Cheng Liu felt that things might really be hopeless. 

Ji Chaozhou looked fierce and cold now. He clearly wanted to draw a clear line between himself and her, and his expression was defensive in a way it never was before.

But her mind still couldn’t help but think: he is so good-looking...

Ji Chaozhou looked at the stunned Cheng Liu in front of him. He rarely expressed his feelings directly this way. Even when he encountered Yun Fei’s tricks, he would just ignore them.

But this was also because no one else was like Cheng Liu—persistent, approaching again and again without any sense of propriety.

Ji Chaozhou hugged the flower pot to himself and turned away, no longer paying any attention to her. The door was not locked from the inside, so Cheng Liu could go out by herself.

He walked away thinking he had been obvious enough.

However, Cheng Liu still chased after him. She turned to face Ji Chaozhou and started walking backwards, her hands raised in a pacifying gesture, “Then I won’t touch you. Don’t be angry. It will be bad for your body.” 

Ji Chaozhou stopped suddenly and raised his eyes to look directly at her.

Cheng Liu: “…”

The young man’s pale and cold face had a rare emotion flashing over it, and his beautiful eyes had a hint of anger, but they were more alive now than she had ever seen them.

His whole person suddenly became vivid—like a figure from a painting that was originally untouchable was suddenly soaked in water vapor and now came to life with boundless grace.

Cheng Liu first condemned herself in her heart as a shameless psychopath, then raised her hands and said seriously, “I was cleaning up the house today and found something wrong with the electrical distribution box. It’s best to check your distribution box, too, and replace any defective the accessories, such as the circuit breaker. Otherwise, the power supply may be abnormal.”

Although these two villas were cleaned regularly, Director Li never lived in them, and many things were not as carefully maintained. Over time, problems would naturally be discovered when using them.

“No, thank you,” Ji Chaozhou tersely uttered the words and quickly walked around Cheng Liu, leaving her in the courtyard.

He wanted to hire someone to tidy up the villa—and the first thing he wanted them to do was to raise the wall between the properties!

… …

This time Cheng Liu didn’t follow. She restrained herself a little and controlled her impulse, resigning herself to keeping her distance.

She walked over to the shared wall and thought, When their relationship gets better in the future, she has to open a door here.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Cheng Liu didn’t come to the company today. He Bai waited until he got off work at eight o’clock in the evening and went directly to her house.

Because he was the Chief Assistant and often needed to deliver documents, He Bai’s fingerprints could open the front door.

Cheng Liu was a workaholic, and she kept a lot of work-related materials in her residence. As time went by, He Bai was spending almost half of his time in her house.

He opened the door and went in by himself. The jade diorama in the living room was gone.

He Bai thought Cheng Liu put it away herself, and he looked away indifferently. Ever since he learned that Cheng Liu and Wang Hongyang had broken up, he felt particularly happy.

Cheng Liu had indeed been uncharacteristically lazy during this period and did not even go to the company. However, that night, she didn’t seem too sad about the break-up, so she should be okay.

With a smile on his face, He Bai walked towards the study and casually knocked on the door. No one responded, so he opened the door and went in.

After pushing the door open, the smile on He Bai’s face completely froze.

The study room was empty, as if everything had been swept away; there wasn’t even a blank piece of paper left behind.

He Bai froze for a moment, then hurriedly walked to Cheng Liu’s bedroom and opened the door. Sure enough, it was empty too.

In this huge apartment, the study and the bedroom had always been the two places with the most traces of her life.

He Bai took out his mobile phone and dialed Cheng Liu’s number. Once the call was connected, he asked, “Senior sister, where are you?” 

He could hear the scritching of pen on paper. “At home.”

“… I don’t see you.” He Bai walked out of the bedroom and looked around at the empty living room, “You’re not at home.” 

“Oh.” Cheng Liu then remembered and asked, “Didn’t I tell you that I moved?”

He Bai was simply stunned; there was no other word for it. “You didn’t come to the company today because you moved houses?”

“That’s what happened.” Cheng Liu stopped writing, “What’s up with you?”

“I was just worried about Senior Sister.” He Bai probed, “Did you move houses because of Wang Hongyang?” 

“Wang Hongyang? No, I just wanted to move to a new place.” Cheng Liu stood up, walked to the balcony, and looked next door. The first and second floors in the front yard were dark. She walked to another balcony and could faintly see a light on a certain window on the first floor.

He Bai felt his body relax and said, “Senior Sister moved to a new house, so you must invite me to have a house warming meal someday.” 

“I will definitely invite you in the future.” Cheng Liu was a little secretly proud of herself, “Chief Assistant He, you are not young anymore. Do you not have any nightlife?”

He was unlike her, who has already embarked on the proper track of courtship—her nightlife will definitely be quite abundant in the near future!

Thinking of this, Cheng Liu felt a little sympathy for her Chief Assistant.

At the same time, it suddenly dawned on her that this must be how those business partners of hers felt when they were showing off to her about their love lives!

He Bai had never discussed this kind of thing with Cheng Liu. He clenched his cell phone, nervous but excited, thinking that the relationship between the two had begun to change. He smiled and said, “My nightlife has always belonged to Shenyin.” He originally wanted to say ‘belonged to you’, wanting to be more ambiguous, but in the end he restrained himself, fearing that Cheng Liu would be unhappy.

“Then I’ll give you more days off in the future.” Cheng Liu leaned on the railing of the balcony, looked down at the house next door, and said absently, “I’m hanging up now.”

She put away her phone and looked up at the moon in the night sky, remembering what she had just researched as appropriate love words: You are my moon.

But Ji Chaozhou must not be her moon!

You can’t even reach out to touch the moon. It’s thousands of miles away from the earth. What utter nonsense!

She wanted to be with Ji Chaozhou, and comparing him to the moon sounded more like a curse instead of love words.

Cheng Liu thought for a moment and felt that she still had to study love words more carefully in case she needed to use them in the future.

She went back inside, clicked into a new file, and was immediately struck by the love words inside.

Young President Cheng suddenly felt that these were the love words tailor-made for her.

Things like ‘I want to live in your heart, not like a neighbor’, and ‘You are so fierce, I like it very much’.

Cheng Liu not only wanted to live in Ji Chaozhou’s heart, she also wanted to live in his home!

… …

She copied all these love words in a notebook. In the middle of the night, it began to rain heavily outside, and there was violent lightning and thunder.

Cheng Liu didn’t have any special feelings about the weather. She only raised her eyes to look outside the window once, and then resumed her work.

That was, until Wang Hongyang’s call on WeChat came.

If It’s Wrong, Then It’s Wrong translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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