Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

Sheng Ruming slowly opened the door and entered the room. The nurse took the medicines from his hand and took out a little bottle to inject the liquids from it into Luo Lixi's I.V. drip.

"The surgery went well. She should spend the night here. Tomorrow you can bring her home."

He nodded his head in understanding and sat on the tool placed beside her bed. She was wearing the Oxygen mask while the pipes of two bags of I.V. drip and blood were attached to her two hands.

Her breath was even and he was at ease when he saw she didn't have any discomfort. The smell of sanitizer, medicinal drugs and a very faint scent of blood came from her. Her right hand was wrapped in white bandages. At the sight of it, he felt remorse.

After the nurse finished her service and went out, only then did he place his hand over her face and gently patted it. 

"I'm here, Lixi, beside you. Wake up soon. We will go home." After Sheng Ruming told her, he stood up and went to the window to look at the bright sun in the sky while waiting for her to wake up...

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Back in Sheng Industry and Corporation.

A meeting was ongoing in the meeting room which wasn't a rare sight. Sheng Haotin was seated in the main seat and was going through the papers in front of him slowly. 

Unlike the messy time, when Sheng Ruming was there, this time everyone was silent while they observed every movement of Sheng Haotin. 

This meeting was going for nearly one hour and it was in the last stage of it. Suddenly Sheng Haotin took a pen from Ji Yanli and started to sign the papers. At that, all the people sitting there heaved a sigh in relief in their minds. 

Ji Yanli sat straight on the seat which was beside him. She took the proposals he just signed and stood when he did. Everyone followed them as well.

"Meeting adjourned." After he finished his piece, he cast a glance at them and walked out from the room without saying anything. 

Ji Yanli followed him while Wang Haixiao left behind to collect the files from the executive directors. All of them had a foul mood when they handed him the papers. None of their files were accepted by Sheng Haotin.

After Sheng Haotin entered Sheng Ruming's office, he directly went to sit on the leather sofa behind the desk. Ji Yanli walked before him with a bunch of files and stood quietly for him to start checking them and signing. She was nervous when she saw he was frowning while looking at a file.

"What's wrong, uncle? Is there any problem with it?..." Ji Yanli asked in a timid voice. Sheng Haotin just gave her a disapproving glance so she shut her mouth while he returned his sight on the paper.

Sheng Haotin didn't reply to her. After going through the file till the end, he began to write something on it and threw it on the floor as it made a thud sound.

"Just what kind of person has made this file. They even have the audacity to send it to me for verification! Is our staff very adamant for the company to jump on the gutter?!" Sheng Haotin's enraged voice could be heard even from the outside. The person who heard him, hurriedly concentrated on their work while the ones who were walking towards the office pantry ran to sit on their chairs.

Ji Yanli crouched down and picked up the file. There she saw many areas were marked red while their calculation of money was messed up. 

There was a loophole of a red thousand of cash but because of the big numbers of money the project needed, anybody could have ignored this part.

"This… " Ji Yanli rounded her eyes as she turned at him and the next second she again returned to the file in her hands. The more she turned the pages the more she appeared speechless. The proposal was very good just that the lines had many typing errors.

"Find the person who submitted this proposal and give him/her a warning. Our company doesn't need a person who can't even do simple work properly!"

"Ye… yes." Ji Yanli felt very pressured when she was standing before Sheng Haotin. When she wanted to turn away, at  Sheng Haotin's voice she stopped.

"Wait. Also, take these files and return them to the persons who submitted them. Tell them the fills can't have any errors in them or they will get their resignation letter the next moment from me in person."

"Yes. Uncle, I understand." When she told that she saw Sheng Haotin's face hardened. She waited in silence for him to say something.

"Yanli, as far as I know, your work is more than that of a secretary. Don't let them lag in Ruming's absence. I have no intention to interfere too deep in the company matters now. But that doesn't mean I will tolerate a case like this a second time!" Sheng Haotin yelled at her in his harsh tone,,,,, unlike the gentle voice he used to talk with her before. 

It was a voice a superior talked with a low-status worker of them. She knew it was her father also did it like that with his workers. 

Now that Ji Yanli had also the first experience of it, Ji Yanli felt bitter in her heart. Her left hand clenched tightly as she answered him.

"I understand." She hurriedly took the long piles of files and went out. 

Her morning got ruined as she was yelled at by Sheng Haotin. When Wang Haixiao was coming towards the CEO's office, he bumped with Ji Yanli and all the files from their hands fell on the ground. 

"Yanli, you…" Wang Haixiao wanted to scold her as she abruptly walked out of the room and wanted to run out which caused the collision.

"Ssssh. Don't raise your voice. Uncle is very angry now." After she told him, Wang Haixiao closed his lips tightly. Ji Yanli crouched down on the floor and began to collect the files. 

"Let me help you." Wang Haixiao also joined her as they picked the files from the ground and hastily went to a nearby area to separate them. 

After twenty minutes, Wang Haixiao separated the files he dropped earlier and went to meet Sheng Haotin. Ji Yanli didn't bother to sort out the messy files, she just went straight to the general working area and placed the files on a staff's table with a loud bang.

"Everyone, listen to me!" At her sound, the staff turned towards her.

"Mr. Sheng Haotin, the biggest shareholder of our company will be our temporary CEO until Sheng Ruming returns. But now the thing is he is very dissatisfied with your work!" Her face lost any emotions when she talked till now. 

"The amount of affords you have put in the earlier month was admirable but don't become overconfident with that result. The future days are coming and it would be wonderful if we could put one-third of that afford in our work..." She glanced around the office as everyone had a serious look on their face. 

"Take back your files from here whoever submitted them to me in the morning." 

Many workers stood up and went towards her to take back their files. "Also the owner of this file, come here!" 

A young woman walked before Ji Yanli and nervously looked around the floor. The workers had already picked their files and went to their corresponding seats.

Suddenly Ji Yanli threw the files on her face. All of the people around them looked at their area in shock as Ji Yanli never behaved like that before.

"What are you looking at the ground for?! Is the file's data glued on the floor?! Take a look at your proposal!" The young woman hurriedly gripped the file with quivering hands and glanced at the front page.

  There were two big red circles on that paper. Mistakes on the first page are unforgivable. 

The woman turned the pages as her eyes became red. 

"Miss Yanli, I'm sorry. I just wanted to see if this idea can benefit the company." The woman felt other's eyes on her as she tried to explain. Her face turned embarrassed as she looked at Ji Yanli.

Ji Yanli folded her hands as she looked at the woman before her. As far as she knew, the woman was good at her work but if someone could see her file then they would assume she was from the competitive company who had joined this company to sabotage it in the back.

"Take your file and redo it." Then she turned towards the people who were glancing at their side.

"Mr. Sheng has told me if you give another file with childish errors and mistakes, then you don't need to work here anymore and can get the resignation letter from himself. The country doesn't lack excellent students who can replace you at any moment!"

After Ji Yanli vented her frustration at the woman and them, she went to her office chamber and sat on her chair to do her work. 

The woman gripped the file in her hands tightly as she read the file carefully. Her face turned awful the more she read it as there were many red marks. 

Just thinking of the scenery in her mind of the CEO glancing at the pages and knitting  his brows as he marked them made her head low. But nobody came to console her as she was feeling very down. They immediately became busy with their own work.

Then Wang Haixiao came to the general working area and saw everyone was very serious while doing their tasks. When his sight fell on the standing woman in the middle of the office with a file in her hand, he walked up to her.

"What are you doing here? Go to your seat to do your work. Don't block the road." When he saw her face he knew something was wrong. His sight fell on the file, he took it from her hand and cast his glance at it.

"Don't worry. You are new here so it's normal to make some mistakes. The proposal is good. Just be careful from next." Wang Haixiao encouraged her as he gave her the file and went towards the office room of his. He failed to see the blooming smile on the woman's face. Some other office girl's also squealed with love-stricken eyes when he went away.

'Such a kind and understanding man.' It was their collective thoughts while the men were busy in their work.

In the room where Wang Haixiao walked in,  four people worked and their expertise was in the different fields of the business world but all of them were geniuses on their own.

Wang Haixiao went to his seat and sat down. He saw Ji Yanli tapping very fast on her computer.

"Are you doing it again?"

"Modifying my drafts and files." She turned to him for a second and said, "I don't want to be yelled at again." 

After that she turned her concentration on her computer. 'Heck! The thing I hate the most is to be shouted at by someone. Nobody has the right to yell at me! Not even Sheng Haotin.' Her face became ugly when she thought about that time. 

Wang Haixiao flinched when he saw her face changing colors. He was very familiar with that horrifying expression of her. The person at his left nudged him to look.

"Don't mind her." He nodded as he turned at her again.

'Is she planning to kill someone or what?!' Wang Haixiao thought as the tapping sound became louder and louder by the second. 

At one point all the three people in the room except her stopped their work and looked at her straight but she was heavily invested on her computer screen. 

Abruptly two keys from the keyboard became separated and fell on the floor. Only then she gained her mind back and looked down at the desk.

The keyboard had already become damaged due to her onslaught and wasn't working anymore. 

"I… " Ji Yanli became speechless and turned towards the rest of the people. They were staring straight at her.

"Hey! Big sister, if you want to kill someone go ahead. Why are you leaking your bloodlust here and disturbing us from work?! Give me some peace." After the man told her, he turned towards his computer and put on his headphones. 

Meanwhile Wang Haixiao shook his head and concentrated on his papers. It wasn't something new to them. Whenever the working stress became too much for Ji Yanli she did such odd things. It had already become normal in their eyes. 

Fortunately only the four people knew it and they didn't have any intention to tell others.

The fourth person walked out from the room and several times later, he returned with a new keyboard. Ji Yanli stood up to let him do the work.