Early the next morning, Wang Yan returned to the office and saw Zhao Xinyao still clutching the mop, half-lying on the floor, muttering incessantly. Google seaʀᴄh ɴoᴠel Fɪre.nᴇt
At this moment, Zhao Xinyao's clothes were disheveled, barely covering much of her body.
The mop was pressed beneath her, soaking wet, while Zhao Xinyao's face was pale, her confused eyes deeply sunken, clearly having not slept all night and having indulged excessively.
Wang Yan walked in front of Zhao Xinyao, with a look of disgust in his eyes. Frowning, he lifted the mop with two fingers and tossed it aside.
Once the mop was taken away, Zhao Xinyao flailed her hands in the air wildly, muttering, "Brother Wang Yan, don't go, don't go."
Wang Yan said to Zhao Xinyao sternly, "Wake up."
With these words, Zhao Xinyao shuddered, the confusion in her eyes vanishing instantly, her gaze slowly focusing as she saw what lay before her.
Upon seeing Wang Yan, Zhao Xinyao immediately cooed, "Brother Wang Yan, you're amazing, staying up the whole night—"
With that, Zhao Xinyao tried to stand up and hug Wang Yan.
Zhao Xinyao lunged forward to embrace, but Wang Yan stepped back instantly, leaving Zhao Xinyao hugging air.
As soon as Zhao Xinyao tried to step forward to hug Wang Yan again, her legs gave way, causing her to fall back onto the floor.
This was naturally due to her long night of battling with the mop handle, leaving her legs too weak and soft to stand.
Sitting on the floor, Zhao Xinyao glanced at Wang Yan with dreamy eyes, half-shy, half-angry, "Brother Wang Yan, aren't you going to help me up? After a night of passion, you're just going to abandon me? Truly a heartless man."
Wang Yan blushed, thinking to himself: how did I get stuck with this blame?
Clearing his throat twice, Wang Yan said, "Well... tidy up your clothes first, I have something to say to you."
Lowering her head to look at her disheveled clothes, Zhao Xinyao swayed her body coquettishly before slowly pulling her clothes back in place.
Wang Yan said, "I now know you're absolutely loyal to me, so I've decided to entrust you with something very valuable."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Xinyao's expression turned excited, her already darkened eyes widened, her voice trembling slightly, "What is it?"
Wang Yan reached into his pocket, pulled out a key, waved it in the air, and said, "This is it."
"Where's this key for?" Zhao Xinyao hurriedly asked.
Wang Yan deliberately glanced at the painting on the wall behind the desk, but quickly withdrew his gaze, putting on a serious demeanor, he said to Zhao Xinyao, "No need to worry about that, just keep this key safe."
Zhao Xinyao was shrewd enough to catch Wang Yan's earlier glance. Without showing any emotion on her face, she hurriedly grabbed the key, feigned loyalty, nodded vigorously, and said, "Understood, Brother Wang Yan, rest assured."
Wang Yan let go of the key, saying, "Alright, I'll be off now. Remember, don't use this key."
At this point, Zhao Xinyao wished Wang Yan would leave immediately, giving a well-behaved nod, she watched as Wang Yan turned and left the office.
As soon as Wang Yan left the office, the obedient look on Zhao Xinyao's face disappeared. Pouting, she cursed in her mind: This guy is really wild, keeping me busy all night. But still, better than that wimp Li Zhe. Too bad, if Wang Yan had the money like Li Zhe, being his secretary would be quite thrilling. Unfortunately, his Peak Group won't last long.
With this thought, Zhao Xinyao leaned against the wall, slowly stood up, her legs still weak and trembling.
Forcing herself to ignore the soreness in her legs and the emptiness within, Zhao Xinyao shuffled step by step to the window, looking downstairs.
She saw Wang Yan indeed leaving the gates of Peak Group, walking off into the distance.
Seeing Wang Yan leave, Zhao Xinyao felt triumphant but muttered again, "That Wang Yan has so much stamina, kept me up all night, yet he's completely fine?"
But this thought only flashed in Zhao Xinyao's mind fleetingly before she thought, "Never mind him, he's still green, trusting me so much after just one night, humph, you don't want me to use the key, but I will."
With this thought, Zhao Xinyao shuffled to the painting behind the desk.
She flipped the frame open, only to see the same plain white wall behind it, nothing else.
Zhao Xinyao had already searched behind this painting yesterday and found nothing.
However, Wang Yan's glance earlier was indeed directed at this painting, indicating there must be something behind it.
Zhao Xinyao took down the frame, placed it on the ground, and tapped the wall with her fingers back and forth.
Sure enough, as her fingers tapped the wall behind the painting, it made a hollow "thud" sound.
Zhao Xinyao was delighted. It turned out to be hollow, there must be some mechanism behind the wall.
With this thought, Zhao Xinyao pressed and tapped blindly on the wall.
Whether by luck or intention, Zhao Xinyao's touch triggered something, and a one-foot-square section of wall suddenly popped open, revealing a white board identical to the wall.
Opening the white board, she found that the wall behind it was hollowed out, a safe embedded within the wall.
Delighted, Zhao Xinyao hurriedly took out the key given by Wang Yan, inserted it into the safe, and found that it fit perfectly.
Suppressing her inner excitement, Zhao Xinyao turned the key three times, hearing a "click" sound, and the safe door opened.
Eagerly pulling open the safe door, Zhao Xinyao found nothing inside except a lone scroll of silk.
With trembling hands, she picked up the silk scroll, unrolled it, and saw densely packed, tiny brush characters, each no larger than a pinkie nail, neatly arranged.
By now, Zhao Xinyao's vision was blurry from exhaustion, but she could make out the slightly larger two characters at the top of the scroll—prescription.
Seeing it was a prescription, Zhao Xinyao was immediately overjoyed, and combined with her excessive indulgence the previous night, she almost collapsed entirely, nearly sitting back down on the floor.
Summoning her last bit of strength, Zhao Xinyao stuffed the silk scroll into her clothing, hastily restored the safe and the frame to their original states, and hurriedly left Peak Group.
(Today will temporarily return to three updates, taking a day's rest, tomorrow is the weekend, Guo Ba will update more.)