Peninsula: The young master is poor and doesn't want to date.

Chapter 58 Sleeping in each other's arms

Li Zhengyi pushed open the door and went in.

Bae Joo-hyun was already dressed and standing by the bed.

She was dressed properly, and her hair was tied up.

The only thing that hadn't completely faded was the flush on her face.

Upon seeing Li Zheng enter, she instinctively took a step back, adopting a defensive stance.

It looked like a cat with its fur standing on end, both frightening and fierce.

Li Zheng didn't approach; instead, he leaned against the doorframe and pointed to the bedside table.

Your phone is on the table.

Bae Joo-hyun picked up her phone, and the moment the screen lit up, her face paled.

Unread messages: 99+

Missed calls: 47

Agent: 23 items

Members: Several

She started typing frantically in reply, bowing to the phone screen as she typed, and muttering to herself.

"I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry, I'll be right back, right back, right back..."

Finally, she put down her phone and covered her face with her hands.

"Oh no! How am I going to explain this? They definitely won't believe me that I didn't do anything."

Her voice was muffled in her palm.

Wailing.

"hehe."

Li Zhengyi leaned against the door frame, arms crossed, looking smug.

Bae Joo-hyun peeked out from between her fingers and glared at him.

"What are you yelling about? It's all your fault."

"None of my business."

"It's none of your business!"

Bae Joo-hyun pouted and put her hands on her hips.

"You make it sound nice, like 'bad guys live to be a hundred,' but how am I supposed to tell the company? That I woke up in a man's bed, but he's a decent guy who didn't do anything?"

Li Zhengyi tilted his head to look at her.

"The way you're putting it makes it sound like you're disappointed that I didn't do anything?"

"What else do you want to do to me!"

Bae Joo-hyun's face turned red again.

"No, it's you who did what to me! You lecherous devil! You held me all night while we slept!"

Li Zheng stubbed out his cigarette in an empty can on the windowsill.

"You held me while I slept all night."

You've got it backwards.

"I didn't get it backwards."

"You've got it backwards!"

Bae Joo-hyun raised her voice by a key, but her voice clearly lacked strength.

"She's a girl, so you're definitely the one getting the better deal. Even if I hugged you, so what? Did it hurt you?"

In the end, she simply gave up and turned her face away, refusing to look at him anymore.

But her ears were still red.

Li Zhengyi stared at her guilty yet stubborn expression and let out a sneer.

"ha."

He clapped.

Once, twice, three times.

"So this is the kind of person you are."

Bae Joo-hyun turned her head and looked at him warily.

"Who am I?"

"This is unreasonable and a distortion of the truth."

Li Zheng counted them one by one on his fingers.

"She usually acts like a lady, dignified, composed, mature and poised."

"The result is that she's even more unreasonable than a little girl."

"You're just trying to cheat."

Bae Joo-hyun's face turned red and white as he scolded her. Her lips moved for a long time before she finally stomped her foot.

"I am a girl!"

"I'm only twenty-four! How am I not a girl?"

"That's just how I am! What are you going to do with me?"

She raised her chin, giving off a "what can you do about it?" look.

"Go ahead and hit me if you dare!"

After she finished speaking, she took another step forward.

Then she saw Li Zhengyi's expression change.

I'm not angry.

It's a laugh.

That kind of sly smile.

Li Zheng threw the cigarette butt in his hand away.

"Huh? You said it yourself, 'If you've got the guts, I'll beat you up.' This is the first time I've ever heard such a request."

He turned around, picked up a slipper from the ground, and weighed it in his hand.

"Turn around."

"Stick your butt out."

Bae Joo-hyun's smile froze.

She looked at the slipper in Li Zhengyi's hand, then at his expression; it didn't seem like he was joking at all.

"I...I was just saying..."

She instinctively stepped back, protecting her buttocks with her hands.

"Are you serious?"

"Why are you like this?"

"This is really boring."

Li Zhengyi stopped in front of her and tapped his slippers against his palm.

"Yes, I don't mean it."

He threw the slippers back on the ground.

"Anyway, we won't have to see each other again. Today is the last time we'll see each other."

He turned and walked to the door, then opened it.

The wind blew in from the corridor.

"From now on, whoever contacts whom first is the puppy."

Bae Joo-hyun paused for a moment.

Then she bit her lip.

It bit very hard.

Finally, she stomped her foot.

"Okay! Whoever contacts you first is the puppy!"

Her voice was so loud that it turned on the motion-activated lights in the hallway.

Li Zhengyi stood at the door and made a "please" gesture.

Bae Joo-hyun walked past him with her head held high.

She didn't stop walking as she passed by him.

But her eyelashes were trembling.

Li Zhengyi saw it very clearly.

He closed the door, leaned against it, and listened to her footsteps disappear at the end of the stairs.

Then he closed his eyes.

All right.

That'll be fine.

She was safe, and he had no more worries.

He doesn't need anyone by his side to do what he's doing, especially not beautiful women.

All the injuries he suffered in his life were because of various beautiful women.

Beautiful women are a source of trouble.

The sound of a car starting up came from downstairs.

He didn't go to the window to look.

A black van was parked in front of the convenience store.

Bae Joo-hyun opened the car door, got in, and slammed the door shut twice as hard as usual.

Her manager, Han Chengxu, sat in the driver's seat, looking at her in the rearview mirror without saying a word.

After about ten seconds of silence, Han Chengxu spoke.

"Irene."

"……Um."

"About the company..."

No, it won't.

Bae Joo-hyun interrupted him.

"It's all over, there won't be any more impact. I will focus on my work."

Han Chengxu glanced at her again in the rearview mirror.

Then he started the car.

The nanny van drove out of Kowloon Village and turned onto the main road.

The carriage was very quiet, so quiet that you could hear the rustling sound of the tires rolling over the asphalt.

Han Chengxu gripped the steering wheel, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke.

"Irene, did you two break up?"

Bae Joo-hyun did not answer.

She looked out the window.

Han Chengxu thought he had asked too many questions and was about to take back the topic.

"Um."

Bae Joo-hyun suddenly spoke up.

Han Chengxu remained silent for a while, then softly uttered a sentence.

"Irene."

"You wouldn't... have fallen for that man, would you?"

"What?!"

Bae Joo-hyun bounced up as if she had been pricked by a needle.

If it weren't for the seatbelt, she could have thrown off the roof.

"How could I like him! Someone like him? Sharp-tongued, arrogant, not gentlemanly at all, never says anything nice. How could I possibly like him?"

Han Chengxu remained silent.

He simply looked at her in the rearview mirror, a faint smile playing on his lips.

It has the feeling of an old father looking at his daughter.

"Really! I really didn't!"

"Our relationship was fake! It was fake from the very beginning! He helped me avoid Lee Woo-bin, and I gave him..."

She paused.

"Give him what?"

"...It's nothing. It's fake anyway. It's fake from beginning to end."

She turned her face away, looking at the car window.

A face was reflected in the car window.

His lips were bitten until they turned white.

The phone screen lit up.

Her fingers clicked on Kakao uncontrollably.

That familiar profile picture.

A cat's butt.

The chat history stopped three days ago; the last message she sent is still there.

"Liar, if you don't want to talk to me anymore, just say you want to break up."

She stared at the line of text, her fingers hovering over the keyboard.

I typed one word, then deleted it.

I typed another word, then deleted it.

Then turn off the phone screen and put it in your bag.

hum~

Whoever contacts you first is the puppy.

She rested her head against the car window and closed her eyes.

As the van crossed the Hanjiang Bridge, the morning light on the river shattered into countless pieces of gold foil.

She didn't look at her phone again.

But her fingers remained on the phone case inside her bag.

It has never been removed.