Chapter 069 Part 3

Huang Dexing looked at Xiao Xiao’s eyes. He sipped the cup of tea on the table. While he gulped down the tea, that little bit of anger dissipated slowly with the tea. Looking at her aggrieved look, he then eased his tone and said, “You don’t know. Her ident.i.ty now is not the same. We have come closer through her relations.h.i.+p with Su Yi Cheng, if you mess with her and make Su Yi Cheng anxious, how can I let you off?”

Xiao Xiao turned her head aside. She didn’t look at him. Her face was still icy, and her hands were tightly clenched.

Huang Dexing went behind her, coldly saying, “You don’t think that no one knows, but the surveillance cameras knocked you off. You had been into Gu Anran’s office at noon, even using the facts, then it is your fault. You are wrong again in the first place.”

Xiao Xiao abruptly turned around, looking at him with bulging eyes. She seemed to ask him how he knew. While they were all going out for dinner, she had sneaked into Anran’s office. Before that time, she deliberately went to switch off the company’s surveillance cameras.

Huang Dexing saw through her mind, and said simply, “To people I don’t know, it is done by night.”

He knew. She had nothing to hide, so she looked at him. She sneered, “Well, if I don’t tear her designs, I’m afraid that tomorrow’s pitch is just a decoration, fearing that director has long made decision. ”

Huang Dexing stood up from his position, behind her. He put his hand on her shoulder, pressed it a little bit harder and leaned down near her ear. He said, “Even if you make her drawings into pieces, if I want to choose her, you don’t have the same chance. ”

Xiao Xiao suddenly turned around and looked at him, and like that, her beautiful eyes could not hide her anger.

Huang Dexing tightened his lips, patted her shoulder, then raised his body. His hand was still lingering on the other shoulder. His lips only lightly said, “Blame some things, don’t blame her luck. ”

“I am not willing. I promised you before, this will allow me to win, how can you say as you please.” Xiao Xiao growled at him.

Huang Dexing released her. He turned around and sat back down on the big black leather swivel chair. From the drawer, he took out a gold card, then threw it onto the desk, saying, “This is the club you really like. It is the club members.h.i.+p card. The club cards, I put some good money into it. You can take it and go. ”

“Huang Dexing, what do you mean? What is it with the money you are giving to me?” Xiao Xiao looked angry, looking at the front of the gold card.

Huang Dexing looked at her eyes. With no emotion, he said, “Didn’t you tell me that you did that for the money?”

Xiao Xiao bit her lips, feeling resentment towards him, unable to speak.

Huang Dexing didn’t look at her side anymore and took another sip of tea. Then, he took the file on his table, flipped it and seriously looked at it. In front of Xiao Xiao, he completely treated her like air.

For a long time, there was silence. Xiao Xiao suddenly sneered, then without speaking, she directly grabbed the gold card oin his desk. She turned to go out of his office, went out the door, “bang! -” she slammed the door.

Huang Dexing was also unaffected. He still looked indifferent, looking at the doc.u.ments in his hands.

In her office, looking at the broken design, it made Anran’s heart grow more and more unpleasant, then she took her handbag and directly went away from her office. When she went out of the office, she was just in time to encounter Xiao Xiao coming out from Huang Dexing’s office. Both of them were staring into each other,  Xiao Xiao looked almost like she had wanted to eat Anran. Ignoring Anran’s presence, she turned directly towards the door of her office. Anran only heard Xiao Xiao’s office door slam shut behind her, “Bang!”

Anran called Lin. It was still off. She thought about Lin’s words on the phone this morning. She never felt at ease, so she stopped a cab. She went directly to Lin’s home.

Standing in the doorway for a moment, she rang the doorbell. This time, Lin stumbled out the door. When she saw her, she was astonished.

“Why did you come here?” Looking at her watch, she said, “Now isn’t the right time to go out from work. Did your company go out of business?”

Anran gave her a supercilious look. She pa.s.sed her, then threw her bag on the couch. Angrily, she said at her, “You switched your phone off!”

Lin then remembered. She was giggling, saying, “Forgot to switch on, forgot to switch on.”

Anran looked at her. She sighed and pulled her to sit down on the sofa. She said, “Don’t try to think more, and so on. When Cheng Xiang is back, again, you need to ask him. What was wrong. ”

Lin looked at her. She smiled, and then hold her hands saying, “Ann, we have to become lifetime friends.”

Anran, who was cherished by her, was puzzled, but still she took the initiative to hold Lin’s hands back, smiled and nodded, “Obviously.”

Lin let Anran’s hands go and her face showed some strange look, saying, ” Ann, if I didn’t say it before that I didn’t call you, how, ah?”

Anran was slightly stunned for a moment, then she tugged her lips. Her voice emerged from gritting her teeth, saying, “Nothing, but I will pinch you.”

Lin’s mouth twitched at her. She was a little bit cruel, in Anran’s eyes. Finally, she hung up the phone in the morning, then switched it off, then she became depressed alone.

Actually, this morning, Lin was staring dazedly at the phone when Cheng Xiang’s  home phone rang, but she was indifferent. After a long time, their home phone stopped ringing, the next second, the mobile phone in her hands rang. A strange landline number. Lin stiffly pressed to answer, putting the phone to her ear. It was Cheng Xiang.

On the other side of the phone, Cheng Xiang asked nervously why she had switched off the phone, and why she didn’t answer the phone. His tone was full of fear. The more she listened, the more her heart felt sour, and finally, she could not resist asking him what the meaning of the text messages in his cell phone was. On the other side of phone, Cheng Xiang was only slightly stunned.

Almost without thinking, he explained that when he was on his business trip the night before, at the company dinner, a colleague’s battery phone died. He had borrowed Cheng Xiang’s phone to send text messages to his girlfriend. In fact, back then, she was more afraid at the thought that his recorded messages had been deleted, but it was unclear why the woman sent text messages to him. Cheng Xiang said to let Lin wait a while, then he hung up the phone directly. Then, not long after, there was this a strange man’s voice, calling Lin sister-in-law, and then explained that he did not boot the phone in the morning. He could not find his girlfriend, then that was his number yesterday, another phone number, and so on, he sent directly past and said finally, he was full of regret, ‘please forgive me’.

The last call was Cheng Xiang. He half-smiled and asked her if she was jealous, the more he thought about it. Lin was holding the cell phone, laughing and crying, unable to speak. On the other side of the phone, Cheng Xiang lastly sighed then asked, “Lin, do I not deserve you believing me?”

Hearing this, Lin shook her head. Even though she was aware of it and he could not see her, but still, she vowed in her heart to never doubt him. Finally, Cheng Xiang just whispered a curse of the sentence about how stupid she was, and then he asked her if she didn’t care about food, it was not good for the children.

After listening to their conversations, Anran snappily stared at her, “I say, you are thinking for nothing. You are blind, ah.”

Lin laughed. She just nodded, smiled and busily admitted her mistakes. She said, “I was wrong. I was wrong. Whoops, they say that pregnant women are easily cranky. They are actually true, la”

Anran was lying on the sofa, knowing that she was fine, that it was just a false alarm, she was finally relieved. Her eyes closed, and said, “Cheng Xiang is such a good man. You talk to him for 10 years, you still don’t know his character, ah. This time, I have felt unworthy for Cheng Xiang. I do change. I have to cool down for a few days, see you later. ”

Lin was indefensible, playfully spit her tongue, afraid of Anran continuing to chatter. Busily, she turned to another topic, “You didn’t go to work, ah. It’s afternoon. Or did you deliberately come to see me?”

Anran turned around and looked at her eyes, heaved a long sound, and then told her what happened roughly at noon in her office.

“That women is too cheap. How can she be such a b.i.t.c.h. ” Lin was greatly excited, saying, “The first time I saw her, I felt that she was something when she wore that dress to come to work, ah. A whole looks sold out, looks like a fox too, such a grievance. ”

Anran heaved a sigh, “I don’t understand when I offended her. I don’t owe her anything to grab her attention. When she sees me, she always speak with thorns. It’s inexplicable.”

“Some people are so wicked, so abnormal. You can’t ask every one of them to be normal. The saying goes, big tree, what birds are perched on. You don’t allow a few choices, ah.” Lin said sarcastically.

Anran tugged her lips. Her face didn’t have a smile.

“It’s something you can’t just forget, or she will definitely be insatiable. Ah, you must track her down in the end, then allow the company to give you an explanation.” Lin went on to say. It looked like she had a lot of excitement, even more so than Anran.

Investigation? It was easier said than done. Because of her relations.h.i.+p with Huang Dexing, she was afraid that Huang Dexing would cover up for her.

“This woman must get a good lesson to learn. I’ll let her know that we are not easy to be bullied, still see if she dares to do so later.” Lin said, and turned to look at Anran with an indifferent look. Her face turned into iron and steel, and she said, “Gu Anran, and you can’t be soft-hearted. The enemy is kind of cruel. She was spotted, she dislikes you, so just lift your head to confront her.”

Anran looked at her eyes, then smiled, “How to confront? I have no evidence, and no one saw her come into my office and tear up the drawings. Even if they don’t know, but that person is definitely her, but how could it be like this.”

Lin stared at Anran for a moment before she said, “If it is not, then we come into the dark, or else, you put her to me, call me to warn her, let her know who she is messing with. ”

“Puchi -” Anran snappily looked at Lin, somewhat dumbfounded, she asked, “How is it that I don’t know when you joined the underworld, and also are phone-warning to intimidate someone.”

Lin proudly looked at her eyes, and said, “You don’t have to say. I was a little royal sister, I can really scare her.”

Anran only said, “You have a good child to care. Don’t be cranky, it’s been very good. The other things, feel free to see more of these books and help with prenatal programs, watch less of idol shows. If you eat less nutritious foods, my daughter will accidentally be poisoned in the future. ”

“Yes, and he is a son. Gu Anran, how many times do you want me to say it. In my stomach, is certainly a son.” Lin said again, looking very serious.

Anran showed her a weak smile, but the att.i.tude was that it was not good for pregnant women to be angry. She could only go along and say, “Ok. If you say that, then it’s okay.”

Lin proudly raised her head and said, “Come on. Even if I had a false guess, to celebrate a happy marriage and, still the way, to comfort you who are sick of the company’s wh.o.r.e, we eat a big meal out of it.”

Anran looked at her and shook her head. She had little appet.i.te now, and had even barely eaten at noon, but now, she didn’t feel hungry. She really was full of anger.

“Oh, don’t be so negative. When you’re with me, you can eat something exciting, or else. Well, without Cheng Xiang, I don’t know what to eat at night.”

In the evening, Anran suddenly remembered her morning promise to be at home tonight, to cook for Su Yi Cheng, she had also specifically asked him to come back home early from work. Raising her hand, she looked at the time. She had more than 4 hours to prepare, and now, she had to go to the supermarket, to buy food and then go back. It was estimated enough. Then, almost shoving Lin, she turned around and asked, “In your home, what recipe books do you have?”

Lin was surprised a moment, then nodded, “Cheng Xiang had bought it before.” She looked at her invincible stomach. She remembered when Cheng Xiang spoiled her and also specifically went to the bookstore to buy a basic recipe book according to her pregnancy.

“I’ll borrow it. The simple recipes, and isn’t too hard to cook.” Anran said.

“Well, what are you doing?” Lin was curious.

“I can’t always let him eat my tomatoes- topped noodles, ah. You think that everyone is like you, having Cheng Xiang to cook for you. So, ah, don’t be cranky. It’s not good for the body.”

Lin spit her tongue. She went into the study room then came out with the recipe book. She handed it over to Anran, gave a somewhat ambiguous wink towards Anran. She said, “It seems  a good thing that you are willing to wash your hands to make the soup for him.”

Anran looked at her eyes and took the recipe book. On her mouth was hanging a faint smile. Then, she took the parcel on the couch, and put the recipe book into her bag. She got up and said, “You will eat that at night, and I will still do the cooking tonight. I can’t accompany you.”

“Ah, if it is, then return home to cultivate both of your feelings. Don’t delay it.” Lin said. Suddenly, she thought of something, and then said, “Say, Ann, you are preparing to have a child. There is a saying that the older woman a woman becomes, the greater the risk of delivering a child. Say, now, if you are pregnant, and give birth to a daughter, we can become relatives later. The pro plus pro, all those saved in-laws question. How does it sound? It’s good.”

Anran slightly blushed, snappily, she said, “I would not tell you the pro plus pro. You are definitely not a good mother-in-law. You are lovely and lazy.” Then, she smiled tenderly and left Lin who was still protesting.

She stopped the cab and told the driver to stop at the supermarket near her home. While in the cab, she looked at the recipes. She looked for what to buy to prepare the meal.

She looked at a few of the uncomplicated dishes and finalized it. She looked at the other ingredients to prepare and then she wrote down the ingredients. She climb off the car, then walked towards the supermarket. She walked towards the fruits and vegetables area.

Pus.h.i.+ng  her shopping cart, she put a few ingredients in one by one into the cart. She was reaching for a box of large eggplant, when suddenly, another hand, at this time, also outstretched to take the eggplant. They both took the eggplants in the end. They were slightly surprised a moment, and looked up at the same time. Anran looked at the person in front of her in amazement.