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Chapter 6. Alienation
"Well... From the test, this lady has taken aphrodisiac drugs. We can give her a gastric lavage and some medicine, but she may feel a little uncomfortable during this period. You guys keep an eye on her."
The nurse looked at the report in her hand and spoke in a gentle but expressionless tone. After that, she gave Yi Ruo an injection and left.
Shen Xi looked at Yi Ruo who was sleeping on the bed, picked up his phone and saw the call from an hour ago, rubbed his eyebrows with two fingers, told the driver to keep an eye on it, and walked out.
"Wife." Shen Xi stood on the balcony and looked at her, whispering to the other end of the phone.
"Honey! Why didn't you answer the phone so late? Did the dinner just end?" The woman's bright voice came from the other end.
Listening to his wife's voice, Shen Xi frowned slightly and said with a smile, "Yeah, I just finished."
His wife laughed, "We are really a pair of workaholics. You are really getting busier and busier. Is it because I'm not around that you don't care about your own health? Let me tell you, I've been..."
Shen Xi listened patiently to his wife's chattering, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, but the heaviness of his brows did not dissipate at all.
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The next morning, Yi Ruo woke up from the bed, looked at the white decorations around her, and thought of the absurdity of last night. She looked at the sofa by the door and saw Shen Xi and the driver sleeping on the sofa. She was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Shen Xi didn't go home all night. She thought Shen Xi would leave a nurse to take care of her, but she didn't expect him to stay here to take care of her all night.
Yi Ruo closed her eyes and thought about how she should face Shen Xi in the future. She was not drunk, and she was just unconscious due to the aphrodisiac. She would not forget everything that happened yesterday after waking up. That would be too suspicious.
Just as Yi Ruo was thinking, there was a faint rustling sound on the sofa. Yi Ruo thought that Shen Xi should have woken up, so she closed her eyes tightly, but her slightly trembling eyelashes betrayed her.
Hearing Shen Xi's sigh beside her, Yi Ruo opened her eyes and looked at him, with embarrassment and shyness flashing in her eyes, and a brightness and clarity that could not be ignored. Shen Xi looked at Yi Ruo like this, turned around and called the driver to send him to the door, then turned back to close and lock the door, then walked to Yi Ruo's bed, picked up a chair and sat next to Yi Ruo.
"How do you feel?"
"I..." Yi Ruo didn't know what to say. It seemed that no matter what she said, there would be problems. An awkward atmosphere filled the air around the two of them.
"Yesterday..."
"Yesterday..."
They said at the same time. Shen Xi's eyes flickered slightly and he wanted to speak, but Yi Ruo took the lead.
"Nothing happened yesterday." Yi Ruo said with a dazed look in his eyes but a firm tone.
"I just ate the wrong thing yesterday. Mr. Shen, you sent me to the hospital. Nothing else happened. I know you also drank and must be drunk."
Shen Xi looked at Yi Ruo, his heart moved slightly, and said, "Didn't you say you were going to meet a partner yesterday?"
Yi Ruo's body stiffened slightly, and she lowered her head and said nothing.
Shen Xi looked at Yi Ruo with a stiff expression, and he couldn't just leave it alone, so he said, "If anything happens, tell me, I might be able to help." After saying that, he wanted to raise his hand to pat Yi Ruo, but finally put it down.
Yi Ruo looked at Shen Xi's concerned expression, her eyes slightly red, and told him the whole story.
After listening to this, Shen Xi frowned and said, "Impossible. All the partners who can pass the approval and submit to the project department are all well-known people, even if they are not big shots. They will not do such absurd things."
Yi Ruo heard him say this with a slightly cold expression, thinking that he did not believe her. She looked even more aggrieved and kept silent with her head down.
When Shen Xi saw her like this, he knew that she had misunderstood what he said, and said softly, "I didn't say you lied to me."
Yi Ruo looked up at him, and immediately threw herself on Shen Xi with tears in grievance, her whole body trembling slightly.
Shen Xi sighed softly and hugged her tightly, whispering comfortingly, then said, "I will ask about the project for you this time, don't worry about it for now." He lifted Yi Ruo's head, looked at her tearful eyes, and said, "It's not your fault, don't be sad, understand?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yi Ruo's tears fell again. Shen Xi gently wiped her tears, hugged her in his arms, patted her back soothingly, and said lightly, "It's okay, I'm here."
Yi Ruo lay quietly in Shen Xi's arms, feeling his comfort, thinking that it was time to distance herself from Shen Xi for a while.
A week later, Shen Xi found out that the project was indeed not directly under the company, so he fired Sister Yuan and the matter came to an end. And she avoided Shen Xi for a week, and avoided him every time she passed by. However, rumors began to spread everywhere that Yi Ruo was hooking up with Shen Xi.
Xiao Li also heard about Yi Ruo from others, so he called Yi Ruo up. Looking at her delicate eyes and eyebrows, Xiao Li lowered his head and touched Yi Ruo's hair lovingly, and said, "Why didn't you tell me such a big thing? I will give you any project you want. Next time, you can't act on your own. Let me take a look at the information first, okay?"
Yi Ruo nodded with red eyes and tears flashing in her eyes. She didn't agree in her heart. She had just broken up with him with great difficulty. It was already unexpected that she asked him for a job. How could she be so shameless as to ask him for projects again? This was inconsistent with her personality, and she didn't want to have too much involvement with him. If Shen Xi knew that they had a relationship, and that Xiao Li had spent a lot of money on her, it would be a loss.
This is just right.
Xiao Li looked at Yi Ruo who was keeping her head down and saying nothing, so he half hugged her in his arms and said a few words to her. After a while, Yi Ruo thought of an excuse to leave Xiao Li's office. When she walked to the elevator, Yi Ruo was slightly stunned when she saw Shen Xi coming out of the elevator as if they had met for the first time.
Yi Ruo saw that Shen Xi's eyes turned red when he saw her. When he opened his mouth to ask, Yi Ruo tilted her head slightly and quickly passed by Shen Xi, obviously wanting to draw a clear line between herself and him.
Shen Xi was slightly stunned, and sighed in his heart that it was time to draw a clear line.
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