The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Try It On

The room suddenly fell silent.

Outside, a clear and melodious bird song could be heard.

Cen Qianyi’s ears twitched slightly. She couldn’t tell what kind of bird it was. She had never heard such a call before; it was very special.

But speaking of special… she looked at the person in front of her, at those long, narrow eyes, at the unexpected concern in those black, bright eyes… she blinked… this was truly special enough.

So special that she couldn’t understand her.

“What do you mean?”

Cen Qianyi didn’t understand, but suddenly wanted to.

He Shu regretted it a second before Cen Qianyi spoke! She felt that she shouldn’t have asked that question!

Her mouth had gotten her into trouble again. She was always like this; her mouth was faster than her brain!

What kind of relationship did she and Cen Qianyi have? Strictly speaking, they weren’t even familiar with each other. Asking this question was like prying into someone’s private life, wasn’t it?!

She had just wanted to make up for it, but she didn’t expect Cen Qianyi to speak first. Her cool tone didn’t reveal too much emotion. Looking at the other person’s eyes, which seemed to have dimmed a little, He Shu intuitively felt that she wasn’t angry, but she wasn’t particularly happy either.

“Um, I—”

She wanted to say that she had a momentary brain fart and that she should ignore what she had just said, but she heard the other person speak again.

“Didn’t you investigate me? Shouldn’t you be very clear about my past? Don’t you know if I had a good life before?”

Hearing this, He Shu suddenly inhaled sharply, and her pupils trembled!

She almost forgot! On the surface, she knew about Cen Qianyi’s past experiences. In the original novel, after she forcibly brought her to her side, she had investigated her past thoroughly before she dared to do so… because on the surface, Cen Qianyi was just a poor little helpless thing.

But the question she had just asked was about the real Cen Qianyi… Her brain was really having problems. Not only could she mix up dreams and reality, but she could also ask the questions she wanted to ask the assassin Cen Qianyi to this Cen Qianyi who was pretending to be a pure and innocent girl…

But luckily, she hadn’t said much and could still make up for it.

He Shu cleared her throat: “Yes, I did investigate… According to the information, your past… was probably not very good.”

Cen Qianyi watched the person quietly, looking at the moving eyes under her long eyelashes. The worry from before had disappeared, and now she looked inexplicably panicked again.

She didn’t speak, intuitively feeling that this person had something else to say. She waited for her to continue.

He Shu did have more to say. First, the thought of trying to persuade her hadn’t gone away, and second, she realized that she didn’t need to ask those private questions. She could use her surface-level identity’s experiences to say what she wanted to say.

“Did you like your previous jobs?”

Cen Qianyi raised an eyebrow. She thought He Shu was asking about her surface-level work experience.

The things He Shu had investigated were all fake. She had only done one “job” in reality.

As for liking it… did she like it?

To answer this question, she probably had to first understand what “liking” meant.

She was quite happy to see the desperate looks in those scumbags’ eyes before they died, but was that liking?

She was also happy when the bounty was received and she immediately transferred it to the bounty league as a guarantee for her own bounty. Watching her life become more and more valuable, she was indeed in a good mood, but was that liking?

He Shu didn’t know that her question was subtle, but it achieved its purpose.

She saw the person thinking and continued: “I saw that your jobs were all quite dangerous.”

In Cen Qianyi’s background as a poor little thing, she grew up in an orphanage at the bottom of society, had a low education, and wasn’t very capable. The odd jobs she did were all in areas with poor public safety, and she often encountered some trouble.

It was dangerous, indeed.

Dangerous? Were those considered dangerous?

Cen Qianyi thought He Shu was talking about her surface-level work experiences. What was dangerous about that… The things she actually did were dangerous.

Several times, she was very surprised that she was still alive…

He Shu was still continuing. The previous things were all just a prelude. The next part was the key.

“Let the past be the past. Don’t do those things anymore in the future…”

Finally, the words of persuasion came out, and He Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

She also knew that it was hard to persuade someone who was set on doing something, and she knew that there was a high probability that Cen Qianyi wouldn’t listen to her.

But whether she listened or not was Cen Qianyi’s business. If she didn’t try to persuade her, she wouldn’t be able to sleep.

Cen Qianyi heard these words, and there were some fluctuations in her calm eyes. She suddenly thought for a moment about what this person in front of her would do if she knew her real past.

Would she be scared and run away…

Cen Qianyi looked at the eyes that had settled on the bedsheet after speaking. She thought of the fear in this person’s eyes when she saw a dead person in her hospital.

And in the villa, on the night Fang Nian came, she was so scared that she fainted after seeing her shoot herself.

If she knew what she had done in the past and knew her real identity… Cen Qianyi imagined it. She definitely wouldn’t have the guts to persuade her to stop. It was more likely that she would cry and run away.

Cen Qianyi curled the corner of her mouth, and the slight curve wasn’t really a smile.

The words that came out were a little self-deprecating.

“Didn’t you just bring me back? How can I do it?”

He Shu’s eyebrows raised, and she looked over, only to see the curve on Cen Qianyi’s lips.

What did she mean by this? Was she being sarcastic? Was she mocking her? She looked like she was trapped by her, but it didn’t prevent her from taking jobs, and she could even use her to complete them.

She really wanted to tell her to stop while she was ahead and not do it. For this job, she was worried that something would happen to her.

Cen Qianyi looked at He Shu’s eyes, which were once again filled with worry, and saw her hesitation: “Hmm? What do you want to say?”

She couldn’t say what she wanted to say! He Shu was frustrated!

She didn’t know why this person was doing these dangerous things. For money?

“Actually, money is something that’s enough to live on, don’t you think?”

He Shu didn’t wait for her to answer and continued: “People can’t just focus on making money. There are many other things to do.”

“For example, traveling, going everywhere and seeing things. The world is so big. There are sunrises in some places and sunsets in others. You can go see the sea, you can climb mountains. The four seasons change, and each has its own beauty.”

“And food, right? The world is so big, and there are so many delicious things. You can’t just eat one kind of food, or it would be a shame.”

He Shu hadn’t prepared in advance and wasn’t good at persuading people. She just said whatever came to mind, and it didn’t feel very logical, but she had made her point clear.

She summarized: “You only live once. You should eat, sleep, pet cats, and play with dogs, and experience as much as you can. It would be a shame to just focus on making money. Of course, if you don’t have money, there’s nothing you can do. But if you have money, don’t just focus on making more money. Don’t you want to retire early?”

He Shu got excited as she spoke. God knew how much she envied the aunts dancing in the square. How much she wanted to retire early and join them. But she had overworked herself and died young.

How many regrets! Sigh, she didn’t even have anyone to talk to about her regrets!

Thinking of this, He Shu looked at Cen Qianyi, forgetting the other person’s identity and her own for a moment. She sincerely grabbed Cen Qianyi’s hand and looked at her earnestly with the eyes of someone who had been there before.

“Trust me, you’ll regret it if you only think about making money!”

Cen Qianyi looked at her hand, which was being held tightly. She raised an eyebrow and looked up to meet He Shu’s bright black eyes. She frowned.

What did this person mean?

What was she talking about? She couldn’t understand… Was she telling her not to focus on making money and to enjoy life?

When had she ever focused on making money?

Cen Qianyi thought of her fake work experiences. Those were all just to make ends meet.

“I don’t have money. You know that.”

He Shu’s hand, which was holding the person’s hand, stiffened. She had forgotten again. She had said the words she wanted to say to the Cen Qianyi with a billion-dollar net worth to this poor little thing who seemed to have no house, no car, and no savings.

“If I don’t work, I can’t even afford to eat.” Cen Qianyi paused, looked at He Shu, and a question inexplicably popped into her head: “If I don’t work, will you support me?”

He Shu let go of her hand. Who didn’t know that she was very rich, even richer than her? She thought the person was throwing the ball back at her.

But He Shu wasn’t intimidated. It wasn’t like she didn’t have money.

“Yes, I’ll support you.”

After saying that, He Shu laughed first. It sounded like something out of a movie.

She looked at Cen Qianyi, and after thinking of something, her smile deepened: “Besides, aren’t I already supporting you?”

“Everything you eat, drink, wear, and live in now is mine.”

“I even gave you a job.”

After saying all this, He Shu felt that she was truly a domineering president. She could even say “I’ll support you” so casually. As long as Cen Qianyi lived a normal life, she could support a thousand of her.

She looked at the person, put away her smile a little, and seriously tried to persuade her again: “Don’t do those dangerous things anymore. Just focus on being my safety consultant.”

Cen Qianyi’s hands, which were clasped in front of her, slowly interlocked. She didn’t say yes or no. Instead, she asked: “Six hundred and sixty-six a month?”

He Shu heard this and thought, was she saying it was too little?

A domineering president also knows how to paint a big picture.

“If you do a good job, you can get a raise.”

Cen Qianyi was noncommittal. She looked at the person and asked another question.

“What if I don’t agree? Will you let me go?”

“I can’t.”

Cen Qianyi was surprised that the other person answered so quickly without even thinking.

He Shu, of course, didn’t have to think about this question. If she could let her go, she would have done so long ago, and she wouldn’t have to be here persuading her so earnestly.

She was even willing to use her own money to persuade her to stop doing those things and find a respectable job. If she couldn’t find one, she would give her one.

Just as she was about to say a few more words, a phone rang in the room.

The two of them looked at the sound together.

He Shu saw that it was the phone on the desk that someone had introduced earlier. Worried that it was something important, she quickly got up to answer it.

Hearing that they were asking about lunch, she looked at Cen Qianyi, who was lying on the bed.

She looked like she had recovered a lot, but her face was still a little pale. He Shu told the other person to deliver lunch to the room.

She also booked a restaurant for dinner. The dinner was described in the original novel, and she had to “go to work” for the plot…

Speaking of which, the plot for dinner… Forget it. She wouldn’t talk about it. In short, it was perverted. What other plot could she have? Her character was a pervert.

It was really frustrating.

He Shu hung up the phone and returned to the bed. She looked at the collar on Cen Qianyi’s neck, and a hint of annoyance flashed in her eyes.

She bent down and hugged the person.

Cen Qianyi was surprised and didn’t move.

He Shu hugged her and turned her over. After an iris scan, she unfastened the collar on Cen Qianyi’s neck.

She had forgotten about it and had let her wear it the whole time.

She remembered Mia had said that she could choose whether to wear this thing in the room or not, but it was mandatory when she went out.

Also, she looked at the very thin straps on the back of Cen Qianyi’s bikini.

“You don’t have to wear this in the room.”

He Shu turned her back and covered her with a blanket, making sure nothing was visible.

She pointed to where the luggage had been placed: “That red suitcase is yours.”

The clothes were all prepared by Su Ming based on the temperature on the island.

Cen Qianyi looked at the collar that He Shu had unfastened and placed casually on the side of the bed. She picked it up and looked at it. When she heard He Shu’s words, she looked up at the person.

The person had already turned and left.

She thought of the look of admiration she had seen on her face when she had walked out of the security room earlier.

But Cen Qianyi saw that look clearly. It was pure appreciation, without any desire.

Also, when this person had come closer just now, her breath was hot. She had thought she was going to do something, but she had only unfastened her collar.

She looked at the blanket on her body. This person… she really seemed to have no “interest” in her.

Cen Qianyi also thought of what the person had just said about supporting her.

This person was truly strange. Did she just want to “play” with her like that?

After mentioning the suitcase, He Shu wanted to take out the things she needed. When she walked to the suitcase, she saw the transparent storage bags on top of it.

One of them contained the rabbit fur tail.

She had almost forgotten about it.

She held the storage bag with two fingers and turned to look at Cen Qianyi on the bed.

“What did you bring this for?”

Cen Qianyi saw the thing in her hand, thought of the conclusion she had just reached, and didn’t answer. Instead, she asked: “Do you want to play with it?”

He Shu’s butt tensed up. She wanted to die!

Just as she was about to say something, the doorbell rang. It was probably the food delivery.

He Shu wanted to throw the thing away, but she looked at the trash can. It was likely that someone would only come to clean it up tomorrow.

Her gaze swept over, and she saw the safe under the desk.

She remembered that the password Mia had given her was something Cen Qianyi didn’t know. She quickly locked the thing in the safe and then went to open the door.

Cen Qianyi’s eyebrows raised. What did this person mean? She looked at the locked safe.

Was that thing so important that she had to lock it up?

But… that thing couldn’t be played with anymore…

She had already modified the thing she got from [Xi] in He Shu’s office lounge.

Now, it was a bomb.

Looking at the locked safe, she decided to just leave it locked for now. It might not even be necessary to use it.

After the food delivery person left, Cen Qianyi got up and walked to the dining table to sit down.

He Shu felt a little uncomfortable looking at the person opposite her who was only wearing a bikini.

“Aren’t you going to put on some clothes?”

“Doesn’t it look good?”

He Shu was surprised. What kind of thing to say was that?

Cen Qianyi looked down at the code on her swimsuit. It marked her as He Shu’s person.

She looked at the person who was lowering her head and not looking at her, who had already started eating.

“Why did you join this club?”

He Shu looked up: “What?”

Cen Qianyi pointed to her chest.

He Shu quickly glanced at it and continued to eat, while also recalling how the club was introduced in the book.

“It’s a charity club. The members are all elites from various industries, and you have to have a net worth of at least ten billion to join. It’s a good thing to join and do some charity together.”

Anyway, she couldn’t spend all her money now.

Cen Qianyi looked at the person, speechless. She actually thought this was a charity organization…

He Shu buried her head in her food. The food on this island was so delicious.

It was even better than what the chef at the villa made!

Cen Qianyi looked at the person’s eyes, which were almost closed from enjoyment, and swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

She quietly picked up a spoon and started eating in silence.

She ate and thought about how to give her a hint.

…

Delicious food healed the soul. After He Shu was full, she felt that the unpleasantness of getting on the island had mostly been digested.

She was also in the mood to take a closer look at the place she was staying. It looked like a single-story villa from the outside, but inside, it was a huge open space.

It had everything. You could even cook for yourself.

Behind the house was a huge swimming pool, separated from the next one by a row of shrubs that were taller than a person, which ensured both aesthetics and privacy.

The best thing was that you could get to the roof from the outside of the house, and you could see the sea in the distance!

The vast, endless sea, the blue sea and sky, the surging sea. He Shu took a deep breath, opened her arms, and embraced the sea breeze~

Now, she finally felt like she was on vacation!

She picked up her phone and took some beautiful scenery photos. She thought for a moment and sent them to Su Ming.

The domineering president in this book had no friends because the author was too lazy to write about them!

She didn’t care. Su Ming was her friend!

Su Ming replied instantly.

“The scenery is beautiful. Is everything alright, Boss?”

She had been worried all morning and had wanted to ask if her boss had arrived safely, but she was afraid of disturbing her boss’s vacation mood.

She didn’t expect her boss to message her first. She was so happy she wanted to kiss her phone!

Tu Xuan sat opposite her, drinking a coconut. Seeing her happy expression, she guessed that the “kind mother’s” thread had been connected through the internet.

A waiter served their food. She put down her coconut and tidied up the table, placing the new dishes in front of Su Ming.

Just as she was about to remind her to eat first, her phone rang. Her heart sank, and she felt that she wouldn’t be able to enjoy her meal.

He Shu felt that pictures couldn’t describe it well, so she sent a video directly.

When Cen Qianyi came out of the room to the backyard, she heard a burst of laughter coming from the roof.

“Su Ming, look. The sky and the sea are the same color today. Oh, did you have lunch?”

Su Ming nodded, switched the camera, and showed He Shu the food they had ordered.

He Shu glanced at it: “Wow, that’s really good.”

She also happily greeted Tu Xuan.

Just as Tu Xuan was about to say a few words, Su Ming switched the camera back: “Boss, did you have lunch?”

He Shu happily talked about how delicious the food was this afternoon.

Su Ming immediately got into assistant mode: “Do you want me to hire a local chef to bring back to the country?”

He Shu shook her head. She had enough chefs. She couldn’t spend money recklessly. Anyway, since the food was good, she would just eat a lot of it for the next few days. Once she had enough, she would probably think it was just okay.

The two of them chatted happily.

Su Ming didn’t see Tu Xuan opposite her, looking at the food that was getting cold, with no smile on her face.

He Shu also didn’t see Cen Qianyi, in the backyard, retreating into the shade of the eaves.

Laughter echoed freely in the wind. Cen Qianyi turned and went back inside, closing the door and blocking the wind.

He Shu chatted with Su Ming for more than half an hour. Only when she got thirsty did she hang up the video and go back inside to get some water.

As soon as she entered, she saw Cen Qianyi sitting on the sofa, watching TV.

The person was facing away from her. He Shu saw the thing she was fiddling with in her hand from a distance. It was the collar.

He Shu understood. She was pretending to watch TV, but in reality, she was trying to dismantle or destroy the collar!

She didn’t seem to have any other tools in her hand. How was she going to dismantle it?

Hah, why should she care about that? Cen Qianyi must have her ways.

She just pretended she didn’t know. After drinking some water, she went back to bed.

It would be a shame not to take a nap in this weather!

…

She didn’t have a single dream during this nap. She slept very comfortably, except for the fact that she got a little hot later. He Shu felt like she was sweating from the heat.

When she woke up and saw the person in her arms, she knew why she felt hot.

Looking at Cen Qianyi, who was completely stuck in her arms, He Shu was very calm.

It was not a surprise. She was used to it.

She just briefly thought about how they had ended up sleeping together again.

This time, it was definitely not her fault. She had gotten into bed first.

She looked at the person in her arms who hadn’t woken up yet. What was going on? Wasn’t this person watching TV before she went to bed?

If she was sleepy, couldn’t she just sleep on the sofa? The sofa was so big and looked very comfortable.

Why did she have to come and crowd in the same bed with her?

Looking at her slightly damp temples, it was so hot with two people crammed together.

She hesitated for a moment, wondering whether to wake her up and ask, but seeing that she was sleeping soundly, He Shu decided against it.

She got out of bed quietly, went to the bathroom, and took a shower. When she came out, she found that Cen Qianyi had already woken up.

Not only that, but she had also gone back to the sofa and was watching TV.

He Shu looked at the collar in her hand. It seemed that this person really wanted to get rid of this collar.

Seeing that the person hadn’t even turned around when she heard her movements, she felt that the other person didn’t want to talk to her. He Shu hesitated for a moment and didn’t ask the question she had been thinking about.

She grabbed a bottle of juice and went back to lie on the roof to enjoy the breeze.

This collar was indeed a problem.

He Shu lay on her back, with her hands clasped behind her head, and thought of the painful expression on Cen Qianyi’s face when she was electrocuted.

This thing could be controlled by her wristband, but Mia and the others also had a “controller.” If there was a conflict, or if their thing went out of control, or if it was on purpose, then Cen Qianyi would be in danger.

Could she handle it?

He Shu looked at the cloudless blue sky. Cen Qianyi didn’t have any tools in her hand either.

Was she having trouble, sitting on the sofa without a word?

He Shu brushed aside the strands of hair on her forehead that were being blown by the wind. But she couldn’t do anything about it. She didn’t know how to do any of this.

Or maybe she should just try to not go out later. She had to wear that thing when she went out. Unlike the bikini, she had to wear it when she went out alone to make her identity easy to recognize, but when she went out with her, she could wear other clothes.

Thinking of clothes, a current suddenly flashed through He Shu’s mind.

“System, come out!”

“Host, I’m here.”

“I remember I had a reward called some kind of fantasy dress?”

“Yes, Host.”

“I remember the description said that this dress was waterproof, fireproof, and lightning-proof?”

“Yes, Host.”

He Shu had complained about it at the time. What kind of dress was lightning-proof? Was she afraid of being struck by lightning when she went out?

“Since it’s lightning-proof, can it also block ordinary electricity?”

“Yes, Host. It’s completely non-conductive.”

He Shu sat up with a whoosh!

…

Before dinner, Cen Qianyi looked at the clothes He Shu had taken out and hesitated to speak.

This outfit… it was the first time she had seen such a speechless outfit…

The fabric was very light and looked very comfortable, but as a dress to be worn on a tropical island, it had a high collar.

The collar was shaped like a calyx, so if she put her head in it, her head would look like a flower bud on a calyx…

And the sleeves, after being cinched with an elastic band, suddenly flared out, and the lace trim outlined the shape of petals.

The dress went down to her ankles, so it basically didn’t show any skin.

“You…”

Cen Qianyi wanted to ask where she bought such an ugly dress, but she heard the other person ask excitedly: “How is it? Does it look good?!”

Cen Qianyi looked at the person’s sparkling eyes and once again hesitated to speak.

This afternoon, besides trying to figure out how to dismantle the collar, she was mostly thinking about her strange emotions.

It seemed that after meeting this person, she had a lot of emotions that she didn’t understand herself.

“Hmm?”

He Shu didn’t get an answer and asked again: “Does it look good?”

He Shu was so excited. The system had told her what this reward was specifically, and she could design it however she wanted.

She had spent the entire afternoon designing this dress.

Since the collar was worn on the neck, it had to be a high collar.

She had searched for many photos of female stars on the red carpet.

She saw a dress worn by an Oscar-winning actress that had a high collar like this.

But that one was a little too exaggerated. The collar stood up like a plastic flower calyx.

Her design was like a morning glory, with a slight downward curve, so her neck wouldn’t be uncomfortable.

A masterpiece!

He Shu looked at the open dress in her hand and gave herself a rating. She hadn’t expected that she had such a talent for fashion design!

“Try it on.”

He Shu looked at Cen Qianyi, and her bright black eyes seemed to have the lights of the island mixed into them.

Cen Qianyi didn’t understand what He Shu was so excited about. Was this dress very expensive?

It was possible. With such a strange design, it would have to be very expensive for some rich fools to buy it.

She hesitantly took the dress. Maybe it only looked strange and would be okay once she put it on.

After changing, she looked at the reflection of He Shu’s increasingly radiant eyes in the mirror, and her forehead twitched slightly.

He Shu made two “tsk” sounds, looking at Cen Qianyi in the mirror.

The clothes were beautiful, but the model was even more beautiful!

Cen Qianyi looked at herself in the mirror. She felt like she had seen a crazy queen in a movie with this hairstyle before.

She once again hesitated to speak.

And the person next to her was full of admiration: “It looks good. You look so good in it!”

Cen Qianyi looked at her glowing eyes and swallowed the words she wanted to say about changing into something else.

Okay, the outfit was fine. He Shu picked up the collar from the side.

She still had to test if the dress could really block electricity.

She took the collar.

Cen Qianyi naturally leaned forward, putting her head forward.

He Shu’s eyes curved up, and she laughed.

“You look like my dog~”

Jian Jian was like this. When she took out the collar, he would automatically stick his head out to let her put it on, and then they could go out and play.

Click. The collar was fastened, and He Shu’s smile froze in response!

No, what was she saying…

She looked up in a panic, and her gaze met Cen Qianyi’s perfectly. Looking at the other person’s dimmed eyes, He Shu’s heart thumped loudly!

Oh no. This stupid mouth. Couldn’t it just wait for her brain to catch up?!

Did Cen Qianyi hear her clearly?

He Shu hesitated whether to say something else to gloss over it, but she saw the other person open her mouth.

The rising intonation was full of confusion.

“Dog?”