CEO is Picky but Handsome - Chapter 26

The hotel room.
The curtains were drawn shut and not a single ray of light filtered in, but the overhead lights were wide open, reflecting the room as brightly as a hundred suns.
“Okay.”
Ye Ling gently let go of her bitten lips, her chest rose and fell with her rapid breathing, obviously in extreme pain, but stubbornly refused to say anything.
Rong Sheng lowered his head and fastened the lid of the medicinal wine and put it aside. Turning back, he wiped off the beads of sweat on his forehead, “It’s been two days, how come the bruises haven’t dissipated?”
Ye Ling raised his head and swept a glance at him, casually and up the open sash to cover the freshly medicated wound.
“Didn’t you say you were going to take me away?” He moved his handcuffed wrists, “Why haven’t you walked out for so long?”
Rong Sheng sat closer and held his hand in his palm, gently kneading his wrist bone, “Ningning, don’t be anxious, isn’t it good that Brother Sheng accompanies you?”
Ye Ling didn’t answer, just looking at the cold handcuffs out of his mind.
For questions that he was unwilling to answer, or not good enough to answer, Rong Sheng had always chosen silence as gold. Such a reaction was not unexpected, and even, more accurately confirmed Ye Ling’s guess.
For two whole days, he was locked up in this room and couldn’t move an inch, even getting out of bed and walking a few steps had to get Rong Sheng’s permission. Rong Sheng did not leave him alone, he ate and wore clothes all by himself, warm and considerate, but also isolated him from all contact with the outside world.
Until a phone call at noon yesterday,
Rong Sheng was holding Ye Ling sleep, the phone vibrated in the pillow, he subconsciously wanted to get up to go outside to answer. However, Ye Ling rolled over and rested impartially on his chest. This called him to hesitate for a moment, but in the end, he could not leave, and directly pressed the answer button.
The room was quiet, so on the other end of the phone, the panicked and anxious male voice clearly spread out in the room.
The man said, Phoenix Group’s president Huo Jun crazy as the whole city looking for people. His eyes were all over the airports, train stations and harbors, and they would be discovered as soon as they showed up. Huo Zhun also asked people to conduct a carpet search in the whole city, even the darkest corners of the city were not spared.What’s more, he put out a message on the road that if anyone learns of Ye Ling’s whereabouts or provides a clue, he will definitely reward them with a heavy gift, but if anyone is uninformed ……
Huo Zhun’s influence in N is extraordinary, and the consequences of being uninformed, I think no one would want to try.
Therefore, nowadays, the city of Saishang is in a state of panic, and the people who have a face on the road are either selling Huo Zhun’s personal favor and helping to find someone together, or they are hurrying to get rid of the relationship, and they can’t wait to swear that they didn’t move half of Ye’s assistant’s sweaty hairs. In this situation, Rong Sheng wanted to go back to F country unharmed, I’m afraid that it would be difficult to climb up to the sky.
However, Rong Sheng was neither nervous nor anxious, he only told the other party to stay calm, when the time came, they would naturally be able to return to country F unharmed.
Before the phone vibrated, Ye Ling had already woken up. Ever since he was caught by Rong Sheng, he had been sleeping very lightly, and even when he fell asleep, he woke up very quickly. Therefore, he heard this call clearly.
The Rong family was a prestigious family in Country F, but their roots were still shallow in Country N.. This time, he was able to sneak into N country without any sound, itself called Ye Ling doubtful, now that he thought about it, I’m afraid that over the years, Rong Sheng did not operate less in N country.
Warm fingers suddenly caressed his cheek.
Ye Ling’s body trembled and quickly returned to his senses.
“Thinking about what?” Rong Sheng asked.
“I was thinking,” Ye Ling raised his eyes to look at him, “Since you’re alive, then Chen Huaiwen must have died.”
Rong Sheng smiled, “Not dead, but almost. Ning Ning, you originally played the idea of killing two birds with one stone. On the one hand, you helped Chen Huaiwen lay out a plan to take my life, and on the other hand, you collected evidence of Chen Huaiwen breaking the law and anonymously handed it over to the prosecution. Unfortunately, I was lucky to escape. Unfortunately, Chen Huaiwen was not so lucky.” He paused, looked at Ye Ling’s eyes, and lowered his voice, “I know you hate him for torturing you in the first place, don’t worry, I used some methods, Chen Huaiwen can’t escape.”
“I do hate him, I hate you even more.” Ye Ling said in a hateful voice, “It’s not true that he tortured me, but don’t forget that it was you who sent me to his hands.”
Back then, Rong Sheng just took over the Rong Clan, the big picture was not finalized, and was in dire need of support. Chen Huaiwen took the opportunity to propose that if he could put Ji Ning in his hands for three days, he would definitely help. Ji Ning was only twenty-one years old at the time, and a bright future was unfolding in front of him. He wholeheartedly trusted and assisted Rong Sheng, but did not realize that it was this person who pushed him into the abyss of doom.
“This is one of the things I regret the most in my life, it’s only right that you hate me if you want to.” A look of pain flashed through Rong Sheng’s eyes, “Taking you out in exchange is also a desperate solution. Moreover, Brother Sheng made an agreement with him, not to touch you, and even more so, not to hurt you. Once the three days are up, I’ll go pick you up right away. Ning Ning, if you really refuse to forgive Sheng, then let Sheng make it up to you with his whole life, okay?”
Really? Three laws, no touching, not to mention no injuries.
It sounded as if it had been extremely well thought out, right? However, the all-powerful Rong’s Sect Leader should know that there were ways in this world to make someone’s life worse than death without touching or hurting them.
Not to mention, the very matter of offering him up in person was already enough to make the Ji Ning of that year lose all hope.
Ye Ling took a deep breath, what has happened will never change, and it is redundant to argue about right and wrong now. Ye Ling didn’t want to dwell on these issues, turned his head away and closed his eyes deeply.
Rong Sheng leaned over and embraced his body into his arms. The past is not easy to remember, although the two people leaned so close, but the heart is heavily separated. After a long time of such silence, Rong Sheng suddenly lowered his head and asked, “Ningning, are you hungry, do you want to eat something?”
Perhaps it was a psychological effect, Ye Ling’s appetite has not been good these days, in order to coax him to eat, Rong Sheng softly and forcefully, but no matter what he said, Ye Ling was two words.
“Not hungry.”
“I heard that this hotel has newly invited a famous chef, especially good at our hometown dishes.” Rong Sheng said, “Ning Ning, you haven’t eaten hometown dishes for a long time, right? How about a taste?”
Ye Ling’s originally cold expression faltered a little when he heard the words “hometown cuisine”. He thought for a moment and said, “Okay, but you have to ask them to bring me the menu, I’ll look at it myself.”
“Can’t I bring it in for you?” Rongsheng asked softly.
“No way.” Ye Ling raised her head and looked at him decisively, “I don’t want to eat anything through you again, so you have the hotel people bring in the menu and I’ll read it myself.”
Rong Sheng helplessly kissed his lips and called for someone.
Ten minutes later, a girl in a hotel uniform stood in front of them.
“Hello, I’m Xiao Han from the restaurant, this is our newly changed menu, please take a look.” The girl didn’t look more than twenty-five years old, her long hair was pulled back in a regular bun at the back of her head. She had been in the hotel business for three years already, and thought she had seen how strange and weird guests were, but the sight in front of her still made her heart faint, and even the bottom of her speech was lacking.
This was a pair of male guests. One of them leaned on the bed, looks very outstanding, although cold between the eyebrows, but one can not help but feel good. The other leaned on the edge of the bed, stretching out an arm tightly around the person next to him. Although his looks were inferior to his companion’s, he was also masculine and handsome among males. It was just that he looked at himself with scrutinizing eyes, and as if there was always a kind of gloom between his brows, one couldn’t help but want to avoid him as far away as possible.
“Well, show it to me.” The pretty man said.
Han walked over apprehensively and reached out to hand over the menu. Just at the moment the pretty man raised his hand to take it, she suddenly realized that the other person had a pair of delicate handcuffs on her wrist!
“Splat.”
The menu was unsteady and fell to the ground.
“Sorry, sorry!” Xiao Han rushed to pick it up, yet there was a hand that was faster than her.
Rong Sheng bent down, picked up the menu from the ground, forwarded it to Ye Ling’s hand, and faintly said, “Be careful.”
Just four simple words, but they contained a lot of hostility. The cold sweat on Xiao Han’s back brushed out, her intuition told her that this man’s hostility didn’t come from his own clumsiness in getting rid of the menu at all, but because of what, she really didn’t know ah.
Looking at the trembling appearance of the girl in front of him, Ye Ling glanced at Rong Sheng reproachfully, but did not say anything more. He flipped the menu, directly found the page of hometown dishes, and carefully chose up. The handcuffed hand was a little unsteady on the large open menu, Rong Sheng took a hand and steadied it for him, resting his chin on his shoulder and consulting with him.
“How about this one? Mandarin fish, your favorite food. When Uncle Chicken made this when you were little, you couldn’t get tired of eating it every time and pestered him to secretly leave you fish soup for rice.”
Thinking of his childhood, Ye Ling also smiled, “How is Uncle Chicken now?”
“Good, just that his eyes can’t see very well, and he can’t make fish.” Rong Sheng said, “He still reminisces about you, in the past, there are so many people in the family, he only favors you one, have you forgotten?”
“I haven’t seen his old man for many years, I miss him too.” Ye Ling smiled and pointed to the fish on the menu, “Ask for this.”
Xiao Han hurriedly memorized it.
“How about this one?” Rong Sheng pointed to something else.
“This one needs more spice to taste good, I can’t, eating too much chili will give me a stomach ache.”
“Then only eat a few bites.” Rong Sheng said, “This one comes with one dish.”
The two of them were talking while ordering, gradually no longer facing each other tit for tat, instead it was very much like going back to the past when the years were quiet and they were in harmony with each other. Ye Ling’s shoulders slowly relaxed, the whole person leaned into Rong Sheng arm, Rong Sheng embraced him, occasionally kissed his forehead, this picture in the eyes of outsiders has been indescribable warmth and harmony.
But again warm and harmonious picture, with a pair of handcuffs between the wrists, also changed the flavor.
Xiao Han looked sympathetically at the beautiful man, but did not mean to, just with that person raised his eyes to look at the gaze collided with.
“Ning Ning, would you like another soup?” Rong Sheng ordered the seasonal three-mushroom soup and asked.
“Uh, I …… cough cough cough!” Halfway through her words, Ye Ling suddenly choked on her saliva and coughed violently. Rong Sheng hurriedly got up to look for water, however, the teapot and water cups were behind Xiao Han, and she grabbed the cups as soon as she turned back, hurriedly walked a few steps, and stuffed them into Ye Ling’s hands.
“Thanks …… cough …… thanks.” Ye Ling looked up, his violent cough made his face flushed, his gaze stained with water vapor, indescribably fragile.
Xiao Han’s body trembled, put his hands behind his back and whispered, “No …… you’re not welcome, you quickly drink some water.”
Ye Ling obediently lifted the cup, with the moisturizing of water, that unbearable burning sensation in his throat finally lessened a lot.
“It’s going to be this much.” He handed the menu to Rong Sheng, his voice hoarse.
Rong Sheng responded, grasping the menu with one hand, he got up and walked to Xiao Han. Xiao Han subconsciously raised her hand, and the menu grazed her palm, falling short.
“I’m sorry, Ning Ning,” Rong Sheng looked back, the beautiful atmosphere breaking instantly, “You’re too smart, I had to be careful.”
He flipped through the menu, checking it page by page, and after finding nothing, even the folded up footer.
Nothing was found.
Ye Ling coldly watched him move, and only after a long time, he snorted.
“Are you afraid I’ll stuff something inside the menu?”
Rong Sheng didn’t answer, just returned the menu to Xiao Han and waved his hand, telling her to go out.
The girl’s uneasy figure quickly disappeared out the door.
Rong Sheng turned back and looked at Ye Ling apologetically, softly saying, “I’m afraid you’re still thinking of leaving me.”
Ye Ling laughed coldly and stopped paying attention to him.
Leaving the room, without looking back, Han went straight back to her office.
Sitting on a chair, she couldn’t stop gasping for air, her heart pounding in her chest as if it was about to jump out.
It was a long, long time before she calmed down, trembling, and reached into her pocket.
A small, several folded, not quite fingernail-sized ball of paper pricked her fingertips.
This was what Ye Ling had secretly slipped into her palm when she handed her cup to him and her two hands met.
It was right under Rong Sheng’s nose.
Rong Sheng was fully focused on Ye Ling at the time, and thus didn’t even notice this small action of the two.
Xiao Han clutched the paper ball tightly in her hand, recalling Ye Ling’s gaze towards her.
That “thank you” was more of a plea for help than a thank you.
Without thinking, Han opened the note.
It was a small corner torn off from the top of the hotel’s advice and complaint book, on which a number was scribbled in ballpoint pen.
Han grabbed his cell phone and dialed.
The call was quickly answered.
“Hello …… hello, hello ……,” Han said incoherently, “May I ask who you are?”
The person on the other end was quiet for a moment and said in a deep voice, “I’m Huo Jun, which one are you?”
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