"Ye Jiuliang, let me go, let go." Mo Lingling screamed.

"Achen, save me..."

Chu Chen’s face was expressionless as he looked down at the person in front of him. "I was just taking a shower, didn’t know she came into my room."

"I know, Ajiu and I saw it from the rooftop." Gu Xinuo said with a cheeky grin, "Came over specially to keep your innocence intact, pretty decent of me, right?"

Chu Chen hummed, hiding a trace of melancholy.

On the other side

Mo Lingling struggled all the way, but still couldn’t escape from Ye Jiuliang’s grasp.

Ye Jiuliang let go, and Mo Lingling fell to the ground, her already short skirt failing to cover much of anything.

"Ye Jiuliang, you maniac."

She screamed, quickly getting up and fixing her dress.

"Huh."

Ye Jiuliang scoffed coldly, hands in his pockets, giving her a disdainful glance, "Don’t worry, with a figure like yours, even stray dogs on the roadside wouldn’t spare you a second glance."

Mo Lingling’s face flushed with embarrassment; she stared at Ye Jiuliang, her lips quivering with anger. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"You..."

Before she could spout nonsense, Ye Jiuliang aggressively interrupted, "Mo Lingling, don’t take the mentorship we received as capital for your shamelessness time and again, and don’t start concocting schemes against Chu Chen and the rest. Otherwise, I won’t tolerate you breathing in this world’s air on account of the mentor’s face, got it?"

"You..." Mo Lingling was stunned, confronting the frost in her eyes, her blood nearly freezing.

Ye Jiuliang plucked a pear blossom, twirling it between his fingers

"Don’t forget who provides the fine clothes and food you enjoy now, and don’t keep evoking the mentor to justify yourself. If I take a dislike to you, I could cut off your financial supply in a minute."

People like Mo Lingling, used to comfort, with her pampered missy temperament, asking her to find a job and support herself might as well be like asking her to hang herself with a noodle.

Mo Lingling bit her lip in aggravation, annoyed at how she was always thoroughly suppressed by Ye Jiuliang.

"Today is the mentor’s death anniversary; I don’t want to fight. You’d better behave. If you’re really that desperate for a man, just speak up. I’ll send you a dozen, no need to be polite," Ye Jiuliang said with a wicked smile, casually speaking.

"Ye Jiuliang, you..." Mo Lingling was so angry she nearly passed out.

Running out of patience to drag this out with her, Ye Jiuliang turned and left.

Back at Chu Chen’s courtyard, Ji Mingqian and Gu Xinuo were also there.

There was still a pile of liquor on the table.

"Ajiu, what did you do to Mo Lingling?" Ji Mingqian asked curiously.

He just missed out on a good show by a step.

Ye Jiuliang glanced at him, "What, feeling sorry for her?"

"No, that sticky plaster is more than I can handle," Ji Mingqian chuckled.

"You’ve changed your tune tonight, not drinking?" Chu Chen said, looking at Ye Jiuliang’s untouched glass with a strange look in his eyes.

"Her better half won’t let her drink too much," Gu Xinuo teased.

Seeing the trio’s playful laughter, Ye Jiuliang just rolled her eyes at them.

"We head back tomorrow afternoon, Aqian, you take charge of the goods in W city personally," Chu Chen said, straightening his expression, "We haven’t caught the mastermind behind those men in black yet, we need to be careful."

Ji Mingqian nodded, "Alright, I was actually planning to go to country F to check on something."

Chu Chen continued, "Ajiu, the headquarters’ trials are starting at the end of next month. You’ll be leading the team; don’t forget."

Ye Jiuliang leaned on one hand, "Got it."

"Ajiu, really not having a drink?" Ji Mingqian joked.

Li Mochan really knew his stuff; he actually managed to turn this booze-lover sober.

Ye Jiuliang sneered, "Shoo."