Ceo And His Empress.. - Volume 2 Chapter 223 220. Mature Vs Clumsy

Come next morning, as the warm rays of sun finally reached the apartment through the french windows, one could see a huge ball of sheets laid over the chaise that was automated to become a single bed.

ZiXuan and Meilin stayed like this the whole night as ZiXuan reminisced about many of their memories together; if it was before Meilin lost her memories, this sort of thing would have been impossible, but the Meilin of now was quite lax and curious… as she heard him talk about their time together, there was a part of her that felt very warm, but there was also a part inside her that felt very jealous towards her past self who got to spend such precious time with him and remained so beautiful in his memories… She wondered if she was weird for feeling envy towards her own self…?

Anyway, these two talked a lot, well, ZiXuan mainly did the talking as Meilin became an intent listener and before they knew it, they had huddled up together and slept just like that.

Meilin was held secure in his arms as ZiXuan rested on the wider part of the chaise… their sleeping face looked so peaceful, well, why shouldn’t it?

The two were getting a normal sleep after over a week, you see, of course, they were exhausted and finally relaxed with the other beside them… if possible, it would have been better for this moment to continue for a long time, but it was impossible after all, though Meilin was unable to do any work, ZiXuan still had to go and manage the paperwork, give Mu Tianluo a solid hit and some other stuff in the gang…

Meilin was very comfortable in his arms and snuggled like a kitten to get some warmth from him only to hear a grumbling sound from somewhere; she was still in a daze and couldn’t get what was going on, but it didn’t take her long to grasp the situation and find that it was ZiXuan’s stomach that was growling.

For a moment, she felt like she could catch the memory that flashed inside her head, but it was gone too fast.

She tried to think about making something and as expected she could actually remember the process, it was like muscle memory and she had fine-tuned herself to remember how to cook a few dishes no matter her condition… was her amnesia weird or, was everyone different…?

In her case, she could remember everything that she had studied so far and was confident enough to start working without any help if she could see things again… she could actually start the work now, but she would have to depend on someone and she didn’t think that she, at the moment, could trust anyone except ZiXuan enough to work with them… ZiXuan had also given her a very brief about their family for now and she knew what sort of position she was in so, everything became different.

Her hand habitually caressed his face and she felt rejuvenated and it was just then that she received a call to her phone… for the time being, it was on assist mode and she heard it say the name of Qian Cheng… from what she had heard from ZiXuan, he was quite trustworthy and an amazing assistant… she gave it thought before finally receiving the call… she also felt ZiXuan wake up so, she was just experimenting on things, if she did something that would give away her, ZiXuan was there to follow her up… this sense of depending on someone felt very noble to her and she didn’t hate this!

“Yes..?”, she turned the speaker on.

<“Oh! Boss, I’m glad you are fine now. Sorry to disturb you during your break again but I had to tell this to you. I’ll send you a link, please look over it. I had told you about an account that had threatened us before and they have mailed us a photograph. Though nothing can be proved by this, about you bullying CEO Qin, they seem very confident about it. They gave us 2 days and want you to resign from your post and tell the world what you have done to CEO Qin. Last time I talked to CEO Qin so, this is definitely a bogus try and they are not well informed; but the image could become controversial if not taken care if even though it won’t affect the business. What do you think we should do? On that, because I don’t think we are at fault or anything, I didn’t try to buy this out as well…”>, he was actually a bit irritated by this random blogger and it was evident in his tone in spite of himself!

Meilin was caught off-guard and even ZiXuan wasn’t aware of this situation so, he directly clicked on the link as Meilin couldn’t, only for his eyes to narrow down. Meilin remained silent as she tried to get a hang of it, but without any information in hand, she reached a dead end… this sort of hopelessness was also quite new to her, she could reach that conclusion just from how odd she felt; since yesterday, it has become a habit of hers to turn to ZiXuan whenever she reached such an end, of course, she felt her condition was kind of pathetic, but knowing that she couldn’t do much in this situation, she didn’t mind leaning on ZiXuan.

ZiXuan was frowning hard only to notice her gesture, which he found very endearing knowing that this Meilin was for a limited time only… still, it actually felt wonderful to be depended upon by his beautiful Meilin who was so used to taking care of everything herself; he very gently caressed her hair, as he tried to flex a little by trying to sound ‘mature’… He spoke in a deep voice, “File a case on them for infringing our privacy. This is absurd, I had simply lost a match against her, how did it become bullying, even fantasy writers don’t have such imagination! Get rid of it and if they do post it, make sure to tag the cops and our lawyers.”

Qian Cheng heard ZiXuan speak and waited for a moment before continuing,

<” Is that okay, Boss?”>, it was actually a little rude towards ZiXuan but nobody here thought as so, well, by records, Meilin was still in a higher position; Meilin could still guess a few things from what ZiXuan has said, and added, “Make sure that the public doesn’t victimise CEO Qin and the Qin name is not tarnished. As for the photograph, do file a case and if needed ask the cyber-squad to catch their IP address.”

If ZiXuan’s concern was Meilin’s well being, she had to take care of the rest of the things.

<“Got it, Boss! Then…have a good day.”>, saying this he hung up.

Meilin breathed out a sigh of relief before her head habitually turned to his side and she said, “… I’m stronger than you?”, it was very rare to hear this, but there was indeed a hint of amus.e.m.e.nt in her tone.

ZiXuan who had tried to act cool: “ahem! A little…”

He wasn’t ashamed, just a little vexed, he remembered how she had fought against Guan Li that day… he was very sure that it wasn’t by just ‘a little’ anymore.

Without consciously thinking about it, he has been actually lagging behind her in terms of his martial arts and fighting skills, well, he has been wanting to live in a peaceful world from the very start after all, but now that he knows that it seemed like a distant dream, he was sure to catch up to her very soon… well, that is if, Meilin slowed down a little…

Meilin ‘stared‘ at him, which felt quite absurd because she was simply guessing his position and it was still this accurate… he indeed had a long way to go.

Anyway, Meilin didn’t continue to tease him and said, “Should we eat something? I think I’ll be able to make some egg souffle and vegetable porridge… Can you help me out a bit?”

ZiXuan had just heard it and reflexively cried, “Me?!!”, his voice higher by an octave!

Meilin had a shocked look because she never expected him to shout like this; she tilted her head in askance.

ZiXuan saw her like this and forced himself to find his non-existent confidence in cooking skills before awkwardly replying, “haha…yes. Why not?”, his eye severely twitching, knowing what was to come.

A FEW MOMENTS LATER~

ZiXuan who was trying to appear mature a while ago: “Ahh! The oil is spluttering…Linlin, what should I do? Hmm… put this thing thing on the pan… hm, with the bowl? Hahaha… of course not… or is it like that?…. … Linlin, that thing is ah! bubbling… the bubble burst out… it’s on me… it’s hot… what is this… Linlin!!!!!”

Meilin, who never in her wildest dreams thought he would be this clumsy, felt like she will have internal injuries from keeping herself from laughing.

Of course, she wasn’t ridiculing him, it was just that, ‘the gap is so cute… Xuanxuan is so cute…’, she thought as a faint blush spread on her face.

Still, she said, “….. Xuanxuan, calm down.”

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The souffle was a little burnt in the end, but Meilin didn’t think that she had enjoyed a dish as much as she did now… her appetite was quite big and they both finished the porridge of four servings by themselves…

They felt very very warm.

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C-country.

Late at night of the same day…

A woman boarded a private plane for HK-country with a serious but desperate look on her face.

‘… this time, I’ll get back ZiXuan for sure… he can only be mine…’