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”But I will always accompany you. Don't be afraid.” Qin Junning knew that Tang Xiao Ai was very afraid of Zhong.

If Zhong Guoqing revealed the dark side of the devil, even Qin Junning would feel a headache and fear.

He dared to go against Zhong Yuqing only because he had a deep relationship with him for so many years.

If Zhong Yueqing wasn't his friend, Qin Junning might not have been able to protect Tang Xiao Ai right now.

Just like Zhong Yuqing, who asked Tang to attend the events at LUG International, it was hard for Qin to refuse.

”Thank you, boss.” Tang Xiao Ai lowered her head. Zhong Shuangqing had become her inner demon, leaving her powerless to defend herself.

When Qin Jun saw how obedient she looked with her head lowered, he couldn't help but reach out to hug her and gently pat her on the back. ”You're a good girl.”

If she wanted to hear the words of praise from his mouth, even if the most beautiful woman in the bed did her best to curry favor with him, she still might not be able to listen to a single good word from him.

But now, perhaps Qin Junning was moved by Tang Xiao Ai's diligent, obedient, and low-key personality, and it was rare for him to praise her so generously in front of so many people.

On the other hand, Tang Xiaoyi's face was filled with shame … It should have been because she was embarrassed, because the people from the filming crew were all watching from the side. She really wasn't used to being praised by Qin Junning.

”Thank you.” When she said the word 'still', Tang Xiaoyi didn't move at all and just let him hug her.

Before entering this line of work, she had never gotten used to the way these people expressed themselves, greeting them with hugs and kissing them whenever they saw each other. But everyone in the circle had done the same thing. She hid by the side while being treated like a monster, greeted others with a ”hello”, was teased by others, and even had people reporting that she was an old-fashioned and adorable lady. Thus, Qin Junning began to intentionally train her habits so that she wouldn't look like an outsider.

But with little success.

Tang Xiaoyi was forever like a rock. Seeing the director and her partner, she still acted as if she had seen a teacher. She politely said, ”Hello.”

It wasn't until he ruthlessly scolded her a few times that she was barely able to accept the occasional hug.

And only women, unless they were of the opposite sex, unless they were good friends like Xiaoxi, would be able to accept hugs and put on their cheeks.

”You're too soft. You shouldn't be stiff.” Qin Gaoning reminded her with a smile in her ear.

”I'm sorry, you hugged too hard.” Tang Xiao Ai's tone was mechanical as usual.

She sometimes looked like one of those robotic chats, basically just one or two lines of repetition.

”Little love, you are sometimes very likable, but sometimes very annoying.” Qin Junning patted her back again, then whispered in her ear, ”It makes me want to curse you again.”

”I'm going to check the station.” The man who was the most adept at cursing Tang Xiao Ai had never seen in her life. He was not one of the rascals from her hometown, but a handsome and dashing gentleman in front of her.

With her calm attitude, she would often be ridiculed by Qin Gaoning to the point of wishing that she could die.

He remembered how he had refused to embrace her, how he had used such vulgar and vile words from her, how he had called her a poisonous gas ”methanol”, how she was the one who corrupted the atmosphere, how she had called her dirty thoughts, how everyone had simply greeted her and expressed their intimacy, yet she had thought of it as a dirty transaction of the body. More than once, he had experienced Qin's venomous tongue, and Tang Xiaoning could only be more obedient now, not provoking the Devil's boss, lest all the assistants around her get scolded along with her.

Sitting at the side and reading the notebook that was already fully memorized, Tang Xiao Yi was thinking about the events of the night.

She was really afraid of meeting Zhong Yuqing, but this was her job, so she had to obey.

Because he didn't have the ability to resist.

Ever since she was young, Tang Xiaoyi knew that when faced with a situation where one was helpless and unable to resist, obedience was the only way out.

She might seem a little cowardly, but in her dark and miserable childhood and adolescence, the only way for her to survive and approach her dreams step by step was to submit to patience and effort.

She had tried to rebel against fate, but the result had been that she had almost died, together with her brother, nearly killed by those terrifying group of creditors.