Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

From the second floor, My Jiang came down and noticed his gloomy face right away. 

"Ah, Luhan. What\'s wrong with you?" The man whispered as he sat down. Noticing My Jiang\'s gossipy face, as if Yan Luhan had lost the last strand of mood he had.

"Nothing! There is much work in the company. Let\'s go back!" Yan Luhan stood up abruptly and dragged My Jiang with him.

"Hey! I don\'t want to go back. I just returned thirty minutes ago… " 

However, My Jiang\'s cries fell into a deaf ear. Yan Luhan dragged him out and both of them went back to the company.

That night, his mood was so bad that Yan Luhan stayed all night and forced Mu Jiang to accompany him on the night-long journey. The poor man was so worked up that the next day, he got large eyebags, a sore waist and a blank face.

Both of them were so dishevelled that when the other employees came to work, they were shocked and amused. 

"Our CEO is so hardworking… " A new intern mumbled as she saw Yan Luhan going to the meeting room.

"Tsk tsk! Even if he works to death, it\'s not easy to catch up with the other two companies." A man whispered knowingly. 

Hearing this deep voice, the intern turned towards the source, "Ah, sorry! I forgot to give your coffee!" 

The female intern hurriedly handed him a coffee from the tray she was holding. The man smiled and took the cup. 

"Thanks. By the way, I\'m Huo Hubin. You… " The young man asked. There was a deep look in the depth of his eyes.

The female intern smiled bashfully as she put a strand of her hair behind her ear and murmured, "Cough! Me? I\'m… " 

As both of them got to know their name, both of them talked a lot. Even though others saw them, they didn\'t say anything. After all, the month and year-end performance would decide your future in the company. 

It\'s even greater if someone got fired. In the current world, it\'s too hard to get a decent job!

However, both of them exchanged their number and went back to their work. But, without letting anyone know, a new office romance started in that gloomy office where the boss himself was suffering from heartache.

… …

After Luo Lixi and Sheng Ruming\'s engagement, the tense atmosphere between the two families was decreasing. Both families would see each other once in a while.

The couple would arrange a gathering now and then for the older generation to meet up. After three months, finally, it was a weekend and too of that, it was a new month.

Coincidentally, it was also a public holiday. Luo Lixi could only meet Sheng Ruming two times a week because of the heavy pressure of work.

Thus time, the gathering was set in a farmhouse of Luo Qintian. As Wei Airan and Sheng Ruming came, her eyes searched for Sheng Haotin.

"Uncle… he didn\'t come?"

Wei Airan shook her head and muttered wryly, "He went to another city and couldn\'t make it in time." 

"Oh, I understand." Luo Lixi nodded and guided her inside. Even though she didn\'t say anything, Sheng Ruming felt her mood was off.

The truth was Sheng Haotin didn\'t like to come here and get stared at by the old man every time. It was better to go out alone than to remain in an awkward position.

In a remorseful gaze, Sheng Ruming stared at the two women who left him with Luo Qintian. As Luo Lixi showed Wei Airan the path, Wei Airan hesitated a little when she voiced out, "Ahm, girl, you have a brother, right?"

Luo Lixi abruptly paused. Wei Airan immediately understood that this matter must be sensitive to her. 

"... Yes." Luo Lixi nodded and turned around to face Wei Airan.

"Why… didn\'t he attend your engagement? Don\'t misunderstand! Just that, back then, some people were talking and I chanced upon to hear… " Wei Airan didn\'t have the least bit of willingness to mention these in a time like this but she couldn\'t help. 

After all, twenty people had exceeded who had asked her about this matter. People seemed to be very interested in her daughter in law\'s life very much and she thought it might be because the other party was an equally positioned person.

"He… he is currently abroad and grandfather has forbidden him to come back until he… forget it. Aunty, the main reason is we don\'t get along well… So, you know… " Luo Lixi was awkward as she muttered. In her mind, she really wished that she didn\'t have to say these to others, especially to Sheng Ruming\'s family but she was helpless. 

After all, one lie leads to another lie. It\'s better to be honest once and for all.

"Oh, I understand." Wei Airan took Luo Lixi\'s hand and patted it gently, "It\'s fine as long as you are happy. Relatives… if they don\'t get along, it\'s better to steer clear of everything." 

"Hmm." Luo Lixi nodded. Then, both of them regained their pace and continued to walk on the marble stoned path. Finally, they reached the inner area. 

After Luo Lixi showed her a room, she turned around and left hurriedly. From the shade of a peach tree, Sheng Ruming walked out and abruptly grabbed her hand.

"What\'s wrong?" Noticing her uneasy face, he frowned, "Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"

"No. I\'m fine. Let\'s go." She soothed her face and sighed. Then, her fingers interlocked with his as they walked back. When they reached the white tent, no one was there.

Sheng Ruming moved beside her and murmured, "They must have left to give us some space… " As the man whispered, he came very close to her.

Luo Lixi slowly turned towards and smiled. Her eyes noticed the crooked blue tie of his. Without saying anything, she moved ahead and took hold of it. As she began to lose it slowly, the man\'s eyes darkened as he leaned down.

Luo Lixi shot him a sharp look, "Behave." 

The man reluctantly controlled his urge to bite her lips and made her cry out his name in her sweet and malicious voice.

She frowned and asked, "Were you in a hurry? The thing isn\'t properly tied." As her lips said, her hands slowly took it off. "Put it on properly. I don\'t like distorted things."

"Why don\'t you help me…" She raised her eyes at his cheeky action. The man conveniently put the tie in her hand and urged her.

Then, without saying anything, Luo Lixi began to speak out her mind while making a knot around his collar, "The government is going to hold the bid for the multibillion project of the highway. I am thinking of joining. What about you?"

Sheng Ruming\'s carefree face changed instantly. He became thoughtful as he muttered, "I wasn\'t interested in it in the first place. But now that you are mentioning this… if you participate, I will also join."

"Are you joking?!" Luo Lixi tightened the tie around his collar and flared up.

"Cough! Cough! You are suffocating me!" Watching his face become pale, she loosened her grip but didn\'t remove her hold. 

"Don\'t joke. I\'m very serious!" Luo Lixi tied his tie hardly and finally retreated. 

Afterwards, she turned around and sat down on a nearby seat. Sheng Ruming also followed her and sat very closely. 

"I also got the wind of it. Even though the proposal is in the processing state and officials are rethinking if they should select this project up, if I set my eyes on it, I\'m sure I\'ll succeed! After all, it will connect the Long, Ming and Jiong city. It\'s a major project... " Sheng Ruming used his most professional voice to describe. 

Luo Lixi raised her hand and motioned for him to stop, "I know these already. Tell me clearly. Will you join or not?" Her face was very serious and looked like she would make a decision based on his.

"Yes." Sheng Ruming nodded.

"Then, let\'s fight for it. I will go all out and snatch it from you." Her eyes twinkled as she imagined a scene in her mind.

{Sheng Ruming was crying pitifully as she won the bid and walked away heroically. Then abruptly, the man grabbed her golden thigh and cried heartbrokenly, "Wife, don\'t go~ Take me under your golden wings~"

While Luo Lixi chuckled sarcastically and spoke aloud in arrogance, "Hoho, submit under my feet. Only then, would I agree!"

Sheng Ruming was startled and broke out in happiness, "Really?~"

"Yeah!"}

His childish voice sounded very girlish. It disgusted Luo Lixi so much that, at that point, her face twisted in an unrecognisable expression. 

Sheng Ruming saw her face turning green and blue and then… God knew what!

He patted her shoulder and asked, "Miss, can you kindly explain why did you enter in a daze just now?!"

Luo Lixi was jolted awake and murmured awkwardly, "No.. Nothing."