Moreover, she didn’t always behave like this; it was the issues with Yu Xiuzhun these past few days that left her unable to focus on work, causing documents to pile up.

In the end, Yu Xiuzhun was the real culprit.

Now he appeared as if he was ready to confront her about it.

"When did you come back?" Coming to her senses, Ye Mingmei remembered this critical question.

From the time their last phone call ended until now, only a day had passed. Did Yu Xiuzhun rush back right after their call?

"Got here in the morning. Something came up in Washington, had to come back on short notice." Yu Xiuzhun glanced at her slyly, holding a pile of documents, and dragged Ye Mingmei towards his sports car.

"What was so urgent for you to return so hastily, it couldn’t have been because of me, right?" The words slipped out naturally.

After speaking, Ye Mingmei was stunned herself.

She blushed, quickly lowered her head, and didn’t even dare look at Yu Xiuzhun.

Such a narcissistic question... What if he said no? Wouldn’t she want to dig a hole and bury herself?

So embarrassing!

"You’ve learned to be self-indulgent too." Yu Xiuzhun’s body stiffened. He stopped in his tracks and slowly turned his head to look at her.

"..."

Sure enough, she was overthinking it.

Ye Mingmei tugged at her clothes awkwardly, biting her lip, not knowing how to ease the awkwardness.

"If I came back because of you, would you be touched?" Yu Xiuzhun didn’t wait for her to speak, adding another line on his own.

"..."

What?

Ye Mingmei weakly looked up, meeting his deep, mischievous eyes, her palms tightened.

What did he mean by that?

"Answer me, if I came back because of you, would you feel a little touched in your heart?" Yu Xiuzhun leaned closer, trapping Ye Mingmei between his chest and the car door.

Lowering his eyes, he gazed fixedly at her stunned little face.

"You’ve already said it wasn’t because of me..." Ye Mingmei turned her head away, unwilling to answer such hypothetical questions.

"I asked ’if’!"

Yu Xiuzhun grasped her chin, forcing Ye Mingmei to look at him, stubbornly asking again, "Would you?"

"No."

Ye Mingmei pushed his hand away, trying to step back, but bumped into the car door.

She could only raise her head and look directly at Yu Xiuzhun, "Yu Xiuzhun, as long as you don’t stop, I won’t have the slightest bit of good feeling for you. No matter what you do, I won’t be touched."

"..."

As expected, she wouldn’t.

It’s a good thing he didn’t say it out loud, otherwise the one being self-indulgent would have been him.

Yu Xiuzhun’s eyes darkened, a faint gleam flickered.

Stuffing Ye Mingmei into the sports car, he started the car and drove away from the Ye Family Building.

"Where are you taking me? I want to go home and eat." Ye Mingmei looked at the route that was clearly not leading to the Ye Family, her brow twitched, and she looked warily at Yu Xiuzhun in the driver’s seat.

She couldn’t fathom his thoughts at all.

"Yesterday you still wanted to see me, have dinner with me." Yu Xiuzhun gripped the steering wheel with one hand, while the other hand reached across the gear shift, clasping Ye Mingmei’s hand.

Fingers tightly interlocked.

"Buzz Buzz——"

As Yu Xiuzhun finished speaking, the phone in his pocket rang.

He let go of her hand and answered the call.

After just listening for a few seconds, Ye Mingmei sensitively noticed that his aura suddenly became very gloomy, exuding a bloodthirsty chill that made her shiver. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Hanging up the phone, Yu Xiuzhun tossed the phone aside, and when he looked at Ye Mingmei again, his gaze had already returned to calm.