Chapter 360 - Aunt Ruan’s Personality Is Exactly The Same As Mine
Chapter 360: Aunt Ruan’s Personality Is Exactly The Same As Mine
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Liu Ronghua nodded eagerly as if feeling touched at Shen Jialiang’s statement.
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Monday was the first day which Ruan Danchen started to work in Qilin.
She was not a newbie at work anymore, but she felt more anxious than the first time she reported to Chengshi after her graduation. This intense nervousness was due to the fact that she was about to start her work in a new environment, especially when that environment was owned by Qi Chenglin.
She feared regarding her possible substandard performances in Qilin may brought embarrassment on Qi Chenglin.
Even though the staff in Qilin did not have a clue regarding her relationship with Qi Chenglin, she would still feel embarrassed and feared that he may be disappointed when any of her mistakes went up to him.
She woke up half an hour earlier than usual on this particular morning, and the first thing she noticed when she opened her eyes was Qi Chenglin who was still asleep beside her. He appeared especially gentle and calm in his current unprepared, sleeping face. It was a kind of feature which would be absent when he was wide awake, and she found it particularly attractive.
She did not mean that he was more attractive in his current state, but he would either act serious and unrelenting, or indecent and nasty when he was awake. His usual attitude was totally different than his current unprepared calmness.
However, it was this humongous contrasting feature which accentuated a different kind of glamor in his current appearance.
Ruan Danchen was unsure whether Qi Chenglin only displayed this sort of unprepared feature whenever he was with her.
However, she still felt exhilarated to be able to sleep beside him and gain his trust.
Her lips curled into a sweet smile as she lifted herself up slowly and carefully. The blanket fell off her shoulders during the process, revealing the reddish-purple hickeys on her shoulders and clavicles.
Ruan Danchen smiled at the sight of his peaceful slumber as she reminded herself to draw graffiti on his face the next time she found him sleeping soundly in the morning.
She could not contain her laughter when she was imagining the scene, and now the sight of this man who was sleeping calmly appeared cute to her.
She leaned forward and gave a soft but careful peck on his lips before backing off immediately, and just when she sat back up and about to get off the bed, a firm and muscular arm encircled her waist suddenly.
Ruan Danchen knew to whom did the arm belonged to but she took a glance on it unconsciously, admiring the difference between their arms.
Her arms were slim and appeared fragile, whereas his arms were firm, muscular and appeared especially masculine. Ruan Danchen felt that every part of his body was sexy, attractive and without any flaws in them.
Qi Chenglin’s arm contracted slightly and pulled Ruan Danchen back to him amidst her inattentiveness.
He got on top of Ruan Danchen before she could make a sound.
“Why are you up so early?” Qi Chenglin asked with a croaky, sleepy voice, which obviously meant that he was not fully awake yet.
He was used to sleeping with her companion now. Even though he did not hug Ruan Danchen sometimes during his deep sleep, instinctively, he would still acknowledged the fact that she was beside him and the thought of it made him feel secure.
That was the reason why he knew she was not beside him just now even though her movement was light and slight.
Ruan Danchen knew he was still sleepy now as his eyes opened only momentarily before closing again. Now he was lying on top of her with his face buried beside her neck. She could also feel his breaths becoming slow and steady too.
However, Qi Chenglin only put less than half of his weight down on her with great care to avoid any possible harm to her despite the fact that he was still sleepy right now.
“I can’t sleep anymore since today is the first day I start my work in Qilin, so I decided to wake up now. You should continue your sleep now,” Ruan Danchen answered and tried to push him away, but her attempt failed even though only less than half of Qi Chenglin’s weight was on her.
Qi Chenglin jolted awake after listening to her statement. He felt satisfied when he inhaled the familiar fragrance emitted from her warm and delicate neck which was mixed with his smell.
“Nervous?” Qi Chenglin lifted his soft and gentle gaze to meet hers. He rested his arms on each side of her face, brushing her long hair to the sides with his long and slender fingers, revealing the delicate face which was smaller than his palm. The face would usually become swollen upon waking up in the morning, but her delicate face appeared fair and clean instead without any signs of swelling.
She normally wore a light make up to work, but now she did not have the need to make up anymore since she was unemployed. However, she did make up slightly whenever she went out and it would make her appear like a university student. No one would believe that her actual age was twenty-six years old because she appeared almost as young and innocent as those university students with the slight make up on her. She looked like she was just around eighteen or nineteen years old with her pure and honest appearance now and with her big, round eyes staring at him innocently. This made Qi Chenglin felt like he was committing a crime right now.
“A little,” Ruan Danchen answered honestly. She had decided to tell him the truth, no matter the severity of cases or even if it was just her feeling, after the job interview on that day.
Since this man would not get angry with her no matter the circumstances.
Ruan Danchen was fearless now after constantly being pampered by Qi Chenglin.
“I’m a little nervous since it’s my first day of working in a new environment after all,” Ruan Danchen admitted sincerely.
Qi Chenglin’s eyes were particularly gentle when he stared at her and his voice was soft yet croaky. “Why are you nervous? I’m there, right?”
“I know, but I don’t want to make you feel embarrassed if I made mistakes,” Ruan Danchen felt embarrassed when she answered him.
“Do you want to reach the company earlier?” Qi Chenglin asked with a smile on his face.
“That’s not necessary, it’s good enough to just arrive on time,” Ruan Danchen did not want the father and son to rush just for her.
“Tell me the truth,” Qi Chenglin said with a twitch to his lips after leaned in closer to her and tightened his embrace.
Ruan Danchen blushed and whispered in embarrassment, “Yes, I want to go earlier to familiarize myself with the environment.”
Qi Chenglin took a glance at her and smiled softly, then he leaned forward to kiss her lips and patted her buttocks gently. “Wake up, we’re leaving earlier today.”
“It’s too early right now, we can just leave at the usual timing. Let Youxuan sleep a while more,” Ruan Danchen and Qi Chenglin sat up together but she held his arm back.
“He had already woken up by now,” Qi Chenglin turned around and glanced at her with a smile on her face before pulling her up from the bed.
Ruan Danchen remained skeptical at his statement. It was impossible that he would wake up early based on his constant sleep ins.
However, Qi Chenglin urged and pushed her into the bathroom.
Qi Chenglin went downstairs first and saw Aunt Zheng tidying up the house with a robotic cleaner vacuuming the floor.
All the meals were prepared by Ruan Danchen for the father and son to consume after she started living here.
“Aunt Zheng, make breakfast for us this morning please, because Danchen is feeling anxious on her first day of work,” Qi Chenglin said.
“Alright,” Aunt Zheng nodded in response and placed the cleaning cloth down before hurrying off to the kitchen.
Qi Chenglin then went back up to second floor and saw Ruan Danchen exiting the bedroom with a casual outfit.
He raised his eyebrows and asked, “Why didn’t you change into professional work outfit?”
“I’m going to wake Youxuan up and make breakfast afterwards. I’ll change again after I’m done because it’s not convenient to perform all those tasks wearing an official outfit,” Ruan Danchen explained.
“You can just settle your own matters and leave the rest to us. Aunt Zheng will prepare breakfast and I’ll go wake Youxuan up,” Qi Chenglin felt her benevolence and peace when she wore casually, as if now she belonged to him after abducting her into this house.
Ruan Danchen felt especially relaxed as there were no restrictions in this house. She considered this as her home and subconsciously, she was the owner of this house now.
Qi Chenglin felt happy and closed in on her, squeezing her near to the door frame. His hand rested on her waist, radiating heat through the soft cotton of her casual outfit to her skin.
He squeezed in further and almost nestling up on her, then played with her in his embosom. He leaned forward, his lips almost touching hers, and the tip of his nose brushing on her cheek, teasing her.
Ruan Danchen could feel his hot breath spraying on her cheek. She started to blush and the numbness started to spread from her ears extending to the whole of her face and finally to her neck.
Qi Chenglin inhaled the slight fragrance on her face and felt his mood today would brightened a lot.
Qi Chenglin felt motivated at work right now, and this was also due to the fact that she would start her work today in Qilin and worked with him in the same company.
Ruan Danchen’s breathing became heavy and avoided direct eye contact. His nice looking lips were almost touching hers but he just did not want to kiss her, making her feel embarrassed and ashamed.
She was squeezed near the doorframe passively but now her hands quivered cowardly, and she grabbed the corner of his shirt tightly in the end.
Qi Chenglin smiled and his gaze on hers was full of mollycoddle.
“Do you want to take the initiative?” Qi Chenglin’s lips curled into a warm but indecent smile and pinched her softly.
“I hate you,” Ruan Danchen’s soft voice quivered as she felt extremely embarrassed right now.
“Kiss or not?” His lips were almost on her cheek and they brushed against her skin as he spoke.
He really liked it when she took the initiative.
Ruan Danchen felt her face burned and numb, and she avoided eye contact due to embarrassment. Finally, she summoned up her courage and lifted her head after Qi Chenglin urged her by pinching on her waist twice. Her height was only until his shoulder level but his lips were close to hers when he lowered his head.
She tiptoed slightly and pecked on his soft and nice looking lips in a hurried pace.
Her face was rosy pink when she returned to her original position and whispered, “I’m going to get dressed now.”
Qi Chenglin’s lips twitched into a faint smile. It was a smile that no one could imitate and it always induced palpitations in her.
Qi Chenglin did not let her go and slammed his lips onto hers instead, pressing his tongue to the seam of her lips, and at her grant of access, delved inside her mouth. Energy was being constantly drained out of her as they kissed, and she was already leaning against his chest when their lips parted. Her initial clear eyes now became misty as if covered by a thin fog which appeared especially attractive to Qi Chenglin.
Qi Chenglin’s Adam’s apple slithered within his throat as he glanced upon her red, plump lips and now, he did not want to release her from his embosom.
He took a deep breath and released her after a while, turning around to Qi Youxuan’s room after Ruan Danchen went back to her bedroom.
He saw Qi Youxuan sleeping in a sort of luxurious sprawl upon entering his room.
Qi Chenglin was unsure since when Qi Youxuan’s pajamas was lifted up, revealing a fair-skinned abdomen which despite one whole night of fasting, remained rounded and protruded.
His left calf was curled inwards and pointed towards the right corner of the bed, and his fair, chubby feet appeared especially cute in his sleeping posture.
His arms were raised above his head as if surrendering, and the corner of his blanket covered half of his abdomen. His mouth was wide open in his deep slumber, with saliva trailing down from the corner of his mouth.
Qi Chenglin smiled at the sight of his sleeping posture. He walked towards Qi Youxuan and placed his hand on Qi Youxuan’s abdomen, which was huge in comparison with the abdomen.
Qi Chenglin said with a deep, calm voice while shaking his abdomen, “It’s time to wake up now.”
Qi Youxuan was having a dream about him eating a pizza and swallowed his saliva with a loud slurp before he was shaken back to reality. Then, he felt a coolness wrapping around him in a semi-conscious state.
His small hand held onto Qi Chenglin’s wrist and pushed it away. Then, he flipped around to his side, opened his eyes forcibly to take a peek at the Winnie the Pooh clock. After realizing he still had half an hour of sleep before his usual wake up routine, he relaxed and wrapped himself tightly with the blanket before closing his eyes and dozing off to sleep.
“…” Qi Chenglin narrowed his eyes and shook him again. “Get out of bed quickly.”
“Shut up, I still have half an hour of sleep left before waking up,” Qi Youxuan mumbled in a sleepy tone before flipping around again and now his back was facing Qi Chenglin. He wrapped himself tighter with the blanket and almost covered up his face in the process.
Qi Chenglin went to lift the blanket up instead but his attempt proved to be a failure since Qi Youxuan wrapped himself up tightly like a cocoon.
Qi Chenglin stared at Qi Youxuan for a while, then he went to the washroom all of a sudden and came back with his hands wet momentarily.
Qi Youxuan continued his slumber peacefully, not knowing the danger that was slowly creeping up to him. Qi Chenglin tried to lift up the blanket with his dry hand and when a space was created within the blanket, he slipped his wet hand inside.
On the next second, the kid let out a cry and jumped up. Now, he was wide awake.
He turned around and glared at the culprit with his eyes wide opened indignantly. “Dad, what are you doing?”
He almost froze to death!
They could control the water output temperature in the house and based on the temperature of Qi Chenglin’s wet hand, his father purposely washed his hands under the coldest setting.
It is winter now and he just did not feel sorry for his son!
“You don’t want to wake up when I called out to you nicely,” Qi Chenglin stared at Qi Youxuan calmly and answered in a flat tone.
Qi Youxuan had a bad temper upon waking up and now, he was exasperated. He reached out to his clock with his chubby hand and pointed at the time to Qi Chenglin. “There’s still half an hour left! Why are you waking me up so early? It’s tiring enough to study, can’t you let me have a good rest?”
“…” Qi Chenglin felt speechless. Qi Youxuan normally finished his homework at school and Qi Chenglin would supervised Qi Youxuan for English revision once he returned home. Then, Qi Youxuan would watch cartoons while jogging before taking a rest, shower and sleep in the end. How tired could he possibly be?
“Your Aunt Ruan is feeling nervous since today is her first day of work, and she wants to familiarize herself with the new environment. We will leave earlier too,” Qi Chenglin explained.
Qi Youxuan was shivering from the icy coldness but he got down from the bed immediately after hearing Qi Chenglin’s explanation. “Dad, I’d wake up if you told me that it’s Aunt Ruan who wanted to leave earlier.”
Qi Youxuan was especially deft in his actions. He went to the washroom and stood on a stool before squeezing some toothpaste on his toothbrush and started brushing his teeth.
A few moments later, he walked out of the washroom while still brushing his teeth, then he mumbled with his mouth full of foams which was incomprehensible to Qi Chenglin.
Qi Chenglin raised his eyebrows and said, “Speak clearly.”
Qi Youxuan returned to the washroom immediately. He stepped back on the stool, spit out the foams and rinsed his mouth before exiting the washroom again. “Dad, we owned the company, right? Why does she need to familiarize herself with the environment when you can just let her be in charge?”
“Your Aunt Ruan wants to be low profile and doesn’t want to show off in the company,” Qi Chenglin answered.
Qi Youxuan blushed upon listening to his statement and said in embarrassment, “Aunt Ruan’s personality is exactly the same as mine.”
“…” Qi Chenglin stood up from the small bed and mocked. “She isn’t as shameful as you are.”
He walked out of the room after mocking Qi Youxuan.
However, Qi Youxuan was not bothered about his statement. He went back to the washroom and took a glance at the mirror. When he noticed there was residual foam at the corner of his lips, he cleaned it off and washed his face before applying Johnson lotion on his face.
He even got dressed and went to the dining area looking neat and clean so that his Aunt Ruan’s morning went on smoothly and would not feel extremely anxious at work.
Ruan Danchen had finished tidying up herself and put on a light makeup. She had not apply lip balm yet and planned to do so only after she had her breakfast. She did not go downstairs after exiting her bedroom and instead, she went to Qi Youxuan’s bedroom first, which was empty was she entered.
She went to the dining area and just when she was about to ask for Qi Youxuan’s whereabouts, she saw the father and son sitting at the dining table with breakfast in front of them. There was breakfast prepared even at her empty seat.
This made Ruan Danchen felt embarrassment, and she asked while sitting down, “Did you guys wait me for long?”
“No, we just got down not long ago,” Qi Chenglin said calmly.
Qi Youxuan lowered his head and started eating his porridge, thinking that his father came down here the earliest.
It was half an hour earlier than usual when the trio finished their breakfast. Ruan Danchen applied a layer of lip balm lightly before taking her bag and went out of the house with Qi Chenglin.
They sent Qi Youxuan to Jixia Elementary School before going to Qilin together.
Qi Chenglin usually drove to work himself as there was no need for Xiao Yang to be the chauffeur unless there was any emergency in the morning.
Qilin had two different parking areas – above ground and underground parking areas. The Qi family had reserved parking slots in both the parking areas, and they usually would park their cars in either parking slots based on their moods.
Ruan Danchen feared that she may have acted ostentatiously if she went down the car which was parked in the above ground parking area.
She did not want this relationship to be a sort of secret affair and was not planning to hide it purposely, so she would sit Qi Chenglin’s car whenever she went to work in the morning or getting off work at night. Now, she planned to go with the flow, and would feel grateful for the peace and quiet if no one knew about this.
However, she was not bothered and would just simply admit it if someone found out about it.
She would still preferred to be low profile and not going to brag about it, so she let Qi Chenglin parked his car in the reserved parking slot at the underground parking area.
Qi Chengzhi, Qi Chenglin, Qi Chengyue and even Cheng Dongge’s parking slots were arranged together. There were differences between theirs and the normal staff’s parking slots, but remained low profile nonetheless.
Ruan Danchen turned towards Qi Chenglin and said in embarrassment after the engine was turned off, “Er… I’m leaving first, you can leave two steps behind me later.”
She feared that Qi Chenglin may feel unhappy after finishing his statement, which turned out to be true as his face was expressionless and his emotions were unreadable now. She knew he was not feeling happy about it right now as this man wanted the whole world to know how loving he was towards her.
She had no idea what kind of disease he had contracted as it felt like he was suffocating from not being able to let the world knew how he pampered her with the whole of his heart.
Did he acquire this habit recently or he usually acted this way since he was born?
Ruan Danchen leaned forward quickly and kissed him on the lips. Now she was taking the initiative unlike this morning which she felt embarrassed in kissing him actively.
It was strange that she was able to take the initiative and kissed him if they were not clinging onto each other, but when he went up to her flirtatiously, she could not perform anything due to nervousness.
“I am happy to be able to work with you in the same company,” Ruan Danchen put on a sweet smile. She purposely said what Qi Chenglin loved to hear but this was the truth. She really liked it when she could work with him and met up at him whenever she wanted.
Sure enough, Qi Chenglin’s eyes started to sparkle and there was a faint smile on his face, unlike the flat expression he put on just now.
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Extra Mini-Scene:
<<Qi Chenglin’s Arts and Crafts Workbook 4>>
Qi Chenglin did not bother to put on ears and nose on the little bear craftworks since it was an utter failure and took two lumps straight to the school on the next morning.
The teacher asked all the students to introduce their artworks one by one in the class.
When it was Qi Chenglin’s turn, he held the two lumps to the podium and announced seriously. “I made these after getting inspiration from watching <<Animal Planet>> last night.”
There was a glimmer in the teacher’s eyes and thought that the Qi family’s child was different from the others as he had a different, higher mindset. “What did you make?”
Qi Chenglin displayed the two lumps in his hands slowly–