She wanted to retract her palm, but he held it fast.
"Xinning," Qin Zhaoyang, with his face downturned and eyes deep as he spoke, "about what happened before, I... I'm very..."
"Sorry," the words were already on the tip of his tongue. He mustered the courage to say those two words he had never uttered before to her.
However, a voice arose from not too far down the corridor.
"President Qin, madame!"
Qin Zhaoyang released his wife's palm, and Chu Xinning helped straighten his tie as they both turned around.
In the corridor not far away, Chen Ziming had just walked out of the restroom and was approaching them. Coming to a stop in front of the couple, Chen Ziming spoke with a smile, "Just now, Xiaoyu was worried that the two of you might decline, but I said that President Qin and his wife aren't so standoffish."
"With Miss Gu's kind-hearted invitation, it would naturally be rude to refuse," Qin Zhaoyang replied in a distant tone.
