Chapter 3 Wait for me in the evening
"What are you talking about?"
Just then, a deep and pleasant voice came through.
It was Ye Mubei...
Shen Ruoxi wiped away her tears, turned back, and saw Bai Feifei affectionately wrapping her arms around Ye Mubei's arm, her cheeks rosy and coquettish.
And Ye Mubei's stern face slowly revealed a smile.
So tender it was hardly like him.
"Mubei, why are you here? Are you here to take me to lunch?"
The man nodded slightly, his gaze at Bai Feifei growing even more tender.
"Then let's go." Bai Feifei pulled the man's wrist, walking towards the exit.
As they were about to leave, those colleagues began to smile and praise the couple for being well-matched.
Blushing, Bai Feifei turned back and said to everyone, "I'll treat you all to dinner tonight," then she and Ye Mubei disappeared around the corner.
From beginning to end, Ye Mubei had not spared Shen Ruoxi a glance...
Shen Ruoxi's face was pale, not a trace of blood in sight, her heart ached as if it had been sliced open.
It turned out that watching him being sweet and affectionate with another woman was so painful for her.
...
In the elevator.
Bai Feifei was talking to Ye Mubei about her impressions of the Ye Group, and incidentally mentioned the rejection of Shen Ruoxi's resignation, also complimenting Shen Ruoxi's capabilities.
Ye Mubei listened quietly, but his expression grew colder and colder.
The elevator stopped on the second basement level, and Ye Mubei released Bai Feifei's hand.
"Sorry, I'm feeling a bit unwell. I can't accompany you for lunch anymore."
Bai Feifei was stunned, "Ah? Are you okay, should I accompany you to the hospital for a checkup?"
"No need." The man declined while arranging for a driver to take Bai Feifei to lunch.
Afterward, he went back into the elevator and headed to the president's office on the top floor.
Everyone from the design department had gone for lunch, except for Shen Ruoxi sitting motionlessly at her desk.
Bai Feifei didn't allow her to resign, and even increased her salary by thirty percent... The Ye Corporation already had the industry's highest salary levels, with another 30% increase, her income was even more considerable.
Her mother's medicine was not cheap...
Shen Ruoxi decided to stay for a while longer.
As long as she avoided any contact with Ye Mubei, that would be fine.
Gradually, she would return to a calm life.
But fate would not have it so. In the afternoon, she had a document that required the president's seal of approval, which could not be applied for by anyone else.
Without a choice, Shen Ruoxi had to bite the bullet and go to the president's office.
In the presidential office, Ye Mubei was signing documents.
Shen Ruoxi approached him and spoke softly:
"President, this document requires your approval."
Shen Ruoxi's demeanor was strictly businesslike, her little face expressing cool indifference.
She placed the document at the corner of the desk, ready to leave.
But to her surprise, the moment she turned around, the man's broad, warm hand clamped onto her wrist.
With a forceful pull, he enveloped her in his arms.
"Bang—"
The coffee cup tumbled, the documents on the desk in disarray, the man's suit jacket getting stained.
"I..."
Before Shen Ruoxi could recover from the chaos, the man pulled her into the resting room.
"President Ye, I... mmm..."
Shen Ruoxi's voice was swallowed up by the man's passionate and forceful kiss.
The kiss was both hasty and intense, as if avenging himself with all his might.
"No!" Shen Ruoxi resisted fiercely.
Ye Mubei had a fiancée now; she couldn't get entangled with him anymore.
But her hand was held firmly by the man, her resistance completely ineffective.
The man pushed her, pinning her down on the bed...
Just as she was becoming a bit muddled and lost, Ye Mubei suddenly pinched her chin, his tone icy, "Shen Ruoxi! You wrote a resignation letter? Who gave you the courage to leave me? Without my permission, you cannot go!"
"This revenge game can only end when I say so!"
The man's dominating voice echoed like the call of a demon...
Ye Mubei was getting married, yet he still refused to let her go.
Revenge game...
She was merely a tool for Ye Mubei to take revenge on the Shen Family.
But it had been six years already; the glory of the Shen Family had long turned to ashes, so why wouldn't Ye Mubei let it go?
Shen Ruoxi's eyes were sour and gritty, tears streaming down.
"Ye Mubei, can't we part on good terms?"
Ye Mubei glanced at her coldly, his tone chill, "Don't even think about it!"
The man's hand moved under her dress...
"Want to leave me, do you? Then why do you get wet the moment I touch you?"
His scornful tone made Shen Ruoxi feel deeply humiliated.
It wasn't what she wanted...
Shen Ruoxi still wanted to plead and negotiate with Ye Mubei when Bai Feifei's voice suddenly came from outside.
Ye Mubei furrowed his brow and pulled back his hand, getting up.
He changed into a different suit jacket in the dressing room, and when he reappeared, he had regained his cool and abstinent demeanor.
Before leaving, he dropped the words, "Wait for me at the villa tonight."
His tone was so imperious that there was no room for discussion.
Then, he took long strides and left the resting room.
Shen Ruoxi lay on the bed, crying helplessly in pain.
Ye Mubei had changed completely.
He was no longer the young man who once doted on and cherished her in her memories.
...
That evening, all the staff from the design department attended Bai Feifei's welcome party, with Ye Mubei himself making an appearance to support his fiancée.
Shen Ruoxi did not go; she went home early to make dumplings with her mother.
Her mother was especially happy because she obediently came home, thinking that she had completely ended things with the man outside.
That night, her mother was in a good mood and didn't suffer from her mental illness.
After tidying everything up, Shen Ruoxi emerged from the shower room at eleven at night.
Upon opening her social feed, it was filled with her colleagues' posts praising how well-matched and loving Bai Feifei and Ye Mubei were.