“Are you guys done talking?” Shen Qi cut them off rudely while scanning the crowd with a cold stare. “I believe my affairs are irrelevant to all of you, don’t you think so?”
“Why are you acting so high and mighty? Aren’t you just acting like this just because Young Master Ye and Vice President Ye fancy you? We were all colleagues previously, so don’t you think you are going overboard with your behavior?”
“That’s right, you are merely reinstated; why are you so proud of yourself? You might get a demotion soon anyway. After all, Young Master Ye and Vice President Ye would get married sooner or later, and a person who has no social status, like you, would never marry into the Ye family as their Young Lady. Hmph!”
They turned away and left after hissing at Shen Qi in anger.
Shen Qi was left alone while she stood rooted to the spot, and she stared unseeingly at the empty spot where her desk used to be.
She didn’t leave when Ye Linhan transferred her, and she didn’t even meet him when he sent his subordinate to invite her.
Who would have thought that Ye Moxuan would send his staff to shift her desk the moment he reinstated her position? He must be determined to stop me from working in this department.
Both of them function in such different ways.
In the end, Shen Qi had no choice but to leave the department.
Those who were gossiping about her just now remarked scathingly, “Just you guys wait; people like her would be kicked out of Ye Group sooner or later.”
“That’s right, it’s useless for her to act all high and mighty. If she really has the capability, she should just claim her position as the Young Lady of the Ye family. If she doesn’t have that potential, she’d be kicked out of the game in the end anyway.”
Shen Qi arrived at the top floor, and she was back to the familiar place once again.
She was positioned here when she just arrived at this company, and so she was rather familiar with every inch of the space.
The office was dead silent, and it was obvious that Ye Moxuan had not returned. The night has passed, but he has yet to return.
Shen Qi took her seat while staring at the computer screen in front of her.
If I had a choice, I’d rather I didn’t have a heart to feel these emotions.
She was confused because she was not even sure why she was in love with Ye Moxuan.
Could it be because… when everybody was mocking me in the mall while looking down on me, Ye Moxuan was the only one who extended me a helping hand? He questioned and demanded for the culprit who pushed me, and he even handed me the contract for the mall to me in front of everyone.
Or was it because when Lu Xunchang tried to take advantage of me, Ye Moxuan refused to collaborate with him immediately, and he even crippled him?
We haven’t been together for a very long time, but looking back, so many things have already happened.
Just when she was lost in her thoughts, the elevator door opened with a ding, pulling Shen Qi back to reality. She then saw Xiao Su pushing Ye Moxuan out of the elevator.
The both of them had not slept for the entire night, and there were clear, dark circles around their eyes.
Shen Qi hesitated before standing up.
Ye Moxuan seemed as if he wasn’t expecting to see her here. He realized with a start when he noticed the desk in front of her, and so he commented with a smirk, “You’ve done well.”
“So it is true that you were the one who instructed them to shift my things here.”
Xiao Su knew that they had things to discuss, and so he pushed Ye Moxuan to Shen Qi’s front before taking his leave. “Young Master Ye, I’ll be off to complete my work.”
Xiao Su turned around to enter the elevator before waiting for a reply, and he was gone within seconds.
Shen Qi sneered in silence when she witnessed that. He escaped rather quickly.
“If I hadn’t shifted your things, would you have come up here obediently?” Ye Moxuan glanced at her briefly before rolling his wheelchair toward his office.
Shen Qi pursed her ruby red lips when she heard that before marching after him and entering his office.
“You didn’t have to ask them to shift my things forcefully, did you? All these things belong to that department; now that you’ve moved everything up here, then—”
“You don’t have to worry about anything else. You just have to be my secretary obediently.”
Shen Qi countered, “I do not wish to be your secretary.”
Ye Moxuan positioned himself in front of the office desk and switched his laptop on before speaking with a cold voice.
“I am informing you; I’m not asking for your permission.”
He was overbearing and too dominant, and at that moment, Shen Qi hated his guts with a vengeance.
“Ye Moxuan, do you think that I have to obey whatever you say? And that I have to follow your orders no matter what it involves?”
Ye Moxuan looked up lazily at her before stating, “I thought that you knew your fate the moment you married into the Ye family.”
“Does that include being abandoned by you at home?” questioned Shen Qi sternly and loudly.
Ye Moxuan was stunned to silence, and he scowled deeply.
“Repeat what you just said.”
“What did you say last night right before you left? You told me to wait for you to come home.” Shen Qi’s lips were curled into a bitter smile, and her eyes were cold and distant. “I waited for you the entire night. Where did you go? You didn’t even phone me, and now that you are back, you forcefully shifted my things up here. Yes, I replaced my younger sister to marry into the Ye family, but that doesn’t mean that I am your slave, who you can order around.”
She delivered her speech while blinded by rage, and afterward, Shen Qi immediately realized that she was excessively rude.
She sounded as though she was jealous while complaining that he had not returned last night.
She sounded just like a resentful wife.
True enough, Ye Moxuan’s brows knitted even tighter, and he squinted at her dangerously. “Are you angry at me for not coming back home for the entire night and neglecting you?”
Shen Qi inhaled deeply while remaining tight-lipped.
“Ha!” Ye Moxuan chuckled softly, and a trace of glee glimmered in his eyes. “Miss Second-marriage, were you feeling lonely?”
He rolled his wheelchair toward Shen Qi and said, “Last night—”
“Stop bringing up last night!” Shen Qi bellowed at him. She took a step backward hastily when she saw him moving toward her. “Don’t you come near me too!”
Ye Moxuan stopped dead in his tracks on his wheelchair, and he stared at her in disdain.
“What exactly are you trying to say?”
Shen Qi pondered for a while and clenched her fists tightly. “I hope that… you will set me free.”
She looked up at Ye Moxuan, who was now glaring at her unblinkingly. “We aren’t a true couple anyway, and we will be getting a divorce sooner or later. So why don’t we just act like a divorced couple now? I would still work in my department, and we can act as if yesterday and today never happened.”
With that, Shen Qi turned around and prepared to leave his office.
“Stay right there.”
Shen Qi came to a halt before turning around to look at him.
“Is this not allowed as well?”
Ye Moxuan shot daggers at her, and his eyes stared at her searchingly. “It seems that you are truly unhappy with me for neglecting you last night. Miss Second-marriage, I really had something important to attend to last night,” explained Ye Moxuan in an eerie tone.
When Shen Qi heard that, she blurted without thinking things through, “What was so important? Can you tell me about it?”
Ye Moxuan paused for a bit before answering, “I was looking for someone.”
“Looking for someone? Who were you looking for?” Shen Qi took the chance to question him further.
Ye Moxuan narrowed his eyes at her menacingly. “You shouldn’t ask such questions.”
Shen Qi hesitated before raising her voice. “That’s right, I shouldn’t have asked that. Since when do I have the right to ask about matters which involve you, Ye Moxuan? From today onward, you should stop meddling in my affairs as well.”
She was fuming by the end of her speech!
Ye Moxuan looked as though he was reminded of something when he saw her so furious. His lips curled into a gleeful smile, and he reached out suddenly to pull Shen Qi into his embrace. He then lifted her chin between his fingers before asking in a seductive voice, “Miss Second-marriage, are you jealous?”
