42 Chapter 42 : The Way He Looks At Her

Xiulan uncomfortably sneaked a peek at Hongqi who was happily munching the apples she peeled and sliced. The man was also staring at her quite strangely and there was a tinge of a playful glimmer in it.

He's currently comfortably resting in a VIP hospital room for a week now. The people in this hospital treated him like royalty. There were a lot of stand-by nurses and security guards outside as well.

The room was big and wide enough to play a street game yet Xiulan felt suffocated by his intense stare and how he treats her life they were official lovers. She felt cold sweats forming in her body. She didn't like the attention she was getting from him.

After that hugging moment on top of the rooftop a week ago, the way his eyes look at her were different from the usual cold and domineering Hongqi. His need for skinship were more prominent too. She just knew that something changed and she doesn't like to pinpoint what it was. She wanted to stay oblivious. She was not stupid or assuming. She fully knows there was a budding spring going inside Hongqi's head or heart or wherever. She has seen this many times back in her university days and when she was an employee to one of her father's friends when she still didn't have her own company. She just knew 'that' look from men and some women.

"Ehem," Xiulan coughed to clear her throat and to remove this awkward atmosphere. "I'm going to a meeting this afternoon and some of your artists are going to visit you later too. They'll be your first visitors from your company." Xiulan started.

Xiulan strictly didn't allow any unrelated visitors to visit him for a whole week that's why this is the first day he'll meet and talk to visitors.

Xiulan badly wanted him to recuperate faster so she listed a lot of do's and don'ts. She didn't allow him to check any social media accounts to not stress himself since he's currently trending because of the disastrous event. She only wants him to have a good rest without anyone bothering him. She also told Secretary Yang Bo to be more careful in his reports and not to stress him more. Everyone thought she was too much but eventually gave up when Hongqi said that they should just follow her demands. Hongqi was delighted to see an extremely concerned Xiulan.

Xiulan only wanted Hongqi to recuperate quickly because she can't keep being his nanny any longer. Gosh, she must go back to work and she hasn't even reported properly to her university and father yet. She also has to treat and thank Dejiang for Zhu's amazing service and loyalty.

"How long is your meeting?" Hongqi didn't care much about his visitors. As possible he doesn't want any but his artists must be so worried about him. He at least must see them once in awhile to get their worried hearts put into peace.

"I think it'll take half a day. I'll be meeting a lot of foreign clients and I must respect their available schedule." Xiulan informed and checks the time on her watch.

"At least try to come back early." Hongqi reminded and gave her the puppy look.

Xiulan sighed. "Hongqi, you're almost fine so you won't be needing me much here. You'll be discharged soon as well. Why not take the remaining days to talk to your concerned visitors?" Xiulan suggested. Hongqi's hospital days added to Xiulan's 'long vacation' and her company has been begging her to come back as soon as possible. Without her, the company will be in ruins. There were too many workloads that needed her approval and the clients are now angry because of the long delay.

"I will miss you if you don't come back early." Hongqi smoothly said and pouted like a darn kid.

Xiulan raised her eyebrows at him and pierced her stare. Added to her uncomfortable impression towards this new type of Hongqi, he was so good in smoothly charging sweet nothings to her. She doesn't even know if it was a joke or he's already insinuating romance. And she deeply doesn't like the later.

"You are hopeless." She's lost of words how to answer back. "Your visitors will keep you company. By the way, what do you want to eat?" Xiulan asked. Lately, she has been cooking home-cooked meals for him by herself.

The fool requested that she must only serve him with food that she cooked, give him baths, change his clothes and accompany him in the comfort room. She was like treating an elderly. Though Xiulan might be in furious inside by Hongqi's bothersome requests, they became closer and Xiulan can now shout at him anytime she wants like they were good long time pals.

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The first time she gave him a bath was so awkward since he was naked and all but overtime she was now immune by his sexy and godly physique.

Overall, their closeness and trust to each other are on another level now.

"I wanted something with fish, a lot of veggies and broth. Anything with that and as long as you were the one who cooked it. It's the most important part." Hongqi nonchalantly said and finished eating the remaining apples.

Xiulan secretly rolled her eyes. "Once you're discharge, let your personal chef cook for you again. I can't always cook for you since I'm also busy." She ranted.

Hongqi was about to rebut when on cue her phone vibrated repeatedly and it was her Secretary Dandan.

"I'm just going to answer this." Xiulan excused herself and quickly fled out of the room.

Hongqi sighed seeing how Xiulan tries to avoid his 'love attacks'. He was good in flattering women and getting their hearts but this woman seems to be very cautious of this type of attacks.He has never seen her blush in any of his sweet nothings!

They were always together 24/7 for the past week and it was remarkable that he hasn't seen her getting giddy by his charms and ways. He must change his tactics. This wife of his is very different from the others and seems to have a very strong wall to guard her heart.

Hongqi quickly grab his iPad Pro and noted some of the key points on how to make this woman fall for him. Because of this new found obsession, he focused on this instead of stressing out how to deal with the TERRO group. He told Secretary Yang Bo that he will take care of it once his injuries were fully healed.

He has now decided that Xiulan must stay by his side so he has to focus on that. He already knew it'll be hard for her to divorce him since they have that billion yuan penalty. They might stay together forever unless he's the one who will initiate the divorce but that will be impossible.

Now since it has come to this point, if he has her heart and loyalty, he can have his long time dream of having a good family. Cheesy but yeah he is human after all. His lavish and dark playboy days were part of his history and no one would ever thought he wanted a family.

Honestly, he was never into family planning and even marriage was not part of his plans in the first place but everything are on a different standpoint right now. He's thinking of long term personal goals from now on and Xiulan is now part of that.

He thinks that he can never genuinely fall in love with anyone anymore unless he knew that person for so long. Regarding marriage of convenience, he already got the best wife for that.

Now he only needs to make everything stay put in their respective places.

Having a family was not bad. He can continue his lineage.

A family, he obviously lacks that. A playboy father from the start and a deceased mother who didn't leave any good impressions for her only son were not something to think of as positive and to use as an inspiration.

His socialite relatives are in a level of bonkers as well. His past relationships didn't also leave any good and positive things to remember. Most of the women he encountered for a relationship with were money and power hungry. Especially 'that' woman he loved so much back then.

'That' woman who made him like a monster. Whenever he remembers how he followed that woman to the depths of hell, he could only laugh at his old self. She was slightly the reason why he kept having relationships with power hungry women. He wanted to understand them why they were like that but to his disappointment, they all have the same selfish reason.

Song Xiulan… no scratch that. It's now Xing Xiulan. That woman is his wife now and everything about her from the strands of her hair to her family reputation were all godly lawful good unlike those women he was accustomed of. Such delight can only be encountered like a blue moon. He must treasure her. His feelings right now might be unexplainable but he wanted her to stay and she's very important.

"Young master… artists from our company has came to visit and to say a few encouraging words." Secretary Yang Bo suddenly appeared and caught Hongqi's attention. Actually he has been standing there for a good minute but Hongqi's attention was deeply somewhere else.

"Hmm… let them come in." Hongqi nodded. He was a little disappointed that he had to host some of the visitors. He wanted to continue jotting down how to make Xiulan completely fall in love with him.

Quickly, the female celebrity visitors barged in like hoards of zombies once they got Secretary Yang Bo's signal to come in and one by one inundate Hongqi with their concerned words.

Hongqi can't help but slightly cover his nose. Their perfume reeks and since there were five of them, their perfumes mixed together and created an awful smell. The three celebrity male visitors can't help but scratch their heads. They might get scolded by their CEO because of their female companions. These visitors are Hongqi's top earning artists.

Hongqi gave them a good plastic smile and thanked them quite kindly. They were all a little bit shocked the way Hongqi treated them. They have been scarred for life with how Hongqi scolded and belittle them whenever he's in his office. But right now, he's nice like an angel and he's also giving a generous smile to them. He's trauma might have severed his head and that causes him to be kind. It was baffling for them.

Since Hongqi was in a good mood and very kind today, the visitors started to chat and share their stories during this week. Hongqi laughed with them and generously replied to each of their stories.

To Hongqi, he was just trying to be nice today since he's getting some tips from their stories. Especially the women's stories about their fans and teasing sweet moments they encountered from suitors. He can use this to sweep off Xiulan's heart. As we know, sometimes women have the same fantasies.

On the other hand, Xiulan was in a dilemma. Her foreign client had to change the meeting time quite early and she must go back to Hongqi's room to get her bag and laptop. It took her a little while to go back to Hongqi's room floor because she had to address more details to Secretary Dandan about the change of schedule. Of course she has to meet other clients later as well so she must adjust them quickly.

Because of her panic, she didn't have the time to knock on Hongqi's door and straightforward barged in. She was surprised by the amount of people inside looking at her. She didn't expect that they would be here this early.

"H-hi…" Xiulan awkwardly greeted and smiled at them.

She darted towards Hongqi's bedside to get her things.

"My love, my artists visited me!" Hongqi proudly said and happily gazes at her.

Xiulan can't help but get annoyed to that new endearment he muster to create. 'My love'… gosh how cheesy and cringey!

"That's nice… I'm Xing Xiulan by the way." Xiulan greeted them and one by one she shook their hands. The women obviously plastered a fake smile while she greets them. But she doesn't mind and care about that.

"Thank you for visiting, Hongqi and please take care of my husband for awhile; I have to go to a meeting." She smiled at them and quickly retrieved her things quite awkwardly.

While she was checking her stuff if she missed anything, Hongqi suddenly thought of something.

"Wait! Where is my good bye kiss?" Hongqi demanded while Xiulan was checking the inside of her purse if her car keys were inside. She gave a dreadful look at Hongqi and insinuating and expression of "Are you serious?"

Hongqi shrugged her annoyed expression and made a waiting stance.

Xiulan imaginary rolled her eyes and grunted secretly. How she hates him right now.

Since it was only a kiss, she quickly landed a kiss on his left cheek but the darn man wanted more.

"Why are you shy right now? You usually kiss me on the lips." Hongqi pouted and made up a story to trap her to kiss him using their live audience. This was the perfect time to use the visitors.

Xiulan silently curses this infuriating man. Gosh he's really asking for this?! When did she kiss him on the lips? She doesn't even remember the last time they kissed. This fool, she wanted to pull his hair.

Secretary Yang Bo almost cough blood. He can't help but admire his boss' ways on how to annoy his wife. Obviously the young mistress doesn't want to PDA but the boss was quite pushy today.

"Husband, you are not so cute today." She stated but paired her words with a charming smile that hid her murderous intent.

Xiulan's running out of time and if she ignore this man's petty request, she's gonna have to pay for it later and it'll be far worse.

She quickly pecked his lips and smiled with that 'You are so dead later' kind of meaning.

"See you later, my love." Honqi happily said while he watches Xiulan quickly flee the room. At least he scored a kiss today using these visitors.

He has wanted to kiss her for so long but he doesn't even know where to start. She was always on guard and if he tries to do it while they were alone together, he might get a slap instead. He doesn't want any of that.

Hongqi curved his lips in delight and his visitors were the witness of their boss' infatuation towards his wife.His eyes and smile says it all.

He might have the playboy status but no one has seen how he has shown affection to a woman. They were used to the sight of women flirting with him and him paying attention to these women. But him asking for kisses was a first.

He never had that glint in his eyes before.He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. [1]

[1] A quote by F.Scott Fitzgerald.