CHAPTER 58: 58. YOU HAVE A SPECIAL... DESIRE TO CONTROL ME.

She took a deep breath out of nervousness and crossed her arms in front of her chest. Realizing this signaled "defense," she let them drop and stepped back. After two steps, her back was pressed against the wall, leaving her no way to retreat.

He leisurely followed her, his toes touching hers, and continued to look down leisurely: "Speak."

Shi Nian turned her head to the right and quietly said, "Don’t look to my left. There’s a surveillance camera there. Mr. Tang, I’ll remind you, this is the hallway of my company."

Tang Yanqing, however, turned his head towards the camera and even blinked deliberately.

He purposely extended his arm, supporting it on the wall beside Shi Nian’s head. He buried his face in the shadow cast by his arm, teasing her leisurely: "Look at our posture, like a wall slam, huh?"

"Stop it!" Shi Nian said in a low, annoyed voice.

He tilted his head, "Hmm, then answer my question. Don’t use the ’you have the right to remain silent’ tone with me. Abusing that line in front of me is blatant provocation. I won’t let it slide."

Shi Nian took a deep breath, "Because you have a kind of... um," she struggled for words, "a strange desire to control me."

She finally said it...

Shi Nian awkwardly looked up, "I find it strange and incomprehensible. I can confirm I’ve never known you before, and I’m still your close friend’s wife. By relationship, you should call me sister-in-law—what you’re calling me makes me very uncomfortable."

"Ha..." He wasn’t angry; instead, he stared into her eyes and laughed lowly: "So you’ve noticed, huh, that’s good."

Shi Nian slid slightly down against the wall until her face was just covered by the shadow of his arm, then glared at him fiercely: "What’s so good about it?! Mr. Tang, I know rich young masters like playing the role of love hunters, but I’m warning you, I’m not your prey. I’m a married woman, stay away from me!"

Tang Yanqing squinted his eyes. Damn it, he had already stayed far away. For four long years, he had almost never appeared in front of her and Xiang Yuan; if he really had to, he had done everything possible to avoid them... Had he not stayed far enough?

Four years, he was practically becoming a teenage mutant ninja turtle from his patience. Where else did she want him to go?

He then grew a bit hostile, tilting his head and squinting as he fixed his gaze on her: "I refuse. I’m not leaving today; I’ll wait till you get off work, and we’ll go home together, huh."

Shi Nian gritted her teeth in anger, restraining herself: "Mr. Tang, I think maybe it’s something I did that gave you some illusion during our limited meetings, which made you have this inappropriate fantasy about me. I apologize for that, and I also ask you to put away this fantasy, it would be better for you and me, and for the friendship between you and Xiang Yuan."

"No," he still leaned down with his arm supported, looking at her, "that wouldn’t be good for me. Shi Nian, you haven’t done anything inappropriate in front of me; I’m the inappropriate one. Or rather—seeing you and letting you appear in front of me, that itself is a mistake." He pointed upward, "It’s a mistake made by heaven."

Really, it’s an account that just gets more and more confusing.

Shi Nian closed her eyes, "Forget it, I didn’t say anything. I need to go back to work, Mr. Tang, do as you please."

His body was too close, so Shi Nian had to slip out from under his arm.

He squinted his eyes, watching her back: "Hey, Sleeping Beauty, all the suspects you listed are wrong, and way off."

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Thanks to Lan, Gentle Breeze for the red envelopes, and 88648 for the glitter gift.