253 An Engagement On Engagemen (1/2)

Li Yuan tightened his arms around her and leaped for her lips when a knock sounded on the door halting him mid-air.

Both of them stiffened as if two teenagers caught rolling in the hay but then Li Yuan hissed. Lei Xinyi rolled her eyes and pushed him off her and sat upright, he too sat down and shifted in his seat.

The door knocked again and this time Lei Xinyi allowed the person to enter.

A Housekeeper entered but after the first step, her eyes widened, she halted and reddened looking at Lei Xinyi's messed hairs, ruffled clothing, and Li Yuan half-naked self. She shifted her eyes to the ground.

”Young Master Li, Miss Lei, dinner is ready where would you like to dine?” Housekeeper Yang called out with a placid tone looking at Li Yuan not even glancing at Lei Xinyi like it was below her and she didn't ask for her decision.

Lei Xinyi looked at him and then down at herself and couldn't help but roll her eyes. There was no way she was sitting in the dining room with this post-sex look especially when they didn't even have s*x!

Though Lei Xinyi didn't notice the subtle notion, Li Yuan did and wrapped his arm around Lei Xinyi, ”Where would you like to dine, Sweetheart?”

Lei Xinyi looked between them and shrugged, ”Here is fine. I don't feel like going anywhere.”

Li Yuan turned back to Housekeeper Yang, ”Please Nan, arrange it here.”

A gleefully sentimental smile lit up on the Housekeeper stern face hearing 'Nan', when Young Master Li was young she was his nanny and her husband was his personal guard and caretaker and at that time he used to call her that.

But lately, these years had taken a toll on him that he was always indifferent or hyperaware of his surroundings, and professional boundaries have been built, and hearing him call her that was a breakage of them.

Housekeeper Yang was the woman who had been the one to 'take care' of his girlfriends after the breakups or if they get too clingy so assumingly she saw Lei Xinyi as a threat to her Young Master.

But right now she could see the difference between yesterday and today beyond her prejudice and personal opinion. When the girl wasn't here and now that she is here. It was like she was gasoline and he was fire, flaring his spirits higher the more she came into his mix.

She bowed and beamed and this time acknowledged Lei Xinyi respectfully, ”As you say, Madam Lei, Master Li.”

The woman left the room leaving Lei Xinyi's mouth hanging who still didn't get the small exchange. Madam Lei? Now she was Madam Lei?! Was this woman bipolar or something?

”Why were you looking for me?” Li Yuan's magnetic voice brought her out of her cluster of thought and she turned remembering her two hours of effort. She at once leaped up and brought that jar to him.

Lei Xinyi gave him a small smile and pointed to the jar, ”This is a salve I made for you, it would help you with the sore muscles. It's quite effective in my personal opinion.”

She took it back from his hand, kept the jar on their feet, and continued, ”I was looking for you so we can sign the contract as soon as possible this way we can leave the past behind and make a new start for us.”

Li Yuan raised a brow at the cunningness of the seductress. If she was this eager it must have to do with a trick that must be up her sleeve.

He smirked and shook his head, he had a trick up his sleeve too, ”You conned me after I saved your ass, lashed out on me like a kitten on steroids…”

Lei Xinyi gave him her best sickly sweet smile, held his hand, and kept it on her lap, ”That's a little harsh to be pointed out like that and you tore my shirt.” She said pointedly but her smile didn't falter at all, ”Can I say I was under the weather due to being on red days?”

Li Yuan threw his head back and laughed amused by her trying too hard to make him fall in her web, ”You are not. This is your contract.” He took out a file from under the pillow of her bed.

Lei Xinyi's eyes lit up and abruptly snatched it from him afraid he was going to change his mind.

She started reading all the details and her full-bloomed smile turned dull before being stripped off her face.

She clenched her fist and forced a smile, ”Li Yuan,” She patted the file a little too hard, ”If I may ask, where the assurance of my guaranteed liberty is?”