84: Yan Baiwei's sense of unworthiness

Outside the restaurant, Yan Baiwei and Chen Qiu walked side by side along the roadside.

Recalling her father's increasingly despondent expression at the dinner table, she cast a reproachful glance at Chen Qiu.

"It's all your fault for being so evasive! You made my father anxious the entire time!"

Chen Qiu replied innocently, "You agreed to it too!"

"You just said you wanted to whet his appetite; I didn't know you had so many tricks up your sleeve."

Yan Baiwei gave a light huff.

Earlier at Binjiang No. 1, Chen Qiu told her that he couldn't offer help too directly, and Yan Baiwei naturally had no objections.

But she hadn't expected that during the dinner, Chen Qiu would deflect all of her father's various probes throughout the entire meal.

Yan Li kept winking at her, but Yan Baiwei couldn't do anything, so she could only ignore him.

She hadn't expected that Yan Li would get so anxious that he'd eventually lay his cards on the table!

"By the way, won't doing this cause trouble for you?"

Yan Baiwei knitted her willow-leaf brows together and looked at Chen Qiu with some concern.

She knew the importance of this project. The more important it was, the more people would be watching! Even the smallest issue could be seized upon and magnified by others!

"Trouble, huh..."

Chen Qiu's eyes flickered slightly.

Not to mention his absolute control over the industrial park as the President and chief planner.

Yan Li had said so much, but he hadn't responded to a single word. Even if there were trouble, it would be Li Cheng's problem, not his!

Even if Li Cheng turned on him, he wouldn't be able to find any faults with him.

However, if Li Cheng really dared to do that, Chen Qiu wouldn't mind pulling off his fig leaf and letting everyone see how much filth he had accumulated over the years that he hadn't cleaned up.

Seeing Chen Qiu lost in thought, and then seeing him nod seriously, Yan Baiwei immediately stopped in her tracks.

Chen Qiu said to her with a straight face, "Having a cold, beautiful woman by my side tempting me at every moment is indeed a big trouble!"

Hearing this, Yan Baiwei, whose pretty face had been solemn, saw her expression slowly stiffen.

She gave Chen Qiu a playful hit on the chest, let out a sigh of relief, and huffed, "I'm not tempting you!"

"But just by standing beside me, you're tempting me all the time."

As Chen Qiu's soft words reached her ears, Yan Baiwei clearly felt her heart pounding wildly.

Yan Baiwei's beautiful eyes drifted, and her pretty face burned hot.

She was somewhat glad it was nighttime; otherwise, with her fair skin, she would surely be blushing bright red.

She wanted to lower her head to avoid Chen Qiu's gaze, but was instead pulled directly by the waist.

"Mmm..." As her lips were captured, Yan Baiwei couldn't help but stand on her tiptoes.

A few minutes later, she leaned breathlessly against Chen Qiu's chest, her cold, beautiful eyes now hazy like water.

Yan Baiwei felt weak all over. She didn't understand why a mere clash of lips and tongues would leave her with such a numbing sensation, as if her strength had been drained away.

"Baiwei, the bed you bought for the master bedroom at Binjiang No. 1 should be quite sturdy, right?"

"The bed and mattress cost fifty thousand in total. Don't worry, it's definitely sturdy."

Yan Baiwei, feeling dizzy, answered subconsciously.

"I don't believe it. I want you to check it with me personally!"

Hearing this, Yan Baiwei finally realized what he meant. She poked Chen Qiu in the side, feeling a mix of shame and annoyance.

"If you want to check it, go jump on it yourself!"

She had previously imagined which girl Chen Qiu might sleep with on the bed she bought in the future; she hadn't expected that Chen Qiu would immediately invite her to start a round.

Yan Baiwei looked up at Chen Qiu, a look of suspicion appearing in her beautiful eyes.

"Did you have designs on me for a long time?"

Chen Qiu looked innocent and chuckled.

"I should be the one saying that. I don't know who it was this afternoon..."

Before he could finish, his mouth was blocked by red lips.

A hint of imperceptible complexity flickered in Yan Baiwei's beautiful eyes.

Although she confessed based on her feelings for Chen Qiu, the catalyst was still the fact that Chen Qiu was the President of the Cultural Industry Group.

No matter how much Yan Baiwei affirmed her feelings for Chen Qiu, this was an unchangeable fact.

And this left Yan Baiwei, an idealist, feeling constantly guilty toward Chen Qiu!

If Chen Qiu wasn't the President of the Cultural Industry Group and not someone her father urgently needed to win over, would she have had the courage to take that step?

In her heart, Yan Baiwei felt a sense of unworthiness!

A moment later, Chen Qiu asked again.

"Do you really not want to test the bed you bought?"

Yan Baiwei gave his chest a light tap, lowered her head, and said softly, "If I don't go home tonight... my father will overthink things."

If it weren't for that, she wouldn't resist checking the quality of the bed with Chen Qiu at all.

In fact, due to her inner sense of unworthiness, she was even more eager than Chen Qiu.

To her, this felt like a form of compensation for Chen Qiu.

Chen Qiu didn't force the issue and rubbed her head.

"Baiwei, you..."

"Call me Class Monitor!"

"Alright, Weiwei."

Half an hour later, the two returned to the restaurant.

They saw that Li Cheng and Yan Li were already flushed from drinking, with their arms around each other's shoulders. They were just one step away from calling each other brothers!

"President Chen!"

Seeing Chen Qiu, both of them immediately stood up.

"Did you and Uncle Yan have a good talk, President Li?"

"Haha, President Yan and I hit it off immediately. We had a great chat!"

Li Cheng replied immediately.

Yan Li also laughed, but he solemnly raised his glass to Chen Qiu and drained it in one gulp!

He wasn't stupid; he knew perfectly well who was doing the heavy lifting!

"Thank you for the introduction today, President Chen. If there is anything in the future that I, Old Yan, can help with, I will certainly not refuse!"

Chen Qiu smiled.

Just don't be reluctant when you hand your daughter over to me in the future.

"As for the engineering side, President Li is mainly in charge. You two can communicate more in the future."

After the three of them each had a drink, the dinner party broke up.

After saying goodbye to Chen Qiu, Yan Baiwei drove Yan Li home.

On the way, Yan Li was half-awake and half-asleep, only becoming a bit clearer after arriving home.

"Why did you drink so much?"

Tao Xia poured him a glass of hot water.

Recalling what had just happened, Yan Li became more spirited and excited.

"It worked! I didn't expect it to be this simple!"

Hearing this, Tao Xia was also full of surprise.

"It worked? How did it work?"

Immediately, Yan Li briefly described Li Cheng's attitude.

Even now, as he recalled it, he still found it somewhat unbelievable.

After Chen Qiu left, Li Cheng remained enthusiastic, looking like a completely different person from the aloof Li Cheng in his memories!

Even when he tentatively asked about the bidding direction for the industrial park, Li Cheng actually gave a definitive answer!

He was just one step away from patting his chest and guaranteeing that he would definitely allocate a project to him!

"Weiwei, this classmate of yours is truly incredible! To be able to make Li Cheng lower his stance like this..."

Yan Li exclaimed in wonder.

When he invited Chen Qiu to dinner, he thought that even if this young man was a President, he might not be able to suppress someone like Li Cheng.

He hadn't expected that he was the one who failed to recognize a superior person!

Judging from Li Cheng's attitude, this Chen Qiu was definitely a big shot!

"Weiwei, your relationship with Chen Qiu shouldn't just be classmates, right?"

Yan Li asked tentatively.

"Didn't I tell you? We also sat at the same desk for over two years."

Yan Baiwei said without changing her expression.

"Same desk? Why didn't you mention that!"

Yan Li's eyes widened, and he suddenly understood.

"No wonder he kept calling me Uncle Yan..."

Being desk-mates for over two years was indeed much closer than a normal classmate relationship!

Yan Li burped, his face flushed red.

"Weiwei, you can interact more with Chen Qiu in the future. A noble person like this might be able to give you a hand on your future life path..."

Yan Baiwei turned her head and said nothing.

"Alright, go take a shower and get some sleep."

Tao Xia, who was on the side, quietly looked at her daughter, her eyes flickering slightly.

No one knows a daughter better than her mother; she wasn't drunk!