63 The Black Notebook

"You!" Of course Iris felt him harden beneath her as she was sitting on his lap. "I…let me shower, okay?"

Jin Liwei looked at her with dark, desire-filled eyes. "Kiss me first."

She quickly pecked him on the cheek and stood up.

He reluctantly let her go and watched her run like a bunny to the bathroom. Placing his elbow on the desk, he plopped his head on his knuckle and thought deeply.

Ever since he became closer to Long Xiulan, he constantly felt that common sense shouldn't be used to understand her. He found that his earlier assumptions based on the dossier he ordered about her and her bad reputation were all completely wrong.

He now knew that she was clearly intelligent and skillful to the point of being a genius, yet why did it not reflect on her academic grades at school? If it wasn't for her father's influence, she wouldn't even graduate from senior high school.

Was it a case of the typical misunderstood genius?

He remembered reading from somewhere that some geniuses didn't do well in standardized educational systems because their minds worked beyond and differently from what society deemed as normal.

He rubbed his chin and tapped the fingers of his other hand on his thigh. There were so many baffling mysteries surrounding his baby girl.

Before the accident, she was known as a dumb, spoiled, wild party girl with a short temper, a fame-hungry starlet, and a tireless man-chaser. But now, he couldn't see any of these in her. What he was seeing with his own eyes was a beautiful and elegant young woman, a talented musician, an intelligent linguist, and a skilled computer expert.

Was she hiding her real intelligence and talents before to the point that her reputation became severely damaged? For what reason?

He was still confused but decided not to dwell too much in these thoughts. So what if she pretended to be dumb before? Now he knew that she was actually a genius. What mattered was that he knew the real her now.

He decided to disregard the inaccurate information on her dossier and the misleading bad rumours about her. He would only believe what he saw with his own eyes from now on, especially when it came to her.

If he could, he would keep her all to himself, not letting others discover this amazing side of hers. But he also wanted to show off her amazing talents to the world and slap the faces of all the people who misjudged her.

There were so many people who misjudged her, including himself, before getting to know her in person.

And he intended to get to know more about her. She was his! He was going to make sure that his baby girl belonged completely to him.

She was surprisingly naïve when it came to the intimate relationships between men and women. It was completely contradictory to her promiscuous reputation. In fact, she could be dense to the point that innuendos were completely useless on her.

Something that he thought was common sense seemed completely foreign to her.

This was why he had to use the most straightforward method of seduction which was to overwhelm her with constant intimacy, kissing and touching her whenever he could. Of course, all within the boundaries that she was comfortable with. He wanted her to feel good whenever he touched her.

So far, it was working.

He had always been a man of action. When he wanted something, he would do anything to get it. Now that he had found his woman after not feeling anything for the opposite sex since his birth, like hell he would let her escape from him. Long Xiulan was his!

His goal was to seduce her completely, marry her as soon as possible and tie her to himself forever by impregnating her with his baby before she could even realize what was happening. By the time she realized everything, it would be too late because she would already be Mrs. Jin and the mother of his children. He hoped that by that time, their feelings for each other would be deep enough to guarantee a life-long marriage. She would never be able to escape from him. Only then would he feel relaxed.

At the moment, his hard-on already calmed down from all the thinking. He heard water still running in the bathroom.

While waiting for his Xiulan to finish showering, he remembered to write the names of the companies and individuals he wanted reports about on the notepad. He placed the notepad beside the laptop after writing.

Then he noticed a black notebook on a corner of the desk. Curious, he opened it and took a look. There were four names written on the first page.

The first one was "Fan Luo". The other three names were "Wanwan", "Feifei" and "Mimi" which he didn't recognize.

As for the first name, he frowned. Was this Fan Luo, his younger brother Chonglin's fiancée? Why would Xiulan write Fan Luo's name?

His baby girl already assured him that she didn't have feelings for his brother. Then why?

What was this black notebook for anyway?

What if…

His heart thumped, suddenly feeling nervous.

Anxious, he grabbed his phone and called his assistant.

"Are you certain that all traces leading to the real reason behind Xiulan's accident were erased?"

On the other side of the line, Xu Tian was baffled as to why his boss was asking this now at this time of the night. "Yes, President. I'm sure."

"Check again."

Xu Tian paused before answering, "Understood."

Only then did Jin Liwei's nervousness eased a bit. "Good." He was quiet for a few seconds before remembering something. "Is everything prepared for my plan tomorrow?"

"Yes, President."

"Alright."

He hung up.

He looked at the first name on the black notebook again and then glanced at the bathroom, guilt flashing in his eyes.

He was now starting to regret what he did, but he reasoned to himself that he didn't know Xiulan before like he knew her now. And as the head of the Jin family who was now considered by many as the most powerful family in the country's business world, he had a duty to protect his family's name and image. Any smear, no matter how small, was unforgivable. So he always thought that it was better to eliminate potential problems before they could occur.

But the most important reason was to protect his mother's feelings. Ever since his father died, his mother worried about the brothers more than ever, especially when it came to Chonglin who seemed to do whatever the hell he wanted without any care in the world. And their mother treated Fan Luo like a daughter that she never had.

Before, he thought that he didn't care about anyone and anything, as long as his mother's feelings were protected. Now, however...

He wanted to confess everything to Xiulan, but was afraid that if he did it now, she would never let him near her again. He couldn't afford to destroy their current progress. He could sense that she was still hesitant when it came to him. He needed the security that she was completely his first and wouldn't leave him, before he could reveal the truth to her.

Jin Liwei looked at the black notebook again, feeling a vague sense of danger. However, he shook it off. It should be alright...no, it would be alright.

Perhaps the one written on the notebook was not the same "Fan Luo" that he knew of. Assuring himself with this thought, he carefully put the black notebook back in its original place.