Belated Romance (Mu Tongrui)

“We'll let the matter end here.”
Fu Lingye's cold response stunned Xiang Nanqian.
If the mistake was committed by another person, she believed that Fu Lingye would not let him or her off the hook so easily.
Whether to demand for a repayment or to be dismissed, action would be taken. Today, Fu Lingye's attitude in blurring the line
between right and wrong was rather unusual.
“Then how about the loss of forty over million? The Finance Department had reported upward...and this is not a small sum. What
if the Board of Directors ask about...”
Fu Lingye replied calmly, “I'll cover the loss of forty-five million.”
Does he really plan to fork out forty-five million to cover the losses for Mu Tongrui?
Xiang Nanqian's face looked pale and she took a deep breath and then said, “Lingye, do you rather lose three-hundred million
local currency than to see Mu Tongrui leave Fu Corporation? She had agreed to resign. If you're agreeable, you don't have to
compensate this large sum on her behalf.”
That woman, Mu Tongrui, is not worth forty-five million. She's not even worth a fraction of this total amount.
Fu Lingye looked at her coldly while closing his notebook computer and then adjusted his cufflinks. He said, “Mu Tongrui is Mrs.
Fu. If she's kicked out of Fu Corporation, I'll be humiliated too. What's the problem in spending three-hundred million to avoid this
embarrassment?”
“But outsiders do not know that she is Mrs. Fu. You don't need to do so...”
Fu Lingye stood up elegantly and turned his head towards her slowly. He looked at her shamelessly and said, “Ms. Xiang, if this
matter is blown up, I'm afraid that you'll be embarrassed too.”
Xiang Nanqian's heart trembled instantly.
Although Fu Lingye spoke in a calm manner, his words were sharp and cold.
He had made his stance very clear and Xiang Nanqian could only restrain herself. She swallowed her saliva to moisturize her
throat, thickened her skin and said, “I'll first head to Xiaohan's school. Please don't be late.”

Once she finished her sentence, she stepped out of his room in her high heels quickly.
Fu Lingye then called an internal line through his desk phone and said, “Please ask Mu Tongrui to come to my office.”
......
When Mu Tongrui reached the doorstep of his office, she took a few deep breaths before knocking the door.
Although she had mentally prepared herself to be scolded by Fu Lingye, she was still frightened when she walked in. She stood
at a safe distance away from Fu Lingye and lowered her head. In the eyes of the man, she looked like a primary school child
waiting to be punished after making a mistake.
“Come here.”
The man stared at her deeply with his black eyes. Why was she standing so far from him? Was she afraid of him?
He was after all not a beast or a scourge. If he was, he would have chewed her down.
“Okay.” Mu Tongrui replied and walked a few steps closer to him feeling guarded. Fu Lingye pinched his brow bone and breathed
out a sigh. When Mu Tongrui heard the sigh, she thought he would go crazy again. But when she raised her head, she saw him
walking towards her and held her wrist.
The man was observing the lengthy red scratch mark on her arm which was inflicted when he threw a folder at her.
The man with calluses on his fingers touched her wound lightly and asked, “Is it painful?”
She frowned and nodded and then said, “Yes, a little.”
She thought that Lingye was being empathetic but it turned out otherwise. The man glared at her coldly and then said, “Good
that it's painful so that you'll remember this mistake.”
She twitched her lips.
It doesn't really matter whether I remember this mistake as I've already written my resignation letter. I'll resigning anyway.
His hand, which was touching her wound, suddenly exerted force to pinch the wound. The sharp pain almost caused her to tear.
She said, “ouch, ouch, ouch...could you be gentler?”

“At least you still know how pain is like. Wait for me here.”
She saw Fu Lingye walking into his leisure room in his office and came back with a first aid kit.
The two of them sat on the couch where Fu Lingye held her arm and used a cotton swab with iodine to clean and treat her
wound.
In that calm atmosphere, Mu Tongrui could not help but ask, “Would the loss of three-hundred million greatly affect Fu
Corporation?”
The man kept his head low and focused on treating her wound. Without showing the seriousness of the loss, he casually said,
“hmm, yes, three-hundred million is not a small amount.”
“...”
When such words came out of his mouth in a calming tone, it did not blend well with reality. He sounded as if he had only lost
three-hundred bucks instead of three-hundred million as there was no panic at all.
Mu Tongrui asked curiously, “Then...then how?”
She was afraid that she might be asked to shoulder the losses. She was even more afraid that Fu Lingye might use the Mu
family's villa as a pledge.
“How do you plan to compensate three-hundred million?”
When the man completed treating the wound on her arm, he lifted his head up and his black eyes looked into her watery eyes.
“Oh... I've written my resignation letter. Do I still need to compensate the three-hundred million?”
Fu Lingye held her hand and took her into his arms. The distance between the two were close and they could feel each other's
breath. He gazed at her and asked, “Do you really wish to be dismissed?”
She looked down with her watery eyes and said, “Isn't this the outcome that both you and Ms. Xiang want?”
But the man did not seem to understand and replied with his deep voice, “Did you purposely write the amount wrongly so as to
get me fire you?”

“No, I didn't... ...”
She was indeed innocent and was framed by Xiang Nanqian!
“You can continue to stay in Fu Corporation and I can let you off the hook. However, this does not mean that you don't have to
pay back the losses of three-hundred thousand.”
“...”
Mu Tongrui almost chocked. Was this still considered as letting her off the hook?
“I... ... I don't have that much money.”
Fu Lingye used his big hands to wrap around her waist and pulled her even closer to his chest. Mu Tongrui was stunned and her
face turned red. Before she realized what Fu Lingye was doing, she could only hear a deep magnetic voice saying, “I wouldn't
mind if you compensate through labor work.”
Compensate through la...labor work?
Mu Tongrui stunned for a while thinking that she would have to work as a laborer for Fu Corporation.
The man suddenly pinned her on the couch and placed his hand beside her face. His dazzling eyes were attractive and he
whispered to her ears with an affectionate and deep voice, “If each count of this costs ten thousand, then you would have to
repay thirty-thousand times.”
Mu Tongrui's watery eyes widened and her face was flushed with blood. What is in the mind of this man?
They both looked at each other eye to eye. Fu Lingye gazed at her anxious red face, lifted her chin and said with a smile, “Of
course, I may get bored of you before we reach the thirtieth thousand time.”
Oh man! He is a wolf in sheep's clothing!