OFCC – Chapter 88

The great President Yi, led astray by beauty, was on some phone call in the hospital room. Mu Yanxi waited for a long time, but Yi Wulan didn’t finish. So, she familiarly opened her email on the computer and started reviewing the documents Gu Yan had sent over for the day.

She happened to see a project collaboration between Rongjia and Xinyu, which still followed the old formula of Rongjia providing the effort and Xinyu providing the funds.

Mu Yanxi remembered Mu Yanqing’s occasional jokes about having her tamper with documents. Since it was still early, she couldn’t resist making a copy of the file and started editing the terms.

Yi Wulan came out of the bedroom at some point, but Mu Yanxi was so focused on her edits that she only noticed Yi Wulan’s presence when she sat down beside her.

Mu Yanxi was just changing Xinyu’s profit share from the original thirty percent to ninety. Yi Wulan let her mess around, simply pulling Mu Yanxi gently into her arms.

Now, it was Mu Yanxi’s turn to feel a little embarrassed.

Yi Wulan reached out and swiped on the computer’s trackpad. After seeing the other altered data, she was silent for a few seconds before suddenly asking, “Just humoring Mu Yanqing?”

Mu Yanxi didn’t expect Yi Wulan to guess the reason so quickly. On top of that, being held in her arms, she lost all courage to hide it and answered with a bitten lip, “Mhm.”

“You can also change the interest clause for the funds. Multiply it a few times, your sister should be happier that way.” Yi Wulan scrolled to a section of the document and pointed.

Mu Yanxi did as she was told, moving the decimal point of the overdue interest one place to the right.

But she found it so novel that Yi Wulan would do something like this with her, so novel that it made her feel unsettled. She gave a vague response and studied Yi Wulan with suspicion.

After she finished editing, Yi Wulan asked softly, “What else do you want to do?”

“Huh?” Mu Yanxi was a bit dazed, for once unable to understand Yi Wulan’s words.

Yi Wulan clarified, “After I’m discharged from the hospital, what else do you want to do?”

Mu Yanxi was suddenly at a loss.

When she was first reborn, she wanted to change the original plotline, destroy the original protagonist’s career, save Yi Wulan’s life, and keep the people she wanted to keep by her side to prevent the tragedy from happening again.

But now that everything was developing as she wanted, Mu Yanxi didn’t know what she should do next. She said tentatively, “Um… have a wedding?”

“Alright.” Yi Wulan agreed, her hand gently stroking Mu Yanxi’s long hair. “Anything else?”

Mu Yanxi racked her brain for a long time but found that there was nothing in particular she wanted to do.

She was already very content with Yi Wulan being alive and healthy.

Before, when Yi Wulan’s legs were incapacitated, they rarely appeared in public. Later, because the injury in Yi Wulan’s brain hadn’t healed, Mu Yanxi rarely left Yuncheng either.

At that time, she had indeed thought about all the places she wanted to go and have fun once Yi Wulan recovered.

But the moment she thought about the mountain of tedious work at Rongjia, Mu Yanxi instantly lost all interest in going out to play.

She said listlessly, “There’s nothing I particularly want to do, but there is something I particularly don’t want to do.”

Yi Wulan was puzzled. “What don’t you want to do?”

Mu Yanxi suddenly turned around, kissed the corner of Yi Wulan’s mouth, and smiled. “Of course I don’t want to attend meetings or read documents.”

She had expected to get a ‘You’re not taking things seriously’ from Yi Wulan, but to her surprise, Yi Wulan just chuckled softly. “Alright, then we’ll ignore it.”

Mu Yanxi froze, looking at Yi Wulan in astonishment.

The previous President Yi was someone who treated work as her wife, wishing she could be buried in it twenty-four hours a day. She would never say something with such strong personal emotion.

Although Mu Yanxi was feeling lazy, she wasn’t someone who would neglect her duties.

After the enterprise version of the holographic technology was introduced and promoted at the financial summit, Rongjia’s orders had increased substantially. Adding that to the products that had already been launched, the lower-level employees could still take weekends off, but Rongjia’s management hadn’t had a day off since the new year, and there was no telling how long that would last.

Even if Yi Wulan was well enough to handle things now, she didn’t want to make Yi Wulan so busy, as if she were abusing a patient.

Mu Yanxi leaned in and kissed Yi Wulan’s cheek again, asking, “Was that call you just took from Rongjia?”

Yi Wulan said, “Mhm, to share some of your burden.”

Mu Yanxi teased, “First you fool around with me in the hospital room, and then you’re already working so hard for Rongjia. If Doctor Xiusina knew, she’d be furious with such a troublesome patient.”

Yi Wulan didn’t respond to Mu Yanxi’s ‘furious with Doctor Xiusina’ comment, instead reminding her, “You have other things to do.”

Mu Yanxi said warily, “Didn’t you just say I don’t have to do anything?”

Yi Wulan reminded her, “Our wedding. You will be in full charge of planning it. Whatever style you want, it’s all up to you.”

Mu Yanxi’s teasing expression faltered. The word ‘wedding’ seemed to suddenly fill her heart, so full that she felt a little overwhelmed. After blinking blankly a couple of times, she pressed against Yi Wulan’s lips and asked hesitantly, “Then… you’re not going to do anything?”

Yi Wulan thought for a moment and replied, “Mhm, just do it according to your preferences.”

Unlike the little peacock Mu Yanxi, Yi Wulan had never had many material demands. Besides, with Mu Yanxi’s aesthetic sense, nothing could possibly go wrong.

Who knew that as soon as she finished speaking, Mu Yanxi couldn’t help but burst out laughing, her eyes filled with a sly smile. She leaned in, wrapped her arms around Yi Wulan’s neck, and bit her on the mouth, complaining, “Yi Wulan, doesn’t that mean I’m getting the short end of the stick?”

Yi Wulan steadied Mu Yanxi’s waist, not yet reacting. “What?”

Mu Yanxi kissed Yi Wulan while chuckling and teasing, “I plan the wedding myself, and then I deliver myself to you? President Yi, you truly are a ruthless capitalist. Your calculations are impeccable.”

Yi Wulan was at a loss for words. She opened her mouth but didn’t know how to explain.

At first, Mu Yanxi just found it fun to tease Yi Wulan and smugly added a few more comments. She didn’t expect Yi Wulan’s gaze to gradually shift downward, and even her not-quite-hidden ears took on a faint pink hue.

How very novel.

Mu Yanxi reached out, brushed aside Yi Wulan’s hair, and poked the tip of Yi Wulan’s warming ear. She held back for a few seconds before finally breaking. “Yi Wulan, you, you’re shy? Oh my god, oh my god, is the sun going to set in the east?”

Although Yi Wulan’s ears grew redder, her glance was as cool as ever. If Mu Yanxi hadn’t keenly spotted her ears, she probably wouldn’t have noticed Yi Wulan’s abnormality.

Yi Wulan followed Mu Yanxi’s posture, lifting her up by the waist. Startled, Mu Yanxi quickly clamped her legs around Yi Wulan’s waist.

Although Yi Wulan loved to hold her, and it was usually for short distances, at most from one end of the room to the other, Mu Yanxi had always enjoyed Yi Wulan’s embraces with a clear conscience.

But this was the first time she’d been held in this position. It made her feel completely insecure, and her survival instincts kicked in, making her cling to Yi Wulan like an octopus. “Yi Wulan, put me down quickly.”

Yi Wulan ignored her, kicked open the door to the hospital room’s bedroom and walked in.

Mu Yanxi rested her head on Yi Wulan’s shoulder and teased, “Yi Wulan, you couldn’t be angry from embarrassment, could you? Hey, be careful not to drop me. Where are you taking me? Don’t tell me you want to…”

Mu Yanxi paused, her fingertips gently stroking the roots of Yi Wulan’s hair. She suddenly moved closer to Yi Wulan’s ear and breathed softly, “Silence me?”

Yi Wulan’s steps faltered for a moment before she continued toward the sofa. The two rooms weren’t far apart, but the windows faced different directions. The sunset that couldn’t be seen from the living room was visible from the bedroom window.

Outside, it was already dusk. The green leaves outside the window were coated in a layer of golden light. Yi Wulan gently placed Mu Yanxi on the windowsill.

The sun was setting in the west, and a few stars were faintly visible, about to emerge. In the transition between dusk and starry night, a suspended sun slowly descended.

Mu Yanxi sat on the windowsill, leaning bonelessly against Yi Wulan’s back, and asked, “What did you bring me here for?”

“Look.” Yi Wulan didn’t explain further, just tilted her chin. “It’s in the west.”

Mu Yanxi straightened up slightly and looked at the sunset outside. It took her a long moment to realize that Yi Wulan was answering her ‘Is the sun going to set in the east?’ comment. When she came to her senses, she immediately turned sideways and collapsed against Yi Wulan’s chest, shaking with laughter.

The sun would still set in the west, and Yi Wulan would still be by her side, healthy.

The windowsill wasn’t wide, so Yi Wulan held onto Mu Yanxi to keep her from falling.

Yi Wulan didn’t mind being laughed at by Mu Yanxi. She just looked down at her quietly, letting her laugh until she was out of breath.

“Alright, the west, haha, I know it sets in the west.” Mu Yanxi wrapped her arms around Yi Wulan’s waist, rubbing against her front haphazardly. She even gnawed on Yi Wulan’s button until it was damp.

Mu Yanxi rubbed for a while but didn’t get down from the windowsill. Yi Wulan let her be, gently wrapping an arm around Mu Yanxi’s shoulders. “Are you in a better mood now?”

Mu Yanxi chewed on Yi Wulan’s button and mumbled, “I’ve been in a good mood the whole time.”

Yi Wulan suddenly reached out and grabbed the back of Mu Yanxi’s neck, pulling her head back to stop her actions. “Stop fooling around.”

Her voice held a distinct tremor.

“How am I fooling around?”

Yi Wulan steadied her voice before continuing, “But you weren’t in a good mood when you were chatting with Mu Yanqing on WeChat. You’ve been wronged these past few days.”

Mu Yanxi froze, looking at Yi Wulan in astonishment, trying to find any trace of some demon possessing her.

Did she hear that right? Not only was Yi Wulan not giving her a hard time over the evidence of her complaining to Mu Yanqing, but she was actually worried that she was in a bad mood?

But she had always just been running her mouth. She would say she blamed Yi Wulan, but in her heart, she knew that half the time Yi Wulan tormented her too much, it was because she herself had provoked it.

Mu Yanxi studied Yi Wulan’s expression and found that she was as serious as could be. She even frowned and said, “Don’t keep bringing up divorce all the time.”

Just a moment ago, she seemed like she was trying to cheer her up, but the words that came out of her mouth instantly reverted to the old, lecturing traditionalist she used to be.

It seemed she wasn’t possessed by any demon; it was indeed Yi Wulan herself.

Mu Yanxi suddenly laughed. She hooked her arm around Yi Wulan’s neck, pulled her down, and rubbed her forehead against Yi Wulan’s, smiling as if she were acting spoiled. “But do you know how expensive I am to keep? I’ll give you another chance to think it over carefully.”

Yi Wulan played along, lowering her head. “There’s Rongjia.”

Mu Yanxi shook her head with a grin. “Not enough. My sister just said that your Rongjia Group has too little liquid capital. What if I suddenly want to buy an island?”

Yi Wulan…

Yi Wulan seemed genuinely stumped by this question, frowning slightly as she thought it over.

Mu Yanxi couldn’t help but laugh out loud. The moment Yi Wulan came back to her senses, she suddenly leaned in and kissed Yi Wulan’s cool, thin lips.

During this time in the hospital, the fragrance on Yi Wulan’s body had been steeped in the smell of disinfectant, making it less distant but more serious.

Especially whenever Mu Yanxi was doing something intimate with Yi Wulan, this seriousness would take on a sense of secrecy.

“Good Elder Sister.” Mu Yanxi kissed the corner of Yi Wulan’s lips and said in a low voice, “The sun has gone down for its date. Shouldn’t we do something too?”

Yi Wulan’s brow furrowed. She reached out, grabbed the back of Mu Yanxi’s neck, and pulled her away, saying coldly, “I’ll have someone send dinner over. You should rest early.”

Since yesterday, she had cried from discomfort who knows how many times. Now that she was feeling a little better, she was starting to tease recklessly again.

“I’ll just send Chen Xu a message and have him deliver it in an hour, right? An hour is enough for us to go twice.” Mu Yanxi grabbed her phone from the side and sent a message. Seeing Yi Wulan’s more humane transformation after the surgery, she couldn’t help but want to defile this lofty flower once more.

After sending the message, she tossed her phone onto the sofa and wrapped her arms around Yi Wulan again. “I’ve already taken the initiative to invite you. With such beauty before you, does Elder Sister really not want it?”

The little peacock never hesitated to praise herself, not even batting an eye when boasting of her own ‘beauty’.

In any case, it wasn’t the first day Mu Yanxi had been thick-skinned. Ever since she had seduced Yi Wulan into bed, Yi Wulan had become easier and easier to tease. What’s more, Yi Wulan had just narrowly escaped death’s door, and both of them had been in excellent spirits these past two days. She didn’t believe Yi Wulan would refuse.

But what she didn’t expect was that Yi Wulan’s expression remained indifferent. After forcibly pulling her down from the windowsill, she pushed her into the sofa. “Don’t fool around. I’ll have someone bring food over.”

Mu Yanxi was utterly shocked, finding it unbelievable. She felt it was necessary to remind Yi Wulan, “Yi Wulan, did you forget what I said before my sister came? I said if you caught me with evidence, I’d let you do whatever you want with me. So why aren’t you hurrying up?

“Besides, this wasn’t your attitude last night, good Elder Sister. Something’s not right with you. You couldn’t be afraid that I’ll bring up that di… agreement again, could you? Don’t worry, don’t worry, I won’t bring it up again. I was just joking with you.”

After speaking, she grabbed Yi Wulan’s hand and refused to let go, shaking it back and forth to persuade her.

Yi Wulan…

Yi Wulan’s captured fingers curled up. She reached out and pinched the collar of Mu Yanxi’s messy nightgown, unhesitatingly pulling the low-hanging neckline up.

Mu Yanxi had thought Yi Wulan had taken her words to heart and was really going to do whatever she wanted with her. She had even cooperatively straightened her upper body to ask for a kiss.

But she never expected Yi Wulan’s fingertips to just lightly brush past her collarbone before covering her up completely.

Mu Yanxi looked at the unfazed Yi Wulan in disbelief. “Yi Wulan!”

“Don’t move around. I’ll have someone bring dinner over.” Yi Wulan pressed her bouncing body back into the sofa. “You should rest well these two days.”

Mu Yanxi…

Mu Yanxi didn’t want to eat, nor did she want to be quiet.

Mu Yanxi just wanted to be close to Yi Wulan.

But even if she wanted to be close, she needed Yi Wulan’s cooperation.

And she discovered that the special ability she got from Yi Wulan had the same effect as it used to have on her; a few hours of sleep could make her full of life and energy.

From her past life to now, Yi Wulan had rarely shown so much emotion in her daily life. She wanted to make up for the things she couldn’t do before after being discharged, she would awkwardly try to cheer her up because she complained to Mu Yanqing, and she would try to find a way when she said Rongjia’s cash flow was tight and couldn’t afford to buy an island on a whim.

Looking at this version of Yi Wulan, Mu Yanxi’s mind was filled with all sorts of colorful, dirty thoughts. She had no desire to do anything normal.

Yi Wulan had already picked up the phone Mu Yanxi had thrown on the sofa and was about to type, but the person in her arms kept struggling and moving around, even starting to undo her hospital gown with restless hands.

Not two seconds later, Yi Wulan put down the phone and pressed the whimpering Mu Yanxi back against the sofa.

Mu Yanxi rubbed against her for a while, and even the cowlick on top of her head seemed to have a mind of its own, sticking up randomly.

Yi Wulan looked down at her helplessly. “You really don’t want to eat?”

“What’s there to eat?” Mu Yanxi’s lips curled up, her paws continuing their restless tugging. “Eat me.”

The sofa suddenly sank under a force. The sofa was very close to the window, and Mu Yanxi reminded her in a small voice, “Yi Wulan, the, the curtains.”

Yi Wulan ignored her at first. It wasn’t until Mu Yanxi’s voice was tinged with sobs that she finally looked up and kissed away the moisture from the corner of Mu Yanxi’s eye, saying in a low voice, “It’s one-way glass.”

Mu Yanxi blinked blankly. “One-way glass?”

Yi Wulan acknowledged, but due to Mu Yanxi’s gaze, she still planted a heavy kiss on Mu Yanxi’s lips before getting up to draw the curtains as requested. “People outside can’t see in.”

Mu Yanxi… Why didn’t you say so earlier?

But soon, she had no mind to think about this question. Originally, Mu Yanxi was still feeling smug because she had once again stirred the emotions of this lofty flower, Yi Wulan.

But it wasn’t long before tears streamed down her face. “Sob… I want to eat, Yi Wulan, I… sob.”

Yi Wulan silenced Mu Yanxi’s voice, and after exchanging a kiss, she informed her mercilessly, “Too late.”

Mu Yanxi…

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Yi Wulan stayed in the hospital for a full month before completing the discharge procedures.

For the first half of the month, the hospital room was for Yi Wulan’s recovery. For the latter half of the month, the hospital bed seemed to have been commandeered by Mu Yanxi.

Instead, it was Yi Wulan, the patient, who worked diligently on the side.

At first, the two of them would pay attention to the timing of the rounds. Later, perhaps because of the bedsheets that were thrown out every day and the sofa that had to be replaced from time to time, even Doctor Xiusina would deliberately choose mealtimes to do her rounds.

On normal days, if she could avoid entering, she would.

If this weren’t a private hospital, and if Yi Wulan weren’t the only patient on the entire floor, Mu Yanxi would have probably died of embarrassment.

Upon discharge, after giving them a few instructions for the future, Doctor Xiusina was about to habitually add a ‘abstain from sexual intercourse’.

But on second thought, Yi Wulan had now recovered, and over the past few days, it seemed that this activity could put the patient in a good mood, thereby promoting recovery.

Doctor Xiusina’s gaze swept back and forth between the two of them. Before they got in the car, her words changed to, “If you have any other health problems later, you can contact me in time, and remember to come for regular check-ups. Also… I wish you both happiness.”

Mu Yanxi held Yi Wulan’s hand and waved at Doctor Xiusina.

After Yi Wulan was discharged, Mu Yanxi finally no longer had to go to Rongjia to look at those headache-inducing documents. Xinyu also hadn’t found any particularly promising projects for the time being, so she didn’t have to help Mu Yanqing negotiate collaborations.

She thought she would have time to think about the wedding arrangements, but she didn’t expect that these leisurely days would only last a few days before a succession of endorsement deals came knocking.

The first to arrive was Bai Yu’an, under the pretext of negotiating an endorsement deal for the new energy vehicle project. After a month, she had finally returned to Yuncheng.

The moment she saw Bai Yu’an, Eldest Miss Bai used all the acting skills she had to cry to Mu Yanxi about her parents’ behavior.

It was just that she wasn’t professional enough, and in the end, she couldn’t squeeze out any tears. Under Mu Yanxi’s increasingly disdainful gaze, she simply gave up and stopped acting.

At the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new energy vehicle, after Bai Yu’an went on stage for the ribbon-cutting and got some exposure thanks to Mu Yanxi’s maneuvering, Bai Yu’an’s parents completely changed their opinion of her, showing off the news to everyone they met.

At first, Bai Yu’an was very satisfied with that result. Her parents saw new hope in this project, felt that their daughter had grown up, and perhaps they wouldn’t need to find someone to support her, and Bai Yu’an wouldn’t squander the family fortune.

Therefore, Bai Yu’an was spared from blind dates.

But after a few days, just like how Yi Wulan had brought Mu Yanxi to Rongjia back then, Bai Yu’an was now being dragged to the company by her parents from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day to familiarize herself with the business.

In Bai Yu’an’s words, even her family’s dogs lived more like humans than she did.

Mu Yanxi at least had experience from her previous life, and she had studied a related major. But Bai Yu’an was different. Although she had also attended a prestigious foreign university, she had studied the abstruse and ethereal subject of philosophy.

Her level of thinking was too lofty to be easily associated with something as base as money.

Once it was, it was cataclysmic.

Just like with Bai Yu’an now, either Bai Yu’an would be gone, or the project would be gone.

If Bai Yu’an were given another chance, she would rather go back to the days of being disliked by her parents and having one blind date a day than suffer the torment of financial reports and project plans again.

After complaining to Mu Yanxi for a while, Bai Yu’an remembered that Mu Yanxi had once promised her that she would have Yi Wulan speak to her parents on her behalf.

Mu Yanxi asked, puzzled, “Didn’t you just want Yi Wulan to vouch for you, to prove that you were actually doing something substantial? Aren’t your parents completely convinced of you now?”

Bai Yu’an’s face fell, and she said dryly, “Could you have your Yi Wulan help persuade my parents? You can’t force a seedling to grow. It has to be a gradual process. My parents saw your speech at the financial summit and have been thinking that Yi Wulan taught you well. They admire her so much.”

Mu Yanxi… Sorry, this is my own skill, it has nothing to do with Yi Wulan.

Mu Yanxi took a deep breath, barely suppressing her temper, and remembered the real reason she wanted to find Bai Yu’an. “Favors don’t come for free. Yi Wulan is very busy.”

Bai Yu’an was quick on the uptake. “Then what do you want?”

“Nothing much, just a small favor.” Mu Yanxi cast her bait with a smile. “I remember your family used to be in the mining business and has some connections in jewelry. I want a rather good diamond, for a wedding ring.”

Bai Yu’an was flattered. She was clueless about company management, but when it came to buying jewelry, she was an expert.

Having been constantly suppressed by her parents these days, she was finally able to realize some of her own value. She immediately grabbed Mu Yanxi’s hand and said affectionately, “Yes, yes, I’ll definitely get you the biggest and most sparkling one!”

Mu Yanxi squeezed back with equal emotion. “Xiao An!”

Bai Yu’an said, “Xiao Xi!”

But Mu Yanxi’s gratitude lasted only a few seconds before she boldly made her demand: “I want it tomorrow.”

Bai Yu’an…

The expression on Bai Yu’an’s face froze. She said with difficulty, “Xiao Xi, since you’re specifically asking me for a diamond for your wedding, you surely don’t want an ordinary quality one, right? This kind of thing depends on fate. Sometimes it takes a year to find one.”

Mu Yanxi still held Bai Yu’an’s hand gently. “Xiao An, you studied abroad for so many years, and the fame of Eldest Miss Bai is known at home and abroad. Can a mere diamond be a challenge for you? I’ll give you three days.”

Bai Yu’an choked, looking at Mu Yanxi with an indescribable expression.

Mu Yanxi made a slight concession. “Then ten days, no more.”

In order to escape that pile of documents, Bai Yu’an cautiously probed, “Could you give me a few more days? How about half a month?”

Mu Yanxi calculated in her head. It was already April. The first half of the year was too rushed, but autumn was just right for wearing a wedding dress. Once she got the diamond from Bai Yu’an, she could immediately have a designer start working on it.

So Mu Yanxi, in a rare act of kindness, said, “I’ll give you a month.”

Bai Yu’an burst into tears, as if she had just hit the jackpot.

Then she heard Mu Yanxi say slowly, “Anyway, whenever you give me the diamond is when I’ll have Yi Wulan go talk to your parents for you.”

Bai Yu’an…

No sleep tonight. She’d be searching for a diamond all night.

Let it all be destroyed.