The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

"I have to go somewhere, so I will not stay for too long." Lanni made an excuse to leave since she had already done her part. "See you again, Youyou."

Qiao Linyou didn’t mind the intimate form of address since it was what her fans were fond of calling her. "See you soon."

"Your friend is so kind." She smiled when Lanni had left.

Ah Chen was surprised that she was speaking kindly about any woman. he frowned slightly as she wondered what in the world was going on, but he didn’t ask about it. "I told you. She’s a great friend too."

"Yes." She responded yet again, and Ah Chen was puzzled. She was not riled up?

...

"What’s your progress?" Lin Jian asked when Lanni gave him a call later.

"It’s just been a day. What can I have done in one meeting?"

"I want to know how close you are to your goal." Retorted Lin Jian.

"She might be starting to trust me. But then again, it’s only been a day." Lanni paused as she thought about how possible it was for Qiao Linyou to be putting on an act to deceive her. What if she thought that she was convincing Qiao Linyou when it was the other way round and she was walking into a trap? The former was an actress after all.

In response to her words, Lin Jian snickered. "How lame. I cannot believe that you are relying on that."

"It will work, trust me." Lanni stretched her limbs as she was tired after sitting up for too long. "Which makes me wonder just how it was possible for you to lose such a perfect hand of cards. You were her boyfriend after all, you could have used the chance to find out everything there is to find out about her."

"What makes you think I would stay with a woman for longer than necessary just to investigate her?" Lin Jian snickered, and Lanni laughed at his tone.

"Don’t let Ruby hear that."

As soon as her words were out, she heard a knock on the door of her room. She was at Li Yuming’s villa, and she knew that not many people could come to her room. Her mother was out while Luna had gone to meet a wedding planning agent, so it was probably a maid. Even so, she decided to use the chance to poke fun of Lin Jian. "Someone’s here. Don’t tell me it’s Ruby. Speak of the devil and she appears?"

"Don’t say anything you shouldn’t." Lin Jian said in panic.

"Then you have to bribe me to keep my mouth shut." Lanni chuckled and hung up to open the door. She was pleasantly surprised to see the guest at the door and jumped right into his arms. "Xiehan!"

"Did you miss me?" He wrapped his arms around her and entered the room with her.

Pulling away, she peeked along the corridor to ensure no one was watching before she quickly shut the door, not that anyone would poke their nose if they saw them enter the same room secretively. They were a couple after all.

"I’m so tired so I came over to rest." Xiehan explained his visit.

"Okay..." Lanni blinked as she wondered whether there were no beds in his mansion.

He sat on the bed and reclined onto a fluffy pillow. "come here, let me hug you to sleep."

"I don’t want to sleep." She tried to ignore her incessantly ringing phone as she declined him and sat in front of the desk beside the window.

"I want to sleep and you are my sleeping pill so come over." He insisted and held a hand out to her.

"Sleep on your own." She ignored his antics.

His brows furrowed when her phone rang the fourth time. It was beside him on the bed, and he looked down at it to see who it was that had the audacity to harrass his girlfriend. He was puzzled to see that it was Lin Jian, the blabber mouth.

"Is it okay if I answer it?" He asked, and she nodded. He slid a thumb across the screen and was about to say something when a rumble interrupted him.

"Lanni, my dearest friend-in-law, please don’t tell Ruby, okay? I will give you as many bonuses and days off as you want." He tried to coax her, even using one of the things that employees loved the most as bait.

"Is that so?" Xiehan asked in his deep voice.

The phone was on speaker so Lanni heard Lin Jian’s yell of surprise and she there her head back, laughing.

"What shouldn’t she tell Ruby? Are you cheating on my sister?" Xiehan’s tone was as threatening as that of a protective brother. As they expected, he had turned into one of those brothers whose sisters no one could dare to mess with.

"T-that’s not it. Future brother-in-law, Lanni and I were only talking about my past. I only love Ruby and will never think of cheating on her." Lin Jian frantically explained like a lamb trying to escape slaughter.

"Is it true?" Xiehan asked Lanni, who nodded and resumed laughing.

Xiehan hung up and chuckled. "Coward."

"You were only messing with him." Lanni laughed as she understood why he sounded so sternly earlier.

"Who told him to give my girlfriend so much work?" He explained.

Lanni was speechless. It turned out, he was only doing this to revenge on her behalf?

"Come here." He called, and when she went over, he hugged her like a fluffy pillow and closed his eyes to take a nap.

....

Since the supposed ban had been lifted, Moonlight Studios was soon back on track. In fact, the company had gained tremendous profit from the game Demons Vs gods in just a few days. It was all because the infringement case had made many people pay attention to the game and when it was resolved, there were floods of gamers downloading it to try it out.

Hence, the new applications had a great audience. In the end, Moonlight Studios earned 20% more profit than in the previous month.

Luna jubilantly held a meeting and when most matters had been talked about, she smiled in Cheng Yu’s direction. "You worked so hard, Xiao Yu. Take some days off to refresh yourself."

Cheng Yu would have been glad to hear that she was being given some time off but she shook her head when she thought about how Luna was nearing her third trimester. "You will not be okay on your own."

"I will. If I can’t do it, I will call you for help."

Cheng Yu knew that she was only trying to convince her and would not truly call her for help. Never mind, she would have Luna’s assistant check on her often, and report how Luna was fairing. As long as she found it a little harder than she could handle, she would be back in a flash. "Thank you, Luna."

Luna nodded then glanced at Cedric. "Cedric, take some days off too."

Cedric was sitting next to Cheng Yu. When he heard what Luna said, he dipped his head to whisper to her, "We both know what the boss is suggesting, let’s not let her down."

Cheng Yu silently smiled, and he knew that she understood it. "Let’s plan out a vacation then. Where do you want to go?"

"An island..." She whispered and her voice trailed off when she felt Luna’s gaze on her.

"Let’s simply contact a planning agency." Cedric suggested.

"Silence." Luna said in the direction of the love birds. They did know that they were still in a meeting, right? She wouldn’t mind it if it was just the three of them, but it would be horrible if the other employees thought it was alright to chatter in a meeting.

"We cannot all take time off work at the same time, so the rest of you will get bonuses and salary increments."

"Thank you, Miss Xia." They chorused.

"It’s not time to slack off since our competitors are going to work hard. Let’s work harder. The aim is to double the profit within the next quarter." She stated as she gazed at them.

"That sounds impossible." Shouted one of the employees.

Luna glanced at him. "No it isn’t. The fact that Moonlight Studios still exists is proof of that, is it not?"

No one else said anything to oppose her words.

"The meeting is adjourned." She announced and prepared to leave the conference room. The employees waited for her to leave first, and she had just reached the door when they began to chatter.

"Does Boss have a baby brain?" She heard someone yell.

She turned to the group of employees closest to the front door. "Who said that?"

Her tone was so stern that the others reflexively looked at a young woman in a ponytail.

Luna saw her trembling but did not flinch. "You are fired." She then turned to the others. "I will not tolerate anyone disrespecting me."