Chapter 416

Author: Qin Ruoxu MACHINE TRANSLATION

Lin Yan’s porcelain-white face didn’t show much emotion, but the little hands hanging on her legs unconsciously tightened the skirt on her legs the second the call was connected. If one observed carefully enough.. One could more or less see the nervousness that she had when she wanted to lie to this man.

Her heart beat violently, and even the toes in her high heels curled up.

“then… are you free tonight? ”

The man’s eyes, which had just been bathed, seemed to reflect the stars in the sky. They were bright and deep. “If you ask me out, even if I don’t have time, I’ll squeeze it out. ”

His big hand inserted into his slightly wet hair, and with a few strides, he approached the liquor cabinet next to him. He randomly picked a bottle of strong liquor and brought it to the coffee table in the living room. His handsome face had a clear and charming smile. “Tell me, what do you want from me? ”

Lin Yan bit her lip and instantly fell silent.

It seemed that in this second, she was suddenly uncertain if the consequences of doing so would be as she wished.

However, she knew very well that she had to give it her all.

Just like what Fu Yihuai had said, either her wish was granted or things did not go as she wished. There was no third possibility.

The man’s lips curled slightly as he poured himself a glass of strong wine. Then, he gently shook the goblet in his hand and said in a lazy tone, “why aren’t you speaking? ”

Lin Yan slid the swivel chair. There was a lot of exhaustion and helplessness in her soft voice, as if she was using this method to show her weakness and surrender to him. “I’m wondering if I really only have one choice. ”

“Yes, probably. ”

After saying that, he raised his straight eyebrows slightly and said in a magnetic voice, “there’s still one and a half days left. Why? Do you want to give up early? ”

“Isn’t this what you want? ”

The man smiled lightly, his broad back sunk deep into the back of the SOFA. “Yan ‘er, I thought you would be stubborn to the end. After all, I’ve been the first to bow my head after so many cold wars, quarrels, and breakups. ”

Lin Yan’s voice was low and soft. “That’s not the same. You can judge the situation. I still understand the logic of how things are different now. ”

“Oh? ” The man continued to shake the wine glass in his hand and occasionally brought it to his mouth to drink. “This doesn’t seem like you, Yan ‘er. You’ve won against me so many times. This time, you should be sure to win. ”

“Do I look that stupid? ”

The Sun had already set at five or six o’clock in the afternoon. Orange Rays of light passed through the floor-to-ceiling window and fell on her body. There was an indescribable beauty to it.

She reached out to brush her long wavy hair on her shoulders and continued “Although the he family’s foundation is deep, it is still not comparable to Dingsheng’s status in the fashion industry. When that time comes, Dingsheng will risk its life to counterattack. The he group’s chances of winning are very slim, and… “My brother’s career is still on the rise. I don’t want to hold him back and the Lin family back. ”

The implication was that she had thought it through very clearly and wanted to go with him.

The man’s face still had a lazy smile on it. “In essence, I am not willing to let you go with me on the premise that I hurt you. ”

At this point, he paused for a moment, then raised the glass in his hand to his mouth and drank it all in one gulp.

After drinking a glass of strong wine, his warm voice became especially hoarse and sexy. “But if you insist on doing it your way, this method is also within my scope of reference. ”

In other words, he had indeed thought of fighting to the death.

Once this guess was confirmed, her body couldn’t help but tense up and stiffen. She didn’t even dare to imagine the scene of him being schemed against by her and then being forcefully kidnapped by Fu Yihuai back to Lin city.

What kind of furious rage would he be feeling?

The man waited for a while, but he did not hear a sound from the other end of the phone. He smiled without batting an eyelid, “what’s wrong? Are you afraid just like that? ”

“Fu Qingshan, you seem to have changed quite a lot. I’m suddenly very curious about what happened to you in the past half a year It made a gentle and elegant young master of the Fu family turn into a shameless person who pesters and pesters his ex-wife.”

Fu Qingshan smiled, his tone and actions were still casual, “oh? You really want to know? ”

Lin Yan also followed with a smile, “I’m all ears. ”

“Yan ‘er, men are not as capable of enduring loneliness as women. For the past half a year, I have not been interested in any woman. When I open my eyes, you are the one who closes them. When I walk and sleep, you are the one who fills the meeting. If I continue to hold it in like this, I will definitely make myself sick… . .”

Lin Yan’s warm and fair face, the smile faded away, the voice also did not have a trace of temperature, “So, young master Fu is affectionately telling me that you chased me all the way to Milan just to coax me into bed and force me to be your bedmate again? ”

“wrong, it’s the exact opposite. ”

The man’s deep black eyes were filled with a smile. “What I said just now was actually telling you that I’m only interested in you. Although love and devotion are only one word apart, the meaning is vastly different. Don’t confuse them. ”

“In the end, you only have desire for me and no feelings for me. ”

Lin Yan closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She was unwilling to give up and made a final struggle “Fu Qingshan, let’s take a step back, okay? I’ll sleep with you for a few more nights until you feel comfortable. I’ll marry you as usual at the wedding in twenty days. You can marry me as usual when you return to Lin city. We don’t owe each other anything. ”

“Not good. ”

The man quickly rejected her words “The things that I, Fu Qingshan, want to throw away must be thrown away when I want to throw them away. Now that you’re telling me that we’ll take a step back, may I ask why you’ve compromised? The things that you want are still there. Then let me ask you, what about the things that I want? Hmm? Lin Yan? ”

There was no way back, and the road ahead was lost again.

Lin Yan frowned and did not continue this topic. “I’ll cook tonight. Come over for dinner. ”

Fu Qingshan did not say anything and continued to pour wine and drink.

Lin Yan waited for a few seconds but didn’t get an answer from him. Then she said, “If you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as your acquiescence to come over for dinner? ”

He didn’t hang up the phone, and she didn’t hang up either. The two of them continued to waste time.

Five or ten minutes later, she slid the swivel chair back to her work station.

It was almost time to get off work. The colleagues around were already packing up and getting ready to get off work. She also started to pack up and said in a low voice, “I’m about to get off work. I still have to drive to the supermarket to buy ingredients. I won’t talk to you anymore. I’m hanging up… ”

Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by the deep male voice on the other end. “Wait for me at the office. I’ll drive over to pick you up from work. ”

“There’s no need… ”

She was someone who had a fianc��. What was going on if news of her public and ambiguous entanglement with her ex-husband got out?

She did not dare to take this risk.

Of course, she had lived for more than twenty years and had never done such a sneaky thing. Now, she would sometimes admire those who cheated on their husbands and wives.

How good was their mentality to have no flaws at all?

She had just been secretly pestered by her ex-husband and was habitually guilty in front of he xiaoting.

Not to mention that she had been schemed against by he Yanran that night, and her mentality had changed after she really did something to let he xiaoting down.

Every step she took was terrifying, and her life was worse than death.

However, the man opposite her did not give her the chance to refuse at all. He did not even listen to her words of refusal before he cut off the phone communication.

Her beautiful brows were tightly knitted. Just as she lowered her head and wanted to call him back, a text message was sent. There were only a few lines on it, but it cut off all her options of retreat.

“I will park my car at the Traffic Light Junction in front of your company. If you don’t come over, I will go up and look for you. When that time comes, I will run into he Yanran, he xiaoting, or the other members of the he family. That will depend on your luck. ”

The meaning behind the words was already very obvious. If she chose to reject him, he would reveal everything.

Shameless, despicable, despicable, despicable… …

She cursed out all the words she could think of in her heart. Then, her fair and slender fingers quickly typed three words, “got it. ”

Then, she pressed the send button. Only when the text message was sent successfully did she press the lock button and continue packing.

…

After hanging up the phone, Fu Qingshan immediately dialed Xiao Bai’s number. “I’m going to the he corporation now. I’ll be downstairs in about five minutes. ”

“Yes, sir. ”

He acknowledged and pressed the hang-up button.

His tall and straight body stood up from the SOFA. As he walked in the direction of the bedroom, he took off his loose white bathrobe and walked to the wardrobe. He casually took out a suit and put it on.

From the moment he hung up the phone to the time he tidied up, in less than two minutes, he walked out of the door in a suit.

The Second Xiao Bai received Fu Qingshan’s call, he got off the bed in the hotel. After changing his shoes, he went downstairs to wait for Fu Qingshan in the black spyker car.

He had probably been by Fu Qingshan’s side for too long, and Fu Qingshan was the youngest and most ruthless young general in the military region. Therefore, whenever he was with Fu Qingshan, he would be on standby almost twenty-four hours a day. Sometimes.. He would even sleep in his clothes.

After arriving in Milan, he had been maintaining a high level of vigilance, afraid that his superior would pursue his wife and have a long road ahead of him, implicating others, especially himself, who was the closest to him.

When Fu Qingshan approached, Xiao Bai hurriedly pushed open the door of the driver’s seat, went around to the back and opened the back door for him. It was not until he sat steadily in the back seat that he closed the door and returned to the main driver’s seat. Then, he started the engine and stepped on the accelerator The car quickly shot out like an Arrow and blended into the dense traffic on the road.

At this time, it was the rush hour after work, so there was a bit of traffic jam.

It was rare for the sky to be clear, but at this time, it had unknowingly started to rain. It fell on the car’s window and roof, making crackling sounds.

Xiao Bai had already done his best to display his driving skills, but when he arrived at the he corporation, it still took him forty minutes more.

It was already past six in Milan, and it was already night time. The Tall Street lamps on both sides of the road lit up one by one, gradually connecting with the bright lights in the distance of the city into a sea of red wine and green wine.

Fu Qingshan did not say anything hurrying along the way, as if he knew that Xiao Bai had already done his best.

Just as he was about to rush past the intersection of the traffic lights in front of the he corporation, the tall man in the backseat said in a low voice, “Xiao Bai, park the car by the side of the road. We’ll wait for her here. ”

Since this was what she wanted, he could satisfy her.

He had already indulged her so many times, and he really did not want to miss this time.

After he finished speaking, he turned his head. Through the car window that was covered by the dense rain and fog, he looked at the entrance of the he corporation building without a blink of an eye, as if expecting that petite woman to appear in his line of sight in the next second.

Lin Yan sat at her desk and waited for Fu Qingshan to pick her up. She didn’t know whether it was because she was really too tired recently or because she was too sleepy, but she fell asleep while lying on the table and waiting.

It wasn’t until a creepy ringtone rang that she woke up faintly.

The world was pitch-black, and only the faint light and shadows from the floor-to-ceiling windows could be seen.

She adapted to the dim light for a while before she could barely see the outline of the office furniture around her. The memories before she fell asleep flooded her mind Only then did she remember that she had fallen asleep while waiting for Fu Qingshan.

The ringtone of the phone that had woken her up was still ringing in the darkness, like the background music for a thriller.

The lights in the entire design department were turned off, and the door was locked. The phone was ringing outside the door, as if someone had left it there on purpose.

Milan was a little cold in winter. The power in the design department was cut off, so the air conditioner naturally could not work. She shivered from the cold and quickly went to look for the phone, preparing to call for help.

However, she searched in the darkness for a long time, but she could not find the cell phone that she had placed next to her computer before she slept.

At this moment, she finally understood why her colleagues did not tell her to leave when she was asleep, why the power was cut off and the door was locked, and why the horrifying ringtone of the cell phone could be heard outside the door that was separated by a glass curtain wall.

Everything, perhaps, was just to expose her Fox tail and force Fu Qingshan to come find her.

It was really a trap!

However, who would be the one who made this big move He Yanran She didn’t seem to have the guts. Of course, she also didn’t have such deep schemes.

But other than he Yanran, who else could it be?

He Xiaoting?

Impossible. With he xiaoting’s shrewdness, even if he knew that she was having an affair with Fu Qingshan, he wouldn’t openly take revenge. More importantly, he would use a sky-high price contract to settle it.

With the attitude of a weakling, not only would he gain sympathy, he would also receive a huge reward. Why wouldn’t he do it? Why did he have to cause both sides to suffer? No one would be happy.

She thought for a while, and her head began to hurt. She knocked hard, hoping that some miracle would happen.

…

Fu Qingshan sat in the car and waited for more than twenty minutes, but he did not see Lin Yan walk out of the he corporation. His handsome face, which was expressionless a moment ago, gradually became gloomy, and even chilly.

Xiao Bai glanced at him through the rearview mirror and then withdrew his gaze, afraid that he would touch the thunder point of the officer.

After waiting for another five minutes, Fu Qingshan said, “Xiao Bai, don’t you think that a woman always keeps a distance from a man? Does that mean that she is playing hard to get? Before giving him a slap, she should give him a sweet date first? ”

Yesterday, Lin Yan still looked as if she would never get along with him. Today, she had overturned everything that had happened yesterday. It was as if she was really forced by the high pressure that he had given her and had made a compromise.

However, he knew clearly in his heart that this was probably another attempt to play hard to get.

He had experienced too many such things, and he was already a little afraid.

“I think so, sir. ”

Xiao Bai had never been in a relationship before, so how would he know so much about love?

However, he had to say that he had never seen through Miss Lin’s attitude toward the officer all these years.

Now that the chief asked him, he could only give a perfunctory answer.

He was afraid that if he said too much, he would not like to hear it. If he said too little, he was afraid that he would think that his answer was not sincere. He also felt very troubled.

Fu Qingshan took out a cigarette box from his pocket, took out a cigarette, and said in a low voice, “you really don’t like to offend people. ”

Xiao Bai frowned and said hurriedly, “chief, I… ”

Fu Qingshan did not hear him finish. Instead, he raised his hand and waved it. “I’m just saying it casually. Don’t take it seriously. ”

He was really not in the mood to listen to Xiao Bai’s long speech. He had long been tired of hearing the same words, so he simply did not listen.

Xiao Bai did not say anything else. Instead, he nodded respectfully and turned those words that he did not say into a low sigh.

Neither of the two people in the car spoke again. It was so quiet that only the sound of the wind and rain outside the window and the occasional sound of thunder could be heard.

Fu Qingshan continued to tilt his head to look in the direction of the he corporation. From time to time, he would bring the cigarette to his mouth and take a puff. His pair of deep eyes became deep and cold after a thin layer of smoke.

After waiting for another ten minutes, Fu Qingshan decided not to wait any longer.

He put out the cigarette in his hand and quickly dialed Lin Yan’s number. After a few beeps, a mechanical female voice came from the other end. “Hello, the number you have dialed has been switched off. Please try again later. ”

After hanging up, he dialed again. It was still the same as before. It was the mechanical female voice that indicated that the other party’s phone had been switched off.

He lowered his head and stared at the lit up screen. His relaxed brows slowly furrowed and finally completely locked.

There were only two possibilities for Lin Yan not picking up the phone.

One was that she was together with he xiaoting, and she was afraid that he would call and ruin the atmosphere between them.

The other possibility was that her phone would automatically turn off when it ran out of battery, and she would not have the time or opportunity to tell him that she had already left and returned home.

Of course, none of these two possibilities could convince him.

At least… … Not now …

…

Lin Yan stayed in the pitch-black office. Other than the dim light around her, there was only the endless loop of her phone’s ringtone.

Outside, there was lightning and thunder, and it was raining cats and dogs. The flickering light and shadows made her petite figure look even thinner. She could not bear to be disturbed, so she could only reach out to cover her ears, trying to prevent the horrifying ringtone from reaching her ears.

However, even if she covered her ears with both hands, it had little effect.

She could even hear every note of the horrifying music clearly.

She sat there in a daze for an unknown amount of time before she stood up and tried to use other ways to save herself.

Before she got off work, she called Fu Qingshan. He said that he would wait for her at the intersection of the traffic lights in front of the he corporation building. She suddenly remembered that the floor-to-ceiling window of their design department was facing the intersection of the traffic lights that he mentioned.

She quickly ran to the floor-to-ceiling window and waved her hands and shouted desperately, trying to attract the attention of the black spyker car. However, the design department was on the 52nd floor, and everything downstairs was as small as an ant. He could not see her at all.

She stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and waved her hands and shouted for about ten minutes. She felt that she was short of oxygen.

She leaned forward against the floor-to-ceiling window. After a few seconds, she was about to continue when she saw the black spyker car disappear into the heavy rain.

The high-beam lamp illuminated the pitch-black road and drove all the way to the distance on the road. She finally gave up screaming and struggling and fell back to the ground.

This fear and helplessness reminded her of the night many years ago when she was forcibly taken over by a strange man in her hotel room.

At that time, she was in a similar state as she was now. She had exhausted all methods and possibilities, but in the end, she still could not escape that man’s clutches.

Tonight and that night were essentially no different.

The difference was that that night was a triple torture of body, mind, and spirit. Tonight, it was just a double torture of mind and spirit.

Should she thank God At least she didn’t repeat the same mistakes she had made many years ago. She was just trapped in this room, mentally suffering a little. Everything else was fine.

The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier. Thunder and lightning came and went.

She was afraid of the dark, but she was even more afraid of thunder and lightning. All the things she was afraid of added together, making her feel that she would die in the next second.

As time passed, other than her increasingly tense nerves, everything else became her desperate endurance.

It was not until the sound of knocking came from the tightly locked glass door that her shivering body, which was curled up in the corner, relaxed a little. At the same time, the frightening ringtone of the phone also disappeared.

She raised her head in the darkness. Through the dim light and shadow, she looked at the figure of the long, jade-like man standing at the door.

It was him, Fu Qingshan.

From the time she was trapped here until just now, she had imagined countless times that someone would appear and rescue her. It was clearly just an indistinct outline, but the moment he appeared, it had all become the outline of his figure.

She had to admit that from the beginning until now, she had been looking forward to him descending from the sky to rescue her.

In that one second, those unrealistic fantasies came true. She even had two seconds of disbelief. Only when the man quickly kicked open the glass door and walked in, approaching her who was curled up in the corner, did she finally believe that this was real.

He… Really came …

“Yan ‘er… ”

He crouched down, his large hand frozen in mid-air. He did not dare to touch her. “You, are… are you okay? ”

Lin Yan looked at him through the dim light. Ten seconds later, she nodded. “I’m fine. ”

She was clearly not fine and wanted to vent her anger by crying. However, because he was Fu Qingshan, she did not dare to be so impudent. She was afraid that she would waver, that she would soften her heart, and that she would repeat the same mistake.

After the man heard this, he frowned and asked, “you look terrible. Are you really okay? ”

She was still curled up. Her face was full of tears, but she stubbornly shook her head, indicating that she was fine.

“Lin Yan, there’s a limit to how strong you can be. I’m not someone else. ”

To her, a person who did not dare to rely on others was no different from a passerby.