Chapter 95: Is He Jealous?
The air was stagnant, the temperature around them dropped rapidly, and an invisible deathly silence enveloped the two of them.
Pei Jingyan stared at Shen Lai's eyes, breathing heavily, like a wild leopard ready to explode at any time.
Shen Lai suddenly raised his hands and pressed them against Pei Jingyan's chest, "Boss Pei, if you press down again, I won't be responsible if anything happens to the baby in your belly."
This sentence brought Pei Jingyan back to his senses. His eyes fell on Shen Lai's lower abdomen, and he could faintly see the bulge under her clothes.
His face was tense, and he finally let go of her hand.
Shen Lai took the opportunity to break free from his arms and straightened her clothes. "I can take care of dinner myself. You don't have to worry about me."
Without looking at Pei Jingyan's expression, Shen Lai went upstairs.
Looking at Chen Lai's leaving back, Pei Jingyan's eyes were filled with unfathomable emotions.
At this moment, the phone in Pei Jingyan's pocket rang. With a look of anxiety on his face, he took it out casually and found that it was a message pushed on Weibo.
Just as he was about to cut it open, Pei Jingyan suddenly saw his name on it.
His eyebrows twitched and he clicked on the Weibo post.
Pei Jingyan's eyes darkened when he saw the title and photo on Weibo. He called his assistant and asked, "When did the news about Yi Xingyu and me get out?"
The assistant paused and said cautiously, "It will be in the afternoon."
"In the afternoon?" Pei Jingyan's voice dropped. "Why didn't you tell me?"
The assistant hesitated, "Didn't you never care about these things before? And what's said here is not true, so I didn't care."
Pei Jingyan's expression became more serious.
He never checks Weibo, so naturally he didn't see the news. No wonder those people looked at him strangely when he left the company today.
"Find someone to deal with it. I don't want to see any more news about her and me on social media tomorrow."
"yes."
Pei Jingyan hung up the phone and was about to go upstairs when a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.
He seemed to realize something, slowly raised his head and looked towards the second floor, then a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
When he reached the second floor, Pei Jingyan stopped at the door of Shen Lai's room.
He raised his hand and knocked on the door, "Open the door."
There was no response from inside.
Pei Jingyan raised his eyebrows and said, "If you don't open it, I'll ask Butler Sun to get the key."
The next second, the door suddenly opened from the inside. Shen Lai looked as if he was enduring something, and said unhappily, "Mr. Pei, is there something wrong?"
The address was changed back to Mr. Pei.
Pei Jingyan chuckled, crossed his arms, and leaned against the door. "Did you see today's news?"
The strange look that flashed across Shen Lai's face disappeared quickly, but was still successfully captured by Pei Jingyan.
"I saw it." Pei Jingyan curled the corners of his lips. "Are you unhappy tonight because of this news?"
Shen Lai's throat rolled over, and he stiffened his neck and said, "Who is unhappy?"
The teasing in Pei Jingyan's eyes became even more intense. He suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it against the wall, seemingly half-encircling Shen Lai in his arms, his warm breath spraying on her neck. "Miss Shen, are you jealous?"
Shen Lai seemed to have been poked in the sore spot, and suddenly raised his voice, "Who is jealous?"
Pei Jingyan smiled slightly, "You're really not jealous? Then why did you react so strongly when you heard I was taking you to Yunshan Restaurant?"
If he remembered correctly, the place he and Yi Xingyu went to last night was the Yunshan Restaurant.
Thinking back to what Shen Lai said yesterday, that she and Wu Qi were shopping in a nearby mall, it seemed that she had run into them having dinner.
No wonder Shen Lai reacted so abnormally after returning.
Shen Lai swallowed hard and pushed Pei Jingyan hard, "I don't understand what you are saying. I want to watch TV series..."
Before she finished speaking, Pei Jingyan grabbed her wrist and suddenly said, "She is my friend. She just came back from abroad yesterday, so I had dinner with her."
Shen Lai was stunned by his struggling movements, and Pei Jingyan continued, "As for today, she came to talk to me about work, and I didn't know that the paparazzi had taken a picture of me. In that photo, there was dust on my shoulder, and she just helped me clean it up."
Hearing this, the airflow that was blocked in Shen Lai's chest suddenly deflated like a balloon with a hole in it, and the irritability and stuffiness that had been lingering for a long time seemed to suddenly disappear.
"You are my only woman." Pei Jingyan looked into her eyes and spoke word by word, "I promised you that I would not mess around during our marriage. I mean what I said."
Looking at Pei Jingyan's serious expression, Shen Lai's heartbeat inexplicably accelerated.
How could she know whether what Pei Jingyan said before was true.
Pei Jingyan is a normal man, so it is normal for him to find another woman.
Shen Lai bit his lip and didn't look at Pei Jingyan. "Who cares about this? Even if you have a girlfriend, it's none of my business."
Seeing that Shen Lai's expression had softened, Pei Jingyan teased, "Are you not angry now?"
Shen Lai said stubbornly: "Who said I was angry? Don't talk nonsense."
Pei Jingyan's eyes flashed with a smile, "Okay, you're not angry, can you eat now?"
Thinking Pei Jingyan was going to take her to the Yunshan Restaurant again, Shen Lai was about to refuse when she heard Pei Jingyan say, "Let me show you my cooking skills today."
Shen Lai paused, "Craftsmanship?"
"Cook noodles."
“..........”
In the bright kitchen, heat lingered in the air. Pei Jingyan rolled up his sleeves and skillfully boiled water, added seasoning packets, and then put the dough in, all in one go.
It was obvious that he was a veteran. Shen Lai was a little surprised. "You can do this too?"
Pei Jingyan used chopsticks to stir the noodles in the pot and said, "I learned it by myself when I was abroad."
Shen Lai couldn't help but think of the saying on the Internet: "You go abroad as a student, and you return as a cook." It's really true.
Even a domineering CEO like Pei Jingyan has to cook when he goes abroad.
Soon, the noodles were cooked. Pei Jingyan took off his apron and handed the chopsticks to Shen Lai, "Try it."
Shen Lai took a mouthful of noodles and put it into his mouth. His eyes lit up slightly, "Delicious."
Pei Jingyan curled his lips, "You are the first person to eat what I made."
Shen Lai's back stiffened, and he slowly raised his head to look at Pei Jingyan, "You've never cooked for others abroad?"
Pei Jingyan sat down opposite him and said, "Of course not."
Shen Lai was silent for a few seconds, "What about your female friend?"
Pei Jingyan raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why should I cook for her?"
The corner of Shen Lai's mouth curled up but was quickly suppressed by her. She said "oh" and didn't ask any more questions. She buried her head in eating noodles, her cheeks a little hot.
The lights in the restaurant were dim, no one was talking, and the only sound was the crisp sound of dishes and chopsticks colliding.
Seeing that Shen Lai was about to bury her face in the bowl, Pei Jingyan jokingly said, "Miss Shen, are you eating the noodles or the bowl? Is my cooking skill that good?"
Shen Lai almost choked. She raised her head and coughed lightly, "I was just hungry. It has nothing to do with you."
Pei Jingyan raised his eyebrows slightly.
Shen Lai put the remaining noodles into his mouth in two or three bites, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said, "I'm full. I'll go upstairs first."
Looking at Shen Lai's back as he quickly went upstairs, and then looking at the empty bowl in front of him, Pei Jingyan's lips curled up slightly, and he stood up and took their bowls and chopsticks to the kitchen.
Shen Lai slept until dawn.
She stretched comfortably, looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and then thought of what Pei Jingyan said yesterday. The corners of her mouth rose without her even noticing.
She reached for her phone from the bedside and casually opened Weibo. She wanted to check out her homepage, but she found that all the photos of Pei Jingyan and that woman were gone, and even the trending searches were gone.
Shen Lai was stunned for a moment.
Could it be that Pei Jingyan had someone take him down?
Not only that, the Shen Group also issued a rights protection statement five minutes ago, stating that the remarks in the photo were untrue, and that Pei Jingyan and the woman photographed were just ordinary friends. They would not show any mercy to the paparazzi's malicious rumor-mongering and would definitely pursue legal responsibility.
Looking at the words "ordinary friends", Shen Lai's eyes were filled with a hint of joy. She got out of bed, washed up, and walked downstairs with ease.
When she reached the corner of the stairs, she heard voices downstairs.
Shen Lai came to the living room and saw a woman sitting on the sofa. She had red lips that were retro and charming, and she was wearing a black hip skirt and high heels. Her figure was curvy, like a bunch of hot wildfire.
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