Yan Yan - Chapter 26

Chapter 26 –  Milk

In Yuantang City, Haoyuan Group had a large number of investment projects. After meeting with the person in charge of these projects in the afternoon and hearing a lengthy report, Bai Xingfan went to take part in the business dinner, which lasted until ten o’clock that night. He sent a message to Su Yan after he left the hotel, but she didn’t respond, leading him to believe that she was already asleep and that he shouldn’t worry about her anymore.

The film and television city was located in a county town around Yuantang City. It was past eleven o’clock when the driver brought Bai Xingfan back to the Dongan Hotel. This hotel was owned by Haoyuan Group. The general manager of the hotel had been waiting for Bai Xingfan and personally sent him to the room.

The lights in the room were already on when the door was opened, but the general manager was not surprised and said to him respectfully, “Sir, have a nice night.”

Bai Xingfan thought before he came that they had switched on the lights for him, didn’t pay much attention, and went inside. The waiter followed behind him, brought his luggage in, and then left quickly. The general manager, who was standing outside, closed the door.

When the door was closed, Bai Xingfan, who was exhausted, heard a light noise in the bedroom. He frowned slightly, walked towards the bedroom, and was ready to open the door when Su Yan came out from the bathroom, only wearing a towel. Her long black hair was dripping wet. There were a few drops of moist water on the white and tender, slender arms, and the drops were dazzling.

Bai Xingfan’s throat tightened for an instant, and his jet-black pupils deepened a bit, like beast-smelling blood, but he had strong self-restraint and reacted quickly. He left the room and closed the door. He couldn’t take a risk by staying in the room for a second.

The moment he closed the door, he ordered in a deep voice, “Get dressed and come out to see me.”

Su Yan felt that his order was mixed with anger, which was exactly the case in fact.

He was indeed very angry, but not at her but at himself, because he hated this kind of behaviour that was on the verge of getting out of control.

He could control his own feelings and emotions, his own matters, before he met Su Yan. But now, as soon as he met her, his self-control would collapse, and his desires and emotions would be destroyed at once.

Before today, he encountered this situation many times: as soon as he opened the door of the hotel bedroom, there was a woman lying on his bed naked or wearing a set of sexy lingerie. No matter how they teased him, he would not have any desire or body reaction for them. Whenever this happened before, he would tell those women to leave and then punish the hotel manager severely. After being fined a few times, no one dared use such indecent means against him. However, Su Yan became an exception, and she was the only exception. She didn’t say a word; she just stood by the bed wrapped in a white towel, staring at him with big black eyes, which was enough to arouse his desire. At that moment, there was even a crazy impulse in his heart; he wanted to hold her on the bed, strangle her throat, put a shackle on her, and never let her fly away. But he loved her and liked her very much, so he was reluctant to hurt her, so he could only restrain his desire desperately, take care of her carefully, pamper her, and hope that one day she would be moved by him and stay by his side willingly.

Su Yan was in a state of bewilderment, not knowing why Bai Xingfan had suddenly appeared in her room. After a long time of bewilderment, her brain started to work again, and she immediately went to lock the door. Although she knew in her heart that Bai Xingfan would not do anything to her, she just felt uneasy. After locking the door, she quickly got dressed before going to dry her hair.

The door of the bedroom was facing the couch in the living room. As soon as Su Yan opened the door, she saw that Bai Xingfan was actually smoking.

‘He still smokes?’

After getting closer, Su Yan found that there was a black marble ashtray on the coffee table, and there were already several cigarette butts in it. Su Yan suddenly became unconvinced: ‘You have the nerve to say that drinking milk tea is not healthy for me? Are tar and nicotine healthier than creamer and flavour?’ Thinking this way, Su Yan couldn’t help but ask, “Is smoking healthier than drinking milk tea?”

“…” Bai Xingfan gritted his teeth and extinguished the unfinished half of the cigarette in his hand. In fact, he didn’t want to smoke at first, but the feeling of nicotine entering his lungs could stimulate his nerves and help him maintain self-control. Hearing Su Yan’s words, Bai Xingfan very skillfully pinched the cigarette, just as skillfully as he was exhaling the smoke.

Su Yan had heard people say that only experienced smokers could snuff out cigarette butts so skillfully. “You’re so young; why do you get into bad habits?” She sighed, saying, “Hey, it’s easy to get cancer.” 

“It can refresh you.” Bai Xingfan’s voice was dark and slightly hoarse.

Su Yan said confidently, “Milk tea can also refresh you.”

Bai Xingfan: “…” ‘So it’s because I asked her to drink less milk tea at noon today that she was so unconvinced?’

Bai Xingfan sighed helplessly, lifted the cigarette butt up with his thumb, and twirled half of the cigarette on his slender fingertips. Then he squeezed the cigarette butt and pressed the cigarette into the ashtray: “Speak, why are you here?”

He didn’t think she was the same as those women who threw themselves into his arms before, but he really couldn’t figure out why she would appear in his room in the middle of the night.

Su Yan was stunned for a moment. “I still want to ask you, why are you in my room?”

“Your room?”

Su Yan: “Yes, the crew has arranged it for me.”

Bai Xingfan instantly understood everything. “Your room?” Didn’t you live in this hotel a few days ago?”

“No.” After Su Yan replied, she understood what had happened. ‘It seemed the director misunderstood my relationship with Bai Xingfan and arranged the same room…’ Thinking that she wanted to bury her head in the ground. After she figured it out, she blushed a bit. The more she thought about it, the more embarrassed she became. She hurriedly defended herself, saying, “It’s not me! It has nothing to do with me, don’t get me wrong, I didn’t know beforehand!”

Bai Xingfan said in a deep voice, “I understand.”

Su Yan glanced at his face and tentatively asked, “Do you really understand? I think you are still a little unhappy…”

Bai Xingfan frowned slightly. “Is there?”

Su Yan: “Very much.”

Bai Xingfan: ” …”

He was indeed unhappy, but it was not the reason Su Yan thought, but the reason that he lost his self-control. And he knew that Su Yan was not a woman to climb onto his bed to get anything. Just like the nightingale he once kept in captivity, no matter how many roses he laid for it, it would not care.

Su Yan thought Bai Xingfan was still doubting herself, so in order to prove her innocence, she made a decision. “I’m leaving now!” After she finished speaking, she went back to the bedroom to pack her things.

Bai Xingfan looked at her and said softly, “Once you walk out of this room, your treatment by the crew will become worse again.”

Hearing that puzzled Su Yan, she glanced at Bai Xingfan.

Bai Xingfan had no choice but to explain. “They made such an arrangement, which means that they regard you as my person. If you leave this room, it means that you are not.”

Su Yan understood the meaning of those words clearly. She remembered how the crew treated her before Bai Xingfan came today. They had misunderstood that he and she were lovers. But if she left the room or Bai Xingfan left the room tonight, the crew would learn the truth, and she would be treated again as an unknown screenwriter. ‘What should I do then?’

Su Yan was caught in a dilemma. Although she didn’t want to go home a loser, how could a lonely man and a lonely woman live in the same room? No matter how she thought, she felt that it was inappropriate. ‘What if there is someone between the two of us who can’t hold back?’ She couldn’t even guarantee whether the person who suffered the loss was herself or not. She had no idea at all, so she could only ask Bai Xingfan, “Then, what do you say?”

Bai Xingfan said, “I’ll sleep on the sofa tonight.”

Su Yan is very embarrassed. How could she take the bed? “No, let me sleep on the sofa.”

Bai Xingfan: “I will go back to Dongfu early tomorrow morning, which will affect your rest.”

Su Yan: “No, I also wake up early. So I can sleep on the sofa!”

Bai Xingfan remained silent, looking at her expressionlessly. His pupils were pitch-black and bottomless, and his thin, light pink lips were drawn into a line. The whole person looked extremely stern, not angry or pretentious, and Su Yan suddenly felt an irresistible sense of oppression. He gently opened his lips. “Go to sleep obediently.”

Su Yan stopped clamouring, nodded obediently, ran back to the bedroom, and closed the door.

Bai Xingfan sighed, stood up from the sofa, and went to get his suitcase. He had just put the suitcase on the floor in front of the coffee table when the door to the bedroom opened again. Su Yan walked out with a quilt in her arms and said, “There is actually a set of bedding in the cabinet; this set is made of pure cotton.”

The set on the bed was made of silk.

Bai Xingfan squatted next to the suitcase and explained while arranging his things. “Some people are allergic to silk fabrics; some don’t like the texture of silk; and some only like to sleep on pure cotton beds. Almost every day, customers ask for a replacement, so the hotel staff put a spare set in the cabinet.”

“It’s quite humane.” Su Yan put the quilt and pillows on the sofa and asked curiously, “How do you know so much?”

Bai Xingfan sighed. “I used to be an intern at a hotel.”

Su Yan was shocked. “Huh?” “

My parents cut off my living expenses as soon as my eighteenth birthday passed.” Bai Xingfan closed the suitcase and stood up from the ground. “I can only find my own way out.”

Su Yan was amused. “Is it easy to plan?”

Bai Xingfan also smiled. “It’s okay; after being introduced by an acquaintance, I went to the hotel for an internship at the grassroots level, and the monthly salary was yuan 1,500.”

Su Yan: “Who is the acquaintance?”

Bai Xingfan: “My grandfather.”

Su Yan’s eyes widened again. “In your own hotel?”

Bai Xingfan: “No, my grandfather’s friend’s. Grandfather didn’t let me go to his hotel, fearing that his employees would not dare manage me.”

Su Yan: “…” ‘What a cruel family!’ She asked very worriedly, “Is the tuition fee also cut off?”

Bai Xingfan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “How is it possible?”

Su Yan breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s right.” Then she asked, “Is a salary of 1,500 yuan enough for you?” ‘For ordinary college students, 1,500 yuan should be enough, but for himself, for the young master who is well-clothed and well-fed, it should be a little too little, right?’

Bai Xingfan said it honestly. “It’s not enough.”

Su Yan: “Then what did you do?”

Bai Xingfan smiled bitterly. “Fortunately, I still had some savings.”

Su Yan couldn’t help laughing. “It’s so pitiful.”

Bai Xingfan frowned. “Miss Su’s expression doesn’t seem to be pitying me.”

Su Yan rubbed the tip of her nose in embarrassment and quickly changed the subject. “How long have you been an intern at the hotel?”

“Until I figured out the management process of the hotel,” Bai Xingfan said while recalling, “then I was transferred to a financial company under my own group, and then a film and television company, a tourism development company… They all started at the grassroots level.” In short, he took turns doing internships at several major subsidiaries of the group.

‘It sounds so tiring. Being an heir is not an easy task.’  Su Yan couldn’t help but feel pity for Bai Xingfan. “Is the internship very busy? Did it affect your studies?”

Bai Xingfan: “It didn’t affect my studies. I used the time of my vacation to do an internship before graduation.”

“Oh.” Su Yan asked again, “Where did you go to university?”

“New York University for a bachelor’s degree, Harvard Business School for a master’s degree.”

Su Yan: “…” ‘I shouldn’t have asked such a question!’ She decisively decided to change the subject. “You also graduated two years ago?”

Bai Xingfan sighed lightly: “It’s been four years since I graduated.”

Su Yan’s eyes widened again. “You graduated when you were twenty-two? Didn’t you still go to graduate school?”

Bai Xingfan: “Undergraduate is not difficult; it took me only two years to complete all the credits.”

Su Yan: “…” ‘You sound like it made people like me, who finished my undergraduate course in four years, look like little fools!” I really can’t talk anymore today!’ Su Yan felt frustrated, and she gritted her teeth and forced a smile. “Then, Mr.Bai, good night. I’m going to bed.” Then she turned and left.

Bai Xingfan froze in place, looking at her back in bewilderment, completely unaware of how he had made her angry. The moment the bedroom door closed, he let out a long sigh, threw the home clothes in his hand on the sofa, and started to unbutton his shirt. As the collar of the shirt was opened a little bit, his white and firm chest muscles and well-textured abdominal muscles were gradually revealed.

The moment the button at the bottom was undone, the bedroom door was suddenly opened again. Su Yan walked out from inside and then froze in place. Her pupils dilated instantly, and she stared blankly at Bai Xingfan, holding a bottle of milk in her hand. This time she came out of the bedroom to deliver a bottle of milk to Bai Xingfan because the milk would help him get a good sleep. Who would have known that this time he had started to change his clothes?

Bai Xingfan sighed and fastened the buttons again. “What’s the matter?”

Su Yan: “I, I…” She originally wanted to say, My bottle of milk can help you sleep well. But the scene in front of her was so exciting that her language system was seriously disordered, so what she said became: “This bottle of good milk can help me sleep with you.”

Bai Xingfan: “…”

Su Yan: ‘What did I say?’

End of chapter 26

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