Yan Ruoshui ignored her! Moreover, he couldn't even be bothered to hum a response, turning his face away and shifting his gaze back to his screen.
"Aww, I'm just not fully awake yet, you know? I'm notorious for my morning grumpiness! When I saw it was an unknown number, should I not tell him to buzz off? Does Yan Ruoshui want me to just carelessly flirt with any unknown man who calls?"
Even if Yan Ruoshui wore an icy expression, showing no interest in addressing her, Zhu Qianying continued to explain innocently.
The omnipotent special assistant was initially extremely dissatisfied and disgusted with Zhu Qianying. She had caused his master's demeanor to change drastically in the last couple of days, as if he had seen a ghost.
However, he now had to admit that he was impressed by Zhu Qianying, not only for her courage but also for her intelligence and audacity when counterattacking the boss.
Frankly speaking, he had been with Yan Ruoshui for ten years and had never dared to talk to him with such an attitude!
While from his standpoint, this may seem a bit disrespectful to his master, he just can't help but give Zhu Qianying a thumbs up in his heart!
Yan Ruoshui was originally full of pent-up anger, thinking he would teach her a lesson once she arrived, to establish the "husband's" authority.
But after hearing her words, he pondered and had to admit that what she said, though slightly off-centered, was quite reasonable?
Just think about it, if the caller hadn't been him, but she was still chatting happily with this man, wouldn't that mean he might be potentially cuckolded at any time?
With this thought, Yan Ruoshui's anger immediately extinguished. He had already forgiven her in his heart, though he obstinately refused to show it, pulling a face and grumbling, "Didn't you know that was my number?"
Zhu Qianying innocently shrugged, "Of course I didn't know. Did you tell me?"
Yan Ruoshui thought for a moment, and realized, he actually hadn't given her his contact number!
Alright, this should be attributed to Qin Xiu's negligence!
As Yan Ruoshui was glaring at Qin Xiu, blaming him for his incompetence, he heard a low murmur beside him, "I just bought that phone..."
So, the "thud" this morning was the sound of her phone being thrown?
Yan Ruoshui couldn't help but laugh, but he still kept a straight face and asked coldly, "Did you break your phone?"
Zhu Qianying pouted, and spoke with some grievances, "Yes! Can I not throw it when someone tells me early in the morning that he wants to sleep with me?"
Yan Ruoshui almost choked to death!
Well, this girl was clearly a relentless captious person!
"Whatever model you want, tell him!" Yan Ruoshui impatiently gestured, throwing the task to Qin Xiu.
Zhu Qianying looked over at Qin Xiu, asking timidly, "Can I really choose any model?"
Yan Ruoshui naturally saw the changes on her face and found it both annoying and funny, wondering if he had brought home a Film Queen to be his wife?
"Rest assured, your husband is very wealthy!"
The moment Yan Ruoshui's grandiose statement was made, not only was Zhu Qianying stunned, looking at him with her mouth wide open, but the omnipotent special assistant, who had prided himself on understanding him extremely well, was also dumbfounded!
Did his master just admit that this woman from the Zhu family is indeed the Young Mistress of the Yan family?
"Thank you, husband! I want a 6s Rose Gold phone..." Zhu Qianying's voice was very sweet, but deep down she was shaking all over, silently heaving up a pool of blood!
"Is that all you aspire to?" Yan Ruoshui's expression still didn't look too well, but there was a touch of amusement in his voice.
Zhu Qianying snorted, she wouldn't tell him that while the outside world thought highly of her, Zhu's fifth young miss, her pockets were actually ringing hollow.
"Of course not! I have big ambitions! But I'm not a spendthrift! Besides, isn't your money my money as well... I need to save!"
Very obviously, Zhu Qianying's words aligned perfectly with Yan Ruoshui's mindset. His lips curved up into an unconscious smile. He motioned to Qin Xiu with a lift of his chin, "Get someone to deliver it right away."
On receiving the command, Qin Xiu immediately turned around to carry it out.
Seeing some of the frost on Yan Ruoshui's face melting, Zhu Qianying plucked up the courage to speak, "Yan Ruoshui…"
"Hmm?" Yan Ruoshui lazily lifted his eyelids to look at her.
"Do you have… milk?"
Yan Ruoshui hadn't expected that her cautious inquiry would be about something as trivial as milk.
"What do you need milk for?"
In Yan Ruoshui's view, milk was something he used to drink when he was a child. From the time he considered himself grown-up, milk has been removed from his menu and diet list.
Zhu Qianying sniffed something not quite right from his counter-question, and so changed it to something easier to get, "Well, if there's no milk, that's fine. What about bread? Or cookies will do too!"
Zhu Qianying didn't know why Yan Ruoshui had asked the driver to bring her here, but before she did whatever he wanted her to do next, the first thing was to appease her constantly rumbling stomach.
Only then did Yan Ruoshui understand. His gaze involuntarily swept over her petite waist, "Hungry?"
"Yes, I haven't eaten anything for more than twenty hours!" Zhu Qianying ignored the half bowl of leftover porridge she ate late last night!
Yan Ruoshui shot her a dubious glance, she looked clever enough, could she have really starved for over twenty hours? Was this a lie? Was she just saying this to gain his sympathy?
Zhu Qianying saw the doubt in his eyes, so she sat down on the sofa clutching her stomach.
"Yan Ruoshui, have you forgotten? We didn't even eat breakfast yesterday morning, we were put on a plane and dumped at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. When I managed to escape from death and climb out of the Grand Canyon, you brought me home and let me shower, but you didn't give me any food at all, did you?"
Reminded by her words, Yan Ruoshui realized this was indeed what happened. He had indeed ordered his men to catch ten beautiful women off guard, starve them, and dump them at the bottom of the canyon.
In such conditions, anyone would first try to contact the outside world with their phones in hope of any possible help due to the hunger and fear.
Originally, in his plan, nobody was supposed to escape the canyon at all.
This was why his mother said that any woman who could pass his five tests was not an earthling!
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Yan Ruoshui would never believe that someone could escape the Grand Canyon solely on their own.
In other words, Zhu Qianying was an exception, as well as an accident, in Yan Ruoshui's plan!
At that time, Zhu Qianying picked up her phone, glanced at it, didn't make a call, but instead put it back in her bag along with some essential survival gear. Then, she squatted on the ground, studied the map carefully, got up, took a big stride, and headed towards the steep cliff without looking back...
These details Yan Ruoshui noticed while watching the selection videos the previous night. Up until this point, he still couldn't describe how he felt watching her thin figure struggle step by step towards the cliff...