Chapter 178
The repercussion of Lu Boyan's excursion to City Z was the mountainous pile of work that had accumulated over the few days he had been gone .
Making full use of the time when Su Jianan was in the bath, Lu Boyan booted up his laptop and got to work . His slender and bony fingers flew across the keyboard as he typed and his eyes moved efficiently as he read the complicated graphs and words on the screen .
Such efficiency was by no means innate; it had been trained and acquired through the endless amount of work that he had to deal with over the years .
When Lu Enterprises was first formed, it consisted of only Lu Boyan and Shen Yuechuan, so they had to do everything on their own . Back in those days, he had to run on only five to six hours of sleep every day . Even those five to six hours of shut-eye was squeezed from his daily schedule, which consisted of poring over stacks upon stacks of thick documents, various meetings, and business negotiations .
After that, his schedule begun to ease up, though he still retained the same level of efficiency . Nowadays, most of his spare time was spent on Su Jianan, just that she had no idea about it .
Half an hour later .
Having finished her bath, Su Jianan stood up and got out of the tub to get dressed . Her movements were slow due to the injuries on her waist and leg . It took her quite some effort just to get to the garment rack . As she was reaching out to grab her clothes, her foot suddenly slipped .
"Ah!"
She cried out in surprise . Panicking, she reached out and grabbed the bathroom counter for support, thus preventing her from falling . But the bathroom door swung open before she could even recover from her fright . "What's wrong?" Lu Boyan said, the worry in his voice unmistakable .
The close-call just now had merely been a fright . But this time around . . . Sh*t . Just Got Real!
Her body was . . . completely naked!!!
"Ahhhhh!!!"
That scream was far more powerful than the one before . She turned around with her back facing him in an attempt to cover herself . "Get out!" she yelled .
Her instincts told her to squat down to cover herself more effectively, but the plaster on her leg took that option away . Instead, she resigned herself to holding on to the bathroom counter's edge and pulling her chin close to her chest . She was so mortified that she felt a strong urge to dive back into the tub and curl up inside it like a shrimp .
Lu Boyan thought Su Jianan had fallen down in the bathroom . That was why he had been so anxious . But he never expected to be granted such a tantalizing view the moment he opened the door .
As if having a mind of its own, his Adam's apple bobbed within the column of his neck . He quickly averted his eyes and forced himself to stay calm .
Two seconds later, he slowly figured out exactly what had happened to Su Jianan just now . He steadied his breath and walked towards Su Jianan .
Su Jianan curled her toes nervously at the sound of approaching footsteps . "Pervert! Why are you still here?! Get out!"
Lu Boyan grabbed a bath towel from the rack and calmly wrapped it around Su Jianan's body . "Did you hurt your leg?"
Su Jianan was rendered momentarily speechless . There he was, standing right behind her with the heat from his body searing her bare skin through the fabric of his white shirt . With how tall he was, he could almost shield her body entirely .
His hands had inevitably touched her skin when he was wrapping the towel around her, though it seemed accidental and without any ulterior motives . Nonetheless, Su Jianan still felt heat in the few spots on her skin where his hand had touched her . Heat and fire spread over her entire body, causing her body temperature to rise . . .
She swallowed . "Na-nah . I just slipped a bit," she stammered .
Lu Boyan took her clothes and picked Su Jianan up from the ground . "Change in the bedroom . "
This was Su Jianan's first time being in Lu Boyan's arms while in such an "immodest" state; she had nothing on her body other than a measly bath towel . If Lu Boyan lowered his head, he would be granted full view of Su Jianan's beautiful clavicle and the elegant column of her long neck .
Su Jianan's breathing instantly became erratic . She kept shifting herself in Lu Boyan's arms as if trying to find somewhere on his body where she could hide herself in .
Little did she know that her actions were a test of Lu Boyan's self-control .
Lu Boyan's sense of sight had already been stimulated after what he saw moments ago . Now, with her rubbing herself against him, it was so easy to assume that she willingly throwing herself at him .
The blood in Lu Boyan's veins started to roil . A certain part of him was ready for action and raring to go .
To avoid losing his self-control, Lu Boyan hastened his steps and carried Su Jianan back to the bedroom . Then, he placed her down on the bed . "I'll be in the living room . Call me once you're done . "
Dazed, Su Jianan stared after Lu Boyan's shadow . Stiffly, she placed her hand on her chest, where she could feel the thumping of her racing heart .
It might all just be inside her imagination, but just now . . . Lu Boyan's heart seemed to be beating at an irregular rhythm too . Also . . . his body temperature was not low either .
Could it be that Lu Boyan had gotten a fever after he had spent so much time in the rain looking for her?
Su Jianan sat up and quickly got dressed . After making sure that there was nothing wrong with her clothes, she shouted at the door, "Lu Boyan! I'm done!"
Meanwhile, Lu Boyan was in the living room, standing in front of the French windows, which were fully open .
It was the beginning of autumn, and the night breeze in City A carried a slight chill . When he had first opened the window, a gust of breeze had rushed in and blown across his body . It had somewhat quelled the surge of desire brewing inside him .
When he heard Su Jianan's voice calling out to him, his breathing became erratic once again . He schooled his features into a neutral expression and pushed open the bedroom door . Inside, Su Jianan sat numbly on the bed, red-faced, and with nothing but confusion in her eyes .
Su Jianan cleared her throat and averted her gaze slightly . She did not have the courage to look him in the eye just yet . "Do, do you mind coming here for a bit?"
"Interesting," Lu Boyan thought suddenly . Why was Su Jianan asking him to approach her now of all times? "Shouldn't she be trying everything in her power to avoid me right now?" he wondered .
He walked over steadily . Then, Su Jianan patted a spot on the edge of the bed . When he hesitated, she patted the bed again and said, "Come on, just do it . "
Do it?
In that split second, Lu Boyan's eyes began to darken gradually . He stared at Su Jianan deeply as if trying to devour her with his eyes .
Su Jianan had lost her patience at that point . She reached out and pulled Lu Boyan to sit down, though she did not anticipate Lu Boyan's next move, which involved him placing his palms on her two sides as he slowly lowered himself onto her .
He was like a hunter, slowly approaching the prey that he had long since set his eyes on, biding his time to pounce .
"Lu, Lu Boyan . . . " Su Jianan recoiled in fear . "What are you trying to do?"
"Didn't you say 'do it'?"
"I did ask you to do it," Su Jianan said, almost in tears, "But what are you doing . . . "
The penny dropped instantly . Lu Boyan had misunderstood her . When she patted the bed and asked him to 'do it', what she really meant by 'do it' was for him to 'take a seat' . But his mind had gone straight into the gutter!
Not even bothering with getting mad, she reached out her hand and touched Lu Boyan's forehead . "How can you misunderstand something that simple? Don't tell me you really do have a fever?" Then again, his skin did not feel warm beneath her palm at all . She tilted her head to one side . "Hm, no fever . "
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