Ye Xinning was pinned down and unable to move, but she still subconsciously explained, "It's not what you think, Shen Lin. Let me get up first, and we can sit down and talk."
She didn't want every conflict to be resolved in bed, and on the way back she guessed he would misunderstand, so she wanted to explain to him.
"Not what I think? Then tell me what it is, Ye Xinning."
Shen Lin was very agitated. Ye Xinning met his gaze. She knew very well that if she couldn't calm Shen Lin down in this situation, then another endless argument would ensue.
She pondered for a long time, then suddenly reached out and wrapped her arms around his neck. Before Shen Lin could react to her intentions, she kissed his lips.
Shen Lin's eyes were full of surprise; he clearly hadn't expected Ye Xinning to do this.
Ye Xinning's initiative was like a silent invitation to Shen Lin. He placed his hand on her waist, held her head, and then quickly took the initiative, deepening the kiss. He gently bit her lips, greedily exploring every corner. Ye Xinning's breathing became erratic. Before she completely lost her senses, she stepped back slightly, avoiding Shen Lin, and spoke softly.
"Can I explain now?"
Shen Lin lowered his eyes. He was a smart man. When Ye Xinning kissed him, he didn't know her intentions, but now that he had calmed down, it was quite obvious.
His voice was deep and resonant. "A plan?"
"You're so impulsive. If I don't take some action, will you even listen to my explanation?"
Chen Lin remained silent, and Ye Xinning knew that she could speak now.
"The thing you saw about me and Huo Yanzhi at the amusement park is not what you think at all. The amusement park was a place I often went to with my parents when I was a child. I don't know how Huo Yanzhi would know about that place."
Why is he holding your hand?
"He wanted to bring me back, but I refused. That's when you showed up, and that's when you saw what happened."
"He does care about you," Shen Lin said sarcastically.
Ye Xinning wasn't angry. She was honest enough to explain the matter about Huo Yanzhi because she knew about Shen Lin's possessiveness.
As for his sarcasm or anything else, she was used to it.
After explaining to Shen Lin, she got up, walked to the dressing table, and began to remove her makeup.
Shen Lin appeared behind him without him noticing. "Now that we've finished talking about Huo Yanzhi, what about that phone call during the day?"
Ye Xinning paused, holding the makeup remover. In that brief moment, she felt heartache once again.
"It's nothing, just what I meant on the phone," she said calmly, her emotions as composed as could be.
Shen Lin came over from behind and put his arm around her waist. "Does your mother want me to give in?"
"Um."
"And what about you?"
Ye Xinning smiled, then turned to meet Shen Lin's gaze. Though she seemed to be smiling, there was no warmth in her eyes.
"Didn't I say it on the phone? I beg you, give that land to my mother."
What if I say no?
"That was your own decision, and I don't think I could control it."
Shen Lin placed his hand on her chin. "Are you just going through the motions?"
Ye Xinning licked her red lips. Shen Lin stood there against the light, and she couldn't ignore the powerful aura emanating from him. This feeling made her subconsciously tighten her grip on the makeup remover bottle in her hand. "Shen Lin, you've always known that my mother wants that land. Her visit to the Shen family several days ago was just a prelude. You've been waiting for this, haven't you?"
He would wait for her mother to speak to her, and for her to speak to him, and then he would seize the opportunity to humiliate her again.
Under Ye Xinning's intense gaze, Shen Lin did not deny it, "Businessmen are all about profit. There's no reason why I should give her what she wants."
"But you didn't directly refuse, right?"
Shen Lin did not answer.
They're all smart people, so how could they not know? Shen Lin is a smart man. If he had expressed himself directly, Ye Rouxin wouldn't have held out any hope of getting through to him. In the end, it was Shen Lin's ambiguous answer that led to her meeting with Ye Rouxin today.
Ye Xinning stopped speaking, and the silent eye contact made Shen Lin tighten his embrace around her waist.
Are you angry?
"No."
Ye Xinning was telling the truth; she was disappointed at that moment, but that disappointment wasn't directed at Shen Lin, but at her mother.
Shen Lin has his own stance. Even if she has other grudges against him, she wouldn't use work-related matters to make things difficult for him.
Even if the mother highly values this project and Shen Lin wants it, she has no obligation to give it up.
She spoke these words with a calm expression, without much change, as if she were recounting something completely unrelated to herself.
But if she really didn't care, why would she say that on the phone?
If she really didn't care, why would she hide herself away and not let anyone see her after leaving the Ye family?
A different kind of emotion appeared in Shen Lin's unfathomable gaze.
Ignoring the fact that Ye Xinning was still removing her makeup, he picked her up from the chair and carried her to the bed. His hand landed on her slender waist, and Ye Xinning flinched at the coolness of his fingertips. Chen Lin's kiss followed, and he captured her lips. Compared to before, this time he seemed more anxious and more domineering.
They were both adults, and Ye Xinning knew what would happen next without having to think too much. However, just a second ago they were talking about that kind of topic, and the next second, Shen Lin could do this to her.
Shen Lin's hand slid down her clothes and landed on her skin, the cool touch bringing Ye Xinning back to her senses.
"You can still get distracted? Looks like I wasn't paying enough attention." Shen Lin had her bound to his small world, and Ye Xinning had no choice but to look up and meet his gaze.
At that moment, she really wanted to ask a question, and in fact, she did ask it.
“Sinking down.”
"Um."
"What am I to you? A tool for venting your desires? Jiang An, who is far away in New Zealand, is pregnant with your child. She won't divorce me, and she wants to take revenge on me, right?"
Shen Lin's hands roamed over her body, his kiss landing on her collarbone. His reply was indistinct: "You think about this every day?"
Ye Xinning trembled instinctively beneath him...
She wanted to ask Shen Lin if he could put aside his prejudice against her and get along with her properly. She also wanted to try, as Mo Zichen had said, to see if she could remind him of their past through normal interactions.
However, due to Shen Lin's meddling, Ye Xinning ultimately did not say those words.
When their emotions ran deep, Shen Lin held her in his arms. At that moment, she even had a strange feeling that the man in front of her might have feelings for her.
If there were no feelings involved, how could they possibly be so passionately entangled in that area until death?
But Chen Lin's actions the next second made her realize that, in a man's eyes, love and sex can be clearly distinguished.
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