He Jinxing suddenly didn’t want to leave anymore. 

To him, both Gou Yu’s daughter who was scared to death of him and Ye Lang with a coffin face were much more interesting than Secretary Liu’s dour face that telegraphed ‘there are still countless tasks waiting for you.’

“You got messed up so badly on your first day at work,” He Jinxing said to Ye Lang half-jokingly. “If I were you, I’d ask Gou Yu to pay you more.”

These words seemed to be saying that Miss Gou was difficult to serve and he deserved more money.

But the raised corners of the man’s lips showed that he obviously didn’t really think there was anything wrong with her. On the contrary, he had just invited Gou An to sit next to him at their next meal—

If he really disliked her and thought she was a nuisance, wasn’t this just asking for trouble?

Obviously he didn’t really think so.

Ye Lang figured it out in an instant. His long eyelashes trembled as he calmly lifted his eyelids and glanced at the man in front of him. He saw that his expression was calm and collected…

No one could understand what was going on in the mind of this man who was now considered to have absolute power in Jiangcheng.

Ye Lang was almost the complete opposite of him— he rarely had those complicated twists and turns in his mind.

So Ye Lang had actually disliked him a little before.

Hearing him speak in such a sarcastic tone today, Ye Lang could almost taste the stink of gloating, and he disliked him even more now.

In the sunlight, the sticky sweet aroma of dried ice cream penetrated his nose, making him feel nauseated.

His gaze inexplicably turned to the person standing behind He Jinxing. At this moment, she was looking at him with her head tilted—Miss Gou, with shining eyes and looking fascinated, seemed to be very happy to see him being ridiculed by He Jinxing.

She said she hated him, and she wasn’t kidding. She really hated him to the point that she would be happy to see him get humiliated.

Ye Lang pursed his lips unhappily.

As usual, he responded to He Jinxing’s teasing with silence. The bodyguard’s only reaction seemed to be a slight tension in the arm where his suit jacket was hanging.

“Okay, take these things inside, then go wash up. Stop bothering Young Uncle.”

Gou An, who had seen enough of the fun, suddenly spoke.

… …

Others might not have noticed, but Gou An, who was intimately familiar with Ye Lang’s expressions, knew that he must be unhappy now, and the kind where he would be dying of unhappiness—

In the past, she would have been heartbroken for him, and she would have held his hand and said a few sweet words to comfort him.

Now, watching him being bullied by He Jinxing, she just looked on coldly, until she saw that He Jinxing didn’t seem to want to continue teasing him anymore, and only then did she tell him to leave.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

When she spoke, the man who had his back to her turned around. His eyes fell on the shopping bags at her feet that Ye Lang gathered and took away.

“Did you go shopping just now?”

The tone was gentle.

Then he chuckled, “It seems that after breaking off the engagement with He Ran, An’an is in a really good mood.”

Gou An didn’t know whether this person was seeking credit or not, but his tone sounded very much like it.

So she said ‘thank you’ to the man in front of her with great sincerity and very tolerantly decided not to (dared not to) argue with him about the fact that he naturally changed how he called her from ‘Miss Gou’ to ‘An’an’.

“Next month will be Jiangcheng’s annual coming-of-age ceremony. Gou Xun…” Gou An curled her lips at the mention of her annoying younger brother. “Gou Xun is one of the main characters this year. Although Mom said before that he should just go to KFC for his coming-of-age ceremony, what if she relents at the last minute? The family will probably need to make an appearance then, so Dad asked me to buy some suitable clothes.”

She rambled on and on, complaining that due to some minor incidents, she forgot to buy the jewelry as she intended and would have to go there again another day. Now she didn’t know if VE would still have this season’s jewelry that she liked in stock by then.

“It’s so annoying. I got the card but I didn’t do anything with it. I ended up buying a bunch of stuff I might not even need. Dad’s definitely going to nag me later.”

He Jinxing was not at all impatient, especially when he heard her calling her parents by their titles. For some reason, he felt that she sounded quite coquettish.

But it was clearly a normal tone of voice.

Perhaps it was because the sun was too strong today, making people dizzy. Mr. He, who juggled multiple roles and was so busy every day that he often felt like he should split himself into three, refused to attend the meeting with the Indian investors, refused to communicate with the IT guys, and refused the call from the foreign trader this afternoon…

He stood patiently in someone else’s yard and listened to how the day of the little miss next door went.

In the end, He Jinxing was called away by Secretary Liu. The person on the other end of the phone used a tone that said, ‘Lunch break is long past. Although I don’t know when you came up with this kind of unbalanced work and rest schedule, I’m very sure that if you don’t come to the company now, I will resign.’

… …

After arriving at the company, there were endless meetings to attend and endless partners to meet. By the time He Jinxing finished his work, the lights outside had long since been on. By this time, most ordinary people had already finished their meals and were now sitting on the sofa watching the news.

“I haven’t had dinner yet.”

In the office at the top floor of the He Building, the man’s long legs were resting on the edge of the desk, his hands were crossed on his abdomen, and his usually neat hair was now a little messy.

The way he sat without any pretensions to proper posture was very similar to the unruly manner he had back when he was in college and struggling in society.

“At least the donkeys in the production team had a carrot hanging in front of them, urging them to continue grinding mills, but all I had was a single shrimp dumpling given to me at noon,” the man rubbed his stomach with his bandaged hand. “I’ll get a stomachache.”

There was only a dim floor lamp on in the office, and the brilliant night view of Jiangcheng shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows, providing the main light source in the office.

It wasn’t that they didn’t turn on the lights on purpose, but that they were so busy before that no one noticed that it had turned dark.

Sitting on the sofa, buried in his keyboard, his gentle face illuminated by the fluorescent light of the computer screen, Chen Jinli didn’t even raise his head. “You’ve been complaining a lot lately. What kind of weird people have you been hanging out with?”

Maybe overtime work had also made him manic, and he even dared to complain about his investors.

…However, if they were to speak about little misses who complained a lot, he actually knew one.

He listened to her complaining all afternoon.

From the Day the Engagement was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 33.2 — He Jinxing, Are You In Love?
Chapter 34.1 — Can I Not Act According to the Script?
Chapter 34.2 — Can I Not Act According to the Script?
Chapter 34.3 — Can I Not Act According to the Script?
Chapter 35.1 — Little Complaining Miss
Chapter 35.2 — Little Complaining Miss
Chapter 36.1 — I Didn’t Give You A Gift On Your First Birthday
Chapter 36.2 — I Didn’t Give You A Gift On Your First Birthday