“How am I not useful?” Kang Anhe was slowly turning glum. A man was angriest when a woman said he was useless. That was simply a destructive form of insult. “How would you know if you haven’t tried?”
Duoyao blinked. She was bewildered. She had already made it so subtle. Why must he still be angry? He was making her fearful of going on any further.
“Tell me.” Kang Anhe took a step closer to her. He was taller than Duoyao but ever since she got with Yan Molun, Duoyao felt his height was just average. “Am I inadequate in any way? I’ve said it before—you can just tell me. I can change. If you like wild types, I can go to the gym every day to train my muscles.”
Duoyao felt like crying. What on earth did he want? “I already said I don’t like you. Why must you keep forcing me? Honestly, Young Master Kang, I feel that you don’t really like me that much. It might be just because you can’t get me.”
“What did I do to make you think that I don’t like you enough? I’ve courted you recently. Isn’t it obvious enough?” Kang Anhe grabbed her wrist with frustration. “I was attracted to you the moment I saw you at the company gathering…”
“There are so many beautiful women in the company. Go take a look around and maybe you might set your eyes on one of them.” Duoyao tried to persuade him subtly: “Young Master Kang, let me tell you honestly. I was indeed touched by how you courted me in the past with jewelry, branded goods, and fresh flowers, but I didn’t accept any of them, right? To me, I won’t accept anything before getting together with someone. Yes. At first, those things fed my vanity, but after I went to Tibet, I realized that these things are too superficial. When you like someone, when the other party isn’t doing well, you should feel uneasy and can’t wait to give the best to her. If she’s suffering, you should feel even more terrible than anyone else, but when I was hungry and cold over there, what messages did you send me? You told me to eat more, to dress warmly. Wasn’t that just nonsense? Don’t I know to dress more warmly when I’m cold and to eat when I’m hungry? I just had nothing to eat!”
Kang Anhe was stunned. He said with disbelief, “So I should I have sent things over to you? It’s not that I didn’t think of that before, but it was just too far and I didn’t know the exact location. Besides, it wasn’t like you weren’t coming back. I thought I could still give you the best after you returned.”
Hearing that, Duoyao didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. Why did she not find this Young Master Kang humorous in the past? “Yeah. Everything you said was right. Only, why does a woman need a man? It’s so she can have a sense of security. If you don’t appear when I need you the most, what good are you? Are you there to buy me jewelry? It’s not like I can’t afford it. I’m sorry. I might be too straightforward, but you just don’t seem to get it, so I can’t help but be so straightforward.”
“Jiang Duoyao…” Kang Anhe tightened his grip on her.
“Let go.” Duoyao struggled for a while but he wasn’t reacting, so she lowered her head and bit him.
Kang Anhe retracted his hand from the pain and was furious. “You bit me? Jiang Duoyao, don’t think that just because I like you, you can be so lawless. All it takes is just a word from me and I can kick you out of the company.”
Duoyao was stunned. Immediately, anger surged from within. “If you did that, it would only make me glad to have rejected you. After all, a petty man seems revolting.”
She turned her head and walked away after saying that, disregarding how angry Kang Anhe was.
…
She got into the minivan after she arrived at the car park and Xiling asked her softly, “You didn’t accept Young Master Kang’s flowers? What did you tell him?”
“I just told him straightforwardly. I think I offended him.” Duoyao felt uneasy the moment she got into the car.
Xiling was so angry she almost vomited blood. “How could you be so rash? Don’t you know that this is a critical period right now? If the company’s PR doesn’t do anything, you’ll be dead meat.”
Duoyao was sullen. “I wanted to be subtle but he kept hounding me for an answer. It’s frustrating, you know?”
“Boss, you really make me uneasy. Sister Shuang just pulled me over to chide me so that I could remind you to watch yourself in front of Young Master Kang. Great, you just offended him through and through.” Xiling put her hand over her heart as she sighed.
Duoyao pouted innocently.
In the next few days, she was busy attending various charity drives and fashion shows. She had gathered quite a lot of public attention after she made a comeback in the entertainment industry and there was a lot of media reporting on her.
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Yan Molun had been pretty idle recently. He would loiter around Li Shaobin’s winery when he had nothing to do, but Li Shaobin was nowhere to be seen. He was rather bewildered. When he called Li Shaobin to ask him out for a couple of drinks, a certain someone rejected him. “Haha, you think of me now that your girlfriend isn’t around? I’m sorry, I’m busy. I need to keep my Charlotte company.”
“Charlotte?” Yan Molun got a rude shock. “You have a girlfriend?”
No way. That would be way more shocking than a sudden rain or his mother re-marrying. It seemed like he even got himself a foreign chick.
“What? Charlotte’s the name of my dog, don’t you know?” Li Shaobin was unhappy. “Changqing’s Lolita gave birth a few days ago but the dog was too small then. Now she’s grown a little bigger so I brought her home. I named her Charlotte after an American model. Her breasts are huge.”
Yan Molun: “…”
Alright, he had thought too highly of Li Shaobin. He actually named his dog after an American model with big breasts. He had no idea what was going on inside this person’s brain.
50 minutes later, Yan Molun arrived at Li Shaobin’s house. The moment he got out of his car, he saw Li Shaobin sitting in the courtyard, playing with a dog the size of his palm. He was a little speechless when he saw the dog. It had the face of a Labrador but the black and white coat of a husky. Its two ears were droopy and it looked cute and stupid.
Mm. It looked a little like Li Shaobin.
“Why didn’t you choose one… that’s slightly more normal-looking?” The corners of Yan Molun’s lips twitched for a long time before he said, “Could it be that all the dogs look like this?”
“Two of them are like this while the other two look a little like Robben, but I think this one is unique. Don’t you think a cross-breed between a Labrador and a Husky has very cute ears?” Labrador continued to fiddle with Charlotte’s little legs. Charlotte was still young and seemed unfamiliar with the environment so she kept cowering towards the ground, looking like a pitiful little thing.
Yan Molun sighed. His taste had always been very peculiar.
“Aye. Do you want to get one?” Li Shaobin walked over and said, “Anyway, the Song family has four dogs now. Old Song is having a headache over them and wants to send them away, but Changqing is unwilling. Unless, of course, they give them away to people they’re familiar with.”
Yan Molun wanted to call Duoyao but she didn’t pick up. It wasn’t until 10 pm that she called back. “I was attending an event.”
“Mm. It’s nothing much. I just heard that Changqing’s dog gave birth. Don’t you like little animals? Do you want me to adopt one?” Yan Molun asked softly.
“Really?” Duoyao was excited for a few seconds. However, she recalled the time when Changqing brought the two large dogs out last year and felt a little scared. “I think we should forget it. Dogs might be cute, but Changqing’s dogs are large breeds. I want to rear small ones even if I were to get one.”
Yan Molun wasn’t interested in small dogs. Since she was unwilling to adopt the dogs, he didn’t say much. “When are you coming back? I miss you.”
Duoyao blushed. He was always so blunt and that made her really shy. “I’ll be back the day after tomorrow.”
“Then tell me when you come back. I’ll go look for you that night.” Yan Molun raised his brows.
“Mm.”
…
Duoyao returned from out of the city and not long after she reached her villa, just as she was changing, the doorbell rang. She didn’t need to think to know who it was. She ran downstairs while putting on her shirt. She opened the door and Yan Molun drove in. He opened the car door and the sight of his long legs stretching out from the car made her heart race.
He was wearing a pair of black pants and a black shirt was tucked neatly into his pants today. His waist almost reached her chest. Duoyao lifted her head to look up and could see the corners of his mouth suddenly curling up.
He rarely smiled but when he did, he looked sexier than normal men. Duoyao’s heart thumped. She was bewildered. Was it because he hadn’t seen her for too long so even his smile was wider than before?
“Were you changing just now?” Yan Molun closed the door. He took many things out from the trunk.
“Mm. How did you know?” Duoyao was stunned.
“You’re wearing your shirt inside out.” He turned back and smiled.
Duoyao lowered her head and realized that the seams of her shirt were all exposed. She was wearing it inside out!
How embarrassing. That was simply the most embarrassing thing for a woman.
“It’s all your fault for coming so suddenly; I was changing upstairs. When I heard the doorbell, I ran down without looking carefully. ” Duoyao pushed the blame onto him. She would definitely not admit that she often wore her shirt inside out.
“Oh. Is that right?” Yan Molun raised his thick eyebrows. “I had no choice; I missed you too much. I rushed over the moment I received your message.”
Duoyao felt sweet inside. She raised her eyebrows. “Alright, I shall forgive you since you missed me so much.”
The smile on the corners of Yan Molun’s mouth deepened. “It should be like this.”
“What?” She tilted her head.
“This is your true personality. You should be this worry-free in front of me.” Yan Molun reached out a hand to stroke her head.
Duoyao flushed and denied it. “This isn’t my true personality. I’m very reserved, okay?”
“I see.” Yan Molun nodded thoughtfully. “In that case, why don’t you prepare tonight’s dinner?”