E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 215: Episode 215: The Fish Finally Took the Bait

Chapter 215: Episode 215: The Fish Finally Took the Bait

Although Xueshan Jiying no longer collaborated with Yuan Weicheng, Zhang Jingwan still maintained uninterrupted private contact with him.

One day, Yuan Weicheng invited Zhang Jingwan to dine at a Western restaurant he fancied.

"Wanwan, you don’t know, this Western restaurant’s beef, it’s all imported from Australia! The texture is simply beyond words!" As soon as they entered the restaurant, Yuan Weicheng enthusiastically began to introduce, "Especially their red wine, paired with the Australian beef, it feels like heaven on earth!"

Every time drinking, every time getting drunk first by herself, every time failing to get him drunk... Zhang Jingwan scorned inwardly.

In the past half year, Yuan Weicheng’s frequency of inviting Zhang Jingwan had been once or twice a month. Although they drank every time, he always very gentlemanly saw her off to take a taxi home.

Although his eyes often betrayed his immense longing and desire, aside from the initial invitation to a hotel and slipping a card into her pocket, he had never done it again.

The relationship between the two was like a game, a tug-of-war to see who would fall first.

Now it seemed that he was about to lose control. After the Qingming Festival in 2012, Yuan Weicheng invited Zhang Jingwan every two weeks, always taking her to various high-end restaurants, always paying the bill himself, and today he even brought her to a newly opened top-tier restaurant, with a demeanor that suggested he was determined to settle matters today.

"Have you ever brought your wife to this place?" Zhang Jingwan asked casually.

"Hey, didn’t we agree not to discuss family matters during our chats?" Despite their half-year acquaintance, whenever his wife was mentioned, he deliberately avoided the subject, closing up entirely.

"Wow... She’d be livid if she knew you brought me to such a fancy place to eat Australian beef!" Zhang Jingwan deliberately provoked Yuan Weicheng.

"Her? Humph, she would never come to a place like this. If she goes, she would fly directly to the country of origin..." Realizing he had said too much, Yuan Weicheng quickly shut his mouth and changed the subject, "Lately your Xueshan Jiying has been doing pretty well, huh? Its influence is quite broad, nearly taking over our market share?"

"Old Yuan thinks too much. How could our tiny company take your share?" Zhang Jingwan quickly played dumb and seized the opportunity to hook his arm.

"Then if I asked you to leave Zhou Xueyin’s tiny company to join mine, would you still be completely against it?" Yuan Weicheng doted and playfully tapped her nose, by now unconcerned about Zhang Jingwan making intimate gestures towards him, or rather, he seemed to thoroughly enjoy it.

"After all, Sister Yinyin has been kind to me, I am someone who remembers and repays kindness!" Zhang Jingwan said with a double meaning.

"Nice one about remembering and repaying kindness, so when will you repay me?" Yuan Weicheng’s gaze became ravenous.

"Aren’t I always repaying you? I’m always at your beck and call, aren’t I?" Zhang Jingwan read the intention in his eyes but still parried his advances.

"You..." Yuan Weicheng gently tapped her head.

The two specifically chose a sofa seat near the window, sitting side by side as they started to order.

"Old Yuan, this steak! Wow! It’s so delicious, tender yet firm, chewier than others!" Zhang Jingwan couldn’t stop praising, "Here, let me feed you... ah..."

She picked up a perfectly cut piece with her fork and held it up to Yuan Weicheng’s lips.

"Wanwan... um... ah..." Yuan Weicheng felt a bit embarrassed, but he had never been treated like this even by his wife, so he cooperatively opened his mouth.

"Steak fed by a young girl tastes better than what you get at home, right?" A voice, carrying a suppressed sob, emerged from across the table.

"..." Before Yuan Weicheng could taste the meat, he followed the direction of the voice, mouth still agape, turned his head and looked over, "No... Xiaoye, why are you here? I mean, don’t get me wrong, this is... Yes! This is a client!"

"A client? And a client can feed you like that? Look at your shameless expression... I... I’ve got it all on camera!" Yuan Weicheng’s wife held up the camera in her hand, "I finally have the evidence to strip you of everything you own! Yuan Weicheng, just you wait! You’ll be stripped bare and kicked out of my house tomorrow!"

"Xiaoye, no, it’s a misunderstanding, a huge misunderstanding! Things aren’t like this, listen to my explanation!" Yuan Weicheng hastily hugged and clung to his wife, "It was her, she seduced me, this... this has nothing to do with me... Xiaoye, you have to listen to my explanation!"

"You, come sit by me..." Yuan Weicheng’s wife, pointing at Zhang Jingwan, directed her to sit next to her, "You go sit over there!"

Yuan Weicheng dejectedly moved to the sofa across from them, head bowed, stealthily glancing at the two women.

Zhang Jingwan also had her head bowed, her hair covering her face, her expression obscured, but at that moment, her aura was like that of someone who had made a mistake, very subdued.

"Tell me, when did you start fooling around?" Yuan Weicheng’s wife crossed her arms and propped up her legs.

"What fooling around... you make it sound so nasty..." Yuan Weicheng still argued in his defense.

"If it’s not fooling around, what is it then? If you want to hear something nicer, then you shouldn’t have done such a thing in the first place!" Yuan Weicheng’s wife fumed.

In fact, his wife was not a tiger mom type at all; one could even say she was a rather graceful and mature woman still retaining her charm.

Because she had never given birth, she maintained her figure very well.

"Xiaoye, let’s talk about this at home, this isn’t the place... it’s public and... it doesn’t look good..." Yuan Weicheng now knew that he should have insisted on keeping his distance from Zhang Jingwan the first time they went out to eat.

"Effect? What effect do you need? Do you know anyone in this restaurant? Or do you have something more embarrassing?" Yuan Weicheng’s wife mockingly said with a combination of sarcasm and laughter.

"Xiaoye! Keep your voice down! Show some decency! Isn’t it embarrassing! Yelling at me here like this is a very embarrassing thing!" Yuan Weicheng, seeing that playing nice was ineffectual, sternly scolded his wife in a low voice.

"Embarrassing? The one cheating is you, not me! What do I have to be embarrassed about? Huh? Tell me, what do I have to be embarrassed about? I, Ye Wenxin, have nothing to be embarrassed about!" Ye Wenxin slammed the table and stood up, deliberately speaking loudly.

"Nonsense! I didn’t cheat! What evidence do you have that I cheated? It... it was her clinging to me, insisting on feeding me, you... what right do you have to say I cheated!" Yuan Weicheng also stood up, unyielding, but his words stuttered due to guilt.

"What are you feeling guilty about! Yuan Weicheng, do you realize, whenever you feel guilty, you start to stutter when you speak," Ye Wenxin pointedly said, "Dare you swear that you don’t have feelings for her?"

"I! Who... who is feeling guilty! Who... who is stuttering! No, how could I have feelings? Just a young girl..." Yuan Weicheng truly was guilty, but still stubbornly refused to admit it, yet his gaze secretly drifted towards Zhang Jingwan.

However, Zhang Jingwan still kept her head down, her expression unseen; whether out of fear or sadness, her body had begun to tremble slightly.

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