h4Chapter 177: Chapter 163: Bao Ye’s Silver Tongue/h4

Bao Ye was indeed busy.

Feeling her movements, he didn’t even lift his eyelids, his hands kept typing, and his thin lips uttered a single word: "Speak."

Jiang Ruan: "..."

So cold, sob sob.

She quietly withdrew her hand: "It’s nothing, you go ahead and be busy, I was just a bit thirsty, I’ll go get a drink myself."

After saying that, she was just about to brace her legs to stand up.

Actually, she had tried moving earlier, and she could walk normally, it’s just that the bruises on her knees looked severe and quite scary.

Just as Jiang Ruan’s foot hadn’t touched the ground yet, the man beside her reached out to press her shoulder, while also setting down hisptop.

Bao Ye frowned and said: "Wait."

Jiang Ruan blinked her eyes and saw him leave.

It wasn’t long before Bao Ye returned.

He was followed by two servants.

One was carrying a folding table, and the other was holding a tray with fruits and nuts of all sorts.

They set up the table, and the servantsid everything from the tray down.

They bowed their heads: "Miss Jiang, please enjoy."

Then they exited the room.

Bao Ye, on the other hand, was holding arge ss of water, it was lemon water, and he ced it in front of her.

"Drink."

Jiang Ruan blinked, thinking the service was too considerate, wasn’t it?

She smiled merrily: "Thank you."

She took the lemon water, it was still warm, took a sip, and it even had honey added.

She licked her lips: "It’s really good, sweet."

"Did you make this?"

Jiang Ruan asked him.

Bao Ye pinched his weary brow with his fingertips, and replied: "Yeah."

"Honey lemon water, good for the throat."

As he spoke, he nced at her, his tone indifferent: "Seeing how happy you are smiling, drink more, it will protect your voice."

Jiang Ruan paused her drinking action.

Her dark eyes blinked, feeling like his words had some deeper meaning?

It must have been her imagination.

Was she smiling that much?

Probably because she was chatting happily with Sister Qin earlier, and learned gossip about Li Xin.

Tsk tsk, who knew he noticed it.

"My dear Mr. Bao, you’re quite attentive to me, even while working you don’t forget to check on me."

She boasted.

Bao Ye interrupted her: "No, you’ve misunderstood."

Jiang Ruan: "Huh?"

"It was yourughter that disturbed me," Bao Ye said without much inflection in his voice.

Jiang Ruan: "..."

The corner of her lips couldn’t help but twitch.

The budding narcissistic heart in her was instantly shattered.

The two engaged in a bit of verbal sparring.

Bao Ye retracted his thoughts and continued to seriously work.

As the CEO of Bao Group, he was the backbone of the entirepany, he’d been away for a few days, and returned without going to the office, there were many things waiting for him to handle.

Seeing his focused look.

Jiang Ruan couldn’t bear to disturb him either.

After a while, seeing his frowning brow rx, Jiang Ruan kindly handed him a piece of the tangerine she was peeling.

Offering it to his lips, she said: "Here."

"It’s very sweet, try it."

Bao Ye lowered his gaze, his eyes fell on her slender, fair fingers, the well-manicured nails painted a cute pink.

At the moment, she was offering the tangerine to feed him.

Bao Ye didn’t like tangerines, but at this moment, faced with her activeness, he instinctively opened his mouth and bit into the tangerine she offered.

The sweetness of the tangerine instantly filled his mouth.

Jiang Ruan leaned in and asked him: "How is it? Is it sweet?"

"See, I wasn’t lying."

Bao Ye lifted his eyes, looking at her small face.

She was now looking expectantly at him, like a child eager for adult approval.

His dark eyes flickered slightly, and he replied: "Yeah."

"It’s really quite sweet."

Beingplimented, Jiang Ruan was in a great mood and fed him another piece of tangerine.

She said: "You’ve been busy all afternoon, why don’t you take a break? No matter how busy, you need to bnce work and rest, right?"

"Working with your head down so much isn’t good for your cervical spine either."

Bao Ye ate the tangerine she fed him.

Of course, he knew it wasn’t good for the cervical spine.

He was more used to working in the study usually.

But because she was there, and she wasn’t used to the study, he stayed there in the first ce to keep herpany.

So he was holding theptop and working on the sofa.

Actually, for Bao Ye it was fine, he had experienced even more challenging work environments.

But now his neck was indeed a bit ufortable.

Besides, she was right next to him.

Raising his brow slightly, Bao Ye put down hisptop, and then lifted his hand to hold her waist, pulling her into his arms.

The action was dominant yet strong.

But he carefully avoided her injured leg.

Jiang Ruan eximed "ah" and ended up sitting on hisp, still holding half a tangerine in her hand.

"You’re not working anymore?"

Bao Yeughed in exasperation: "Weren’t you telling me to take a break since I looked tired? Do you want me to work or rest?"

Jiang Ruan stuck out her tongue: "Then you should rest a bit."

Leaning against his embrace, shezily yawned: "Being a president is really not easy, watching you switch between English, Thai, and French, my eyes are getting tired."

"If it were me, I think I’d suffer from a split personality."

Bao Ye: "You’ll get used to it."

"But not everyone can develop this habit," Jiang Ruan asked him: "Exactly how manynguages do you know, I don’t think I’ve ever asked you."

Bao Ye thought for a moment, then said: "Probably about elevennguages? I can also understand a bit of Indonesian, though not fluently, but enough for normalmunication."

At those words, there was silence around.

Bao Ye looked down, seeing Jiang Ruan wide-eyed, looking at him in shock.

Her expression was like she’d seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Bao Ye smirked: "What’s the matter?"

"Ten... elevennguages?" Jiang Ruan was dumbfounded, staring at him with a strange look, and after struggling for a while, she managed to squeeze out: "You’re such a freak."

Bao Ye: "..."

Heughed in frustrated amusement: "Jiang Ruan, are you itching for a scolding?"

Daring to call him a freak.

But, hmm, she wasn’t the first person to call him a freak.

"Gentlemen use words instead of physical force," Jiang Ruan hastily said, unable to help butment: "Knowing elevennguages, if it’s not freaky, what is it? It’s genius."

Jiang Ruan sighed: "I’m not much younger than you, and yet I only know English and Chinese till now, oh, English probably isn’t even that good, but I can manage casual conversations."

"I originally felt quite proud, butparing myself to you now, what should I do, I feel so inadequate."

Bao Ye said: "It’s nothing."

"Our work natures are different, Bao Family’s partners are numerous, practically spanning the globe, if I didn’t know theirnguages, it would be easy to lose out during coborations."

"You don’t need to negotiate deals, why bother to learn so manynguages?"

His voice was low and maic.

Resting against his embrace, Jiang Ruan could clearly hear his strong heartbeat, apanying the warmth of his breath as he spoke.

This intimate moment, wasn’t it what she had always dreamed of?

Jiang Ruan’s heart pounded, and she nodded: "Makes sense."

Then she took another piece of tangerine to his lips.

"Open your mouth."

Bao Ye’s mouth was filled with the sweetness of tangerine.

Actually, he didn’t want to eat anymore.

But seeing her bright eyes now gazing at him gently, Bao Ye suddenly had a different thought.

The man parted his thin lips, biting the tangerine, but didn’t eat it, instead leaned down closer to her lips...