Strike Back, Proud Goddess!

Tang Xi chuckled and said, “I’m making a very reasonable guess.” Suddenly, she stopped and exclaimed, “Oh, I left my hat and mask outside!”

Qiao Liang frowned and looked down at the pretty girl, asking, “Why do you need them?”

Was it shameful to go out with him?

Qiao Liang frowned again at the thought. He stopped and looked at her seriously. “Are you ashamed of being together with me?”

Tang Xi pursed her lips as she returned Qiao Liang’s gaze and with a shake of her head, replied, “Of course not. How could I feel that way?” But then she hesitated and glanced at Qiao Liang before continuing, “Well, I don’t know… I don’t know what happened to my face. It’ll change from time to time, so I don’t dare to show up in public carelessly now.”

Seeing Qiao Liang still scowling at her, Tang Xi suddenly thought of something and stared at Qiao Liang as she cried out, “Don’t you tell me you didn’t notice any change in me!!!!!”

If he really hadn’t noticed, she would be very angry! Very, very angry!

Qiao Liang recalled how she had looked the first time he saw her, and then the second time. Although only a month had passed, she had become more beautiful than when he had seen her at her school. He rubbed her hair and replied, “I can’t see any difference. No matter how much you change, you’ll always be my Xixi.”

Tang Xi wanted to be angry, but all of her anger disappeared automatically when she heard his words. She held his arm affectionately and whispered, “But others don’t think this way. Please.”

Qiao Liang would surely agree to any of her requests. He nodded and asked her to wait for a while in the office while he went find a hat and mask for her. Then he opened the door only to see Xiao Jing standing there holding the mask and hat. Xiao Jing raised his eyebrows and asked him, “My sister has left?”

Qiao Liang felt a bit uncomfortable upon hearing him call Tang Xi sister. After he married Xixi, would he have to call this guy his elder brother?

Qiao Liang’s brain began to search for information on the Qiao Family to see if he had a younger cousin sister. If he introduced a younger cousin sister to Xiao Jing, then the latter would have to call him elder brother… However, when he found that he only had two cousin brothers, he felt greatly disappointed.

“No. Are the hat and mask hers?” Qiao Liang decided not to think of this annoying matter. Even if Xixi was their sister right now, she would be his wife after marrying him, and then he would be able to refuse to call Xiao Jing “Elder Brother”.

Xiao Jing nodded and was about to enter the office of Qiao Liang with the hat and mask when Qiao Liang grabbed him, took the items out of his hands and said indifferently, “Go to work. Give me those files early tomorrow morning.”

“Qiao Liang!!” Xiao Jing exclaimed, staring at him. “How can you burn the bridge after crossing it!”

“You’re just a plank on the bridge at most,” Qiao Liang said with a sneer, then entered his office and closed the door.

Xiao Jing stared wide-eyed and swung his fist several times at the door of Qiao Liang’s office before he turned away cursing.

Qiao Liang put the hat on Tang Xi’s head and went out satisfied together. They walked past the secretariat while holding hands—all the secretaries looked at the two of them and their eyes lit up with the gleam of gossip. Unable to stand their stares, Tang Xi tried to take back her hand, only to be held onto more tightly by Qiao Liang. Tang Xi whispered with slight annoyance, “What are you doing? So many people are looking at us!”

Qiao Liang put an arm around her shoulder and replied with a smile, “They can’t see your face, after all. Why are you so worried?”

Tang Xi glared at him. “You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?”

Xiao Jing used to tell her that Qiao Liang was an abstinent workaholic in people’s eyes. Many said that he wasted his handsome face and his model-like figure, as well as his money and power. If he wanted, any woman would fall into his arms. It was a pity that he didn’t like women.

But today, the secretaries witnessed this stunning scene…

A female secretary rushed into Xiao Jing’s office, saying, “President Xiao, didn’t you say the woman in President Qiao’s office is a hypnotist? But why was she and President Qiao…” Her words trailed off as she was glared at by Xiao Jing. She took a step back and finished, “President Qiao, I’m sorry to have disturbed you… I’m going out…”

“Stop,” Xiao Jing called out, staring coldly at the secretary. “Do you have a lot of time to kill?”

The female secretary began to sweat. Although President Xiao was easy to get along with and would always chat with others casually, he was scary when he became serious! He rarely ever became serious, but she felt her life was in danger right now! She wished she could find a hole to hide in…

She almost burst into tears. “President Xiao, I’m busy…”

“Really? I don’t think so though!” Xiao Jing stood up with a cold face and threw a pile of files on the desk. “Who made this market questionnaire? It’s terrible! Didn’t you check it before submitting it to me? Does the company pay you to gossip instead of working?

“If you like gossiping so much, become a paparazzi. Why are you still here?!” He reached for a blue folder on the desk and continued, “Look at this questionnaire! Do we hire you to serve tea and gossip? Don’t you know you should carefully check the files before submitting them to us? If I had time to read this junk, why would I still need you guys?”

Pointing to the questionnaire on the desk, he snapped, “Take these files away and re-submit them to me after carefully checking them! Don’t waste any more of my time, or else you’ll be fired!”

The little secretary stood there with red eyes and dared not move.

Xiao Jing frowned and said, “Can’t you hear me?!”

The little secretary hurriedly ran over to take the files and between sobs, she said, “I heard you.”

“Do you feel wronged?” Xiao Jing asked, looking deeply at the secretary.

The little secretary hurriedly shook her head and turned to run out. Xiao Jing frowned as he watched her close the door and curled his lips. “I’m the one who wants to cry, alright? Why did she give me that look? Qiao Liang went to have a date with my sister and made me stuck here working, the b*stard! Did that secretary mean to rub it in? She just deserved it!”

Which normal man would like to gossip about the affair between his sister and his buddy?

Were these secretaries mad? How could she especially come to him to ask this stupid question? Was she trying to upset him?

On the other side of things, when Tang Xi and Qiao Liang came downstairs, they bumped into Qin Xinying. Qiao Liang frowned and continued to walk, ignoring her, but Qin Xinying ran over to stand in their way. She said, “Qiao Liang, let’s talk.”

Tang Xi raised her eyebrows and slightly let go of Qiao Liang’s hand, but the latter glared at her in response and pulled her closer before glancing at Qin Xinying, saying, “I’m busy.”