Gently bite the jasmine

Chapter 170 I'm Amazing Too

The living room lights were off, and in the dim light, only the small candle flame, about the size of a fingertip, that Lin Xi was holding shone.

Feeling a heaviness in his waist, Lin Xi raised her hand and pressed it against Duan Yiheng's back, asking softly, "What's wrong?"

"There's something I can't figure out." Duan Yiheng's breath brushed against Lin Xi's abdomen, causing her to subconsciously tense up.

A light, woody fragrance filled the air. After a while, Lin Xi pressed his shoulder, pushed him away, turned around, and placed the scented candle on the coffee table.

Then, she sat down next to Duan Yiheng, her dress piled up at her feet like a lake ruffled by the wind.

At the charity gala, others might not have noticed Duan Yiheng's actions, but she sensed that he seemed to pay special attention to Duan Zheng.

As Duan Zheng left, Lin Xi caught a glimpse of Qin Yang.

Even though only half of his head was visible, Lin Xi still recognized him.

"Are you investigating Uncle Duan?" Lin Xi thought for a moment, then asked.

Duan Yiheng nodded: "He hid someone in Lanyue Mansion. If I hadn't threatened him with this at the banquet, he would have sold you directly to Duan Mingxuan."

Lin Xi's expression shifted from surprise to calm in just three seconds, prompting Duan Yiheng to chuckle: "What's with that expression? You don't believe he'd cheat on you?"

Lin Xi: "...No."

That's not what she meant. Duan Zheng's relationship with Chen Baiwei was an affair, but Chen Baiwei had the means to get Duan Zheng to marry her. Over the years, the two seemed to love each other very much, and she thought Duan Zheng didn't have those messy affairs.

Lin Xi suddenly remembered that Duan Yiheng had joked with her about going to "catch someone in the act," which must mean that Duan Zheng had hidden someone in Lanyue Mansion.

"Did you find out?"

Duan Yiheng shared his conjecture, and Lin Xi saw the same astonishment on her face.

“Ke Yu? Besides being the board secretary, she is also…” Lin Xi paused, “She is also a founding member who joined Yin Fan in its early days, and Zheng Xianlin’s daughter-in-law.”

“So at first, I didn’t suspect her at all,” Duan Yiheng said. “Tonight was indeed an unexpected bonus.”

According to the plan, he was going to test Duan Zheng, but Duan Zheng was uncooperative and couldn't control his eyes.

After a long pause, Lin Xi said, "Ke Yu is very capable."

Duan Yiheng glanced at him and hummed in agreement: "I'm very good too."

"I'm serious," Lin Xi said, slapping him with the ribbon. "If they're really together, it'll be very bad for you."

Duan Yiheng naturally understood that although Ke Yu was Zheng's daughter-in-law, she held power. Zheng Xianlin's son had died, and he treated Ke Yu like a daughter. She had Zheng Xianlin's connections and had a lot of say in the company's decisions, which would lead the shareholders and management to favor her and Duan Zheng.

“The only thing you can use is their improper relationship.” Lin Xi was worried about him and couldn’t help but say more. “But I heard that the Zheng family’s daughters have always been very dissatisfied with Ke Yu. You can also start from there.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Xi heard Duan Yiheng chuckle and couldn't help but turn her head to glare at him: "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing because every word you say is for my benefit," Duan Yiheng probed at the end of his sentence. "Is it because you're my secretary, or something else?"

"Naturally, it's your secretary." Lin Xi crumpled the thin gauze, feeling a little flustered, and awkwardly changed the subject: "Were the ginkgo trees in the manor saved?"

He was saved.

Duan Yiheng raised his eyelids and said, "I'm not sure, I've been very busy these past two days."

Lin Xi: "..."

Should we change the subject?

"Never mind, it's getting late." Just as Lin Xi was about to subtly suggest that he leave, her phone in the entryway started ringing incessantly.

Duan Yiheng got up, took the bag that had been left in the entryway and handed it to Lin Xi, saying, "I just carried you back and put it in the entryway without thinking."

Lin Xi took out her phone, saw Duan Mingxuan's name, and hung up immediately.

Duan Yiheng rubbed the back of her head: "It's getting late, I'll be going now."

Just as Lin Xi was about to answer, her phone rang again; this time it was her housekeeper.

Lin Xi pressed the call button, and the butler subtly conveyed the scene of Duan Mingxuan being drunk and unreasonable downstairs.

"..."

Seeing her unusual expression, Duan Yiheng asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin Xi looked up at Duan Yiheng: "Duan Mingxuan is drunk and is making a scene in the lobby downstairs, demanding to see me."

Duan Yiheng took Lin Xi's phone and said to the butler, "Wait a moment, I'll go down and take him away."

Lin Xi was a little worried: "He's difficult to take care of whether he's drunk or not. Are you sure you want to send him home?"

Duan Yiheng: "What else? Let him come up?"

Lin Xi: "...You should take him back."

"Get some rest." Duan Yiheng said this and turned to leave.

When they got downstairs, they indeed saw Duan Mingxuan.

The driver approached and asked Duan Yiheng, "Are we leaving now?"

Duan Yiheng gestured for him to bring Duan Mingxuan along.

Duan Mingxuan tried to resist, but the security guards and driver of Tiandu Yuxi helped him into Duan Yiheng's car.

After passing two intersections, Duan Yiheng suddenly asked the driver to stop.

The driver, unaware of the situation, simply did as instructed. This was not a strictly regulated road. The driver drove forward for about a hundred meters and then slowly came to a stop.

Duan Yiheng said coldly, "Get down."

Duan Mingxuan wasn't surprised that Duan Yiheng saw through his act of faking drunkenness. He chuckled self-deprecatingly, unconcerned about being seen through, and instead asked Duan Yiheng, "Why are you still at Xiaoxi's place so late?"

Duan Yiheng asked in a condescending tone, "Why did you go to see her so late?"

"What did you say to my dad at the banquet?" Duan Mingxuan's eyes were filled with a helpless resentment.

Duan Yiheng turned his head, his cold gaze meeting Duan Mingxuan's directly: "Forcing someone in public, is this what you call liking them?"

Duan Mingxuan, unusually, did not refute. He suddenly leaned over and grabbed Duan Yiheng's arm, his face earnest: "Please give Xiaoxi back to me, okay? I promise, as long as you give her back to me, I will immediately call Dad and tell him not to fight with you. The Duan family is yours, the company is yours, everything is yours, I only want Xiaoxi."

Duan Yiheng closed his eyes, abruptly pulled his hand away, and said in a cold tone with an imposing pressure: "Get out of here, and don't make me say it a second time."

"You have everything, why are you still not satisfied?" Duan Mingxuan glared at him angrily. "All I want is Lin Xi, Lin Xi who grew up with me since childhood."

“Because without you and your mother, Lin Xi might have grown up with me,” Duan Yiheng said mockingly.

Duan Mingxuan was slightly taken aback and was asked to get out of the car by the driver.

He watched helplessly as Duan Yiheng's taillights disappeared from his sight.

He lost, he lost miserably.

Duan Mingxuan punched a tree by the roadside twice in frustration. Why? Why didn't he realize his feelings for Lin Xi sooner?

Duan Mingxuan, are you a pig?

With his hand covered in wounds, Duan Mingxuan walked alone along the roadside. Thinking of Lin Xi, a faint smile appeared on his lips again.

He didn't know where to go, and as he hesitated at the intersection, a white car suddenly stopped beside him.

"Second Young Master?"

Duan Mingxuan was stunned for a moment, then his face darkened.

Chen Liangyi!