She breathed in, and with one hand propping up her head, her clear gaze looked towards the page in her hand . When she saw those diagrams, she immediately recalled the document that Qi Lei had sent over that afternoon .
“Ah, I almost forgot!” she cried out and got up .
“What is it?” He looked up to her, yet saw that she had already put on her shoes and was rushing towards the door . A while later, she brought a document back .
“This! Take a look! Qi Lei delivered it this afternoon . It's amended based on our requests . I'm not too well-versed with this . We should get the opinion of the discussion group, so I brought it back . ”
“Qi Lei? When has he become so proactive? He even sent it over personally?” he asked with a deep voice as he squinted at her .
Xi Xiaye shrugged . “Who knows? But based on this blueprint, it should be his work . I heard that he's an outstanding student in a certain prestigious university abroad for construction, and even did his Masters in management . He sounds like he's pretty clever . ”
“You are also a graduate of a prestigious university abroad,” he simply answered, and then flipped the document open . “He's quite talented at barely 30 and he's already gotten quite a few awards . I do quite admire him personally . He has high potential . If he was seriously unearthed, he'd be far better than Qi Feng…”
As he mentioned Qi Feng towards the end, he subconsciously stopped talking . His movements abruptly paused too while his still eyes dimmed . After that, he did not go on either .
Xi Xiaye naturally took in all his reactions . After thinking about it, she then clung onto his arm . “But to me, no matter how excellent he may be, he's far from being compared to you!”
“You're really getting more and more self-aware now . ” He then smiled .
“Of course, no matter how good someone else may be, they wouldn't be mine . Only your kindness to me is real . However, he said unkind things about you in front of me, yet you said you admire him to me . Based on this alone, Mr . Mu, you trump him . ”
When he heard her declare so, his gaze turned gentle . To be able to hear praises from her obviously made him very pleased .
The husband and wife couple patiently and meticulously went through the whole design blueprint and made notes where minor amendments were needed . When they were done, it was close to midnight . Xi Xiaye was quite tired that she almost could not keep her eyes open . Mu Yuchen had just kept the things away when she had already fallen asleep .
Mu Yuchen got up to put the documents away in the study room, then he laid back down .
“Mu Yuchen…”
He had just laid down when she subconsciously reached out to search for him . Nowadays, it was almost a routine every night . When she could not sleep soundly, she would call out to him and reach out to see if he was still by her side .
“Hmm?” He would also respond by routine naturally and without waiting for her to answer, he would pull her tightly into his embrace .
Every time at this second, his heart would melt and he could not help but feel a slight ache because he wanted to possess her even more .
He was not sure when he had actually begun to have such vulnerable and tender feelings .
On calm and warm days, he got used to her presence . Now, he unexpectedly willingly became addicted to her .
All of these wonderful things would continue on…
Meanwhile, in this dead of the same night, that in a certain luxurious villa in the Grand Lakes Area .
As usual, Qi Lei habitually stood in the breeze on the second-floor balcony in his pajamas after a shower and watched the flickering light on the lake across .
Cough cough! Cough cough!
In the cold wind, his coughs came from time to time .
This time it really was quite bad . He had not recovered after resting at home for a few days . Earlier on, he even had to be put on drips .
It was all because of that woman!
If it were not for being caught in the rain that day, he would have recovered from his cold by now . She had even tricked and tormented him, upsetting him thoroughly!
Qi Lei covered his mouth and coughed harshly a few times . He subconsciously reached into his pocket to get a handkerchief, yet he found a little metal box instead . When he took it out to look, he realized that it was the cough drops he had gotten from Xi Xiaye in the afternoon .
He gazed down at it for quite a while, then his handsome face relaxed . It was not the usual demonic charm on him . Instead, he looked much more gentle right now .
He fell silent for a while, then suddenly turned to walk towards the bedroom behind him . Taking huge strides to the side of his bed, he pulled the drawer open . Inside was a sketchbook .
It was Xi Xiaye's sketchbook that he had picked up from the hospital the other day .
He put the little metal box inside, and then closed the drawer before he laid down comfortably on the huge bed .
However, just as he laid down, his phone vibrated . Looking at the screen, he saw that it was Assistant Yang Sheng .
He stared for a while before he answered it .
The phone call had just gotten through when Yang Sheng's anxious voice came through .
“Master Qi, the butler at Qi Park just called . He said that the CEO is back and had a huge argument with the Madam who left the house angrily in the dead of the night . She drove by herself . Madam cut her hand when she made dinner for you the other night and it still hasn't healed…”
When he heard this, Qi Lei instantly frowned . An incredulous look crossed his handsome face . “These arguments are common . Mother's not a child either . What are you worried about?”
Qi Lei was quite calm since he was already used to all of these and did not find it out of the ordinary .
“But, Master Qi, it's already past midnight right now . Madam, she…”
Yang Sheng still could not help but want to say something more—
“Don't worry . She has an apartment in Century City . She should be there . Get someone to take a look,” Qi Lei said quite calmly . Then before Yang Sheng could respond, he hung up .
As he watched his phone screen dim, Qi Lei's handsome face slowly curved with a sneer .
Pa!
In the darkness, a black shadow cut through the air and shot straight towards the wall across . Then, with a resounding smash, the phone that had been in his hand earlier shattered into pieces on the ground…
The brand new phone was turned to scrap .
He took a deep breath as he took the pillow beside him and covered his face with it . Immediately, intense sounds of coughs could be heard in every corner of the room!
He was done dealing with these conflicts for all these years . Initially, he thought that maybe it would get better once he moved out, but who would have thought…?
Chapter end
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