Chapter 112 - Your life is scarily dark

He looked so upset with his own behavior that Xiao Lei could not help but laugh out loud. "Fine! Fine! I have forgiven you from the moment you said you'd buy me food!" 

"You know, you should be angrier at me. What if other men do the same thing?" 

She waved her hand around nonchalantly. "Nah, I know you didn't mean it. If other men were to do the same thing, I'd break their bones..." She thought for a second and nodded. "Yup, there were at least two guys who tried to touch me inappropriately that had at least one of fingers broken." 

Han Ye rubbed his waist, which was slightly strained when he fell off the bed earlier. "If I've just met you, I'd have never believed it, but since the day you flipped me over and pinned me on the floor, I knew that you're a crazily strong woman."

He then smiled. As he picked up a piece of beef and placed it in her bowl, he joked, "I think Guangying is wrong. You don't need protection. Others need to be protected from you."

Xiao Lei's reply to him was to stick her tongue out at him.

They started eating, and while they ate, they also chatted. 

"So, are you going to date that Angela woman?" she asked after a while.

He shrugged. "Yeah... I figure I can give her a chance. It's not right for me to judge her based on her past, right? I mean, her ex wasn't anything good either. It's been so long since I last dated, and I don't mind to wait and see for a few more months. Who knows? Maybe there's something else? But of course, I'll still have to be careful."

Xiao Lei nodded. "Yeah. There's darkness hidden within everyone's hearts, even those who look like angels." 

Han Ye was reaching over to pick up some beef when he commented, "You know... Your life is scarily dark."

Xiao Lei laughed. "It's not all that bad. It's just that I'm now more careful with people." 

"But you're just letting me and the guys into your house without any guard..."

"Well, that's cause I know that you..." she caught herself and quickly added, "guys are good people. My instinct is a lot better now." 

Han Ye smiled. He looked at her rough hands and thought about something. "Xiao Lei, what did you do for the past few days?" 

Xiao Lei mentioned the things she did to him before she groaned. "Urgh, I can't wait for Saturday. Zhihao will be back. At least we can do something together." 

Han Ye thought for a while before saying, "You know... My secretary left last month and I've been looking around for her replacement. Would you like to come and work at Du Corporation?"

"I..." Xiao Lei was interested, but when she thought about herself, she looked down at her bowl of half-eaten rice and mumbled, "Sorry... No."

Han Ye felt curious and he looked at her with a brow raised as he asked, "Why not? You don't like working in an office or you don't like me?" 

When she looked up at him, he was smiling at her, but it only caused her face to turn redder. With a small voice, she replied, "No... But... I don't have anything to put in my resume. Not even an identity." 

Han Ye could tell that she was self-conscious, so he reassured her by saying, "In normal circ.u.mstances, I won't even look at you if you don't have a resume, but since you're going to be a surrogate mother for my boss' brother, it's no longer an issue. If I can't trust you to be a simple secretary, how am I to trust you with my boss' nephew?"

Seeing that Xiao Lei did not say anything, Han Ye sighed. 

"Can you read?" he asked.

"Yes."

"Can you use a computer?" 

"Yeah."

"Can you tell time?"

She rolled her eyes at him. "... Yes."

He smiled and reached over to pat her head, which annoyed her. She hissed, "I'm not a child!" 

When he retracted his hand, he faked a cough and said, "Great, you're more than qualified now."

"What?"

He shrugged and continued to eat as he said, "Callum and Guangying told me to look after you, and if you're at the office, I feel better since there are more people around. Besides, I do really need a secretary. It's just that I've been too busy to interview them. The job is quite easy as well. As my secretary, you work for me and only me. And all you have to do is to help me arrange my schedule and meetings. Because I'm out of office quite often, I need someone to help me take down messages as well." 

Xiao Lei thought about his words. If she could prove herself, then maybe after she gave birth, she could still work there. All the money from the surrogacy was for Xiao Zhihao, and she did not want to touch it as long as she could.

With a determined look in her eyes, she nodded. "If you don't mind my lack of formal qualification, then I can do it." 

He smiled. "Great, you can start tomorrow. You... don't have any formal clothes, right?" 

"Yeah... You don't need to wear fancy to clean up houses." 

"Then go and buy something tomorrow morning. I'll settle the security at the company side. You can come tomorrow afternoon. Ziyan is coming in the afternoon to help with system maintenance. You can come with him if you want." 

She nodded.

Suddenly, Han Ye's phone started ringing. He looked at the caller ID and said, "It's Guangying." 

He then walked away to answer the call, "Hey, what's up?"

"Han Ye, I'm at City E with Callum."

Han Ye glanced at his watch and asked, "Isn't he supposed to come back today? Why are you there instead?" 

Luo Guangying sighed and looked at the man sleeping on the bed next to him. As he helped adjust Callum's blanket, he murmured, "Idiot got himself poisoned. Food poisoning, and it's quite bad. We are at the hospital now."

Han Ye gasped, and he went alert. "Is everything alright? Should I tell President Du?"

Luo Guangying shook his head and said, "No, I've sent him a message. It's not that bad, but he's pretty weak at the moment, so he has to stay in the hospital for a few days."

Han Ye glanced at Xiao Lei who was stealing glances. When he caught her, she immediately pretended to look elsewhere. With his voice lowered, he asked, "Does it have anything to do with the shooting?" 

"No. Unlikely. The Shenlong Family had found out and executed the culprit behind the shooting," Luo Guangying said as a matter-of-fact. He did not feel sorry at all for the man who ordered the shooting. Apparently, that man was the leader of a small gang in Imperial City whose group had been destroyed by the Shenlong Family a few years back. 

Even though he managed to build him gang empire in City E, he was still angry at being pushed away like a dog.

Luo Guangying explained to Han Ye, "... As such, he held a grudge toward all the members of the Shenlong Family. When he heard that Callum was here, he thought that he would be an easy target." 

Han Ye scoffed, "I won't even look down on a child from the Shenlong Family, much less a fully grown man. That man deserved to be executed." 

"Yeah, anyway, Callum's food poisoning was..." Luo Guangying pinched his glabella as he said embarrassedly, "The idiot went for mala hotpot yesterday. He probably caught something there."

Hearing that, Han Ye chuckled. "Mala hotpot?!" 

"Yeah, he can't really eat spicy food, but he still forced himself to eat," Luo Guangying said wryly as he glanced at the sleeping man next to him. "Oddly enough, the detective that he went dinner with was fine."

"A ploy?" Han Ye frowned. 

Luo Guangying shrugged. "Not sure. This idiot shouldn't get sick this easily. I suspect that someone did something, so I've sent his blood sample for testing. I'm still waiting for the report." 

"Don't worry about here. I'll take care of Xiao Lei." 

"Yeah, if her..." Luo Guangying cleared his throat before he said, "period arrives, then I'll have to trouble you to take her to the hospital." 

"Alright, don't worry." 

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