Chapter 201 Viewing flowers in a mirror, trying to catch the moon's reflection in water
Su Ruan's ears turned bright red; this person's quirks are truly...
Just then, the screen of Yan Tingnan's phone, which was face down on the shoe bench, stubbornly lit up once again.
It was still Lu Zhuo.
Su Ruan chuckled and pushed him.
"Go ahead and accept it. Young Master Lu's persistence is just as good as yours."
Yan Tingnan lowered his eyes, his fingertips brushing against the corner of her lips, his tone tender yet cold.
"He'd better have some last words."
Su Ruan chuckled and swiped to answer the call for him.
"explain."
Yan Tingnan's finger was still brushing against Su Ruan's leg when he pressed the speakerphone button, his voice cold and aloof.
"You'd better have something more important than me."
On the other end of the phone, Lu Zhuo's voice carried a reckless, defiant air.
"Old Yan, I want to salvage that shabby boat of the Lin family."
"Those bastards from the Lin family drove her to the brink of despair, staging a self-inflicted injury on the rooftop to force Yao Yao to comply."
Yan Tingnan squinted, tracing circles on Su Ruan's soft leg with his fingertip, his tone revealing no emotion.
"reason."
“Yaoyao just squatted at my door, begging me with red eyes.”
Lu Zhuo chuckled, but his voice was hoarse.
"I couldn't bear to see her cry."
"I had a heart attack from crying."
"This time, I'm going to be the sucker and protect the Lin family without turning your table upside down."
He paused, his voice lowering.
"I owe you a big favor, brother."
"The condition is that I will give up five percent of the profits and relinquish the overseas access rights to you."
"I'll take on 30% of the dirty and hard work in the subsequent cleanup of the remaining parts of the second room."
"You can continue to weaken the Lin family as you see fit, but you must preserve their last breath."
"I guarantee I won't touch your core strategy, I'll just patch up a hole, keep the Lin family from collapsing, and keep those two old men in check so they don't cause any trouble."
After listening, Yan Tingnan lightly pressed his fingertip on Su Ruan's leg, causing her to tremble slightly. He then chuckled at his phone.
Five points?
"You used to only cut off fingernails when cutting flesh, but today you're cutting off the main artery?"
His voice was deep, carrying an impatience at being disturbed, and a hint of amusement.
"What benefits did Lin Yiyao give you that made you so generous?"
On the other end of the phone, Lu Zhuo clicked his tongue, his nonchalant voice revealing a frank acceptance of defeat.
"She promised to send me a message every day."
That's it?
Upon hearing this, even Su Ruan, who was being held in Yan Tingnan's arms, couldn't help but smile and whisper a complaint in Yan Tingnan's ear.
"Young Master Lu's love-struck mind is in its late stages."
Yan Tingnan caught her words and returned them verbatim to the phone, his tone undisguisedly sarcastic.
"Ha, one text message a day for such a high price."
"Lu Zhuo, when did you switch careers to become a philanthropist?"
"So infatuated with love that they've abandoned their core support?"
"I'm love-struck?!"
Lu Zhuo instantly bristled, his voice rising in anger.
"Damn it! Yan Tingnan, how dare you talk to me like that?"
"You get more nervous when Su Ruan frowns than when the stock market crashes. The entire Beijing entertainment circle knows that your bottom line, President Yan, has now been renamed Su Ruan!"
"Who was peeling crabs at the dinner table just now, like a professional was taking care of a new mother?"
"Who would even take a sip from a teacup that someone else has already drunk from?"
"Where did your OCD go? Did the dog eat it?"
"You treat anything Su Ruan has touched like holy water, but if we touch something, you'd want to soak your hands in disinfectant!"
"How dare you call me love-obsessed?!"
"When it comes to being love-struck, you're my grandmaster!"
Su Ruan, nestled in Yan Tingnan's arms, listened to Lu Zhuo's frantic chatter on the other end of the phone, laughing so hard her shoulders shook.
She looked up and quietly nudged the fire.
"Teacher Yan, he seems to be quite right in his criticism."
Yan Tingnan lowered his eyes and bit her lips as punishment.
Su Ruan couldn't help but let out a muffled groan as Yan Tingnan pinched her thigh, his voice low and magnetic.
"I'm licensed to work, and I'm legally driven by romantic feelings."
"And you? Where is your official status?"
Lu Zhuo: "..."
A single, decisive blow.
Lu Zhuo took a breath and chuckled in a roguish manner.
"Old Yan, don't try to change the subject. This whole thing started with you!"
"If you hadn't sent me to seduce Yao Yao to break the deadlock, would this have happened? You have to accept the consequences!"
He unleashed his ultimate killing move.
"Brother, we finally saw a glimmer of hope, and you have the heart to extinguish it for me?"
"Just tell me if it's okay or not, give me an answer!"
Yan Tingnan remained silent for a moment, then lightly tapped Su Ruan's leg with his knuckles.
"Can."
"The Lin family can be left untouched, provided they know what's good for them and cut their losses to survive."
"The Lin family's core businesses must be divested; this is the bottom line."
"We'll discuss the specific details with Jinghuai."
Lu Zhuo achieved his goal and instantly breathed a sigh of relief, his tone returning to its usual roguish manner.
"terrific!"
"Then you go back to your business, I won't bother you any longer!"
"hang."
Yan Tingnan pressed his thumb, and the world fell silent.
He casually tossed his phone back onto the shoe bench.
Su Ruan hooked her fingertips around his tie and pulled him down.
She looked up at him and blinked.
"You really agreed? Aren't you afraid it will ruin your plans?"
He tightened his arms, pulling the person deeper into his embrace.
"Um."
He paused, his voice low.
"It's rare for Lu Zhuo to be serious."
“When I was at my lowest point, he gambled away everything he had to support me.”
"Now, it's my turn to cover for him."
Yan Tingnan's lips moved to her ear, his voice low and tender.
"Besides, this matter started because of me."
"If the Lin family really causes someone to die, he will always have a knot in his heart."
Su Ruan felt a slight warmth in her heart.
This man...
He is ruthless and cold-blooded when it comes to making decisions, but he is fiercely protective of those he has included in his circle.
She smiled and leaned in to kiss the corner of his lips.
"Our teacher Yan is actually very soft-hearted."
Yan Tingnan's eyes darkened, and he gripped the back of her neck, deepening the kiss.
"Soft-hearted?"
He pressed his forehead against hers, his breath hot.
"That depends on who it is."
"You can be loyal to your brothers."
"To you..."
His voice trailed off as his hand slipped under her clothes.
"We only talk about hardness and depth."
Su Ruan pressed against his chest, trying to create a small opening.
"Teacher Yan, I have to catch a flight tomorrow, so I need to understand sustainable development tonight..."
Yan Tingnan lowered his head, his nose brushing against her sensitive, trembling neck, and took a deep breath.
"It's because we need to go for a week that we have to use up our inventory in advance."
Yan Tingnan braced himself against the mirror beside her with one hand, put his hands on his hips, and turned her around to face the full-length mirror.
Su Ruan's gaze was forced to fall on the mirror.
She watched as he encircled her within his small space, watched as he bent down and kissed her shoulder and neck, leaving his mark on her.
Shame and excitement.
"Teacher Yan, why are you in such a hurry to stock up on food..."
She paused.
"Are you afraid that if you go to Zurich and there's no antidote, you'll miss me so much that you can't sleep?"
Yan Tingnan suddenly stopped moving.
He grabbed her chin and forced her to look at their closely pressed reflections in the mirror.
"yes."
He readily admitted that his gaze was obsessive.
"So I need to feed you beforehand, and also feed myself."
"I'll feed you for the next seven days, and you'll smell like me. Just thinking of you will help me get through it."
Yan Tingnan took her hand, their fingers intertwined, and pressed it against the mirror.
Her knuckles were forced together, and her palm pressed against the mirror.
The mirror fogs up, and fingerprints bloom in patterns.
"Soft."
His voice was hoarse and out of tune.
"This is called trying to see flowers in a mirror or trying to catch the moon's reflection in water."
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