Jian Fei hadn't brought any clothes with her yesterday, and the outfit she was wearing was ruined by Ke Teng. Fortunately, when she woke up the next morning, he had already prepared new ones for her.
She was going to the hospital for ordinary clerical work, earning three to four thousand yuan a month, yet she was dressed in such high-end brands.
Jian Fei felt extremely awkward.
Ke Teng, however, was not satisfied and insisted on driving her to work.
"Do you have to make everyone in the office say I'm dating a rich man before you're happy? Wearing designer clothes and riding in luxury cars, are you afraid people won't know about our relationship?"
Perhaps it was the intimacy of the past two days that had made her completely relaxed around Ke Teng, or perhaps Ke Teng was too good to her, making her a little spoiled. Jian Fei had reverted to her usual sharp-tongued and cool demeanor in front of him.
Coincidentally, Ke Teng liked it when she talked back to him.
He raised his hands in surrender, "Alright, alright, then I won't drive you. Whatever you say goes, okay?"
Once she arrived at the office, her beautiful and brand-new clothes perfectly showcased Jian Fei's figure, naturally drawing everyone's attention.
This time, they finally started to suspect that her relationship with Ke Teng was unusual.
"Was the person who picked you up that day really your friend? Just a regular friend? I don't think it's that simple."
"Look at you now, all in designer brands, and you look so radiant. If you're dating, you're dating. We're not going to snatch him away from you, so why hide it?"
Jian Fei didn't understand their psychology, why they had to pry into people's private affairs so thoroughly. She just smiled and said nothing.
She thought that in a couple of days, Ke Teng would return to Shangcheng, and then everything would go back to how it was before, and others would naturally stop talking about it.
However, Ke Teng was a hundred times more clingy than she had imagined.
At ten in the morning, the director handed Jian Fei a file in an envelope and gave her an address, asking her to deliver the documents outside.
As she got into the taxi, she received a WeChat message from Ke Teng asking what she was doing.
Jian Fei told him the truth, "The director asked me to deliver some documents to someone."
"Who? Male or female?"
"How would I know? He just gave me an address and said someone would pick me up when I got there. What do you mean by asking that?"
Ke Teng didn't reply again.
Jian Fei, bored, looked through their chat history while sitting in the car, guessing that he was angry.
It couldn't be, could it? She was just delivering documents, and she hadn't informed him in advance. Was he really that petty?
If he was so possessive and would sulk over such a small matter, it would be too exaggerated.
It seemed their relationship wouldn't last long.
Thinking about their interactions over the past two days, everything Ke Teng had given her, and the impending farewell, Jian Fei felt quite uncomfortable.
People say it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
With such a high-quality "ex," it would be incredibly difficult to find someone who suited her in every way in the future.
As she thought about it, her mood soured, and she was still feeling down when she arrived at her destination.
A staff member came to greet her, and Jian Fei stated the specific conference room number she needed to go to.
Unexpectedly, when the door opened, Ke Teng's face appeared.
She was very surprised and stared for a few seconds before asking.
"How are you here?"
But after asking, looking at his smug and triumphant expression, Jian Fei belatedly realized she had been tricked.
So, he and the director had conspired to tease her! And deliberately said that in the WeChat message!
Thinking about her emotional journey just now, she couldn't help but get annoyed and shyly threw the file at him.
"Boring! Deliberately teasing me? So childish!"
"I can't be bothered with you, hmph!"
After saying that, she turned to leave, but Ke Teng grabbed her, pulled her into the conference room, and closed the door.
He held her captive in his arms.
"I missed you. I know this is wrong, but I just can't control myself."
"I've been like a madman these past two days. Your voice, your smile, your every move, they flash before my eyes all the time."
"You're not actively messaging me, so I had to come find you. Why are you reacting like this? Don't you miss me?"
It would be a lie to say she didn't miss him.
Although Jian Fei was in the office, her eyes were on the computer screen, and her hands were mechanically typing, her mind was filled with all sorts of thoughts about him.
The things Ke Teng said in front of her, the small gestures he made, and even... well, she was too embarrassed to say them out loud.
As someone who had never been in love before, it was inevitable that she would easily lose herself in her first relationship.
How could someone like Ke Teng, an experienced player in love, make such a mistake?
Hearing a handsome man say such things to her, no woman would be unhappy.
Jian Fei secretly felt sweet but didn't admit it.
"I'm very busy, with too much work to do. I don't have time to think about you."
Ke Teng frowned, "Then your director is really clueless."
"I've made my intentions so obvious, yet he still assigns you so much work. I'll have to give him a talking-to."
"Ah?" Jian Fei looked up at him awkwardly.
"You, what did you say to our director? Did you tell him we..."
"How could I? How could I possibly say something so personal out loud? It's just that your director is getting on in years, and we're both men, he can figure it out himself."
Jian Fei: "..."
She had thought she was acting so well, and that the director knew nothing.
It turned out she was the clown.
"You've worked hard. It's my fault for not hinting clearly enough that you had to do this work. Come, sit down and rest."
While saying she should rest, she sat on his lap, and he kept his hands wandering.
In the spacious conference room, luxurious, bright, and quiet, such a formal place...
Jian Fei felt no sense of security and quickly pressed his hand down.
"Can you be a little more proper? It's broad daylight, can't you do some serious work?"
"Who says I'm not doing serious work? I have to go on a business trip this afternoon, and I thought I wouldn't see you for the next few days, so I felt uncomfortable."
"You have a business trip this afternoon? Where are you going?"
Ke Teng deliberately turned the computer screen towards her, opening a file for her to see.
It showed the distribution of his family's real estate company branches across the country, including major cities and some county towns.
One location was marked with a red line, and its name was Pingnan County.
"Going here. There's a financial issue, and they've been deceiving their superiors. I plan to investigate it personally."
Upon seeing the words "Pingnan County," Jian Fei's eyes instantly lit up.
She didn't know if Ke Teng had done this intentionally or if it was a coincidence.
Because that was her hometown.
She hadn't been back to see it since her father had his accident.
It was only when she saw this dense map of branch distributions that Jian Fei truly realized, in a tangible way, how powerful the Ke family was.
Their company was spread across the country, even reaching their small county town.
Sunshine Peninsula, a well-known landmark in their small county, was actually their product.
She had slept with a prince.
"How long will you be gone?"
The prince's hands roamed over her favorite places: "Not sure."