After Divorce, Hidden Marriage Husband Became Addicted to Me-Chapter 465 - 322: Trust?

"Why wouldn’t I help you? Once I’m promoted to Vice Director, you’re my good friend after all." Gao Minjia’s words steadied Qian Lin. She wasn’t foolish, as her hands hadn’t touched the ring at all from the beginning. If the police find out, it would all point to Qian Lin.

Qian Lin looked at her, biting her teeth and threatened in a low voice, "Minjia, we’re in the same boat. If the boat capsizes, we all take the plunge. You can’t expect to escape either!"

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Tang Xi followed Shen Duan to the CEO’s office.

There was a female secretary at the door. Seeing Tang Xi, surprise flashed through her eyes, but she was very professionally trained, and her smile came quickly, proper and appropriate.

Shen Duan tipped his chin up, signaling Tang Xi to go in.

Tang Xi looked at the door in front of her, memories slowly resurfacing.

Once, she had been here.

Tang Xi took a deep breath, her fingers slightly cool as she clenched them, knocked on the door and pushed it open to walk in.

The secretary at the door was named Lin Can. She looked at Shen Duan, leaned in with a look full of secrets, "Assistant Shen, who is this lady? Is she an employee of our Fu Corporation?"

"Lin Can, focus on your own work." Shen Duan said.

Lin Can flexed her neck and shoulders, "I’m just curious, Assistant Shen, tell me about her. This woman must be someone special."

Shen Duan, "Employee from the design department."

After saying that, he returned to his own office. Shen Duan’s office was on the same floor as Fu Tingzhou’s, to the left of the CEO’s office.

While Lin Can’s workstation was outside the CEO’s office.

Lin Can looked at Shen Duan’s retreating figure and stuck out her tongue.

-

Everything here, as Tang Xi remembered.

Still the same cool toned decor.

Walking in, one feels an unfamiliar chill.

Fu Tingzhou was sitting on the couch. When Tang Xi walked in, he raised his eyes to look at her, "Don’t you have something you’d like to tell me?"

Tang Xi approached him.

"Do you want to ask me about the missing ring?" Tang Xi was anxious, worried about Fang Yuan, so she recounted the whole event and also mentioned the trouble Gao Minjia had with her.

After finishing, seeing that Fu Tingzhou had not responded, she crouched slightly next to him, looking up at him with a plaintive tone, "Could you help me save Fang Yuan? It really wasn’t her. I can assure you, she wouldn’t do something like theft. She longs for the design industry, she loves it passionately. She was overjoyed to get an internship at Fu’s, and she treasures this job incredibly."

This was, arguably, the first time in a long while that Tang Xi was speaking to Fu Tingzhou with such a pleading, humble posture.

Fu Tingzhou saw the worry in her eyes, saw her eyes turning slightly red with concern for Fang Yuan, and her fingers gripping his sleeve, turning white with the tension of her gentle force.

"You and that female intern have only known each other for a bit more than ten days, and you trust her that much?"

"With some people, you know they can be trusted the first time you see them, and with others, even if you share a bed night after night, there’s no trust. Fang Yuan is a very innocent girl, and this time, it was indeed a trap set by Gao Minjia against me. For some reason, the ring that should have been planted on me, in my bag, ended up in Fang Yuan’s bag."

Her chin was gently grasped, and Fu Tingzhou looked at her face, echoing her words, "Night after night in the same bed, still no trust."

Tang Xi’s eyes narrowed slightly, "Fang Yuan is innocent, I will find out the truth, but I know this incident has caused a huge ruckus. Even if Fang Yuan is innocent, the HR department will still fire her after she returns from the police station, won’t they? Could you, perhaps, not let her go?"

This was Tang Xi’s big worry.

Because this incident had caused a significant impact.

Even if Fang Yuan is proven innocent, the company wouldn’t keep her.

The man’s fingers, rough with calluses, gently caressed her chin, forcing Tang Xi to look up into his eyes, "Begging me? You’re begging me to help, for a friend you’ve only known for about ten days?"

"Mmm, I beg you."

Sharing a bed night after night without trust, this sentence pierced Fu Tingzhou’s heart like a fishbone, he reached out and directly unfastened the first button at the woman’s collar.

Then he proceeded, slowly moving downward, to the second button, the third.

Tang Xi’s figure stiffened for a moment.

But she did not resist.

The man’s fingertips were warm, but still made her tremble slightly. The woman bowed her head, grasping his slowly sliding fingers, her cheeks flushed, "I... I’ll take it off... myself..."

After Tang Xi said those words, she actually felt some regret.

Because the way the man looked at her was serene as water, but she needed to undress under such a gaze, which unsettled her heart and brought a gradual rush of shame.

Slowly she stripped off the white blouse.

Revealing her fair and delicate skin, her shoulders trembled gently.

The office temperature was on the lower side, and the man’s gaze made Tang Xi feel even colder inch by inch. Under this watchful eye, she shed her last piece of clothing, her skin exposed to the air was pale with a tinge of pink.

Her black hair slowly scattered over her shoulders.

The woman’s skin was like white silk, darkening the depths of Fu Tingzhou’s eyes.

He grabbed Tang Xi’s wrist, pinning her down on the couch.

Tang Xi’s pupils quivered as she felt the man’s hurried and warm breath on her face.

He had been smoking; she could smell the tobacco.

But it wasn’t choking.

The couch was made of genuine leather causing a sudden chill on her back, while Fu Tingzhou’s hands were warm, two starkly different sensations.

Tang Xi had never kissed any other man, thus she couldn’t compare.

But she had seen TV dramas, where during kisses, the male lead seemed to always be skilled, and it looked sweet when he kissed the female lead.

Ambience filled with pink and romantic intimacy seemed to envelop them.

Yet, in this moment, held in Fu Tingzhou’s arms, the stubble on his chin was prickly, his movements were neither gentle nor rough, and in the entanglement of lips, Tang Xi experienced a brief suffocation.

Her pupils were clear, staring into his eyes.

Fu Tingzhou’s eyes were pitch-black but couldn’t conceal the flames of dark desire.

Both of their hearts were beating fast.

Tang Xi wanted to struggle.

Because as she lay on the couch, the setting sun outside cast a broad expanse of light on her face. In such a spacious office, she felt no sense of security, as if shame could be exposed at any moment.

Suddenly, a knock knock sound at the door erupted!

The knocking wasn’t loud, but because at this moment, the office was quiet except for the sound of their breath quickening as they kissed.

Shen Duan’s voice came from outside the door, "President Fu, Vice President Qin has an urgent document—"

Shen Duan stood at the entrance, next to him stood Vice President Qin Hengyuan, Fu Tingzhou’s capable subordinate holding a document that he appeared to be anxious about.

But before Shen Duan could finish speaking,

A rough and hoarse roar came from inside, "Get out!—"