The Female CEO Falls in Love with Me

In Zhang Yurong's office, she was feeling extremely agitated. She had hoped for a good date tonight, a good beginning, and the process was acceptable, but she didn't expect such an outcome!

As for Yue Xiaodi, last time at the Prince Hotel, she had already noticed it wasn't a surprise. If it was just a separate date with her, although she would feel neglected, spending most of the time with her, it wouldn't make her that angry. But now? One Yue Xiaodi isn't enough, adding a Wen Qianyi isn't enough either, and there's another one from who knows where! And it looks like that one is the key!

She was already unable to calm down, and the complexity of the situation was beyond what Yue Yao knew, comprehended, or experienced, so Yue Yao didn't know how to counsel him well. So the two of them basically came back in silence, and once they got home, Zhang Yurong said she needed to calm down, letting Yue Yao rest on her own.

The office was originally the place where she could calm down the easiest, because there, she always focused on work, which gave her a sense of presence, achievement, and victory. But now, even sitting in the office and turning on the computer, she couldn't find peace of mind.

The computer in front of Zhang Yurong went from a newly turned-on desktop, to a screensaver, to sleep mode, without her touching it at all. Her mind was just contemplating tonight's events. She wanted to call Li Yan over and give him a piece of her mind, wanted to scold Yue Xiaodi, wanted to scold Wen Qianyi... she had the urge to have a big argument, but at this moment, there was no one to argue with, she could only wrestle with herself.

In fact, given her upbringing, it's hard for her to have a big argument with someone over such matters. What she said to Yue Xiaodi just now was already quite rude. But even such an excellent person like Zhang Yurong couldn't control the workings of her active mind, where she rehearsed chiding them in her head, reasoning ever more compellingly and logically, and the more she thought, the more she found it hard to calm down, wishing she could find them immediately and reprimand them.

Her state of outward calmness and inner volcanic eruption was intensifying, right up until Yue Yao came in.

After listening to Li Yan's phone call, Yue Yao pondered carefully whether to help him? This guy somewhat deserved it! But... can she really let him be like that? She couldn't bring herself to do it.

What made her hesitant and uneasy was not that she didn't know how to advise Zhang Yurong, but that she vaguely felt that she was also included in Li Yan's invitation list. Usually, she could act as a good mediator between Li Yan and Zhang Yurong because she kept herself out of it, never considering her own issues, just wanting to help Li Yan and fulfill them. But now, realizing she might be the fifth person, she couldn't keep herself out of it anymore. And this made her feel guilty towards Zhang Yurong, already slightly guilty.

She didn't hesitate for long, went down to the kitchen, and brought back a bowl of chilled mung bean sugar water, then headed to Zhang Yurong's home office.

...

"Yue Yao, it's you? You haven't slept yet?" Seeing her come in, Zhang Yurong tried to perk up, but still couldn't muster a smile.

Yue Yao placed the mung bean sugar water in front of her, "Calm down a bit, I see you've tried to calm down for so long, but still haven't. Drink some iced sugar water, maybe you'll feel a bit better."

"Thank you." Zhang Yurong forced a bitter smile, she had no appetite at all! But for the sake of her kind gesture, she still took a few spoonfuls. "Has he come back yet?"

Seeing her seemingly casual inquiry, Yue Yao certainly understood who she was asking about.

"No, but I think he'll be back soon, it's already late, he couldn't possibly stay outside overnight."

Yue Yao's reassurance made Zhang Yurong sneer. She had already concluded that Li Yan's requests for leave and sudden departures were all for dates with other women!

"Who cares, anyway he treats this place like a hotel." Zhang Yurong put down the spoon, the icy mung bean sugar water cooled her a bit, but still couldn't ease the depression in her heart. "Sorry, for making a fool of myself tonight..."

Yue Yao pulled up a chair, sat next to her, and said nothing, just kept her company.

Zhang Yurong clicked on the computer again, checked the time, and shut it down. Then she said: "Forget it, Yue Yao, you go to sleep, don't worry about me, I'm fine, I'll take a hot bath and sleep comfortably, and go to work tomorrow. I'm just really angry, it's not that I care about him, I couldn't care less about him..."

Yue Yao gave a wry smile, is she saying this for me to hear? It's more like persuading herself, isn't it?

Yet she also found it strange how the relationship between the two of them progressed so quickly. She hadn't been here long herself. When she first arrived, it seemed like they were still quite unfamiliar with each other.

Little did she know that the two had been married and living together for several months now, and psychologically had already recognized each other as legal partners. Although their feelings hadn't deeply developed, since there was already a conclusion, the process of dating only required a certain opportunity to develop rapidly.

"You say... it'd be better if he didn't come back, spend his time out there, we can watch our horror movies. What's the point of this whole scene? To humiliate me?" Having someone by her side, Zhang Yurong still wanted to express her annoyance, otherwise, it was really unbearable.