Chapter 113
Song Ren's brain briefly short-circuited.
He had heard every word Mo Ning said clearly, yet he could not help asking, "Secretary Mo, what are you talking about?"
"Brother Song, when we're alone, just call me Mo Ning."
Mo Ning took off the thin-framed glasses on his face. He had been less than twenty-three when he became the Star Lord's first secretary.
For an ordinary person, that was just a young man fresh out of university.
To make himself look more mature and composed, Mo Ning usually slicked back his hair. His eyesight was perfectly fine, but he still wore a pair of thin-framed glasses. Together with his handsome, well-defined features, they instantly gave him an official air.
Mo Ning's deliberate styling had worked remarkably well. At the very least, when Song Ren had first seen him, he had never thought of Mo Ning as a clear-eyed university student.
Behind the thin plain glasses were beautifully shaped eyes, always carrying a polite, distant smile. Every emotion was hidden in depths no one could see.
The young alpha who had worked by His Majesty's side for over a year was so perfect that he seemed like an emotionless robot.
Now, the "robot" had removed his thin-framed glasses, undone the buttons of his rigid suit jacket, and even had a few loose strands of hair falling over his forehead.
Like dust being wiped from glass, the removal of that outer disguise revealed a vibrant, youthful, radiant side of him.
Those slightly peach-blossom-shaped eyes stared straight at Song Ren, intense emotion overflowing from them. "Brother Song, I know this is a little sudden, but I've actually liked you since university."
Song Ren believed that an alpha as tall, straight-backed, handsome, and proper as Mo Ning must have been the kind of sunny