Chapter 13 Sound Control

There was a sense of alienation and indifference in Shen Yan’s tone.

Ye Yifei lowered her eyes, a fleeting look of disappointment crossing her face.

She pursed her lips, took the shopping bag back, and placed it on the car seat.

Shen Jiahe glanced at Shen Yan, secretly rolled her eyes. She knew it would be like this.

Shen Yan pretended not to see and started the engine.

The car fell into a brief silence, Ye Yifei didn’t speak, and Shen Jiahe didn’t speak either.

Shen Yan pressed the car window button, holding the steering wheel with one hand, the other resting on the window, his slender and clean fingers lightly tapping.

The wind outside blew in, rustling Shen Yan’s slightly curly bangs.

Shen Yan’s deep and focused eyes stared at the road ahead, his brows exuding a difficult-to-explain handsomeness.

Shen Jiahe sneakily glanced at her brother, she had to admit, her brother was really handsome, no wonder Ye Yifei liked him so much.

Sensing Shen Jiahe’s gaze, Shen Yan turned his head to look at her, “Why have you been staring at me?”

Caught in the act, Shen Jiahe didn’t show any panic, she raised the corners of her mouth, revealing eight neat and white teeth, smiling at Shen Yan, “Brother, I noticed how long your eyelashes are, they’re longer than mine, even though we have the same mom, why is there such a big difference?”

Shen Yan: “Probably because I inherited all of Mom’s good-looking genes.”

Shen Jiahe: “…”

She seemed to be asking for trouble.

In the back seat, Ye Yifei chuckled secretly. These siblings were quite… oddly cute.

But why couldn’t Shen Yan be a bit cute with her too?

Shen Jiahe pursed her lips, changed the subject, “The food on the plane was terrible, I barely ate anything, I’m starving.”

After speaking, she even placed her hand on her stomach.

Shen Yan glanced at her, “What do you guys want to eat?”

This time, he used the word “you guys,” also considering Ye Yifei’s opinion.

Realizing that Shen Yan was asking her and Ye Yifei, Shen Jiahe immediately turned to look at Ye Yifei in the back seat, smiling as she asked, “Yifei Jie, what do you want to eat?”

Ye Yifei hesitated, then shook her head, “I don’t know, why don’t you choose?”

She stole a glance at the back of Shen Yan’s head, feeling pleasantly surprised. She didn’t expect Shen Yan to ask for her opinion.

She thought he would keep ignoring her. It seemed she had overthought it.

Ye Yifei suddenly felt a strange sense of joy.

In the end, Shen Jiahe couldn’t decide what to eat, so Shen Yan took them to a private kitchen restaurant.

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Su Yu originally planned to go out for lunch, but as soon as she changed her clothes, it started pouring rain outside.

“Damn it.”

Su Yu couldn’t help but curse, she took off her clothes again, changed back into a loose nightgown.

She quietly opened a food delivery app and ordered some takeout.

The rain outside hit the glass windows, making a pitter-patter sound.

There was nothing better than enjoying a cup of coffee on a rainy day.

Su Yu sat on the carpet, sipping on the coffee, watching a TV series, and waiting for the takeout to arrive.

Midway through her coffee, she suddenly remembered what Shen Yan had said in the morning.

He had said he would come to see her at night.

Unable to resist, Su Yu opened his WeChat to send him a message. She tapped on the screen for a long time, deleting and rewriting many times.

She didn’t know what to say to him.

After hesitating for a long time, Su Yu finally typed out a sentence, “I want to hear your voice again.”

She hesitated before finally pressing the send button.

Two minutes after sending the message, she regretted it.

What kind of message was that?

She wanted to retract it, but it was too late.

Shen Yan didn’t reply at all.

Frustrated, Su Yu threw her phone on the sofa and continued watching her TV show.

During his meal, Shen Yan saw the message on WeChat, a slight curve forming at the corner of his mouth before he shifted his gaze back to his food.

Ye Yifei noticed Shen Yan’s smile and looked curiously at his phone on the table, wondering what he saw that made him so happy.

Taking a sip of water, she casually asked him, “Brother, what’s making you so happy? You seem to find it very interesting.”

Shen Yan’s smile gradually faded as he calmly picked up a piece of beef, put it in his mouth, and casually replied, “Nothing.”

“But I saw you smiling just now…”

Shen Yan fixed his intense gaze on Ye Yifei.

Feeling uneasy under Shen Yan’s gaze, Ye Yifei hesitated, not finishing what she wanted to say.

She cleared her throat, “I, I was just, just curious.”

Shen Yan’s gaze remained fixed on Ye Yifei’s face, he didn’t say anything.

Ye Yifei blushed under his gaze, biting her lip, lowering her eyes, unable to meet his gaze.

Shen Jiahe just wanted to enjoy her meal.

Shen Yan finished his meal before them, got up to pay at the counter, and went to the restroom to smoke.

Leaning against the wall at the restroom door, he held his phone in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

He replied to Su Yu with a voice message.

By the time Su Yu received her takeout and started eating, she was drinking soup while holding her phone, replying to messages.

She exited the chat with the homeowner and saw the voice message from Shen Yan.

For some reason, Su Yu felt her heart beating faster, her hands trembling slightly. She swallowed what was in her mouth, quickly opened the message, and turned up the volume.

“What do you want to hear me say?”

The man’s low, magnetic voice came through the phone, sending shivers down Su Yu’s spine.

Damn, that voice was just too seductive.

After replaying it several times, Su Yu couldn’t help but feel a tingling sensation in her ears, the voice lingering like a spell, wrapping around her heart, refusing to let go.

Her ears turned warm, she put down her phone, let out a small scream, “Ah!”

After the exclamation, she acted as if nothing had happened, and continued to enjoy her soup.

Shen Yan hadn’t received a reply from Su Yu, so he sent a “Hmm?” to her.

Even after checking, Su Yu still hadn’t replied.

After finishing her meal, she cleaned up and prepared to go to the office.

The rain had stopped, and the sky had cleared up a bit.

As soon as she entered the office, the receptionist, Chu Yao, saw her and immediately teased her, “Oh, why did you take another day off? Are you having an adventurous time recently?”

“What the hell? What kind of adjectives are you using? Who am I having an adventurous time with?” Su Yu put her bag down, lightly pinched Chu Yao’s butt, “You’re almost as adventurous with your husband.”

Chu Yao lightly yelped in pain, gesturing towards her neck, hinting at Su Yu, “Go check the marks on your neck in the bathroom.”