The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 33
Chapter 33: Starting Work
A ray of sunset passed through the large, transparent floor-to-ceiling window, enveloping the two figures in front of the mirror.
From a distance, one person was embracing the other. In the breeze, black and white strands of hair touched and separated.
Intertwined and wrapped around each other.
This should have been an extremely intimate scene, but because of the two pairs of eyes, one cool and dark, the other flustered and abnormal, it looked very strange.
The sunset seemed to have sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, and it moved out little by little, causing the shadows to merge into a ball.
But soon, one shadow seemed to be startled and jumped away, creating distance.
After He Shu heard that one word from Cen Qianyi’s mouth, her heart, which had been hanging, fell to the ground with a clang. It was severely injured and in urgent need of rescue!
It was also at this moment that she realized that after she had fastened the collar on Cen Qianyi, the hand resting on her neck had not let go.
While she was flusteredly letting go and retreating, she quickly activated all her brain cells to clean up after her clumsy mouth!
“Um, I mean, uh, dog… dog? Dog… go!”
He Shu’s eyes suddenly lit up, and the muscles on her face lifted along with them.
“Yes, yes, yes, I meant go!”
“Go, as in let’s go, as in go. You know what I mean, right?”
“I was saying, now that you’re ready, it looks like we need to go!”
The more He Shu spoke, the brighter her eyes got. The hardship of memorizing vocabulary back then felt like it had been elevated at this moment. Of course, the two things had nothing to do with each other, but she now knew the importance of mastering a foreign language!
“That’s right, so, let’s, go!”
He Shu said as she started to walk out, not caring if Cen Qianyi believed her or not. It was already not easy for her to find a reason. As she walked out, she kept saying “gogogo” to increase her credibility.
By the end, she was practically shouting.
Cen Qianyi: …
Did this person think she was an idiot… or someone who couldn’t hear well…
She was about to call out to the person who didn’t know where she was “going,” but the person walked to the door, paused, and then turned back on her own.
He Shu was also scared silly for a moment and had forgotten what she was originally doing. She just wanted to escape this terrifying place.
It was only when she got to the door that she remembered that after Cen Qianyi put on the dress, she hadn’t done the experiment yet…
She turned to look at Cen Qianyi, but what should she do now that she was a little scared… It was all her thoughtless mouth’s fault.
And it was all Cen Qianyi’s fault! Why was she so cooperative for no reason!
She took out the collar, and she stuck her neck out. That really did look a lot like her Jian Jian.
He Shu squeezed her own thigh hard to kill this thought. What if her mouth slipped again? She looked at Cen Qianyi, struggling with whether to continue with her original plan for the experiment.
She was a little scared now. Assassins, in this special line of work, probably didn’t have very good tempers, but they shouldn’t be too petty either, right?
She couldn’t be so embarrassed that she would become angry just because of her unintentional mistake, could she?
She carefully observed Cen Qianyi’s expression, and at the same time, she confirmed that there was no killing intent.
Cen Qianyi looked at the person who had turned back and was standing at the door, looking at her. The panic was clearly written in her trembling eyes.
She remembered the question she had asked this person before.
She had said she was afraid of her.
Cen Qianyi squinted her eyes. She didn’t understand why…
For example, now, even if she had just called her a dog, then what? Did she think she could do something to her?
What was she so afraid of? She even dared to force her to stay by her side, but now she was nervous after calling her a name.
What a strange person…
Cen Qianyi let out a breath, and there was a kind of helplessness in her eyes that she wasn’t even aware of.
She was the first to break the strange situation.
“Oh.”
Cen Qianyi responded, as if she had accepted He Shu’s explanation, and then asked a question, following her lead.
“Are we leaving now?”
When He Shu heard this, it was as if a ray of sunset had fallen directly into her eyes from outside the window, and they instantly lit up!
What did she mean by this? What did Cen Qianyi mean by this?
Her explanation was accepted?
Really? Was this assassin so easy to fool?
But then again, it was normal. The two words were very similar.
She silently repeated the two words in her mind. Dog, go. Hmm, they really did sound the same when you said them quickly!
He Shu breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed her thigh that she had just pinched painfully, and walked back towards Cen Qianyi.
It was a false alarm. She tried to make her expression as natural as possible, as if nothing had happened.
“Haha, um, I remembered. We can’t leave yet. There’s one more thing we need to confirm.”
“Hmm?”
Cen Qianyi looked at the person walking back toward her, wondering if she was just trying to move past the previous conversation or if there was something real.
There was something real.
He Shu walked up to Cen Qianyi and stood still. The two shadows merged into one again in the remaining sunlight.
When a hot breath was exhaled onto her neck, Cen Qianyi blinked, feeling a slight strangeness in her heart. This feeling was more noticeable than when the collar was fastened.
She didn’t know what He Shu was suddenly getting so close for, so she cooperated and didn’t move.
He Shu was adjusting Cen Qianyi’s collar, making the petal-shaped collar lie flat under the collar. At the same time, she was also checking if the collar was fastened over the collar.
After confirming that the collar wasn’t directly touching Cen Qianyi’s neck at all, she took a step back, creating some distance, and began to explain.
“This dress is a little special.”
Cen Qianyi’s eyes lifted slightly, and she glanced at the mirror next to her. Of course it was special…
Her head now looked like it was sitting on a flower calyx. It was especially exaggerated…
Perhaps she couldn’t really accept wearing such a “special” dress out… She was hesitating whether to change when He Shu’s next words surprised her.
“This dress is non-conductive.”
A strange look flashed in Cen Qianyi’s pale purple eyes. After looking at He Shu, who was seriously talking about this feature, she turned to look at herself in the mirror.
Her gaze fell on the exaggerated collar, and looking at the collar fastened on it, something seemed to flash through her mind.
She turned to look at He Shu again, feeling a little confused. Just as she was about to ask, the other person continued to speak.
After patting her own neck, He Shu reached out and unfastened the wristband on her hand: “Let’s try it and see if the collar still works when it’s on the outside of the collar.”
He Shu’s words answered the confusion that had just popped into Cen Qianyi’s mind. So that was why she had prepared such a “special” dress for her.
She looked down at the ugly and exaggerated dress on her body. So that was its purpose…
She had misunderstood her.
He Shu saw Cen Qianyi looking down at the dress and not saying anything, worried that she didn’t believe her.
It was no wonder she didn’t believe her. He Shu thought about how she had been in pain from the collar this morning… He Shu touched her neck. It must have hurt a lot… She probably had some trauma from it.
She couldn’t completely trust the system either, so she had to do an experiment.
“We’ll start with the lowest voltage.”
He Shu also felt a little uncertain. In her nervousness, she reached out and took Cen Qianyi’s hand.
“Shall we, try it?”
Cen Qianyi looked down at her hand. The wide, pure white lace petal-shaped sleeve was like a veil, covering their clasped hands.
After some hesitation, she gently nodded.
He Shu got her consent, but she became even more nervous. If it didn’t work, it would be more serious than saying the wrong thing just now.
She wouldn’t think she was trying to electrocute her on purpose…
He Shu took a deep breath. When she pressed the button, the hand holding Cen Qianyi’s couldn’t help but tighten its grip.
In a few seconds, He Shu’s palm was sweating.
She nervously looked at Cen Qianyi’s expression. The other person’s gaze was lowered, and she couldn’t see the emotions in her eyes, but her face was calm.
“How is it? Do you feel anything?”
Cen Qianyi’s gaze moved from the sleeve to He Shu’s face. Looking at her anxious and nervous expression, her heart felt like it had been scratched by a hair, and she felt a little strange.
She also felt a kind of indescribable strangeness about this question.
She didn’t make a sound and just shook her head.
When He Shu saw Cen Qianyi shake her head, her heart dropped a little, but not completely.
“Then I’ll try to increase it.”
He Shu increased the voltage a little, pressed confirm, and nervously looked at Cen Qianyi.
Seeing that her expression hadn’t changed, she anxiously asked: “How is it? Do you feel anything?”
Cen Qianyi’s other hand, which was hanging by her side, curled slightly, and she shook her head again.
He Shu’s heart dropped a little more. This time, she was bold and adjusted the voltage to the middle value.
A few seconds later, she asked: “How is it? Do you feel anything?”
Cen Qianyi knew the reason for this strange feeling. This person was asking her with such an eager gaze, “Do you feel anything?”…
She felt the grip on her hand tighten, and she shook her head with a tense face.
He Shu let out a heavy breath she had been holding, and then her heart, which had dropped, was lifted up again.
It was time for the last one!
She pulled the horizontal line to the very bottom, where it showed “max.” It was the maximum voltage.
She held Cen Qianyi tightly: “I’m going to do it now. If you can’t stand it, just tell me to stop!”
Cen Qianyi’s eyebrows twitched as she looked at the person who was all tense.
This person was really… Cen Qianyi once again had a feeling that she couldn’t describe.
He Shu didn’t know what she was thinking. Seeing that the person wasn’t saying anything, she gave herself some encouragement in her heart, closed her eyes, and pressed the button!
She silently counted to three, and then He Shu suddenly opened her eyes, looked at Cen Qianyi, and anxiously asked.
“How is it? Do you feel anything?”
…
Cen Qianyi’s lips were pursed. Although she knew what He Shu was asking, the way she was asking the question was really…
He Shu saw that the person wasn’t responding and worried: “Do you feel something?”
Cen Qianyi let out a breath: “No, I don’t feel anything.”
The tense muscles on He Shu’s face suddenly relaxed. After letting go of the person, she quickly raised her hand to wipe away the sweat that had beaded on her forehead from nervousness.
“It’s good that you don’t feel anything. It’s good that you don’t feel anything!”
After stopping the wristband, she tried two more times. Looking at Cen Qianyi’s completely unchanged expression, she was sure that she really didn’t feel anything!
The experiment was a success!
He Shu put the wristband back on with a happy look on her face. This dress was reliable, so she wouldn’t be electrocuted!
Cen Qianyi looked at the happiness in her eyes, tightened the hand that had been let go of. The warmth from the person still lingered in her palm, and this warmth spread throughout her body through her pulsating veins, finally invading her heart… and scalding it a little.
This feeling… Cen Qianyi let go of her palm. It wasn’t very good.
She turned to look at herself in the mirror, at the exaggerated, petal-like collar. So that was its purpose.
The warmth in her heart crept up to her face.
She turned to look at He Shu: “Did you prepare this dress specially for me?”
He Shu was about to shake her head, but she thought of something. Her head suddenly stopped and then made a hard turn in the air, changing into a nod!
What a great opportunity to gain some goodwill!
She really hoped that in the future, Cen Qianyi would see how she gave her a reward she got just so she wouldn’t get electrocuted, and when she tried to kill her, she would give her a quick death, or at least torment her a little less!
“Yes. Do you like it?”
He Shu felt that she wasn’t lying. Although she hadn’t prepared it specially for her, it was a reward that had been around for a while, but she had spent the entire afternoon painstakingly designing it for her.
Cen Qianyi heard this and said thoughtfully: “Where did you buy it?”
When she got out of here, she was going to buy the store and fire the designer.
When He Shu heard her ask this, she thought she liked it and wanted to buy another one.
But this dress couldn’t be bought.
He Shu honestly said: “You can’t buy it.”
Cen Qianyi raised an eyebrow. What did she mean? Did she think she didn’t have money to buy it? She looked like she didn’t have money, but… Thinking of this, Cen Qianyi’s expression froze. She really didn’t have much money… She thought of the money in her real private account at the underground bank, and there really wasn’t much.
Every time she confirmed a job and received the money, she would put most of it into the league, using it as a bounty on herself.
Now, she probably only had a little over five hundred thousand in her account, and five hundred thousand of that was the mental distress fee that was deducted from the job with [Xi].
She looked at He Shu. She had inexplicably thought of the fright this person had experienced at the time…
He Shu saw that after she said she couldn’t buy it, Cen Qianyi fell silent. She probably thought she believed she didn’t have money to buy it.
She knew she had money. This dress wasn’t something that could be bought with money.
He Shu continued to introduce the special features of the dress: “This dress is not only non-conductive, but it’s also waterproof and fireproof!”
And lightning-proof, but she wouldn’t say that. It would sound like she was cursing her to be struck by lightning.
He Shu said as she walked to the bathroom, took the lighter from the aromatherapy tray in the bathroom, and came out. In front of Cen Qianyi, she pulled up a corner of the skirt, lit it, and held it close for a while. The fabric was completely intact.
Then she went and got a cup of water and poured it on the skirt. The water droplets slid onto the floor, and the dress wasn’t wet at all.
“See? I didn’t lie to you.”
Cen Qianyi looked at the damp spot on the floor and slowly raised her eyebrows.
She was a little surprised, even shocked. It wasn’t that she had never seen waterproof and fireproof fabric before, but the dress on her body was visibly made of ordinary chiffon. It was very light and soft, and it was very breathable. The high collar and long sleeves didn’t make her feel hot at all.
She hadn’t expected that this dress was also fireproof and waterproof.
The league’s lab had also developed this kind of fabric, but to have all these functions, it couldn’t be so light and thin, and it couldn’t look so much like ordinary chiffon…
She looked up at He Shu. She had originally thought that this person had prepared a tacky dress for her, probably from some luxury brand that was fooling rich idiots.
She didn’t expect that she had done it so that she wouldn’t be threatened by the collar. She had thought that was shocking enough, but there was something even more special about it.
Cen Qianyi looked at the person, and her pale purple eyes gradually deepened…
She really couldn’t buy it. This wasn’t something that could be bought in an ordinary store. The league’s lab couldn’t even develop it. This was no longer a matter of money.
So where did this person get it from?
And she just gave it to her?
After the experiment, He Shu put the cup back. Looking at the intact dress on Cen Qianyi, she felt a little regretful.
It was a shame there was only one.
Her design talent could only be used this one time.
She looked at Cen Qianyi. She actually had a few more ideas this afternoon…
It was okay. When she got back, she would tell Su Ming her ideas and have her find someone who could make clothes.
“Okay, this time we can really go.”
…
The restaurant wasn’t far away.
He Shu refused the shuttle and walked slowly with Cen Qianyi.
They didn’t see anyone on the way.
After all, it was a private island, not a tourist destination.
He Shu knew that the people who came to the island this time were new members. They arrived at different times. The new member initiation ceremony was in three days, and she was one of the early arrivals.
They did see a lot of staff along the way, all wearing very uniform clothes: blue short-sleeved shirts, matching capris, and a yellow belt around their waists.
The taste, tsk. He Shu didn’t know if her design talent had been awakened today, but she felt that if she designed them, they could be much better looking.
Thinking of this, she planned to go back and change the uniforms of the villa’s maids as well.
Different people see the same things in different ways.
Cen Qianyi looked at the staff’s uniforms and confirmed that they were all wearing bulletproof vests underneath.
She could also see guns under the corners of their clothes that were blown by the wind.
The security situation on the island was different from the information she had received.
She touched the collar on her neck. This was also something different. The collar of the dress, which was blown by the wind, brushed against her bent fingers. She came back to her senses and looked at the person next to her.
Whenever she took a job, she was actually indifferent to the outcome. Success was good, but failure was also acceptable.
But this time, if she failed… A slight tremor passed through her pale purple eyes. Then this person, whom she had brought to the island… would probably also be in trouble.
The sea breeze blew, and Cen Qianyi tucked her flying hair behind her ears. She had to be more careful with this job.
After He Shu had some preliminary design ideas, she saw the restaurant in the distance and also saw people entering.
As soon as she saw that one of the two people was wearing a red bikini, He Shu immediately knew that the other person in the floral long dress was a member who had come to the island just like her.
He Shu suddenly understood the “purpose” of separating the clothes. The people wearing red bikinis were like some kind of magnificent jewelry, meant to show the “noble” status of these people.
For example, now, He Shu could tell at a glance that the person in the floral long dress was worth billions.
She looked at Cen Qianyi next to her. She had now become her “jewelry.” Although she wasn’t as conspicuous as someone wearing a red bikini, the collar on her neck also proved it.
This was like those people who wore watches instead of jewelry. When it was revealed casually, it had the same purpose as jewelry, just making the obvious things a little more subtle.
Cen Qianyi noticed that the person was looking at her, so she looked away and looked back at her: “Hmm?”
He Shu came back to her senses: “We’re here.”
She pointed to the restaurant in front of them.
At the same time, that annoying electronic voice in her mind came again.
[Ding ding ding, the first plot of the forgotten island is about to begin. Please be prepared, Host, and go to the designated scene as soon as possible.]
Sigh, it was time to “go to work”…
She looked at Cen Qianyi with a sad face. Under the other person’s questioning gaze, she took her hand as instructed and led her inside.
The privacy inside the restaurant was very good. The corridors were all separated by green plants and some decorations or designed objects, making it very tasteful and high-class.
They couldn’t see any other guests as they walked inside. The corridors led directly to the seats.
When He Shu arrived at a place where the light was a little brighter, she was once again amazed. A restaurant could be designed like this, taking the protection of privacy to the extreme.
After realizing that she couldn’t see anyone else, He Shu felt a little more at ease. This meant that no one could see them either…
This was a bonus for others, but for her, it was a godsend!
She didn’t want anyone to see what she was about to do.
The restaurant’s seats were designed as a curved booth with two openings. In addition to the opening they had entered from, the other opening led directly to the outside of the restaurant.
Outside was the sea, and there were lights burning along the shore. The scenery was beautiful.
But the two people in the booth didn’t look at it.
Cen Qianyi looked at the person sitting so close to her… There was a little confusion in her eyes. The seat was so spacious. Why was this person crowding her?
She also looked at her hand, which was still being held and hadn’t been let go yet. She had been a little surprised by this sudden action outside the restaurant.
Why was she suddenly holding her hand? And the person’s mood seemed to have suddenly dropped, and her steps became heavier the further they walked into the restaurant.
In her confusion, her hand was let go.
She looked up and met He Shu’s gaze, which had that familiar kind of panic in it.
Before she could ask what was wrong, a warmth appeared on her waist.
He Shu held the person as instructed and stiffly said her lines.
“Baby, what are you looking at me for? Look at the menu.”
Cen Qianyi: “?”
Baby…
With this term, a flood of memories associated with it came rushing back.
Cen Qianyi’s eyelashes trembled slightly. Vaguely, she seemed to have found some kind of pattern.
She looked down at the hand on her waist. The hand was clenched into a fist, pressing against her waist.
He Shu didn’t dare to really hug her… She perfunctorily completed the basic action. She felt Cen Qianyi’s gaze on her hand and really wanted to pull it back, but she couldn’t!
She was wailing in her heart.
Don’t look, please. Hurry up and look at the menu!
She knew that this hand was asking for death, but she didn’t want to. She was being forced to!