Chapter 26: Trap

"Uh, what do you mean?" Xia Yuxun was taken aback.

"I mean, I hope you can come and be my personal assistant," Leng Siche looked at her and replied.

Xia Yuxun scratched her head with some difficulty, "Personal assistant? But... but I can't do anything but fight?"

Shouldn't a personal assistant be a young, beautiful, highly educated woman? She really couldn't associate herself with such a profession...

"Then, can you be my bodyguard?" Leng Siche did not give up.

"Um..."

Leng Siche was so frail, indeed he needed protection more than Leng Sichen, but she had schemed for so long just to get a bit closer to Leng Sichen...

Yet she couldn't bear to reject the gentle Ache, what should she do? This is driving her crazy!

"Haha, it seems I might be forcing you. Xiaoxun, you still like brother as before, don't you?" There was a hint of bitterness in Leng Siche's tone.

"Uh, cough cough, I, I do not! Besides, he's getting engaged to Miss Bai..." Xia Yuxun's face looked somewhat ugly, carelessly cutting the bread on her plate.

Before she finished speaking, the plate under her knife... cracked.

Leng Siche watched her like this, his clean eyes unavoidably turning a bit gloomy, "Xiaoxun, knowing he doesn't like you, why do you persist? Don't you find it painful? What about him makes you so reckless?"

Xia Yuxun shook her head in confusion, "I don't know what's good about him, his personality is so terrible, his attitude toward me so arrogant and infuriating, but, some people are indescribable yet irreplaceable. Loving him has become a habit woven into my life, it's like a tumor that has entangled with my lifeblood, if I were to let go of this love, it would mean parting with a part of my life..."

Leng Siche hadn't expected Xia Yuxun to say such words, and his expression became dazed, "Is that so..."

Xia Yuxun coughed lightly to break the awkward atmosphere, pretending to be relaxed, "Ache, it's really amazing! I can't believe I spoke such romantic, tear-inducing words, it's definitely because I'm with Ache that I've become more ladylike."

Leng Siche gave a bitter smile.

Xiaoxun, it's not because of me, it's because your love for him runs deep into your bones.

It's really problematic.

This stubborn and strong-headed you, I don't know if you can hold on until the day you give him up.

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After breakfast, Xia Yuxun and Leng Siche went to the company together.

Meanwhile in the CEO's office, Leng Sichen stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows, his gaze coldly watching downstairs as Xia Yuxun stepped out of Leng Siche's car.

Could it be that last night they... were together?

Also clearly seeing the scene downstairs was Effie standing next to Leng Sichen, holding a schedule in her hand.

Effie's facial expression subtly changed.

Walking out of the office, Effie looked at the elevator entrance and suddenly smiled sinisterly, and then conveniently threw the "Out of Order" sign into the trash can.

After confirming through the security camera that Xia Yuxun had recklessly entered the elevator, Effie restored the sign to its original position.

After a while, having parked his car Leng Siche arrived.

The waiting Effie quickly greeted him with a smile, "Vice President, the elevator is broken, so you'll temporarily have to make do with the stairs."

"Hmm," Leng Siche responded absentmindedly, bitterly thinking that by now, with that girl's speed, she's probably already flown up to the sixteenth floor, back at his brother's side.

At this moment, the elevator Xia Yuxun was in suddenly came to a halt at the tenth floor with a loud bang, and darkness fell...