Chapter 89: Those Named Xiao and Dogs Are Not Allowed Inside!

When he heard this, the man’s expression darkened. “What are you all good for? Have the head of the network administration department come to the company at once. If he is not there before I arrive, then he need never appear again.”

With that, Xiao Xuezheng cast one last grim look toward the airport exit. After failing once more to see the little woman’s figure, he pressed his lips into a hard line and strode straight toward the underground parking garage.

...

By the time Xiao Xuezheng had finished dealing with the group’s system hack and left the security department, it was already ten at night.

The moment he returned to the CEO’s office, the female secretary came over with his phone and apologized, saying, “CEO, I’m sorry. You were busy just now, so I didn’t dare disturb you. Your phone kept ringing, and later I worried it might be something urgent, so I answered it for you. But the person on the other end said only a single sentence before hanging up. After I checked the caller ID, I realized it was Madam...”

At that, Xiao Xuezheng froze, his dark brows tightening at once.

Bad news.

He had forgotten that little fool was still at the airport.

Taking the phone, Xiao Xuezheng glanced at the screen. It was just after ten. From the five o’clock pickup he had mentioned until now, a full five hours had passed.

That little fool had been waiting for him at the airport all this time?

Thinking of this, something in the man’s heart softened, as though brushed by a spring breeze, and a trace of warmth rose within him.

Ever since that incident when he was eighteen, there had never again been a woman who treated him like this...

He dialed the number at once.

Very quickly, the call was answered, though the voice on the other end carried a distinct tremble of tears, together with unmistakable anger and grievance.

“Little fool, haven’t you gone home yet? Still waiting for me?”

At the sound of that teasing voice, Shi Runrun, clutching the phone, shook all over. She could not help but shout into it, “You’re the fool! Your whole family is full of fools! Xiao Xuezheng, I must really be hopelessly stupid to come pick you up! Bastard! You bastard! I’m never speaking to you again!”

With that final roar, Shi Runrun snapped the call off with a slap.

The man on the other end was left speechless.

After a long moment, he could only curve his lips in a helpless, wry smile. Calling her a little fool was no exaggeration at all.

She had called his whole family fools—wasn’t she part of that family too? Silly girl, she had cursed herself in as well.

Still, hearing that she had cried made his heart ache.

He put the phone back in his pocket and instructed the secretary, “Madam is angry with me at the airport. Send someone to fetch her right away, apologize to her, and explain things. If you can’t make Madam forgive me, then you needn’t come to work tomorrow either.”

The secretary: “...”

She immediately began to tremble.

She wanted to say, CEO, what does Madam being angry with you have to do with me?

The secretary truly felt she was taking the blame while lying down.

...

Airport.

Shi Runrun stumbled out of the exit in a daze.

She clutched her phone, her whole body shaking, her little face soaked with tears, and beyond that, flushed with fury.

She felt she had been played.

Played badly.

That horrible man had clearly told her to come pick him up, yet he himself had left long before, leaving her waiting here for nothing all this time.

But waiting that long was not the worst of it. The most important thing was that at nine o’clock, the airport broadcast had begun repeatedly announcing an aviation accident involving just the flight from America.

She had been terrified, convinced that his long absence meant something had happened to him.

So she had run up and down the airport, asking staff everywhere, afraid he might be on that plane.

She had been frantic beyond measure.

She had kept calling him, but he would not answer. When the call finally connected at last, it was a woman’s voice that came through.

As a wife, who could bear that in such circumstances?

Shi Runrun had hung up on the spot, feeling as though she had been foolish to the extreme.

He stood so high above her that if he wanted company, what women could he not have? Yet he had specifically chosen someone like her to come pick him up.

As she walked, Shi Runrun swore she would never speak to that bastard again.

...

After leaving the airport, Shi Runrun was thinking about how to get home.

At this hour, the airport shuttle was long gone. She could only take a taxi again.

At that thought, her “hatred” for that certain bad man deepened to the limit.

And she had wasted several hundred yuan on taxis there and back!

Shi Runrun declared that if she ever spoke to him again, she would be a dog.

Just as she stood by the roadside, shivering in the cold wind while hailing a cab, a black commercial van pulled up in front of her.

The female secretary from earlier got out and hurried over, saying respectfully, “Madam, I’m terribly sorry to have kept you waiting. The CEO asked me to come pick you up and take you home.”

“You are?” Shi Runrun looked at her guardedly.

Breathless, the secretary said, “I’m CEO Xiao’s personal secretary, Madam.”

“Xiao Xuezheng sent you?”

The secretary nodded. “Yes.”

Hearing that, Shi Runrun pressed her lips together. The anger in her heart did not lessen at all; if anything, it only grew heavier.

So even the secretary by his side was this beautiful.

No wonder. What was she worth?

No wonder no matter how she called, he would not answer. She simply was not important to him at all...

Shi Runrun felt miserable and deeply wronged.

She said coldly to the secretary, “No need. I’ll go back myself. Tell Xiao Xuezheng not to come home tonight! He can just die out there!”

With that, Shi Runrun, for once, stood her ground. She firmly rejected the secretary, turned without looking back, and left to take a taxi.

The secretary was left in the wind, utterly bewildered and trembling.

“Madam, if you do this, the CEO will fire me...”

With no other choice, the secretary could only return dejectedly and report everything Shi Runrun had said to Xiao Xuezheng.

On the road, inside the Bentley.

Xiao Xuezheng leaned back in the rear seat, eyes half-lidded, listening to the secretary’s report. A faint smile curved his lips. “So the little fool has quite the temper.”

Seated in the front passenger seat, the secretary looked at her boss through the rearview mirror and said nervously, “CEO Xiao, it seems Madam is angry because I answered your call. What should we do?”

The curve of Xiao Xuezheng’s lips lifted even higher. He raised his eyes and asked, “When you women are angry, how do you usually want your husbands to coax you?”

The secretary thought for a moment, then said, “Flowers, gifts, diamonds! Women can hardly resist those!”

At once, the man made his decision. “Go to the nearest flower shop and mall. Buy a bouquet of ninety-nine roses with dew on them and a one-hundred-carat diamond ring, then go home.”

The secretary: “...”

One hundred carats...

CEO, are you trying to break Madam’s finger?

...

Shi Runrun felt that tonight had been utterly miserable.

Not only had she waited at the airport for five or six hours, not only had she worried herself sick over him, she had also spent several hundred yuan on the taxi ride home.

She truly felt like the ultimate sucker.

She was so angry that when she got home, she did not even eat dinner. She went upstairs and into the bedroom.

The very first thing she did in the bedroom was write a note and stick it on the door. On it she wrote: No entry for anyone named Xiao or for dogs!

Then, with a bang, Shi Runrun shut the bedroom door tight, declaring that she would never again let that dog of a man into the room.

Shi Runrun really felt wronged and furious.

She had gone to such trouble, traveling all that way to the airport to pick him up, waiting there for more than five hours, even worrying that something had happened to him, constantly on edge.

And in the end, he had already left the airport long ago, with a beautiful woman by his side. Then what was she?

She was nothing more than a complete fool.

Shi Runrun declared that for the time being, she would not speak to him again. If she did, she would be a dog.