Chapter 28
It’s the weekend, Cheng Lydia’s day on duty, and Shen Ron is on a rare clean break.
All morning he stayed with Yang June in her room reading the newspaper to her and talking with her without fail.
It has become a habit of his life that he spends most of his time with Yang June whenever he is free during the weekdays.
His persistence and thoughtfulness moved even the servants in the mansion, and Jenny was even moved to tears as she stole a glance at Shen Ron in the house and whispered, “I didn’t expect that Young Master would treat Ms. Yang better after he took a new wife instead, Young Master’s feelings for Ms. Yang are just too deep.”
Ho Gina looked at her askance, unimpressed, “That’s because the Young Master is ashamed of Ms. Yang, that’s why he’s doubly nice to her.”
What’s the point of being doubly nice to her? Ho Gina sneered wickedly in her heart.
She stole a glance at the two in the room and turned to Jenny, “Come on, it’s time to go inside and help Ms. Yang scrub up.”
“Didn’t you rub it in this morning?” Jenny whispered.
“You didn’t scrub up this morning, so go get the hot water ready.” Gina gave her a sidelong glance and led the way in by knocking on the door. Upon entering the bedroom, the smile on her face was instantly gentle, “Young master, please move over, I’m going to wipe Ms. Yang’s body.”
When Cheng Lydia enters the house, everyone calls Yang June Young Lady, but after Cheng Lydia enters the house, the old lady orders everyone to call Yang June Ms. Yang. Although Shen Ron is not happy about it, he thinks it’s just a title, it doesn’t mean anything, so there’s no need to make trouble with the old lady.
Even if everyone called her Young Outsider, what did it matter, as long as he always loved her in his heart and treated her as his only wife.
Shen Ron put down his storybook and walked to the end of the bed to organize the bookshelves.
Jenny got a tub of hot water out of the bathroom and put the water temperature card into the tub.
“What is this?” Gina fished the water temperature card out of the basin.
Jenny smiled and said, “This is the water temperature card the young lady brought back from the hospital, it’s so useful, you can tell if the water is the right temperature as soon as you put it in.”
“Who knows if it’s accurate? Better not use it.” Gina tossed the water temperature card on the floor.
The water temperature card fell at Shen Ron’s feet, he looked down at it lying on the floor, bent down to pick it up and looked it up and down before handing it back to Gina, “It’s from Yarn Hospital, it shouldn’t be a problem to use.”
Gina took the water temperature card and opened her mouth to say something when Shen Ron turned around and prepared to leave.
Shen Ron turned to leave when he suddenly turned back to Jenny, “The young lady was here?”
Jenny was busy saying, “Been here two or three times.”Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.
“What is she doing here?”
“Didn’t do much, just came over to check on Ms. Yang,” Jenny thought for a moment and added, “Took Ms. Yang’s pulse when she came over yesterday, then told me Ms. Yang was cold and asked me to add a quilt.”
Shen Ron was thoughtfully silent for two seconds, nodded, and turned to walk out after telling them to take good care of Yang June.
Every time, Cheng Lydia goes to her room first and hogs the bed first, putting Shen Ron in a difficult position.
When it was finally her turn to walk into the bedroom tonight, Shen Ron was lazily nestled under the covers watching TV with a rocker in his hand. When he heard her enter, he simply lifted his eyes and gave her a faint look.
Cheng Lydia has been busy from this afternoon to just now, handling two operations in a row, and now she is so sleepy that she just wants to fall into bed and sleep.
She took off the trench coat she was wearing and pulled her pajamas out of the inside of her closet and walked into the bathroom.
Filling the bathtub with hot water, Cheng Lydia lay comfortably in it, closing her eyes and thinking of the little boy who had just left this world after three hours of first aid.
The boy was five or six years old, his brains crushed by the car, and his parents were on their knees, hugging her leg and howling, begging her to save the boy’s life.
She wanted to save it, too, but … there was really nothing more she could do.
This was her job, experiencing many, many lives and deaths every day, and every time she saw the families who were crying and fainting on the floor, she would feel that she was actually already considered happy in this world. At least she was able to survive the car accident, and at least her mother was still alive.
Cheng Lydia was indeed sleepy, so sleepy that she felt lazy even getting up out of the water to get dressed.
It’s so warm, so comfortable and so quiet to lie in the water …
Shen Ron finished watching the news and watched another section of the military report, and Cheng Lydia still hadn’t come out from inside the bathroom.
He thought to himself, “Why does it take so long for this woman to take a shower? It’s been almost an hour, not dehydrated, right?
Shen Ron tossed his head, none of his business, a woman this hot and cold-blooded deserved to be dehydrated.
After another twenty minutes of watching TV, Cheng Lydia still didn’t come out, Shen Ron started to sit down a bit, and after a mental struggle, he finally threw down the rocker and went to the bathroom door and knocked, there was no answer, and as it was, he increased his efforts, still no answer.
A bad feeling came over her and Shen Ron grabbed the door handle and twisted it, only since Shen Ron had trespassed in the bathroom once, the first thing Cheng Lydia did when she entered the bathroom was to unlock it, and this time was no exception.
Shen Ron had to go back to the bedroom drawer to find the key, and when he pushed the door open and entered, Cheng Lydia was sleeping soundly in the water-filled tub.
The hot water rode over the edge of the tub and clattered to the floor.
Shen Ron walked up and bent down and patted her face with emotion, “Hey, are you okay, Sister Firestorm?”
Sleep disturbed, Cheng Lydia frowned slightly and cooed dazedly, “I’ve been busy all day and I’m exhausted, don’t wake me up …”
Turns out it’s not dead.
Shen Ron breathed a sigh of relief.
But … he looked askance at Cheng Lydia, who had fallen asleep again. Even if he really did not want her to compete with him for the bed, he could not stand by and watch her sleep in the water, could he?
“Wake up, get dressed and go to bed … hello, you hear me, I’m not fighting you for the bed, I’m letting you sleep … hello … you hear me. Wake up now …”
No matter how much he screamed, Cheng Lydia just impatiently pushed his hand away with one hand and looked away to go back to sleep.
With no choice but to look up and sweep around, Shen Ron then pulled the large bath towel from the towel rack and fished her out of the water, wrapping it around her and carrying her out of the bathroom.
“Heavy as hell.” He murmured unkindly as he laid her down on the bed very ungently and pulled the covers over her.
Cheng Lydia’s hair was half wet, her face was still dripping with water, and her white collarbone was exposed outside the blanket, sexy and attractive. Looking at this sleeping face, Shen Ron mistook her for Yang June for a moment, but this time he was not drunk, so he quickly came to his senses.
Averting his eyes, he went around the end of the bed to the other side and lifted the covers to lie in.
The next day, Cheng Lydia woke up to a strange sensation disturbing her body as she moved under the covers, a bad feeling hitting her and sleep was fading little by little.
She lifted the covers and looked at her body, no clothes!
The first action was to look at Shen Ron, who was still sleeping with his eyes closed, and then lift the covers to check the pillow in the middle of the bed. Luckily, the pillow was still there.
Ever since the last incident when she opened her eyes and found herself actually lying in Shen Ron’s arms, Cheng Lydia has been putting a large pillow across her middle every night before going to bed, and Shen Ron has acquiesced to this practice.
Each is consciously avoiding physical contact with the other, and sleeping naked is even less likely, but last night …
What the hell happened to myself last night? Never slept naked in her life … last night actually naked? Cheng Lydia tried hard to recall her actions last night, but couldn’t remember how. As it was, she turned her suspicious gaze to Shen Ron, besides him, there didn’t seem to be a second person who was suspicious, right?
Shen Ron, who had just been awakened by her movement, felt her gaze betraying his face, and with a lift of his eyelids, stared at her without good grace, “It’s rude to stare at a man early in the morning, you know?”
Cheng Lydia didn’t expect him to suddenly open his eyes and looked away sheepishly, but the sheepishness only stayed on her face for less than two seconds before it was replaced by a flash of annoyance and she looked at him ask, “What the hell is going on here?”
It wasn’t like she was sleepwalking, so she couldn’t just take off her own clothes and not even know it, right? In fact … at this moment she really wondered if she was suffering from sleepwalking due to stress lately.
Her hands clutched the covers tightly above her chest, a face flushed with shame, stubborn as she was, she would not admit that it probably had nothing to do with him.
Shen Ron sat up from the bed and stretched out to survey her with a look of innocence plus mockery, “Anyway, it’s none of my business, I was in bed early last night, and I put a pillow in between to prevent you from molesting me.”
He patted the other pillow in the middle, which was true, he had added the pillow. Not to prevent molestation by Cheng Lydia, though, but he was worried he’d pounce on her and eat her dry if he didn’t get a grip.
After all, it was sleeping in the same bed, the other woman was shirtless and had a decent body, and he was a normal man in mind and body.
Although the process was twice as torturous, the night was safe, and Shen Ron couldn’t help but mentally admire his ability to hold it together.
Not wanting to continue this humiliating discussion with him, Cheng Lydia grabbed the bath towel she had dropped under the bed and wrapped it around her body to go into the bathroom.
As she brushed her teeth and washed her face, Cheng Lydia was still trying to remember exactly how she had gotten naked last night. She remembered that she had had a busy day and when she got home Shen Ron was leaning on her bed watching TV while she herself took her pajamas into the bathroom and soaked herself in a tub full of hot water, and it was from this moment that her memory was interrupted …
Cheng Lydia gave a sudden jolt and stared at herself in the mirror in dismay, had … he fished her out of the water and carried her to bed?
So she and he were … last night?
She scanned her body down again, had she done that sort of thing or not?
Her thoughts were awakened by a sudden knock on the door and Shen Ron’s voice came in, “Ms Cheng, you’ve been in there for half an hour, you didn’t fall asleep in the water again did you?”
Sure enough! She really did fall asleep in the water and was carried to bed by him!
Cheng Lydia pinched her hand over her face in shame, something so humiliating must not happen next time.
Taking a deep breath, she dried the towels back on the rack, turned and pulled open the bathroom door to take a look at Shen Ron, who was leaning against the door with his arms around his chest, and walked out as if nothing had happened.
At this point, playing dumb seems like the wisest option.
Today is Cheng Lydia’s first day at work at Shen’s. Shen’s building is bright and spacious, with a grand atmosphere, and everyone in the office is like a robot meticulously sticking to their posts, the atmosphere is depressingly serious.
Cheng Lydia, who doesn’t even blink on the operating table, is terrified of this rigorous office area. She finds it hard to understand how the employees who work in this atmosphere every day manage to keep going.
To her bemusement, Shen Ron brought her to the office and then just threw her a line, “Play by yourself.” And went off on his own.
This guy, he thinks she’s here to play with nothing?
As she stood in the office area not knowing where to go, a woman in a loose dress approached her with a businesslike tone and asked, “Are you Ms Cheng, please?”
“Yes.” Cheng Lydia nodded, while sizing up the strange woman.
The woman was about thirty-five years old, her black hair meticulously combed behind her head, tall and dignified in appearance, with a refined air between her eyebrows, she looked like a professional woman who mixed in the shopping mall. And her slightly bulging belly and slightly loose dress made Cheng Lydia guess without having to ask that it was Miss LILY, the secretary-general that old Mrs. Shen was talking about.
“I’m LILY, CEO Shen’s secretary general, come to my office for a moment.” LILY turned around and led her towards her office.
LILY’s office was located on the left side of Shen Ron’s office, which was semi-open, she let Cheng Lydia sit on the sofa and poured her a glass of water before she sat down across from her and said in a serious manner, “Ms Cheng, you are the candidate that Old Madam Shen personally picked over, I think Old Madam must have high hopes for you, but honestly, the secretary This position is not easy to do, especially for CEO Shen’s secretary.”
Cheng Lydia sipped lightly from her glass of plain water, thinking to herself that the old lady hadn’t really told LILY who she really was?
She also doesn’t want to enter the company wearing the halo of The Shen Family’s young lady, a special group of people who are looked at sideways everywhere she goes, which is why she asked Mrs. Shen not to tell LILY.
“CEO Shen is mean?” She asked with a smirk.
“CEO Shen is not mean, he is just more demanding and has a somewhat cloudy temper, but that is not the main reason.” LILY paused and continued, “To be honest, a young and handsome man like CEO Shen, is a girl will be touched and will have beautiful dreams when she sees him, that’s why so many girls came before, despite working hard, they still can’t escape being fired from the company in the end. And I will remind every girl of this before she takes up her job, it’s up to you whether you can do it or not.”
“Don’t worry Sister LILY, I’m not interested in CEO Shen.” Cheng Lydia has a determined face.
A man as evil as Shen Ron, she has nothing but nightmares about him, not beauty dreams!
“It better be.” LILY nodded, “Then come over when you can, starting today, and take your time getting used to the place.”
“Okay, thanks.”
LILY handed Cheng Lydia a base of company information for her to familiarize herself with first, and then walked out of the office towards the CEO’s office with a few documents in her arms. When she passed by the secretary’s office area, Alina smilingly asked, “Sister LILY, who is CEO Shen planning to bring to the charity party tonight?”