Sweet Chief Secretary - Chapter 458

“Xia Yu, Shen Yan loves you. You can feel it from his words and actions. You didn’t come home last night. He was worried sick. He was both worried and anxious. Don’t overthink it.” Wanru would never believe that Shen Yan still had feelings for Zeng Mina. She asked Xia Yu to think about it calmly.

But Xia Yu really couldn’t let it go just yet. It might be because she was the one dealing with it. So, the thing’s severity got magnified countless times. So did her emotion. Wanru couldn’t feel her sorrow and pain in her mind.

Wanru’s phone rang at this moment.

“It’s from Shen Yan.” Wanru said to Xia Yu while pointing to the phone’s screen. Xia Yu’s heart bounced rapidly several times.

“Um. Xia Yu is at my place now. Okay. I know. Don’t worry. She is fine now. I’ll take good care of her.” Wanru chatted with him. After she hung up the phone, she said excitedly, “See. He cares about you a lot. He asked me to take good care of you. Stop being angry.”

“Enough about him. I want to be alone.” Xia Yu went into the guest room. She took out the quilt and bed sheet. Then she made the bed. She took off her shoes and lay down on the bed. She covered her head with quilt and curled up.

She heard Wanru walking into the room in a short while. And she also heard her sighing without saying anything.

Wanru pushed the door open and walked in at noon. She pulled off the quilt on Xia Yu’s head. “Time to eat. I ordered a take-out. All of them are your favorite dishes.”

Xia Yu sat up from the bed. Her head was dizzy. Her body was very limp. She touched her forehead. It was very hot. She had a fever.

“You eat by yourself. I don’t want to eat.” Xia Yu shook her head and said. Then she lay down again.

“How can you not eat? Get up and eat some. All of them are your favorite dished.” Wanru pulled Xia Yu up from the bed again. Her eyes were full of concern.

Xia Yu couldn’t win the argument with Wanru. She had to get out of bed and followed her to the kitchen. The dishes on the table were indeed Xia Yu’s favorite dishes. But she really didn’t have any appetite. Finally, she had some corn beef rib soup and ate half a bowl of rice under Wanru’s watch.

After the meal, Xia Yu lay in bed again. She was dizzy. But she couldn’t fall asleep. A lot of scenes kept emerging in her head like a lantern slide. They were all the moments when she stayed with Shen Yan.

All of those happy scenes made Xia Yu feel even worse in her mind at this moment.

She slept for a whole day. But the more she slept, the more tired she was. Her fever was getting worse. But Xia Yu didn’t want to take any medicine. And she didn’t tell Wanru. She lay in bed like a corpse. She only had some soup during dinner.

Xia Yu was woken up by her phone ringtone the next day. She coughed in a low voice several times and then got out of bed. Although there were some problems between her and Shen Yan, she had to go to work.

Standing in front of the office door, she took a deep breath and then pushed the door open. She saw Shen Yan sitting behind the desk at one sight. He looked at Xia Yu with a complicated expression in his eyes.

Xia Yu tried to keep a calm face. She greeted him and called him Young Master Yan politely. Actually, she had already surged up inside. A lot of emotions came out. But she suppressed them all forcedly. She walked to her desk under Shen Yan’s stare.

Just when she turned on her computer, Shen Yan approached. He stood beside her and wanted to reach out to touch her face all of a sudden. Xia Yu avoided him observantly. She didn’t let him touch her. She was only able to avoid him for the first time, but not for the second time. Shen Yan’s hand was on her forehead at last. He frowned tightly at once. “You are having a fever! Have you taken any medicine?”

Xia Yu bit her lips without talking. She pushed his hand away.

Seeing her cold look, a bit of anger emerged in Shen Yan’s eyes. He turned around and left. He went back to his office.

She didn’t say one word to him except something about work all the whole morning. The atmosphere in the office was extremely depressing.

Xiao Tang and Huihui had lunch together in the dining hall at noon. Since they didn’t have much appetite, they just ate a little randomly.

“Xia Yu, why aren’t you having lunch with Young Master Yan today?”

Xiao Tang asked Xia Yu confusedly. Huihui was also looking at her curiously at the side.

Xia Yu shook her head. She didn’t want to say. Her fever was getting worse. She felt like her head was about to explode. Her breath was hot. She thought about going to buy some antipyretic after lunch. Otherwise, she couldn’t bear it.

Huihui wanted to ask more. But Xiao Tang stopped her.

After lunch, Xia Yu went to a nearby pharmacy to buy some antipyretic. She didn’t want to go back to her office just yet. She sat in the nearby coffee shop for a while. She went into the building at one fifty. She went into the office hurriedly just at 2 o’clock which was the working hour.

There was a bag of medicine on the desk. She looked at Shen Yan. It might be him who bought it. Her heart shivered slightly. She put the medicine in the drawer.

“Take the medicine on time.”

Shen Yan saw Xia Yu putting the medicine in the drawer. He said immediately while frowning.

“I bought some medicine myself.” Xia Yu took the febrifuge which she bought out of her pocket and said to him flatly. Then she took her teacup to the pantry to get some warm water. She went back to the office after taking the medicine.

Just when she entered the office, she saw Shen Yan throwing a bag of things into the trash can. Then he looked at her coldly. There was a trace of anger in his eyes. Xia Yu went by the trash can and looked inside it. The bag of things he just threw away turned out to be the bag of medicine he bought for her. Since she didn’t want it, he threw it away. This man was quite naive sometimes.

The medicine was bought with money. It was a pity that he threw it away. Xia Yu bent down to pick up the bag of medicine from the trash can.

“Since you don’t want it, why bother picking it up!” Shen Yan hummed coldly and said. But his expression was better than before.

“This was bought with money. It’s a waste to throw it away.” Hearing Xia Yu’s answer, Shen Yan’s lips twitched. He turned around and went back to his office. He ignored her. He might be angry at what she said.

There were twelve senior managers at the meeting at three o’clock. Shen Yan scolded ten of them. They were all too terrified even to breathe loudly. They all knew that he was not in a good mood. His ice-cold face looked very terrifying. Xia Yu might be the calmest one among them.

After the meeting, those senior managers run away faster than rabbits. Xia Yu stayed there and sorted out the documents at last. There were just two of them left in the meeting room.

Xia Yu finished sorting out the documents and was about to leave. But Shen Yan grabbed her. “Xia Yu, when will you stop throwing your tantrum?” He showed a little impatient between his eyebrows.

Xia Yu’s heart sank a bit. He thought that she was throwing a tantrum and she was being ridiculous? She was suddenly angry in her mind. She shook off his hand violently and looked at him with tears in her red eyes. “You think I’m being ridiculous all the time?”

“You should trust me more. There is really nothing between me and Zeng Mina. Even though someone told you something, you should have asked me about it clearly. But you just ran away without saying anything. You have disappeared for a day and a night. And you even turned off your phone. You should know how worried I am about you. I almost called the police.” He held Xia Yu’s hand tightly again. He looked at her with a bit of disappointment in his eyes.

“I always think that you know me well. I didn’t expect that you would be angry at me for some rumors. And you even wanted to break up with me. Do you know how sad I am?”

Wanru also analyzed it to Xia Yu yesterday. She thought that there was a slim chance for Shen Yan to go back together with Zeng Mina. It must be her mother who wanted them to be together again and did this on purpose to make Xia Yu angry.

To think about it carefully, it was very possible. But so what? He hid Zeng Mina without telling her, did he? Besides, Mr. Huang knew him so well. Why did he believe it after listening to some of Madame Zeng’s words? It was only because he acted so nervously that Mr. Huang misunderstood it.

Although Xia Yu was not so angry as before, it didn’t mean that she was not angry anymore. She blinked her eyes hard to hold back her tears. She wanted to withdraw her hand which was held by him. But she didn’t succeed after trying a few times. “You want me to trust you more, but what about you? Do you ever trust me? You even suspected that I had a relationship with someone else.”

“How could I be calm under such a situation yesterday? I know that I have gone too far. But don’t you feel that you should do some self-criticism before you blame me?” Speaking of yesterday’s matter, his face became colder a little.

“I… Ahem… Ahem…” Only after saying one word, Xia Yu began to cough badly. She couldn’t stop for a while. She nearly coughed up her lungs. She bent down, feeling very terrible. She was shedding tears. She didn’t know whether it was because of her coughs or because she wanted to cry.

A big warm hand patted on her back gently. Xia Yu looked at Shen Yan. She saw a worried look on his face.

When Xia Yu finally stopped coughing, Shen Yan gave her a cup of warm water. Xia Yu took over the cup and drank some to moisten her throat.

“There is some cough medicine in the medicine I bought for you. Take some after you go back to the office.”

He held Xia Yu’s hand and left. After they entered the office, he took the medicine out of the drawer. He found the cough medicine among the pile of medicine. After he looked at the description, he unscrewed the lid. He poured half a lid of the syrup and handed it to Xia Yu’s lips. He asked her to drink it.

Xia Yu bit her lips tightly and looked at him with tears in her red eyes. Seeing that he was so tender and caring, she was actually softhearted in her mind. But she still felt very wronged.

“Be a good girl and drink it. You will stop coughing after drinking it.” He comforted her in a soft voice.

Xia Yu could never resist his tender. She opened her mouth and drank the syrup. She had a refreshing and cool feeling immediately. Her dry throat was much better.

Just after she drank it, Shen Yan lowered his head and kissed her on the lips. Then he held her in his arms tightly. He said in a soft voice, “We stop being mad at each other, okay?”

“You are a loser! You are not forgiving her like this, are you? Don’t forget who cheated on you yesterday.” Second Madame originally came to send punitive forces against Xia Yu. Seeing these two people hugging each other, she was too angry to catch her breath on the spot.

She always thought her son was in a dominant position in relationships with women. But Xia Yu was simply his bane. He tolerated her in all respects. He even tolerated her cheating on him.

He didn’t care about being shamed. But Shen Family did. Second Madame stepped forwards and separated them. She stood in the middle. “Xia Yu, you are not getting engaged to my son after this, are you?”

“Mom, can you not meddle?” Shen Yan was frustrated. He finally got her back and made her softhearted with a struggle. But his mother came over to meddle.

“You shut up. Now all the people of Shen Family know that she and Li Wen had an affair on one night. Even you want me to turn a blind eye. But how can you not know what vicious words your First Aunt will say?” Second Madame roared angrily to stop Shen Yan from talking.

“A clean hand wants no washing. She can say whatever she likes.” Xia Yu was so angry that her face was red. All the people of Shen Family knew that she and Li Wen had an affair on one night. Did they watch on the side? They said so as if it was true.

“Xia Yu, are you clean? Who doesn’t know the character of Li Wen? You were alone with him in a room. Can you still be clean?” Second Madame sneered. She stuck to her story until this moment. How ridiculous it was!

“Do you mean that you firmly believe that I had an affair with him?” Xia Yu looked at Second Madame for a while. Then she snorted coldly and showed a disdainful look in her eyes. She nodded and said, “Fine. I admit that I had an affair with him. In this way, you are satisfied now?”

“Xia Yu, enough about the nonsense!” What was with all the nonsense? Shen Yan shouted in a low voice to interrupt Xia Yu.