The man was standing right behind her, his breath brushing past her earlobe.
Upon learning that Jing Jihan would not leave immediately, Shi Su's uneasiness, largely due to that dead cat, remarkably dissipated in an instant.
She nodded while tidying Shi Mianmian's hair, "Anyway, this is your place, I haven't touched anything in the study, feel free to use it."
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Half-past ten at night.
Mianmian was already asleep.
Jing Jihan had been in the study for over an hour since he came in.
Shi Su thought of the pack of tea she had brought from home, the pre-rain Longjing tea that Jing Jihan had once encountered at her place. After pondering, she got up to boil water to brew the tea, then knocked on the study door and walked in holding a teacup.
"Not finished yet? Will you be working late?"
"Several new projects at the overseas branch are about to start, the materials have been submitted to me and I need to approve them immediately."
