I Want A Lifetime With You Chapter 221
“Cruel?”
Pei Jingxiu regarded Ning Xi with incredulity, as if she had said something absurd. He raised his brow
and feigned a smile with barely veiled coldness in his eyes. He pulled the car to a stop and shifted his
body to face Ning Xi.
He lifted Ning Xi’s chin and stared straight at her with his deep, alluring eyes.
Ning Xi almost lost herself in Pei Jingxiu’s captivating eyes. Pei Jingxiu reached his hand towards her,
and his tapered finger brushed her chin softly, as if he were caressing on a precious gem. But Ning Xi
knew that Pei Jingxiu had uncloaked his devilish nature. Ning Xi was trembling in fear, and she wished
to break free from his grasp.
She heard his voice, “Nine, do you still remember our first encounter?”
Ning Xi’s body was shaking uncontrobly and her face was gloomy. She pursed her lips and avoided
his gaze. “I don’t remember.”
“How could you forget those memories? When you lose your dignity, that’s when you would realize
what you truly want. Just like you would do anything to survive and achieve your goals when I first met
you. Nothing is impossible.”
“But it’s a sin that led to our encounter. That’s my punishment,” Ning Xi blurted out, “If I had a choice, I
would rather we never met each other.”
Pei Jingxiu curled his lips, “I don’t believe in fate.” He caressed her jawline and tilted her head, “People
are often willing to make sacrifices in order to get what they want. There’s nothing wrong with it.”
“Nine, you can devote yourself to benevolence once you get what you want. God will forgive your sins.”
He let out a chuckle, “Are you scared?”
Ning Xi remained silent and Pei Jingxiu raised his brow, “You won’t be afraid if you think about your
desires. Keep your eye on the prize – let your ambitions drive you forward. By the way, since we’re in
Jiang City, don’t you want to meet those good friends of yours? Or maybe we can revisit the ce
where we first met?”
Ning Xin pursed her lips and glowered at him, “There is no need. I’m tired and I need some rest!”
Pei Jingxiu curled his lips, “Fine!”
Ning Xi closed her eyes, but her past still haunted her no matter how hard she tried to forget it.
Pei Jingxiu was right; she refused to relive what she had gone through in the past. It was her fate to
meet Pei Jingxiu, then she would ept it regardless of the oue.
Ning Xin turned her back on Pei Jingxiu to shield herself from his ruthlessness and aloofness.
It was the end of the year, and allpanies were busy preparing for their annual meeting. As the
leading enterprise of Jiang City, Shengyuan’s annual meeting had always been grand and extravagant.
Mai Qi had a lot on her te for the past few days. For the past years, she had her subordinates to
help her organize the function, but not this year. Song Jingyu was eager to impress, so she turned
down thepany’s assignation of helpers. She was overambitious by iming that she could work it
out all by herself.
But Song Jingyu was born with silver spoon in her mouth, and she couldn’t even put forward a decent
proposal. Although it’s only an annual meeting, there was an enormous amount of preparation that
needed to be done.
Song Jingyu was no help at all; Mai Qi already had her hands full and she even needed to prepare the
annual report. Mai Qi was on the verge of filing her resignation but she managed to hold herself back.
She reminded herself that it was impossible to find anotherpany that would allow her to make
good money like Shengyuan.
Fortunately, Fu Chengyan was a thoughtful superior. He was aware of Song Jingyu’s ipetence, so
he had asked Zhou Zheng to assign a few co-workers. Although they were running a few dayste, it
was still possible to pull it off in time.
Shi Nuan had just finished her project report when she received a call from Fu Chengyan asking her to
go to his office. Shi Nuan came out of the elevator and found Mai Qi, who looked worn out. Mai Qi was
holding a towering stack of files in her arms. A few sheets of document slipped her hold, so Shi Nuan
stooped down to reach for them, “Mai Qi, what happened to you?”
“Nothing!” Mai Qi shook her head, “Ms. Shi, why are you here today?”
Shi Nuan shed the report that she was holding, “It’s thetest project report to be reviewed by Mr.
Fu.”
“Oh, okay. Mr. Fu is in the office.” Mai Qi smiled, “Mr. Fu seems to be in a bad mood today, be mindful
and good luck!”
Shi Nuan nodded and gave her an ‘OK’ gesture, “Thanks!”
“No problem, you can go inside now. I’m mmed with the preparation work for the annual meeting.”
“Alright, I’ll let you get back to work!” Shi Nuan watched Mai Qi as she marched out of sight. She
recalled that there were only a few days left before the annual meeting. If they were still in the midst of
the preparation work, it implied that they were in dire straits.
Shi Nuan knocked on the door and heard Fu Chengyan’s voice, “Come in!”
Shi Nuan pushed the door open and found Fu Chengyan pinching the bridge of his nose; he looked
exhausted.
Shi Nuan approached him and ced the project report on Fu Chengyan’s desk. Then, she moved
behind Fu Chengyan, rested his head on the leather chair, and massaged his temples. “Are you tired?”
“Feeling better now!”
Fu Chengyan closed his eyes and loosened up. “Tell me about your project report!”
“I covered almost everything on the phone. As I mentioned, there are no major problems, it’s just that
George is a perfectionist, so he asked me and Mr. Lin toe up with another design as an
alternative.”
“George is indeed a stickler for perfection.” Fu Chengyan motioned Shi Nuan to stop the massaging
and looked through her report. “Not bad, it’s definitely better than the previous report, and the
calctions are more urate. It seems like George is training you to be his apprentice.”
“Really?” Shi Nuan was surprised, “But isn’t Mr. Lin George’s apprentice?”
“Lin Yu is skilled and he doesn’t need George’s guidance. You, on the other hand, should take the
opportunity to learn from George. George is an avant-garde architect and he holds a different style
from Lin Yu.”
“Okay, I will!” Shi Nuan nodded, “Are you still tired? Do you want me to massage your temples?”
Shaking his head, Fu Chengyan he held Shi Nuan’s hand and led her to the sofa. Then, he rested Shi
Nuan’s hand on his thigh and started toying with her fingers with childish enthusiasm.
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Shi Nuan remained silent as she studied Fu Chengyan before retracting her hand. “I’ll be going now
since there’s nothing else. I still have a lot of work at hand!”
“Don’t go!” Fu Chengyan took Shi Nuan’s hand, “Sit here and keep mepany for a while!”
“What’s wrong?” Shi Nuan sensed his despondency. “I ran into Mai Qi just now and she said you’re in a
bad mood. Is it about work?”
“It’s nothing!” Fu Chengyan shook his head, “It’s nothing important.”
“Fine, but promise me that you’ll tell me when you have any problems.” Shi Nuan decided to stay
quietly by his side when a thought struck her. “Oh, are you really leaving the annual meeting up to Mai
Qi and Song Jingyu?”
“Why?” Fu Chengyan lifted his head. “Is there anything amiss?”
“No, it’s just that people are talking about the annual meeting. They think ourpany cares little about
this years’ annual meeting because Mai Qi is the only one doing all the preparation work while Song
Jingyu contributes nothing.” Shi Nuan never regarded Song Jingyu with disfavor. However, she opined
that Song Jingyu shouldplete the tasks entrusted by thepany since she was an employee of
Shengyuan.
But it seemed that Shi Nuan had overestimated Song Jingyu’s capability. She was inept when it came
to handling her tasks as she had never worked for a living. “Mai Qi needs to shoulder such an onerous
task all by herself. She looks extremely tiredtely.”
“Then do you have any suggestions, May?” Fu Chengyan chuckled, “Mai Qi is my secretary and she’s
competent, so don’t you worry about her. And I’ll send Song Jingyu away when it’s time, but not now.
It’s inappropriate to embarrass the Song family during the end of the year.”
“Don’t get me wrong. It doesn’t matter whether you send her away or not because she doesn’t pose a
threat to our rtionship.” Shi Nuan was unwilling to pressure Fu Chengyan. “You can do as you
please!”
“Alright!” A smile yed on Fu Chengyan’s lips, “May, you’re so understanding.”
“Of course.” Shi Nuan smiled, “I really got to go. I’ll wait for you at your underground garage when I get
off work. You’ll finish on time, right? Aunt Ning said she wants to have steamed fish head with chili
peppers tonight. We need to buy it from the fishmonger.”
“Uncle didn’t buy it?” Fu Chengyan narrowed his eyes. “All he does is give orders.”
“Uncle needs to keep Aunt Ningpany. And I realized Aunt Ning is in a fine fettle recently, “ Shi
Nuan said with a smile. She got to her feet, rested her weight on Fu Chengyan’s shoulder, and pecked
him on the lips, “I’ll get going now!”
Song Jingyu was leaving the secretary’s office when she saw Shi Nuaning out of Fu Chengyan’s
office.
Her figure was familiar to Song Jingyu because she woulde across her on the twenty-seventh
office floor every so often. Song Jingyu had inquired about her and found out that she was Shi Nuan —
the woman who was a frequenter of Fu Chengyan’s office. Song Jingyu heard that she was Lin Yu’s
chief assistant from the project management department.
Song Jingyu stared at Shi Nuan’s back grimly. She fixated her gaze at the direction where Shi Nuan
had left and was so enraged that she broke her pen in half.
She had asked Mai Qi about Shi Nuan, and Mai Qi had said that this woman posed no threat to her.
However, Song Jingyu’s gut feeling told her that that woman was up to no good. Why else would she
come to Fu Chengyan’s office so frequently?
“Ms. Song?”
Mai Qi noticed that Song Jingyu was standing stock-still and with her eyes zed over. She traced her
gaze but saw nothing in particr. “Ms. Song, why are you standing here? Let’s hurry to the site. We
still need to work out the details for the decorations.”
“Mai Qi, do you have any idea about the rtionship between Shi Nuan and Yan? Why does she go to
Yan’s office so often?”