A deathly silence hung in the air as the young man's dark eyes fixed on her. He extended his hand to Ruan Qing'an: "Would you like to consider it?"
She paused, then said, "...Lin Qisheng is not easy to deal with."
Lin Chen raised an eyebrow and hummed, his handsome eyes filled with an even stronger smile, his aggression and aggressiveness intensifying. The young man was like a blazing flame, so flamboyant that it could burn deep into one's heart.
He casually said, "I know that if it weren't for me, the Lin family wouldn't have grown to such an important position in the US. But that old man clings to what he has and uses me as a tool to swindle people. In the Lin family, his power and influence are not even as great as Lin Qisheng's."
"Therefore, dealing with him won't be easy; it will take a long time, and I need to make plans—"
Before Lin Chen could finish speaking, a soft hand landed in his palm. A petite girl grabbed his hand and shook it in a friendly manner. For a moment, Lin Chen was stunned: "Aren't you going to let me finish?"
"It's nothing, you're the only one I can cooperate with right now."
Lin Chen chuckled helplessly.
Ruan Qing'an's leaden almond-shaped eyes held a smile as she shook Lin Chen's hand: "Of course, I think if the wedding goes on, and your stepmother dies tragically at the wedding, it would make your adopted son seem very unfilial. So even if I don't agree, you have to save me."
Lin Chen's temples throbbed with anger, and he laughed in exasperation.
He grabbed Ruan Qing'an by the back of the neck: "Whether you agree or not, you can forget about getting married. I'm the first to disagree."
I'd rather not have this stepmother.
Lin Qisheng is truly blind; he managed to find a body double on her.
The girl whose neck was being pinched stopped acting up and looked aggrieved again, making Lin Chen feel as if he had done something wrong. He subconsciously stroked her delicate skin before letting go.
The cat, which had been so gentle just moments before, brandished its claws again, kicked Lin Chen, and before the young man could react, it turned and trotted away.
Lin Chen stood still and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Tsk, when will you behave yourself in front of me?"
...
As night deepened and it approached midnight, Lin Qisheng, who had been working in his study, finally put down his pen, rubbed his temples with a slight headache, and sighed softly, "This is really troublesome..."
'Knock knock knock—'
Just then, there was a knock on the study door.
Lin Qisheng paused slightly, tidied up the things on the table, and then said, "Come in, butler. Didn't I say I couldn't—"
"Sir, it's me. Am I disturbing you?"
The door was pushed open, and Ruan Qing'an cautiously peeked in, looking at me pitifully like a startled rabbit who had done something naughty: "When I got up in the middle of the night, I found that the light in your study was still on, and that's when I realized that you were still working, so I wanted to come and see you."
"I've brought some cookies and tea, sir, would you like some?"
Being gazed at by those watery eyes, one couldn't utter a single harsh word. Lin Qisheng couldn't help but laugh and say, "Alright, An'an, thank you for your trouble. Come in quickly. I didn't expect you to come see me so late at night."
“I feel so sorry for you, sir, as you work so hard.”
Ruan Qing'an lowered her head and spoke softly, blushing as if she were shy, so that Lin Qisheng could not see the cold look in her eyes.
She carried in an elegant silver plate and placed it on the desk. She then sat down opposite Lin Qisheng, picked up a cookie, and offered it to him, saying, "Sir, please try this."
"Okay, thank you An'an."
Lin Qisheng smiled and reached out to take it. As he was eating, his head began to throb more and more, and he even felt a little dizzy. He couldn't help but press his temples, and his face looked rather unwell.
Ruan Qing'an quickly asked, "Sir, are you alright? It's because you've been working too hard. You've been busy all this time, how could your body possibly keep up, sir?"
"It's okay, I'll just sit and rest for a while."
Lin Qisheng shook his head, drinking the tea Ruan Qing'an brought him, eating biscuits, and chatting with her as if it were a break.
Listening to the girl speak in a soft, caring voice, her murmurs were so sweet that they softened one's heart. With such a beautiful and gentle woman by your side, who wouldn't be captivated?
Lin Qisheng started chatting with Ruan Qing'an for a while, and after nearly half an hour, Ruan Qing'an's voice suddenly stopped.
Sitting at his desk, Lin Qisheng was propping his head up with one hand, his eyelids drooping as if weighed down by a thousand pounds. He seemed to be enveloped in sleepiness, and his mind was foggy.
She countered, "Sir, are you alright?"
"...An'an."
He murmured softly, his voice seemingly filled with endless affection.
But Ruan Qing'an didn't believe in this evil ghost in human skin at all. The wound on her neck had just healed, and then bruises appeared on her wrists. She was even almost broken by Lin Qisheng.
As for Xia An'an, the white moonlight?
The skeletons hidden in the dark room alone are enough to show just how insane Lin Qisheng was. If this is love, then it is a human tragedy.
His murmured voice trailed off for a moment, then Lin Qisheng, overcome with sleepiness, lay down on his desk and fell into a deep sleep, his brows still tightly furrowed, but his expression showed no sign of anything amiss.
037: [Wuhu~ Luckily we were clever. We only used a tiny amount of the drug, and thanks to the combined effects of the night's fatigue and the drug, we waited for so long that Lin Qisheng didn't notice anything amiss!]
Ruan Qing'an: "So—little system, why are you repeating what I explained to you?"
037: [To make myself seem a little smarter. ╰(*°▽°*)╯]
"...Oh well, whatever makes you happy."
Ignoring the system that was trying to give him a smarter persona, Ruan Qing'an stood up and, after confirming that Lin Qisheng was asleep, began to take action.
Before she came in, Lin Qisheng had probably already packed away the important things. There were only some ordinary documents on the table as decorations, nothing important. At the moment, they were pressed under Lin Qisheng's arm while he was asleep, and she couldn't pull them out.
But Ruan Qing'an's goal wasn't these things on the table. Lin Qisheng allowed her into the study, so naturally he had hidden all the important things away.
Ruan Qingan rested one hand on the desk, not being good at moving the desk.
"Hey little system, is there a way to scan the files inside?"
The entire system erupted in cheers: "Me! Me! Me! I can do it! I'm capable! Ancestor, let go, let me do it!"
Ruan Qingan: ...Why are you so excited?
037 was so moved that it almost burst into tears. Heaven knows that following this omnipotent ancestor, its high-tech system of the Administration Bureau could not perform any of its functions and had been completely reduced to a mascot.
Now, finally, something that even our ancestors couldn't do has happened!
The entire system became smug and immediately activated the system's data perspective. Even if the CPU overheated, it still had to get this done!
About two minutes later, the power belonging to the system was withdrawn, and 037's voice rang in Ruan Qing'an's mind, sounding listless, as if it had expended a lot of power.
Ruan Qing'an paused: "Are you really alright, little system?"
No, I'm fine. I want to prove myself!
037 said this firmly, then transmitted the data to Ruan Qingan's mind and disappeared—presumably to rest.
Ruan Qingan shook his head and sighed as he checked the documents.
"Why bother? A mascot is much better, and it doesn't burden the system."
037：(;′??Д??`)
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