Jiang Fan stood up, his face pale.
Si Yanli's expression was cold and sharp as he said, "Sister Yao, eliminate Jiang Fan this week."
Sister Yao nodded.
When Si Yanli left the conference room, he glanced at Tang Wu. "Come to my office."
Tang Wu looked completely baffled.
This was the first time Si Yanli had called her to his office since she started working here.
Although he was cold-blooded and aloof, as a leader, he was fair and just. His swift and decisive action to root out the person who had actually taken the USB drive truly commanded respect.
A few minutes later, Tang Wu arrived at Si Yanli's office and raised her hand to knock on the door.
"Come in."
Tang Wu pushed the door open and walked in.
Si Yanli glanced at her, his voice faint. "Come here."
Tang Wu had no idea what he wanted her for, but she walked over in confusion.
Si Yanli was on a video call with Old Master Si. "Grandpa, you can ask her yourself whether I've been bullying her at the company."
Seeing Old Master Si in the video, a bright smile immediately bloomed on Tang Wu's delicate face. "Hello, Grandpa!"
"Wuwu, you haven't been back to the old residence for a meal in a long time. If you're free tonight, come back and eat with Third Brother."
Tang Wu shook her head regretfully. "Grandpa, I've been filming a variety show lately and work is quite busy. At night, I can only return to the accommodation arranged by the production team. Once I'm done with this busy period, I'll come back and have a meal with you."
Old Master Si smiled and stroked his white beard. "Okay, okay. By the way, Third Brother hasn't been bullying you, right?"
Tang Wu quickly shook her head. "No, he hasn't."
"That's good. If Third Brother bullies you, you must tell Grandpa. Grandpa will vent your anger for you."
A smile blossomed on Tang Wu's lips.
After ending the call, Tang Wu prepared to leave, but her high heels accidentally caught on the carpet. Seeing that she was about to pitch forward, a large, slender hand suddenly reached out around her waist.
The man caught her just in time.
With the momentum pulling her backward, Tang Wu fell right onto the man's lap.
The atmosphere in the air fell silent for a moment.
Tang Wu could feel the instant tensing of the muscles in the man's thighs, as well as his breathing growing heavier.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." She tried to stand up, but the large hand wrapped around her waist showed no intention of letting go.
Si Yanli looked at her with deep, complex phoenix eyes. "Tang Wu, what exactly is your intention lately?"
Deliberately teasing him, and then giving him the cold shoulder.
And now throwing herself into his arms. Even though she said it wasn't on purpose, her words didn't hold much credibility.
It seemed like she was deliberately messing with him.
Over the past few days, he had clearly felt her coldness.
She laughed and chatted with everyone, except when she was in front of him.
"Playing hard to get?" The man's large hand around her waist tightened slightly. He lowered his head, his thin lips leaning close to her ear.
His crisp, masculine scent fell against her fair earlobe, bringing a warm, tingling sensation.
Tang Wu's heart uncontrollably skipped a beat.
She didn't shy away. Instead, she turned to look at him, her bright red lips very close to his handsome face. She traced her fingertips lightly across his chest. "So what if I am?"
Anyway, she was just following the strategies from the book. Even if he found her distasteful, it couldn't be worse than him constantly brushing his teeth because he thought she was disgusting!
Behind his glasses, Si Yanli's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, as if brewing some kind of dark storm.
His large hand caught her fingertips tracing his chest, the muscle lines of his arm taut. "I've told you, if you don't divorce, we can spend our whole lives together. What is the meaning of you doing this?"
As smart as he was, he couldn't see through her thoughts at all.
Tang Wu leaned forward, her red lips brushing against his ear. "I'm baiting you, but you won't take the hook. What are you getting so angry and flustered for?"
She forcefully pulled her hand back from his grasp, and her fingertips trailed down his shirt buttons to his belt buckle.
Click.
His belt buckle was suddenly unfastened by her.
The air seemed to grow even quieter.
Si Yanli's handsome facial contours tensed at a visible speed, and the phoenix eyes behind his glasses turned a bit sharper. "Stop fooling around. Buckle it!"
Tang Wu was just about to say something when suddenly, someone knocked on the office door.
Tang Wu immediately stood up from the man's lap and ran out as fast as she could.
Si Yanli looked at the belt buckle she had undone. She had run out so fast that he didn't even have time to buckle it back up.
She definitely did it on purpose!
Xu Zhou walked in holding a document.
Before Tang Wu closed the office door, Si Yanli saw her beautiful, watery eyes shoot him a glance, the corners of her lips curling into a sweet, harmless smile.
It seemed that teasing him brought her joy.
He truly hadn't known she possessed such a mischievous heart.
...
After leaving the office, Tang Wu ran all the way to the restroom.
The flush on her face spread all the way from her ears down to her neck.
She turned on the tap and washed her face with cold water.
The tutorials in that book were really getting more and more outrageous.
If it were before, even if you gave her a hundred times the courage, she wouldn't have dared to casually unfasten his belt buckle.
She had only unfastened his belt buckle and hadn't done anything excessive, yet earlier, he actually got...
Thinking of this, Tang Wu's face turned even redder.
She really couldn't understand him. He clearly didn't like her, so why was his body so sensitive to her?
She just casually teased him, and he responded?
Are men all driven by lust rather than their hearts?
Coming out of the restroom, Tang Wu reached the corner and saw Jiang Fan and Xu Dai arguing.
"You were the one who told me to steal the USB drive and frame Tang Wu. Now that I've stepped up and taken the blame all by myself, are you not going to show any appreciation?"
Xu Dai frowned deeply. "I looked all around the office, and there were absolutely no security cameras. Who told you to fall for their bluff so easily? Not only did we fail to frame Tang Wu, but we also let her steal the spotlight. How do you want me to show my appreciation?"
"Be my girlfriend."
Xu Dai immediately blew up. "Are you sick in the head? I'm right in the developmental phase of my career, how could I possibly be your girlfriend?"
Jiang Fan snorted angrily. "Don't think I don't know you want to hook up with Vice Director Si."
"I do not. Don't spit venom at me."
Jiang Fan grabbed Xu Dai's shoulders. "You have to show me some appreciation, or else I'll tell everyone that we conspired to frame Tang Wu!"
Xu Dai gritted her teeth, then stood on her tiptoes and kissed the corner of Jiang Fan's mouth.
Jiang Fan pulled Xu Dai into his arms and kissed her deeply.
The scene that followed was a bit hard on the eyes.
Tang Wu put away the phone she had used to secretly record them, turned around, and walked in the other direction.
...
Not long after returning to her desk, she received a message from Si Yanli.
"Don't play hard to get with me. If you don't want a divorce, you can just tell me directly."
Tang Wu laughed out of sheer annoyance.
Was he really that confident she didn't want to divorce him?
She didn't reply to him.
...
Vice Director's Office.
Si Yanli stared at his phone for a long time, but never received a reply from Tang Wu.
Unprecedentedly, he clicked into her WeChat Moments.
Tang Wu's Moments were not set to be visible for only three days or six months.
A few minutes ago, she had posted an update.
Seeing the content of her Moments, the phoenix eyes behind Si Yanli's glasses narrowed sharply.
She actually—
