Chapter 91 It doesn’t matter, if others don’t love you, I will
Snowflakes fell all night long, and when the morning light first broke, the whole villa was wrapped in white snow.
The branches of the Podocarpus in the courtyard were pressed into soft curves by the accumulated snow, and the sunlight reflected on the snow, casting fine golden rays.
Ji Linshen did not go for a morning run. After swimming in the heated swimming pool on the top floor, he went to the gym on the underground floor to do strength training.
Getting up early to exercise has been his habit for many years, and now he cannot slack off.
Given how obsessed Lu Shiman was with his abdominal muscles, he didn't dare to slack off at all.
As the steam from the bathroom spread over the mirror, he heard the muffled sound of the alarm coming from the master bedroom.
Pushing the door open, I saw the small, arched mound of the silk quilt huddling towards the head of the bed, its exposed hair trembling slightly with its owner's movements.
A smile appeared in his eyes. He walked to the bed and tapped the screen of his mobile phone with his fingertips, and the alarm stopped abruptly.
"Ji Linshen, everything is fine now that you're back..." A muffled accusation came from under the quilt.
I lifted the blanket covering her head and saw her burying her face in the pillow, mumbling vaguely, "It's just that getting up early with you to go to work is not a good thing."
Ji Lin chuckled from his throat and leaned over to pick her up: "Assistant wants to go on strike?"
Lu Shiman felt dizzy before she even opened her eyes. Instinctively, she wrapped herself around his slender waist, nuzzling her cheek against the warm skin of his neck. "Who invented this idea of going to work... and then secretly killing people..."
Ji Linshen held her thigh and walked towards the bathroom. The place where she rubbed it felt itchy and numb, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, and the fingers clasping her thigh tightened unconsciously.
"Ditch them all!" Lu Shiman closed his eyes and rubbed Ji Linshen's neck.
"Stop it." Ji Linshen's cold tone became a little hoarse.
"Just rub it, rub it, rub it to death, you evil capitalist, if you want me to..." The last word stopped abruptly, and she suddenly froze and dared not move.
Ji Linshen's palms that were supporting Lu Shiman's buttocks suddenly tightened, and Lu Shiman's body fell down. The heat coming through the fabric of her pants made the tips of her ears red.
"Still rubbing?" A hoarse voice brushed past her ear, and his Adam's apple rolled against her lips.
Lu Shiman hurriedly clung to the broad shoulders and moved upwards, her hair brushing against the man's red earlobes: "No more!"
The bathroom mirror was covered with mist. Ji Linshen stuffed the toothbrush with toothpaste squeezed into her palm: "You wash up first, I'll go change clothes."
Lu Shiman nodded obediently, and the moment Ji Linshen turned around, she pinched his butt with her hands, and her fingertips quickly swept across the perky buttocks.
"Lu Shiman!" Ji Lin warned in a low voice. He turned his head and locked his dark eyes with hers, which were filled with a smirk. He reached out and held the rebellious hand: "A sneak attack?"
"Why? You pinched me almost all night last night, so what's wrong with me pinching you just once?" Lu Shiman said vaguely.
Ji Linshen sighed softly. She didn't hold back her mouth in front of others, let alone in private with him. She would say whatever lewd words she wanted to say.
Many times, he was embarrassed by Lu Shiman's words, but the culprit was completely unaware.
He coughed lightly. He didn't feel it when he did it, but now that she mentioned it, his heart trembled and his earlobes turned red.
"Pack up quickly." After leaving behind these words, Ji Linshen fled in panic.
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As the Rolls-Royce drove out of the villa over the snow, the second assistant in the passenger seat was reporting the schedule.
"Boss Ji, there are two meetings this morning, one for the R&D department and one for the marketing department."
Lu Shiman, sitting on the cashmere cushion, stole a glance to his side for the 17th time.
Ji Linshen slid his slender fingers across the tablet computer. The morning light outlined his well-defined profile, and the tips of his ears, which had just turned red, had returned to a cold white.
Looks abstinent and cold.
"There is a video conference with overseas partners this afternoon, and a charity dinner scheduled in the evening that requires you to give a speech." The second assistant closed the gold-stamped schedule.
Lu Shiman frowned as he listened. With so many meetings, people would probably go crazy.
Ji Linshen caught a glimpse of her expression from the corner of his eye, and suddenly reached out and took Lu Shiman's fingers, which were twisting the hem of her clothes, into his palm.
After the second assistant finished reporting the schedule, he began to report on other work.
Lu Shiman yawned one after another as he listened.
The cell phone rang suddenly in the car. The second assistant immediately fell silent, and Lu Shiman pricked up his ears.
Ji Linshen raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw the caller ID.
Huo Beiyan's exasperated voice came from the other end of the line: "Boss Ji, you haven't made any movement since you received the money, right?"
"I said thank you yesterday."
Huo Beiyan: "I say, even if you took the money, shouldn't you return the check to its original owner?"
"How can the maintenance fee be returned?" Ji Lin sneered: "If you want to snatch this, are you still a human being?"
Huo Beiyan, the person involved, is now regretting that he signed all the checks for the sake of convenience.
"Brother, you are not my lover, so I have to pay for your support? Please return the two to me first, I need them in the afternoon." Huo Beiyan was so anxious on the other end of the phone that he could only make a helpless request.
Ji Linshen raised his lips with a playful smile: "Afternoon? I may not have time, it depends on my mood."
"I really owe you in my previous life." Huo Beiyan gritted his teeth and said, then hung up the phone.
Lu Shiman tilted his head and stared at Ji Linshen: "Is it Huo the idiot?"
"Yeah." Ji Linshen had already accepted that the name was Huo Beiyan.
"He wants to rob you of your money?" Lu Shiman's voice suddenly rose, filled with indignation.
"How could he do this? How could he steal your money? You work so hard to make money. Does he have any heart? How can he treat you like this as a friend? He doesn't care about you at all~"
Lu Shiman gently patted the back of Ji Linshen's hand to comfort him: "It's okay, other people don't love you, I will."
Ji Lin lowered his eyes and stared at the tips of her ears which were red with excitement, and suddenly a sour feeling rose in his throat.
All the hardships in her twenty-five years of life now turned into warmth flowing between her palm lines.
"This is really too much. Tomorrow I will..." The last word suddenly choked in her throat, and she found that Ji Linshen was staring at her with a look she had never seen before.
The morning light shattered into stars between his eyelashes, and his pupils, which had been frozen for years, cracked open, revealing the surging undercurrent underneath.
Lu Shiman's heart seemed to stop beating. This look reminded her of the stray dog she had picked up on a rainy night, curled up in the corner of her house.
My heart suddenly contracted, and an indescribable pain surged in my heart.
I don't know when the car's aromatherapy diffuser had a new core replaced, and the scent of wormwood mixed with patchouli spread in the enclosed space.
Ji Linshen suddenly grabbed her wrist with his backhand, with such force that it seemed as if he wanted to melt her bones and blood into the lines of his palm.
Lu Shiman stared at him, then suddenly leaned over and rubbed his tense jawline with her forehead.
This almost animal-like gesture of goodwill caused Ji Lin's deep breathing to stop, and the warm breath was flowing along his collarbone to his heart.
"Hurt me..." When he repeated these two words, a very light laugh escaped from between his teeth, like a seed that had been frozen under the ice for many years finally breaking free from its shackles.
The snow scene passing by the car window cast mottled afterimages on the glass, and those light and shadows happened to fall on the slightly red corners of his eyes, as if cinnabar was dotted by gods and Buddhas when they showed mercy.
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