Chapter 285: Chapter 284: There’s a Bad Person Downstairs
The first ray of summer sunlight filtered through the curtains, illuminating the large bed in the bedroom.
Wen Nuan’s visual nerves sensed the light, and her eyes rolled before she suddenly sat up with a start. After picking up the clothes beside the bed and putting them on, she quickly slipped on her slippers and rushed out.
"Why don’t you sleep a little longer?"
Tong Xi came out after brushing her teeth and asked in surprise, "Why are you up so early?"
"If I sleep any longer, I’ll be late for work." Wen Nuan gave a wry smile and walked towards the bathroom, but Tong Xi blocked her with an arm and looked at her with a teasing smile, "Go back to sleep!"
"Xixi?"
Wen Nuan frowned in confusion, "Stop messing around, I have to work."
"Pfft—" Tong Xi couldn’t help but burst into laughter, continuing to block her, "Miss Wen, it’s the weekend today, okay? You worked overtime until midnight yesterday and only came back then, now go back and sleep."
"Weekend?" Wen Nuan was startled, then she realized, "Oh gosh, am I going through menopause, how could I be so forgetful?"
She had worked overtime to finish everything yesterday, planning to rest over the weekend before heading to Italy on Monday with Lin Xue and the others.
Work had been extremely hectic these days, her mind completely filled with it, so she had forgotten such an important thing.
"I think so too, menopause must be arriving early." Tong Xi laughed, waving at her, "Sweetheart, I need to get to the film set early today. Uncle Weng always complains I’m late, I’m curious if he’ll praise me today. Go back to sleep, and when you wake up, either make yourself something to eat or go out for food."
"Go ahead, when you show up today, the first thing Director Weng will do is check if the sun is rising from the west."
"Not necessarily, he might think he’s dreaming instead." Tong Xi laughed cheekily, "Nuannuan, you actually made a joke today, that’s great."
"Yeah, I feel so happy just thinking about going to Italy. In the end, I have to thank you. Xixi, go work hard; I’m going back to sleep and won’t get up until noon." Wen Nuan laughed, not wanting Tong Xi to worry too much, made a funny face at her, and turned back to the bedroom to lie down.
For several consecutive days, she had only slept four to five hours each day. Today, she intended to catch up on sleep and then prepare the things needed for the business trip.
With her eyes closed, just as she was about to enter a dream, the door was knocked on rapidly and irregularly.
Struggling to open her eyes, Wen Nuan looked over at Tong Xi’s side of the room and saw the keys on the nightstand, her lips curling into a helpless smile.
This girl had forgotten her keys again.
Picking them up, she opened the door and handed the keys over, "Bidding farewell now? Take care on the road, I won’t see you off."
She was still so sleepy, and she hadn’t had enough rest yet.
"Farewell to whom?" Tong Xi squeezed in from the door, closed it with a bang, and pulled her towards the balcony with a mysterious look on her face, "I didn’t come back for the keys, whether I have them or not doesn’t matter since you aren’t going to work today."
"Then why did you come back...? Xixi, what is it?" Wen Nuan followed her in confusion, noticing her mysterious yet slightly flustered expression, doubt filling her eyes, "Is there a bad person in the community?"
Could it be that a terrorist had appeared downstairs, scaring Tong Xi too much to go out?
"Yes, and it’s from your family... No, he really isn’t from your family, but he is a bad guy!"
Tong Xi gave her a look, dragged her to the balcony, swept the curtain open, and pointed at a silver-gray car below, "Isn’t that Leng Yan’s car, the one downstairs?"
"What is he doing here?"
Her clear eyes gazed out, Wen Nuan’s heart fluttered slightly, indeed it was Leng Yan’s car.
"Waiting for you obviously, unlike you, he knows today is the weekend and you’ll be at home, so he came to intercept you specifically." Tong Xi pursed her lips, glancing back at the car before turning to look at Wen Nuan, "Going down?"
"I don’t want to."
Wen Nuan shook her head, she had nothing to say to him now. Although he would text her every day, asking for forgiveness, she never replied.
After this incident, her heart had temporarily shut down. She was using work to heal her pain, going to the company the earliest, leaving the last, only occasionally finding herself truly numbing to it all.
"I went downstairs, saw the car parked there and thought it looked familiar, snuck closer and sure enough, it was him, sleeping with his head on the steering wheel." Tong Xi was full of dissatisfaction towards Leng Yan now. After a while, she frowned, "Nuannuan, could he have been here since last night?"
"Maybe." Wen Nuan’s hand on the curtain gripped involuntarily, a complex mix of emotions surging in her heart.
Amid the pain and bitterness, there was also a trace of heartache.
It must be, otherwise, how did he fall asleep? But when she’d returned after midnight yesterday, she hadn’t seen his car. Did he work late and come afterward?
"I’ll go and scold him away!" Tong Xi turned to leave.
"Xixi!"
Wen Nuan pulled her arm, "Go to the film set, ignore him."
She resented what he and Ji Wei had done, but that day when he hugged her, tears of remorse rolling down the face of the Leng Family’s Second Young Master, whenever she thought about it, it tugged painfully at her heart.
Tong Xi sighed softly, "Nuannuan, your heart still holds him."
"Xixi, I admit he is in my heart, how could I forget so quickly?"
Nuannuan gave a bitter smile, "Three years, more than a thousand days and nights, something settled and thickened, it can’t be erased just like that, I need time."
"I understand. Though I haven’t truly loved before, I comprehend your heart. Nuannuan, get some good rest, if you don’t want to see him, just let him stay there." Tong Xi nodded, patting her shoulder in understanding. She pulled the curtain firmly shut and, seeing Wen Nuan’s unclear expression, regretted even more telling her about him; she should have given him a thorough tongue-lashing in the car, then driven him away.
Hearing a few phone chimes, Leng Yan rubbed his sore neck, hopeful that it was Wen Nuan, but it turned out to be spam. Disappointed, he sighed and sat up, eyes focused on Tong Xi’s level, brow furrowed tightly.
He didn’t even realize when he had fallen asleep, a slightly open window let last night’s cool breeze in, tickling his nose, making him sneeze uncontrollably, his head also ached a bit.
Did he catch a cold?
He forced a smile, took a sip of water from a bottle, then caught a glimpse of a shadow in his peripheral vision, quickly setting the bottle down.
"Tong Xi." He pushed open the car door, got out, and called her.
Tong Xi looked up, giving him a faint smile tinged with sarcasm, "Wow, is it raining red rain from the sky, or is the sun rising from the west? I didn’t expect to see the great President Leng right after stepping out. Looks like I should buy a lottery ticket later, surely I’ll win big."
"Can you not mock me?" Leng Yan’s expression turned somewhat unpleasant, suppressing the frustration welling up inside, he asked softly, "Is Nuannuan awake?"
"I didn’t notice when I left, oh my, time’s getting on, goodbye then, Second Young Master Leng!"
Wen Nuan didn’t want her to berate him, yet she didn’t feel like speaking nicely, so in the end, she playfully winked at him before walking away briskly.
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I’ll update two more Chapters later, now I need to revise some content, aiming to release it early