novelraw Chapter 398: Le Tong, You’re Jealous! (First Update)
Chapter 398: Le Tong, You’re Jealous! (First Update)
"Mr. Ji, why are you telling me this? You don’t need to report to me about who you have dinner with." Le Tong’s tone was icy, even colder than the harsh northern wind blowing in through the window.Upon hearing her words, Ji Rui didn’t know whether to feel happy or sad.
"Le Tong, what I said to you last night, I meant every word. Since I like you, regardless of whether you respond to me or not, I will discipline myself. From your perspective, you might think I don’t need to report anything to you, but I feel I need to clarify that while it’s true I had dinner with them, they were playing around while I sat on the side drinking tea, without getting involved at all, believe me!"
Ji Rui felt fortunate that whenever he took Le Tong out with him, he always kept to himself; otherwise, he really wouldn’t be able to clear his name now.
Le Tong remained silent on the other end of the line, and Ji Rui was starting to feel anxious, "Le Tong, you’ve been by my side for so long, have you ever seen me interested in those things?"o prove it to you?" In the end, Ji Rui was ready to throw caution to the wind and find the head of Le Sheng Group who accompanied him as a witness.
"No need, Mr. Ji. I know you have a cleanliness obsession!"
In the end, it was the muffled voice of the woman on the other side that made Ji Rui lower the hand gripping the doorknob.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Ji Rui dragged a chair from behind and sat down, asking irritably, "How did you know I have a cleanliness obsession?"
"I guessed!"
Seated comfortably at her desk, Le Tong would never admit that ever since she became Ji Rui’s secretary, her eyes had always involuntarily followed him around. The countless habits, both conscious and unconscious, of President Ji, he probably didn’t even know as well as Le Tong did.
Although at that time Le Tong didn’t know whether Ji Rui had fixed or unfixed female companions before, one thing was true: Ji Rui’s gaze never lingered on those women when he went out for meals.
Not just those women, but even the most beautiful and elegant ladies never successfully caught President Ji’s attention.
Back then, Le Tong only thought President Ji’s true heart had already been captured by his beloved son’s mother, and that other flowers, no matter how beautiful, were nothing but weeds in his eyes.
It wasn’t until she found out that she was the mother of his beloved son that Le Tong reconfirmed it wasn’t that this man’s heart was taken, but that he had no heart at all.
Just as she didn’t fully understand Mr. Ji’s heart, this man confessed that he liked her.
Yes, the person who successfully captured President Ji’s heart, as recently revealed to her by the man himself, turned out to be her—Le Tong.
When she first heard his confession, she didn’t feel any joy; more than anything, it was disbelief.
Or rather, it wasn’t that she didn’t want to believe it; she was unwilling to believe it.
And at this moment, listening to the man’s urgent explanation from miles away, she suddenly thought of that famous slogan from the public service advertisement about protecting endangered animals: "If there is no buying, there is no killing."
She didn’t know why such an irrelevant phrase suddenly popped into her head, but on reflection, there seemed to be a similar connection between the two.
That phrase could be extended to her current situation, meaning without desire, there would be no harm.
In other words, if she didn’t develop a longing for this relationship, her heart would remain completely unscathed!
"Guessed? Le Tong, I don’t think I’m someone who can be easily seen through. How could you just guess I have a cleanliness obsession?"
Ji Rui, sitting alone in a private suite, felt his anxiousness subside due to Le Tong’s words, which seemed uncertain, perhaps revealing a lot of secrets.
Le Tong’s mind was thrown into even greater disarray by his question, while the man responsible for filling her head with a tangled mess seemed increasingly at ease.
"Le Tong, besides knowing I have a cleanliness obsession, how much more do you know that even I might not be aware of?" How could Le Tong guess the well-guarded origins of his tiny habits just by guessing? He would never believe it!
Even though the man was miles away, Le Tong genuinely felt his burning gaze sweep over her face. Suddenly, her face uncontrollably grew red.
The embarrassment of having one’s inner self exposed made Le Tong feel utterly mortified.
"Mr. Ji, I have work to do, I’ll hang up now!"
Unable to give Ji Rui a clear answer, and even less able to face her own heart, Le Tong hurriedly threw down a sentence and once again hastily hung up the phone.
Having the call hung up on him again, Ji Rui’s mood was worlds apart from the last time.
He curled his lips slightly, his slender fingers deftly fiddling with the phone. His current mood was like he had taken a rocket from the dark valley where no sunlight could reach—just minutes ago—to the top of the mountain peak, enjoying the bright sun and gentle breeze.
The woman on the other end, who stubbornly hung up the phone, must have been trembling as she did so, right?
Ji Rui, in an excellent mood, slowly savored the earlier conversation and then lowered his gaze, smiling as he typed in a few big words on his phone before sending them out without hesitation.
"Dingdong!"
The woman who supposedly hung up the phone with a trembling hand was startled by the message notification sound and opened it.
The words on the screen exploded in her heart like a bomb.
Le Tong, you were jealous!
Le Tong, you were jealous!
Le Tong, you were jealous!
Le Tong, you were jealous!
...
Le Tong’s mind was filled with this sentence for at least several minutes.
Moreover, these words weren’t stimulating her brain in their square font form but as if the man far away in Beijing was saying them one word at a time, with his handsome face that could capture countless lovestruck girls’ hearts, with a teasing smile on his lips and looking into her eyes!
Le
Tong
You
Were
Jealous
These six seemingly simple and meaningless words, when spoken one word at a time by that man’s seductive lips, were like a series of ever-stronger missiles, thoroughly blowing Le Tong away!
Before Le Tong was completely ’blown away’ by President Ji’s few simple words, her mind flashed with three last words:
Doomed!