The Female CEO Falls in Love with Me

Back in the office, Li Yan closed the door to rest and sent a few text messages to Hai Fu and Huang Ying.

As it was nearly time to clock out, Ye Jiahong came to the office, asking him about today's progress.

"Sigh... Chief Ye, do you think I can work miracles?" Li Yan forced a bitter smile.

Ye Jiahong agreed knowingly; those rumored three contracts yet to be signed, even someone like Wen Qianyi might not be able to finish in a day. Completing them within a week would already be impressive. Considering Li Yan's usual performance, he hadn't expected him to complete the task, let alone work miracles.

"It's alright, people need to grow gradually. I was successful step by step back in the day too." Ye Jiahong encouraged with a gracious appearance, "Old Li, work hard; you do have potential to be discovered."

After speaking, he left Wen Qianyi's office and returned to his director's office.

On his desk, a phone remained off the hook; it was a call from Wen Qianyi. Out of respect, he specifically went to learn about the situation.

"Qianyi, you shouldn't expect much. Just wait till you come back yourself. I just checked, and he hasn't done anything. Sigh, you know as well as I do, Li Yan can't do anything without you." In front of beauties, Ye Jiahong was never stingy about undermining Li Yan to raise his own standing.

To Wen Qianyi, this was somewhat embarrassing; she couldn't help but snort secretly: Nonsense! What does it mean he can't do anything without me? It's not like he's my responsibility!...

"Director, rest assured, I'm alright now. I'll be back to work tomorrow and I'll handle it then!"

"Hmm, I can only be relieved if you're handling it. Li Yan only knows how to mess around. But Qianyi, are you ill? Where are you staying? I could visit you!" Ye Jiahong seized the opportunity while belittling Li Yan.

With a strong personality like hers, it's only during illness that she might be a bit vulnerable; it's far better to show concern now than to butter up on usual days! If he could take advantage of this chance to go to her place, it would be even better.

As soon as he spoke, Wen Qianyi already sensed his intention, snorted secretly, and then politely replied, "Thank you for your concern, I'm alright. You're busy, I'll hang up!"

The reason why she called Ye Jiahong twice was not because she particularly liked him, but upon arriving at the business department, she maintained the best relationship with Li Yan; others were merely nodding acquaintances, mostly competitive. In the morning, she needed to ask for leave and entrust tasks to Li Yan, so she could only find Ye Jiahong. And now, to understand the situation, she could only go back to him.

After hanging up, she still wasn't clear about the situation. Ye Jiahong just belittled Li Yan without saying much about his situation. She hesitated a bit about not wanting to call Li Yan, then dialed Huang Ying.

Isn't Li Yan in good terms with Huang Ying? Even though they don't work together, she might be concerned about his situation, right?

Wen Qianyi and Huang Ying also had an ordinary relationship; she didn't know her personal phone number. But since it's not yet time to clock out, she dialed through the company switchboard to the business department.

"Miss Wen?" Huang Ying was a bit surprised to hear this call, "You're looking for Li Yan, right? I'll transfer you to him!"

"No, no, I'm looking for you. I wanted to ask, has Li Yan been in the company all day?"

Upon hearing Wen Qianyi's query, Huang Ying understood she hadn't been at work, possibly wanting to check if Li Yan had been lazy. Previously, she had just gotten along well with Li Yan; now, things were entirely different, naturally siding with Li Yan. She promptly said, "No, after starting work, he seemed to go looking for Director Ye. I don't know what task was given, he went out to work all day, came back in the afternoon. Then he shut himself in your office to work, hasn't come out yet. He's very proactive..."

Wen Qianyi could also discern Huang Ying was speaking well of Li Yan. However, Huang Ying had always given her the impression of being quite honest, even if somewhat friendly with Li Yan, not to the extent of lying for him.

"Oh, that's good, as long as he's so diligent, I can be at ease."

"Miss Wen, should I transfer you to him?"

"No need, I'll hang up first, thank you."

She hung up as soon as she finished speaking, leaving Huang Ying feeling a bit puzzled, unsure what was going on with her today. After reconsidering, she decided to dial the extension of Wen Qianyi's office phone to inform Li Yan of the matter.

...

After hanging up the phone, Wen Qianyi began contemplating. Of course, last night's event still lingered unresolved. But after thinking it through for a whole day and night, she could face it with a smile. After all, Li Yan hadn't formally pursued her, nor was she his girlfriend. Yesterday's concert could be explained as merely appreciation. Hence, no matter how insincere he might be or how annoying, criticizing or questioning him righteously isn't appropriate.

Since she couldn't justifiably reprimand him and didn't want to let it go, she thought of torturing him through Li Yan's most troublesome work.

"Out all day? Sort of responsible... but."

While she was muttering disdain for Li Yan, suddenly her phone rang. Seeing the number, she thought, "Not good," realizing she hadn't turned it off after the last call. Since Huang Ying was friends with him, she'd definitely tell him...

Now Li Yan had already called. If she hung up, it would seem like she was afraid of him, avoiding him. But actually, it should be him feeling guilty! If she answered, she didn't want to deal with him... After hesitating for a while, Wen Qianyi simply ignored it and went to take a shower. She wasn't sick at all. Today, she'd been out having fun all day, meeting some girlfriends to shop, eat, and hit the gym. She had just returned.

Girls don't shower quickly. After Wen Qianyi comfortably finished her bath and came out, the phone was already quiet, as if it had given up. As expected, there was a series of missed calls, but Li Yan's patience had run out.

After a light chuckle, she randomly turned on the TV and lay on the sofa. She thought of a person — Yu Xiaodi.

When they met last night, because she was a bit displeased with Li Yan, and felt she could only get one-fifth of his time while eighty percent was given to Yu Xiaodi, the feeling of being outdone by a young girl made her uneasy. But at the time, she just tentatively asked a question. Unexpectedly, Yu Xiaodi reacted more intensely, directly calling them vixens or something.

In the end, she was somewhat surprised that Zhang Yurong spoke up for her, perhaps because it truly was because they were from Paradise Group. But hearing Yu Xiaodi's stubborn words and seeing the tears at the corners of her eyes, Qianyi's heart softened at that moment.

After all, this young girl was once her tutoring student, and there's a special kind of affection there. And after their last reunion at the Prince Hotel, Yu Xiaodi was incredibly friendly towards her, even Li Yan's secret affection for her was passed on from Yu Xiaodi. Back then, Yu Xiaodi was also very generous in planning, saying everyone should compete fairly.

But now things had turned out this way, which she didn't wish for. At the time, it seemed as if she, Zhang Yurong, and Yue Yao were ganging up on a little girl. Later in the parking lot, Wen Qianyi initially planned to leave first, but she stayed instead, wanting to see what the situation was between the two of them, to see what kind of attitude that shameless Li Yan had towards Xiaodi. Unexpectedly, she saw him carrying another girl over...

The calmness after returning made Wen Qianyi feel she had hurt Yu Xiaodi. Although the main person who hurt her was Li Yan, Qianyi felt she should have rejected Li Yan. Since she'd already known Yu Xiaodi liked Li Yan, and allegedly, Li Yan secretly admired her, but it was unclear if she liked him, so why did she need to get involved?

Her heart was already mature. She thought she could protect herself and avoid getting hurt, but Yu Xiaodi was still so naive, always charging forward, inevitably ending up battered and bruised.

Thinking of the innocent little girl who used to call her "Teacher Wen," making her see her former self, her feelings grew complicated.

While she was lost in thought, suddenly she heard a knock on the door.

Hearing that sound, Wen Qianyi instinctively thought it was Li Yan!

In the morning, she had calmly set things up, shutting Li Yan out if he might come, and leaving herself. But now, after keeping herself busy all day, she had relaxed a lot, not thinking as deeply anymore. She had just been zoning out again, forgetting he might have come after getting off work.

"Hello, delivery."

But outside, at that moment, was a crisp female voice. This made Wen Qianyi unable to resist looking through the peephole and saw outside was a young girl delivering KFC, probably from a nearby KFC restaurant.

It wasn't Li Yan, which relieved her, so she opened the door and, puzzled, asked, "I didn't order delivery; did you come to the wrong place?"

The KFC girl showed her the recorded address, "It's here, without a doubt!"

"Well... Never mind, wait a moment, I'll pay you." Wen Qianyi thought maybe one of her girlfriends she hung out with earlier had ordered it for her. In any case, since it was delivered, refusing it would seem like fooling people. She was still quite cautious, closing the door partly, then going inside to get her wallet.

When she opened the door again, the KFC delivery girl had magically transformed into a man holding a paper bag of takeout.

And this person was Li Yan!

It was him again! She had been tricked by him...

...

When Li Yan left after being asked by Ye Jiahong, he had already guessed Wen Qianyi had called; otherwise, this guy wouldn't care so much about his work out of good nature. Once Huang Ying told him, he immediately called her. But alas, Wen Qianyi was determined to outlast him, neither hanging up nor answering, leaving him utterly helpless.

After work, he immediately drove over. Once at the complex, he checked around and, seeing Wen Qianyi's car, relaxed. But remembering she wouldn't open the door for him at such a time, he came up with a clever plan to order KFC for her and followed the delivery girl up. He went to the floor above first, then came down the stairs, keeping an eye on her opening the door from a distance. When Wen Qianyi went back to get her wallet, he quickly came out, softly handed some prepared cash over, and said he ordered it to surprise his girlfriend.

The delivery girl didn't think too much about it. The payment was received without needing change, so she cooperated and left. (Monthly Pass, Monthly Pass, I'm ardently calling you...)