CEO is Picky but Handsome - Chapter 37

The financial report is ruined.
A cup of coffee, not a bit left, from the head of the page wet to the foot of the page, blotting a stack of paper at the beginning of several pages.
The conference room was surprisingly quiet, everyone stared silently at the coffee-dampened financial report, no one said anything.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Ye Ling got up in a hurry to apologize, and cleaned up the mess on the table with his hands and feet. No one helped him, which made his movements full of embarrassment and overwhelm.
It was as if everyone knew he had made a mistake and was now watching him receive his punishment.
Suddenly, a hand stopped his movements.
“Sorry, I forgot to push the cup in a bit. Are you alright? Did you get burned?” Huo Jun looks at him apologetically, taking all the fault onto himself. Then he got up and apologized to everyone present, “Sorry everyone, as you can see, the preemptive version of the earnings report can’t be read anymore.”
“So what’s going to happen?” Someone asked.
“The backup copy of the electronic version of the earnings report is on my computer, and I urge you all to give me a moment to reorganize a copy for you.” He looked kindly at everyone in the room.
Such a request was not excessive, and someone even simply proposed, “Then let’s end the morning meeting here, and if there’s anything, let’s wait until Mr. Huo organizes the financial report in the afternoon, how about that?”
This proposal was approved by most people.
So the morning meeting ended and Huo Jun directly dragged Ye Ling to his room.
“You did it on purpose!” With his back turned, Huo Zhun no longer repressed his anger and snapped, “Ye Ling, why did you do this!”
“This financial report cannot be taken out. Even if everyone else knows that this financial report has definitely been tampered with, as long as they don’t know where we have tampered with it, we dare to take it out and show it to people, but not today.” Ye Ling said, “I suspect that Rong Sheng he knows where we have tampered.”
As soon as the two walked into the room, Huo Jun slammed the door heavily. Therefore, there were no lights on in the room, and the two stood in the darkest part of the entrance hall, facing each other but unable to see each other’s expressions. In the dimness, Ye Ling felt Huo Jun’s emotions stabilize a little, and only after a while did he exhale deeply, “You said understand.”
“Do you still remember me telling you that Mr. Gu had an appointment with someone at the cafe near my house.” Ye Ling said, “At that time, I saw what that person looked like, and I’ve been trying to track him down afterward, but I haven’t been able to. I always thought that he was someone from the Yongkang Group, but today, just now, I realized that he was working directly for Rong Sheng.”
Huo Zhun listens as he walks towards the house, and when he hears the last sentence, he turns his head, “That fat guy who came in quietly?”
Ye Ling nodded, “You’ve heard about the recording, it’s not the first time that Mr. Gu and this person have come into contact with each other, and if this person isn’t affiliated with the Yongkang Group, that means that Mr. Gu actually served Rongsheng directly a long time ago.”
“Are you saying that Xinzhang lied to me?” Huo Zhun snorted coldly.
“I don’t know. Perhaps it’s possible that Chief Gu himself didn’t know that his boss was Rong Sheng. But that’s not the point, the point is,” Ye Ling follows close behind Huo Jun, “If General Manager Gu has long had dealings with Rong Sheng, then what Rong Sheng wants will definitely not be something as trivial as the planning of Project Team 2. He can get any internal group secrets he wants through General Gu’s position. Then can I suspect that Rong Sheng’s participation in this meeting was not an impromptu one, but a premeditated one. He already had a good idea of the information we prepared this time and was just waiting to catch us off guard at the most critical moment?”
“So you purposely spilled the coffee and destroyed the financial report so that he wouldn’t make a big deal out of it?”
“Yes.”
Huo Zhun looks at Ye Ling with a strange expression, as if he has many words choked in his throat and wants to speak. After a while, he suddenly laughed out softly, “So it’s me who misjudged you?”
These words are light and fluffy, not like an apology, but like a sneer. Ye Ling looked at Huo Jun in disbelief, yet Huo Jun avoided his eyes, unwilling to look at him.
It’s just like the countless times he avoided himself in the conference room just now.
“Huo Jun, what’s wrong with you?” Ye Ling speculates on his mind and can’t help but ask, “You don’t trust me?”
Huo Jun didn’t comment, but just walked over to the table, poured himself a cup of water, and eagerly poured it down. But obviously, this cup of cool water didn’t make him much better, hesitating again and again, he still turned to ask Ye Ling, “What exactly is your relationship with Rong Sheng?”
Ye Ling’s eyelashes fluttered slightly, and after a long time, he asked softly, “Didn’t I make my relationship with him clear to you a long time ago?”
“That’s what you said.” Huo Zhun looks at him, “But what I saw, is different from what you said.”
“What did you see?” Ye Ling asks.
“This morning, the conversation you had with him there in the pantry, I heard it.” Huo Zhun says, “You went out for too long and didn’t come back, so I was worried about you, so I followed you out to take a look, and I didn’t expect to just hear you guys catching up.You said that you’re going to go back to F country with him in the future ……”
“I didn’t say I’m going back to F country with him!” Ye Ling gritted her teeth.
“Even if you didn’t say it outright, the meaning is pretty much the same.” Huo Zhun sneered, “I’ve never suspected you, and I’ve never hidden anything from you. I’ve been unreserved and completely honest with you, and I’ve always believed that you’re the same with me. So whatever you say, I believe. But Ye Ling, you deceived me.”
You deceived me.
If it was usual, Huo Jun would never use these four hard words to slam towards Ye Ling, however, at this moment, the anger he had suppressed for half the morning made him lose his mind, and he hated to use the most hurtful words to vent his anger.
“I didn’t lie to you.” Ye Ling clenched his teeth with a deadly grip, and a dull, heavy pain erupted from the grinding of his teeth.
“Do you still want to treat me like a fool?” Huo Zhun said angrily, “You said that you don’t love Rong Sheng, that he watched your friends die horribly and saw them die, and that you hate him. But Ye Ling, you taught Ye Rui to call him Uncle Rong. Uncle Rong? Heh, he indirectly killed Rui Rui’s father, and you let him call his father’s killer uncle?”
“All this hatred is from the previous generation, I taught my child to call him uncle because I don’t want my child to grow up with hatred!” Ye Ling eagerly defended.
“Hmph, is it that you don’t want the child to grow up with hatred, or is it that you simply can’t let go of the fact that you can’t let go of the fact that the child hates him?” Huo Zhun mercilessly sneered, “Ye Ling, then let’s not talk about the child, let’s just talk about you, Ning Shao. At first, you were known for your meticulousness and skillful means in F Country, and nothing you decided to do could not succeed. But why, on the contrary, did you fail when it came to Rong Sheng? Also, you told me that after creating the car accident with your own hands, you thought that he was dead, so you brought Rui Rui to N country. What a ‘thought’. Ye Ling, did you really ‘think’ he was dead, or were you simply unwilling to find out if he was dead or not? Are you simply hoping that he is alive?”
“No, I don’t ……”
Before Ye Ling’s words could leave her mouth, they were cut off by Huo Zhun’s snort, “Ye Ling, do you know, that night you got drunk at the bar and I helped you back to the hotel. You mistook me for Rong Sheng and called me Brother Sheng under your breath, apologizing to me and saying you had no choice. You cried your eyes out, and then every time I thought about it, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for you. Now I feel like a fool, you playing love with your Sheng brother, heartbroken and sad for your Sheng brother, and I, an outsider, shamelessly making a fool of myself to feel sorry for you!”
He disheveled and laughed out loud, that laughter was like a kite with broken strings, hollow and without a fulcrum, within a few voices, he couldn’t laugh anymore. From the beginning to the end, Ye Ling did not move and stood in front of him, letting him vent his anger. Only when his anger was enough to laugh, did Ye Ling lick her dry lips, raise her eyes, and look at him.
Huo Zhun thought that he would again be like before, not bothering to explain when he was insulted, proudly turning his head away, however, not this time, this time Ye Ling opened his mouth, still hoping to explain clearly, “I didn’t lie to you. Rong Sheng and I grew up together, even if he made a huge mistake, it’s impossible for me to lay my hands on him without a trace of softness and guilt.Huo Jun, I ……”
“Yes, you were childhood sweethearts, two little ones.” Huo Jun lets out a soft laugh, suddenly grabbing the cup in his hand and slamming it heavily on the ground, “Go on then, go back to F country with him!”
The cup pieces shattered, one splashing onto Ye Ling’s leg, knocking it raw.Ye Ling stares blankly at the fragments all over the ground, and after a long time, mumbles, “I won’t go back to F country with him ……”
“I don’t believe you anymore.” Huo Zhun takes a long breath and turns his back to him, “You go back first. There’s no need to attend the afternoon meeting with me, let’s calm down with each other and not meet for now.”
Ye Ling closed his eyes deeply, and after a few seconds, he bit his lower lip, stepped over the floor of debris, and walked towards the door.
Then, he stopped at the entrance to the entrance hall.
“It’s fine if you don’t believe me about anything else, but Huo Jun,” Ye Ling’s voice was nasal, “don’t take out that financial report again.”
As the words fell, the door sounded softly and Ye Ling’s figure disappeared behind it.