Lin Yanran chuckled and turned her face away, but the tips of her ears turned red.
He had been locked at home by his father all night practicing etiquette, his fingers numb from tying the tie. Seeing Yu Jiuyuan like this, his reluctance suddenly turned into an inexplicable irritation.
Just a few days ago she was wearing a hoodie and eating bread in the student council office, how did she suddenly become so dazzling that no one could take their eyes off her?
Before the signing ceremony began, Yu Jiuyuan was touching up her makeup in the dressing room. Suddenly, Rong Shenghan's figure appeared in the mirror. He had walked in at some point and locked the door behind him.
“The Su family member is the fifth one from the left in the third row.” He hugged her from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder, his breath brushing against her bare back, sending a shiver down her spine. “The one with the black-rimmed glasses and the silver pen in his hand.”
Yu Jiuyuan raised an eyebrow at herself in the mirror: "You've done a pretty thorough investigation."
"After all, this concerns the young lady." He kissed the pearl necklace at the back of her neck, his voice muffled, "However..."
He suddenly raised his hand, his fingertips sliding down her spine, and gently pressed on the most concave part of her waistline.
Yu Jiuyuan's breath hitched, and her reflection in the mirror flushed slightly, but her eyes remained clear.
“More than the Su family,” he chuckled, nibbling at her earlobe, “I’m more interested in whether she’s wearing nothing underneath this dress.”
When there was a knock on the door of the lounge, Yu Jiuyuan was just raising her hand to push him away. She straightened her skirt, turned around, and her face had regained its perfect smile: "Come in."
Xie Zhecheng stood at the door and frowned when he saw the scene inside, but he didn't say much. He simply said, "We can begin."
Yu Jiuyuan nodded and walked out first.
As she passed by Xie Zhecheng, she smelled the faint scent of cedar on him and suddenly remembered that he seemed to have been like that day, his back tense the whole time, like a delicate but cold sculpture.
The spotlights behind the signing table were blindingly bright.
Yu Jiuyuan's hand holding the pen was incredibly steady. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Rong Shenghan talking to Lin Yanran. The boy's face instantly turned bright red, but he dared not show it due to the occasion.
Xie Zhecheng stood opposite her, his gaze fixed on her hand holding the pen, her eyelashes casting a small shadow beneath her eyes.
The moment the pen tip touched the paper, she suddenly smiled.
The system notification sounded in her mind just as she finished signing the last word.
[Xie Zhecheng's emotional fluctuation +10, current positive value 115]
[Lin Yanran's emotional fluctuation +5, current positive 25]
Rong Shenghan's emotional fluctuation +5, currently positive.
Yu Jiuyuan put down her pen, raised her head amidst the applause, her gaze sweeping over the man with black-rimmed glasses in the audience before returning to the three boys beside her, each with their own thoughts.
The light from the crystal chandelier shattered into stars in her eyes, and beneath her innocent smile lay a coldness that even she found pleasant.
After the ceremony, Yu Jiuyuan was surrounded by reporters. Someone suddenly asked: "President Yu, it's rumored that you and Vice President Rong have a close relationship?"
She tilted her head and chuckled, her eyes sparkling with just the right amount of innocence: "We're great work partners."
Before she could finish speaking, her wrist was suddenly grabbed. Rong Shenghan had appeared beside her without her noticing, his tone intimate, almost like he was pleading, "Yuanyuan, you've finished your champagne. Shall I get you another one?"
The sound of reporters' camera shutters clicking incessantly.
Xie Zhecheng turned and walked towards the elevator, his back view as cold as an iceberg.
Lin Yanran stared at the hand Rong Shenghan was holding Yu Jiuyuan's, her nails digging deeply into her palm.
In the lounge, Yu Jiuyuan leaned back on the sofa looking at her phone. On the screen was a message from Yuan Xu: [Yuanyuan, I've successfully cultivated the fluorescent butterflies you wanted in the lab. I'll show them to you when I get back.]
She tapped her fingertips on the screen, and the moment she pressed the send button, the door was pushed open.
Rong Shenghan locked the door behind him and pressed her down on the sofa for a deep kiss.
The creases in his suit trousers brushed against the hem of her skirt as he whispered into her earlobe, "You put on quite a show in front of the reporters just now."
"Same to you." Yu Jiuyuan loosened his tie, the coldness in her eyes finally showing. Was the power behind the Su family making a move?
He kissed her collarbone, his voice muffled. I found out they had a private deal with Lin Yanran's father.
The doorknob suddenly turned, and Xie Zhecheng, who was standing at the door, dropped the file bag in his hand to the ground.
He looked at the two people entwined on the sofa, his eyes behind his glasses devoid of emotion, only his knuckles, gripping the door frame, were white.
Yu Jiuyuan pushed Rong Shenghan away, straightened her disheveled collar, and gave Xie Zhecheng a standard sweet smile: President Xie, is there something you need?
Xie Zhecheng bent down to pick up the file bag, his voice as cold as ice: "The supplementary agreement needs your signature." He placed the file on the coffee table, his gaze sweeping over the red marks on her neck, before turning and leaving.
The moment the door closed, Rong Shenghan chuckled softly: Look, the cracks in a perfectionist's heart.
Yu Jiuyuan picked up the pen and signed it, the pen tip drawing a neat arc on the paper.
"What, is Vice President Rong jealous again?" She smiled casually. "How about we go back to the villa now and lock me up for another three days?"
Rong Shenghan gently traced the skin on her back with his fingertips, his movements as tender as if he were caressing a fragile treasure: "No, thank you."
He lowered his head, his warm breath brushing against the back of her ear. "I'd rather watch them look at you, but not be able to touch a single hair on your head, than lock you up."
His voice was soft and tinged with laughter, but Yu Jiuyuan could clearly feel how hard his hand was pressing on her waist. It was the possessiveness of a top predator, carefully disguised under a mask of approachability.
She pushed the signed agreement to Rong Shenghan and gently tapped his heart with her fingertip: "Next, it's the Lin family's turn."
Beneath the innocent smile in his eyes lay the excitement unique to a madman.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
