Bai Yansen had already called the intercom when Su Xiqin walked in.
"Find me some bandages, gauze, and disinfectants." His voice sounded deep.
He paused and then added. "Hurry."
Su Xiqin was standing in the middle of the resting area with her hand on her forehead, trying to ease the pain, when she heard him hang up the phone.
"What are you standing there for? Sit down."
She looked up and saw that Bai Yansen was already walking in her direction, so she moved towards the sofa and sat down before he came over, and she placed her hand lightly over the wound on her forehead.
She then took her hand down and saw there was blood on her fingers.
"Don't press on it." Bai Yansen walked over and stopped her from trying to put her hand back up.
His hand was warm and dry compared to Su Xiqin's hand which was cold. As if ice ran into fire and got burned, she retracted her hands quickly.
"I'm fine; they wrapped it well." She spoke up, trying to break the ice, but she didn't dare to look up at him as she could imagine how gloomly his expression looked.
She was right because Bai Yansen looked very serious with his brows furrowed together.
She didn't hear his reply, but she soon saw his shiny leather shoes starting to move.
Su Xiqin finally sighed out of relief when she looked up and saw him walking away.
"Drink some water first." A cup of water was placed in front of her on the glass table.
Su Xiqin looked up out of politeness and happened to bump into his deep glance. He had deep eye sockets like a foreigner, his eyes were bright like obsidian stones, and she couldn't help but be attracted by the light in them.
Bai Yansen watched her blanked-out expression and suddenly half-kneeled in front of her. "Didn't you dare not to look at me before?"
His deep voice pulled Su Xiqin back to reality, and her face burned up as she was so indulged that she didn't even feel the pain anymore.
"It was because my forehead was hurting. Thank you for your water."
She reacted quickly. Although her expression looked a bit unnatural, her voice was quite calm when she spoke up.
"Now it's not hurting anymore?" Bai Yansen stared into her eyes, not letting her go so easily.
Su Xiqin panicked and didn't know where to look, so she lowered her head as her voice shivered. "CEO Bai, you should take a look at the design draft, so I can head back once you're done."
Knock, knock. Someone opened the door after they knocked.
It was Jiang Cunyu, and he was stunned a bit when he saw the situation in the room. However, he was extraordinarily adaptable, calming down immediately and saying, "CEO Bai, I've got what you were asking for, the medicine for stopping bleeding."
Bai Yansen looked at the top of Su Xiqin's head and didn't say anything with his lips pinched. He stood up and said to Jiang Cunyu, "Give them to Ms. Su."
"Yes." Jiang Cunyu walked over and placed them on the glass table in front of Su Xiqin.
"Ms. Su, these are for you."
She raised her head because Bai Yansen had walked away, and Jiang Cunyu was able to see the wound on her forehead clearly.
"Ms. Su, do you need to go to the hospital to bandage up?"
"I'm alright, they taught me how I should bandage it up in the hospital." She looked at Jiang Cunyu with appreciation in her eyes.
Jiang Cunyu nodded and walked towards Bai Yansen who was sitting in his office chair. "CEO Bai, you should rest after the long trip."
"I'll be back in a moment; go back to work first." Bai Yansen picked up a file from his table.
Jiang Cunyu was a smart man, and he walked out of the office without hesitation, even though thousands of questions went across his mind.
Is the CEO interested in Designer Su?
I've never seen him getting that close with any woman including clients, but last time in the car and this time in his office?
But what kind of a taste is this? Su Xiqin's married!
...
Jiang Cunyu felt as if it was the Titanic hitting the iceberg… the ship was going to sink.
The atmosphere in the office went into a dead silence after Jiang Cunyu had left, with Bai Yansen continuing to look down at his file.
The noise of paper flipping was the only sound in the dead silent office.
Su Xiqin took two sips of water to calm herself down and furrowed her brows when she looked at the bandages on the table. She couldn't deal with her wound since there wasn't a mirror here.
So she looked up and saw Bai Yansen's profile as he read the documents seriously.
His profile was perfect like a sculpture. Aside from the elegance in between his features, there was also a heroic spirit that added to his overbearing charisma; it was what Mo Xigu lacked.
She unknowingly compared him to Mo Xigu.
Suddenly, maybe Bai Yansen noticed that he was being stared at or maybe it was because of something else, but he raised his head and ran into Su Xiqin's stare.
She felt embarrassed as if she was caught stalking him, so she quickly fixed her hair beside her ear in panic.
Su Xiqin had a habit that everytime she panicked, she would fix the hair beside her ear unconsciously just like right now.
Her hair was let loose today. When she pinched her hair behind her ear, she unknowingly looked quite innocent yet seductive.
Su Xiqin panicked when she saw Bai Yansen's heated stare and tried to calm down as they made eye contact. A strange chemistry formed between them as they looked at each other, and the ambiguous atmosphere went around the two.
Su Xiqin couldn't take on his stare any longer and broke the silence.
"Does the amended draft meet your requirements, Sir?"
She asked very politely and used the word sir, wiping away the ambiguous atmosphere between them, but Bai Yansen's thick brows pinched together slightly.
He stared at her for a while and said, "Am I old?"
Su Xiqin curled her lips and her throat suddenly felt dried as she said, "It's just out of politeness."
Bai Yansen's brows flattened a bit from her explanation, and he reached out for his cigarette box on the table and took out a cigarette. With the sound of a click, the metal lighter lit up the cigarette, and white smoke started to fill the space.
People usually smoked under two situations, when someone was thinking or when someone was frustrated and needed to vent.
Which is Bai Yansen? Thinking?
Or troubled?
"Did you rush this draft today?" Bai Yansen suddenly asked when she was still wondering about that question.
"Yes, I started to modify it after Director Ji phoned in."
"Your design still doesn't meet all of my requirements. How about you tell me what kind of dream you have in this necklace, because if I don't know, I would always be thinking that something is missing here."
Su Xiqin frowned slightly as she stared at his face behind the smoke, not knowing what to do.