Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

Chen Shubin and Zhou Lei felt embarrassed. Chen Shubin waved his hand hastily, "It's nothing~ Nothing~ It's only our work we should do."

"My employees always put their work before everything, I know that. Or else it would be impossible to reach where we are today." Sheng Ruming nodded with a proud face and then turned to his mother. 

"Mother, I have decided that for a few months, no male employees will get bonuses. We will rather invest that money on other projects. Bonuses, I will decide when to give..."

Sheng Ruming raised his face and spoke with a kind and benevolent attitude but the contents were enough to let the two men experience what it feels like to get retribution. 

Wei Airan frowned and said, "Things related to the company, you know."

When Sheng Ruming turned towards them, the two men were stiff. Under his probing eyes, Chen Shubin spoke out, "Ahm! But, it isn't a good thing, right? The employees won't be pleased if they don't get a bonus…"

Usually, Chen Shubin would give the bonus to his wife to spend as she liked. His wife would become happy. Wife happy means family happy! 

Chen Shubin was cursing himself in his mind. 'Why did I do that?! 

Sheng Ruming looked at them and said, "I am saying I am going to cut their bonus, not overtime pay. Shubin, your brain isn't working?"

But Zhou Lei couldn't digest the term that only males wouldn't get any pay and thus blurted out, "Will females still get their bonuses?"

"Of course. Aren't I very clear?" Sheng Ruming asked.

Zhou Lei spoke out with a frown, "Why?"

Sheng Ruming gave the folder he was grabbing to Xiao Huang and said while shrugging his shoulder, "Because they are women."

"..." Chen Shubin, 'Ah?'

"..." Zhou Lei, 'Gender discrimination!'

"?!" Wei Airan, 'What are they saying? Why can't I understand anything?'

Sheng Ruming turned to the two men and said, "Tell the employees to work hard and to prepare themselves mentally for the starting of the project. If the performance isn't good enough, you all can forget about your 'bonus'."

Now, it was a serious matter. Zhou Lei mentally noted down to send a message in their company's forum to warn those lambs!

…

After the two men left, Sheng Ruming entered the villa. When he glanced around, he didn't find the figure he wanted to see. "Where is she?"

Wei Airan chuckled and said, "I have sent her to your room to rest."

"Oh." Without looking at his mother, he turned around and began to walk towards the stairs but Wei Airan went ahead and caught his arm. Sheng Ruming paused and turned around. 

Wei Airan hesitated and glanced around. Many servants were working around to prepare for the wedding reception. 

Thus, she dragged him into the kitchen. Currently, there weren't any people and thus she asked directly impatiently, "Xiao Ming, you two are married now…"

Sheng Ruming nodded in puzzlement. "Hm. So?"

"Grandchild!" Wei Airan folded her arms on her chest.

"What?"

"I need a grandchild!" Wei Airan stared at his eyes and spoke fiercely, "When are you going to give me one?! I have waited so long… Don't make me wait more!"

Sheng Ruming kept his silence. He knew that in the past, his mother was too worked up to get him married but asking for a grandchild the day after his wedding was too much. 

He saw his mother who went hyper suddenly and asked with doubt, "Has someone said something to you?"

Wei Airan took a deep breath. She smiled and stared at him coldly, "Boy, I am just fed up looking at your and your father's faces for so many years. You are finally married now. Hurry up and make plans for my unborn grandchild. The earlier, the better!"

The man saw the worried face of her mother and nodded. Getting a positive response, Wei Airan was relieved. It seemed that if she could, she would have created a grandchild out of air. 

"But, you know, sometimes, even if people give their all, they don't get one after several years. As for us, we just got married yesterday…" As for the matter that he had rolled around the sheets with Luo Lixi many months ago, it was better if she didn't know.

"Years…" Wei Airan shook her head in frustration. She was dying to take her grandchild in her arms as soon as possible. 'If it takes several years, I don't know what I will do.'

"Yes." Sheng Ruming replied. After all, he couldn't give any guarantee for this thing. As he saw Wei Airan's dejected face, Sheng Ruming thought, 'I had been intimate with Luo Lixi several times yet there is no news... ' 

Both mother and son were in a trance. 

Right then, Aunt Lin came in. As soon as she saw the mother-son pair in the kitchen, lost in their world's, the old woman stopped in her tracks. 

Wei Airan stopped in her tracks of whatever advice she was going to give her son in order to get a baby and turned towards Aunt Lin. 

Aunt Lin hurriedly said, "Madam, I have put the energy supplementary tonic on the stove. I have come to fetch it and bring it to Young madam."

"Oh… you haven't given yet..." Wei Airan turned her head and looked at the stove where something was boiling in a pot. Aside, many refreshments were placed on a tray. She went ahead and lifted the lid. 

A nasty aroma came out from the pot and spread in the air. Sheng Ruming frowned and walked ahead. 

When he saw the black liquid in the pot, his eyebrows creased. Just from the glaring black colour, anyone would be reluctant to drink it.

"What are you making for Lixi?!" 

"Don't give me that look!" Wei Airan said to Sheng Ruming as she turned around. Then, she went to another place in the kitchen and opened a cabinet. 

From there, she took out one little glass bottle. Afterwards, under their eyes, she opened the bottle and poured red liquids into the bowl. This time, a sweet aroma came. Both Sheng Ruming and Aunt Lin felt like inhaling more of this sweet scent. 

After Wei Airan was done, she stirred it and then poured a little amount of the black liquids into two little bowls. Afterwards, she placed the bowls in the tray and turned towards Sheng Ruming. 

"You will also drink the tonic with Luo Lixi later. Understand?" Wei Airan turned towards Sheng Ruming and asked.

"Fine." Even though he was curious to know what was inside the bowls, just from his mother's smile, he realized that it must be a good thing. 

Wei Airan sent him before and said that she would send the food with a maid later. Sheng Ruming nodded and went to the second floor. When he entered his room, he saw Luo Lixi who was standing in front of his bed. The lady was fiddling with jewellery boxes and those things were scattered on his bed. 

He went ahead and hugged her from the back. Luo Lixi flinched and turned her head, only to get kissed by the man. She clutched his arm and stared at the man's face which was sticking to her face. 

After Sheng Ruming broke away, he left a fluttering kiss on her cheek and asked, "Mother gave you these things?"

"En." Luo Lixi replied and then turned towards the boxes. She frowned, 'It's looking so messy!'

Luo Lixi tried to get herself free to sort out the boxes but Sheng Ruming hugged her very tightly. She spoke out, "Ruming, let me go and place the boxes aside."

"No." He buried his face on her neck and rubbed his face there. Luo Lixi shuddered from his actions and said hurriedly, "You better don't leave any mark there!"

Sheng Ruming rubbed his face more on her neck which made Luo Lixi get tickles. She giggled out and wanted to get away from him but Sheng Ruming hugged her more tightly. 

"You… you… let go!... Hahaha~... Haha~..." Luo Lixi felt breathless from laughing too much and couldn't contain her sound. 

The man liked to hear her giggle and thus rubbed his face more on her neck. Wherever his hair brushed past her sensitive hair and skin, Luo Lixi couldn't contain her laughter.

When Luo Lixi was laughing too much, her eyes got misty. Then, suddenly, her eyes lost their liveliness. While laughing, Luo Lixi blinked rapidly, 'Why is it so dark?!'

Luo Lixi thought but then she remembered, the windows of the room were open and it was still daytime. But when she rotated her eyes, all was black. 

Luo Lixi clutched his arms tight and her nails nearly stabbed into his skin. Noticing the change, Sheng Ruming stopped. Soon her giggle died down. Luo Lixi closed her eyes and took deep breaths to calm her jumping heart. But the sudden panic was making it unrestrained.