Chapter 127: Chapter 127 — A Relative Comes Calling
"If you say so." He decided not to tease her further. "I just got off the phone with Mr Fen."
"Mr Fen?" Pei Yueran pondered. Who was that? "Do you mean Director Fen?"
"Not anymore. He's going to resign."
"Seriously? How did that happen? Is it because he's going to jail?"
"No. It's to avoid going to jail."
"Ah, I see. But why would you give him this chance? Won't it be better if he goes to jail? He could cause more trouble in the future you know."
"You're right. But the lawyers said what he did is not enough to send him to jail for a long time. If he finds a particularly good lawyer, he might only be asked to pay a fine. It made more sense to make him settle out of court, so that it would be on my own terms. Even if he tries to cause trouble in the future, I'll handle it."
"Oh, that's brilliant!" Pei Yueran agreed. "But how did you get him to agree so easily? It's been only a few weeks. I thought he would hold out till the date of the first trial at least."
"I have my ways." Li Chuanmo replied calmly. It was a piece of cake to make the police call him to the station every other day. He knew Fen Wucai cared very much about his reputation, so he just used that.
"You're such a smart boy. I'm proud of you." Pei Yueran said in admiration. She stretched out her hand to rub his head, but stopped at the last second.
Why did she almost do that? It was not like he was Xiao Chen, or even Yuchen for that matter. He was not her son!
Li Chuanmo raised a brow at her posture, then hooked her waist and planted her down on his thighs.
"Chuan, wh-what are you planning to do?" She stammered. He's always catching her unawares. She wasn't sure she could ever get used to that.
He looked at her, trying to put up an innocent look, before putting her hand on his head and making her pat it. "I wanted to make it easier for you to touch my head. What were you thinking?"
"Oh, no-nothing." Pei Yueran said guiltily. She was having bad thoughts towards a pure guy. But did he have a Mommy fetish? Why would he want her to pat his head? She shook her head to clear the ridiculous thoughts away.
Li Chuanmo, this 'pure guy' hugged her even as he tried to control his laughter. She was incredibly fun to tease. He was seriously getting addicted.
"Chuan, what are you thinking about?" He came out of his thoughts to hear her ask.
"That teasing you is becoming my addiction."
"Li Chuanmo!"
Looking at her call his name with mock anger, he laughed. "Sorry, I couldn't help it."
"You tease! Watch me discipline you." She said as she tickled his abdomen. His muscles were so hard that her fingers were hurting, so she moved up to poke his neck instead.
Apparently his neck was a ticklish spot, because he began to laugh and beg, "Stop please." Pei Yueran ignored him of course.
He then managed to grab her arms and pin them to the back with one hand. She was instantly at a disadvantage, and it was her turn to beg, "Please Chuan, don't."
He smiled as his hands drew closer. Just as he was about to tickle her sides, someone knocked. Pei Yueran hurriedly got up and tried to smoothen her hair.
It was over! She really would never be able to see the office as a sacred workspace again!
Sigh!
At this point, Li Chuanmo couldn't even get angry. It had happened so many times that he was numb. Or so he thought.
He still glared at Min Shiyi when she entered. For the first time, he considered sending her abroad for a business course or something. Anything to make her leave for while. Or maybe she should just take daily classes for an hour or two, somewhere away from the office? It would be better —
"Ch-chairman Li?" Min Shiyi spoke in a low voice. Why was the chairman looking at her that way, as if he wanted to feed her to the sharks? It made her tremble all over.
Pei Yueran cleared her throat in an attempt to wake him up. Why was he suddenly spacing out?
"What is it? What happened that you couldn't call and had to come in?" He finally spoke.
"I called sir, but it was not connecting."
Only then did Li Chuanmo remember that he unplugged the phone to prevent distractions. He sighed. "So what is it?"
"Sir, there's a lady at the reception desk causing a ruckus and demanding to see you. Security is trying to keep things under control, but she's drawing attention our visitors and we're afraid things might take a bad turn, that's why I came to report."
Li Chuanmo frowned. "Did she say who she is?"
"Not really sir. But she has been shouting and calling you by name sir."
He suddenly remembered something and tensed up. "Is it the lady that came by the other day?"
"No sir."
Li Chuanmo visibly relaxed, while Pei Yueran looked on in confusion. Which lady? Did something happen that he didn't tell her about?
"Alright, let's go and take a look."
Min Shiyi went out first, going to the employee elevator, while Li Chuanmo and Pei Yueran went on to use the special elevator. Both of them were busy with their respective thoughts, so the trip was made in silence.
Just as the elevator was about to open though, Li Chuanmo said. "Can we have dinner later tonight? I still have something I haven't told you." By this time, the elevator was opening up slowly.
Pei Yueran nodded and opened her mouth to agree, but the noise coming from the hall drowned out her voice. It sounded like a group of angry passengers at a bus station. They could already see a few people using their phones to record the scene.
Alarmed, they both hurried out to see a woman dressed like a typical village dweller shouting and pushing the security guards. Her back was towards them as she shoved a security guard until he fell down, shouting all the while.
Li Chuanmo was just about to berate the intruder when she turned.
Li Chuanmo froze.
The woman was not as affected. With her hands on her hips, she said, "Chuanmo, long time no see. Have you forgotten your Aunt now that you're a president?"
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