Chapter Thirty-Four

  Qin Yige returned to the hot spring room and found only Li Jin left by the hot spring.

  His eyes were dull and his ears were red, the clothes he was wearing were no longer the ones he had put on that morning, the sleeves and pant legs were long, and it took several rolls to reveal his hands and feet.

  "What's wrong?" Qin Yige walked over, "Where is Li Yi Heng?"

  Li Jin stood up from the chair by the hot spring pool, his shoes probably having gotten wet, making an unpleasant "squeaking" sound with each step: "Going to change clothes."

  Qin Yige pulled at his clothes and looked - this was obviously Li Yiheng's - then asked him, "What's going on?"

  Li Jin said with a sigh: "I accidentally dropped it while helping Mr. Li wipe his back."

  Qin Yige let out two disdainful snorts and turned her head to Li Yiheng, who was sauntering over late, and curled up the corner of her mouth: "You'd better slow down."

  Li Yiheng looked at Li Jin and smiled.

  The more he listened to this, the more uncomfortable he felt. Li Jin raised his head to look at Qin Yige's expression, just in time for him to turn around, but instead of seeing his expression, he saw a small red mark on the side of his neck.

  Li Jin had been through many battles and knew at once that it was a hickey!

  In an instant, he relied on his brain to fill in a melodramatic and complicated story, which later proved to be surprisingly accurate!

  At this moment, his brain supplement object was unconscious and walked shoulder to shoulder with Li Yiheng towards the door.

  "Got it?" Li Yiheng asked.

  Qin Yige thought of how he had just lost power and humiliated the country, and with a tone that was as if he wanted to flay and disembowel the invaders, said: "It's settled, he said he'll sign and let us go when he gets back later."

  Li Yi Heng understood his good friend's temperament and knew that once he achieved his goal, he wouldn't hold a grudge anymore. He smiled and asked, "Is Lin Xin doing well with you?"

  "Not bad." Qin Yige retorted with a cold smile, "Looks like Assistant Qi has finally learned his lesson."

  "Then let her continue to help you," said Li Yi Heng, "She's not young anymore, it's time for a change of position, with lighter work, and then find a good person to marry. She had this idea long ago, but I'm used to having her around and didn't want to change, which delayed her."

  A woman as beautiful and capable as Lin Xing, men either want to conquer her or help her achieve her goals. Coincidentally, Li Yiheng and Qin Yige both belong to the latter. So Qin Yige felt deeply in agreement, and also put aside past grievances, starting to think for Li Yiheng: "Keep her by my side, who will be your assistant?"

  "Isn't there a ready-made candidate?" Li Yiheng nodded towards Lijin, "See if you're willing to give it to him."

  Qin Yige suddenly enlightened, drew out a long "oh" sound, and smiled at Li Jin: "No way, Comrade Li Xiaotong, since I'm at a disadvantage, I can only sacrifice you."

  Comrade Lei Xia in Wu Lei's Thunderbolt didn't react at all.

  He was struck dead by this great thunderbolt in the past.

  Next, the two big shots completed a brief and perfunctory handover ceremony in front of their vehicles. From this moment on, Li Jin became Mr. Li Yiheng's special assistant, officially responsible for Mr. Li's eating, drinking, defecating, and sleeping.

  Li Jin's dissenting opinions were ruthlessly suppressed.

  To be honest, becoming Mr. Li's special assistant has many benefits - a vast and high-end network of connections, resources that can be mobilized at any time, and a high salary - just looking at Lin Xinyu's current status in the industry is enough to know. But Lei Jin's sensitive antenna for seeking benefits and avoiding harm told him that things were not as good as they seemed.

  As expected, the God of Fate verified Li Jin's conjecture in the next second.

  Mr. Li sent Lijin all the way home, and this time he was accompanied by a puddle of stagnant water with an unpleasant odor all the way to the bottom of his building.

  With the previous experience as a foundation, Li Jin's embarrassment was somewhat alleviated this time. After thanking him, he got off the bus.

  Li Yi Heng called out to him.

  "Haven't you moved yet?" he asked.

  Li Jin replied matter-of-factly: "You think houses are easy to find?"

  Actually, last time he saw Mr. Li spent too much money, and he owed a lot of debt to Luo Fei, so he really didn't have the money to move to a better place.

  Mr. Li lit a cigarette and took a deep drag: "You go up, pack your belongings, and move to my place."

  Li Jin was stunned.

  Is this... cohabitation?

  "No... never mind." He dryly laughed.

  Li Yiheng was too lazy to repeat himself and quietly turned off the engine.

  Li Jing swallowed her saliva and pointed to the sky: "I'll go find a house tomorrow and move out the day after!"

  "Didn't you say it's hard to find a house?" Li Yiheng retorted with his own words.

  Li Jinchu let out a sigh: "Why do I need to move? Will living here affect my work? If Lin Xin moved in today, would you also ask her to live with you?" After a pause, she revealed the real reason, "Besides, I've already paid the rent for the second half of the year. It's a waste of money if I don't stay."

  Li Yiheng was amused by him: "I'll pay the rent for you. And if it were Lin Xin, she wouldn't ask me why I wanted to move into my house, she would only ask which room she should stay in." As he spoke, he leaned over and opened the car door for him, "Hurry up and pack your things, we can still make it home for dinner."

  Li Jin clenched his fists tightly, and his fingernails dug into the palm of his hand, forming eight crescent moons that hurt so much he forgot to breathe.

  Then get off the bus and go home obediently to pack your things.

  And so, cohabitation began.

  The life of Li Jin's special assistant can be described in four words as: "Busy and chaotic"

  Varying colors, diverse and profuse!

  Mr. Li's schedule changes daily and is tightly packed, with countless banquets, negotiations, and dinner parties that leave him breathless. He also inherited his father's talent for golf and has a fixed number of days each month to play with friends at the course. Every day, Li Jin racks her brains on how to fit all these activities into Mr. Li's schedule while ensuring he gets eight hours of sleep, but the damned Li Yiheng even demands his own private time to do personal things.

  Right, private matters are just accepting the following filial piety, picking some pleasing stars and models to go to bed.

  Mr. Li was a ladies' man in his youth, but as he grew older, his tastes became more fixed and he developed a preference for young people who were shy and inexperienced. Every time Lijin saw the photos of the new conquests that Mr. Li would proudly show off, she couldn't help but exclaim "What a sin!" Moreover, Mr. Li was someone who liked novelty and got bored easily, never playing with the same person twice, adhering to his rules like a professional. One time, Lijin couldn't resist teasing Mr. Li, saying "You're just like a human-shaped ***", but unexpectedly, Mr. Li didn't take it as an insult, instead taking pride in it, and with a light smile, asked: "Don't you also enjoy it?"

  Li Jin's breath was exhausted.

  And yet, Irene still couldn't help but praise Mr. Li for being a good husband and taking care of his family.

  Aileen is the cook in the Li family, Mrs. Li's dowry maid from back in the day. It's said that her biological father was British, which is why she inherited a pair of blue eyes. She has witnessed nearly fifty years of the Li family's history and now that she's older, she talks a lot, often chatting with Lijin until they're both exhausted. She says that the Li family used to be very prosperous, but after Old Master Li passed away, the brothers started fighting and divided the family property. Mr. Li, Yiheng's father, was always weak-willed, and as the eldest son of the main branch, he only managed to get one asset - the old Li family mansion. This turned out to be a good thing, as it allowed them to live in peace. Later on, when Yiheng took back the family business from his uncles, no one else was allowed to move in.

  When Mr. and Mrs. Li were alive, the house was lively, with three generations of their family, plus a steward's family and a cook, seven people living together every day with laughter. After the two elderly passed away, the steward's son took over the household to support his parents in their old age, leaving only the unmarried cook Ailin to take care of the young master. And this careless young master, after becoming the president of the Li Corporation, could count on one hand the number of times he returned home for a night's stay each month.

  But since Li Jin moved in, Young Master's days at home have increased significantly.

  What's more, as Li Yiheng's half-maid, Erin can have meals at the table. One evening, she heard the young master arguing with Li Jin, back and forth, a war of words, the young master laughing and joking, saying more than half a basketful.

  It's really unprecedented.

  The Li family was very strict, and no one was allowed to speak at the dinner table. From a young age, Li Yiheng didn't talk or laugh while eating or sleeping, and as a person, he seemed a bit stiff and uninteresting. He often had a straight face and wouldn't say anything or smile, making the whole house feel cold like an ice cellar.

  Ailin remembered that when she was younger, her older brother could still joke around with Qin's young master, showing off his youthful appearance. But after their father passed away, their uncle and aunt came to divide up the estate, and her brother's ability to freeze people out with a single glance only grew stronger.

  Fortunately, later on, he met someone named Ke Yuan, and gradually started to smile again. Occasionally, when he was in a good mood, he would even joke around with others. Ailin thought that her older brother would slowly recover from his "facial paralysis," but for some reason, he's been unhappy again lately.

  Fortunately, there is Lijin.

  So Irene dragged Li Jin's hand and told him to treat this place as his own home and not be polite.

  To be honest, Li Jin didn't mind staying for a while longer.

  Aileen's culinary skills are superb, and every meal is a new surprise. He has gained three catties in just half a month. Li Yiheng is also very particular, letting him stay in the guest room at the end of the corridor, separated from himself by three rooms. Moreover, as a member of a wealthy family for many years, although the furniture and objects here are not luxurious, they are all comfortable and cozy. The bed is like a soft brocade, and on the first night after moving in, he slept soundly like a dead pig.

  Moreover, Mr. Li and Qin Yige have the same bad habit, they think that troublesome things are never handled by themselves, and they pass them on to their assistants. As a result, every day, Li Jin has to look at countless documents, then select the key points one by one to make a brief report to Li Yi Heng, who decides whether to approve or not. Among these documents, financial transactions account for more than half. Poor Li Jin, who is clueless about numbers, was driven mad in just three days on the job, and stayed up all night studying economic clauses under the lamp, until he was so tired that his eyelids were fighting each other, when suddenly he felt a lightness in his body and was swept off his feet by someone.

  He was startled and opened his eyes.

  It turned out to be Li Yiheng.

  Mr. Li wore a long-sleeved running pajama, with a belt loosely tied around his waist, which he shook open, revealing his bare body.

  Li Jin's ears turned red suddenly.