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Chapter 189 - 189 189 She didnt drink a sip of the tea she
Chapter 189 - 189 189 She didnt drink a sip of the tea she
?Chapter 189: Chapter 189 She didn’t drink a sip of the tea she brewed Chapter 189: Chapter 189 She didn’t drink a sip of the tea she brewed Meng Li felt uncomfortable inside and started making conversation with Sheng Tingyuan just for the sake of talking: “President Sheng, do you no longer like drinking Longjing Tea? Is it because I didn’t make it well enough?”
Seeing Sheng Tingyuan didn’t speak, she continued: “Or, would you like me to change it to another type of tea? We also have Tieguanyin, Dahongpao, Jinjunmei…”
“None of them.”
Sheng Tingyuan spoke indifferently: “Brew a pot of goji berries with red dates, and let it cool down a bit before bringing it over.”
Meng Li instantly gripped the teapot handle tightly, if she hadn’t remembered wrong, goji berries and red dates were Ye Chuyi’s favorite to drink.
She respectfully replied with eyes lowered: “Alright, President Sheng, it will be brought to you later.”
After she finished speaking, she left the room with clenched teeth.
She had once thought Ye Chuyi was so above it all, but now she had apparently picked up the act of drinking green tea, deliberately seducing men. Sheng Tingyuan was even married now, and yet she shamelessly acted as his mistress, following him out to eat.
Moreover, she was really wearing the latest Chanel suit!
That definitely wasn’t something Ye Chuyi could afford on her own; it must have been Sheng Tingyuan who bought it for her!
Why!
Why did Ye Chuyi get to live so well now!
Back then, she was clearly the most miserable one. Just because she hooked up with Sheng Tingyuan, did she get to transform into a high-class figure?
No, she wouldn’t allow it!
In the private room, Sheng Tingyuan asked Ye Chuyi: “When your hand was burned before, was it by hot tea?”
Ye Chuyi was surprised: “How did you know?”
“Just now, when that pot of tea came closer, you reflexively pulled away from it; there was wariness in your eyes.”
He observed quite meticulously.
Ye Chuyi didn’t hide anything and nodded: “It was indeed by hot tea before, and it was done by someone I had no guard against.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Huh? Why are you apologizing? It wasn’t you who burned me.”
“That day, I added fuel to the fire, wrongly blaming you too much.”
Ye Chuyi shook her head, displaying a magnanimous smile: “It’s all in the past, not a big deal. I’ll assume you were just concerned about my hand. President Sheng doesn’t have to worry about it; you’ve apologized several times already.”
Sheng Tingyuan slightly furrowed his brows; she’d called him President Sheng again.
Strictly speaking, that day’s incident wasn’t really a big deal, but since that day, she had erected an invisible wall between the two of them, beginning to refuse all his friendly gestures.
Her smile at the moment was very sincere, obviously no longer angry.
But he didn’t understand why she kept resisting him.
The dishes they’d ordered came one after another, and Meng Li was the one serving them. After serving the plates, Meng Li also brought the goji berry and red date tea.
But, Ye Chuyi, who usually liked drinking goji berry and red date tea, didn’t sip it at all this time.
She even ate very little of the meal.
Sheng Tingyuan noticed: “Why aren’t you eating? Is it not to your taste?”
Ye Chuyi wanted to say it wasn’t that, but she couldn’t tell him the real reason, so she simply nodded: “Yes.”
“Then we’ll change to another restaurant next time.”
“Alright.”
The real reason was that the day before the college entrance exam, Meng Li had put laxatives in her food and drink.
At that time, she didn’t know and just thought she had a bad stomach. Since she already had a weak digestive system, suddenly getting sick didn’t raise her suspicions. But to avoid worsening the diarrhea, she hardly dared to eat anything during the three days of the exam, only drinking a bit of water when she was extremely thirsty.
Fortunately, she was cautious enough to avoid further trouble. Otherwise, if she continued to eat, she would fall victim again.
After the exams ended, when she found out that someone had tampered with her college application and confronted Meng Li, Wen Nianyou deliberately revealed that Meng Li had drugged her in order to provoke her.
Wen Nianyou said Meng Li was envious of her having better grades and had deliberately put the drug in her food and drink. During the three days of the exams, even the bottled water she bought had been tampered with by Meng Li at some chance.
But in reality, Ye Chuyi had been suppressing her own grades for many years in order to be able to study. When she was very young, if her grades were ever better than Wen Nianyou’s, Lin Yueqin would scold her, and later she outright stopped her from going to school.
That’s when she truly understood that higher grades didn’t always mean praise and commendation; on the contrary, good grades could provoke envy in some people.