Chapter 17: The Boss Lady’s Possessiveness is Quite Strong

As soon as Ji Jinbai entered the dormitory, Lu Mian blocked him at the door: “You’re quite something, huh? You’ve even learned to stay out all night. Where were you last night?”

Ji Jinbai curled his lips and looked at him with a meaningful gaze. “I left with your Second Uncle. Where do you think I was last night?”

After saying that, he walked past him and went to the bed to tidy up his things.

Lu Mian rushed over like a gust of wind.

He opened his eyes wide in disbelief and asked, “You stayed at his place?”

“Mm-hmm.”

Second Uncle actually took Xiao Bai home to stay. Before, when Lu Mian wanted to stay at his place for a night, he wasn’t allowed. The favoritism was sky-high.

Indeed, the treatment between a nephew and a wife is different.

He noticed that Ji Jinbai’s lips were a bit red. “Did you guys have hotpot?”

Ji Jinbai didn’t react immediately and answered blankly, “No.”

“Then why are your lips so red?” Lu Mian asked curiously.

Ji Jinbai instinctively covered his mouth, unsure how to respond.

He couldn’t say it was a mosquito bite, could he? Even he wouldn’t believe that. He should have just gone along with the hotpot excuse; it would have been better than this.

Seeing that he wasn’t speaking, Lu Mian noticed that when Ji Jinbai bent down to pick something up, his collar opened slightly.

There were some red marks around his fair collarbone, and they were quite dense.

They looked like mosquito bites, but also like… and it seemed there was more than one.

He stepped forward and leaned in to take a closer look. There were thumb-sized marks.

How intense! Who would have thought his seemingly reserved and proper Second Uncle could be so wild.

He narrowed his eyes, a bold guess forming in his mind.

Ji Jinbai was unaware that when he bent down, Lu Mian had seen everything.

He also didn’t know that Lu Tingshen had left marks on his collarbone. He hadn’t noticed when changing clothes.

Seeing Lu Mian lean in, staring unblinkingly at his chest, Ji Jinbai subtly took a step back.

He smiled at him with a puzzled expression. “What’s wrong? Why are you staring at my chest?”

“Did you… you know… with him?” Lu Mian lowered his voice.

“What?” Ji Jinbai frowned, not understanding what he meant. What “you know”?

Lu Mian thought he was playing dumb and asked more directly, “Did you guys have sex?”

Ji Jinbai didn’t expect him to be so straightforward.

His face turned red, and after a moment, he whispered, “How did you know?”

Lu Mian pointed at his collarbone.

“Look, there are hickeys. I accidentally saw them just now.”

Ji Jinbai silently pulled up his collar to cover them and coughed awkwardly.

“Are you two together now?”

“Mm-hmm,” Ji Jinbai replied with a slight smile.

“So fast!”

“Then aren’t we like family now?”

Lu Mian looked at him happily, with an expression that said, “As expected of you.”

Then he saw Lu Mian lean in mysteriously and whisper curiously, “Was it… comfortable?”

Ji Jinbai gently pushed him away, his face red. “Why don’t you get a boyfriend and try it yourself to find out?”

Luo Qin walked into the dormitory with a book in hand, just as they were chatting. He asked in confusion, “What are you guys planning to try?”

Ji Jinbai quickly thought of an excuse. “Ah, Lu Mian and I were discussing trying the new hot and sour noodles outside the school tomorrow.”

Lu Mian quickly nodded.

“Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.”

“Oh.”

Luo Qin walked over, grabbed Lu Mian’s neck with one hand, and spun him around. It was so sudden that Lu Mian didn’t react in time, and his face ended up pressed against Luo Qin’s shoulder.

A cold voice came from above, “Come here, I’ll help you review advanced mathematics.”

Luo Qin grabbed him by the neck and pressed him down at the desk, pulling out the advanced mathematics textbook.

“I haven’t finished watching my anime yet, can we do this later?”

“Please?”

Lu Mian rested his hands on the table, his round eyes looking up at him, trying to negotiate.

This was a tragic story.

When he was selecting elective courses this semester, all the other courses were already full, leaving only advanced mathematics with available spots.

He was terrible at math, but for the sake of credits, he tearfully chose the course.

Whenever he had time, he would ask Luo Qin to tutor him in advanced mathematics; otherwise, he would likely fail the final exam.

“No, the later it gets, the less you’ll be able to focus. You said the same thing last time. Get up and study.”

Luo Qin didn’t give him a chance to negotiate.

But he paused, worried that he might provoke resistance, so he decided to mix authority with kindness.

He patted his head, “After you finish studying, I’ll buy you the new manga tomorrow.”

“Okay, you better keep your word. Let’s start right now.”

He had been eyeing that new manga for a long time, but it was a limited edition, highly popular, and hard to get.

Since Luo Qin said he would get it, he definitely would, because Lu Mian knew that Luo Qin was a man of his word.

Meanwhile, Ji Jinbai packed up his things and headed to the school art studio to continue working on his unfinished assignment.

…

The next morning, Lu Tingshen walked into the company.

“Good morning, President Lu.”

“Good morning, President Lu…”

“Good morning.”

Employees passing by greeted him, and Lu Tingshen nodded in response to each of them.

Some female colleagues noticed that their boss was in a particularly good mood today.

Although President Lu didn’t smile at them, there was an air of approachability about him, unlike the usual unattainable aloofness.

But what really caught their attention was the bright red hickey on President Lu’s neck!!

It was clearly a recent mark.

The company’s employee chat group was going wild.

“Am I seeing this right? President Lu has a hickey on his neck!!”

“No mistake, no mistake. I was standing right next to the boss today, and I saw it clearly. It’s definitely a hickey.”

When Lu Tingshen passed by the front desk, he stopped for a moment, and the receptionist got a clear view.

The unmistakable mark on President Lu’s neck was definitely a hickey.

“Wow, is this for real? Which little vixen is so bold as to openly claim ownership like this?!”

“Could it be? Does President Lu actually have a partner now?”

“I always thought President Lu was asexual.”

“Hahaha, careful with your words, folks.”

The hearts of many young women in the company shattered into pieces. Their handsome, unattainable President Lu had come to work with a glaring hickey.

In the group chat, everyone started tagging the president’s assistant, Lin Cheng, and the secretary, Qing Shiru.

“@Assistant Lin @Secretary Qing Shiru, go find out tomorrow if President Lu has a partner.”

“You’re the closest to President Lu, so this important task falls to you.”

Although they were the president’s first secretary and personal assistant, Lin Cheng and Qing Shiru were not at all pretentious.

They had long since blended in with colleagues from various departments and were part of many company chat groups, often getting the inside scoop on unknown gossip, so their relationships were quite harmonious.

Qing Shiru turned off her phone and glanced at the man sitting at his desk, reviewing documents.

Dressed in a perfectly pressed suit with not a single wrinkle, his hair neatly combed back to reveal a full forehead.

He looked every bit the mature, aloof, and restrained figure, if one ignored the love bite on his neck.

Moreover, President Lu today seemed less cold and distant than usual, with a hint of satisfaction in his eyes.

This reminded her of the young male voice that had come through President Lu’s phone during the meeting earlier.

From the sound of it, it seemed to be a rather young man, probably in his early twenties.

The voice was cool and clear, with a touch of coquettishness, coaxing President Lu to pamper him, while the usually cold and unfeeling man.

Showed a gentle and indulgent side to the person on the phone.

Qing Shiru neatly arranged the documents and gently placed them in front of him.

Lu Tingshen noticed that after she put down the documents, she didn’t leave but stood there in front of him.

Lu Tingshen thought she had something important to say.

He stopped writing and looked up in confusion, “What’s the matter? Is there something?”

Qing Shiru wasn’t sure if she should ask, but ultimately, her curiosity got the better of her, and she tentatively spoke.

“President Lu, is the Boss Lady’s possessiveness… a bit strong?”

Upon hearing her mention the Boss Lady, Lu Tingshen didn’t refute but instead raised an eyebrow with a smile, “How did you know?”

President Lu actually acknowledged the existence of the Boss Lady! So they really were going to have a Boss Lady.

Qing Shiru suppressed her excitement, but the corners of her mouth couldn’t help but curl up.

She bit her lip hard, trying not to lose her composure in front of the boss.

She pointed to her own neck and then to his.

“Ahem, the love bite left by the Boss Lady.”

Hearing this, Lu Tingshen reached up to touch the spot on his neck, surprised that the mark from where the young man had kissed him yesterday was so noticeable.

He had been wondering why someone had been staring at him earlier; it was because of this.

Lu Tingshen chuckled softly, “Indeed, he’s afraid I might stray outside.”

Qing Shiru never imagined that someone could make the cold and decisive President Lu become so gentle.

She took a deep breath, her eyes filled with the desire for gossip, feeling like she was on the verge of uncovering the truth, she boldly asked.

“President Lu, could you give us a hint, is the Boss Lady… the young man you were chatting with on WeChat that day?”

Lu Tingshen paused in his action of looking at the documents, which Qing Shiru noticed keenly.

After a few seconds, just when she thought the boss wouldn’t answer.

“Hmm.”

A deep voice came from the man’s throat.

It was indeed him! The young man who had set the boss’s old house on fire, who would have thought President Lu liked men.

“The colleagues in the company are quite concerned about whether you have a partner, can we let them know?”

“Of course, they don’t have any ulterior motives.”

“No need to go into too much detail.”

Lu Tingshen thought, letting them know he already had a partner would make those who were unclear about the situation understand what they should and shouldn’t do.

Qing Shiru, having received the principal’s consent, could already imagine the scene of hearts breaking in the group chat.