Wu Lina and Yang Xinyu were panting and could feel the sweat oozing out of their bodies. Slowly he removed himself from Wu Lina and slid her down his body.
"Wu Lina, who will love you more that I do…" he whispered.
"No one…" she answered looking at him with gratitude. "Now I am hungry," she added with a grin.
"Hmmm. Me too. I have already placed an order for the breakfast. The security must have kept it outside," he said. As usual the security man had kept their breakfast out of the door and left.
Yang Xinyu dried himself and wrapped a towel around his waist. He went outside to pick up the breakfast.
Wu Lina came out from the shower five minutes later with towels wrapped around her hair and body.
Yang Xinyu took out the breakfast from the packing. Wu Lina had a scrunched expression when she saw that there was a lot of salad. "I won't eat," she said like a cranky baby.
"What?"
"I don't want to eat salad."
Yang Xinyu felt like her mother. Sometimes she behaved like a small child and he wanted to spank her like a parent would.
"Today, I don't want to eat just a salad," she insisted.
"Well, there's a soup and vegetable dumplings or…"
"No!!"
"You don't like this?"
"Look Yang Xinyu I don't want to eat vegetarian food. I want to eat meat. I am very young and my metabolism is still very high. I have an extremely active life. If I don't eat meat I will shrivel up. I need to eat non-vegetarian."
"Salad and vegetable soup constitute a good diet. It is healthy."
"It is healthy for you. You are an old man and have a sedentary lifestyle."
"…." I am an old man? I have a sedentary lifestyle? Huh?" He reflected upon his sedentary lifestyle... Being the CEO of the Yang Corporation meant he was too active. He was running between meetings, lunches, dinners, not to mention all the travel!
"Yes. All that you do is sitting in the meetings every hour of the day while I am running around between the seventh and the ninth floor to complete this project. Plus you want to devour me every time you see me!"
Yang Xinyu's ears became red. He sat down to eat breakfast and said softly, "You seem to enjoy that."
"Eating meat is cruelty you know," he added.
"When a lamb is killed by a wolf, is it cruel?" she asked.
"No, that is a nature."
"In that case having meat in the breakfast is also natural!"
"…."
"You can choose to be a vegetarian but I want meat."
"Okay, next time there'll be meat. I am sorry." He gave up even before he could argue. She behaved like a spoiled baby. 'How did she manage living alone?' He wondered.
Reluctantly Wu Lina ate her meal making Yang Xinyu feel guilty.
After having breakfast Wu Lina changed into one of the dresses Yang Xinyu had bought for her. It was lavender, her favorite color, slightly above the knees. The chiffon material hugged her curves in the right places making her look even more charming. She gathered her hair in a bun and wore wedges.
"Lina you look ravishing! Don't go to the office." He said looking at her trying to seduce her again.
He came near her and held her. Sliding down his hands to her hips he squeezed them. "Wait for me to dress up. We'll go together."
"No Xinyu…"
She was scared that the moment it was be discovered that she was with Yang Xinyu she would be jailed. She had already taken the road to hell, so why not lengthen this period of making good memories… But she couldn't explain it to him. She just smiled and left. She didn't want him to bear the pain she felt during all those months. She missed him terribly.
Her life was suspended by a thread and she even contemplated giving up her life but she carried on living because she knew that he existed somewhere in this world. She would reassure herself that she is breathing the same air as he is, she is watching the same constellations as she is…
She raised herself on her toes to kiss his lips lightly and said, "Xinyu… let's just stay like this… let's not show that we are together to the public…" her eyes welled.
Saying that Wu Lina left the lounge before Yang Xinyu. She went directly to the office fifteen minutes earlier. Yang Xinyu protested and wanted to leave with her. He wanted to announce to the world that Wu Lina was his woman, but Wu Lina had her reservations. The contract had chained her…
Office employees started filling their cubicles slowly. However today everybody was talking in hushed tones. They greeted Wu Lina in an awkward manner and some even avoided her. Some went to the level of bowing their head while greeting her. Wu Lina was flummoxed. Her fingers lightly brushed her lips and she felt a sharp pain. She remembered her morning session and blushed. Her lips were swollen a bit. 'Yang Xinyu! Wait till I avenge this!'
She decided to look at her computer and soon she was immersed in her world of codes.
She didn't realize that Yang Xinyu passed by her cubicle to see her, hoping to have a small lovey-dovey chat with her. But he had to return with a long face!
An hour later when she was very tired, she heard a commotion in her cubicle. She heard a dress rustling, a pencil dropping and high heels trotting. She turned her head to see Zhou Zhili who was posing the weirdest expression on her face – a mix of being surprised, envious and angry!
Wu Lina smirked at her friend's overdramatic expression and asked, "Zhou Zhili how are you? What brings you to my cubicle? Is the CEO angry at me?"
Zhou Zhili pulled her out of the chair and forced her to come to the coffee room, "Wu Lina come with me!"
Wu Lina saved her work quickly and followed Zhou Zhili. In the coffee room Zhou Zhili asked her, "Have you seen the newspapers today?"
"No, I haven't… Anything particular?" replied Wu Lina nonchalantly.