If You Could Hear My Heart

Chapter 15: Attack the Dog, but Consider the Master

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Put away your little tricks!” Shen Chi looked down at her from above.

“So stingy,” Xu Chaomu pouted, thinking you can dodge the first, but can you dodge the fifteenth?

Shen Chi gave her a glance and turned to leave her room.

As soon as the tiger left, the monkey kingdom was in turmoil.

Xu Chaomu rummaged through her backpack and fished out the treasure she had acquired that day—a stack of comic books! These were the prizes she had won playing finger-guessing games with a bunch of boys!

Her eyes were bent into crescents as she laughed, spreading the comics out one by one on the bed.

These books looked much more interesting than hers, and at last, she could resume her cultural education, for she was a person with a great thirst for knowledge!

When Shen Chi was walking downstairs, Liu Rumei was still staring at her BMW, heartbroken.

Just then, a black Rolls Royce pulled up, and later, Shen Cexian got out of the car and approached Liu Rumei.

“Cexian, you finally arrived. Look at the great job your son did!” Liu Rumei complained first.

Shen Cexian had rushed back from the Shen Group after receiving a call from Liu Rumei. He had spent the afternoon negotiating with Zhou Ran and, on some issues, had still ended in failure, so he was not in a good mood at the moment.

“Just buy another one. These trivial matters, you don’t need to tell me,” Shen Cexian glanced at the totaled BMW indifferently.

“Cexian… only you pamper me the most… It’s just that this car was a gift from you, I feel a bit heartbroken,” Liu Rumei frowned slightly, holding her heart and sighing.

She walked over and snuggled against Shen Cexian’s arm, resting her head on his shoulder.

“Get some more people to help with the luggage, settle in today. Yanrou and Shihan should also be picked up, for anything you can consult the butler. Hold onto this bank card for now,” he said.

Shen Cexian took out a card from his wallet and handed it to Liu Rumei, his face mostly expressionless.

Liu Rumei refused to take it: “You bringing me to the Shen Family is the greatest blessing I could have. I can’t accept this card.”

“If I say hold onto it, hold onto it,” Shen Cexian stuffed the bank card into her hand, “The pin is your birthday.”

Only then did Liu Rumei carefully put away the bank card, wrapping her arms around Shen Cexian’s waist: “Cexian… you are so good to me.”

Shen Cexian pushed her away, his face still devoid of much fluctuation, “I still have to go back to the Group.”

“Be careful on the road, don’t overwork yourself,” Liu Rumei smiled.

Only after that did Shen Cexian get back into his car, and once the driver started the vehicle, they drove off at a good pace.

Liu Rumei, satisfied, put the bank card away in her wallet and said to her own driver, “Go pick up Miss and Young Master.”

“Yes, madam.”

This scene unfolded before Shen Chi’s eyes. He sneered coldly, his eyes seeming to glaze with ice, the corners of his mouth hinting at an imperceptible depth.

When Shen Cexian returned to the Shen Group, Zhou Ran had yet to leave.

She stood by the chairman’s office window, dressed in a dark cyan coat, looking down from the window blankly.

Shen Cexian watched her from behind for a good ten minutes, but the woman did not move, cold as ice, her presence sending chills. Even the summer sun’s scorching rays seemed powerless to melt her.

“I’ve given you what you wanted. What is it, you’re not leaving?” Shen Cexian finally spoke up.

Zhou Ran turned slowly towards him with a faint smile, observing all of Shen Cexian’s expressions closely.

“Zhou Ran, you always act so self-righteous! Do you have any idea how much I detest this attitude of yours?”

Shen Cexian’s eyes were bloodshot as he gripped Zhou Ran’s shoulders, as if he wanted to crush them.

Even in deep pain, Zhou Ran showed no expression. She simply hooked up the corners of her lips, silently watching the man in front of her.

After so many years, he had not changed at all. His handsome features had matured through years of business, and his bespoke black suit hugged his lean figure.

It’s just a pity that his eyes had changed.

She once loved those clear and clean eyes of his, but now, those eyes were murky, and she couldn’t see through them anymore.

Zhou Ran said nothing, and Shen Cexian’s hand slowly dropped.

“Do you have anything else to say? If not, please leave and don’t come to the Group again!”

Shen Cexian turned away, no longer paying Zhou Ran any attention.

“You think I want to entangle with you?” Zhou Ran chuckled coldly, pulling out a stack of documents from her bag.

“Chairman Shen Cexian, please be troubled to move your pen and sign this document,” she said.

Shen Cexian frowned tightly, flipping impatiently through the documents Zhou Ran handed him, and after a few pages, his anger was uncontainable.

“You don’t believe what I say?”

Zhou Ran smiled lightly, “Words alone are no proof; I trust the law more.”

“I knew it, you never trusted me!” a trace of desolation flickered through Shen Cexian’s eyes.

Zhou Ran moved her lips but ultimately said nothing.

Shen Cexian picked up the pen without much hesitation and signed his name at the end of the document.

With the documents in hand, Zhou Ran hooked her lips, “Chairman Shen, we shall not meet again.”

She gathered her shawl around herself and lifted her head as she walked out of the chairman’s office.

The elongated sound of her high heels clicked against the floor, gradually vanishing into the corridor’s end.

The silence was profound, Shen Cexian stood where Zhou Ran had just been, the scenery in the distance vanishing. His gaze was deep, seemingly endless.

In the Shen’s living room, Liu Rumei was busy instructing the servants on moving things around, causing a commotion throughout the Shen Family home.

Xu Chaomu had been quietly reading her comic books, but Liu Rumei’s shrill voice made it impossible for her to stay focused.

Frustrated, she ran out of her room and happened upon Liu Rumei haughtily directing the servants.

“Move the vase a bit to the left!”

“Oh dear, be careful with that suitcase, it’s genuine leather!”

“Just throw away Miss and Young Master’s old clothes!”

“This is the Young Master’s favorite jade ornament, put it in the living room!” Xu Chaomu bolted downstairs and grabbed the ornament, ready to throw it!

“There’s only one Young Master in the Shen Family. When did I not know Brother Shen Chi liked jade?”

With a mere loosening of her hand, the jade ornament would’ve surely shattered.

“Oh, it’s you again. I thought you were some poor relative of the Shen Family, but now I realize you’re just picked up from the orphanage. No wonder you have no manners. Put that ornament down now, or when I slap you with my hand, you better not cry out in pain!” Liu Rumei was arrogantly furious, not about to be intimidated by this girl.

Hearing this, Xu Chaomu tilted her head and purposefully loosened her grip, and with a “clatter,” the jade ornament fell to the ground!

The servants’ eyes nearly popped out of their heads, each one too scared to make a noise.

“Sorry, your voice was too loud, my hand shook, and it fell,” Xu Chaomu said, brushing off her hands, feeling quite satisfied.

Liu Rumei trembled with rage, raising her hand to deliver a resounding slap.

Just then, her wrist was seized by a strong force, held immovable.

Grinding her teeth, she turned around to see Shen Chi!

“When punishing a dog, you must see the owner first. Liu Rumei, do you need to be so arrogant?” Shen Chi glared down at her, his chilly eyes filling with a blood-red haze..