YDMLA 02

Chapter 02

Xu Xinghe wore a classic white shirt and black suit pants. It was an outfit so ordinary, yet on her, it looked as though she could walk straight onto a runway.

Because of the hot weather, she hadn’t buttoned the top of her shirt. Her slender neck was exposed to the air, and Fu Tingshen’s breathing unconsciously grew heavier.

Seeing that Fu Tingshen made no move and only kept staring at her, Xu Xinghe paused with the documents in her hand.

After a long moment, Fu Tingshen spoke first.

“Name.” His voice was slightly hoarse, his gaze boldly locked onto her.

Only then did Xu Xinghe raise her head. Even though he was seated and she was 165 centimeters tall, she could barely meet his eyes at the same level.

“President Fu, my name is Xu Xinghe.” She looked directly into his eyes, a faint smile naturally lingering on her lips whenever she spoke to him.

Fu Tingshen was practically mesmerized by her, yet she seemed completely unaware of it, even daring to smile at him so beautifully…

Xu Xinghe had originally been sleeping in the vast river of stars when a woman’s voice awakened her. The woman wished for someone to take her place and stay with the obsessive male lead, because she wanted to pursue her true love instead.

Xu Xinghe learned that this was originally the heroine of a yandere-style novel. The heroine refused to be with the male lead and instead fell in love with her childhood sweetheart. She only wanted to escape, but in the end, she completely enraged the obsessive male lead. After strangling the heroine to death, he jumped from the top floor of the Fu Corporation building.

Xu Xinghe’s role in this world was to “steal away” Fu Tingshen.

The man before her truly lived up to being the male lead. Dressed in a gray suit, tall and upright, his side profile appeared pale and mysterious beneath the dim lighting.

Every gesture carried an aristocratic elegance. When he didn’t smile, the pressure he exuded was enough to make people’s legs go weak and instinctively want to submit to him.

“Fu Tingshen,” he said softly after stating his name. Then he added, “Be my personal secretary. One hundred thousand a month as your base salary.”

After speaking, Fu Tingshen quietly waited for her answer. A man who had never known what nervousness felt like was, for the first time in his life, unexpectedly tense.

At the same time, he secretly thought to himself that if she refused, he would simply tie her up and take her away. She could only belong to him—his star, his alone.

“Sure.” Xu Xinghe agreed almost immediately without hesitation, her eyes still fixed on him gently.

Fu Tingshen secretly let out a sigh of relief. For so long, he had been suppressing the stabbing pain in his head. Right now, he only wanted to smash everything in sight.

But he couldn’t.

His star had only just agreed to become his exclusive secretary. If he scared her away…

Just as Fu Tingshen was lost in thought, he suddenly felt the cold sweat on his forehead being wiped away by something soft.

“President Fu, you seem uncomfortable?” Xu Xinghe held a handkerchief in her hand, carefully wiping the sweat from his forehead with focused eyes.

Fu Tingshen’s body stiffened. This was the first time he had ever been this close to a woman—close enough to smell the faint scent of roses on her.

It smelled wonderful, subtle and lingering as it continuously drifted into his nose. The thread of rationality in his mind was on the verge of snapping at any moment.

Without blinking, Fu Tingshen stared into Xu Xinghe’s eyes and said, “Mm. Headache.”

“Then should I give President Fu a massage? I learned a bit of traditional Chinese medicine before.” Tilting her head slightly, Xu Xinghe waited for his response. In her eyes was a concern he had never once received before.

Is she worried about me?

The moment the thought appeared in Fu Tingshen’s mind, he immediately denied it himself.

How could someone like me ever be cared for?

Even his own biological parents were filled with disgust toward him, wishing he would disappear…