Chapter 196 - Can we terminate our partnership?

"Mai Yuerui, my dear, should I clean Xianwang's room for you?" Yan Fengren asked.

Yuerui was shocked to hear Mrs. Kong's suggestion.

She didn't know how to react.

'They are really very progressive minded.' Mai Yuerui thought in her mind.

Seeing her confused and shocked face Yan Fengren understood her mind so she added, "Or you can stay in the guest room if you want."

"What are you saying, Mom. Of course, she will stay in my room, with me." Xianwang said as he looked at Yuerui with a teasing expression.

"No… No… No… I'll stay in the guest room." Yuerui immediately replied and gave a deathly glare to Xianwang.

"Okay, then. I'll have the guest room cleaned." Yan Fengren said with a smile before leaving.

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"You are going to be my wife tomorrow; you have to share a room with me from tomorrow. So why are you being so coy now?" Xianwang leaned towards Yuerui and whispered in her ears.

Yuerui immediately scooted away from him and gave him a deathly glare.

"Don't you dare… think anything improper. We have a deal. Don't forget that." Mai Yuerui replied to him in low voice.

Xianwang leaned towards her and rested his chin on his palm. Then, gave her a mischievous smile.

'What will I do with this guy?' Mai Yuerui sighed inwardly.

She was about to tell him something but Xingtian suddenly came.

"Sister Yuerui, your room is cleaned."

"Please just call me Yuerui." Yuerui said to Xingtian.

"It feels a little awkward to hear her calling me sister Yuerui." Yuerui thought.

"If I don't call you that then Mom is going to kill me." Xingtian said.

"Then not at least in the office. Or people are going to suspect."

"Are you two going to have those secret office romances?" Xingtian became excited as she asked them curiously.

"No… no… no…" Yuerui immediately denied.

"Heh… As if I don't know. You don't have to deny." Xingtian said.

"No seriously." Yuerui tried to act innocently.

"I am so happy to have my sister-in-law in the office. We both can gossip behind my brother together." Xingtian said as she hugged Yuerui.

"You won't mind if I talk bad about my brother, right?" Xingtian asked.

"Of course, not." Yuerui shook her heard.

"You two are already doing this in front of me." Xianwang interrupted them with a blank expression.

"Oh, you were already here? I didn't see you." Xingtian completely ignored her brother's existence.

"You, brat! Just wait how I teach you a lesson later."

Mai Yuerui laughed to see their bickering. It's like her and Mai Yirong's bickering.

"Okay, My sweet sister-in-law let's go to sleep." Xingtian said to Yuerui as he she led her to her room.

"Good Night, my future wife." Xianwang loudly greeted her good night.

Yuerui immediately looked back at him in panic and gestured him with her face to not do this as she left.

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After Mai Yuerui left Xianwang's phone suddenly rang. He picked up his phone and found that it was Si ying.

"Hmm." He said as he received the phone.

"I have asked our people." Si ying said in a serious tone.

Suddenly the light smiling face of Xianwang turned into an ugly expression.

"So, what did they say?" he asked calmly.

"There were no outsiders that visited the Mai family today, except…" Si ying hesitated a little.

"Except?" Xianwang asked.

Si ying sighed a little and replied," Han Yefang."

"Mmm… Okay. Good work." Saying these words Xianwang cut the phone call.

After Mai Yuerui disappeared suddenly during lunch, Xianwang became anxious for her safety. Even though she told him that she was okay, he still needed to make sure that she was fine. So, he called Si ying to figure out where Mai Yuerui went.

After his men informed him that Mai Yuerui was in the Mai Villa he finally took a breath of relief. After that his men were told to keep an eye on the villa. He knows that her parents won't just drag her back for no reason.

And now it seems their reason has become clear to him.

But Xianwang is not aware of what Mai Yuerui is thinking.

She clearly rejected him during lunch. But suddenly she proposed him to get married. Is it because of Han Yefang?

Deep down Kong Xianwang has a realization that Mai Yuerui agreed to his contract because of Han Yefang. Is she also doing this because of him? Does he really have that much influence on her?

Xianwang does not know how to react. He feels jealous and also anger. But he has no right to be angry with Yuerui. Even though they are getting married the next day but there is no real feelings between them at least not from Mai Yuerui's side. And she never promised her love for him. So, how can he blame her?

All Xianwang had to do was bury his anger and suffer with it.

As Xianwang was busy in his thought he suddenly thought of something.

He stood up from his seat and rushed to his parent's room.

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When Xianwang reached the room he saw that There was only his father in the room, reading some papers. His mother was with Xingtian and Mai Yuerui.

It's good that there was only his father in the room. He had to talk with him about business.

"Dad…" he asked.

"Yes, Xianwang. Do you need anything?" Kong Aobing asked.

"I wanted to talk with you about work."

"Is it urgent?"

"It's complicated a little."

"What is it?" Kong Aobing asked him worriedly.

"Dad, can we terminate our partnership with the Han?"

Even though Kong Xianwang is the CEO of the company and he has the right to make any decisions but his father is the owner of the company. So he has to be accountable for his decisions to his father. He can't just make any decision because of his own interest.

"Why are you asking this suddenly?" his father asked.

"Umm… there is no particular reason, Dad." He can't just admit to his father that he is jealous of him.

"I don't know why you are asking it. But we are doing a governmental project with them. With can't just simply terminate our partnership with them. If we were doing any non-governmental project then we could do that and just pay the penalty. But in this case governmental interest is involved. So I am afraid we have to stick with them until the project is completed." Kong Aobing explained the situation to his son.

"I see. I am sorry Dad. I didn't think it thoroughly." Xianwang apologized to his father before leaving the room.

'I am really thinking too much. I should trust in myself and my love for her.' Xianwang thought.

"I should think of other thing." He said.

Suddenly he put out his phone and dialed a number.

"Si ying, I want you to find information about the 'Shu' group."