Huo YanXiao put down the wine glass. His eyes so deep that nobody could tell what he was thinking. He merely grunted in acknowledgement at Nie AnAn's kind words.
Nie AnAn was baffled by his reaction.
According to the original novel, the deterioration of the relationship between the original owner and Huo YanXiao shouldn't have happened until after this arc.
After all, up to this point, the original owner has only been chasing after Qin ZiMing. She has yet to negatively impact Huo YanXiao's financial interest, nor has she betrayed him yet
In fact, the two should still have very good tacit understanding of each other. They'd spend Huo YanXiao's 26th birthday together happily!
What's with the discrepancies in the story arc?
As Nie AnAn was deep in thought, Huo YanXiao had already stood up and said, "Mr. Qin, I hope you will give my proposal today some thought. I need to go take care of something else. Goodbye."
He started walking briskly toward the door after he finished saying that.
Nie AnAn quickly followed behind him.
The two walked out of the private room one after the other, leaving everyone still in the room baffled.
"Did that Nie AnAn just leave? She doesn't want Qin-ge anymore?"
"Maybe she was intimidated by her brother. Who doesn't know what kind of a person that Huo YanXiao is?"
"That must be it! Otherwise, judging by the way she was fawning over Young Master Qin, if his shoes were dirty, she'd probably get down on her knees and lick them clean!"
"Exactly! If Huo YanXiao wasn't here, who knows how shameless that Nie AnAn would be!"
Everybody started talking all at once and Qin ZiMing, who hadn't said anything up to this point, snickered loudly.
Outside the private room, Nie AnAn was already waiting for the elevator with Huo YanXiao.
She turned, sized up the man next to her, and started doing some calculations in her mind.
Broad should, narrow waist, long legs. Approximately 187 centimeters in height (+/- 0.5 centimeter) and about 76 kg in weight (+/- 2 kg).
Judging from his arms and legs that was covered by his shirt and pants, he has a high ratio of muscles. It was probably from training over a long period of time. And, she could tell from his arms and thighs that his explosiveness was stronger than his endurance.
That being said, even if he's not strong, it wouldn't be too bad either.
She hadn't expected the big villain boss to be so handsome and have such a hot body. Nie AnAn was speechless. So the original owner chose to ignore the class A hot guy right next to her and went to pursue that Qin ZiMing, who might be hot, but has no characters instead?
Why was that? Was it because of the male lead's halo?
Right then, the elevator had arrived, and the two of them walked inside of it one after another.
As soon as Nie AnAn had walked inside of it, she was stunned.
The wall mirror in the elevator was nice and smooth and clearly reflected her face.
The girl in the mirror has a bright and clear forehead, but on her forehead, there was a painting of a black vulture. It was so vivid that it looked like it could come alive any minute.
On top of that, painted on both cheeks, there were markings that Nie AnAn had only seen on demons in xianxia shows before. With so many tattoos, the original look of the face was almost unrecognizable.
Nie AnAn was startled, she tried to rub them off with her hands and realized that they wouldn't come off.
She felt defeated. Were they tattoos?
She didn't even know that one could get tattoos on one's face!
No wonder Qin ZiMing's friend said her tattoos matched her dress perfectly earlier!
She couldn't even begin to describe how she was feeling right now and decided that she'd look for a place and have them all removed first thing tomorrow.
They arrived on the first floor quickly and Huo YanXiao, ignoring Nie AnAn who was standing next to him, walked out by himself.
His pace was brisk. Nie AnAn, with her high heels wasn't able to catch up with him. As she was about to lose him, Nie AnAn reached out, grabbed the corner of his shirt with her trembling hand and said, "Ge-ge."
Huo YanXiao paused quickly in his steps, turned, and gave the woman half a step behind him a cold glance.
"Ge-ge, can you slow down please? I can't keep up anymore," said Nie AnAn softly, her voice like that of a fragile little sheep.
Even though Huo YanXiao did not respond to her, he did slow down his pace.
The two arrived at the front of the club, and the car was already waiting there.
Cucumber was a little stunned when he saw Nie AnAn walked out with Huo YanXiao together, but he immediately nodded and bowed, "Boss Huo, if you are here too then I don't need to take Miss home…"
"I'm not heading home. You take her back." Huo YanXiao's voice was low and magnetic, with an unchallengeable decisiveness.
Cucumber nodded right away and said, "Miss, please get into the car."
Nie AnAn looked up at Huo YanXiao. Was it her imagination? She felt that he purposefully did not want to be in the same car as her.
She had just transmigrated over. For her own safety, she must work her on her relationship with her cold-blooded and vicious brother, but being overly clingy wasn't the way to go.
Coming to that conclusion, Nie AnAn let go of the corner of his shirt and got inside the car.
Looking at the sight of the street from inside the car, Nie AnAn said in her very soft voice, "Cucumber, I wanted to remove the tattoos on my face tomorrow. Can you make an appointment for me? The earlier the better."
Cucumber wasn't at all surprised when he heard that. He merely said, "Miss, you have your eyes on something even more domineering? Have you forgotten, you have your own tattoo artist over at SO. You don't need an appointment."
Nie AnAn feigned a yawn and her voice was even softer than before, "Alright, then pick me up tomorrow morning at 9 AM and take me there."
When they arrived back at the mansion, Nie AnAn tried to use her thumbprint to unlock the front door. Sure enough, the door opened up for her.
She walked inside. This was the first chance she had to really take a good look at the setup of this place.
The spacious living room was primarily of the colors black, white, and grey, an undeniable ascetic style. Neat and orderly, this must be Huo YanXiao's style.
The second floor has two bedrooms and a study. The top floor consisted of a workout room and an indoor pool.
Of the two bedrooms on the second floor, the one to Nie AnAn's room was ajar and the one to Huo YanXiao's was shut tightly. She wondered what it looked like inside.
It was mentioned in the novel that the original owner liked to collect knives, which was why Nie AnAn saw that there were over 10 knives, all of different sizes, hanging in her bedroom.
She looked up and down the room and didn't see anything that would offer her any clues, but after moving around some, she started getting hungry. She headed downstairs to the kitchen.
Perhaps because Huo YanXiao has too many enemies, he wasn't in the habit of hiring servants at home.
Even when he and Nie AnAn were living in a mansion, he only had helpers came on a regular basis to clean up instead of having any live-on help.
Nie AnAn frowned immediately when she opened up the fridge, and all she could find was instant noodles and sodas inside.
She couldn't eat those.
So this was what Huo YanXiao had been eating at home?
Before she had transmigrated over, Nie AnAn was a nutritionist primed by her family.
At the age of 14, the quality of her cooking had already exceeded that of Michelin chefs. In addition, she was impeccable when it came to the combination of food and their nutritionist value.
At the age of 18, she had already entered into an international nutritionist competition representing her family,
Unfortunately, she had an accident on the way there and ended up here.