Chapter 196 - It's almost 3 a.m.

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Xiao Lei was sleeping at night when her phone rang. At first, she was going to ignore it, but by the fifth ring, she finally opened her eyes before dragging herself over to the desk, where she kept her mobile phone on. 

"Yes?" she asked groggily. She was just dreaming about eating Japanese food with her son and her husband when the call disrupted her sweet dream. "It's almost 3 a.m. Whoever this is, someone better be in a serious trouble..." 

"Hi, Ms. Xiao. This is Head Manager Han..."

Xiao Lei pulled her phone away from her ear and looked at the unknown numbers. A few seconds later, she put it back to her ear and asked in an uncertain voice, "Head Manager Han?" 

"From Hotel W."

"Oh yeah!" A handsome, rugged face with a polite smile formed in her mind. She scratched her sleepy eyes gently as she asked, "Is there anything wrong, Head Manager Han? It's quite late at night." 

"Can you please come down and pick Mr. Han? I'd call for Mr. Lu, but according to the guard, he has a female friend over apparently, and I'm not allowed to go up without a tenant," Head Manager Han said with an indifferent tone. He looked at Han Ye before adding in an annoyed manner, "A sober tenant." 

"What's wrong with Han Ye? Is he hurt?" Xiao Lei asked nervously as she sat back down on her bed. "He's not hurt, is he?" 

"He's just stupidly drunk..." Head Manager Han knew that Han Ye had a tendency to do something stupid when he was drunk, but it was the first time he had seen the extent of Han Ye's alcohol-induced stupidity. 

There was a short silence before Xiao Lei sighed loudly. She swore she heard some off-pitch singing in the background. "Give me 5 minutes. I'll get changed and go down as soon as possible."

5 minutes later,  Xiao Lei was at the lobby staring at Han Ye. True to Head Manager Han's words, Han Ye was stupidly drunk... extremely stupidly drunk. 

She watched as Han Ye sang at the top of his lungs while laying down on the lobby couch.

"My heart will go on~" Han Ye sang in a dramatic manner to his own reflection on the window. "Drink ah!!! Where's my alcohol?!" 

"Ms. Xiao, he-" Head Manager Han was about to say something but Xiao Lei put her palm up to signal him to be quiet. 

She then took out her phone and pointed it at Han Ye. "I need to take this for future blackmail material."

Head Manager Han sighed while watching her as she moved around while trying to get good shots of her boss. He then said, "I prefer to sleep alone, and his singing is too horrible."

"I'll bring him up," Xiao Lei said once she was happy with her blackmail materials. She then went over to Han Ye and snapped, "Stupid boss!" 

"Xiao Lei!" Han Ye smiled when he saw her. He then placed his arm around her shoulders as he smirked. "Xiao Lei, my dear little secretary... Want to hear me sing? London bridge--"

"No!" she answered abruptly as she covered his mouth. "For everyone's sake, please stop singing!"

"Bft I waft two singf," he said while having his mouth muffled. 

"No! Shut up or I'll leave you out here to freeze to death!" 

Upon hearing her threat, Han Ye nodded quickly while showing her a sad expression. 

Once she was sure that he had understood her, she pulled her hand away from his mouth and slowly dragged him toward Head Manager Han. "I'll take care of your little brother, Head Manager Man. Don't worry about it."

"He... told you?"

"He's a blabbermouth."

"I know." Xiao Lei sighed.  

"Did you guys have a good talk?" she asked, having a feeling that the only reason why Han Ye would go and bother Head Manager Han was that he had something to talk to the man about.

"Well, he had a good one, I supposed. Anyway, it's late now. Sorry to bother you about this, Ms. Xiao."

Xiao Lei waved her hand nonchalantly as she said, "Don't worry about it. I'm his secretary anyway... and I'm going to make him pay for this." 

Head Manager Han placed a set of keys in her hand before saying, "This belongs to Han Ye. One of them should be the keys to his apartment." 

Xiao Lei nodded. "It's fine. I know his password."

"You do?" 

Xiao Lei shrugged. "He's not very careful."

She accidentally saw the combination once when he was unlocking the door. 

"Then I'll leave him in your capable hands, Ms. Xiao. If he tries to do anything, just smack him on the head." 

Xiao Lei smiled. "I'm very capable of taking care of perverts, sober or not. I'll see you soon, Head Manager Han." 

Head Manager Han nodded and turned to leave. However, before he left, he suddenly turned back to look at her and said, "He's heartbroken. So if you want to hurt him, at least do it a little gently."

With that said, he just walked away. 

"Did he... tell me to be nicer to Han Ye?" Xiao Lei thought as she watched Head Manager Han walk out of the lobby door. "He's definitely not against Han Ye as his younger brother..." 

Seeing that Lu Ziyan's attention might be occupied, Xiao Lei took Han Ye back to her apartment instead. It was a good thing that she was quite strong, or she would have collapsed under his dead weight. 

As she placed him on the bed in the guest room, she mumbled, "I must be the world's best secretary. I mean, who the heck looks after their boss in the middle of the night? Well..."

She stopped for a moment before continuing, "I guess some people do sleep with their boss, and that it would be normal for them to take care of their boss..." 

She then glanced at Han Ye's reddened face and sneered, "But I'm not sleeping with you! Why am I doing this?!" 

She kept grumbling, but she still took care of him by taking off his sweaty shirt and wiping his hot body with a wet towel. As she wiped his chest, she gulped and blushed slightly. "Damn it... A boss shouldn't be this hot..." 

She shook her head and threw the wet towel aside before covering Han Ye's body with the blanket. 

"Xiao Lei..." Han Ye mumbled, "You jerk."

"I'm a jerk?" Xiao Lei stood next to the bed akimbo. "I'm not the one who scolded another person without even knowing the full facts of the matter."

Han Ye turned to his side as he mumbled, "I don't... like you..." 

"Well, I don't like you either..."

"Why did you... barge into my life?" 

"Excuse me, you and your friends barged into mine!" 

Han Ye hugged the blanket in his arms as he mumbled, "I... don't like... what I'm... feeling for you..." 

Xiao Lei was stunned by his words and her eyes went wide open. "Feeling... for me?" 

She stared at him for a while. After that, she sat at the side of the bed and looked at him with a serious expression. "Han Ye, what are you saying?" 

He mumbled something inaudible. 

"Huh? What did you say?" When Xiao Lei leaned in closer to listen better, she was suddenly pulled down to his chest. 

With only the blanket between them, Xiao Lei's heart could not help but beat faster. "Han Ye..." 

He groaned and turned over, pulling Xiao Lei with him. In the process, the blanket moved down a little, thus exposing Han Ye's chest.

As Xiao Lei was lying in his arms, unsure of what to do, she noticed that Han Ye had some light hair spread around his chest. "I can't believe he actually managed to grow some chest hair."

She thought about the time when she first saw Han Ye's chest. 

...

When Little Fan Wushuang was nine, Little Han Ye and Little Wu Yuexue went to her house for a sleepover in celebration of the end-of-term examination. 

President Fan, as well as her own parents, barred them from swimming at night. When they came over in the evening for the sleepover, President Fan had explicitly warned them against going to certain areas of the house, and Little Fan Wushuang had sworn not to get into any mischief for tonight. 

But a few hours after midnight, Little Fan Wushuang suddenly woke up and jumped onto Little Wu Yuexue's bed.

Little Wu Yuexue was scared and she screamed, "Arg---"

Her scream was muffled by a pair of small hands, followed by a quick whisper, "Let's go for a swim!" 

"Ngh! Your dad..."

"It's fine! We are good swimmers anyway! If anything, there's the alarm bell!" Little Fan Wushuang whispered. "Come on! Let's go! It's rare that Han Ye gets to come for a sleepover, we shouldn't waste it!" 

Little Wu Yuexue pulled Little Fan Wushuang's hands away from her mouth before whispering, "Your dad would kill us!"

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