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Chapter 868 - 865: Assistant Becomes Love Rival?

Chapter 868: Chapter 865: Assistant Becomes Love Rival?

Although Uncle Guan cared about Tong Xiaohua and her family, after all, he was a man, and it was already quite good that he could pay attention to nutrition when it came to eating and drinking. As for beverages and drinks, he never really cared about them.

When Tong’s mother was at home, she would often send someone out to buy desserts and sugar water to bring back. Now that Tong’s mother wasn’t at home, Tong Xiaohua’s diet had become much more monotonous.

And having these meals with Yan Bo was, for Tong Xiaohua, the tastiest food she had had in a while.

At the moment, Tong Xiaohua came to Yan Bo’s home with the idea of improving her diet, which is why she was somewhat annoyed with Yan Bo for putting her in the role of the "villain."

Yan Bo, having received her glare, didn’t bother to explain and instead turned to Aunt Xin, who was holding fresh flowers, and said, "Aunt Xin, please put the flowers in my study room, thank you!"

After Aunt Xin entered the study room, Tong Xiaohua reached out and pinched Yan Bo’s arm, twisting it hard.

"You really did make me play the bad guy, I don’t want to, I am such a kind person!"

Yan Bo did not dodge, letting her twist his arm fiercely.

"Mr. Yan, it seems like the light in the study room is broken, could you see if there are any light bulbs to replace it?"

When Aunt Xin came out, she reminded Yan Bo.

Yan Bo then recalled that the light bulb had been half out since last night. He originally intended to have Di Xu call someone to replace it in the afternoon, but he forgot because of Tong Xiaohua coming over for dinner.

"We don’t have any at home, I’ll have Di Xu come over and change it tomorrow."

Tong Xiaohua hadn’t seen Di Xu but didn’t plan to ask, unaware that after Yan Bo finished speaking to Aunt Xin, he turned to explain to her.

"Di Xu is my assistant, if you can’t find me, you can look for him."

Tong Xiaohua was surprised for a moment, "It’s not that Di Xu, is it?"

Yan Bo raised an eyebrow, "Which one?"

He felt somewhat uneasy inside. When they first met, she knew nothing about him. Yet, the tone of her question just now sounded as if she was quite familiar with Di Xu.

"The influential figure from L University’s Department of Economics, who, I heard, won many awards for the school and published several influential papers in national professional journals while he was in school, is it him?"

Yan Bo really wanted to say it wasn’t, as the look of admiration in her eyes made him feel envious and resentful.

However, he couldn’t deny it.

Because his assistant Di Xu was clearly the same Di Xu she was talking about.

"That’s him indeed..."

Yan Bo replied unwillingly, and he could even detect a hint of sourness in his own voice.

"Really, it’s him? Ah! Ah! When can you introduce me to him?"

The usually calm and composed Tong Xiaohua turned into a fangirl in a second.

Yan Bo suddenly felt a sense of crisis, vaguely feeling that all his efforts might be in vain because of Di Xu!

"Yan Bo?"

Tong Xiaohua called out to him eagerly, her beautiful eyes filled with eager anticipation.

At this moment, Yan Bo wished he could bite his own tongue.

Why bring up Di Xu? If he had just replaced the light bulb himself, none of this would’ve happened, right?

Although Yan Bo had always been full of confidence in everything he did since he was young, never belittling himself.

But when it came to Tong Xiaohua, his reason and IQ seemed to have been eaten by a dog. Even if the shadow of a man fleetingly crossed her eyes, he would be on high alert, ready to enter a state of extreme vigilance at the slightest provocation.

"Can it be tomorrow?" Tong Xiaohua had no idea that Yan Bo’s heart was bleeding, and she kept pressing him to introduce her to the school senior she admired.

Yan Bo picked up his cup and gulped down most of the flower tea, finally cooling down a bit, then showed an expression as if he suddenly remembered something.

"Damn, I forgot, Di Xu is leaving on a business trip tomorrow morning, and it will probably take quite a few days for him to return."

Tong Xiaohua stared at him with a mix of belief and skepticism before finally saying with disappointment, "Then... we’ll just have to wait for him to come back from his trip!"

Yan Bo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "That’s the only way!"

Fearing she would bring up Di Xu again, Yan Bo put down his cup and turned his head to look at her.

"There should be quite a few books in my study room that would suit you, do you want to take a look?"

Tong Xiaohua’s attention was immediately diverted, she also put down her cup, and followed him into the study room.

Before entering, Tong Xiaohua had always imagined that Yan Bo’s residence would be styled with luxury.

After all, Yan Bo always dressed quite carefully, though not flashy, nor could one call it fashionable, but Tong Xiaohua could always discern from his attire a different kind of sophistication and taste compared to that of aristocratic family children like Ling Qingyun.

However, upon entering, what she saw was a living room that could be described as simple—the walls were plain white, the sofa was an ordinary camel-colored leather one, with a black coffee table, and a television hung on the wall.

After knowing that Yanhuang Real Estate was one of L City’s key enterprises this year, seeing that the residence of the company’s president was so simple was quite a shock to her.

Still, this surprise was something she only kept to herself.

After all, saying such a thing outright would be quite rude, wouldn’t it?

Because the impression of the living room was so austere, she assumed the study room would look much the same—probably, just a large desk and then a bookshelf with a sparse array of books just for show, nothing more.

But when she stepped into the study room and spotted the roomful of books, her eyes went wide.

"So many books!"

If she hadn’t known in advance this was his study room, she would have thought she had walked into a corner of a library.

"All these are books I bought overseas in the past few years. I couldn’t bear to part with them when I came back to the country, so I just had them shipped here."

Tong Xiaohua thought to herself that indeed, only the wealthy could afford such whims!

The cost of shipping them from abroad could probably have bought all these books again, right?

However, Tong Xiaohua’s silent ridicule was swallowed when she saw the books themselves.

Because she saw many books in English or in other scripts that she couldn’t understand on the shelves, which she guessed were originals.

"Yan Bo, have you read all these books?"

He couldn’t possibly know five languages, could he?

Just from her quick scan, there were at least six or seven different languages represented.

Yan Bo humbly shook his head, "No, not all of them..."

Tong Xiaohua tilted her head and looked up at him, and in this moment, she truly regarded him with an admiring gaze.

"So how many do you know?"

Based on what she knew about him, if not five languages, there must be at least three.

Yan Bo seemed to count silently before responding, "I’m fairly proficient in three, as for German and Russian, I only know a little bit of conversation; anything more profound would require a translator."

Tong Xiaohua immediately felt like she, just starting university, was standing in front of him as if she were an illiterate from some remote mountainous area.

She’d always known he was impressive, but she hadn’t realized he was quite this impressive.

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