The Cold-hearted CEO's Unwanted Bride
Chapter 237: Skiving Off During Working Hours

Chapter 237: Chapter 237: Skiving Off During Working Hours

Qin Yan deliberately picked out a knee-length work dress to wear before she left the house.

It was black, decent, and not only accentuated her slender figure, but also exposed her wounds amidst her movements.

She hadn’t had the chance to reply when Shi Muzhou already stepped forward and reached out to lift Qin Yan’s dress.

"How did you get hurt?"

Qin Yan paused, and the smile on her face stiffened for a moment.

"I’m fine..."

"It’s because of Bo Yunshen again, isn’t it?" Shi Muzhou snorted coldly, cutting off Qin Yan’s words, "Just admit it, ever since you married him, what have you got besides new injuries every day and serious ones every three days?"

"If you really crave these wounds, why bother going through all this trouble? Just say the word!"

"If nothing else works, I’ll beat you up every day, ensuring you get hurt worse than this!"

Shi Muzhou’s tone was foul. His face was overtly gloomy, and the look in his eyes was particularly fierce, yet Qin Yan couldn’t help but feel a warmness inside.

Qin Yan patted Shi Muzhou’s hand and tugged her dress down.

"These injuries have nothing to do with Yunshen; I was just careless."

Shi Muzhou was immediately infuriated and began to mock her relentlessly, "Do you think you’re a three-year-old child? It’s embarrassing how you speak up for Bo Yunshen!"

"I’m embarrassed for him!"

"What exactly do you see in a man like Bo Yunshen?"

"Your taste is atrocious, do I need to go to the hospital and arrange for an ophthalmologist for you?"

"Have all the men in the world died off, leaving you with only Bo Yunshen as an option?!"

Qin Yan: "..."

Bo Yunshen entered the doors of Central Mall and within minutes, he spotted Qin Yan. Of course, he also didn’t overlook Shi Muzhou standing by her side.

Qin Yan’s face sported a genuinely joyful smile, and her eyes, like autumn waters, were fixed intently on Shi Muzhou.

Before Bo Yunshen could turn grim, Shi Muzhou suddenly bent down and reached towards Qin Yan’s thigh.

The air around him plummeted to freezing.

Before coming here, he had thought that maybe Qin Yan really was here for market research.

It seemed he had been too naive.

Bo Yunshen’s eyelids twitched wildly. Under the public’s gaze, Qin Yan really knew no shame!

Seducing a man so openly?

His thin lips pressed tightly together, forming a straight line, while his face carved out a stiff smile as he strode towards Qin Yan.

As soon as he approached, he heard the endless stream of curses Shi Muzhou spewed at him.

Bo Yunshen’s already dark face became even darker.

"Mr. Shi’s words are quite interesting," he said,

"It’s beneath someone of your public standing to say such things in front of an audience, isn’t it?"

He interjected, and the smile on Qin Yan’s face instantly vanished.

Her expression was bland, especially when she was wearing a suit, and the way she looked at him... as if he were an ordinary consumer coming to make a purchase!

Bo Yunshen saw a glint of malice in her eyes.

Oh, she was planning to ignore him now!

It was she who was flirting around during work hours, not him, Bo Yunshen!

Qin Yan was now so straightforward with another man, not even caring about the impact, did she?

Impressive!

His gaze was tightly locked on Qin Yan, his lips curling up into a cold arc:

"Director Qin, you still bear the name Mrs. Bo; try to be more proper in your behavior!"

"In front of everyone, don’t be doing indecent things with certain people!"

"You’re shameless, I, Bo Yunshen, can’t afford such a loss of face!"

Qin Yan’s face changed, and she instinctively reached out to grab Shi Muzhou.

Fortunately, Qin Yan moved quickly; otherwise, by this time, he would have already punched Bo Yunshen in the face.

"Bo Yunshen, you motherfucker, have the guts to say that again!"

Bo Yunshen’s expression didn’t change, and there was a hint of chill in his gaze as he looked at Shi Muzhou.

He didn’t bother with Shi Muzhou again and gestured to Qin Yan with a beckoning of his finger, his tone bland:

"It’s working hours now. I see Director Qin has some free time, might as well come with me to do some real work!"

Shi Muzhou’s face was very ugly, but with Qin Yan stopping him, his rationality returned, and he didn’t actually start a fight.

Moreover, there was an event at Central Mall, with media present. If he had started a fight, it would not have been helping Qin Yan but instead causing her trouble.

He kept a cold face, clenched his fingers, bit down hard on his back teeth, and reluctantly suppressed the anger in his heart:

"Mr. Bo, Qin Yan hurt her leg. A big company like Bo Group surely wouldn’t begrudge giving someone time to have an injury looked at, right?"

Bo Yunshen lifted his eyelids and glanced in Qin Yan’s direction.

So, the reason Shi Muzhou tried to lift her skirt just now was to look at Qin Yan’s injury?

The location of her injury must be quite the place!

"Director Qin hasn’t taken leave for her injury, should Bo Group force her to go to the hospital?"

"She’s not a three-year-old child, and even if you two had a good relationship before, Mr. Shi, you don’t need to worry so much about Mrs. Bo, do you?"

Shi Muzhou’s face darkened further.

He was just about to speak when Qin Yan saw his manager walking over.

"Muzhou!"

"You’re here for a reason!"

"You go ahead with your things. Mr. Bo has found me, there’s work to discuss, and I’ll go to the hospital after we’re done."

Qin Yan addressed Shi Muzhou with a pleasant and amiable manner, "Besides, have you forgotten? I’m half a doctor myself."

Shi Muzhou: "..."

Although he had a bad temper and could be impulsive, he also knew that he had no say in the affairs between Qin Yan and Bo Yunshen.

After much hesitation, Shi Muzhou left with his manager.

Only the two of them remained.

Qin Yan took two steps toward where Bo Yunshen was standing: "Yunshen, what’s the real work you were talking about?"

As she walked, her leg stiffened up, and though it was only two steps, the arc of her calf was tense, visibly very painful.

Bo Yunshen felt a layer of irritability cloud his heart.

What did it matter to him whether Qin Yan was injured or not?

He was injured too!

She had an office to sit in but instead insisted on coming over for market research; if her body was not comfortable, that was her own doing!

Besides, who knows if this was just a ploy by Qin Yan to arouse his sympathy, to curry favor with him?

"We’ve got a dinner engagement, and you’re coming with me!"

Bo Yunshen threw out the words directly.

Qin Yan’s gaze paused.

A business dinner would likely be about collaboration, and those tasks belonged to the public relations department.

"Yunshen, how about this, I’ll call Lu Yi and ask him to send over a couple of negotiation experts."

"After all, I am the Director of the Marketing Department, and if I just casually meddle in the affairs of the Public Relations Department, I may have trouble explaining it to Director Lu afterward!"

Bo Yunshen’s eyes darkened.

He glanced at Qin Yan, his face showing no fluctuation in emotion, save for the slight upturn of his eye corner, and as he averted his gaze, it betrayed a touch or two of mockery.