The Lady of the Prestigious Family is a Big Boss-Chapter 18: Fifth Master: Have you seen other people’s?

The quiet path was filled with the aroma of flowers and plants.

Faint footsteps sounded.

A man with a tall and strong figure walked ahead, and behind him, a girl dressed in boys’ school uniform leisurely followed.

"Master Li, give me some attention, will you?"

Having made a mistake, Master Jiu felt a rare twinge of guilt.

"Master Li, I’m sorry, okay? That was really an accident, I didn’t expect you to be there too."

"If you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as you accepting my apology."

All the way, she talked until she was out of saliva.

Apologies were made, but the person walking ahead just wouldn’t make a sound.

Ye Jiuliang stopped and got a bit frustrated, "Li Mochan, I can’t walk anymore, just say what you want to say."

This was just too suffocating.

Hearing the girl call out his full name, Li Mochan felt a faint irritation and paused in his step, a trace of a light, faint smile tugging at the corner of his lips.

When he turned around, his face was frosty.

Their gazes met in mid-air, and Ye Jiuliang, irritable, scratched her head and threw out a sentence before running off.

"Li Mochan, wait here for me."

In a flash, the girl’s figure disappeared from his sight.

Li Mochan looked down at his slightly damp shirt and pursed his lips lightly.

Before long, Ye Jiuliang came running back.

Under the sun, perhaps from running too fast, the girl’s fair, jade-like face was touched with a hint of light red, all of which fell into the man’s deep eyes.

"Here," she stopped and handed over the mineral water she bought to Li Mochan.

"You throw water on me once, and we’re even."

Her straightforward words reached his ears, and a faint smile crossed Li Mochan’s eyes.

His thin lips parted slightly, "You think this makes us even?"

"What else do you want?" She let him have his revenge, what more could he be dissatisfied with?

"Follow me."

With that said, he left her with yet another view of his back.

Ye Jiuliang hesitated, but in the end, she followed him.

Soon after, Ye Jiuliang looked at the office in front of her, which was styled in cold tones, and was completely baffled.

What did he bring her here for?

Not wanting to guess the man’s thoughts, she turned to find someone to ask for clarity.

In the vast office, there was no sign of the said master.

Seeing the door to the inner rest area open, she walked straight in.

"Li Mochan, you..."

Ye Jiuliang blinked, her body frozen in place.

The mottled sunlight outlined the man’s well-defined chest, broad shoulders, and a narrow waist, as perfect as if it had been meticulously sculpted.

Li Mochan had just slipped one arm into his shirt sleeve when he caught sight of the girl who had barged in, and a deep glint flickered in his eyes.

He put on his shirt unhurriedly and walked towards her with long strides.

His fluttering shirt revealed his powerful abdominal muscles, now you see them, now you don’t, and Ye Jiuliang was fixated, without a trace of embarrassment showing on her face.

She clicked her tongue softly, inwardly admiring, "Damn, that’s A-grade."

Li Mochan looked at the girl’s bright eyes that were fixed on him, his eyebrows twisted, "Have you had your fill?"

The magnetic voice rang out above her head, and Ye Jiuliang snapped back to reality. The man’s long fingers had already buttoned up the last button.

She smiled mischievously and intentionally said, "Not yet."

"Girls should immediately look away in this kind of situation," Li Mochan, out of the blue, started giving her advice.

Seeing his serious look, Ye Jiuliang’s eyes crinkled with a smile, "Why look away? With such a beauty before me, shouldn’t I appreciate it?"

"Come to think of it, with such a great body, Master Li, it would be a pity not to take a few more glances."

The playful tone was tinged with flirtation.

Li Mochan’s face was icy, "Have you seen other people’s?"

This line of questioning was somewhat abrupt.

Ye Jiuliang paused for a moment, realizing what he implied, and nodded without a second thought, "Yes, I have."

People who often wield surgical knives would have seen their fair share of others bare.

However, quite obviously, someone had misunderstood.

The man’s eyes turned frosty, and his thin lips were tightly pressed together with a hint of frustration.

After a long while, he forced out, "Stop messing around."

Hearing this, Ye Jiuliang felt an inexplicable urge to laugh.

But considering the man didn’t look too pleased, she restrained herself.

"Master Li the Fifth, I accidentally spilled water on you, and I apologize for that, can we let this matter go now?"

Li Mochan still fixated on their recent conversation, maintained a cold expression, "If apologies worked, what would be the need for police?"

"..."

Ye Jiuliang was left speechless.

The smile on her face slowly faded as she asked him, "Then what exactly do you want?"

An apology doesn’t suffice, nor does getting doused in return; did he really think she had no temper?

Li Mochan’s gaze dropped slightly, and he remained silent.

The silence returned.

Ye Jiuliang frowned and walked away petulantly, "Li Mochan, I’ve apologized, and if you don’t accept it, so be it."

She walked away, and he didn’t stop her.

As he watched the girl’s retreating figure shrink into the distance, Li Mochan withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the bottle of mineral water on the table.

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"Miss Ye?"

Wei Bei had escaped Feng Yi’s incessant gossiping and was on his way to find Li Mochan when he ran into Ye Jiuliang.

Ye Jiuliang looked up and seeing that it was Wei Bei, asked, "Is something the matter?"

"Weren’t you with my master? Why are you here alone?" Wei Bei asked with a slight smile.

As the saying goes, it’s hard to strike a smiling face.

Unfortunately for him, he encountered Master Jiu in a foul mood.

"Who’s with him." She muttered to herself, then quickly changed the subject, "The woman causing trouble in the cafeteria just now, is she also from the Li Family?"

She remembered that the woman looking for trouble had called Li Mochan ’Uncle Five’.

Wei Bei replied, "She’s the eldest daughter of the Li Family, named Li Jingxuan."

Ye Jiuliang scoffed. Yesterday she ran into Li Jingqi, and today it was Li Jingxuan—none of them were easy to deal with.

It seemed she clashed with the Li Family; their destinies did not align.

While she was thinking, the image of Li Mochan’s cold visage surfaced in her mind.

Glancing in the direction behind Ye Jiuliang, which led to his master’s office, Wei Bei had a hunch.

Could it be she had a quarrel with his master?

"Miss Ye, actually just now when my master saw Li Jingxuan troubling you, he wanted to step in and help you out, but then you..." Wei Bei spoke subtly.

Ye Jiuliang gave him a sidelong glance, "What are you trying to say?"

Wei Bei chuckled, speaking up for Li Mochan, "Miss Ye, my master is just like that, cold on the outside but warm inside. He’s actually a good person. Like yesterday, when Li Jingqi went home and complained about you hitting him, my master specially went back to clear up the misunderstanding. It was only then that Li Jingqi was scolded by the old Master Li and grounded."

Look how hard it is to be a good subordinate; you have to think of everything for your master.

He’s too "southern."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jiuliang had a faint expression, but the irritation in her eyes seemed to have dissipated somewhat.

"Well then, Miss Ye, I shall take my leave now." Wei Bei bid his farewell with a smile, knowing when to stop.

Ye Jiuliang lifted her hand to pinch the bridge of her nose, exhaling deeply.

Forget it.

She wouldn’t be staying in Beisen for much longer anyway, and she’d do well to stay far from the Li Family in the future.