Proud and aloof, with a hidden soft side, the big shot vs. stoic and oblivious, a nobody who insists on toughing it out
[Sweet romance + CEO + happy ending]
“Here.”
Lin Zimian looked at the cane in her hand, caught between laughter and tears.
“If that brat doesn’t get punished today, he can forget about going to bed!”
Fu Jichen kept his head bowed and said nothing, standing ramrod straight.
All right, then.
Sorry, former boss. Your dad told me to hit you. I don’t have much choice.
o(*////▽////*)q
A while later.
Fu Jichen lifted his head, grinning with wild abandon.
“Feel better?”
“You…”
“Why bother asking for a promotion? Wouldn’t it be better if I made Xingchen the undisputed number one in the industry and gave it to you?”
Before she knew it, his arms were wrapped around her.
His voice was low, unbearably tender.
His broad palm rested on her waist. When its warmth reached her, her heart skipped a beat.
“Ahem…” Lin Zimian blushed. “That’s not what I meant.”
Lin Zimian always thought of herself as an obscure nobody, until she jumped ship to work for the archrival of Fu Jichen, the industry’s biggest name.
The little troublemaker he’d secretly protected for three years had suddenly vanished from his sight, and Fu Jichen was furious.
She’d had a crush on him for three years and talked about him behind his back for three years. Lin Zimian never imagined that one day Fu Jichen would kneel in front of her and let her beat him to her heart’s content…
