Younger brother

"In all my 26 years of life, I have never met a more stubborn person than you!" Li Jun scolded his wife seriously.

"Look who is talking" Yu Yan grumbled.

"So Secretive! If I didnt know you so well, I would suspect you of cheating on me with this Mr Leng Zhang character! Why dont you tell me who he is to you apart from being aunty Si's husband and why you had to hide this simple truth from me? Why don't you tell me how this man bullied you? why do you fear him ? Is your secret more important than our love? No one on Earth is stubborn like you. Are you aiming for some kind of Academy for 'stubbornness' awards?" He continued the scolding.

Yu Yan had no guts to retort to that. She averted her eyes guiltily.

Li Jun looked at her guilty face and sighed.

That was the most he could bear to scold her..... for now.

He went closer to her and gently grabbed her shoulders.

"Are you cold?" He cooed.

"En" Yu Yan sobbed a little. It had been so long since he touched her so gently. He even scolded her today.

"Come here" Li Jun engulfed her into his white overcoat- sharing his body heat with his petite wife.

The hospital corridor was really so cold.

Even after bringing her out into the corridor to talk, she was predictably tight lipped as usual.

"Feel better?" Li Jun asked as he felt her cold body stealing into his warmth.

She only nodded. Still not meeting his eyes.

"I am sorry about hitting Liu Liu" He whispered.

Yu Yan nodded gently, telling him that he was forgiven.

".....Also about the butler at home" Better put it all out while he had the upper hand over his wife, Li Jun schemed.

Yu Yan nodded again.All was forgiven.

"Ready to talk?" He tried his luck again.

Yu Yan did not respond for a second but she shook her head after awhile.

Li Jun felt a pang of disappointment.

Even as his wife , she was still capable of breaking his heart...or atleast it felt like it, he mused.

"Okay. I will not ask you about that anymore"

As usual, he could only give up when she refused to open up. This was how their relationship had been continuing for nearly three years now.

Luckily he was still young when he met her. Otherwise, if he had been in his thirties when they had met, he would be already too old when they married and dead by the time she began to trust him.

Li Jun felt a smile tugging on his lips as he imagined that particularly sad scenario.

"Thank you" Said her soft voice.

"Huh?" Li Jun did not follow.

"Thank you.... For not forcing me" Yu Yan looked up into the black abyss which always made her lose her heart.

"Anything for my beloved wife" Li Jun smiled down. His eyes easily recognising the deep sadness in her slight smile.

He would let her get away with it... for now.

"Come, lets go back.Its so cold out here" Li Jun picked Yu Yan up like a vertical log and carried her back to the hospital room, still inside his coat.

THE NEXT DAY.

"What is this?" Li Jun asked secretary Tai.

"Ahahha. This is what secretary Kim Hanah asked me to pass on to you" Secretary Tai smiled nervously.

"I KNOW, what IT is. I am asking who dares?" Li Jun replied irritated. When was secretary Katherine returning from the hospital, he wondered? She was a thousand times for efficient than this idiot.

"It's the manager from the clerical department. She gave this application to the HR department this morning. According to her, Madam Li Is an irresponsible worker. Who is overpaid for the little work she does and who has zero work ethics and no respect for the office hierarchy" Secretary Tai explained about the application letter crumpled in the boss's hands..

" 'respect for the Office Heirachy'? Isn't Madam Li way above her in the office hierarchy? Why does she need to respect anyone?how dare a small manager write such things about her boss?" Li Jun had lost his mind after the sweet love making he was able to get from his newly coerced wife last night and early morning at their home. The blood downstairs had not fully returned to his brain this morning.

"But boss, only we know that madam is madam Li. Other workers don't" Secretary Tai reminded.

"Hummm" Li Jun waved dismissively. " type down something for me..." Li Jun ordered.

DOWNSTAIRS, CLERICAL DEPARTMENT.

"I have warned you again and again.Yet, Miss Yu Yan is too hard of hearing so this is all I could do." Madam manager scolded strictly. " Ever since you joint the office, you have taken so many paid leaves and ran off to do your own things without even the decency of getting prior permissions. Even an old veteran like me have not taken so many days off in all my years here.But, yesterday was the last straw. Do you know the trouble you got us into? Because you decided to play hookey, the clerical department got scolded by the finance department.The important file in your responsibility was late in sending out causing us to be embarrassed." She continued to scold.

" Miss Yu Yan, you are young and you did your job very well sometimes but I think you are not ready to hold on to such an important job at such an important Company. You are fired Miss Yu Yan. Please pack away your things and wait for the contract termination letter from the HR department."

The manager walked off leaving Yu Yan still hanging her head in shame.

"I was only supposed to go away till lunch break was over. And also the document was supposed to me done by Feng Mian not me." She whispered her reply uselessly. She knew she had done wrong. It was not only yesterday. So, she did not explain.

she had taken too much advantage of her position as the boss's wife. If she had been a normal employee, she would never dare to act this way during her probationary period.

Yu Yan sat listlessly in her cubicle waiting for her termination letter. She would at least get half of her pay before she left.

~Ding~

Yu Yan opened a text. It was from Li Jun.

Li Jun: How is my wife doing?

Yu Yan : Still alive. What's up?

Li Jun: Good. I was worried your legs collapsed because of what we did this morning... and last night *heart face* *wink face*

Yu Yan smiled looking at the text.

"Pervert" She mock scolded and typed.

Yu Yan: Such little exercises can't make me collapse. I prefer the hardcore exercises that we did before *Wink face emoji*

A PRIVATE MEETING IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM.

"Sir! You dropped your phone" Secretary Tai picked up the fallen phone but was snatched from his hands before he could look at what shocked his boss so much.

Li Jun cleared his throat domineeringly. He blamed himself for texting his wife during an important meeting.

"Anything wrong CEO Li?" CEO Zhao asked in a concerned tone.

"Hmmm.. Yes. My younger brother... anyways lets continue. my younger brother will have to wait" Li Jun said not showing an ounce of weakness.

Since CEO Zhao was slightly aware of Li Chen's sickness, he guessed that Li Jun got some upsetting news about his younger brother to behave thusly.

He could only be understanding of the situation.

The meeting went on.

Everyone in the conference room unaware of the big tent in Li Jun's pants underneath the heavy wood table, A.K.A his "younger brother".