Chapter 703: Chapter 703: Mr. Song Said: Cursing Me in Your Heart?
Seeing Ji Ming, Tang Li raised her hand and pointed in a direction: "Just now a crook smeared your reputation, and he’s fleeing that way. Guard Chief Ji, quickly catch him and bring him to justice!"
Ji Ming: "..."
About ten minutes later, Tang Li was brought into a room on the second floor of Tan Palace.
The room was set up as a living room, but it wasn’t the place Tang Li had visited a few times before.
A branched crystal chandelier and a Turkish carpet with yellow and green stripes, Tang Li looked at the room’s gold and silver utensils, the only phrase that could describe it was "a dazzling array", as if she was in a medieval noble’s mansion.
Tang Li gave Ji Ming an inquiring look.
Ji Min explained in a sentence: "This is Danzhu Hall."
Then, Ji Ming told her: "Mr. Song is hosting a banquet at Tan Palace tonight for the governor of Dongyan Province, it’s about to end, and Mr. Song will be here in at most half an hour."
After Ji Ming left, Tang Li walked around Danzhu Hall.
In the corner of Danzhu Hall, there was a door.
Tang Li held the doorknob, then turned it and went in, only to find it was a porcelain room with precious porcelains from around the world, vibrant in color and peculiar in shape.
There was information about the interior layout of Tan Palace on the internet.
Just like Tang Li knew about the Red Room and Blue Room on the first floor, when Ji Ming mentioned "Danzhu Hall", she guessed that this was the living room specially used by the President’s wife.
Unlike a typical family living room, Danzhu Hall exuded a regally exquisite vibe.
Leaving the porcelain room, Tang Li sat back on the living room sofa.
When Song Baiyan arrived, Tang Li was already curling up on the sofa, dozing off.
She heard the door open, immediately opened her eyes, turned her head to look, and upon seeing the figure of a man at the living room door, she instantly woke up.
Song Baiyan noticed there wasn’t a throw blanket on the sofa, and Tang Li was just wearing a T-shirt and shorts, dozing off there, with only the pillow as her sole source of warmth. He sat on the adjacent sofa, pulled off his tie and placed it on the armrest, unfastened two buttons of his shirt with his right hand, and his left hand had already grasped the girl’s ankle.
As expected, it was a bit cool to the touch.
Song Baiyan broke the silence, "Thinking about sleeping so early today?"
"Just a bit tired after running." Tang Li explained, then suddenly remembered something and looked at him to ask, "How did you know I was outside Tan Palace and sent Ji Ming to find me?"
"Isn’t it that Ji Ming just happened to bump into you outside?"
"..."
Song Baiyan rested his hands on his knees, Tang Li saw this as a typical leadership pose. Before she could silently criticize him, Song Baiyan smiled first: "Cursing me in your heart?"
"... No." Tang Li’s eyes shifted slightly, and she defended insincerely: "Why would I curse someone for no reason? You shouldn’t always wrong me."
Speaking, she glanced around and said, "Considering you brought me here, I won’t hold it against you."
Song Baiyan asked her again: "Did that wake you up from your nap?"
Tang Li nodded.
Unexpectedly, Song Baiyan suddenly lifted her from the couch.
Then, Tang Li found herself sitting on his lap.
She had sat on Song Baiyan’s lap before, but this way of sitting made Tang Li stunned, her cheeks flushed; it was overly intimate yet devoid of any flirtatious atmosphere, not like the hug between lovers, but rather more like that between a father and daughter, with extra care and slowly calming her heart.
Song Baiyan’s voice sounded close to her ear: "Coming here late at night, did you encounter something upsetting?"
"Why does it have to be something upsetting? Maybe I had some good news."
"If it were good news, you wouldn’t be wearing such a serious face."