Gently bite the jasmine

Chapter 198 Darling, Do You Want to See Me?

"Sister." The little girl smiled sweetly, with her nanny beside her.

Lin Xi nodded to the nanny first, then squatted down to greet the little girl: "What a coincidence, are you here to buy something?"

The little girl spoke in an adult-like tone: "I'm so bored, I came over to have a meal."

Lin Xi didn't ask where her parents were. If they were, she wouldn't have let her live alone with the nanny at Tianhong Hotel.

Lin Xi gave her a plush rabbit that came as a free gift with her purchase: "We're quite destined to meet, so here it is."

The little girl took it and said happily, "Thank you, my name is Angie."

"Your surname is An," Lin Xi said, ruffling her hair. "What a lovely name."

"I don't have the surname An." The little girl pouted, about to say her name, when the nanny squatted down and coaxed her to go home.

After Lin Xi and she took the elevator downstairs together, they went their separate ways.

She glanced back, and just then the little girl turned her head as well. It was in that one glance that Lin Xi felt a strange sense of familiarity with her.

But when it comes to getting involved with anyone, she has no clue.

After returning home, Lin Xi had the housekeeper deliver her meal, took a picture, and sent it to Duan Yiheng: Have you eaten yet?

Duan Yiheng was in a meeting at the time. Hearing the commotion, he glanced at his phone, picked it up openly, and replied: Not yet.

Lin Xi: It's seven o'clock and you're still not eating?

Duan Yiheng: "I'll be going to eat at the cafeteria with a few department leaders later."

Lin Xi: So what are you doing now?

Duan Yiheng: Meeting.

Lin Xi: ...

Even during meetings, we're still exchanging text messages back and forth?

Duan Yiheng: ?

Lin Xi: I'm going to eat now, you can continue with your work.

Duan Yiheng didn't call back, because he called back ten minutes later.

Since they can fight, it means the meeting is over.

Lin Xi immediately answered the phone: "Are you going to eat?"

Duan Yiheng chuckled, his gentle and tender expression making the group of executives pause in surprise.

"Is Mr. Duan in a relationship?" Director Zhang from the technical department nudged Xu Yu.

Xu Yu: "How would I know?"

“Having worked with him for so many years, I’ve never heard any gossip about him,” Director Zhang said. “President Duan is thirty now, it’s about time he settled down.”

Xu Yu neither confirmed nor denied it, but as the heir to Yin Fan, she did indeed need to get married at this age.

However, she found it hard to believe that a man could be so chaste.

Either he's a smooth operator who hides it well, or he has a stable romantic relationship but is low-key, keeps his personal and professional life separate, and keeps it well hidden.

Lin Xi vaguely heard noises coming from Duan Yiheng's end of the phone and casually asked, "Have you guys gone to eat? I think I heard Director Zhang's voice. Are you still in a meeting?"

Duan Yiheng spoke half truthfully and half falsely: "On the way to the cafeteria, Director Zhang and Director Xu were discussing the Likang project."

Lin Xi said "Oh," and added, "They've really worked hard."

Duan Yiheng: "They're the ones who have a hard time? I don't have a hard time?"

Xu Yu and Director Zhang exchanged a glance, both seeing the cheesy sweetness in each other's eyes.

"You've worked the hardest." Lin Ximing knew he couldn't see it, but she still smiled sweetly. "Is it alright?"

Duan Yiheng took larger steps, widening the distance between himself and Xu Yu and the others, and deliberately lowered his voice: "Okay, I'll be even happier if you praise me a bit in bed next time."

"Duan Yiheng!" Lin Xi blushed, "You're such a pervert!"

Duan Yiheng let out two soft laughs from his chest: "I was wrong, I was just teasing you."

Lin Xi hung up the phone in a fit of anger and then sent a WeChat message to Duan Yiheng: "Let's break up for one night."

Duan Yiheng didn't reply. After finishing her meal, Lin Xi contacted Sun Wenxin and asked her to have dinner together on her birthday.

Sun Wenxin immediately agreed, saying, "I'll treat you to dinner, don't try to take it from me."

"Okay, I won't fight you for it."

"Lin Xi, do you have any dietary restrictions?"

"There are no dietary restrictions, you can decide what to do."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Xi took a shower and then went to her study, where she began studying the company's past bidding documents on her computer.

These are all classic and worthwhile case studies, which Duan Yiheng personally downloaded for her.

As he read, Lin Xi typed down the key points in his notebook.

No matter the project, customer needs and solutions are the core. Lin Xi worked for more than an hour, learning what he didn't know and asking Duan Yiheng about what he still couldn't learn the next day.

Time passed by unnoticed as Lin Xi repeatedly simulated her bidding speech in front of the computer.

When it came to the technical details, she got stuck again, slamming her head heavily on the table. Lin Xi let out a long sigh.

The phone rang, and Lin Xi picked it up. Seeing that it was Duan Yiheng, she answered it but didn't say anything. She hadn't forgotten that she was still angry.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Duan Yiheng asked her.

Lin Xi: "Why are you calling me? Didn't I tell you I was breaking up with you for one night?"

"Are you really going to break off all contact?" Duan Yiheng feigned weakness. "But I'm downstairs, baby, do you want to see me?"

Lin Xi was initially delighted, but then she forced herself to suppress it: "Why did you come here?"

Duan Yiheng said, "It was very late, and I told the driver to go back to the villa, but we couldn't get past Tiandu Yuxi, where you live, no matter what we did, so we had to ask the driver to stop."

Help!

Even though he was just stating his thoughts at the time, why did Lin Xi's heart start racing after just a few sentences?

How could she possibly refuse?

"Lin Xi, speak up," Duan Yiheng urged from the other end of the phone. "Will you let me see you or not? If you will, tell the housekeeper."

Without a second thought, Lin Xi said, "I'll have the housekeeper unlock your access control. From now on, you can come whenever you want."

Duan Yiheng was surprised to receive such a pleasant surprise and asked with a smile, "Really?"

Lin Xi asked shyly, "Do you want some?"

Duan Yiheng answered without the slightest hesitation: "Yes."

Lin Xi snorted: "Alright, come up now."

With that, Lin Xi left the study and went to the entrance hall to wait for Duan Yiheng.

Lin Xi leaned against the entryway cabinet, feeling an indescribable emotion. She didn't need anything dramatic; she just wanted something that would last a lifetime.

That's the feeling Duan Yiheng gave her.

When facing himself, he puts away all his cold and sharp edges, patiently teaches her things, actively pays attention to her emotions, and shows his affection through his actions.

Lost in thought, she didn't even hear the elevator doors open until Duan Yiheng stood in front of her, at which point she belatedly looked up.

Duan Yiheng saw her eyes light up, like a sky full of stars.

Lin Xi stepped forward and hugged Duan Yiheng's waist, causing Duan Yiheng to be taken aback: "Didn't you break up with me?"

Lin Xi hugged him tightly: "Now that you're up here, it's over."

Duan Yiheng cupped her face and kissed her lips: "I'm so glad to hear you say that."

Lin Xi grabbed his wrist: "Come with me."

Duan Yiheng silently followed: "What are you doing?"

Lin Xi kept everyone in suspense: "You'll find out when we get there."

This kind of rhythm usually means there will be a surprise in the next second.

Duan Yiheng was pulled into the study by her. Looking at Lin Xi's table full of project materials and notes, he couldn't say a word.

I miscalculated. Lin Xi's early termination of the friendship might just be a way to get him to come up and work overtime.