Xie Duo repeatedly revised those details in his mind. He thought bitterly that if he could have thought it through earlier and taken the initiative even once, then all of this might have become a reality.
Shen Antu had his back to Xie Duo and remained silent. Xie Duo thought he was asleep, so he leaned over and held him in his arms.
But Shen Antu was not asleep. He held Xie Duo's wrist and pushed him away again, saying in a hoarse voice:
"hot."
Chapter 24: Spoiled and Proud
The person who was still shouting that he was too hot and didn't want anyone to hug him the night before, spontaneously curled up in Xie Duo's arms while falling asleep in the middle of the night. When Xie Duo was about to get up from bed to go to work in the morning, he still clung to him and refused to leave.
"I'm going to be late."
Xie Duo tried to reason with Shen Antu, but Shen Antu pretended not to hear him and hooked his arms and legs around Xie Duo like an octopus. Whenever Xie Duo tried to break free, he whimpered in grievance as if the sky was falling.
Xie Duo had no idea what to do with him. He lifted up his half-long bangs and used his forehead to test his temperature to make sure he was no longer feverish: "Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
Shen Antu shook his head, but his hand was still around Xie Duo's waist.
"Why are you so clingy because you're sick?" Xie Duo pinched the back of his neck.
Shen Antu persisted silently for a while, then finally let go and sat on the bed, watching Xie Duo come back from washing up, getting dressed and tying his tie. His eyes followed Xie Duo without blinking.
When Xie Duo was about to leave, he turned around and saw Shen Antu still staring at him with red eyes, like an abandoned puppy. Xie Duo's heart softened in an instant.
He sighed, turned back and bit Shen Antu's lips hard: "I'm working from home today."
At this time, Xie Duo didn't know that he would not be able to go out for the next four days, but after just one morning, he had already experienced what it meant to be "spoiled by being favored."
Shen Antu, under the pretext of being sick and having a sore hand, first asked Xie Duo to feed him breakfast, and of course lunch and dinner followed; when Xie Duo was working on the computer, he would sit on his lap to read, and kiss Xie Duo from time to time, under the pretext of relieving his pain; when he got tired of sitting on Xie Duo's lap, he would lean on Xie Duo's legs with a cushion, and whenever he wanted to relieve himself, he would ask Xie Duo to accompany him to the toilet, and he could not leave Xie Duo for a moment; at night, Shen Antu would pester Xie Duo and insist that he wanted to, and then he would use the excuse of not feeling well to refuse to let him in, and when Xie Duo had served him well, he would fall asleep and ask Xie Duo to take a cold shower by himself.
For the next three days, Xie Duo handled all his official business in the study. He held meetings online and asked Chen Xu to deliver documents that needed signatures. Until the morning of the fourth day, when Chen Xu came to deliver the documents, Zhou Minghui followed him.
It was Xie Duo who opened the door, and Shen Antu followed behind him like a shadow.
As soon as Shen Antu saw Zhou Minghui, he smiled and took the initiative to invite the two of them in. He escorted them all the way to Xie Duo's office, and then brought in tea, looking like the head of the family. Seeing that the three of them wanted to talk about something, he was particularly sensible and asked to avoid them. Before leaving, he deliberately pulled Xie Duo's hair and asked for a kiss, and glared at Zhou Minghui while kissing, almost writing the word provocation on his face.
Zhou Minghui couldn't get angry because Xie Duo was present, so he could only crush the water glass to death.
Chen Xu was no longer surprised by their intimate behavior, so he lowered his head and pretended to be air.
After Shen Antu left, the three of them started to get busy with work. The government's new district development plan was officially launched, and the bidding for an important piece of land would be next week. Project manager Jiang Lai was responsible for coordinating the bidding. He had a lot of things to report to Xie Duo in person, but he didn't expect that Xie Duo hadn't been to the company for three consecutive days. Today was the fourth day.
Zhou Minghui came here today for this matter. He didn't expect that his brother, who used to be devoted to "state affairs", would be seduced by his mortal enemy to not attend court every day, and he was just short of playing the game of playing with princes by lighting beacons. He also didn't expect that after he had just confronted Shen Antu two days ago, the other party not only did not restrain himself but became even more aggressive, and took revenge so happily.
"He..." Zhou Minghui just opened his mouth to say a word, and Xie Duo's glare flew over. Zhou Minghui could only take a deep breath, suppress all the words in his stomach, and after a long time, he uttered, "When will you return to the company?"
"Take him for a physical examination tomorrow morning. If there is no problem, I will go back to the company. If Jiang Lai is in a hurry, let him come to see me in the afternoon." Xie Duo said as he was looking at the document, and the last sentence was directed to Chen Xu.
"Got it," Chen Xu thought for a moment and confirmed again, "Should I ask him to come directly to the villa?"
"Yes." Xie Duo didn't look up, "It's not like he hasn't seen Shen Antu before."
"yes."
The day Shen Antu met Xie Duo for the first time after the accident, Xie Duo brought five of his men, including Jiang Lai. But they only knew that Xie Duo had arrested Shen Antu, but they didn't know that Shen Antu was now half their boss.
"Come directly to the villa? Aren't you afraid of being caught?" Zhou Minghui raised an eyebrow. After he finished speaking, he figured out something else, "No, you are so eager to be caught, Old Xie, what are you thinking? If you really like Miss Shen, you should hide her. You are half-hiding and half-revealing... Let's not talk about the Shen family first. I heard that your parents have recently started to get in touch with the Chong family again. Their daughter, Chong Shirui, should be the one that the two elders introduced to you half a year ago. Now they have taken the initiative to contact the Chong family. Do you understand what I mean? They must have heard about it. You just wait, they will call you home for dinner next week at the latest."