Shen Qingyan walked in.
"No need to help."
Tang Chen glanced back at her and saw that she was holding a brand-new apron in her hand.
She glanced at Tang Chen's wet hands, said nothing, stepped forward, and gently hung the top strap of the apron around Tang Chen's neck.
Shen Qingyan stood 168 centimeters tall, with a slender, tall, yet exquisitely proportioned figure.
However, Tang Chen stood a full 185 centimeters tall.
Therefore, for Shen Qingyan to hang the apron strap around Tang Chen's neck, she needed to stand very close.
This was something Shen Qingyan, who genuinely just wanted to put an apron on Tang Chen, had not anticipated.
The two of them were almost pressed against each other, and each other's breath was clearly audible.
Shen Qingyan abruptly lowered her head and took a few steps back.
Then, gritting her teeth, she walked around behind Tang Chen to tie the back strap, and after doing so, she practically fled the kitchen in quick strides...
Looking at her slightly flustered back, Tang Chen smiled, and the smile didn't fade in the slightest until the dishes were almost done cooking...
On the other side.
After leaving the kitchen, Shen Qingyan walked quickly into the bathroom.
Looking at her flushed face in the mirror, she pressed her somewhat cool hands against her burning cheeks to cool them down.
Yet even though her hands grew warm, the blush on her face still did not fade...
"Dinner is ready!"
Tang Chen called out as he carried the dishes out and placed them on the dining table.
Tang Yao came running over, skipping and hopping.
Looking at the delicious food on the table, she licked her little lips with her tongue, then turned to Tang Chen with a huge smile: "Daddy has worked hard!"
Tang Chen smiled, pinched her chubby little face, and asked: "Where is your mom?"
At that moment, Shen Qingyan walked out of the bathroom.
She had already removed her makeup, returning to that unadorned yet still peerless and flawless appearance.
She hadn't originally planned to take off her makeup right now, but her face was simply too red...
"Come eat."
Tang Chen called out to her.
"Yeah."
Shen Qingyan responded.
After sitting down, she saw that a plate of Shredded Pork with Garlic Sauce was placed in the spot on the dining table closest to her.
She abruptly looked up at Tang Chen, who was dishing out the rice, picked up her chopsticks, took a bite of the Shredded Pork with Garlic Sauce, and put it into her mouth.
The taste was still the same taste.
Yet this time.
Shen Qingyan tasted something a bit different.
It was a deep, soul-stirring warmth!
After entering each other's lives with Tang Yao as the medium.
Invisible to the eye, the two of them had already begun to run towards each other in a two-way rush...
Early the next morning.
Tang Chen arrived at Linhai Villa, picked up Shen Qingyan and Tang Yao, and set off for the kindergarten together.
Today was the day Tang Chen had scheduled to meet the current owner of 33 Ding'an Road.
However, it did not conflict with the time for dropping the little girl off at school.
The Rolls-Royce soon arrived, driving in through the VIP entrance of the sprawling Ying Hong Kindergarten.
Before getting out of the car.
Tang Yao suddenly leaned over to Shen Qingyan's ear and said: "Yaoyao is going to kindergarten now! Mommy can go on a date with Daddy!"
Shen Qingyan's pretty face instantly blushed a thorough crimson.
"Bye-bye Daddy, bye-bye Mommy!"
Tang Yao grabbed the hand of Sun Yun, who had come out to receive her, and waved goodbye to Tang Chen and Shen Qingyan.
"Bye-bye Yaoyao, see you tonight!"
Tang Chen also waved at the little girl.
Shen Qingyan waved in a daze, her gaze drifting, wondering what she was thinking...
Tang Yao and Sun Yun walked into the classroom together and vanished from sight as the Rolls-Royce started up and drove out of the kindergarten gates.
Shen Qingyan's peripheral vision kept glancing at Tang Chen by her side.
Last night, she suffered a bit of insomnia, tossing and turning for a long, long time, wondering if she should be a little more proactive.
Yet even now, she still had no answer.
And those whispering words Tang Yao had just leaned in to say, although they caused her face to flush involuntarily, also invisibly gave her the courage...
"Give me your heart, give me your love, so that I can..."
Tang Chen used the rear operating system to turn on the radio.
Extremely fitting music began to linger inside the car.
After listening to half the song, Shen Qingyan finally turned her head to look at Tang Chen, took a deep breath, parted her lips slightly, and asked: "Tang Chen, do you... have plans later?"
"Tang Chen, do you... have plans later?"
She had finally asked it out loud.
A sense of relief washed over Shen Qingyan's heart.
She gently bit her cherry lips, her burning eyes fixed on Tang Chen as she awaited his answer.
Deep inside her heart, a trace of vague nervousness unexpectedly arose...
"I have some things to take care of later, I'm going to go see someone." Tang Chen moved his gaze away from his phone, turned to look at Shen Qingyan, and answered truthfully.
"Ah? Oh, alright then..."
Shen Qingyan nodded with a hint of disappointment.
Yet...
If he was busy later, what about the afternoon?
She had already asked once; practice makes perfect. Shen Qingyan mustered her courage anew, preparing to ask Tang Chen again.
Yet right at that moment.
Her peripheral vision caught the contents of Tang Chen's phone screen.
It was a chat interface.
The contact name was Liu Ying...
Liu Ying!
Shen Qingyan's pupils contracted slightly.
The words perched on the tip of her tongue were never spoken aloud.
At that moment, her phone rang.
It was a call from Lin Yue.
She answered it, held it to her ear, and asked in a somewhat gloomy voice: "Hello, what is it?"
"Manager Lin, it's bad! 65% of our group's projects have already been halted!" Lin Yue's anxious voice came through the earpiece.
"What?!"
Shen Qingyan's slender eyebrows knitted together in a frown, and she said in a cold voice: "How could they be halted? Where is Lin Qingying? What about the investors' capital injection? Didn't he take over all of these matters? How did he handle them?!"
"I'm not entirely sure either. Ever since you left, they haven't let me attend any of their meetings, big or small... And for the past two days, Manager Lin hasn't shown his face at all..."
Lin Yue said: "News has already spread now, and everyone in the company is panicking, afraid we'll go bankrupt and won't be able to pay salaries. The banks holding our loans have also started calling to demand early repayment... President Shen, you should come over here first!"
"I'm heading over right now." Shen Qingyan's tone turned grave to the extreme as she hung up the phone.
Without even guessing, Tang Chen knew what the content of the phone call Shen Qingyan had just answered was.
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