During postpartum confinement, my mother-in-law stewed chicken soup every day. I went into the kitchen to take a look and then took the baby back to my parents' home.
Chapter 1 Save me, and I will give you everything...
Late at night, deep winter.
Goose-feather snow was falling.
From a small eatery came the sound of a birthday song...
"Happy birthday to you... Happy birthday to you..." After the birthday song finally ended, there came a round of applause...
"Blow out the candles... blow out the candles... make a wish..." The classmates in the small eatery cheered...
In front of the glow of those colorful candles, there was a girl wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, black sweatpants, and her hair in a long braid. She had her arms crossed over a thick gray coat, her hands clasped before the candlelight, and with a sweet, tender, somewhat obedient air she lowered her head, closed her eyes, and said, "I wish Mom and Dad happiness and good health. I wish my three older brothers can find good jobs... I wish all my classmates and the people I love good health..."
Another round of cheers came from the classmates, all saying that for a nineteenth birthday, she should make a wish for herself...
After hearing her classmates' words, Cheng Ya only shook her head, smiled slightly, then leaned forward and blew out all nineteen candles in one breath...
Cheers came again...
Outside the window, the snowflakes drifted joyfully too...
Time passed little by little, and the night grew deeper and deeper. Many classmates left the small eatery one by one, laughing and fully satisfied. Cheng Ya and her good friend Anxin also walked out...
Anxin grabbed Cheng Ya's coat and pulled it tighter for her, then said, "Hey! Hey! Are you really okay going home alone? It's so dark tonight..."
"It's fine..." Cheng Ya said with an honest smile. "My home is not far... Why would I be afraid of this? Besides, my brother is waiting for me at the street entrance... Hurry home..."
Anxin breathed out a puff of white mist and could only say with a bitter smile, "All right then... Be careful yourself...
"Mm..." After Cheng Ya answered with a smile, she tugged Anni's coat for her again...
"Happy birthday... From today on, be happy every day..." Anni hugged Cheng Ya once more, then walked into the pitch-black path...
Cheng Ya also hugged her coat tightly, picked up her bag, turned her head, and walked toward another path lit only by faint light...
As she walked, she felt the snow falling harder and harder. Shivering from the cold, she was about to jog home when she saw a group of strange and terrifying men. They were all wearing black suits, seven chi tall, with black sunglasses, murderous and eerily frightening, walking toward her along the path...
A chill ran down Cheng Ya's spine. She quickly leaned under a streetlight stopped by the roadside, so frightened that her heart pounded. Panting, somewhat panicked, she raised her head and watched that group of men stride past her, searching ahead for someone...
Cheng Ya's heart felt inexplicably uneasy. She clutched the front of her clothes and walked quickly forward. As she walked, she saw that at the end of the small alley was a main street... Her brother was standing across the street waiting for her from afar...
Cheng Ya's heart settled a little and she smiled. The inexplicable panic disappeared. She reached out her hand and was just about to wave and shout... "Brother... mm..."
Cheng Ya was suddenly pulled by a pair of powerful hands into his steel-like embrace with a fierce force. He quickly pressed her mouth shut and said calmly and deeply in a low voice by her ear, "Don't make a sound!"
Cheng Ya was frightened out of her wits, trembling all over with fear. She kept twisting her body, wanting to cry for help, but his powerful palm pressed tightly over her lips, leaving her unable to move...
"Someone is chasing me! Don't make a sound! I don't want to hurt you!" He pulled her into his arms again with another fierce force and pressed her against the wall...
His gaze was sharp as an eagle's in the darkness. His eyes flashed ruthlessly and intensely, and with his face turned slightly he listened carefully to the repeated "creak creak" sounds of snow being stepped on, accompanied by a trace of eerie discussion...
His expression turned cold. The people who had just left had actually turned back. Thinking fast, he pulled Cheng Ya tightly into his arms and moved his steps to hide in one of the small paths within the alley...
Cheng Ya's eyes widened, as cold as if she had fallen into an abyss. She twisted her body frantically, wanting him to let her go...
Cheng Ya was stunned. By the light of the snow, she saw that inside his deep black coat, his shirt was actually soaked with blood. He had been shot...
She even saw on his chest a pattern of a soaring eagle with spread wings biting a jade ball... She was so frightened that tears rolled down. Helplessly, she watched from afar as her brother still stood under the streetlight across the street, waiting for her left and right...
Brother... She wanted to call out but could not make a sound. That hand as heavy as a thousand jin still covered her mouth tightly. She trembled all over with fear, and that ominous premonition rose again...
The footsteps came closer and closer, closer and closer... as if death itself were about to approach...
Cheng Ya's breathing and his grew heavier and heavier. She even felt that the person in front of her was about to faint from excessive blood loss...
"Save me... as long as you help me get through tonight... I will definitely repay you... I'm sorry..." After saying this, he suddenly released his hands, yet quickly kissed Cheng Ya's little lips, which had no time to cry out, with those sexy thin lips...
Cheng Ya's eyes widened. She could not believe he would actually do this...
He ignored Cheng Ya's plea for help...
Cheng Ya desperately wanted to shout, but that kiss continued, not giving her any room to breathe. That bewitching kiss even made her body begin to rise with waves of heat...
The terrifying footsteps came closer and closer... closer and closer...
Finally, that group of terrifying and eerie men appeared in the small path. Standing in the darkness, they all looked at the two people in the path...
In the darkness, he kissed her soft red lips. Cheng Ya struggled desperately, but in the end could only let tears roll down helplessly...
The group of men in the alley sneered and said, "I was wondering what the noise was. Turns out it's a pair of shameless lovers sneaking around doing this? Hmph! Let's go!"
The whole small path gave off a terrifying heat, along with those intense panting sounds. The panting grew heavier and heavier, faster and faster. That kiss, carrying punishment and invasion, stirred ripples across her skin...
She felt her breasts being held by a pair of large hands and kneaded very ungently. The scorching touch at her chest made her both angry and ashamed. She struggled desperately, yet was pressed closer and closer to him.
That faint tingling made her involuntarily arch her body, accommodating his touch. This feeling was extremely strange!
A low and sexy voice sounded by her ear: "Be good, I will repay you."
Suddenly a tearing pain came from below. Helpless, she closed her eyes...
The whole small path gave off a terrifying heat, along with those intense panting sounds. The panting grew heavier and heavier, faster and faster... Finally, that excited sigh rose together with the mist... Everything stopped...
Early morning, in the small alley with fine snow drifting...
When she opened her eyes and woke up, she found that he had already left, leaving only a heavy black coat. At the corners of her eyes were still-drying tear marks, strands of hair clinging to her snow-white neck. Tired and dazed, she looked at a platinum metallic object in the snow, flickering with an eerie light...
Chapter 2 Third Young Master Han, be careful!
Six years later!
Han Group International Business Center Building!
"Deng deng deng deng deng..." A burst of frantic footsteps came from the stairs. Who would have thought the elevator would break down at this time? How awful!
Cheng Ya wore a white shirt with a black professional short skirt, and around her neck hung the intern secretary work badge of Han Group International. Her hair was tied in a high ponytail, and in each small hand she held a cup of scalding coffee, while she bit down on a cup of her own. She walked quickly toward the twelfth floor, running until she was drenched in sweat and her hair was a mess...
She had promised the manager that she would definitely bring the coffee to the office before nine o'clock, otherwise this month's review would definitely give her zero points! Zero points! Zero points!
Cheng Ya wore a mournful face, truly so tired that all her bones felt weak. She leaned against the corridor railing on a certain floor, gasping for breath...
With that cup of coffee bitten in her mouth, she looked bitterly at the four-ring building in front of her, one hundred and eight stories high, with the four buildings facing each other like a square. In the middle of the four-ring building was left nearly ten thousand square meters of open ground as a transparent property exhibition hall!
For a commercial center location where every inch of land was gold, leaving such a patch of space empty for nothing was truly too luxurious...
"Wasn't it said that today Han Group's third young master Qi Wenlei was summoned back to the country, preparing to strongly enter the company and take charge of the Asia-Europe real estate development project? Why would the elevator break too?" Cheng Ya thought about this while running and panting, then boredly leaned over to look downstairs. She saw that the cherry trees planted in the very center of the property were blooming brilliantly, and countless distinguished guests stood under the cherry trees looking at the expensive properties in the exhibition hall, nodding slightly in approval...
Cheng Ya wore a bitter smile. What was displayed down there was property at five hundred thousand per square meter. Even casually selling it would cost hundreds of millions. There really were so many rich people...
"The third young master is here..." Some female colleagues excitedly poured out of the office and hurriedly leaned by the corridor, looking eagerly toward the entrance of the first-floor lobby, then said excitedly, "You don't know, I've seen him on TV. He's really so handsome, wild and sexy, and a pair of starry eyes that are to die for... I heard that this time after coming back from abroad, he will never leave again..."
When Cheng Ya heard this, she also curiously bit the coffee and looked downstairs...
Han Group International Business Center Lobby!
All the senior management and secretaries of Han Group International stood separately before the building's steps, waiting solemnly...
Along Maple Forest Avenue slowly drove the black luxury cars marked with Han Group International, like an army. Under the brilliant sunlight, they flashed with domineering and noble light. When the cars stopped in front of the international building, the bodyguards inside got out first, asked about the third young master's schedule for the day, and only then did the third young master's personal bodyguard Xu Mo finally come to a stretch limousine and open the door for him...
Out of the car stepped a man in a deep blue velvet suit, full of British style. His straight, tall figure was displayed before the car as perfectly as a sculpture. His fashionable and tasteful slightly curly hairstyle revealed far too much rebellious flavor. A small lock of hair before his forehead stopped beside his eye, and his eyes showed a bit of wild and arrogant momentum...
As everyone said, the Han family's third young master had a pair of starry eyes, charming and sexy. Often with just a glance, he could already captivate the soul and stir the heart...
He stood in front of the car and first lazily glanced at the towering international building, then took his sunglasses in hand and put them on handsomely and somewhat lazily, slightly parted his sexy thin lips and asked, "Where are eldest brother and second brother?"
"President Han is recuperating in California, USA... Vice President Han is in Meeting Room No. 3 starting a new round of international investment meetings..." Yuan Hua, general manager of Han Group International's China region, immediately responded!
"Mm!" Han Wenlei put both hands into his trouser pockets and strode handsomely up the steps. As he walked, he asked lazily again, "Is my office ready?"
"It has already been prepared. According to your instructions, your office is located on the one hundred and sixth floor, with three meeting rooms and six administrative areas... including your office of nearly a thousand square meters, and a rest room... occupying the entire one hundred and sixth ring floor..." The general manager immediately bowed his head and said.
"Mm." Han Wenlei stepped first into Han Group International's luxurious lobby built of pure gold, then cut through the lobby and walked into the open square of the four-ring building.
With a blank expression, he raised his face and looked at the distinguished guests in the exhibition hall, displaying that the Han family's strength was unmatched in the world, supreme and alone. He curled one corner of his mouth and smiled, handsome as the radiance of dawn, refracting outward...
The female colleagues upstairs all blushed, each pretending to look downstairs casually. As soon as they saw Han Wenlei's extremely handsome face, they all stamped their feet and thought, how could there be such a handsome man in the world?
With the coffee bitten in her mouth, Cheng Ya also leaned down and watched the female colleagues crazily shouting about the handsome third young master of the Han family. Under the support of all the senior executives and bodyguards, he walked toward the building where she stood. Only then did Cheng Ya remember that Third Young Master Han's office building was exactly the one hundred and sixth floor of Building No. 3...
She thought for a moment, then curiously watched Han Wenlei, face covered by sunglasses, with an arrogant and impolite attitude, walking toward the building entrance as if no one else existed. Just as she was watching in amazement...
Suddenly a scream came from upstairs: "Cheng Ya, did you go to an alien planet to buy a cup of coffee?! Get back here right now!"
Cheng Ya looked foolish, following her usual habit of meekly obeying...
"Okay... I'm coming up!"
As soon as she finished speaking, her scalp went numb, and she watched helplessly as the cup of coffee bitten in her mouth fell straight down...
Cheng Ya looked in horror as Han Wenlei was about to walk to the first-floor passage. She shouted at Han Wenlei...
"Third Young Master Han! Be careful... it's falling!"
Han Wenlei frowned. Someone actually dared to call him like that? He raised his face, and saw a coffee cup, with a smack, smash down onto his face...
"Ah..."
All the senior executives were stunned as they looked at Han Wenlei's shocked face, and the thick cappuccino coffee rolling down his face. He stood there frozen, blinked his eyes, and a bit of coffee involuntarily seeped into the corner of his mouth. He pressed his lips slightly and the taste was very... fragrant...
Cheng Ya's eyes widened, and she drew in a cold breath. Seeing that Han Wenlei had actually been hit, she was so frightened that both hands went weak, and then the coffee cup in her hands fell down again...
"Third Young Master Han! Be careful... it's falling again!"
Cheng Ya screamed downstairs in fear!
"What is it now!?" Han Wenlei raised his head angrily and shouted, and then two cups of coffee... smack! smack! smashed onto his face again. This time he completely broke down!
He raised his head in disbelief and saw that on the ninth floor there was a woman wearing black-rimmed glasses, staring at him, so frightened that her face had gone pale...
Han Wenlei instantly burned with fury. Pointing at that woman upstairs, he shouted angrily, "You! Get down here!"
Chapter 3 Let me see what you look like
"Oh!" As soon as Cheng Ya heard Han Wenlei's words, she foolishly responded immediately.
Pushing at her black-rimmed glasses, she rushed downstairs with a thump-thump-thump-thump like a fast-forwarded movie, stumbling two steps for every three she took. Then a series of aiya aiya aiya sounds came from the stairwell, and it looked like she was about to roll all the way down...
"Third Young Master... let me wipe it for you..." The secretary hurried forward trembling, wanting to wipe the fragrant coffee from his face.
But he grabbed the tissue in one move and quickly wiped his own face, then glared viciously at the stairway exit.
"As soon as she comes out, throw her out for me immediately!" Han Wenlei said with a cold, hard face!
"Yes!" The subordinates responded immediately!
Han Wenlei stood up straight again and watched as the stairway continued to send out aiya aiya aiya sounds of falling...
"She is deliberately falling!" Han Wenlei said coldly and with certainty.
Behind him, not one of the senior executives, bodyguards, or secretaries dared to respond...
Cheng Ya finally ran down to the first floor. Dazed, pushing her black-rimmed glasses that had already tilted to one side, she faced the huge dark mass of people outside the building with a tearful face, cupped her hands anxiously and fearfully, and said, "Third Young Master Han... I didn't mean to, sorry... ah..."
Cheng Ya suddenly felt a sharp pulling pain at the back of her head. Her ponytail had been viciously grabbed by someone.
Trembling with fear, she slightly turned her head and saw Han Wenlei angrily gripping the hair at the back of her head, glaring with furious eyes: "So it's you... throwing coffee on me? Is today election day? No eggs, so you switched to throwing coffee?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he viciously yanked her ponytail again...
"Aiya!" Cheng Ya's head twisted in pain. She did not dare turn to look at Han Wenlei again, and could only say pitifully, "Sorry, Third Young Master Han... I didn't mean to... I just bought coffee, and when I ran to the elevator, I found it was broken, so I could only take the stairs, and then I walked and walked and walked..."
"Get to the point!" Han Wenlei yanked her hair again and said angrily.
"When I ran to the ninth floor, because I was too tired, I stopped to rest for a while..." Cheng Ya really did not want to continue. Just as she wanted to lower her head, she was pulled hard again. She was forced to raise her head, pain bringing tears to her eyes.
"And then!" Han Wenlei shouted angrily again!
"And then I... heard you had come, so I curiously looked down for a glance. Who knew someone would call me, I answered, and the coffee bitten in my mouth just fell like that..."
Cheng Ya lowered her head with extreme grievance: "Sorry, I really didn't mean to... I really really really didn't mean to... I am very sorry..."
Han Wenlei angrily yanked Cheng Ya's hair again. Cheng Ya cried aiya, lost her footing, and fell into his arms. He snorted coldly, gripped her slender shoulders, forced her to turn around and look at him, and said, "I want to see what you look like, disgusting me like this!"
Cheng Ya was so frightened that her face lost color. She held her glasses and lowered her head, not daring to make a sound...
Han Wenlei hatefully stretched out his palm and gripped Cheng Ya's face in one move, making her face almost distort as she pouted and looked at him...
"Mm..." Cheng Ya trembled all over as she looked at Han Wenlei, wanting to struggle.
With one hand, Han Wenlei took off Cheng Ya's black-framed glasses.
Cheng Ya immediately looked pitifully at Han Wenlei with a pair of dreamy, watery apricot eyes brimming with tears, too frightened to speak, only looking at him pitifully...
Chapter 4 Wasted
"Third Young Master Han... I..." Cheng Ya was so frightened she wanted to beg for mercy, but she still did not dare move at all. Only by looking at Han Wenlei up close did she realize that because he was so young, his skin was incredibly delicate, with almost no pores at all, his nose bridge proud and straight, his lips slightly thin and sexy... That youthful and handsome face always made young girls excited!!
Cheng Ya had no such interest now in finding out just how attractive he was, because her face hurt very much. He was pinching her face so hard it hurt. She turned her face away and frowned, then called out softly and fearfully, "It hurts..."
Han Wenlei continued to rudely pinch Cheng Ya's chin. Looking at this woman, he saw that after she took off her glasses, she was unexpectedly beautiful. Those dreamy, watery eyes could stir endless affection with the slightest blink, her nose was high and sharply straight and full of character, and her sexy, cute pink lips were now tightly pressed together in fear. One look was enough to tell that she was often bullied...
Han Wenlei gradually stepped back, then took another step back while staring hard at Cheng Ya, and only then slowly began to mock her, saying, "No wonder! You would pick this kind of method to get my attention! But do you have the intelligence to seduce me?"
"Huh?" Cheng Ya stared blankly, stunned, and asked, "What are you talking about? I... I seduce you? I had no intention of seducing you..."
"None? Then you still dared to drop coffee on me from the ninth floor? Would it hit so accurately for no reason at all?" Han Wenlei continued with a burning frown.
Cheng Ya looked at this person in disbelief. He actually had such a rich imagination and insulted people like this. It was too much!
She clenched her fist, raised her head toward Han Wenlei, and said with a bit of a stammer, "Third Young Master Han... A person like me has plenty of self-awareness and would not try to seduce you for no reason! And... use such a stupid method to seduce you... Am I an idiot?"
"So you know you are an idiot?" Han Wenlei angrily took off his sunglasses. A pair of starry eyes flashed passionately, and then he used the sunglasses to knock Cheng Ya hard on the forehead, only then shouting loudly, "Using this kind of method to seduce me! Now I know just how smart your brain is! You must have attended kindergarten!"
Cheng Ya bit her lower lip in fury, her brow furrowing aggrievedly, and then that anger rose up and was about to explode as she said, "Third Young Master Han! I entered Han International Group! I am... a master's student in business! I did not attend kindergarten, because my family had no money, and then I went directly into first grade of elementary school!"
The senior secretary behind him and the onlookers watched this girl flush red with urgency, yet they did not know what to do either. That stubbornly earnest energy made everyone want to laugh...
"It is precisely because your family background is bad that you do this kind of thing, right?" Han Wenlei continued, raising an eyebrow and sneering.
Cheng Ya glared. She looked at this person who was actually so arrogant and domineering, humiliating others as if no one else mattered?
She gave a helpless bitter smile, and her heart ached. She thought, forget it, forget it, forget it. She had always comforted herself this way, and she had already grown used to accepting all this unfairness...
Han Wenlei looked at Cheng Ya's attitude, which had suddenly dimmed, and he pressed on step by step, saying, "What? Someone hit on what is really on your mind, so now you have nothing to say? Disgusted with yourself? Doing something like this in public, and after I exposed you, you probably do not even know where to put your face, right?"
Cheng Ya suddenly raised her head and looked at Han Wenlei. Unable to bear it any longer, her face flushed red, and she also learned from him and shouted, "Third Young Master Han! Maybe in your eyes, I am not even worth as much as an ant, but I am telling you, in my eyes, you are not even worth as much as my three cups of coffee! If time could come again, I would rather drink that coffee by myself than throw it at your head! Because it was wasted!"
With a boom, it rang through the entire four-ring building of Han International. Everyone was shocked and pale, watching in tense astonishment as Cheng Ya, famous in the company for being honest and tongue-tied, actually dared to shout at Third Young Master Han? Did she not want her life?
Vice President's office on the one hundred and sixth floor!
Under the gaze of all her colleagues in the administrative department, a female secretary pushed a serving cart of coffee to the front of the president's office. She first drew a nervous breath, and only then lightly knocked on the glass door of the president's office...
"Come in..." A lazy, drawling voice came from inside the office...
The glass door of the office opened in both directions. From afar, the secretary saw Han Wenlei sitting very leisurely on the sofa at the other end of the splendid office, holding a pen in his hand and spinning it, his face turned coldly toward a certain direction in the office...
The secretary carefully pushed the serving cart into the office, pretended to casually lift her head, and glanced at Cheng Ya, who was standing right in the center of the office. Cheng Ya had a cup of coffee clenched in her mouth and three cups in each hand, so tired that sweat had soaked the front of her forehead, and she was looking pitifully at the secretary...
The secretary first gave a bitter smile, then endured it in silence and pushed the serving cart in front of Cheng Ya, only then saying respectfully to Han Wenlei, "Vice President... the coffee has been bought and brought back. Twenty hot cups, twenty iced cups, all without sugar and without milk..."
"Mm... go out..." Han Wenlei still spun the pen in his hand, coldly watching Cheng Ya hold those several cups of coffee in both hands, her hands trembling... as if she were about to be unable to hold on...
"Hold them tight for me. If the coffee cup you are biting in your mouth or holding in your hands falls, then get out of the Han building forever... and never come back for the rest of your life," Han Wenlei said coldly and slowly.
Cheng Ya was so tired she saw stars, and her head was muddled as she watched Han Wenlei's cold face looking at the boundless scenery outside the window, especially the smug, punchable gleam refracted from the corner of his starry eyes, which made Cheng Ya pile up a ball of anger... Yet she still did not dare make a sound... She could not lose her job...
"Two hours later, if you want to leave this president's office smoothly, then drink the forty cups of coffee in front of your desk... and you can go... Did you not say you really like drinking coffee? Then drink it..." After Han Wenlei finished speaking, his eyes flashed mercilessly first, and then he laughed smugly.
Cheng Ya's eyes widened. Biting the coffee cup, she lowered her head and looked at the coffee on the serving cart. She was so angry that her eye rims turned red, and tears were about to drip out... Yet because she was biting that cup of coffee, she did not dare move at all...
Han Wenlei continued looking at the scenery outside the window, then lazily mocked again, "So I said... when it comes to things like seducing someone, you dare to do it, but you do not dare admit it! And so you end up in this predicament today... You deserve it... In the future, if you want to seduce this young master, first weigh just how much you are really worth... Not just any idiot or lovestruck fool can do this kind of thing... Hmph!"
Cheng Ya glared at Han Wenlei with hatred, so angry that her body was trembling. The two cups of coffee she held in her hands were slowly tightening...
"Next time you seduce someone, do not throw coffee. It is a waste!" Han Wenlei mimicked Cheng Ya's words.
"So you know too..." Cheng Ya's voice suddenly reached Han Wenlei's ears, soft and lazy. Han Wenlei turned around strangely, and unexpectedly saw Cheng Ya holding three cups of coffee in each hand. The coffee in her mouth had already fallen to the floor. Her face was red with anger, and she looked at Han Wenlei as if she could endure no more. That "seduce" here and "seduce" there was like a hateful fly buzzing and buzzing... It was so noisy!
"What are you doing? Do you not want to work anymore?" Han Wenlei looked at this woman! She had actually let go and let that cup fall to the floor!
"Do as you see fit!!" She shouted angrily, and without another word walked forward and splashed the coffee in her hands all over Han Wenlei...
Han Wenlei stared wide-eyed in shock, looking in disbelief at the madwoman in front of him as coffee quickly rolled and dripped down from his head and face...
Cheng Ya, unable to bear it any longer, said angrily to Han Wenlei again, "Using coffee to splash a scumbag like you is doing you a favor!!" As soon as she finished speaking, she picked up the hot coffee and iced coffee on the table and threw them all at Han Wenlei!!