Qin Zixin returned home and lay on the bed, unable to believe what had just happened.
She had always been a competent secretary and had never had an affair with her boss outside of work, but... his kissing skills were so superb that she felt so dizzy that she couldn't help but forget to say no.
But maybe... I just can't help it!
Because when Ji Lingtian's lips left hers, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the cold smile in his eyes.
She would always remember his smiling black eyes, looking at her in the darkness, as if she were a prey to be slaughtered, and the smug and confident smile at the corner of his mouth made her even more frightened.
Only now does she know that he is a dangerous man and she cannot be rash...
Qin Zixin shook his head.
Regardless of who he is, the question now is, how will she face him tomorrow? Can she pretend to be nonchalant and go to work as usual? With her limited skills, can she do it?
The answer is obvious, she can't do it.
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After a night of insomnia, Qin Zixin started to feel abnormal as soon as she entered the office. There were only ten people in the meeting, but because she printed an extra zero on the photocopier, she ended up printing a hundred copies of information, and she stood in front of the machine in a daze.
, actually didn’t feel anything at all.
She was worried about what she would do when she saw Ji Lingtian later.
"Good morning, President!"
At this time, the staff's voice wishing him good morning came from the other end of the corridor.
Qin Zixin felt that her heart was about to jump out of her chest.
what to do?
She is at the end of the corridor, and she must meet him...
Trying to calm down, Qin Zixin simply picked up a pile of information and walked quickly through the corridor, hoping to hide in a safe place first. Unfortunately, he was only halfway there when his figure came around the corner. They were destined to meet on a narrow road...
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Qin Zixin gritted her teeth, lowered her head, forced herself to hold the information calmly, and tried to pass him quickly.
Didn't see it, didn't see it, didn't see it...
She kept praying in her heart.
When they passed each other, Qin Zixin smiled out of respect for her boss and said hello, "Good morning, CEO."
Qin Zixin knew that the kiss last night was nothing to Ji Lingtian, but his reaction was still beyond her expectation.
He nodded to her, and then walked past her expressionlessly as before, without even giving her a look.
Qin Zixin was so nervous that she wanted to fly away, but her steps faltered slightly, and then a chill ran through her body from the soles of her feet.
This man's ruthlessness turned out to be far beyond her imagination...
"Secretary Qin." He suddenly stopped and called her.
"Ah?" Qin Zixin, who was silent in her thoughts, suddenly turned around and met his eyes. Unable to avoid embarrassment, she could only hide it with a smile.
"I'm going to have dinner with Nita at noon today. You don't have to make any arrangements for me in the afternoon. We'll talk about business matters when I get back." Ji Lingtian looked at her with nothing unusual in his eyes. He ordered indifferently, as if he wanted to express something deliberately.
.
A smile froze at the corners of her lips, and Qin Zixin nodded.
"Oh, by the way, and I am going to Germany with Linda next week, but it seems that there is a project that needs to be followed up next week. You can ask the vice president to handle it and try to move all my time next week.
Come out." Ji Lingtian said in a formulaic tone, as if what happened last night had never happened.
Nita, Linda... He really has many girlfriends.
Qin Zixin kept smiling and replied, "I understand." Then he turned and walked back to the office.
It was too much. He didn't need to do this and she would understand what he meant.
She knew that he just wanted to have fun, and she also knew that a kiss was nothing in the relationship between men and women in today's society. She didn't think too much about it, but there was no need for him to kiss her just last night when he had already stated that he wanted to be with another woman.
When they had lunch together, he was clearly mocking her for her inexperience and was proud of his superb sexual skills.
Such a man is a bad person!!
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Qin Zixin returned to the office angrily and threw all the over 90 copies of printed materials into the shredder.
"Damn it! Pervert!! If there is a next time, I will definitely sue you for sexual harassment!!" Wait, there won't be a next time, how could she give him another chance?
"Do you think you are proud of playing tricks like this? You think you are a great lover, but in fact you are just a perverted playboy..." Qin Zixin shredded the information while putting it into the shredder.
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noon.
Beep...beep...
The fax machine next to me also beeps the transmission signal.
It wasn't until more than ninety documents had been destroyed that Qin Zixin turned around and picked up the document that had just been sent over.
"Uh, weird...what is this?"
Qin Zixin looked at the fax and found a shocking line of words on it——
Reveal the true life experience of the mysterious CEO! The prince charming who was abandoned by his parents!
Looking further down, she saw that the dense text and every word made her chest feel tight——
The dream lover of women across the country, the president of the "Lingtian" Group, was abandoned by his parents when he was a child. It is understood that Ji Lingtian was born in New York to a wealthy family. His parents divorced and he was sentenced to his father. However, because his father only loved his younger brother,
His younger brother was sentenced to his mother, and his father became dissatisfied with him in every possible way, and finally kicked Ji Lingtian out of the house... After that, Ji Lingtian became poor and destitute, and lived a life of wandering until he was hired by the Ji family, the predecessor of the "Lingtian" Group.
'Industrial Group...
Qin Zixin's hands trembled slightly as she held the fax paper, unable to believe the shocking news...
She knew that he might be an orphan, but she didn't expect that he was not an orphan in the true sense. He had a father and a mother, and he grew up in a wealthy family. However, he was abandoned by his parents and became single now...
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No wonder his life experience has always been a mystery, and no wonder he doesn't want to mention it to anyone.
Waves of throbbing pain came from the deepest part of her heart. She couldn't believe that he had ever experienced such an experience. It seemed too cruel for God to treat a person like this...
She originally thought that her life was unfortunate enough, but she suddenly felt that she was much luckier than him. At least, she still had a mother who loved her even though she was insane, and he was a relative who was close to him in this world.
None...
Bell—ring…
The harsh ringtone of the phone rang, cutting through the almost suffocating heaviness.
Qin Zixin answered the call, but before she could say anything, a deep and strange man's voice came from the other end of the phone -
"Did you receive the fax?" The man spoke Chinese, which is difficult to pronounce from abroad, and seemed to be deliberately suppressing a threatening smile.
Qin Zixin held the phone, her heart sinking, and finally realized that things were not simple.
"You...who are you?" she asked.
The other party seemed stunned for a moment. He thought the person who answered the phone would be Ji Lingtian, but he didn't expect it to be a delicate woman.
"Ask Ji Lingtian to answer the phone." The man shouted into the phone.
"He is in a meeting. I am his secretary. If you have anything to say to me, I will tell him." Qin Zixin took a deep breath and regained her composure.
"Secretary?" The other party paused for a while and then said, "Okay, have you seen the fax? The media must be very interested in such breaking news, right?"
Qin Zixin felt a chill in her heart, "What do you want?"
"What do you want? Tell Ji Lingtian that if he doesn't want his sad life experience to be exposed, he can transfer 10 million to my account immediately, otherwise it will become the front page of every major news page tomorrow."
Ten million? This... is clearly extortion!
"Sir, what you're doing is so immoral, aren't you afraid that we'll call the police?" Qin Zixin said trying her best to stay calm.
"Immoral? Miss Secretary, I just want money, others are waiting to see his good show!" The man sneered, "It is said that this news was released by his biological brother. His brother obviously wanted to discredit him.
...I don’t want to participate in the overt and covert fights between the rich people. I just want money and ask your boss to prepare the money quickly, otherwise, I will be ruined!"
"Give me three minutes and I'll get back to you right away."
"Okay, Secretary, hurry up, I don't have any patience."
Qin Zixin quickly ended the call and then called Ji Lingtian.
However, Ji Lingtian's cell phone could not be reached.
Qin Zixin couldn't help cursing in his heart...
Damn man, how long has it been since he still had the leisure to meet women, he will soon be "in ruins".
what to do?
She didn’t even know where he and Nita were going to eat at noon...
Just when Qin Zixin was at a loss, the phone rang again.
The other party had obviously lost his patience and shouted, "Secretary, what did your boss say? I'm in front of the fax machine now. If you don't remit the money within half an hour, I will have to let this matter be reported to the newspaper."
"No! Wait a minute..." Qin Zixin shouted anxiously, "To tell you the truth, I can't contact my boss right now. Can you be accommodating? I'll give you three hundred thousand first, and you can give me one more
Hours, one hour later, I'll ask my boss to contact you."
The other party thought for a while and finally agreed, "Okay, if you don't let Ji Lingtian transfer the money to me within an hour, don't blame me for being rude."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Zixin picked up her bag and hurried out of the office.
"Hey, Secretary Qin, don't you have something else to do this afternoon?" the receptionist asked.
"Well, I'll be back in a minute." Qin Zixin walked out of the company in a panic.
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As Qin Zixin walked out of the company, she called her friend.
After hearing Qin Zixin retelling the whole incident, his friend cursed, "Are you crazy? Are you asking me to borrow money to help your boss handle this matter?"
"Ruoying, you don't know how serious the situation is... I really need your 100,000 yuan now. I have 200,000 yuan myself. I can help him spare an hour... I will find him within this hour.
, he will definitely return the money to us when the time comes..."
"What if he doesn't pay it back?"
"No, he is so rich, he doesn't care about the 300,000 yuan at all..."
"Miss, what's wrong with you?" Ruoying was cursing over there, "Who is Ji Lingtian to you, and you want you to run and worry about him like this? Don't tell me that you really like him?"
"You're overthinking it. Helping people is something I've always loved to do..."
"But you use your own money to help him... You are usually the most fussy about money!"
"He will pay me back... quickly send me the money, I don't have much time..."
Ruoying sighed, "My dear, please don't end up losing both your life and property because of him..."
Qin Zixin laughed and said, "No way...how could it be..."
"Okay, I'll give you the money now."
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After giving the money to the blackmailer, Qin Zixin managed to get an hour, and continued to contact Ji Lingtian like crazy.
However, Ji Lingtian's phone call still couldn't be reached, and his whereabouts suddenly seemed to disappear...
Qin Zixin even went to several hotels where Ji Lingtian usually invited his "girlfriend" to go, but in the end he still couldn't find him...
Time passed by minute by minute, and seeing that one hour was almost up, Qin Zixin sat on the bench by the roadside in a daze, feeling inexplicably heavy and worried.
Gradually, her eyes became moist...
On a gloomy day, it began to rain heavily...
Qin Zixin sat on the roadside, sobbing as if she couldn't feel the pain of the raindrops hitting her face.
suddenly...
An expensive black car stopped in front of her.
She slowly raised her eyes, which were wet with tears or rain, and looked at the tall figure walking out of the car at this moment.
It's Ji Lingtian.
He stood under the rain curtain and looked at her, who was all wet and miserable.
Suddenly, he took off his suit jacket, wrapped it around her who was already shivering, picked her up, and stuffed her straight into the car.
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In the car, with the warm air on, Qin Zixin, who no longer felt cold, turned to look at Ji Lingtian who was driving the car next to her, "You have to pay me back 300,000 yuan. That's all my money, and some of it was given to me by me."
Borrowed it from a friend.”
Ji Lingtian said expressionlessly, "Why are you so stupid... A blackmail call can make you panic."
"How did I know that that person had already revealed the information to the media, and then wanted to take money from you, and those media did not dare to report on your matter at all, and had already tipped you off..."
Ji Lingtian turned his head and looked at Qin Zixin with wet hair draped over his shoulders, looking a bit pitiful and cute. He chuckled and looked forward again, with an arrogant smile at the corner of his mouth, "If I were so casual
How could I get to where I am today just because I let others plot against me?"
"Yes, you are awesome, I'm just worried." Qin Zixin said angrily.
Ji Lingtian still smiled.
The atmosphere was quiet for a while, and Qin Zixin frowned suddenly, "This road doesn't seem to be the way back to the company."
"Well, we won't go back to the company."
"You're not going back to the company?" Qin Zixin's body trembled, "Then where are you going?"
Ji Lingtian turned around and glanced at the tall buildings outside the car window, "We're here."
Qin Zixin looked over and immediately took a breath.
What? An “Intercontinental” hotel?
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Qin Zixin was "brought" into the room of this high-end hotel by Ji Lingtian.
"You...what do you want to do?"
At this moment, Qin Zixin, who was imprisoned between the wall and Ji Lingtian, crossed her arms in front of her wet clothes and bit her lip nervously.
Ji Lingtian put his hands on both sides of Qin Zixin's body, restraining her, his deep black eyes locked on her beautiful eyes that were even more clear and translucent after being wet by the rain, "Just...why were you crying?"
"ah?"
Ji Lingtian breathed closer, "Truth."
Only then did Qin Zixin react and spit out the truth, "Because you and I had the same miserable childhood... Your mother doesn't want you, and my father doesn't want me. Your father ignores you and even abandons you.
My mother was also mentally disturbed because she missed my father, and was unable to give me a normal childhood... So, I can understand your feelings."
Ji Lingtian narrowed his eyes suddenly and asked, "Are you worried about me?"
"Just sympathy."
"Do you sympathize with me?"
"I feel sorry for myself too."
"Why give all your money to help me?"
"I'm always willing to help others."
"Are you angry this morning?"
"It's inexplicable. Why am I angry?"
Ji Lingtian gently held Qin Zixin's beautiful chin, "You have it."
"I don't."
"I see you are lost..."
"I didn't..."
Warm lips suddenly covered her red lips, and his gentle palms clasped the back of her head, swallowing up what she wanted to say.