Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 745: [Yan Jian Extra] 25. On a Winter Night, That Sweet and Soft Taste_2

He was taken aback, inexplicably stopping in his tracks, and looked back.

Empty.

Yan Yu was no longer following behind him.

He squinted into the distance, barely able to see her somewhat rounded silhouette.

She had actually walked away.

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That night, he cooked himself some pasta, mixing in a few beans. Yet eating it felt impossible.

But his stomach was still uncomfortably hungry.

Annoyed, he walked to the fridge, opened it, and looked around. Most items on the shelves and in the containers were supermarket-bought semi-prepared foods, ready to eat after microwaving. But now they seemed like cold corpses, each one pale and cold, unable to spark any appetite.

He gritted his teeth and grabbed his coat to head out.

Just at the bakery downstairs, the counter also offered small desserts. He pointed to many varieties, filling a box to the brim.

Back home, accompanied with red wine, he devoured them one by one.

That night he surprisingly had a good sleep, perhaps because the room was filled with such a sweet and soft aroma, isolating all the world’s harshness.

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The next day, James announced the exact wedding date to the public.

Company colleagues expressed their congratulations, but Ben Shaming wore a pale face, collapsing onto his chair.

Bry glanced at him, got up with the calendar to go into James’ office, intending to reschedule the upcoming plans for the boss, hoping everything would accommodate the wedding.

But Ben Shaming unexpectedly stood up, rushed ahead, entering James’ office wordlessly and directly.

James sat in the office, amidst a barren landscape, staring at the Blue Glaze Buddha Head, lost in thought. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

Seeing Ben Shaming enter, he was not surprised.

His deep blue eyes lifted, silently landing on Ben Shaming’s face: "I hope what you are here to say is purely business. But actually, since I issued the transfer order last time, there’s no business left between us. As for who you’re truly serving in my secretary’s office, only you know."

Ben Shaming’s already pale face grew even whiter at this moment, losing all color.

He stood on the Floating Island of black stone, hands clenched at his sides. His voice was already hoarse.

He hoarsely spoke: "Jamie... why Catherine? Why get married? Why so soon?" He took a deep breath: "You said before, you wouldn’t love a woman again in this lifetime."

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James turned upon hearing the voice, crossing the white sand stream, returning to his desk to sit down. He lifted his eyes to firmly fix on Ben Shaming: "So you’ve come to question me."

Ben Shaming shamefully lowered his head.

James however coldly smiled: "Too bad, you’re not worthy."

He averted his gaze: "Whom I marry, when I get married, are all personal matters and none of your business. You’re merely my subordinate, not entitled to ask me about this."

"As for whether I like women, whether I sorrow for them, it’s even less your concern!"

Ben Shaming hopelessly raised his head: "But Jamie... I’m more than just your subordinate. Once, during those years in France, for over fifteen years together, between you and me, it was already..."

Ben Shaming’s words were cut off coldly by James: "What I can agree on is just: between you and me, it’s already been mutual dependence. Nothing more."

Ben Shaming paused midway, choking back the rest of his words.

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In the seemingly rooftop office of Fude Group’s highest tier, surrounded by four glass curtain walls, sitting as if atop the clouds, was Mark.

Mark listened to the sounds of dispute emanating from James’ office, finding it amusing, the corners of his lips curled up.

He imitated the imagined posture of Huangfu Huazhang, allowing the chair and the desk’s edge to form a 45-degree angle as he sat. Fingertips touched together, eyes smiling.

This was something the master left behind; apparently, back when the master entered the Fude Group amidst a pack of wolves, he had quietly installed surveillance equipment in every office. Thus, the master could have been aware of all the company’s movements.

And believed both those who opposed the master back then and James today wouldn’t entirely be unaware of such facilities in the offices, so the offices have seen varying degrees of renovation over the years.

However, the master’s wisdom was extraordinary; he chose the location for placing the surveillance equipment, or rather the technology itself, in a way those people couldn’t find. So, even though James had recently renovated his office, the department still couldn’t avoid the fate of being easily monitored by this office.