The disaster area of Yena's spewage was too big, the sumptuous lunch had been ruined. In the end, Yena made a final dish of tomato and egg over noodles.
The weekend ended in great turmoil. On Monday morning, when Yena awoke, Ethan Zhao had already left for work.
Alone, Yena hobbled around all the rooms before listlessly returning to her own room.
Without Ethan Zhao to tease, Yena found it pretty boring in this house.
Plus, there was no one to bring her breakfast…
Last night, Ethan Zhao gave her a substantial stack of cash and a few numbers to call for takeout. He said that she could decide for herself whether she wanted to cook or order takeout. At the same time, he also gave her a credit card with a 1 million RMB credit limit (approximately 145 thousand USD) and told her that she could swipe it freely to buy whatever she wanted.
I'm now a rich person! Ah~! Yena pulled out the credit card and gently stroked it, yet she somehow did not have any desire to spend money.
Thus, Yena's day went like this: breakfast, didn't eat; morning, play online games; lunch, a package of frozen dumplings; afternoon, sleep.
Whens he woke from her nap, it was past 3 pm. Yena was going stir crazy in the house and really wanted to go out for a walk. She then thought of an important problem: Ethan Zhao gave her cash and a card, but he didn't give her a house key!
Yena searched through the entire room yet didn't she find Su Yena's key. She could only sit for a while on the balcony like a bird locked in a cage, gazing pathetically out into the distance. Say, a high-class neighborhood is definitely a high-class neighborhood. The neighborhood scenery looks so nice…
Yena, after being locked up in the house all day, wanted to go out.
After thinking for a while, Yena decided to call Ethan Zhao.
On the other end, Ethan Zhao was in a meeting. With a glance at the display, he couldn't help but frown.
"Yen, Yen?"
The executives in the conference all made an "we didn't hear anything" expression even while they were listening intently because this nickname sounded very intimate, this was the first time their president answered a phone call while in a conference. Their president's manner of speaking could be considered no different than the usual, his tone was still gentle.
Yena felt a little awkward. "What time are you coming home?" After a short pause, she added, "So I can make dinner in time."
Ethan Zhao paused. Tonight, he actually had a dinner event. Even though it wasn't very important, he hadn't planned to eat dinner at home. After hearing the soft voice of the young girl over the phone, he suddenly had the feeling as if going home for dinner wasn't such a bad idea.
Over the past month, he would occasionally, but not often, go home for dinner. Most of the time, he either had to work overtime or go to dinners, while she stayed home, cooked, and ate all alone. She used to text him daily to inquire whether he was coming home for dinner, but the businesslike tone of those texts were only to find out whether or not she had to make another serving for dinner. They pretended to be a married couple deeply in love in front of others, but only a little over a month ago, they were but strangers who carried their own emotional baggage.
In the past, Yena never called him like how she was doing now. Now, her voice was tender and soft, carrying an unmistakable hint of expectation. In the previous month, she would usually be overly cautious, acting only gentle, quiet, and polite. She had been completely unlike her post-amnesia straightforwardness and ingenuousness which kept him sandwiched between laughter and extreme embarrassment. Could it be that it was as she had said? That this was the real her, and because of amnesia, she dared to show her true nature in front of him?
Because of this, he couldn't help from being less cold and indifferent towards her as well.
Ethan Zhao said, "I'll get off work and come home at 5:00."
He thought of her cooking, it was pretty good. Making him look forward a bit more to going home to eat.
After all the surrounding upper management who were still eavesdropping heard their normally stern president turning down a dinner event in order to go home, they saw the rare sight of a gentle expression coming from the president's face. They were all stunned.
It could only be the president's wife on the phone. Anyone else would come in second! Rumor said that the president and his newly wed wife had a love more solid than gold, and that they were incomparably, deeply in love. Now, it seemed that the stories were really true.
After the meeting adjourned, one of the members of the management, William Chen smacked Ethan Zhao's shoulder and laughed wickedly, "What? Didn't I hear that you had a dinner scheduled with the MG group? Why are you getting off work and going home on time?"
William Chen was Ethan Zhao's best friend and the only one other than the two people involved who knew the secret on his marriage. The two of them started this close friendship in college. Later, when Ethan Zhao became in charge of his father's company, William Chen had, as a matter of course, felt duty-bound to come over and help.
Ethan Zhao paid no heed to his question, yet this didn't annoy William Chen. He smiled genially as he followed him into the president's office, "It seems that Yena, that little girl, is pretty good!"
Ethan Zhao concentrated on flipping open the documents and took no notice of his best friend's teasing.
William Chen shook his head, "I say, Young Master Zhao, do you have to be so indifferent?"
He paused for a moment, then said, "Actually, I've checked out that little girl Yena. She's very clean and pure, which is pretty nice. Even if she's not your usual type, the two of you are already married. Why not try it out?"
"It's strictly business between us." Ethan Zhao paused for a moment then looked up at William Chen, "I recall that Yena isn't your type either."
William smiled and said, "Although I usually have no interest in goody-two-shoes little girls, but your girl truly has a beautiful and sexy bod…"
"Willy" Ethan Zhao interrupted William in a low voice. William felt he hit a nerve.
"OK, OK , alright? I won't say anything anymore, that's all." William Chen promptly stopped. When he saw Ethan Zhao's sullen face, he secretly laughed in his heart: It's obvious that you care, but you just don't realize it. Now, whether you both stay strictly business to the end all depends on you, little miss Yena!