The mysterious CEO's endless pampering

Once inside the car, Li Zhanting immediately turned and moved closer to Shen Yanran. His handsome and deep features gradually drew near, and he enveloped her tightly with the domineering aura unique to those in power.

Shen Yanran stiffened, confused. "What's wrong?"

"Why are you suddenly so concerned about Xu Fan's love life?" Li Zhanting asked in a deep voice.

Shen Yanran glanced at Xu Fan, who was driving, and fearing he would be embarrassed if he knew the reason, she whispered to Li Zhanting, "I just think Secretary Xu is a nice person, and I want Wenqian to get to know him."

Li Zhanting raised a handsome eyebrow. "How do you know he's a good person?"

"Because he's your subordinate. You wouldn't want someone with such a bad character to be your secretary, would you?" Shen Yanran replied matter-of-factly.

Xu Fan has been working with Li Zhanting since graduating from university. He has handled everything from overseas to China, and he is indeed a trustworthy man.

But I didn't expect him to keep it so secret; even I, the boss, didn't know.

Since Xu Fan was already taken, Shen Yanran didn't ask any more questions. She glanced out the window and thought about what had happened at the Gao family that morning. Realizing that she might never be able to return to the Shen family, she said, "I want to go back to the Shen family."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhanting raised his eyes and glanced at her, his handsome brows furrowing slightly. "What are you going back for?"

"It's nothing, I just wanted to take out my and my mom's things and put them next to me," Shen Yanran said calmly.

Although there was nothing in the Shen family home that she would miss, it was the place where she had lived for 26 years and held many fond memories, especially from when her mother was still alive.

Since she never wanted to go back, she simply took everything that belonged to her and her mother with her.

“Okay, then I’ll go back with you.” Li Zhanting said it as a matter of course.

Shen Yanran shook her head. "No need. Just take me to the door. If my dad finds out about our relationship, he'll be even less willing to let me go."

The Shen family is currently facing a severe shortage of funds. If Li Zhanting goes there, it will be like "a lamb entering a tiger's den." If Shen Changtian knew that his daughter had married such a powerful man, he would definitely extort a hefty dowry.

She believed that no matter how unreasonable the Shen family's demands were, Li Zhanting would agree for her sake. However, she didn't want their relationship to be tied to any money or interests, as that would make her feel like she wasn't marrying him, but rather... "selling" herself to him.

Li Zhanting's face turned cold. "He wouldn't dare."

Although he hadn't learned much about the Shen family, if they dared to harm Shen Yanran right under his nose, they shouldn't blame him for being impolite!

Shen Yanran said warmly, "With you here, he definitely wouldn't dare. But I'd better let myself handle it. After all, Shen Changtian is my biological father, and I don't want our relationship to deteriorate to the point of no return."

Li Zhanting looked at her with deep eyes. After a long while, he slowly said in a low voice, "Fine, if you want to handle it yourself, I won't stop you. Do whatever you want without worry. No matter what happens, I'll support you."

Shen Yanran smiled and looked at him with satisfaction, then said softly, "You can do whatever you want, even if it's illegal, right?"

Li Zhanting approached her, his dark eyes filled with an arrogant and domineering air: "My woman can be lawless, no matter what."

Shen Yanran was slightly taken aback. Was this lawlessness?

It seems like a long time ago, when she was bullied badly by Du Yuzhi and Shen Yufei, she thought about retaliating without a care in the world. But when she thought of her mother's last words, telling her to take care of herself, she had no choice but to endure it all.

And then there's Gao Yufeng. In order to be a qualified fiancée worthy of him, she ignored all the insults and disdain she received, just in case her impulsiveness would bring unnecessary trouble to Gao Yufeng.

She lived so cautiously within the Gao Group, yet she never imagined that she would ultimately be betrayed.

As a woman, she always hopes to be protected and cherished by the man she loves, but she almost never experienced this from Gao Yufeng.

But now, Li Zhanting, her new husband, can spoil her rotten...

Shen Yanran raised her bright and beautiful face and smiled calmly, "Okay, you're amazing, but I was just saying that. It's not worth it for people like the Shen family."

The car continued to move smoothly forward. Shen Yanran looked at the streets flashing by outside the window and couldn't help but think of her life in the Shen family for more than twenty years.

When her mother was still alive, she lived a happy and fulfilling life.

But soon everything changed. My mother started being hospitalized for a long time and couldn't even go home.

The father gradually lost patience with the mother and never said a word of concern except for sending money to the hospital for treatment on time.

It wasn't until her mother's illness dragged on for three years and she finally succumbed to it and passed away that she realized what it meant for a child without a mother to be like a blade of grass.

Because her grandparents, who had always doted on her, stopped caring about her after her father brought Du Yuzhi and Shen Yufei into the family, and instead treated Shen Yufei as the apple of the Shen family's eye.

Ultimately, she was forced to become an outsider, forced to stand in a corner and watch their family reunion...

When she looked up, the road outside was already very familiar to her; it seemed she would arrive at the Shen family's house in another two or three minutes.

Considering her current situation, she became even more determined not to let the Shen family know about her marriage to Li Zhanting. With a complicated expression, she said to Xu Fan, who was driving, "Secretary Xu, could you please pull over for a moment? I can walk over by myself in a bit."

Turning her head, she gave Li Zhanting another deep look and said, "You've been with me for so long, you must have missed a lot of work. Hurry back to the company. I'll pack my things and take a taxi back myself, don't worry."

Li Zhanting knew Shen Yanran's concerns and didn't want to put her in a difficult position. "Okay, then if anything happens, be sure to call me immediately. Don't forget, you're not alone anymore, you still have me."

"Okay, I see." Shen Yanran smiled warmly and got out of the car.

He gazed intently in the direction of the Shen family mansion for a couple of deep looks before finally taking a step and walking over.

The path, which should have taken only five minutes to walk, felt like it had been a very long time for her.

Finally arriving at the mansion's entrance, she naturally entered the password on the keypad lock.

However, the message that came through was indeed an incorrect password.

Shen Yanran gave a cold, indifferent laugh. Needless to say, Shen Yufei must have changed the password again, deliberately preventing her from returning.

Shen Yanran had no time to argue at this point and simply rang the doorbell.

Soon, a voice came from the other end asking, "Hello, this is the Shen Mansion. Who are you looking for?"

Shen Yanran recognized the voice as belonging to her family's housekeeper, Sister Wang, and said calmly, "Sister Wang, it's me, Yanran. Open the door."

Upon hearing that it was Shen Yanran outside the door, Sister Wang dropped all formalities and said directly, "Oh, it's Miss Yanran. You didn't bring your key? There's a combination lock, isn't there? Just enter the code and you'll be in. Why are you making things so complicated for me?"

This wasn't the first or second time that Sister Wang had disrespected her like this, and she felt very uncomfortable, so she coldly ordered, "Open the door."

Sister Wang was startled. This was the first time she had heard Shen Yanran speak so coldly. No matter what she said before, Shen Yanran would ignore her. Could it be that she was abandoned by the young master of the Gao family and suffered a shock?

Sister Wang wanted to make things difficult for Shen Yanran, but when she thought about the security cameras at the door, she didn't dare to go too far and opened the door instead.

Just then, an old voice suddenly sounded behind her and asked, "Wang Xiu, why have you been standing at the door for so long? Who rang the doorbell?"

When Wang Xiu saw that it was Old Madam Shen, she had an idea. She immediately put on a look of being greatly wronged and said, "Madam, it's Miss Yanran. She lost her key and rang the doorbell. I was just making tea for you, so I was a little late. But Miss Yanran scolded me without saying a word and complained that I opened the door for her too slowly."

Madam Shen, Cheng Liwen, immediately frowned. "She still dares to insult you?"

Wang Xiu knew very well how the old lady of the Shen family treated Shen Yanran, so she could lie as she pleased. No one would suspect anything anyway. Even if something went wrong, Shen Yufei, the apple of the Shen family's eye, would be there to support her, so she had nothing to be afraid of.

"Grandma, please don't be angry. Miss Yanran is your granddaughter after all. She probably just broke off her engagement with Young Master Gao yesterday and was in a bad mood, so she scolded me a couple of times. It's nothing for us servants to suffer a little grievance."

The topic of breaking off the engagement infuriated Cheng Liwen, and she was about to explode when Shen Yanran walked in from outside.

She immediately turned cold, pointed at Shen Yanran's nose, and shouted, "Shen Yanran, how dare you come back? Do you know that you have completely disgraced the Shen family!"

This wasn't the first time Shen Yanran had heard such unwarranted scolding.

In Cheng Liwen's eyes, she was a dispensable member of the Shen family. Whenever she was unhappy, she would scold her, as if it had become a habit. She would scold her as a disgrace as soon as they met.

In the past, Shen Yanran would have pretended not to hear and just endured it. But ever since she found out that Gao Yufeng and Shen Yufei had done such shameless things behind her back, she felt that there was no need to endure it any longer.

"Grandma, you are my elder and I respect you, but that doesn't mean you can scold me for no reason."

What Cheng Liwen disliked most about Shen Yanran was her indifferent attitude, just like her deceased mother, who didn't know how to be filial to her and always gave her a hard time.

She immediately frowned, her face darkening, and said, "Shen Yanran, don't you know what you've done? You're asking me to scold you for no reason. If you were as easy to deal with as Feifei, I wouldn't bother scolding you!"

The disgruntled rebuke made Shen Yanran's lips curl into a cold smile. "You're right, Shen Yufei is much less troublesome for you than I am. She's already pregnant out of wedlock. You must be very happy now, right?"