America: I came here to study, not to show mercy.

Chapter 201 A casual trip

The office is spacious, with simple yet luxurious furnishings on the walls, floors, and ceilings, complementing the various decorations placed appropriately in specific locations and creating a unique elegance.

Suddenly, a loud thud startled her, and the high heel on the ground fell to the ground. Before Sophie could react, she had already fallen into the young man's arms.

She quickly sat up, supporting herself on the other person's shoulders, and glared at them angrily. "What were you doing in a place like this? Aren't you afraid someone might suddenly walk in?"

"Don't they knock on the door and ask for your permission before coming in?"

He quickly grabbed the girl's slender waist to prevent her from getting up, and Li Xiaoen looked over with a teasing smile.

"Even so, what are you doing in the office?"

With a shout, and struggling to no avail, Suffer gritted her teeth and reached for the young man's neck with both hands, "Let me go right now."

"Sufeil..."

He quickly called out, looking up at the girl's fair and beautiful oval face, resisting the urge to lean in and kiss her, "Actually, your work isn't very urgent, or even important, right?"

Upon hearing the question, and seeing that Su Feier immediately stopped pinching him, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but smile, "You're just deliberately trying to torment me?"

After closing his eyes and pretending to be asleep, he saw through the [Eye of Insight] that Suffer wasn't paying much attention to the computer. Instead, she kept turning her head to look at him, and even came to disturb him when she saw that he was sleeping well. The truth was self-evident.

"I haven't checked on the company's situation for so long. Can't I just take a quick look now?"

Sophie asked in return.

"Naturally."

Li Xiaoen nodded, his hands caressing the girl's soft, slender waist. He certainly wasn't going to dwell on Su Feier's matter, and casually asked, "I remember, didn't you hand over this company to your brother to manage?"

"He had something to do at home, so he went back."

"Oh, no wonder, it's your turn to take over."

Suddenly remembering the message in the bottle from that morning, Li Xiaoen couldn't help but chuckle.

The family business is the priority, and with family matters at home, there's naturally no time left to attend to this newly developed small company, which seems more like a hobby.

From this perspective, this internet company seems to be a second-generation entrepreneur, following the same old formula: if the startup fails and the company goes bankrupt, the entrepreneur is forced to go back and inherit a fortune of billions.

Thinking of this, Li Xiaoen's expression became somewhat strange.

He knew that Suffer's family was very wealthy and a powerful clan, but he had never really grasped the concept until now, when he realized that this funny anecdote from his high school days had actually happened to him, and he began to understand it a little better.

Silently watching the young man's ever-changing expression, Su Feier slowly frowned and began to struggle to get up again.

"No, don't leave it like this, let's have a chat..."

Coming to his senses, Li Xiaoen quickly hugged the girl sitting on his lap again, looked up to meet her impatient light blue eyes, and leaned in to kiss her moist, full red lips.

Letting out a long breath, Suffer frowned and looked down at the young man.

Sometimes, I really admire your thick skin...

Knowing perfectly well what was troubling Suffer, Li Xiaoen took a deep breath and leaned back against the sofa.

"Sophie, do you know what? When I woke up and found you weren't there, the first thing I did after I came out was to send you a message."

"Well, then what?"

Sophie nodded casually.

Then?

Li Xiaoen's eyes widened slightly, her mind racing. "Besides, you want me to come with you, so I'm driving over right away, aren't I?"

"Um……"

"..."

After carefully choosing his words, Li Xiaoen spoke again, "You might think I'm greedy, but..."

"possible?"

Sophie exclaimed in surprise, then laughed in exasperation, and tightened her grip on the young man's hands.

"Okay, I was greedy."

Li Xiaoen sat up straight, buried his head in Su Feier's arms, and hugged her tightly. "Su Feier, you don't need to worry. I'll support whatever you want to do, but I still want to try..."

"I won't force you. I will do everything in my power to get your consent. In the end, the decision is entirely up to you, okay?"

Startled for a moment, Suffer caught her breath, but in the end, she had no choice but to take a few deep breaths, raise her arms, and hug the young man's head in her arms.

She really wanted to tell the young man that Victoria was a true princess of the English royal family, but she was afraid that once that secret was revealed, it would obviously not make them so reckless—she had no doubt that Sean Lee would do it, even if it caused any uproar.

Thinking of this, Suffer felt a pang of sorrow. Four years of university was too long; it would be better to let Victoria discover her relationship with Sean Lee herself.

She really wanted to smash the head of the amorous young man in her arms, but as if noticing something, Su Feier's expression froze for a moment, and she gritted her teeth and pushed him away.

"Sorry, it's a normal reaction..."

Li Xiaoen felt a little embarrassed, forced a smile, and couldn't help but sit up straight again and lean his head closer.

"No...not here..."

Slightly stunned by the young man's burning gaze and feeling the two large, hot hands caressing her body, Su Feier quickly pushed him away again. "This is an office. What do you want to do here?"

After a moment of surprise, Li Xiaoen looked around the spacious and bright office, his eyes shining even brighter than before. He looked at Su Feier, panting, and said, "Isn't the office better?"

When he pretended to be asleep and used the Eye of Insight to observe Suffer's reaction, he confirmed that there was no surveillance or investigation, and the secretary who brought coffee to the office was guarding the door. No one would suddenly come in.

"Don't project your dirty thoughts onto me."

Rolling her eyes and gritting her teeth, Su Feier suddenly remembered that Li Xiaoen had made her wear a maid outfit once, which made her even angrier. She glared at him.

"Ok."

Suffer was conservative in this regard, and he couldn't force him. Li Xiaoen nodded helplessly, then suddenly remembered their first time together and looked over in surprise.

"Sophie, on our first night together, what exactly happened to you..."

"Shut up!"

Before she could finish speaking, Suffer glared at her again and quickly interrupted her.

"..."

"You can't even say this?"

Li Xiaoen was both amused and exasperated. When he saw the girl in front of him blush, a rare sight, his expression became even more peculiar.

As he silently scrutinized her, Li Xiaoen felt another hand pressing down on his face.

"Sufeil..."

Smiling, he shook his head, trying to shake off the girl's somewhat cold hand. Li Xiaoen leaned over and kissed her rosy lips again.

Sophie's breath hitched, and her hands, which had been on the young man's face, naturally moved to his sides, stroking his cheeks as she slowly responded.

Their lips and tongues intertwined, and their breathing became increasingly heavy.

Measuring the graceful curves of the girl's body with his hands, Li Xiaoen seemed unsatisfied and reached down, slipping his hand inside her knitted top.

"Sean...Sean..."

Suddenly snapping back to her senses, Sophie quickly lowered her hand, stopping the young man's grasp. Her lips parted, drawing out a glistening, clear line of saliva. "Not here, okay?"

"it is good."

His consciousness suddenly cleared, and Li Xiaoen nodded, his voice a little hoarse.

Sophie's expression seemed less resolute than before. He took a deep breath and forced himself to suppress the thought of taking advantage of someone's misfortune.

"Sufeil..."

Li Xiaoen smiled, bent down to pick up the high heels from the ground, put them on for her, then picked her up and walked behind the desk to the computer. "I have something I want to tell you."

"what's up?"

With a slight frown, Suffer saw the young man sit down on the chair and let her sit across his lap, and patted his chest in displeasure.

"About your father."

Li Xiaoen's answer surprised her.

Without further suspense, Li Xiaoen logged into his cloud backup platform on Su Feier's computer and pulled up the results of a day's online searches.

"This is... my father's experience when he was young?"

After glancing at the portrait in the newspaper on the computer screen, Sophie exclaimed and turned to look at him, "You mean, you noticed something's wrong?"

You should know that since she was born, she has known that her father and uncles respectively controlled businesses on the East and West coasts, and she thought it was arranged by her grandfather. But now she sees that her father has taken over real estate businesses on the West Coast.

"See for yourself."

Li Xiaoen raised his chin and withdrew his hand to wrap around the girl's slender waist.

Naturally, he wouldn't reveal the information in the message in the bottle. He searched online based on those clues, and it was in a church promotional post that a user vaguely mentioned various real names and places, which caused a small stir at the time.

He had no doubt that these were confessions from the people who wrote messages in bottles to church staff or even priests. They used trumpets to spread these bizarre and conspiratorial stories in order to gain fame, attract more believers, and thus obtain more government subsidies.

He is not a Catholic, so naturally he has no prejudice against clergy. Moreover, crimes committed by American priests against children still occur.

Ignoring the young man's hand stroking her waist and abdomen, Suffer was completely absorbed in the story. She turned around and sat on his lap, scrolling through the screen.

"Sean, are you saying that my father was framed by my uncle and that's why he withdrew from the West Coast real estate market from my grandfather's place?"

After carefully reading everything and taking a long time to recover, Suffer turned to look at Li Xiaoen and asked in a deep voice.

"All the information I've found so far is here, and I can only say that the probability is relatively high."

Li Xiaoen carefully chose his words before replying, and Su Feier immediately understood, frowning as she let out a sigh of relief.

"These events happened too long ago, and these aren't exactly conclusive evidence, are they?"

Li Xiaoen explained that he and Su Feier were both intelligent people, and although that was the case, based on that information, it was almost a certainty. However, as an outsider, he couldn't make the decision for them.

"I see."

She nodded seriously, pondered for a while, and then suddenly looked at him scrutinizingly, "Why would you investigate my father's information for no reason?"

Raising an eyebrow, Li Xiaoen slumped his shoulders and leaned back in his chair. "Suffolk, you should know my major, right?"

"Computer science? Investigating other people's information online?" Sophie asked skeptically.

"Machine learning is my inference model."

Li Xiaoen replied, "Based on the information currently available, we can deduce the most likely outcome."

"..."

After the young man hesitated for a moment, Su Feier nodded and stood up. "It's getting late, let's go."

"Okay." Relieved, Li Xiaoen nodded in agreement and left the office with Su Feier.

To his surprise, even at 10:30 p.m., he still saw many employees working diligently in that office area.

"Do you guys work overtime this hard too?"

Upon entering the elevator, Li Xiaoen jokingly said something to Su Feier.

"Do you have some misunderstanding about America?"

Su Fei rolled her eyes at the young man and said casually, pursing her lips, "It's a startup, and an internet company at that, so overtime is inevitable. Besides, this is their flexible schedule. They only arrived at the company at noon, and they're being paid enough overtime..."

Suddenly feeling a bit dazed, Li Xiaoen's expression turned strange. He nodded helplessly and didn't ask any more questions.

The elevator took them directly to the underground parking lot. Seeing Suffer walk to his red Ferrari without a word, Li Xiaoen paused for a moment, then quickly spoke:
“Sophie, we…”

"Okay, your task for today is finished. It's so late, go home and get some rest."

Sophie turned around and said calmly, bending down to open the Ferrari's door. Unexpectedly, the young man reached out from behind and closed it. As soon as she turned around, he was pressed against the door again.

"Sophie, you asked me to come all the way from school to keep you company while you work overtime, and even told you about your family situation. Is this how you treat me?"

Grabbing the girl's struggling hands, Li Xiaoen met Su Feier's frowning gaze as she looked up and grinned.

"Hmm... I've made you come so late. You look tired. Wouldn't it be better if you went home and got some rest?"

Sophie gave a light hum, her voice casual as she spoke.

Why does this sound so familiar?

Li Xiaoen felt a little strange. Seeing the disdain in the girl's light blue eyes, he couldn't help but feel a bit amused and sighed.

"So... this is your retaliation that night when you came to Yuecheng during winter break?"

"Ok?"

Looking up blankly, Suffer gave him an innocent look, but the young man's head suddenly loomed large in her vision and kissed her lips.

"Humph……"

Suffolk gave the young man a disgruntled shove, his strength gradually diminishing, but he still managed to grab the man's shoulder and forcefully push him away. "Sean..."

Her breathing quickened as she met the burning gaze of the young man pressed against her. "Not here..."

"it is good."

Li Xiaoen took a deep breath and nodded with a helpless smile.

"You came in your new car, right?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"Then drive your new car."

Sophie smiled.

The two took the elevator back to the first floor and walked to the nearby parking lot.

"This car is quite nice."

From a distance, Sophie carefully observed the sleek and imposing Aston Martin parked quietly in the snow. "No wonder it was the grand prize at Serafina's birthday party."

"It's quite beautiful."

Li Xiaoen nodded smugly, "Who would have thought that in the end this car would still end up in my name?"

With a cheerful smile, Li Xiaoen opened the passenger door for Su Feier. Turning his head, he met Su Feier's scrutinizing gaze and was momentarily stunned.

"Humph……"

Sophie chuckled and pursed her lips. "Sean, with so many people participating in the lottery, you still managed to win the grand prize. This time, are you planning to rely on luck? Or is Lady Luck just an excuse?"

"..."

"You still found out, Sophie."

Li Xiaoen shrugged and sighed, "So, have you bought the bunny girl outfit yet?"

The mischievous look on his oval face suddenly turned icy. Suffer glanced at him with narrowed eyes, nodded, and bent down to get into the car.

"I'll wear it for you when you confess to me."

So sometimes, being too smart can be a problem.

Li Xiaoen walked to the driver's seat, mentally complaining, and closed the car door. The two sat in the cramped space inside the car, and he turned his head to look over.

"Sophie, are you so sure I have some kind of superpower?"

"I'll assume you are. So, are you going to confess to me?"

Suffer gave a gentle smile, but this was never a good thing for him. Li Xiaoen quickly shook his head in denial.

"Then forget about the bunny girl outfit you wanted."

Rolling her eyes, Sophie turned back to look ahead. "Also, I've already had a tiger sent over. You'll have to help me tame it."

"Hey……"

Li Xiaoen was stunned for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise, "Suffolk, are you really not kidding?"

"You can wait."

Sophie nodded, a knowing smile playing on her lips.

He opened his mouth, then suddenly realized that Suffer might be bluffing him. Li Xiaoen started the car and drove onto the road before speaking again.

"If you act on your own initiative, we'll just waste our energy sending the tiger back again."

"I won't send it back; I'll keep it in your villa."

Her heart sank, but Suffer still nodded nonchalantly on the surface.

From then on, an eerie silence fell over the car once again.

Both were intelligent, and through their back-and-forth conversation, they realized that the other was deliberately testing and maneuvering them, and their hearts sank in unison.

In silence, Li Xiaoen drove to a hotel called Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. He declined the doorman's offer to park the car and drove to the hotel's underground parking lot himself.

As soon as he got out of the car, Li Xiaoen turned around to greet Su Feier, only to see the girl pick up her bag and throw it at him.

"Sufeil..."

Li Xiaoen quickly raised his hand to block, but unfortunately failed to stop the other party. Amused and helpless, he walked towards the elevator going upstairs. Just then, he saw the doorman coming down to get his car, and the attack from behind immediately stopped.

He turned around in surprise and saw Suffer holding his bag with a calm expression.

"..."

Indeed, women are natural-born actresses; they are very good at putting on an act.

Li Xiaoen raised an eyebrow, inwardly exclaiming in surprise.

There were people in the elevator. After completing all the formalities at the front desk without incident, Li Xiaoen went upstairs. When he arrived at the high floor where his room was located, he saw that the corridors in front and behind were empty. Alarm bells rang in Li Xiaoen's mind. The next moment, the bag arrived as expected.

"Sufeil..."

Knowing full well what the other person was struggling with, Li Xiaoen couldn't bring himself to say the truth about the key system. He called out to them, but to no avail, and could only silently carry them toward the room.

knock.

With a dull thud from the door, the two stood in front of it, frowning at each other and staring intently.

The bag fell to the ground with a thud, and the two of them suddenly hugged each other.

"Well……"

Bearing the girl's weight pressing down on him, they embraced and kissed. Li Xiaoen let out a soft groan as he breathed heavily, forcibly suppressing the excitement in his heart. He turned around, locked the door, and then carried the girl towards the bed.

……

A romantic scene unfolds, and the bright full moon has climbed into the deep dome of the sky.

Li Xiaoen came out of the bathroom, drying her hair, and saw Su Feier standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking thoughtful. She couldn't help but walk over and hug her from behind.

"what happened?"

"Um……"

Sophie let out a sigh, leaned back, and fell into the young man's arms. "I'm thinking about how to tell my father about that."

“My grandfather always valued family harmony, and we keep in frequent contact with my uncles…”

"Or, why don't you just give the information I found to your father?"

Li Xiaoen pondered for a moment and then suggested, "Leave the specific judgment to him; you don't need to worry about it."

Sophie shook her head.

"Based on the information you found, the witness should still be alive. I want to wait until I find the other person and ask them in person to confirm before making a decision."

"this is okay too."

Li Xiaoen nodded in agreement, a smile creeping onto his face. "How about we go find that person ourselves tomorrow?"

"..."

These words seemed to have come as a complete surprise. Suffer froze for a moment, then turned around blankly and looked up at him in astonishment.

"what do you think?"

Li Xiaoen smiled and asked again, raising his chin, "I saw that the last information about that person appeared in a small town called Aurora in New York State, which is only about a five-hour drive from New York. How about we take a spontaneous trip?"

Coming to her senses, Suffer looked at the young man with barely suppressed joy. Just as she was about to speak, she heard him speak again.

"You won't agree? Then forget it. I'll just go back to class anyway and prepare for the discussion meeting in early February."

Laughing, as soon as he finished speaking, Li Xiaoen was hit hard on the chest with a headbutt, and he couldn't help but take two steps back, raising his hand to helplessly cover his chest.

Sometimes, I really want to shut your mouth up completely.

Gritting her teeth, she glared at him, then suddenly lunged at the young man, clinging to him in a bear hug.

"Eh……"

Li Xiaoen let out a startled cry, staggered to his feet, and then quickly hugged the girl from behind. Just as he was about to open his mouth, she bit him, completely silencing him.

His breathing quickly became heavy, and he suddenly came to his senses.

Sophie truly keeps her word...

(End of this chapter)