Chapter 829 I Don't Want You To Laugh Too Much

Steven woke up in a daze, looking innocently at Brian, who was shouting out loud with panic.

"You drank too much last night and ended up vomiting on yourself! I helped you take off your clothes. What's wrong? Why are you yelling?" asked Steven.

Brian looked at his own body and asked doubtfully, "Are you... are you sure you did nothing except help me take my clothes off?"

"Mr. Shao, we are two straight men. What else could I have done?" answered Steven matter-of-factly. Rubbing his eyes, he lifted the quilt off himself and got out of bed.

Bryan looked at him picking up his clothes from the floor and tidying them up. For a while, he kept quiet, then spoke, "Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that."

But his awkward attempt to explain his words merely added insult to injury.

Brian scratched his head. If anything had happened between them, he was sure it would have been him who would have taken advantage of Steven, not the other way round.

Steven was a much more innocent man than him and actually didn't harbor any ulterior motives.

"Mr. Shao, I'm leaving now..."

spoke Steven politely and went inside the bathroom to freshen up. Brian still sat on the bed dazed, trying to recall what had happened the previous night.

Brian sat on the bed wrapped in a quilt. Seeing how casually Steven left, he remained at a loss for some time. It wasn't until his phone, which had fallen to the floor, rang that he came back to his senses.

"Terence?" he answered, trying not to sound groggy.

"Why haven't you come to work? Did you get drunk last night?"

asked Terence from the other end. He was waiting for Brian since he had arrived at the company office, but it turned out he never showed up.

Brian cleared his throat and went on nervously, "I drank a little last night, yes. I'm just getting dressed. Will be there in a while!"

"Well, you need to check on the cooperation project we settled last time. I'm not going to be here this afternoon. It's your job to handle it," said Terence.

At the AJ Headquarters Terence hung up the phone without another word. Brian did have a habit of lapsing and being a little irregular at times, but he was a man Terence could trust with some responsibilities.

At this point, Rainer entered the office.

"Mr. An, Mrs. An and Mrs. Qi have a lunch appointment at WH restaurant. From there they are going to watch a play. She asked me to inform you of this and that you needn't worry about her."

Terence looked up at Rainer and shook his head. "I see," he said, pursing his lips. "Can you reschedule tomorrow's meeting? I want to have it today."

He was thinking about joining Carla this afternoon for lunch, but it turned out she was already having company. He was a little disappointed but he decided to shrug the feeling off and focus on work.

"Yes, Mr. An."

Rainer nodded and lef

ay, you're getting more and more beautiful!"

"Oh, really? And you are getting more and more smooth-tongued, aren't you?" Carla said, narrowing her eyes and smiling coyly. First she held his face in her hands, and then suddenly pinched his cheeks hard.

Just as she was leaning in to kiss him, the bedroom door suddenly opened.

With her eyes red, Sally ran toward them and wrapped her arms around their legs.

"Mommy, Mommy, Mommy..."

"Hey, honey! What's wrong?" asked Carla, hurriedly letting go of Terence and crouching down to hug her daughter.

"Mommy, Uncle… he doesn't want to see me."

Sally was crying so hard that she couldn't catch her own breath. Sean hadn't come back last week. She had just called him to say she missed him.

However, to her surprise, Sean only spoke a few words to her in response and then hung up. She was convinced he no longer loved her.

In the past, they talked on the phone for hours.

Hearing what Sally said, Terence crouched down and picked her up in his arms, while also helping Carla to stand up again.

"Hey, don't cry. Maybe your uncle is too busy with his studies! He will come back when he has another holiday, next time."

Terence rubbed his little girl's face and calmed her down softly.

With wet eyes, she looked at him and said, "But, Daddy, Uncle doesn't like me anymore, since I interrupted him from playing games last time."

Children nowadays are extremely smart.

She was so little, and yet she could feel Sean behaving differently since she interrupted his game.

Carla sighed looking at her cry endlessly.

"How could that be? Sally, honey, you think too much," Carla said. Terence nodded at her, then started distracting her by asking her to play the jigsaw puzzle game on the computer.

After a while, Sophie came in with the soup.

Finally calm, Sally drank a full bowl of soup and went back to her bedroom to sleep.