After I Woke Up to Find I Had a Wife - Chapter 33

There were three assistants attending the joint meeting: chief assistant Li Ping, second assistant Sun Yue, and the junior assistant who could attend any group meeting to summarize and record, Wei Li.

“The tax inspection was a temporary notice. They’ll be here first thing tomorrow morning. Call President Lin,” Sun Yue said thoughtfully as she tapped the tabletop.

Li Ping smiled and shook his head. “No rush. Let President Lin rest properly. These people are only throwing out a brick to attract jade. That Manager Lin from the logistics department doesn’t have the authority to attend joint meetings, yet today he was pushed out by someone.”

“So we say nothing?” Sun Yue raised her voice and frowned as she asked back.

Li Ping did not mind Sun Yue’s attitude. He had worked with Sun Yue for many years and long understood her personality, which could not tolerate even a grain of sand in her eyes. He patiently asked in return, “Where’s the evidence?”

Sun Yue fell silent.

The national tax authorities did have the right to inspect taxes at any time. It was just that, under normal circumstances, reviews would take place at the end of the year, not through a temporary notice.

A sudden inspection could casually impact the stock market. Although the Lin Group was not afraid of this, and only needed to issue a statement saying the tax authorities were conducting a normal inspection to reassure most shareholders—

Being manipulated like this still made no one feel willing. It made them, this group of people with high salaries, look very incompetent. The only thing they did not know was whether this was a probe, or someone deliberately disturbing their line of sight.

“I’ll communicate with the tax department again. A temporary notice like this is too sudden for us. They also have to consider the tax collection after the New Year, right?” Sun Yue proposed another plan.

Li Ping thought for a moment. “That works too. Then let’s each go handle our own tasks.”

Wei Li organized the two of their opinions and sent all the meeting contents from today to another email address beginning with L.

Su Qingfeng, who had not appeared for many years, was elegant and intellectual. She wore a loose and comfortable white blazer. Her beautiful phoenix eyes were filled with gentleness, yet a distant indifference could be seen at the bottom of her gaze.

Su Qingfeng had always been at the headquarters of the branch company in Country M, fully handling all affairs there. In the Lin Group building, once many people heard that Su Qingfeng had returned to the country early, their brows twitched.

This person was a trusted aide of the old chairman.

Had she returned at this time to seize power?

Many people were uneasy in their hearts, especially those who had something fishy going on. What they feared most right now was a change in the situation.

But since Su Qingfeng had returned, all the higher-ups in the group had to express welcome. Back then, Su Qingfeng and the old chairman had left the group one after the other.

Everyone had thought it was the newly appointed President Lin who had transferred her own aunt outside in order to consolidate power.

The timing of Su Qingfeng’s return was also ambiguous. It just so happened that President Lin had rarely taken a short vacation, and she came back right then. Moreover, her booked return had been moved forward by an entire month.

No one knew what she was planning.

“Aiya, Qingfeng, hahaha, why did you arrive early without saying anything? Has it been so long since you came back that you’re treating us like outsiders?” A rough male voice rang out in the lobby.

Many employees stopped and watched as the operations director strode forward and shook hands with a refined, elegant long-haired Alpha. Those who knew each other began exchanging meaningful looks, and many work group chats started dinging nonstop.

Su Qingfeng put on the same smile as before and nodded in a neither-close-nor-distant way. “Not at all. Isn’t there a happy event at home? So I simply set out early. As for work matters, they can be arranged remotely.”

The operations director had run into a soft nail with Su Qingfeng. He appropriately withdrew his smile by a few degrees, but still warmly invited Su Qingfeng inside.

Su Qingfeng stepped ahead of the operations director. Between the two of them, she was faintly the one in the lead.

Only then did the operations director’s smile become a little hard to maintain. In terms of position, Su Qingfeng was indeed two levels higher than him.

But he was the operations director of the group headquarters. Compared to Su Qingfeng, who was far away in Country M, an official in the capital was naturally one level above a local official. Yet Su Qingfeng truly did not give him the slightest face.

The operations director’s face remained amiable and smiling, but a bit more irritation appeared in his eyes.

Many people saw this grand show, but because they were too far from the two, they could not hear the specific contents.

Still, that fellow who had always liked playing the smiling tiger could hardly keep the smile on his face. Everyone now knew that the newly returned branch company president was not someone easy to bully.

Far away in the Mount Li old residence, Lin You still had no idea that her dear aunt had returned. She was still holding Fu Xinran and swimming!

Fu Xinran truly felt a little hopeless. Lin You had paddled for half an hour. When Fu Xinran told her to go to the swimming pool, she refused. She only wanted to hold Fu Xinran and play on the bed.

The clothes that had originally been folded neatly had once again been rubbed by Lin You one by one into long strips and piled on the bed. The nest Lin You had been thinking about was built again.

Seeing her pile of clothes, Fu Xinran had already reached a state of Buddhist calm. She let Lin You do as she pleased. In any case, the newest batch of clothes was already on the way, and the clothes in the cloakroom should be cleared out too.

After Lin You had enough of paddling, she rolled over. Her bright, innocent eyes looked at Fu Xinran. Her pheromones, which had originally stabilized, began clamoring again.

I want you. Want you.

Lin You reached out in a daze and touched Fu Xinran’s chin. The innocence in her eyes gradually faded. Fu Xinran touched the blocking patch over her gland. It could no longer block her pheromones.

During pregnancy, pheromones were already prone to rising and falling. Now, the pheromones stirred by Lin You suddenly surged, fiercely answering Lin You’s joy.

The icy, soft, clear pheromone gland was surrounded by domineering tea fragrance. Warm breath scattered over Fu Xinran’s collarbone.

At some unknown point, Lin You had leaned forward. Her big black head rubbed back and forth against Fu Xinran’s neck, not knowing the proper method.

Fu Xinran’s body softened, her fingertips numb. Her face was flushed, her eyes rippling with spring light and shimmering water.

Damn it. If she was not careful, it seemed to have triggered her bonding heat. Fu Xinran bit her lower lip in discomfort, the unbearable look between her brows making Lin You instinctively press closer.

Fu Xinran panted and reached out to push Lin You away. Her right hand covered the pheromones still overflowing out. The blocking patch had completely failed.

That icy, warm aura soothed the restless tea fragrance. Lin You did not know how to ease her own discomfort.

She could only nuzzle all over Fu Xinran while softly whining, “Ranran, I feel bad. I feel bad.”

Fu Xinran angrily rolled her eyes at the big head in front of her. She suddenly remembered the dirty jokes Cao Rui and that group of hooligans had said: it would be best to take advantage of this cold-faced, cold-hearted fellow while she was at her clingiest during nesting period.

Just take her down directly. As for afterward, regret or whatever could wait until she sobbed herself to death in the emptiness of a future nesting period.

Fu Xinran raised her hand and rubbed the big head whining against her neck. She sighed lightly. Forget it. In the end, she still could not bear to do that.

Fu Xinran thought of something and laboriously turned her head to look at the phone she had placed by the bed. She could only have Zhuo An come up and give Lin You a suppressant injection.

If this continued, her own bonding heat would arrive too, and then things would truly become impossible to clean up.

“Be good. Move away a little. You’re too heavy. You’re pressing on me so I can’t breathe.” Fu Xinran stroked Lin You’s smooth hair and told her to move aside a bit.

Lin You pouted and wrongedly moved away, lying on her side beside Fu Xinran and looking at her pitifully, especially aggrieved, especially sad. Fu Xinran had no time to comfort this big dog beside her now.

She struggled to sit up, her soft and weak body leaving her powerless. Finally getting the phone by the bed, Fu Xinran tried her best not to make her voice sound strange.

“Doctor Zhuo, please bring up two suppressants, one for Alpha and one for Omega.”

Lin You puffed up angrily as she looked at the phone that had occupied her partner, almost rushing forward to snatch it and throw it away.

Lin You was suppressed by one of Fu Xinran’s fingers. She wrongedly rubbed against Fu Xinran’s fair, beautiful index finger. Her burning cheeks and desire-stained eyes made Fu Xinran dazed for a moment.

Lin You at this moment was so similar to Lin You two months ago, when her bonding heat had flared. Fu Xinran’s heart trembled, and all the tingling warmth in her heart disappeared.

Having calmed down, she withdrew her finger. She steadied her breathing and said to Lin You, “Go to the bathroom.”

Lin You tilted her head in confusion. Right now, her brain was like it had drunk too much wine and was about to fly away, but it was being dragged down by the burden of her body.

The dazed Lin You wanted to get close to Fu Xinran. Fu Xinran picked up the blanket and blocked Lin You’s embrace. She held onto the bedside cabinet and panted hard.

“Be obedient. Go to the bathroom, okay?”

Lin You pouted in grievance, tears already beginning to swirl in her eyes. She sadly hugged the pillow, not understanding why her Ranran would not hug her anymore.

Fu Xinran suppressed the feelings in her heart. She did not want another muddled debt between them.

Back then, when her bonding heat collided with Lin You’s bonding heat, Lin You’s avoidance had hurt her heart. In anger, she had thrown away Lin You’s suppressant and, while Lin You was panicked and helpless, bitten her lip.

Everything that followed may have contained each of their indulgence and repression. She had been wildly happy to feel all of Lin You’s tenderness. At that time, Lin You had been exactly the same as the Lin You now.

Suppressing desire, not knowing how to ease both of their bonding heats, stumbling clumsily into union.

Afterward, Lin You only kept apologizing. Her guilty heart kept making her avoid Fu Xinran, not daring to face herself, nor daring to face Fu Xinran.

Fu Xinran shook her head, forcing herself to clear up. She bit her lower lip hard. Blood slipped from her lips. The sensitive Lin You smelled the rusty scent.

She immediately threw away the pillow and got off the bed. With scarlet eyes, she stared at Fu Xinran. Her trembling hands held Fu Xinran’s face, and her fingers forcefully pried open the teeth that were biting tightly into Fu Xinran’s lower lip.

Fu Xinran shook her head, wanting to break free from Lin You’s hands. At some point, tears had filled her eyes. Lin You lowered her head in heartache, her soft, wet tongue licking the blood clean from those red lips.

Carefully, she pressed against the hard teeth. Her flexible tongue searched for a gap and finally pried open the tightly closed door.

Heartache, pity, and overwhelming fondness were all expressed fully through Lin You’s pheromones.

Lin You held Fu Xinran entirely in her arms. The two kissed as if forgetting themselves. Restless hands slid over the slender, sensitive waist.

Fu Xinran, whose defenses had been breached, leaned weakly against the bedside cabinet, both hands forcefully resisting Lin You’s approach.

Knock, knock.

A knocking sound came from the heavy wooden door. Fu Xinran woke from the confused kiss. She pulled her head away and pressed against Lin You’s chest, panting hard.

“Wait. Lin You, we can’t continue. The child…”

Hearing “child,” Lin You regained a bit of reason too. She took several large breaths, pulling back her runaway rationality, and tightly hugged Fu Xinran.

In a hoarse, low, desire-laced sexy voice, she whispered by Fu Xinran’s ear, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here. I’ll never leave. I won’t retreat, so you don’t retreat either.”

Fu Xinran closed her eyes as her reason returned. She did not answer. She only pressed her lips together tightly. The blood that had just stopped began to seep out again. Lin You lowered her head and licked it clean without any desire.

Lin You released Fu Xinran and turned to open the door, but Fu Xinran grabbed the corner of her clothes. Lin You remembered something and smiled comfortingly. “I’m going to open the door. Don’t worry, I won’t attack Doctor Zhuo.”

Only then did Fu Xinran release her clothes and let her open the door.

The door opened, and a wave of tea fragrance diluted by water almost knocked Zhuo An dizzy.

Lin You suppressed her agitation, accepted the suppressants Zhuo An handed over, then closed the door with a bang, stopping Zhuo An’s foot that had wanted to step inside.

Lin You closed the door and immediately tore open the packaging, pressing the suppressant onto her shoulder. The suppressant suppressed the violent pheromones. She raised her hand and turned on the filter switch.

The excellent-quality filter drew out the scent in the room and replaced it with clean, fresh air.

Lin You lowered her head and tore open the Omega suppressant. She quickly stepped forward, holding Fu Xinran, who was about to slide down to the floor, in her arms.

With heartache, she said, “Why did you force yourself like this? If you felt uncomfortable, wouldn’t it have been better to just refuse me?”

Fu Xinran’s messy hair fell over her face, covering her expression. She did not speak. Lin You lifted her arm and injected the suppressant into her body.

The surging pheromones were suppressed and gradually calmed down. The pheromones in the room had already thinned pitifully.

Lin You raised her fingers and brushed aside Fu Xinran’s hair, then bent down and kissed her.

This was their first truly meaningful kiss while both were clear-headed.