Chapter 27#
Hotel#
Butler Li had been waiting for them outside the door. Ye Sheng’s old-fashioned phone, with only 30% battery, couldn’t last long and turned off after they left. He frowned slightly.
Upon seeing this, Butler Li immediately extended his hand kindly and thoughtfully, smiling, “Mr. Ye, please give me your phone. I’ll charge it for you.”
“Thank you.” Ye Sheng didn’t refuse and handed it over. He turned his head to Ning Weichen, “Are we going to the hotel now?”
Ning Weichen smiled, “Yes, of course.”
Ye Sheng nodded and quickly walked into the elevator.
The banquet hall was still a scene of high society’s singing and dancing, with cups clinking. No one knew that the Qin family had undergone earth-shattering changes tonight.
Butler Li parked the car outside the Qin residence.
The air in the mountains was fresh and elegant. The cold moon was bright in the azure sky, and the stars were like shattered diamonds. As they walked along the garden path, the summer breeze seemed to carry the scent of roses. After a while in the cool breeze, the feeling of disgust Ye Sheng had felt because of Huang Yiyue dissipated a little.
Ning Weichen didn’t speak the whole way, unusually silent.
Butler Li secretly watched his young master’s indifferent profile, knowing that his mood was definitely not pleasant at the moment.
After getting into the car, Ye Sheng chose to close his eyes and rest.
Ning Weichen sat beside him. After taking the laptop handed by Butler Li, he put on his headphones and had a video call with his private doctor across the ocean. The black car traveled through the mountains and forests. Ning Weichen’s face was particularly cold amidst the unpredictable light and shadows. His voice was low, and his English was fluent and clear. He hung up after briefly answering Andrew’s questions.
Ye Sheng couldn’t sleep and opened his eyes, but he really wasn’t in the mood to talk, so he turned his head to look at the scenery outside the window.
Butler Li sat in the driver’s seat, driving the car, and spoke slowly as if Ye Sheng was not an outsider, “Young Master, the Non-Natural Bureau should inform the Master and Madam about tonight’s events very soon.”
Ning Weichen was replying to emails, his attitude cold: “Hmm.”
Butler Li asked, “Do you want to explain to the Master in advance?”
Ning Weichen scoffed, “No need.” He closed his laptop, leaned back, and said casually, “I’ve already graduated from university. Do they still need to manage my private life?”
Butler Li: “…”
“This is no longer just a private life, you’ve even made a child.”
Ning Weichen pursed his lips and said indifferently, “I won’t be staying in Huaicheng for too long. Tell them not to overthink it.”
Butler Li silently swallowed his words, “Okay.”
He glanced at Ye Sheng in the rearview mirror. After descending the mountain, the streetlights on the highway were sparse. The light shone on Ye Sheng’s cold, pale profile. He seemed completely detached from the world, his hand propping his chin, his raised neck line smooth and beautiful, his dark eyes quietly watching the constantly changing scenery outside the window.
He also showed no reaction to Ning Weichen’s words about “not staying in Huaicheng for long.”
Butler Li raised his eyebrows, momentarily confused about the relationship between the two.
However, Ning Weichen’s private life was not for him to inquire about, so Butler Li could only suppress all his questions.
After Ning Weichen finished dealing with the matter, he began to settle accounts with Ye Sheng. He turned his head, a smile playing on his lips as he looked at Ye Sheng, though there was no hint of a smile in his eyes.
“Baby, don’t you have anything to say to me?”
“Say what?”
Ye Sheng put down his hand, turned his head, his clear, black and white almond eyes sharp: “I’ve already said everything I needed to say inside. Thank you for tonight, but don’t mention anyone from the Xie family or Qin family to me again. I don’t want to bring it up.”
He really didn’t want to recall those messy things again.
Ning Weichen curved his lips, “A simple thank you is enough?”
Ye Sheng raised an eyebrow and looked at him.
Ning Weichen smiled and said, “For your sake, I came out in front of everyone. Don’t you want to take responsibility for me?”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Ning Weichen: “It seems you’re not planning to take responsibility.” He lowered his eyes, his fair, slender fingers caressing his lower abdomen, and said in a light, aggrieved tone, “How heartless, Ye Sheng, how could you treat me and our child like this?”
The sensible Butler Li in front had already silently raised the partition between the front and back seats.
Ye Sheng felt that after spending a long time with Ning Weichen, his resistance was getting stronger and stronger. In the past, he would have probably cursed in anger, but now his first reaction was to push him away, saying indifferently, “Ning Weichen, if you’re so desperate for a child, you can go and have one yourself. Don’t dream about it with me.”
Ning Weichen looked up, his peach blossom eyes clear and sad, looking wronged, “So you’re going to abort her?”
Ye Sheng: “…” He wanted to kill Ning Weichen even more!
He probably saw that Ye Sheng’s face was on the verge of hitting someone.
Ning Weichen immediately restrained his smile, sat up straight, chuckled lightly, and said indifferently, “Although you’ve already explained everything, I’m still a little angry. They were too much.” Ning Weichen’s eyes were dark and deep, containing a smile that was both sweet as honey and bitter as arsenic: “Hmm, I might have to stay in Huaicheng for a while longer.”
Ye Sheng was even angrier about tonight’s events than he was. He had something to say to Ning Weichen, but not now.
Even though Butler Li had raised the partition, he was still wary of this smiling old fox.
Rose Empire Hotel was the top-ranked star hotel in Huaicheng, located in the prime Xinghu District, even more magnificent than the Yuecheng Hotel Butler Li had booked for him earlier.
Butler Li was very considerate. After parking the car and escorting them into the elevator, he didn’t follow them in.
As soon as Ye Sheng entered the hotel, he smelled a faint scent of roses. Even the lights in the lobby were golden rose shapes. Floral and vine elements permeated every corner. Romantic and enchanting charm was displayed in every sculpture, oil painting, and relief.
The only relief was that Ning Weichen was staying in a top-floor suite with many rooms, not just one bed.
When Ning Weichen exited the elevator, he winked with a smile, “This is my first time bringing someone back to a hotel.”
Ye Sheng said expressionlessly, “I said I could wait for you outside the hotel for you to send the necklace down.”
Ning Weichen said with a smile, “Wouldn’t that be very impolite? My upbringing wouldn’t allow me to do such a thing.”
Ye Sheng: “…” Regarding Ning Weichen’s displayed upbringing, Ye Sheng didn’t want to comment.
Ning Weichen said, “Butler Li will bring your phone over later. Do you want to take a shower first?”
Ye Sheng: “Hmm?”
Ning Weichen pointed to the retro wall clock: “It should be past your curfew now. You can consider staying here for a night.”
Ye Sheng looked over, and the clock showed it was already 12:10.
Ning Weichen: “If you don’t want to, I can also ask Butler Li to send you back to where you stayed last time.”
Ye Sheng pursed his lips and said, “Forget it.”
He had checked the price of the top-floor suite at Yuecheng Hotel, which was 120,000 yuan per night. If he really had to settle all accounts with Ning Weichen, he wouldn’t be able to afford it even if he worked part-time for four years.
Ye Sheng said, “Give me the necklace. I’ll take a car back myself and find a place.”
Ning Weichen thought for a moment and said with a smile, “But I still advise you to stay here for a night.”
Ye Sheng frowned.
Ning Weichen: “People from the Non-Natural Bureau are monitoring this place. Given our current relationship, now that we’re at the hotel, it wouldn’t be appropriate not to do something, would it?”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Ning Weichen said, “Aren’t you tired of standing? Sit down first.” He was like a hospitable host: “We can also talk about what happens next.”
Ye Sheng glanced at him, pursed his lips, and sat down.
Ning Weichen smiled brightly and walked to the bar counter, asking, “What would you like to drink?”
Ye Sheng didn’t speak.
Ning Weichen pondered for a moment, guessing that Ye Sheng was not used to coffee or drinks right now, so he poured him a glass of cold water. He walked over and handed him the water with a smile.
After Ye Sheng took the water, he kept his head down, his teeth lightly biting his lip. This was a subconscious action he made when he was annoyed.
Ning Weichen sat opposite him, his voice like a slowly flowing clear spring: “You see, don’t I make a lot of sense?”
Ye Sheng took a sip of water. The cool liquid made his parched throat feel a little more comfortable.
Ning Weichen smiled and said, “Brother, I think you’re a bit contradictory.”
His tone was calm, but his words were cold.
“You say you want a stable life, but every time you do something, you actively get involved in trouble.”
Ye Sheng silently drank all the water in the glass.
Ning Weichen watched him with interest for a while, then shrugged and sighed helplessly: “In the end, I’m the one who worried myself sick over your casual words.”
Ye Sheng’s lips were pressed against the rim of the cup, and his lowered eyelashes concealed all his dark gaze.
Ning Weichen smiled and offered advice: “Don’t you want to redefine your life plan? I don’t think you understand yourself deeply enough.”
Ye Sheng looked up at him and said quietly, “Don’t you want me to follow my own life plan? To have nothing to do with you.”
Ning Weichen met his gaze, and with an ambiguous smile, he curved his lips. Sitting in this hotel, where the scent of roses seemed to float everywhere, his inherent ambiguity and charm seemed to be fully revealed.
Ning Weichen’s eyes were full of affection, and he said softly with a smile, “Hmm, that’s right.”
The deepest gaze, the coldest answer.
“But even if you don’t follow your life plan, it won’t affect me.”
“Ye Sheng, if you really want to be a good person, would you consider joining the Non-Natural Bureau as an executive officer?”
Ye Sheng didn’t speak.
“Be a good person…”
It was very quiet here. The high floors isolated all the hustle and bustle of the city. When Ning Weichen restrained his feigned enthusiasm and frivolous affection, the person sitting opposite Ye Sheng was someone he had known until now, whose identity, purpose, and abilities were completely unfamiliar.
Ning Weichen said casually, “I can introduce you to the Huaicheng Non-Natural Bureau. But the matter of the teratoma, it’s best to resolve it while I’m still in Huaicheng.”
Ye Sheng didn’t want to tell him about his life plan yet.
“How to solve it?”
Ning Weichen: “Andrew will come to Huaicheng in a few days. He has a way.”
After a period of annoyance, Ye Sheng’s heart calmed down instead.
Ning Weichen smiled, “Oh, before he comes, we need to pretend to be a loving couple. Shouldn’t you change your attitude towards me?”
Ye Sheng said with a cold face, “Haven’t you dated me before? Don’t you know what my attitude is when I’m in a relationship?”
Ning Weichen became interested, and the corners of his lips curved up: “Of course I know. Baby, you’re very passionate when you’re in a relationship.”
Although Ye Sheng couldn’t imagine what he looked like when he was in a relationship, he knew Ning Weichen was talking nonsense when he heard this.
“You really dated in your dreams.” He extended his hand: “Give me the necklace.”
Ning Weichen seemed to be used to his lack of romantic understanding.
He reached out and pulled open a drawer in the table in front, and quickly took out the fish scale necklace.