DLWAV CH74

He was right, after all. Back then, just one kiss from his wife had been enough to keep him awake for two nights straight.

But now—

Ao Ruizhe gave Qin Xiuyan a slow once-over. He had already figured out where he wanted to kiss first in a little while.

Qin Xiuyan: “…”

The moment Qin Xiuyan came back to his senses, his first instinct was to push Ao Ruizhe away, but what he hadn’t expected was that Ao Ruizhe moved even faster.

He wrapped an arm around his waist and pulled him straight into his arms.

So what had started as a closer look instantly turned into hands-on contact.

Qin Xiuyan: “…”

Was Ao Ruizhe made out of a hot-water bottle or something? How could his body be this firm and this hot?

Then Ao Ruizhe’s voice, already carrying the magnetic quality unique to a grown man, sounded by his ear again: “I originally thought President Qin kept brushing me off because my body wasn’t all that attractive to you. But now it seems…”

By the end, he let out a low laugh.

Qin Xiuyan: “…”

His heart instantly began pounding in a way that completely betrayed him.

So much so that he directly lashed out in embarrassed anger and shoved Ao Ruizhe down onto the sofa.

Straddling him, he ground out through clenched teeth, “Do you really think I don’t know that all those workout videos you post on Moments every day are just to seduce me?”

“And that photo of you drinking water…”

Most importantly—

Did he really think a proper man… wouldn’t crave another man’s body?

—even if it was a man he had only known for a short time, only met a few times, and still hadn’t truly gotten to know in depth.

“Mhm.”

Ao Ruizhe said with a smile, casually shifting into a more comfortable position on the sofa. “The facts prove that my little tricks work pretty well.”

He looked at Qin Xiuyan and said simply, “So, President Qin, now that the meat has already been delivered right to your mouth, are you really not going to eat?”

Qin Xiuyan immediately felt the skin under his palm grow even hotter.

His gaze slid down from Ao Ruizhe’s face to his Adam’s apple, then to the wheat-colored muscles beneath his hand…

His heart pounded wildly.

So how could he possibly not want to?

Ao Ruizhe added, “Besides, you’ve already lent me thirty million in total. Aren’t you really planning to collect at least a little interest?”

Qin Xiuyan: “…”

What Ao Ruizhe said really did make sense, didn’t it?

So what exactly was he still hesitating over?

No matter what Ao Ruizhe’s motives were.

And no matter what kind of trouble this might bring afterward.

He might as well just… eat first and talk later—

At that thought, the taut string in Qin Xiuyan’s mind snapped instantly. He reached out, pulled open Ao Ruizhe’s collar, and slowly lowered himself…

The next morning, Qin Xiuyan was woken by the sharp ringing of his phone.

Subconsciously, he stretched out his right hand to grab the phone from under his pillow, but the moment he reached out, he touched a hard, impossibly warm “wall.”

Qin Xiuyan instinctively focused his gaze—and realized that the “wall” even had curves.

He abruptly looked up, and at that exact moment, Ao Ruizhe opened his eyes too.

Only then did he realize that he was curled up in Ao Ruizhe’s arms.

And only then did he realize what exactly he had done the night before.

Qin Xiuyan: “…”

Qin Xiuyan tried to put on a calm expression.

But the next second, Ao Ruizhe’s voice rang out: “Was President Qin satisfied with my service?”

Qin Xiuyan: “…”

His composure instantly cracked.

So his first reaction was to turn his head away, get out of bed, and say, “It was alright, I guess.”

In truth, his ears were so red they looked ready to drip.

It had been ridiculously good.

But yes, he did have regrets.

Not regret that he had failed to resist temptation and ended up sleeping with Ao Ruizhe, but regret that he hadn’t given in earlier… Otherwise, he would’ve been eating meat long ago. Why would he have needed to keep watching Ao Ruizhe’s Moments every day…

Ao Ruizhe lifted a brow. “Really?”

“Looks like I overestimated my own skills.”

“If quality can’t keep up, then I’ll just have to win with quantity.”

Qin Xiuyan: “…”

So Ao Ruizhe meant he was planning to climb into his bed again tonight, and keep doing it until he was satisfied?

Qin Xiuyan’s heart immediately started pounding again.

That sounded… pretty great, actually.

So could he really refuse?

All he could do was pretend not to understand. “I need to go to the office.”

Then he paused, because he noticed the clothes on the floor that had originally belonged to Ao Ruizhe—clothes he had apparently torn by accident the night before.

His ears instantly grew even redder, but the composure unique to adults was still barely there. “I’ll have someone send over a new set of clothes for you in a bit. When you leave… don’t let anyone see you.”

After all, if this got out, the good reputation of the Qin family would be completely ruined.

And besides, the old master of the Qin family had always been the kind of man who couldn’t tolerate the slightest stain, so this matter would have to be handled slowly and carefully.

What could Ao Ruizhe say?

He could only reply, “Got it.”

After all, sneaking around had its own kind of fun too, didn’t it?

Over here, the moment Qin Xiuyan stepped into the company, the secretary came up to him.

Wasn’t that earlier phone call from him?

Qin Xiuyan asked, “What is it?”

The secretary frowned tightly. “President Qin, Xia Lewen is here.”

His suspicion had come true.

Qin Xiuyan’s brows immediately furrowed as well.

Sure enough, the moment Xia Lewen saw Qin Xiuyan, after only a few pleasantries, he said decisively, “President Qin, to be frank, the main reason I came today is to ask your company to shelve Xia Ruizhe.”

Because he was already impatient to get rid of Ao Ruizhe.

But right now, Ao Ruizhe was still too hot a topic, making it difficult for him to move against him.

Xia Lewen continued, “Doesn’t Wanhai have eight films, four television dramas, and eleven cinemas preparing to launch one after another?”

“As long as President Qin is willing to cooperate with the Xia family, our family is willing to invest one billion yuan into these television dramas and cinemas.”

He was offering such a generous amount not only because he wanted to deal with Ao Ruizhe, but also because Qin Xiuyan had an extremely sharp eye. In his previous life, almost all of these projects had later made Wanhai a fortune, so of course he wanted to use this chance to get a share too.

And he didn’t think Qin Xiuyan would refuse him. “After all, Wanhai is a huge company. Xia Ruizhe is just an ordinary third-tier little celebrity under Wanhai. President Qin probably hadn’t even heard much about him before. Most importantly, losing him wouldn’t shake Wanhai’s foundation in the slightest. So President Qin surely wouldn’t reject the Xia family’s goodwill, would he?”

Qin Xiuyan, who had only just gotten out of Ao Ruizhe’s bed: “…”

Qin Xiuyan simply said, “Don’t worry, Young Master Xia. Wanhai won’t disappoint you.”

Xia Lewen left in satisfaction.

But Qin Xiuyan’s brows furrowed again immediately afterward.

At this point, it seemed the Xia family truly had no intention of letting Ao Ruizhe off.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t stand up for Ao Ruizhe, but right now, he probably still couldn’t.

After all, the current Wanhai was still far from being a match for the Xia family, a family that had been passed down for five generations.

So for now, it seemed the only thing they could do was temporarily avoid the Xia family’s edge.

Thinking of this, Qin Xiuyan directly took out his phone and personally transferred ten million yuan to Ao Ruizhe.

He still remembered that Ao Ruizhe had said he had run out of money again.

Though, to be fair—

forty million for a single night—was Ao Ruizhe made of gold or something?

Then he directly called Ao Ruizhe, intending to tell him to go abroad for further study for a while.

And almost at the same time, Ao Ruizhe received a call from the principal of Haishi Vocational College of Electronic Technology.

What he said was almost word for word the same as what Qin Xiuyan had been about to say.

He said, “Student Xia, just now, Ms. Su Yiyue came to my home. She hopes we will confirm the accusation that you hired someone to do your graduation project and then used it for publicity. In return, she offered to donate one hundred million out of the five hundred million yuan that Xia Yuanzheng had previously promised to donate in your father’s name to the school.”

The Xia family really had calculated this well.

“Of course I refused, but she has already bought off many of the companies cooperating with the school.”

“She said that if the school refuses to cooperate, then next year, more than eight thousand of our graduates in Qianshi will not be able to find internship placements, and from now on, our students can forget about finding decent jobs in Qianshi. The school can also forget about receiving full educational support funding.”

“…Student Xia, I am very sorry. As your principal, I failed to be the umbrella that could shield you from wind and rain.”

“…The Xia family’s power towers too high. We cannot possibly be their opponent, so you should go abroad.”

“Considering the excellent results you achieved in the previous assessment when changing your project topic, several vice principals and I can help contact a few overseas Chinese professors and have them write a recommendation letter for you, recommending you to study at New Lihan University in Country Y. Although New Lihan University is only an ordinary university…”

But before he could finish speaking, a burst of rapid knocking suddenly came from his side.

Then the principal’s voice rang out again: “…Hello, and you are? Representatives from Magellan Company… looking for Mr. Xia Ruizhe and Mr. Liu Xiangming… wanting to purchase the display-screen patents in Xia Ruizhe’s hands?”

Hearing this, Ao Ruizhe only smiled and said, “Thank you for your concern, but I think now it should be the Xia family that needs to avoid my edge.”

Magellan might not have been the most powerful technology company in the world, but it was absolutely the world’s number one mobile phone manufacturer, with sales of more than 130 million units last year.

Two hours later, Ao Ruizhe reached agreements with representatives from Magellan, Frank, and Nuovo.

The latter two were also world-famous technology companies, and they had rushed to Qianshi close on the heels of Magellan’s representative—

because the day after the World Intellectual Property Bureau issued a patent grant notice to an inventor, it would publicly announce the patent.

How could world-class high-tech companies possibly ignore announcements from the World Intellectual Property Bureau?

One could easily imagine the kind of shock this public notice caused in the tech world.

—and how could those tech companies fail to see the kind of impact these patents would bring to the field of electronic products?

So they hurried to Qianshi as fast as possible.

And it was thanks to Frank’s and Nuovo’s representatives arriving in time that Magellan’s representative was forced to agree to Ao Ruizhe’s condition: he would only sell the rights to use the patented technology, not ownership of the patents themselves.

Ao Ruizhe transferred the usage rights to the eight patents in his hands to Magellan, Frank, and Nuovo. From then on, every time any of the three companies sold an electronic product equipped with a display screen manufactured using those eight patents, they would pay Ao Ruizhe patent royalties ranging from five million M yuan to fifty million M yuan.

In addition, the three companies restricted Ao Ruizhe from selling the usage rights to those eight patents to companies outside China, but did not restrict him from selling them to Chinese phone companies. For this, they each paid Ao Ruizhe a signing fee of sixty million M yuan.

“Oh, right.”

As if suddenly thinking of something, Ao Ruizhe pushed back the check Magellan’s representative had signed for him.

He said, “If possible, I hope your company can establish a factory in Haishi specifically for manufacturing mobile phone display screens, and at the same time accept students from Haishi Vocational College of Electronic Technology as interns.”

After saying that, he turned to the principal and handed the other two checks back to him. “I’m sorry, but I’m afraid you probably won’t be getting that one hundred million donation from the Xia family.”

“But that’s alright. I can also donate one hundred and twenty million M yuan to the school in my father’s name. I hope you won’t refuse.”

The principal, along with the vice principals and department heads who had rushed over after hearing the news: “…”

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