front of him in a daze.
Pei Jingyan replied: "I understand."
The other side replied quickly, the voice was full of smiles, "Thank you."
Pei Jingyan put away his phone and looked at Chen Lai. She was eating breakfast with her head down and seemed to be paying no attention to him at all.
Pei Jingyan's eyes were deep and unfathomable, and he turned and left.
Listening to the sound of footsteps receding, Shen Lai slowly stopped what she was doing. She looked at the breakfast in front of her and suddenly felt bored.
"Lai Lai?"
"Laila, what's wrong with you?"
The sudden voice in her ears brought Shen Lai back to her senses. She raised her head and saw her mother looking at her with concern.
Chang Suning said worriedly, "What's wrong with you? You've been absent-minded since you came to the hospital."
Shen Lai adjusted his mood and shook his head gently, "I'm fine."
Seeing that she looked unhappy, Chang Suning was a little worried and asked tentatively, "Did you have a fight with Jing Yan?"
Shen Lai's expression was stiff for a moment, and she forced a smile from the corner of her mouth, "No, why would we quarrel?"
Not to mention quarreling, there wasn't even a quarrel.
Chang Suning was skeptical, "Really they didn't quarrel?"
Shen Lai's smile was stiff. "Of course it's true. He's been so good to me, praising me so much, how could he quarrel with me?"
Chang Suning thought about it and it made sense. During this period, Pei Jingyan had done everything for their family, not only transferring her to another hospital, arranging the best doctors, but also helping to get Shen Lingzhen out of prison. Even his own son might not be so devoted.
She felt a little relieved. "It's good that you didn't quarrel. You too were spoiled by your family before. You should change your temper and stop asking Pei Jingyan to accommodate you all the time."
Shen Lai lowered his head and muttered softly: "What did he accommodate me to?"
Chang Suning snorted coldly, "How could I not know you? You've been spoiled since childhood and never admit defeat. How many times did you quarrel with others before your family went bankrupt?"
Shen Lai was in the wrong and didn't say anything.
Chang Suning sighed and said earnestly, "But Lailai, things are different now. You're married now. You can't always ask your partner to accommodate you. If you do that, your marriage won't last long."
When he heard the word "marriage", Shen Lai's eyes dimmed slightly.
She thought to herself that she and Pei Jingyan were not really in a relationship, and they might get divorced at any time.
After leaving the hospital, Shen Lai took a taxi home. On the way, she was bored and scrolling through her phone. As she was scrolling, her fingertips suddenly froze when they slid across a piece of news.
What caught my eye was bold black text: [The suspected Shen Group CEO was spotted shopping hand in hand with a new female companion!]
In the photo below, a woman with a hot body and outstanding appearance is brushing the dust off Pei Jingyan's shoulders, and the two seem to be behaving intimately.
Shen Lai recognized her at a glance as the woman who had dinner with Pei Jingyan last night.
Sure enough, this was the same person who called Pei Jingyan this morning.
Her hand holding the phone tightened unconsciously, and her fingertips turned white.
Shen Lai didn't know when she returned to the villa. She sat on the sofa, and the TV in front of her reflected her dazed face.
When Pei Jingyan came back, he found the villa dark.
He turned on the light and saw Shen Lai sitting in front of the TV in a daze.
Pei Jingyan paused, frowning slightly, "Why don't you turn on the light?"
Hearing a familiar voice ringing in her ears, Shen Lai came back to her senses. She turned her head and saw Pei Jingyan standing at the entrance looking at her.
Shen Lai's throat rolled, and he pretended to be calm and said: "I was thinking about something and didn't pay attention."
Pei Jingyan didn't notice her abnormality and casually took off his tie and threw it on the sofa. "The nutritionist just called me and said that she had something going on at home and won't be here for the next two days."
Shen Lai lowered his eyes and hummed absentmindedly.
"I've reserved two tables at the Spruce Restaurant. Let's eat out tonight."
Spruce Restaurant.
Hearing this familiar name, Shen Lai's heart tightened.
This is where Pei Jingyan had dinner with the other party last night.
When Shen Lai thought about going with Pei Jingyan to the place where he had eaten with other women, he felt inexplicably repulsed and his tone became cold. "No, I don't have much appetite. You can go eat by yourself."
After she finished speaking, she stood up and was about to leave, but the next second, a strong force grabbed her arm and before she could react, she was pushed back onto the sofa. Then a large shadow fell from above, almost covering her.
Pei Jingyan put his hands on the backrest, trapping Shen Lai in the gap between him and the sofa. His face was gloomy, and his voice seemed to be tinged with frost. "What's wrong with you?"
There was something wrong with Shen Lai since last night, as if he was deliberately keeping a distance from him.
Shen Lai didn't look at him and turned his head to the side. "I'm fine, I just have no appetite."
Pei Jingyan pinched Chen Lai's chin and turned it back, pulling the corner of his mouth coldly, "Don't you have an appetite for eating with me?"
Shen Lai took a deep breath, raised her eyes, met Pei Jingyan's eyes which were filled with turbulent tides, and said word by word: "I don't want to eat, is that not possible?"
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