Chapter 56 You did it on purpose

Chapter 56 You did it on purpose

Look at this scene.

Huo Zhizhou's eyes darkened little by little.

Sensing the strange atmosphere between the two, President Song mustered his courage and tentatively said, "President Huo, please continue drinking with Jiang Ruan. I'll go out and take this call."

"Hmm," Huo Zhizhou replied calmly.

President Song gave the others a wink, and everyone quietly slipped away. Jiang Ruan, whose mind was somewhat confused, didn't notice any of this.

Once the group of executives were outside and the door to the private room was closed, someone whispered, "Is it alright for us to just leave like this?"

Mr. Song's suspicions were gradually confirmed: "It's nothing."

"Where's Jiang Ruan?" Zhou Dong glanced towards the door. "Wouldn't it be...unfortunate that she's alone with President Huo..."

Jiang Ruan is very beautiful, and she is a girl.

They had only heard about Huo Zhizhou's various deeds from other people, and they didn't really know what kind of person he was, so they couldn't help but worry.

"President Huo isn't the kind of person to act recklessly." President Song hadn't confirmed the relationship and wouldn't casually tell them anything. "You can all go your separate ways. I'll wait for them outside."

No one declined, and they all left.

Only Manager Tan remained standing there. After all, Jiang Ruan was someone he had invited, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried about leaving a young girl like her inside.

"You don't need to go to work starting tomorrow," General Manager Song told him.

Manager Tan: "?"

Manager Tan's heart skipped a beat: "President Song, I..."

"This is President Huo's instruction." President Song explained one by one, "Do whatever you want during this time, have fun if you want, just don't wander around the company aimlessly, and your salary will be deposited into your account as usual."

If he still can't perceive that subtle relationship by this point, then he's been wasting his time.

Manager Tan immediately left with a beaming smile.

Only President Song remained in the spacious and luxurious corridor. He wanted to go back to check on the situation in the private room, but considering Huo Zhizhou's temper, he finally took out his phone and made a call to confirm the relationship between Jiang Ruan and Huo Zhizhou.

Inside the private room.

Jiang Ruan finished her fourth glass of wine and slammed it down on the table. The alcohol had made her unable to suppress her temper any longer, and with a hint of defiance in her voice, she said, "I'm done."

Huo Zhizhou leaned back in his chair, his slightly raised eyes scrutinizing her.

Because of the alcohol, the aloofness and disgust on her pale face were reduced by more than half. Her watery eyes were glaring at him angrily, and when she noticed his scrutinizing gaze, she became a little fierce.

"What are you looking at? I've finished drinking." Jiang Ruan was furious.

Huo Zhizhou's gaze followed her eyebrows down to her lips, which were still stained with wine. Her lips glistened with moisture. He slowly reached out and placed his large, warm hand on her face, his rough thumb ambiguously wiping away the wine stains.

The tingling sensation made Jiang Ruan very uncomfortable, so she raised her hand and slapped him away.

Huo Zhizhou was not annoyed.

He just stared at her, her face flushed with anger.

"I know what you're thinking. You just want to make things difficult for me, so that I can't take it anymore and will have no choice but to come back to you." Jiang Ruan's mind was a complete mess, and she was only holding on because of the alcohol. "I'm telling you right now, I will not back down."

Huo Zhizhou gave her a response, which made her feel a sense of accomplishment: "Mm."

"You said that as long as I finish this, you won't hold what happened earlier against me." Jiang Ruan placed her hand on the bottle.

Huo Zhizhou looked at her in a good mood, raising an eyebrow slightly: "Mm."

It's amazing she still remembered even when she was this drunk.

"I'll finish it right now, and you'll keep your word." As Jiang Ruan said this, she picked up the bottle of high-proof liquor and started pouring. As if she thought the glass was too small to pour it all at once, she transferred the liquor to an unused stemmed glass.

Watching her actions, Huo Zhizhou's handsome brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

Jiang Ruan held a red stemmed glass filled with baijiu (Chinese liquor): "Should we check if this is cooled boiled water?"

"Come here," Huo Zhizhou said in a low voice.

Jiang Ruan obediently walked over and handed him the wine glass.

The latter took the cup and placed it aside, then grabbed her wrist with his other hand and pulled her into his arms.

Her body was forced into a warm, familiar, and pleasantly smelling embrace. Jiang Ruan subconsciously snuggled into his arms as usual, but then suddenly stood up and pushed him away halfway through the action.

Huo Zhizhou: "?"

Jiang Ruan swayed as she stared at him: "You haven't checked yet."

“It’s been checked, it’s alcohol,” Huo Zhizhou said, going along with her.

Jiang Ruan reached out to take it.

Huo Zhizhou's large hand grasped her slender, fair wrist: "I promise you I won't hold what happened earlier, you don't need to drink anymore."

"Your promise is useless." Even in her drunken state, Jiang Ruan did not trust him and stubbornly insisted on finishing the drink so that he would fulfill his promise. "Who knows if you will deliberately find fault with me later?"

Huo Zhizhou's hand slid down her wrist and grasped her small, slender hand: "No."

Jiang Ruan: "Liar."

Huo Zhizhou: "Where did I lie to you?"

Jiang Ruan: "You said at the Waterside Villa that you wouldn't make things difficult for me, but you still made things difficult for me today."

"Do you have some misunderstanding about what 'being in a difficult situation' means?" Even though he knew she was drunk and wouldn't listen to reason no matter how much he explained, Huo Zhizhou still talked to her with extreme patience.

This is someone he has carefully nurtured for five years.

For the past five years, he couldn't bear to let her suffer even the slightest harm. He never spoke harshly to her, and whenever she cried out in pain, he would do everything he could to comfort her.

But because he protected her so thoroughly, she didn't understand social etiquette. If it had been someone else in this situation, she would have been even more severely harassed.

He's really in a difficult position.

She wouldn't be like this now.

“There’s no misunderstanding,” Jiang Ruan insisted. “You did it on purpose.”

Huo Zhizhou: "..."

Huo Zhizhou resigned himself to his fate: "What do you want?"

"I'll drink this cup, and you swear you won't make things difficult for me again." Even though Jiang Ruan was drunk, she didn't want her future life to be ruined because of him. "Let's forget our grudges with a drink. I won't hold it against you for lying to me, and you're not allowed to make things difficult for me in Yuanyi."

Huo Zhizhou looked at her with his dark eyes.

Jiang Ruan pressed, "Give me a definite answer, is it okay or not?"

Huo Zhizhou tried to say something to her, but his gaze eventually fell on the wine glass filled with baijiu.

If you really drink it.

She absolutely cannot withstand it.

"Okay," he agreed.

“You said it.” Jiang Ruan reached out to take it. “You can’t go back on your word.”

Huo Zhizhou gazed intently at her delicate yet somewhat stubborn face, his Adam's apple bobbing before he finally answered, "Mm."

Jiang Ruan's heart immediately felt relieved.

The thought of being able to go to work smoothly makes me feel that it's all worth it.

Just as she reached for the cup and brought it to her lips, Huo Zhizhou called out, "Wait."

Jiang Ruan: "?"

Huo Zhizhou stood up and took the wine glass in his hand: "Let me check it again. You stand here and don't move."

Jiang Ruan felt that there was something wrong with him, but the numbing effect of alcohol made her reflexively stand there without moving.

Huo Zhizhou walked behind her, and seeing that she didn't move, he poured out all the wine in the glass, took a clean stemmed glass, and poured in an equal amount of cool boiled water.