Chapter 99: Chapter 99: Little Xi, Call Me Brother
After speaking, Huo Shiyan kissed Yuan Xi’s red lips and only let her go when he saw her cheeks flush a little.
Yuan Xi gasped for breath and looked at the hanging portrait, “Where did you get my photo?”
Huo Shiyan replied, “There’s a one-inch photo of you in your high school’s Outstanding Students display case.”
Yuan Xi turned to Huo Shiyan, “So, you liked me since high school?”
Huo Shiyan replied, “Little Xi, I told you when I was seven that I wanted to marry you, and it wasn’t a joke. You also agreed to marry me, have you forgotten?”
Yuan Xi was silent…
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She had never taken their conversation at the age of seven seriously.
Huo Shiyan continued, “When I was fifteen, I confessed to you. I thought if you accepted my confession, I would defy my grandfather’s wishes and flee back to the country. Even if it meant breaking away from the Huo Family to go study in Jiang City with you. But you rejected me, and not only that, but you also called me a fatso…”
Yuan Xi thought hard, at that time she was completely absorbed in her studies, paying no attention to anything else.
“That’s impossible, I would never call you a fatso.”
Huo Shiyan said, “I now know that someone had hacked your account.”
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Yuan Xi, “You confessed over QQ?”
Huo Shiyan, “Back then, QQ was the only way I could contact you, your home’s landline was unavailable. Since then, I made up my mind to slim down, it took a lot of effort, but I managed. When I went back to look for you, I never saw you.”
Huo Shiyan held Yuan Xi’s hand, “It wasn’t until a year ago that I found out you were working at Mi Chen’s. I seized the moment when Gu Hanchen was in crisis to get close to you by investing in Mi Chen. I’ve been scared to reveal my feelings, fearing that you still didn’t like Zhuangzhuang.”
“That night with Shi Yi, I thought you recognized me, including the day we got married. I never thought you’d say not everyone falls for their childhood sweetheart. You said you didn’t like Brother Zhuangzhuang from our childhood, so I never explained and let you misunderstand.”
Listening to Huo Shiyan’s words, Yuan Xi actively kissed his thin lips.
In places she had never known, Huo Shiyan had done so much for her.
Yuan Xi detested the person who had hacked her account. Back when Zhuangzhuang mustered the courage to confess in a foreign land, only to hear her call him a fatso, how heartbroken he must have been.
“You thought I called you fatso back then, yet you still liked me?”
Huo Shiyan said, “At that time, I felt you wouldn’t intentionally insult me. Maybe you called me fatso because I was too fat, concerned it would affect my health…”
Yuan Xi looked into Huo Shiyan’s eyes, smiled softly, then actively kissed his lips again.
Huo Shiyan picked Yuan Xi up horizontally and headed toward the second-floor room.
Huo Shiyan kicked open the room door and gently laid Yuan Xi on the large bed with grey sheets, then leaned forward to unbutton her shirt.
Yuan Xi, with her arms around Huo Shiyan’s neck, whispered, “The curtain.”
It was still daylight outside, with sporadic rain falling, and raindrops glistening on the windows.
Huo Shiyan pressed the button for the electric curtains at the bedside, and the curtains slowly closed.
The sound of raindrops hitting the glass masked the soft moans in the room.
An hour later, Yuan Xi trembled in Huo Shiyan’s arms…
Now, having learned of Huo Shiyan’s feelings, she experienced utter tenderness…
Huo Shiyan then kissed her again, “Little Xi, call me ‘Brother’.”
Only then did Yuan Xi understand why Huo Shiyan had previously asked her to call him ‘Brother’, she softly whispered in his ear, “Little Brother.”
Huo Shiyan grunted, holding Yuan Xi tightly…
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Yuan Xi was awakened by a call from Gu Hanchen, she picked up the phone.
“Hello! Special Assistant Wang said you didn’t take the same plane as them?”
Her voice slightly groggy and husky, Yuan Xi replied, “Yeah, I came over on Little Brother’s plane.”
Gu Hanchen, “Little Brother? Have you and Chu Lin gotten close?”
Hearing the name Chu Lin, Yuan Xi immediately sobered up, “Little Brother is not Chu Lin.”
Gu Hanchen, “Bai Yue, come over, we have a meeting.”
Yuan Xi checked the time, it was five in the afternoon. She took out some clothes from her suitcase and changed, then called Huo Shiyan, “I’m going to Bai Yue for a meeting.”
Huo Shiyuan said over the phone, “Hmm, Qin Lang is downstairs. Let him stay by your side. I am with my cousin now, and I will come to Bai Yue to pick you up later.”
“Okay.”
After Yuan Xi went downstairs and got into Qin Lang’s car, she began to do her makeup. When she opened the makeup mirror, she saw a mark on her collarbone and hurriedly buttoned up her shirt tightly.
After arriving at Bai Yue.
The senior executives of Mi Chen had all arrived, and since they were staying at Bai Yue Hotel, naturally the meeting could be conducted in Gu Hanchen’s suite.
Upon seeing Yuan Xi who arrived late, Gu Hanchen said, “I entrusted you with handling the most crucial part of Mi Chen’s IPO, and this is how you treat my assignment?”
Yuan Xi furrowed her brows in confusion, “Hmm?”
Gu Hanchen continued, “How could you organize the celebration party for such a grand event as Mi Chen’s IPO, and make it look just like an ordinary annual meeting?
You must let everyone know that Mi Chen has gone public! If there’s even one person in Jiang City who doesn’t know that I, Gu Hanchen, have taken Mi Chen public, it means the publicity department has failed.”
Yuan Xi: “…”
Gu Hanchen said, “The banquet celebrating the IPO must be more spectacular than Chu Yan’s grand wedding!”
Yuan Xi: “…”
Gu Hanchen added, “While there’s still time, think of something else to make the IPO celebration known to everyone in Jiang City.”
Yuan Xi replied, “Okay.”
Gu Hanchen said, “The most, most, most important thing now is that we are ringing the bell tomorrow, and I haven’t yet chosen an outfit that makes me look super handsome for the occasion.
I must look absolutely dashing on the NASDAQ big screen; help me choose which of these ten outfits and makeup looks is better.”
Yuan Xi thought to herself that she wouldn’t have attended this meeting had she known earlier.
But since she was already there, Yuan Xi, along with the speechless Mi Chen’s executives, began to help Gu Hanchen choose an outfit.
Gu Hanchen then asked Yuan Xi, “By the way, is your husband coming tomorrow? Make sure he doesn’t. Although I am the most handsome man in Jiang City, your husband is nearly as handsome as I am, and I don’t want him to steal my thunder.”
Yuan Xi: “…”
To pick an outfit for Gu Hanchen, Yuan Xi and the other Mi Chen executives discussed it for a full hour.
After receiving a call from Huo Shiyuan, Yuan Xi went to the parking lot and sat next to Huo Shiyuan.
Huo Shiyuan asked Yuan Xi, “Tomorrow is the official IPO, and Gu Hanchen is still holding meetings now?”
Yuan Xi answered, “Helping him decide which outfit to wear tomorrow to look dashing on the big screen at Time Square.”
The man driving chuckled lightly, “Gu Hanchen really is consistently amusing.”
Yuan Xi looked toward the man who was driving.
Huo Shiyuan introduced, “My cousin, Xiao Yun.”
“It’s nice to meet you.”
Xiao Yun said, “I’ve been hearing about Little Xi from Shiyi since we were kids, and I’m fortunate to meet you today.”
Yuan Xi smiled faintly.
Xiao Yun, taking Huo Shiyuan and Yuan Xi with him, arrived at his grand mansion estate.
Upon entering, Yuan Xi saw a little girl around five years old running toward them, “Daddy.”
Xiao Yun’s initially good mood instantly turned sour when he saw the little girl.
A young woman came over and asked, “Yun, who are these two…?”
Xiao Yun ignored the young woman’s question, only frowning and saying, “Why did you come?”
“Yingying missed daddy.”
Gu Qingyi, pushing the girl forward, said, “Yingying just turned five after June 1st, and you never came back to spend her birthday or Children’s Day with her. Now that summer vacation has started, I brought her here to see you.”
Yuan Xi was taken aback by what the young woman said.
That was quite coincidental, the little girl in front of her and Gu Hanchen’s niece were both five, both named Yingying, and both had birthdays after June 1st.
Too many coincidences…