Tit for tat

Xuelin Yayuan is only a few minutes' walk from Jinning University, and a 5-minute jog.

“Chen Xiao, why haven't you been running these past two days?”

What Chen Xiao didn't expect was that Xia Yudie still appeared at the stadium as usual.

“Oh, something happened a couple of days ago.”

“Ah? You weren't injured, were you?”

“I'm fine, someone from the company got a little injured.”

“Oh.” Xia Yudie lightly patted her chest, “That’s good.”

“Oh, right, the computer you bought for me…”

“Ah, ahem… I’m going for a run, wait for me.”

Chen Xiao finished speaking and ran straight away.

Xia Yudie froze for a moment, then found a seat and sat down.

She gazed absently at Chen Xiao, who was sweating profusely on the track.

After the run, Xia Yudie, still like a little wife, wiped Chen Xiao’s sweat, brought out warm water, and gently fanned him with a small fan.

“Yu Die, have you been obedient recently? No staying up late, okay?”

“Hehe… Yes, I always go to bed before 12 o’clock.”

“Mm, very good. As a reward, I’ll take you out to play this weekend.”

“Ah?” Xia Yudie’s little face immediately fell, “I promised my friends to go dungeon crawling this weekend…”

Chen Xiao: “…”

Xia Yudie then said, “If I don’t play late during the week, my friends get really annoyed. It was hard enough to convince them to switch to the weekend…”

“Sigh, alright then, you go play.”

Xia Yudie immediately brightened up, then leaned into Chen Xiao’s ear and whispered, “Hehe, I don’t have class Tuesday morning, so how about I stay with you Monday night?”

Chen Xiao instantly felt the mood.

“How about now then? Let’s go!”

With that, he made to pick up Xia Yudie in his arms.

“Ah! No~~~”

Xia Yudie was so scared she turned and ran.

“I have class later, hurry up and eat!”

Chen Xiao laughed behind her as they walked into the cafeteria.

In Cafeteria 3, many people witnessed the scene of the supercar beauty publicly confessing that day.

Especially on the side of Building 5, many people saw Chen Xiao at that time.

They were discussing animatedly from a distance, and some who were familiar with him, seeing a girl beside him, didn't feel comfortable going up to tease him.

Tan Cheng, who came to eat breakfast with her friends, kept glancing towards Chen Xiao and seemed somewhat distracted.

She couldn't understand why a boy she didn't even fancy would be publicly confessed to by a supercar girl.

Was this also a show for her?

Would the cost be a bit too high?

…

Although Chen Xiao caught sight of some furtive glances, he paid no attention.

He focused on eating the egg Xia Yudie had carefully peeled for him.

“You eat too, can you get full just by looking at me?”

“I’ll take some with me later. You eat well, I like to watch.”

Chen Xiao: “…”

Just as he was speaking, someone suddenly sat down next to Chen Xiao, and the smile on Xia Yudie’s little face immediately vanished.

Chen Xiao turned his head and saw, “Li, Li Wenli, good morning.”

“Morning.”

Li Wenli stared at Xia Yudie, greeting Chen Xiao without averting her gaze.

Chen Xiao: “…”

The two women were at loggerheads. He had thought this day would come, but he hadn't expected it to come so quickly and suddenly.

Xia Yudie said with an unpleasant expression, “What are you doing? Didn’t we agree not to interfere with each other?”

Li Wenli didn't back down, “I’m not interfering with you. Is it wrong to have breakfast with Chen Xiao?”

“You…”

“Alright, eating occasionally is fine, but I eat breakfast with Chen Xiao every day anyway.”

Li Wenli: “…”

She couldn't get up in the morning, so she naturally lost the initiative in this regard. However, she had a change of thought and said,

“Brother Chen Xiao, which clothes should you wear later? I’ll get them for you.”

Xia Yudie’s eyes immediately widened.

Li Wenli won a round, challenging, “How about that? You should know Chen Xiao’s identity, right? His clothes naturally can’t be kept in the dorm, they can only be kept with me.”

Xia Yudie was speechless. For the first time, she hated why she lived in Building 15.

Li Wenli continued, “Chen Xiao, I bought you a new set of casual clothes. How about you wear them today?”

Chen Xiao: “Uh… anything, anything is fine.”

Xia Yudie, feeling sour, provocatively asked Li Wenli, “I also bought Chen Xiao a set of clothes. Do you dare to keep them at your place and give them to him to wear?”

Li Wenli was stunned. Was this girl’s thought process really that bizarre?

“Dare, what’s there to be afraid of? If you buy them, it’s best to buy more, it’ll save me the trouble of buying them. Thank you, ‘little sister’!”

“You… you just wait!”

With that, Xia Yudie walked away angrily.

“Hey, Yu Die…” Chen Xiao quickly called out.

“I’m fine, remember to pick me up Monday night!” Xia Yudie said without looking back.

Li Wenli rolled her eyes beside him, muttering a few words.

Chen Xiao was speechless for a moment, “You two… knew each other before?”

Li Wenli said, “You could say we’ve interacted. That brat is determined to get your… body…”

“Cough cough…”

“I’m full.”

Li Wenli cleverly didn't dwell on that question.

“Oh, then I’ll go get the clothes.”

“No rush, you finish your meal first. I’ll go back and take a shower.”

“Okay.”

…

Back in the dorm, Xiao Ji and Liu Xin were still asleep.

After Chen Xiao washed up, he went downstairs.

Li Wenli was already waiting downstairs with the clothes.

Chen Xiao found an empty spot to change, then said, “Are you free this weekend?”

Li Wenli carefully smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes and whispered in his ear, “Whenever you look for me, I’ll have time.”

Chen Xiao smiled, “Good, accompany me to the car show this weekend.”

“Okay.” Li Wenli said happily.

Before long, the E300 arrived, and Li Wenli quickly covered his head with the clothes.

Only then did Chen Xiao run out.

The matter of a masked person often running into a Mercedes-Benz early in the morning between Building 5 and Building 6 also became widely spread on campus.

However, no one knew who that person was. The only one who knew, Li Wenli, just smiled knowingly.

Upon arriving at the company, Chen Xiao found that there were many more people.

Su Tang had re-established a team, and also assigned assistants to Wang Peng and Xiao Xu.

The driver team increased by two people, and the security team by four.

Chen Xiao roughly calculated that his employees were already close to 30 people.

In terms of company size, it was nothing, but for him, it was enough for now.

“Leiting, how is your aunt recovering?”

“Thank you for your concern, Boss. My mother is recovering very well and can have her stitches removed in a few days.”

“Mm, don’t be careless. During this time, focus more on the hospital.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t neglect either side.”

“Mm-hmm.”

Leiting pushed open the door to the boss’s office. After Chen Xiao entered, he closed the door and stood to the side.

Chen Xiao opened his phone and looked at today’s hidden information.

Although Jinning Pharmaceutical had been sold, the message had remained there.

As a result, there was only one new hidden message today.