I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 85
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 85: The Secret Of Comfort
After staying at the Jiang family's house for one night, Jiang Ran dragged the packed luggage downstairs the next morning and saw Qi Yuan lingering near the car.
"Qi Yuan." Jiang Ran walked quietly behind the girl and patted her shoulder. She was curious. "What are you doing here?"
Startled, Qi Yuan patted her chest and said, "Ranran, why did you come down so early?"
"I was moving the luggage down." After dumping the luggage into the trunk, Jiang Ran stretched lazily. "I'm so sleepy... Why are you up so early? I thought you and Captain Chu..."
"We are innocent." Qi Yuan blushed and replied sternly, "Don't always think about dirty things."
Jiang Ran's expression looked even more innocent than hers. "I haven't said anything yet –– Qi Yuan, don't always think about dirty things."
Thinking that her little thoughts were exposed, Qi Yuan blushed with guilt. "Jiang Ran, do I look so improper?"
This girl was really interesting and gullible. Jiang Ran laughed. " Well, you’re quite serious –– I wonder what serious Qi Yuan is doing here?"
After the joke, Qi Yuan drooped her head a little dejectedly, leaned against the car door, and whispered, "I feel that Chu Yuan is not happy, but I don't know how to comfort him."
She really expressed her feelings frankly.
Jiang Ran had long discovered that the girl was straightforward and a bit dorky, so she was just as straightforward. "We lost a few teammates right after arriving in Jiangning. Captain Chu must be feeling awful."
"I know." Qi Yuan sighed as she twisted her fingers together. "He has been taking care of me all this time. I want to do something for him, but after thinking about it for a long time, I realized that there’s nothing I can do."
"You want to comfort him?" Jiang Ran said bluntly, "Just hug and kiss him. If that doesn't work, just pounce on him..."
Looking at Jiang Ran in surprise, Qi Yuan thought for a moment and said blankly, "Ranran, I didn't expect you and Professor Si to be so passionate..."
Jiang Ran, who was advising Qi Yuan, was choked by the cold wind and almost coughed out tears. "Cough!"
Qi Yuan patted her on the back and said, "Don't get worked up. I won't tell anyone." Then she muttered, "I thought Professor Si was an abstinent person. It turns out he's a carnivore. You can't judge a person by his appearance indeed."
Jiang Ran, "..." Miss, I hadn't said anything yet, please don't jump to conclusions!
The two looked at each other in silence. After a moment, Jiang Ran cleared her throat and brought the topic back on track. "Where’s Captain Chu now?"
"In the room." Qi Yuan pointed to a window on the second floor. "He should still be resting."
"Then why did you come down by yourself?" Jiang Ran urged her to go back. "Go back to the room, and wait for him to wake up. Ask him if he wants to drink some water or eat anything... Let him feel the warmth of his lover."
"The warmth of... his lover?"
"Yes, if he wakes up and finds a cute girl like you by his side, won't that be super healing?"
Jiang Ran said as she pushed Qi Yuan upstairs.
“Someone once told me that if you want something, just reach out for it — whatever you put your mind to, just do it.”
When they reached the door of the room, Jiang Ran patted her on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Words of comfort are meaningful only when they are spoken out loud –– Qi Yuan, you have a long way to go, so go ahead!"
Seeing the girl was about to leave, Qi Yuan subconsciously pulled her back. "What about you?"
"Me?" Jiang Ran laughed. "I'll go to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. After you comfort Captain Chu, you can have a hot breakfast. How fortunate~"
After hearing Jiang Ran's encouragement, Qi Yuan got spurred on. She knocked on the door and walked into the room, just in time to run into Chu Yuan who had just come out of the bathroom with wet hair.
The man had buttoned up the middle two buttons of his shirt casually, revealing his sexy collarbone and slim waistline. If her gaze drifted lower...
Qi Yuan raised her hand to cover her nose and turned around hastily.
Chu Yuan, who had a towel on his head, seemed not to notice her agitation. He wiped his hair slowly, walked behind her, and looked at her expression. "Hey~"
He laughed softly in her ear. "Are you having a nosebleed?"
The man laughed in a low, hoarse voice, which was extremely sexy. Qi Yuan felt like a kettle with boiling water. Her whole body was hot and steam was coming out of her head.
To avoid the man from having a hold on her, she could only shake her head vigorously, wishing she could plug her ears. "No, no, no!"
"Really?" Chu Yuan continued to wipe his hair, and dragged his tone, "If you want to see, I won't refuse –– anytime, anywhere, I’m yours for the taking."
All the blood in Qi Yuan’s body rushed to her head, sweeping away her rationality. Qi Yuan turned around with a flushed face and looked at him. "Chu Yuan, have you slept with me before?"
Chu Yuan's mouth twitched at the straightforward question and he reminded her, "Miss, what are you thinking about? When we broke off our engagement, you were only nineteen. I'm not such a beast."
"..."
"Or do you want something to happen between us?" Chu Yuan leaned over her cheek again, and smiled leisurely amid the girl's sudden rapid breathing. "Qi Yuan, are you thinking of something indecent? Oh~ I didn’t expect you to be such a lewd girl."
Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Qi Yuan was furious. "You’re the lewd one! You’re a big pervert!"
After the girl finished cursing, she wanted to open the door and leave angrily.
"Qi Yuan."
Holding her hand that was gripping the door handle, Chu Yuan restrained his teasing expression and said a little tiredly, "Don't leave. Stay with me for a while."
He softened his tone and made the request seriously. Qi Yuan couldn’t refuse him, so she followed him silently to the bed and sat down.
The girl was so close. Chu Yuan hooked her fingers and folded them in his palm. He leaned over and whispered to her, "Qin Huai has already escaped. There’s no point in going to the blockade zone again. Once things here are dealt with, I’ll take you to Fengyang."
At the mention of Fengyang again, Qi Yuan was not as excited as before. She nodded gently and whispered, "I'm not in a hurry. Your work is more important."
The girl's obedient appearance made Chu Yuan a little uncomfortable. Chu Yuan touched her head and smiled. "Qi Yuan, I found that you’re much more obedient after you lost your memory."
"Oh? Really?"
"I remember we once agreed to watch a movie, but I couldn't make it because of a very important meeting. You were so angry that you ignored me for three days." Chu Yuan's eyes were gentle when he recalled the past. "To coax you, I asked everyone I could for advice."
"Pfft." Qi Yuan was amused by his exaggerated description. She looked at him and laughed. "You stood up your girlfriend. It was only right of you to coax me."
"Uh-huh."
Looking at the girl's smug expression, Chu Yuan took advantage of her unpreparedness to lean over and give her a big kiss on the cheek.
The image of the man's suddenly approaching and retreating face kept replaying in Qi Yuan’s mind. Qi Yuan stared at him blankly with her mouth slightly open.
How dorky and cute.
The man clenched his fist and put it to his lips, coughing to hide his triumphant smile.
After snapping out of her daze, Qi Yuan abruptly looked away. Even her neck was flushing a deep crimson.
She didn't say anything, but Chu Yuan became interested and told his girlfriend about the past as a story.
"The marriage agreement between the Chu and Qi families was between me and your sister, Qi Yao. Your sister refused to accept the marriage, but she had no way to resist her parents' arrangement. It just so happened that you had a good impression of me, so you swapped identities with her and became my fiancée under the name of Qi Yao.
"When I first met you, you came down from upstairs with your sister –– in fact, your behavior at that time made me very suspicious of your identity, because according to the information I got, such a lively personality shouldn’t have belonged to Qi Yao, but to her younger twin sister, Qi Yuan.
"But for me at that time, as long as the marriage partner was a daughter of the Qi family, it would be fine. Qi Yao or Qi Yuan, it made no difference..."
Hearing this, Qi Yuan opened her eyes wide and glared at him angrily. "So, Chu Yuan, you have no feelings for me at all –– are dating and having a fiancée just routine matters to you?!"
The girl became angrier and angrier as she spoke, puffing up her cheeks like a puffer fish that had drunk plenty of water.
She didn't even realize that she minded that. Chu Yuan's mouth twitched. He wanted to laugh, but didn't dare to laugh out loud. "Qi Yuan, can't you feel my feelings for you?"
Qi Yuan wanted to shout "I can't feel it!", but when she saw the man's expectant eyes, she stammered and admitted, "Well, I... I could feel it a little bit..."
“Ahem.”
This girl was still as gullible as before.
Chu Yuan tried hard to suppress his smile. He ruffled the girl's hair, and said seriously, "Qi Yuan, I said when we first met that we truly loved each other. Although we had our own purposes when we first met, we loved each other until the moment we were forced to separate."
Qi Yuan did not doubt his words, but frowned and thought for a long time before asking, "Chu Yuan, you said that we canceled the engagement because the Chu family fell into decline and my father felt that you were not worthy of me... But in my memory, my father was not a snobbish person, and..."
She spoke tentatively, carefully observing the man's expression. Noticing the change in his expression, Qi Yuan didn’t continue the second half of her sentence.
How could a man who had experienced the fickleness of human nature fail to see the girl's sudden hesitation? He still smiled, but there was no trace of tenderness in his smile. He asked slowly, "And what?"
Sensing the young man's displeasure, which could even be considered disgust, Qi Yuan pursed her lips and said nothing.
Chu Yuan didn't like her father. He hated her father, or rather, he hated all the members of the Qi family except her.
Why?
Didn't he say that the Qi and Chu families were old friends, close enough that their children could be engaged when they were younger? If that was the case, why did Chu Yuan hate her father and the Qi family so much?
"Chu Yuan..." Having made up her mind, Qi Yuan pulled back her hand and asked seriously, word by word, "Please tell me what happened when we broke up back then."
The girl looked straight at him with a firm gaze and a fearless expression on her face. Chu Yuan stared at her for a moment, then suddenly smiled.
With a bit of lament and relief.
"Are you sure you want to know about what happened in the past?" he said. "My story is definitely very one-sided and subjective. Even so, do you still insist on hearing it?"