Chapter 33

Chapter 33: The Dark Little Wolfdog

Du Yu Xi’s pupils shrank. Wait, her cousin was a man, right? This assistant was also a man, right? He actually had a secret crush on her cousin???

Xi Jing Yue was stunned too. Chen Pei Lin had been by Li Zhao Yang’s side for three or four years. His work was good, but he never had much presence.

Because of that, Xi Jing Yue had always thought he was just too shy. Who would have thought he was so bold, daring to have that kind of feeling toward Li Zhao Yang!

Du An Rao did not really have any bias against him. Whether someone liked men or women was their own choice. As long as they did not hurt others, it deserved respect.

What she could not stand was that he called Li Zhao Yang his true love, yet teamed up with Li Qian Xi to stab Li Zhao Yang in the back.

He even dressed it up by saying that as long as Li Zhao Yang was no longer the high and mighty young master of the Li family, he would finally have a chance with him.

This kind of love that dragged someone else down was clearly sick. It only satisfied his own selfish desire.

Xi Jing Yue’s face darkened, and the look he gave Chen Pei Lin grew colder.

He had already had doubts before. His cousin was not a careless man, so how had he been tricked so easily?

Thinking it over now, letting his guard down around Li Qian Xi was one thing. Another problem might lie with this trusted person at his side.

Chen Pei Lin had no idea that his biggest secret had already been seen through the moment they met.

After greeting everyone, he pushed up his glasses and led them upstairs.

Li Zhao Yang’s office was on the top floor. Chen Pei Lin led them into the office, then had people send in some fruit, snacks, and drinks.

While hosting Du An Rao and the others, he was very polite without being so warm that it felt awkward. He neither fawned nor acted arrogant and kept a perfect distance in how he acted.

If they had not been sure that Du An Rao never spoke without reason, Xi Jing Yue and Du Yu Xi would never have thought that under this cool and serious surface was such a hidden, crazy mind.

Before the two of them could start doubting her words, Du An Rao held her warm milk tea and sighed.

[He really is a dark little wolfdog. On the outside he looks shy and ready to cry, but inside he already treats Li Zhao Yang like his own property. With that queen-of-the-house attitude, is he afraid people won’t know this is his territory?]

“Pfft…” Xi Jing Yue almost choked on his tea. Du Yu Xi’s hand holding her coffee trembled, and she wanted to bury her face in the cup.

When Li Zhao Yang finished the meeting and returned to his office, this was exactly what he walked in on.

“Cousin,” Xi Jing Yue called.

Xi Jing Yue almost jumped up at once: “The meeting is over?”

“It’s over. Sorry, it was a last-minute meeting, so I couldn’t pick you up myself and made you wait,” Li Zhao Yang said.

“It’s fine, it’s fine. We just got here not long ago,” Xi Jing Yue replied.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xi Jing Yue took the chance to introduce everyone.

“This is Du An Rao, Master Du, the one I told you about before. Next to her is her sister, Miss Du, Du Yu Xi. And this is my cousin, Li Zhao Yang. He is also the boss of this agency,” he said.

When Li Zhao Yang followed the direction of his gesture and looked over, Du Yu Xi happened to raise her head.

The two of them, already tied by blood, locked eyes and froze at the same time.

Even though Li Zhao Yang had seen Du Yu Xi’s photo before and had prepared himself, seeing this girl who looked almost exactly like his Second Aunt still shook him.

Thinking back to what Xi Jing Yue had reminded him about, and the secret contact he had recently found between Li Qian Xi and her biological father, Li Zhao Yang narrowed his eyes dangerously and his face grew even more serious.

While Li Zhao Yang stared at Du Yu Xi in a daze, Du Yu Xi was also studying this relative who shared her blood.

His striped suit was neat yet lively. His handsome face and bright eyes all showed sharp, strong energy.

Could he recognize her? Would he be willing to accept her?

Her heart thumped like thunder. Her hands hanging at her sides curled into fists without her knowing as she tried hard to stay calm.

Just as she did not know how to break this awkward silence, Du An Rao’s reminder came first.

[Ahhh I know you’re shocked, but don’t be shocked yet. Look at the assistant behind you. He’s already so mad he’s about to go dark! If you keep staring at my Fourth Sister like that, I’m going to think he’ll hire someone to take her out!]

Du Yu Xi shivered, unconsciously looked past Li Zhao Yang, and sure enough met Chen Pei Lin’s eyes, full of hostility.

Of course, Xi Jing Yue also noticed that something was wrong with Chen Pei Lin. He coughed lightly and stepped forward to stand between them.

“Zhao Yang, do you know Miss Du?” he asked.

Li Zhao Yang woke as if from a dream: “Sorry, I just feel like Miss Du looks a bit familiar, like I might have seen her somewhere before.”

His words sounded a lot like a pick-up line. Luckily, because of the little scene just now, Du Yu Xi had already calmed down. She answered in an even tone: “Maybe it’s just because I have a common face.”

Luckily, Li Zhao Yang was someone who had seen big scenes. After that first slip, he quickly adjusted. So as not to make Du An Rao and Du Yu Xi suspicious again, he went straight to the main topic.

“About my situation here, I suppose my cousin has already told Master Du, right?” he asked.

Du An Rao sat up right away: “He mentioned a little, but I don’t know the details.”

Before coming, she had been a bit nervous, afraid she might say something wrong and expose herself. But once she really entered the company, she calmed down instead.

She did not actually know that much about physiognomy and feng shui, but as one of the important supporting characters, a villain, in the original novel, Li Zhao Yang had plenty of scenes.

Anyway, since she was already here and the two of them had met, her goal was pretty much reached.

She might as well listen to how Xisheng Entertainment was doing now. Maybe she really could help him find some problems.

Li Zhao Yang did not think that far. He just picked out a few key points from the unlucky things that had happened at the company recently and talked about them.

“Three months ago, the company’s chief financial officer had a sudden stroke and was taken to the hospital. He’s still recovering. Half a month later, the deputy director of marketing went out drinking with clients, missed a step, and broke his leg. A week after that, the PR director worked late and was robbed on her way home, and almost lost both her money and her life…” he said.

The more Du An Rao listened, the stranger she felt. She carefully lined up the timeline and quickly found the truth hiding under these ‘coincidences.’

[Ah, your chief financial officer ended up in the hospital because he got too angry about his son’s middle school math grades. He just couldn’t understand how a top student from a famous university could have a son whose math score only has one digit.]

Xi Jing Yue and Du Yu Xi: “Pfft…”

[The deputy director of marketing broke his leg because he used his position to force a new female entertainer in the company to sleep with him. Somehow, his wife found out. The wife rushed in to catch them in the act. The cheating scum and his mistress ran around like scared rats. He didn’t watch his step on the stairs, missed a step, and fell… It was way too embarrassing, so of course he could only say he slipped while drunk.]

The two of them, having just gotten this fresh gossip from afar, were left speechless: “…”