Yan Xuxu had only taken a few steps when Zhou Li'an caught up with her, "Senior, let me see you off."

She turned around and smiled faintly, "I haven't been drinking, I can drive."

Zhou Li'an, on the other hand, drank quite a bit while shielding Su Wanqing from drinks, and later drank with his colleagues, so he must have been a little drunk.

Otherwise, why would her face be so red?

Without giving it much thought, she turned around and continued walking towards the elevator.

Behind her, Zhou Li'an called out to her again, "Actually, my colleague guessed right, I like you."

Yan Xuxu thought she had misheard and stopped in her tracks.

Zhou Li'an took a few steps to close the distance between the two, his gaze burning as he said, "I've liked you since we first met, senior. The reason I came to work at Ming'an Group is because you're here."

Yan Xuxu stood there, stunned.

Tonight, she was on guard against everyone.

Since arriving, I've only drunk a glass of water and haven't touched anything else.

I'm worried that Su Wanqing and Yan Minmin might do something behind my back.

Just now, she was wondering how Su Wanqing and Yan Minmin could let her leave so easily.

So that's what the two of them were planning.

She deliberately teased Zhou Li'an about liking her in front of so many people.

Now Zhou Li'an has chased after her and confessed his love to her.

So, should we wait until she lowers her guard so that Zhou Li'an can make his move on her?

The corridor window was open, and the night breeze blew in, lifting Yan Xuxu's long hair. A few strands clung to her cheeks, making her even more radiant and beautiful.

She stared at Zhou Li'an for a long time, then suddenly laughed, "Xiao An, this joke isn't funny at all."

Zhou Li'an took another step closer to her, his eyes filled with undisguised seriousness. "Senior, I'm serious."

If Zhou Li'an hadn't helped Su Wanqing fend off drinks tonight, she might have thought he was serious.

But now, she trusts no one.

"I know this is abrupt, but I really like you, senior. Could you give me a chance to pursue you?"

In the moment of distraction, Yan Xuxu's wrist was grabbed.

Zhou Li'an stood in front of her, his eyes bloodshot.

The temperature of her palm was scorching hot, making Yan Xuxu shiver and quickly pull her hand back.

"Xiao An, you've had too much to drink."

At the same time, she also noticed that Zhou Li'an's condition was not quite right.

Besides his bloodshot eyes, he was breathing heavily and his consciousness was somewhat scattered.

He looks like he's been drugged!

Yan Xuxu quickly took two steps back to keep her distance from him, "It's getting late, I have to go home."

It seems she guessed correctly.

Tonight, Zhou Li'an is the means Su Wanqing uses to deal with her.

He was drugged.

It's very dangerous now.

She must leave here immediately.

"Senior."

As Zhou Li'an watched her jog away, a surge of heat welled up inside him, and he felt as if all his strength had been drained. He steadied himself by leaning against the wall.

Ahead, Yan Xuxu ran faster and faster, without even turning her head back.

The elevator happened to stop on her floor, and she frantically pressed the floor button.

The door opened, and she stepped inside.

When Zhou Li'an looked up again, the elevator doors had already slowly closed.

His gentle gaze suddenly turned cold as he took out his phone and dialed a number. "Brother, I'm at Wangyu Tower. Come pick me up."

……

It wasn't until she bumped into a solid wall and her ears started ringing from the pain that Yan Xuxu realized there was someone in the elevator.

But why does this aura feel so familiar?

She was about to look up when a cold, sarcastic voice came from above, "You just rejected me, and now you're throwing yourself at me. What tricks are you playing, Miss Yan?"

"Playing hard to get, huh?"

Yan Xuxu, her face filled with humiliation, shoved him hard. "I didn't know you were in there."

"Did someone confess their feelings to you, and you got carried away?"

and so……

It was no coincidence that Jie Lanyuan was here.

Instead, he stayed in the elevator the whole time.

He also overheard her entire conversation with Zhou Li'an.

Yan Xuxu made no attempt to hide her mockery, "Hiding inside and eavesdropping, is that fun?"

"Play?"

Xie Lanyuan dangerously approached her.

Yan Xuxu kept backing away until her back hit the cold wall.

A sense of oppression, with no way out, filled her nerves. The feeling of powerlessness, of being unable to escape his grasp, made her stand on end. "I'm busy. I don't have time to play this game with you."

Jie Lanyuan's eyes darkened, a prelude to anger. "Who wants to play with you?"

During his years in the Shen family, he endured humiliation and hardship, which tempered his stern and unsmiling nature.

Afterwards, he returned to the Xie family to take over the family business. In the arena of power, he acted as he pleased, and no one ever dared to provoke him.

Those who offend him will not have a good ending.

But now, facing this woman, he was furious, yet he couldn't bear to lay a finger on her.

In his anger, he punched the wall behind her hard.

With a loud "bang," Yan Xuxu's hair was lifted, and her ears were momentarily deafened by the shock.

She stood there, stunned, for a long time before she came to her senses.

Her chin was suddenly grabbed, and the man's angry breathing forcefully pierced her ear. "Laughing and chatting with other men, yet sticking your nose up at me, Yan Xuxu, you're really something."

Yan Xuxu offered a benevolent suggestion: "If Mr. Xie feels unbalanced, he can go find other women to smile at him. I believe no one will refuse."

She smiled innocently.

The words she spoke were like knives, piercing to the heart.

Looking at her beautiful face, Xie Lanyuan was filled with the urge to punish her severely and make her obey.

Ignoring her resistance, he kissed her again.

Yan Xuxu turned her head away.

The kiss brushed against her earlobe.

A blush immediately rose to her face.

He saw it, and sneered coldly, "Still blushing so easily? Doesn't Shen Mingzhou kiss you?"

"Oh right, you're not the only woman in his life. If you want intimacy, you'll have to choose one, right?"

Yan Xuxu had heard many unpleasant things.

But few people can kill someone so cruelly, even by destroying their spirit.

She was instantly enraged and struggled violently, shouting, "Get out!"

Seeing her angry, flushed face, Xie Lanyuan bit his lip to control his emotions and didn't let go of her. Instead, he held her tightly in his arms.

"You're getting angry because I hit the nail on the head?"

Yan Xuxu was no match for him in strength, and after struggling, she was left breathless and unable to breathe.

But he wouldn't let her go, his hurtful words never stopping: "Spend one night with me, and I promise the patent will belong to you."

Yan Xuxu was so angry she really wanted to kill him.

But she couldn't move and could only yell at him, "I told you, I don't want to, give up on that idea."

"My skills are no worse than Shen Mingzhou's."

He deliberately leaned close to her ear, smiling knowingly, "Of course, I'm cleaner than Shen Mingzhou too."

Yan Xuxu was stunned for a moment.

Then I heard him say, "We've been together for so many years, and we've never tried it. Don't you want to give it a try?"

"You get something for free and achieve your goal; you're the beneficiary of the entire collaboration."

He took her hand and pressed it against his chest muscles, teasingly saying, "You used to love touching my chest muscles. I've been working out a lot these past few years, don't you want to touch them anymore?"

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