Chapter 242: A Tiny Bit
Xie Jingyan: “???”
He hurriedly grabbed Jiang Ning: “No… what are we going to do?”
Jiang Ning used all her strength, dragging Xie Jingyan along, looking quite impatient: “Sleep, you know, that kind of um… you know.”
Xie Jingyan: “…”
“Wait a minute…”
“I can’t wait even a little!”
Jiang Ning walked out of the movie theater and started looking for a hotel nearby.
Xie Jingyan had a splitting headache.
Was there anyone this sudden?
Seeing that Jiang Ning really was going to a hotel.
He quickly grabbed her: “The love hotels around here aren’t safe, I’ll take you.”
Jiang Ning perked up and immediately said: “Let’s go.”
Xie Jingyan looked at Jiang Ning’s clear eyes: “…”
Did she even know what sleeping together meant?
This made him seem like the dirty-minded one.
“Jiang Ning, let’s go look at wigs… I want to buy a pink one…”
Jiang Ning gave him a sideways glance: “Drive, find a hotel, or it’s this one.”
Xie Jingyan: “…”
“I think…”
Before he could finish, Jiang Ning raised her hand to interrupt him: “Why do you talk so much?”
Her gaze shifted downward, staring at a certain part of him.
She looked at him somewhat tangled: “You wouldn’t… have some hidden ailment, would you…”
Xie Jingyan’s facial expression turned ashen.
He sneered coldly, stepped on the accelerator and drove off: “Sit tight, just don’t regret it.”
Due to inertia, when the car started, Jiang Ning almost flew up.
She tightened her safety belt, somewhat speechless.
She hadn’t said anything, clearly he was the big man being so indecisive, and she, a younger sister, wasn’t even shy!
And he got angry.
Half an hour later.
The vehicle arrived at the best seven-star hotel in Capital City.
Xie Jingyan’s car brazenly parked at the hotel entrance, keys handed to the approaching waiter.
Someone would park his car for him.
Jiang Ning’s gaze was fixed on the several-meters-high golden fountain at the entrance.
She hurriedly grabbed Xie Jingyan’s coat and whispered: “Is this real gold?”
Xie Jingyan glanced at it and lightly replied: “Yeah, this fountain sculpture is made of pure gold, weighs six tons.”
Jiang Ning: “…”
She thought the golden apple tree they had before was a bit too cheap.
Xie Jingyan saw her gaze fixed on the fountain and couldn’t help but smile: “Like it? I can give you one.”
Jiang Ning: “…”
“Six tons of gold? Just give it away?”
Xie Jingyan didn’t even blink: “Not worth much money, as long as you’re happy looking at it.”
Jiang Ning: “6.”
As expected of an overbearing CEO.
The words he said carried weight.
She was a bit curious: “Tell me quietly, what’s your net worth now?”
Xie Jingyan led Jiang Ning straight to the VIP elevator; only those with a net worth of billions or military and political figures had the qualification to use it.
His voice was calm: “Not much, just a few billion.”
The elevator went straight to the 108th floor, the top presidential suite, over three hundred meters up, overlooking the entire Capital City night view.
In the elevator, Xie Jingyan asked again: “Jiang Ning, you still have a chance to back out.”
Jiang Ning raised her brow at him: “When have you ever seen me regret a decision I’ve made.”
Xie Jingyan pursed his lips, then smiled: “Alright, as long as you don’t regret it.”
Jiang Ning didn’t have any regretful emotions; they were all adults, what was wrong with having a meal together.
She was just a bit nervous.
Her fingers were almost digging into her palms.
But on the surface, she was exceptionally calm, even quite relaxed and casual.
As the floors approached, sweat beaded on Jiang Ning’s forehead, her heart pounding to her throat.
The elevator stopped, and Xie Jingyan stepped out first.
Jiang Ning followed.
He didn’t even need a room card; facial recognition got him in.
As the room door closed.
The heating inside was strong, the space huge, over two hundred square meters, like an independent residence, fully equipped.
Xie Jingyan took off his coat and hung it on the coat rack at the entrance.
The black shirt outlined his lean waist.
Jiang Ning suddenly felt hot.
Xie Jingyan undid two collar buttons, revealing his collarbone, and turned to look at her: “You wash first or me?”
Jiang Ning stammered: “You, you first.”
Xie Jingyan then pulled out the shirt tucked into his pants completely.
He started undressing and unbuckling his belt.
Jiang Ning immediately covered her eyes: “How can you undress in front of me!”
Xie Jingyan looked at her somewhat helplessly: “Aren’t we supposed to be honest with each other? Scared already?”
Jiang Ning put her hands down, stubborn: “Whoever’s scared is a dog.”
Xie Jingyan chuckled mockingly: “Then watch me undress properly.”
Jiang Ning’s eyes widened, staring intently at Xie Jingyan.
Then she saw him take off his black shirt and pants, revealing the fleece-lined thermal top and bottoms underneath.
He then went to the bathroom with a wooden expression.
Jiang Ning: “…”
Turns out, even the overbearing CEO was afraid of the cold.
She thought Xie Jingyan only wore two layers of clothes.
Unexpectedly, he had thermal underwear inside.
Soon, the sound of water came from the bathroom.
Jiang Ning plopped down on the bed and couldn’t help wiping the sweat from her forehead.
She still felt hot.
So she took off her jacket.
She was somewhat tangled.
Because she wasn’t sure if sleeping with Xie Jingyan would cure her stomach cancer.
She didn’t want Xie Jingyan to make any transaction with anyone for her cancer.
This was her karma.
She didn’t want others to suffer this pain with her.
“Little Honey, can it really be cured?” Jiang Ning murmured into the air.
But this time Little Honey didn’t appear.
Jiang Ning sighed, hiding her inner anxiety.
About half an hour.
Xie Jingyan came out covered in steam.
He was wearing a loose bathrobe.
The belt loosely tied around his waist.
Jiang Ning looked at his head and went silent for a moment.
Short hair was good.
Saved the effort of blow-drying…
Xie Jingyan glanced at her and snorted a laugh: “Your turn.”
Jiang Ning then dawdled into the bathroom.
She closed the door, and hot steam hit her face.
Jiang Ning looked at herself in the mirror.
Her doe-like eyes seemed to contain water.
Her cheeks flushed pink from the heat.
Her brows still showed some tangle and annoyance.
Little people in her heart were fighting; fear was one emotion, regret another.
She had never experienced this before.
She took a deep breath.
She slowly removed her wig, and seeing herself in the mirror made her dazed back to those months in the hospital.
Her increasingly gaunt body, sunken cheeks, sallow and acne-prone skin, exhaustion that even makeup couldn’t hide.
Jiang Ning clenched her hands hanging at her sides.
She began silently undressing and showering.
Xie Jingyan stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the city scenery.
From high up, everything below seemed insignificant.
His shadow was reflected in the window.
His angular face paired with the neat buzz cut made his brows and eyes appear even sharper.
But Xie Jingyan didn’t regret shaving his hair all off.
Because that morning, when he walked into the company, he realized that the surprised, puzzled, and confused gazes from everyone were really hard to bear.
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