Chapter 1825: So Unlucky

Ye Linlin’s face suddenly flushed bright red. “I—I haven’t even said I’m disgusted by you yet.”

“It’s wrong to dislike your big sister. Careful or lightning will strike you.”

Nan Jiaojiao laughed as she pushed the suddenly irritable, about-to-stand-up Ye Linlin back into her chair. “I’m heading off first.”

Ye Linlin opened her mouth, ready to snap back, but Nan Jiaojiao didn’t give her the chance. Yelling at someone’s back would only make her lose face, so she rarely, and with difficulty, held it in.

Shen Bin seemed thoughtful. He smiled slightly and asked, “Linlin, are you and Nan Jiaojiao close?”

“Who’s close with her!”

Ye Linlin’s mouth felt like it had a red‑hot branding iron in it, burning her tongue. “What bad luck!”

“I see you like roughhousing with her, and she’s happy to talk to you. I thought you two were tight in private.”

“Nothing like that!”

Ye Linlin glanced at the cup, and spinelessly leaned in to sniff it. Honestly, she’d never had milk tea this good. The sweetness was tuned just right. She wanted to take a couple more sips, but her pride wouldn’t let her. She just kept holding it, the fragrance drilling straight into her nose.

She suddenly stood up. “I’m going to wash the cup!”

Shen Bin didn’t get to ask what he wanted, his interest fading. He just made a few casual remarks.

That night, at Feisheng.

Nan Jiaojiao went to open the door. Chu Yao stood there with a complete bird’s nest for hair and drooping eyelids, her whole body boneless as she leaned against the doorframe, arms folded. When the wind hit her face as the door opened, she squinted, lifted a hand, and lightly scratched her neck.

Nan Jiaojiao really wanted to pretend she didn’t know her.

“Can you please put a little effort into your appearance?”

“You disgusted by me?”

Chu Yao said, “I’m stunning enough to shake heaven and earth. I look good even without dressing up.”

Nan Jiaojiao simply stepped aside from the doorway.

Chu Yao had just stepped in when she saw a pair of men’s leather shoes placed by the entryway.

She stared at them twice, her drowsiness instantly gone. She shot Nan Jiaojiao a glare. “You little brat, and you didn’t say anything earlier!”

She turned around and left on the spot, like she’d just made some sort of firm decision.

Nan Jiaojiao didn’t even lift her eyelids. Any smart person would’ve seen this coming. Calmly, she put Chu Yao’s pair of slippers in place. The door was left open. She was just about to head to the kitchen when Lu Zhenzhen called her from the study.

“Who was that?”

Nan Jiaojiao set down a cup of warm water. “Chu Yao.”

“How rare, she actually woke up.”

Lu Zhenzhen raised her brows toward the outside. “My assistant will bring over two files in a bit. No need to leave the door open, he’ll knock.”

Nan Jiaojiao nodded, her gaze never landing on the computer.

Bo Yanching was still on the road when Lu Zhenzhen had already gone to the set to pick Nan Jiaojiao up. They’d been home for less than half an hour when Bo Yanching came back carrying two bags of ingredients.

Only then did Lu Zhenzhen ask Bo Yanching to lend her the study to work in.

Before that she’d just been chatting idly with Nan Jiaojiao, waiting for him to get back. No matter how urgent the files were, she couldn’t bring herself to touch his computer without asking.

At the time, Bo Yanching agreed readily. He even said Nan Jiaojiao knew his computer password and could use it however she wanted, then buried himself in the kitchen and never came out.

Nan Jiaojiao had wanted to help, but he washed his hands, picked her up and carried her to the living room, opened some snacks, stuffed the remote into her hand, and told her to entertain herself for a while.

Otherwise, how would Chu Yao’s knocking have been answered so fast? There was only one idle person at home—Nan Jiaojiao—and she was about to be bored to death.

“Interested?”

Nan Jiaojiao was baffled. “In what?”

“Running the company.”

Nan Jiaojiao immediately waved her hands. “I can’t, I don’t want to learn, don’t teach me.”

Lu Zhenzhen hooked an arm around her, not letting her escape, and with a tug pulled her down to sit by her side.