Under the Surface: School Beauty, Go Ahead and Scream!

Cheng Tianxiao stood before the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows on the 88th floor of the Superdream AI headquarters, looking down at the Huashang company's negotiation team, trembling nervously below. The torrential rain traced winding paths across the tempered glass, just like the ink blurred by tears on the math homework Lin Xiaoxi, the school belle, had torn to shreds in front of everyone ten years ago. He had specifically requested that the female manager named Lin Xiaoxi handle the negotiations.

The school belle, once adored by everyone, wore an outdated suit and was busy organizing the meeting documents with her head bowed. Her fair, smooth neck seemed to proclaim the last vestige of her pride as the school belle. Cheng Tianxiao deliberately let his fountain pen roll to the floor. As she bent down, the outline of cheap underwear showing beneath her taut blouse overlapped perfectly on his retina with the image of the arrogant girl she had once been. When she handed him her business card with a formulaic smile, Cheng Tianxiao pressed his thumb hard over the three characters in her name, "Lin Xiaoxi." The humiliation from ten years ago flared in his memory: forced to kneel on the tiled floor of the women's restroom as onlookers laughed and held up their phones, while she leaned against the doorframe, playing with her Swarovski bracelet...

On the night he finally revealed the truth, rain poured down. Cheng Tianxiao pinned Lin Xiaoxi against the smart glass wall of the CEO's office. The climate control system sensed his temperature spike, and the glass instantly turned cloudy, taking on an intimate frosted texture. "Should I call you Manager Lin now, or..." His fingertips traced the curves of her trembling body. On their wedding night, he had torn open her silk nightgown and whispered against her snow-white body, "When you pulled my shorts down in the women's restroom back then, did you ever think you'd end up on your knees begging me to invest?" Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, the city's neon lights shattered into brilliant stardust amid their interwoven reflections.