My Wife, The Ice Queen President

Chapter 292: Chapter 292: Cousin (Female)_1
 

He Mengji spent the entire morning in her office discussing matters, which went by particularly fast, and before they knew it, it was already noon.

During the meal, Ye Xiong occasionally sized her up, and at first, He Mengji didn’t think much of it, but gradually, she couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Have you forgotten what you promised me? You said you’d respect me, so could you please stop looking at me with those eyes?”

He Mengji was getting irritated.

Why could a man exhibit two completely different styles? Sometimes, he was unbeatable, like a warrior, as if there was nothing he couldn’t do, which was why she admired him; but at other times, he acted like a shameless hoodlum, which annoyed her greatly.

“I won’t look, okay?”

Ye Xiong sighed, glanced at Thirteen standing outside the private room, and asked in a lowered voice, “Meng Ji, I’m really curious, why don’t you let Thirteen come in for the meal? Given your relationship with her, you should eat together.”

Recalling the anxious look on He Mengji’s face when Thirteen went missing on Thunder Mountain, it was clear that she valued him highly, so why did she always treat him like a servant?

“That’s the difference between you and me. No matter how close the relationship, he is ultimately my subordinate,” He Ji firmly placed her chopsticks down, speaking seriously: “After the Hunter Organization is established, you too must be as strict as I am. Fooling around won’t allow one to properly manage a team.”

Ye Xiong wasn’t interested in this topic; instead, he was very interested in Thirteen and couldn’t help but ask, “Does Thirteen like you? Do you know that?”

“I know,” He Mengji said indifferently.

“Do you like him?” Ye Xiong continued to ask.

“I do not.”

“Poor Thirteen.”

“Since the moment his gaze towards me changed, I told him that I don’t like him, and even if he stayed by my side, I wouldn’t like him. I asked him to think it over, and he said he understood,” He Mengji said indifferently.

“You’re brutally rational when it comes to romance!” Ye Xiong was at a loss for words.

“It’s only cruel if the warmth isn’t clear,” she retorted.

“Since you don’t like Thirteen, do you like me?” Ye Xiong pressed on with his questioning.

He Mengji set her chopsticks down on the table and glared at him, remaining silent.

“Forget I said anything.”

Ye Xiong quickly bowed his head and focused on eating his meal.

Looking at him with his head drooped down, He Mengji didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

In her mind, she once again recalled the scene when she was in the hospital.

She had been severely injured by Skeleton and remained in the hospital, her wounds failing to heal, only later to discover she had been poisoned with a Gu toxin.

She could still clearly remember the words Ye Xiong said in her hospital room at that time.

…

“Looks like you guys need to take a trip to Miaojiang, find a skilled Doctor Miao,” Chen Xiao said.

“Not ‘you guys’, but ‘us’,” Ye Xiong corrected.

“Hey, hey, I have plenty of things to take care of and can’t afford the time to go,” Chen Xiao protested.

“Nothing’s more important than the life of our Miss Meng Ji,” Ye declared resolutely.

…

At that time, it was those words that touched her.

Later, before she left for Miaojiang with Thirteen, she tried calling him but couldn’t get through. She thought she had been deceived and felt an unprecedented sense of loss, so she switched off her phone and set off with Thirteen.

Unexpectedly, he followed with Vermilion Bird and Chen Xiao and managed to find her in Miaojiang.

This showed he was a man who took responsibility, not just someone who talked the talk.

The two spent the afternoon in a hotel private room, continuing their discussions after lunch.

They stayed together the entire day.

The more Ye Xiong interacted with her, the more he felt that He Mengji was unlike any woman he had known before. In fact, she was possibly the smartest woman with the highest intelligence he had ever met.

She was well-read and quick-witted, able to speak eloquently on any subject, giving the impression there was nothing she didn’t understand.

This woman was naturally a master of strategy.

No wonder Thirteen was so devoted to her. He must have been charmed by her personal charisma.

At dusk, when the time was right, Ye Xiong left He Mengji and drove to Jiangnan University to pick up Tang Ning.

Tang Ning had made an arrangement with him to disguise himself as her boyfriend, to discourage a male classmate from pursuing her.

When he arrived at the school by car, classes had just finished, and Tang Ning was coming out with the crowd.

Indeed, there was a bespectacled male student pestering her non-stop.

Tang Ning looked very annoyed and kept shouting at the bespectacled male student. Despite his scholarly appearance, he was exceptionally thick-skinned, unmoved by Tang Ning’s shouting as he doggedly followed her.

Ye Xiong parked the car by the roadside and walked toward Tang Ning.

“Brother Xiong.”

Seeing Ye Xiong approaching, Tang Ning happily threw herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck in a feigned intimate gesture.

“Wang Bin, do you see? This is my boyfriend; can you give up now?”

Tang Ning wrapped her arms around Ye Xiong’s waist, tilted her head back, and said triumphantly.

Wang Bin glanced at Ye Xiong with disbelief and said, “Tang Ning, I know you must be lying to me. He can’t possibly be your boyfriend; he must be a fake you found.”

“I’ll prove it to you.”

Tang Ning turned around and moved to kiss Ye Xiong’s face as proof.

The moment their lips were about to touch, Ye Xiong gave her a stern look, and Tang Ning didn’t dare to continue the kiss, backing off instead.

“You don’t dare to kiss, do you? I knew he was fake,” Wang Bin said.

Ye Xiong strode forward, lifted Wang Bin off the ground with one hand, and held him aloft.

“You’re very smart. Tang Ning is my cousin, not my girlfriend, but it’s none of your business. What right do you have to ask whether she has a boyfriend or not?”

Lifting his 140-pound body with just one hand—how much strength did that take?

Wang Bin was nearly scared out of his wits.

Just then, he was hurled through the air and landed inside a trash bin several meters away, diving headfirst into it.

The stench filled his nose, and Wang Bin retched violently.

“I’m warning you, if you dare to bother Tang Ning again, next time it won’t be as simple as tossing you into a bin; I’ll throw you off the third floor.”

“I won’t dare… I won’t dare anymore,” Wang Bin said, his face turning pale as he vomited and spoke.

Being thrown several meters away with just one hand—was this even human?

Many students entering and exiting around them were frightened by Ye Xiong’s actions, staring in shock.

“Dealing with such a loser by pretending to be lovers? It’s overkill. Just give him a warning, and it’s done,” Ye Xiong said as he dusted off his hands.

A twitch appeared at the corner of Tang Ning’s mouth, but she said nothing.

Who didn’t know it was that simple? She just didn’t like it!

Just then, someone in the crowd yelled out loud.

“Hey, isn’t that Yang Xiaoqiao’s cousin? How did he become Tang Ning’s cousin now?”

With those words, many people recognized Ye Xiong.

Previously, Ye Xiong had visited the school with Yang Xiaoqiao, disguised as her cousin, and had caused a commotion in the cafeteria, beating up several athletic students so badly they didn’t know which way was up, leading many students to remember him.

“What, can’t one have two cousins?”

“Exactly, these days there are so many cousins around.”

“This guy is so lucky with the ladies. Yang Xiaoqiao was the former school beauty, Tang Ning is the current school beauty, and both are connected to him.”

Hearing the whispers around him, Ye Xiong couldn’t be bothered to respond, but unexpectedly, at that moment, Yang Xiaoqiao came out from inside and heard everything.

How could it be such a coincidence? Sigh!

Ye Xiong sighed.