Too Much? Part 1

At 10:30 in the morning, the Xie Group's senior management chat exploded:

"Am I hearing things?"

"To be honest, I'm hearing things too."

Everyone suspected they were having auditory hallucinations.

Since everyone was 'hearing things,' then—

Someone who understood summarized: "In other words, no one was hearing things! That was really the boss's wife herself, who's as elusive as a divine dragon!"

"I didn't expect President Xie to be into this type..."

"I thought the boss's wife was a refined lady from a good family, but what is this coquettish little vixen? Even I, a woman, got a phantom hard-on."

"That voice was just too sweet, she sounded like a young girl. What kind of wealthy madam can be so coquettish?"

"@Secretary Wen @Secretary Zhou @Other Secretaries, haven't you all in the secretarial team met Mrs. Xie before? Is this really the boss's wife?" They hoped they hadn't stumbled upon a scene of some mistress acting cute with her sugar daddy.

Secretary Wen took a moment out of his busy schedule: "It is the boss's wife. She likes to joke around with President Xie."

Whoa!

So President Xie really does like this type of coquettish little imp!

And he even interrupted a meeting for his coquettish little wife.

In the group chat filled with ellipses, a question from a senior executive suddenly stood out: "@Secretary Wen, last time I saw that bite mark on President Xie's neck, I never dared to ask. Was that also from his wife?"

Everyone: "!!!"

That happened too!

Secretary Wen: "..."

What could he say, what else could he say, what would he dare to say!

In the end, he could only silently leave a message: "President Xie and his wife are deeply in love."

The group chat was instantly flooded with exclamation marks—

What kind of goddess was their boss's wife to be able to drag the unattainable President Xie down to the mortal realm, and even bite him a few times!

After the Maybach started, Qin Fan obediently fastened her seatbelt and sat in the seat next to Xie Yanli, looking at him eagerly: "Hubby~"

Xie Yanli's long fingers toyed with his phone, his eyes clear and cold: "Mrs. Xie, speak properly."

Qin Fan cursed this unromantic dog man in her heart, but her words were sweet, "President Xie~"

She drew out the tone, like a stretched-out thread of cotton candy, sweet and heart-melting.

Secretary Wen in the front passenger seat wanted nothing more than to cover his ears, but he was afraid the two in the back would have instructions, so he didn't dare to 'close his ears.'

Xie Yanli didn't look at her. Instead, he took out his frequently used Bluetooth earpiece from the storage compartment and handed it to Qin Fan: "Put it on."

Qin Fan was puzzled, but since she was asking for a favor, she didn't object. She brought her small, fair ear closer and smiled at him, her eyes curving into crescents, "You put it on for me."

"..." Xie Yanli's fingertips, holding the Bluetooth earpiece, paused slightly. His gaze moved meaningfully from her innocent and beautiful face to her porcelain-white, cute ear.

His fingertips inadvertently brushed against her small earlobe as Xie Yanli calmly and steadily put the earpiece on for her.

Qin Fan's ears were sensitive. Her slender shoulders flinched, and she was just about to lift her face to continue teasing Xie Yanli.

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the earpiece.

The smile on Qin Fan's small face froze abruptly, then turned to disbelief, and finally crumbled.

"You, you, you..." Qin Fan's voice finally returned to normal as she glared at Xie Yanli in exasperation, "Dog man, you actually recorded me! Are you even human!"

When Xie Yanli heard her blurt out 'dog man,' he found it had the same ingenious effect as the 'human ATM' he had seen in the hospital before.

Seeing Xie Yanli looking at her with a half-smile, Qin Fan realized she had spoken her thoughts aloud.

She feigned a couple of coughs, "You're being too much. You made me so angry I misspoke."

Misspoke?

That was what she truly thought, wasn't it?

Qin Fan heard that the recording was from last night when she was pestering him for a ten-thousand-word essay on her beauty, and Xie Yanli said she had to exchange something for it.

She steadied herself: "How could you record me behind my back? This really affects the trust between us as husband and wife."

Xie Yanli nonchalantly tapped on the second half of the audio file: "You agreed."

Thus, Qin Fan heard the second half of her conversation with Xie Yanli before she hung up the phone—

Her: "What if you forget tomorrow?"

Xie Yanli: "Record it as evidence?"

Her: "You're so smart. Yes, we need evidence!"

Xie Yanli: "As you wish."

Ahhh! Qin Fan felt like she was really being led by the nose by Xie Yanli. She took a deep breath, "So why are you letting me listen to this recording? Did you really write a ten-thousand-word essay praising my beauty?"

Qin Fan looked at Xie Yanli's ascetic and cold face, completely unable to believe that he, with that face, would write an essay praising a woman's beauty, and a ten-thousand-word one at that, overnight.

"I'll read it to you tonight." Xie Yanli's tone was composed.

Qin Fan: "???"

Does that mean... he really wrote it?

Ten thousand words?

Is there something seriously wrong with this man? Believing the words of a drunkard.

Qin Fan's heart began to pound. Xie Yanli must be up to something.

Based on their plastic husband-and-wife relationship of sharing a bed for more than two years, Qin Fan knew this dog man would never waste a single second, unless that wasted time could bring him returns several times over!

Qin Fan felt she was definitely going to fall into this dog man's hands. Since she was going to fall, then...

She seized the opportunity: "Then don't stay at home next week. I need to film my solo living variety show!"

"I can agree to anything you want, as long as it's not too much!"

She thought about it. She didn't really have any treasures that Xie Yanli would fancy, but just in case, she added 'as long as it's not too much.'

Xie Yanli smiled faintly: "Mrs. Xie, if you're using this as the exchange, then the ten-thousand-word essay praising your beauty is canceled."

"Otherwise, I'd be at a loss."

Damn it!

Capitalists really don't take any losses.

Qin Fan could only agree.

But just as she nodded, she realized something wasn't right: "..."

Wait a minute?

Wasn't I just swindled with an empty promise?

Xie Yanli got a request from her without doing anything.

So this dog man didn't have any ten-thousand-word beauty essay at all, did he?!

Soon, Qin Fan saw the familiar street outside and no longer had the mind to think about these trivial matters, because—

"Are we going to the old residence?!"

"Stop the car, stop the car, I didn't bring a gift!"

"I haven't changed my clothes, haven't done my hair."

After fooling around with Xie Yanli in the car for so long, she hadn't paid any attention to the scenery outside. Now, seeing that they were just one street away from the entrance of the Xie Family's Old Residence, Qin Fan panicked.

Qin Fan panicked and quickly reached out to tug on Xie Yanli's sleeve.

Xie Yanli looked at her in her sweatshirt and black ripped jeans, and said flatly: "I brought gifts. We're just having lunch together."

He just doesn't get it!

Qin Fan tried to appeal to him with emotion and reason: "President Xie, don't you think bringing me home like this doesn't look like you're bringing your wife to your parents' home, but more like you're picking up your high school daughter from school?"

Xie Yanli rubbed his temples, which were throbbing from Mrs. Xie's fussing.

Qin Fan: "If Uncle Lin's second wife from next door sees this, she'll say our mom's daughter-in-law is young enough to be her granddaughter. Can our mom handle that?"

What kind of messy relationships were these?