chapter 66

Night deepened gradually. After the banquet, it was already past eleven o’clock in the evening.

Qin Shu slowly walked out of the building of the Military Industry Group. The cold night breeze blew past her ears, bringing a strand of hair on her lips.

“Qin Shu.” A deep voice came from behind her.

Qin Shu stopped and turned around to see Qi Mingran, who had already left the banquet, coming out from behind the pillar and walking straight towards her.

“What’s the matter?” Qin Shu asked indifferently, polite and distant.

Qi Mingran stood steady in front of her with a complicated gaze. He stared fixedly at her and then landed his eyes on her bulging and hydrated red lips.

Suddenly, he raised his hand and reached it towards Qin Shu’s face.

Qin Shu immediately retreated and dodged. She sneered and said, “What do you want to do? Just give a shoot. Don’t make any moves, otherwise people will say again that I’m seducing you.”

“There’s a hair at the corner of your mouth.” Qi Mingran’s hand paused in the air in an awkward way.

“Whoosh ~ ~” Qin Shu directly blew off the hair and turned around to leave, not wanting to talk to this hypocritical man at all.

But Qi Mingran grabbed hold of her arm and said anxiously, “It’s impossible for you and Ling Mohan to be with each other! Qin Shu, don’t be so naive. He is the eldest grandson of the Ling family. His status determines that he’ll have a political marriage …”

“So what?” Qin Shu suddenly shook off his hand.

“I care about you!”

“No need!” Qin Shu’s exquisite face revealed a trace of mockery. “Qi Mingran, stop pretending to care about me! Last month when I was insulted and almost stripped naked, you were there, so why didn’t you care about me at that time? You thought I was embarrassing? What, Tang Anru didn’t win honor for you tonight, and she even ruined your reputation as the dignified President Qi, so you turn to remember me now? Oh, I’m just a small assistant among the colonel’s secretaries. You don’t have to curry favor with me. I won’t give you any respect anyway!”

As Qin Shu spoke without any scruple, Qi Mingran’s handsome face became very gloomy, even showing a little bit of embarrassment.

He was a superior group president, mature and steady, handsome and elegant. There were too many beautiful women who were fascinated by him.

But now, Qi Mingran could clearly see that he meant nothing in Qin Shu’s eyes. He might even not be as important as a passerby to her!

Sometimes people were very strange. They didn’t cherish the one with them when they were together, but when they lost someone, they would try their best to find the one back. However, who would always be waiting on the spot?

Some soft footsteps came.

Accompanied by a cold aura, someone domineeringly wrapped around Qin Shu’s shoulders and said in a deep voice, “What are you standing here for?”

It was Ling Mohan.

He was talking to Qin Shu, but his dark eyes were staring fixedly at Qi Mingran, like a ferocious wild beast defending its territory and prey, not allowing anyone to cross the border!

“Nothing.” Qin Shu did not push Ling Mohan away, nor did she have any intention of avoiding Qi Mingran. Obviously, she did not care what Qi Mingran might think. “Let’s go back, I’m still hungry.”

“Okay, let’s go back and I’ll feed you up.” These words sounded somewhat meaningful and intimate.

Qin Shu, “…”

Ling Mohan stared coldly and arrogantly at Qi Mingran. Then he put his arm around Qin Shu’s shoulder and turned to walk down the stairs with her. He was in a good mood.

Qin Shu was wearing a long skirt, so it was inconvenient for her to go down the stairs. She had to lift the skirt with both hands to prevent herself from being tripped over.

“Too slow!” Ling Mohan was a little impatient, so he directly picked Qin Shu up in a horizontal way and strode down the stairs.

The lights flickered under the cold night, blurring Qi Mingran’s eyes.

He looked at them in a daze, slowly clenching his fists, and an uncontrollable dead silence arose in his heart.

Looked like he and Qin Shu could never go back anymore.

Qi Mingran was a little stunned when he realized that he had such a thought.

Back? Back to where? Did he want to get back together with Qin Shu?

That was impossible.

He could not let down the gentle and kind Tang Anru.

Thinking of this, Qi Mingran fell into a state of chaos in his mind. But in the end, he could only leave with a heavy heart.

The guests who had just walked out of the gate saw Ling Mohan carrying Qin Shu down the stairs, and they couldn’t help but glance at each other. They saw astonished expressions on each other’s faces.

“Isn’t that Colonel Ling? The woman in his arms seems to be Secretary Qin.” They could not see it clearly in the night, so their tone was hesitant and they didn’t talk for sure.

Another person said, “I heard that Qin Shu has a boyfriend who is a soldier just like the colonel, but he is just an ordinary soldier. He may have been trained by the colonel.”

“So it is … No wonder Secretary Qin knows the colonel. It’s probably because of her boyfriend.”

Then, someone lifted his chin towards a military vehicle that was coming down the stairs. He then used his gaze to signal the other guests, deliberately lowering his voice and saying, “Look, that is a military vehicle of the special forces.”

Therefore, the ones who went down the stairs a moment ago must be Qin Shu and Ling Mohan!

These people instantly understood, and their eyes were filled with disbelief.

“Is … is Qin Shu’s boyfriend the colonel?” someone guessed boldly.

The others inhaled a breath of cold air. After thinking about it carefully, they felt that it was impossible and continued the gossip. “Who is Qin Shu, and who is the colonel? How dare she falls in love with the colonel? Don’t think highly of her. When the truth is found out, this is going to be a joke.”

“That’s right. She’s just a small secretary at best. She has a beautiful face, which is quite easy to see. That’s why the colonel asked her to be his female companion tonight, isn’t it?”

“Humph, all men in the world are the same! They love to bring those beautiful bitches with them, but they only treat those women as playthings. And they will never marry these shameless bitches, right? Do you think so?”

“Right, right, right!” The young and noble ladies deeply agreed with these words.

Growing up in a wealthy family of complicated relationships, it was not uncommon for them to see such women. However, since everyone valued the family reputation, they just chose to turn a blind eye to those women.

Now, in the eyes of these people, Qin Shu was too beautiful. She must be harboring some bad intentions. She had a boyfriend but still wanted to seduce the colonel. Otherwise, how could she let the colonel carry her down the stairs?

Her intention was obvious.

Of course, because of Ling Mohan’s terrifying and powerful aura, everyone didn’t dare to talk about such gossip, but they were all thinking the same thing in their hearts.

Under the boundless darkness, the special forces’ military vehicle slowly drove away, escorted by six large military trucks of soldiers with guns.

At the banquet tonight, Qin Shu couldn’t hold back and drank some wine. Now, she leaned against the car window in a daze.

When the car made a turn, she swayed and knocked her forehead against the window, taking a deep breath in pain.

“Come here.” Ling Mohan stretched out his big hand and pulled Qin Shu into his arms rudely. He rubbed the reddened part on her forehead with his rough thumb and said, “You’re so clumsy!”

Qin Shu felt uncomfortable being controlled in his arms and kept pushing him.

Ling Mohan frowned slightly and slapped her on the body. “Behave yourself.”

Hearing this, Qin Shu almost choked on her breath, and she was very uncomfortable with the feeling of suffocation, so she said angrily, “Don’t be so self-sentimental! Let go of me right away. I’m going to be suffocated to death by you.”

Ling Mohan loosened his grip, but he still tightly wrapped her in his arms.

Qin Shu coughed a few times, her hair a little messy, and there were strands of hair hanging down on her delicate face, her cheeks turning red due to lack of air.

“What kind of gaze is that?” Qin Shu sensed a trace of danger and glared at Ling Mohan vigilantly, her body kept shrinking back.

She was aware of what that gaze meant many times and did not want to flirt with this hooligan anymore.

However, Ling Mohan believed that Little Qin Shu was flirting with him. Sometimes, it was a look, sometimes it was a smile. She was always pulling his nerves and challenging his self-control.

He stared at Qin Shu, his sturdy arms gradually restraining her in his arms, and Qin Shu secretly struggled to free herself, her entire upper body pressing against his chest.

This posture was simply unpresentable.

The two of them stared at each other with wide-opened eyes and began to quietly compete.

Ling Mohan smelled the faint fragrance on her body and abruptly bent down to bite Qin Shu’s collarbone.

“Hiss—you’re crazy!” Qin Shu grabbed Ling Mohan’s hair in pain. “Get away, don’t act like a beast!”

“You’re driving me crazy.” Ling Mohan left an obvious tooth mark on her collarbone, just like a seal.

Qin Shu was a little mad, she punched over her fist at him and said, “You’re driving me crazy!”

She had wanted to thank this bastard for defending her at the banquet, but now it seemed that it was too much. The thing was, she was so merciful that she didn’t beat him up for what he was doing now.

Thinking this, Qin Shu wished she could get better right now, and then she would learn free combat, Taekwondo, Taijiquan, and so on. In short, she definitely couldn’t be suppressed by Ling Mohan like now. She didn’t even have any chance to resist.

Ling Mohan could not help but lower his head and kiss her again when he saw her bulging cheeks and her watery eyes.

“Are you done or not?” Qin Shu protested, “You’re biting through my mouth.”

“No, it’s not enough.” Ling Mohan’s voice sounded of great suppression.

He undid Qin Shu’s tied long hair and let them fall free, gently stroking them with his big hand. The soft touch made him fondle admiringly.

“You’ll get better soon. You know, Grandpa wants to have a great-grandson,” Ling Mohan said meaningfully.

“Heh.” Qin Shu sneered and forcefully pushed Ling Mohan away. She quickly sat to the other side. “We talked about this in the first place. I agreed to act with you, but I didn’t agree to play the role of a pregnant woman, much less giving birth to a child.”

She talked about the acting thing again!

This woman only knew to use the acting thing as an excuse. If he had known this in the first place, he would have directly tied her up and brought her to the Civil Affairs Bureau to obtain a marriage certificate without giving her any excuse. Then there wouldn’t have been so many annoying things happening now.

“Come here!” Ling Mohan gritted his teeth and his face darkened.

“No!” Qin Shu leaned against the window tightly.

“I’ll count to three. If you don’t come, I’ll deal with you in the car!” the man threatened her fiercely.

Adjutant Li was driving the car in the front. Hearing this, he felt that something was about to happen. So he quickly and tactfully raised the partition between the front and rear seats.

He must turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to what was going to happen!

Thump!

When Adjutant Li heard a fierce collision from behind the partition, he was startled and couldn’t help but tremble his hand. And the car moved from side to side like a snake moving on the road.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, the colonel was indeed full of vigor.