Novel Full “I’ve already eaten.” Ruan Yang sounded a little breathless. “I’m jogging on the mountain.”
“You’re running in such cold weather?” Li Shaobin grumbled, “Why didn’t you invite me along?”
“I also just felt like it.”
Li Shaobin ate alone gloomily for a while when Charlotte came running in with her tail wagging. He fed her a piece of bacon and went to Li Hall after breakfast. It was rare for him to drive so slowly that he got there much later than expected. Hu Zhi was bewildered. “Boss, you’re not as early as before.”
“Mm, I drove slower,” Li Shaobin said with a sigh.
Hu Zhi was stunned. “Why? Don’t you usually drive very quickly?”
“No, it’s safer to drive slower. I am someone with a girlfriend now. I can’t act how I did before.” Li Shaobin opened his hands a little excitedly and a little helplessly, saying, “I have to spare a thought for Ruan Yang. What would happen to her if something untoward happened to me?”
The corners of Hu Zhi’s mouth twitched. He wondered if the Li Family members would faint from anger in the toilet if they heard that. They raised him for decades, but in the end, he only listened to a woman he had just started dating. He could tell that his boss would definitely be a slave to his wife in the future. If he had to curry someone’s favor, he’d better start currying his future wife’s favor. “Boss, you got me to investigate Xin Ziao and I did. Ever since he got married to Zhao Zhu, he’s wielded power in business but he’s been living alone in a villa outside. The Filippino maid working in the Xin Household said Zhao Zhu always acts very virtuously in front of the Xin seniors but turns into a complete lunatic behind their backs, scolding and hitting them. The Filippino maid serving her has been changed several times already.”
“No wonder.” Li Shaobin suddenly understood. “With such a fierce wife at home, I’m afraid Xin Ziao would only think about Ruan Yang more.”
“Yeah. Men are sometimes such douchebags.” Hu Zhi nodded. “Of course, I’m not referring to you. I mean men like Xin Ziao.”
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Li Shaobin drove to Ruan Yang’s apartment in the evening and she happened to be packing. He was puzzled but could quickly guess why she was packing. She had heard her talking about going back to Norway the past few days. “Have you booked your flight ticket to Norway?”
“Yeah, I booked an afternoon flight for tomorrow. The ticket wasn’t really expensive either.” Ruan Yang turned back and said cheekily, “I’m not waiting for you. You can stay at home and wait for me to return.”
Li Shaobin was initially unhappy, but when he heard her say “wait for me to return”, he felt as sweet as honey. He walked over and put his arms around her waist intimately. A small part of the back of her neck was exposed and her skin looked like delicious milk during breakfast. He couldn’t help but suddenly kiss her on the back of her neck.
Ruan Yang froze and turned her head back to glare at him. “What are you doing? Lecher.”
“Ruan Yang, you smell so good.” Li Shaobin broke out into a smile. “Tell me what perfume you use so that I can smell something similar when you’re not around. It would feel like you’re right by my side.”
“I only use typical Lanolin for moisturizing in the winter.” Ruan Yang looked at how silly he was and couldn’t really say anything else. “If you like it, I’ll give you a bottle.”
“Sure.” Li Shaobin hugged her tightly again after saying that.
Ruan Yang was trapped in his embrace and she couldn’t move. Just then, she felt something furry crawling up her leg. She looked down and saw a silly-looking dog that looked a little like a Husky and a little like a Labrador. She could immediately guess that this dog must’ve been borne from Changqing’s Lolita.
“So this is the Charlotte Changqing was talking about.” Ruan Yang broke free from him and picked the little dog up. Charlotte was still far from reaching Robben’s size but she was very heavy, probably because Li Shaobin fed her too well.
“Yeah, isn’t she cute?” Li Shaobin grinned as he asked pamperingly.
Ruan Yang stroked Charlotte’s head. She thought about the trip to Changqing’s house yesterday and the little puppies following behind Robben. They all looked quite pretty. It looked like he had chosen the most odd-looking dog. Forget it. His standard of beauty had always been so peculiar. Besides, the dog wasn’t in the wrong. “She’s alright, pretty cute, and a little silly just like you.”
“What do you mean? How am I silly?” Li Shaobin was unhappy when he heard that.
“What’s bad about being silly?” Ruan Yang put Charlotte in her lap and suddenly lifted her head up to say, “I heard from Changqing that you named her Charlotte because there’s an American model with a big bust called Charlotte. Do you like big busts?”
Li Shaobin was embarrassed. He secretly blamed Changqing for telling her all this nonsense. “Er… about that…”
“I couldn’t tell that you had such a fetish.” Ruan Yang smiled. “It should be easy to find a big-busted woman.”
Li Shaobin scratched the back of his head nervously. His gaze subconsciously fell on her chest. She was wearing a wool sweater today and it made her look very curvy. He mumbled, “Yours are pretty huge too…”
“That means you only like me because I’m big-busted?” Ruan Yang looked straight at him with her dark eyes shining. The smile at the corner of her lips also became accentuated.
“Can you not think of me as such a shallow person?” Li Shaobin said with a glare. “Just like you said, there are many women with big busts. If only I was so shallow. That way, I wouldn’t have been without a girlfriend until now. I just happened to like you and coincidentally, you have large breasts. Say, aren’t I lucky?”
“You’re lucky.” Ruan Yang suddenly pulled his ear. “I will change your issue of liking big-busted women in the future. You better not let me catch you staring at other women’s chests.”
Li Shaobin felt aggrieved. She made him out to be a lecher. “I don’t even do that, but can I look at yours? Ruan Yang, can I touch yours?”
“Stinky gangster.” Ruan Yang pulled hard once again and only let go when she saw him frowning with pain. She turned around as she blushed and walked to the kitchen to prepare for dinner.
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The dishes she made were as plain as before. Li Shaobin didn’t dare to complain and after dinner, he quickly took the initiative to do the dishes and even wiped the table. After he was done, he went over to Ruan Yang to kiss her on the cheek.
Seeing that he was so obedient, Ruan Yang didn’t stop him.
Seeing that, Li Shaobin tried to push his luck. He started to nibble the corner of her lips. When she felt that her lips would swell up if it went on any further, she pushed him away. “Cut it out. Didn’t you invite me to your winery the day before yesterday? I’m free tonight, so shall we go?”
“Sure.” Li Shaobin also wanted her to get to know him better.
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The winery wasn’t very far from where they lived and it also wasn’t in the city center. After parking her car, Ruan Yang saw several expensive cars parked by the winery and she said with admiration, “It looks like your business is doing well.”
“Of course,” Li Shaobin said. “I opened this winery because I saw the potential in this line of business. The visitors are all rich people and they usually spend in the tens to hundreds of thousands, so the monthly profits easily reach tens of millions. Aside from this, I even have chain restaurants and I also have stocks and investments that are all pretty successful.”
Ruan Yang nodded. She had also heard Changqing mention this before. He might look careless but he did have a brain for business and he also knew how to use his contacts very well.
After they entered the winery, Li Shaobin took her straight to his private wine-tasting room. There were several expensive wines kept there. Ruan Yang picked up a bottle casually and asked him, “Do you know a lot about wine?”
“No, I just put them there as a pretense.” Li Shaobin grinned. “You can even swim here. Ruan Yang, shall we swim?”
“Oh, you want to see me in a swimsuit?” Ruan Yang asked as she turned back to look at him with a smile.
Li Shaobin blinked and his gaze moved to her chest subconsciously. “Ruan Yang, you’ll definitely look very sexy in a swimsuit.”
“Dream on. I’m not going to let you see me in a swimsuit,” Ruan Yang said softly by the side of his ear. Li Shaobin could only feel his bones melting. This little vixen was making him turn into a beast all the time. “Then let’s play pool. I heard from Duoyao that you’re very good at pool.”
Ruan Yang walked over to the pool table. She put her hand on it gently and felt a rush of familiarity. “I’ve already lost my memory. Are you trying to make me lose miserably by asking me to play pool?”
“Then I’ll go easy on you.” Li Shaobin pouted.
“Let’s give it a try.” Ruan Yang picked a cue stick. She did play pool in high school before. Although she had no idea how good Li Shaobin was at pool, a game of pool was just like a game of chess. There would always be loopholes.
Li Shaobin had the obvious intention to show-off. When he pocketed two balls after his first ball, he raised his brows. “Aren’t I impressive?”
Ruan Yang completely ignored him. However, he didn’t pocket any balls in his last attempt, so she could roughly guess that he wasn’t very good at angled shots, so she purposely made the cue ball stop in a difficult position every time. She could control her force very well and make the ball stop very accurately. Slowly, Li Shaobin couldn’t find any chances to pocket any balls. He started to become hot-tempered and frustrated. “Ruan Yang, you’re so scheming, just like Old Song. I didn’t even guard against you but you’re so despicable with your defense.”
Ruan Yang said without feeling any pinch, “This isn’t called despicable. In a game of pool, this is called the correct defense. If you can’t pocket a ball, it means your techniques aren’t as good. You can also play defense against me.”
“I’m not as scheming as you are.” Li Shaobin clenched his teeth. His weakness was defense because every centimeter and every inch had to be calculated very accurately and he hated calculations.