Afternoon.
Not yet three o'clock.
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Family Compound.
The Land Rover drove in under the saluting guard's watchful gaze and stopped below a building. Once the doors opened, Dong Xuebin and Chen Ying got out and went upstairs.
Upstairs.
Inside the apartment.
Dong Xuebin unlocked the door with his key. "Come in."
"This is your work unit's housing?" Chen Ying looked around.
"Yeah." Dong Xuebin nodded. "It's a little shabby, but make do."
"This is shabby? It's much better than where I live. I'm still renting." Chen Ying was not famous enough to earn much money, so she could not afford to buy a home either. "Where's your wife? Do you live here alone?" Chen Ying lowered her head and took off her high heels, slipping her nylon-stockinged feet into a pair of pink cotton slippers by the shoe rack. She also took off her trench coat and hung it to one side. To be fair, Chen Ying had never been the type of actress with stunning looks, but her current popularity was undoubtedly inseparable from her appearance. Her face was not especially beautiful, yet her overall bearing gave people a very comfortable feeling. She was particularly pleasing to the eye. Dong Xuebin did not know what others thought, but that was how he felt. He knew she was not conventionally beautiful, yet she still gave off a sense of beauty. And Chen Ying had a great figure—her chest was full, her hips were perky, and once her trench coat came off, her curvaceous body was revealed. She was highly alluring, especially that tiny waist beneath her sweater, so slender it was unbelievable.
Dong Xuebin glanced at her, swallowed, and said, "My wife works in the Southern Region. I live here alone." He hurriedly looked away,