ログインQing Han was on a call. The moment he heard me, he ended it and turned to look at me. Unlike the previous night, the expression on his face was darker. Either he wasn’t in a good mood, or he was mad about something. “Are we in some kind of secret relationship that I don’t know about?” he asked, and my lips quivered. “I don’t know. You tell me,” I said. I was still mad that I couldn’t go about my day in peace. Qing Han scoffed and sat down. “I think you’re forgetting something, Chen Xiu. I’m your boss here. If I call you, you show up, with your mouth shut.” I pursed my lips and looked at him quietly. He was right. He was my boss. But he was making it so hard for me to respect him the way I was supposed to. He must have been satisfied that I didn’t argue back, because he pointed at the seat opposite him. “Sit down.” I wanted to tell him to just say what he wanted to say, but he had just warned me about going against him. So I swallowed my frustration and sat down obediently acro
My heart still felt a little heavy when I went to work in the evening. Tuan Tuan’s question kept bugging me. It was obvious that he respected Qing Han so much. He looked up to him. So I wondered if he would be happy if he ever found out that Qing Han was actually his father. Of course, he had asked me a few times in the past if I loved Mo Xuan. He had wanted Mo Xuan closer to him too. But it was nothing compared to what he felt toward Qing Han. He had known the man for only two days, yet their relationship already seemed stronger than that. The moment I got to work, everyone was cheering for me. I had almost forgotten that I was so famous online. All thanks to Qing Han. “Why didn’t you ever tell us? We didn’t know Qing Han was your husband,” one of my colleagues said. I tried explaining to them that it was a misunderstanding, but none of them believed me for even a second. “If it was a mistake, President Qing would have taken it down already. We know men like him,” someone sai
Tuan Tuan ate all the food I gave him, including the veggies he never liked. I watched quietly, and my heart tightened a bit. “So, do you really like him?” I asked, trying to act normal. Tuan Tuan looked at me briefly, then back at his plate. It was like he was fighting a battle with himself. “I love him, Mama. He’s cool,” he replied after a while. I felt like my heart was being sliced open. Maybe my expression had given me away because he walked toward me and wrapped his arms around me. “But I will always love Mama the best.” I felt a little better and pulled him into my arms. I had always been scared that he would grow up too fast and drift away from me. So for the time I had, I was going to spoil him rotten. “What makes you love Qing Han?” I asked again, probing further. Tuan Tuan thought for a few seconds before sighing. “I don’t know. I just love him.” “But he bullied Mama a while ago. You hated him at first,” I said. He had changed his heart so fast. I knew it was becau
…Hunger woke me up in the morning. Apart from the breakfast we’d had the previous day before going to the mall, I hadn’t eaten anything else. So I wanted to go to the kitchen to make something for us. But since it was still a bit early and I wasn’t going to work until the evening, I decided not to wake Tuan Tuan. On my way to the kitchen, I noticed the food on the dining table. I stopped briefly. It was the food that Qing Han had cooked for Tuan Tuan. My first instinct was to throw the rest away. I didn’t want anything to do with Qing Han in my house. I took a trash bag and walked toward the table. But my stomach grumbled the moment I laid my eyes on the baked chicken. The food was already cold, but it still looked very appetizing. I pursed my lips. I didn’t know that Qing Han was a good cook. I remembered how he had bitten into the meat the previous night, and my stomach grumbled again. I looked behind me carefully to make sure Tuan Tuan hadn’t followed me. Then I picked up o
Qing Han went back to his house late. However, this wasn’t a surprise to anyone. Sometimes, he didn’t even go back at all.What no one knew was that he never saw any reason to do so. In every place he had an office, he also had a bedroom and a washroom.He always believed that as long as he had a few hours of sleep, he would be fine.Just outside the door, he was surprised to see his butler waiting. He furrowed his brows. It was past midnight. Why was the butler still awake?“Did something happen?” he asked, noticing the grave look on the butler’s face.“Um… the old master is here. He has been waiting for a while,” the butler explained.Of course, everyone was afraid of Old Master Qing, especially when he was in a bad mood.Even Qing Han paused for a second. “Did he say what he wanted?” he asked.The butler shook his head. “No,” he said. “But I think it has something to do with everything that’s been going on online.”Qing Han pursed his lips. He had gone too far in his head and forgo
After Qing Han left, I stood by the door and stared into space for a long while. I was starting to get confused with myself. For four years, I had known that I hated that man with everything I had. And when I came back and he started making things difficult for me, that hatred only grew stronger. The previous day, after he forced me to go to that hotel room and then chased me out like I was a dog, a dark thought had crossed my mind.Killing him. Of course, I knew I would never do something like that, but the thought had still crossed my mind. But ever since he defended me earlier today, then kissed me in the parking lot, something inside me had shifted. I knew it wasn’t real. I didn’t even want it to be real. I still needed to hate him. He was going to be my enemy forever. But every time I thought about that first kiss, my heart would skip a beat. I would see his handsome face so close to mine, and my heart would race uncontrollably. That didn’t mean I had stopped hating him. I







