*
The next day was the weekend, but when Ni Jingxi opened her eyes, she saw the man sleeping peacefully beside her. His short black hair was pressed heavily on the white pillow, and because he was fast asleep with his eyes closed, he looked exceptionally gentle.
Ni Jingxi was clearly stunned.
Huo Shenyan was so self-disciplined that Ni Jingxi felt he was inhuman. He got up at six o'clock every morning without fail.
This is his habit.
So much so that whenever he wasn't flying around the world and staying at home, he would always get up before Ni Jingxi and prepare breakfast.
She looked at him for a while and was about to get up when, just as she gently lifted the blanket to get up, an arm hooked around her slender waist.
Ni Jingxi is the kind of person who is tall but has a slender frame, so her whole body exudes a light and graceful feeling.
"Why aren't you sleeping anymore?" Huo Shenyan's voice was deep and hoarse, still a little sleepy.
She was so sexy and alluring that Ni Jingxi almost lost control.
She glanced back at him; Huo Shenyan still had his eyes closed, looking like someone who didn't want to get out of bed. She'd never seen him like this before and couldn't help but laugh, "What about you? Don't you have to get up today?"
His face shifted slightly on the pillow, as if searching for a more comfortable angle.
After a moment, his eyes remained closed, but a slight smile appeared on his lips: "Cloud-like hair, flower-like face, golden hairpins swaying, in the warm hibiscus tent, we spend the spring night..."
Ni Jingxi was completely dumbfounded, because she really didn't expect Huo Shenyan to recite such a sensual poem to her so early in the morning...
Of course, the paragraph following those two sentences is actually more familiar to people.
The spring night is fleeting, and the sun rises high; from then on, the emperor no longer holds morning court.
After a long pause, Ni Jingxi feigned serious thought and asked, "So, Mr. Huo, do you think I'm hindering your management of your great business empire?"
"Hmm." Huo Shenyan gave a light, indifferent "hmm."
The surprise on Ni Jingxi's face slowly faded, and she chuckled softly, saying in a leisurely tone, "Old men are indeed very wicked."
Huo Shenyan is thirty-one years old this year, which is the prime of a man's life. However, Ni Jingxi is seven years younger than him; she is only twenty-four years old this year.
When they got married, Ni Jingxi was only twenty-three years old, almost immediately after graduating from university.
In other words, Ni Jingxi didn't tell anyone about her marriage. Otherwise, none of her college roommates or classmates would have imagined that she would be the one who got married right after graduating from college.
Upon hearing this, Huo Shenyan indeed opened his eyes and looked at her.
When he closed his eyes, he appeared exceptionally gentle, but when he opened his eyes and looked straight at her with his deep, dark gaze, Ni Jingxi felt a tremor in her heart.
Ni Jingxi had seen him like this before. She had occasionally seen him making business calls at home, and his eyes would look so terrifying when he was unhappy.
Because it means he's going to teach someone a lesson.
Before anyone could react, Ni Jingxi suddenly burrowed into the blankets, wrapping herself up tightly, even covering her head, as if to say, "I can't afford to mess with you, so I'll hide first."
Given Ni Jingxi's personality, the only person she really can't afford to offend is Huo Shenyan.
Huo Shenyan didn't make a move. He slowly sat up, leaned against the headboard, glanced at the person wrapped up like a silkworm on the bed, and said coolly, "Do you want me to deal with you, or do you want to come out yourself?"
The person under the white blanket remained motionless.
So he smiled faintly and leisurely counted, "One, two..."
Finally, there was a slight movement at the edge of the blanket. Ni Jingxi peeked out through the edge and their eyes met. She blinked, then pouted, revealing a pitiful expression, her eyes filled with a sense of grievance.
But she didn't say anything, looking like 'Star is wronged, but Star just won't say it'.
Huo Shenyan's expression changed instantly.
It's said that people who don't usually act cute shouldn't act cute easily, because when they want to, it's absolutely irresistible. No matter how powerful Huo Shenyan is, he can't resist.
He smiled gently at her, reached out and pulled the blanket down a little more for her, and said in a hoarse voice, "I was afraid you'd get too stuffy."
Listen to that tone, how much more do you want to spoil them?
In the end, Huo Shenyan not only had to coax her, but also had to get up and make breakfast to feed this little princess.
As the two sat in the restaurant, Ni Jingxi seemed to remember something and asked, "Why didn't you tell me you went to your grandmother's yesterday?"
He would always tell her before he went, and the two of them would go together.
When she married Huo Shenyan, she first met her family's elders. Ni Jingxi's only living relative still by her side is her maternal grandmother.
The old man was genuinely surprised when he first heard about this.
Because Ni Jingxi had never brought a boy to meet her before, but unexpectedly, the first person she brought back was her husband.
This is too big a leap.
Fortunately, the old lady was not a pedantic person, and she even told Huo Shenyan with a smile that Ni Jingxi's parents had fallen in love at first sight in college.
“I happened to have work nearby yesterday, so after I finished, I asked the driver to take me there directly.”
As for not calling her, it was simply because I wanted to surprise her.
Ni Jingxi looked up at him again: "Grandma didn't say anything bad about me to you, did she?"
Ever since Ni Jingxi started controlling the old lady's sweets, she's had some complaints about him.
Huo Shenyan chuckled softly: "Of course not."
The old lady didn't say anything bad about Ni Jingxi to him, but what she told him was equally unforgettable for Huo Shenyan.
He knew when Ni Pingsen disappeared, but Ni Jingxi never mentioned to him how she spent her life after Ni Pingsen's disappearance.
A girl about to take the college entrance examination has to support her family.
I originally thought Ni Pingsen would only stay in Israel for a year, but he ended up staying for another year. Unexpectedly, the person who had been in constant communication with me in the second year suddenly disappeared.
Initially, the embassy informed them of the news. Ni Jingxi went to her father's company, but on her third visit, she encountered another group of people who came to the company to collect debts.
The company was poorly managed, and the boss has absconded.
At first, Ni Jingxi kept going to the embassy to ask for information, but in a place like the Middle East, a missing person is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Before Ni Jingxi could even grieve over her father's disappearance, she was already facing the pressures of life.
The money their father left them was enough for their daily expenses, but when their grandmother learned from someone else that their father had disappeared, she was so angry that she suffered a stroke and was hospitalized.
The daily medical expenses of 10,000 yuan in the intensive care unit emptied the family's originally substantial savings in one fell swoop.
Under these circumstances, Ni Jingxi's college entrance examination results came out, and she became the top scorer in the district.
She originally wanted to stay in Shanghai to study at university and take care of her grandmother, but her grandmother knew that her grades were good enough to get into the best university in China. The old lady felt that she was a burden to her and refused to receive treatment.
Finally, Ni Jingxi promised her that she would definitely go to University A, and she relented, but insisted on living in a nursing home.
The only thing she could be thankful for was that her grandmother had a retirement pension of around four thousand yuan. So Ni Jingxi searched all over Shanghai and finally found a nursing home to send her grandmother there.
After everything was arranged, she went to study at University A.
When she returned to Shanghai for the National Day holiday, she wanted to bring her grandmother home to stay for a few days, but the old woman looked indifferent and seemed unwilling at all.
It wasn't until Ni Jingxi noticed something amiss that she discovered there was some rotting on her buttocks.
My grandmother is hemiplegic and has difficulty moving around. In the nursing home here, one caregiver has to take care of several elderly people, and for elderly people with limited mobility, they simply use an adult diaper as a makeshift solution.
Over time, not only did the house smell bad, but it also developed ulcers.
Ni Jingxi naturally got angry with the caregiver, but to her surprise, the caregiver not only didn't admit her mistake, but also acted as if she wanted to find a better nursing home if she wanted someone to take care of her personally, saying that countless people were fighting tooth and nail to get into this nursing home.
Ni Jingxi turned around with a cold face to help her grandmother pack her things.
Until she found a nursing home that cost 8,000 yuan a month, where elderly people with limited mobility would have dedicated caregivers. Ni Jingxi sent her grandmother to this home without hesitation.
Although the difference is only four thousand yuan per month, for Ni Jingxi, it is a huge burden on her shoulders.
When the old lady told him these things, her cloudy eyes almost welled up with tears.
Huo Shenyan had never been troubled by money in his life, but Ni Jingxi had shouldered everything at a young age. The old lady's words seemed to cut into his heart again and again, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.
But the old lady looked at him and said softly, "Although Xingxing didn't tell me, Grandma can tell that your family is different from ordinary families like ours. It must be extremely valuable."
"Grandma is telling you this not for any other reason than to tell you that Xingxing is an extremely strong-willed person. If anyone tells you in the future that she married you for money, don't believe them. Xingxing won't."
"She just likes you."
*
Ni Jingxi had initially thought that Huo Shenyan's work seemed much easier lately, since he had barely left Shanghai in the past month, only making one trip to Hangzhou, which he returned the same evening. However, just as she was thinking this, Huo Shenyan flew to Beijing again the very next day to attend a meeting.
The atmosphere was strange during team meetings after I arrived at work on Monday.
Old Zhang had naturally heard what Wu Mengni said before she left. Moreover, the reputation of the boss of this health product company, which came from the advertising department, was indeed not very good.
So he decided to have a different male reporter go for the interview.
To everyone's surprise, when he brought it up, no one else spoke up, but Ni Jingxi said, "Editor-in-chief, I've already arranged an interview with them today, and it's probably too late to change people now. So there's no need to trouble yourself."
She spoke quite calmly, and her reasons were also quite valid.
Old Zhang hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, take your recorder with you, and we'll find a cameraman to go with you later."
However, before leaving, Ni Jingxi didn't call the cameraman; she went alone. The reason she didn't plan to replace him was that she wanted to use this interview to obtain firsthand information from within.
As for jeopardizing the newspaper's livelihood, she can do it herself; she shouldn't drag others down with her.
When the secretary led her to the office of Mr. Jin Haiyang, the man who was sitting in the chair looked up and a look of amazement suddenly appeared in his eyes.
Jin Haiyang, in his forties, was wearing a suit. He didn't look sleazy, but he had a greasy, powdered look.
When Ni Jingxi walked to the desk, he had already stood up and came up to her from behind. His perfume was cloyingly strong, and his hair was styled with hairspray.
Jin Haiyang smiled broadly, but his smile brought out wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. "You're Reporter Ni, right? I was too busy before and missed such a beauty."
Ni Jingxi was incredibly beautiful, and she had been praised countless times since she was a child, but she was genuinely disgusted by this man's obviously greasy manner.
Especially the way he looked Ni Jingxi up and down, the kind of sizing that made one want to vomit.
"Jin Haiyang, the main reason for this interview is that I have some questions I'd like to ask you." Ni Jingxi ignored his outstretched hand and took out a voice recorder from her bag.
She immediately turned on the recorder: "Your time is precious, so I won't waste any more time."
Jin Haiyang awkwardly withdrew his hand, but he wasn't angry. After all, it's normal for a beautiful woman to have a bit of a temper.
Just as Ni Jingxi sat down on the long sofa, Jin Haiyang unexpectedly sat down next to her. Ni Jingxi didn't immediately move aside, but instead handed over the interview transcript she had prepared beforehand to Jin Haiyang.
At first, the interview proceeded normally, but as the questions went on, Jin Haiyang moved closer and closer.
Finally, his thigh was almost touching Ni Jingxi's leg.