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"Brother?" Yu Lang asked Duan Mingxuan, forcing a smile. "Are you alright?"

Duan Mingxuan suddenly came to his senses and wondered if he had misheard.

He suddenly stood up, startling Yu Lang, who asked, "Where are you going?"

What?

Naturally, he went to find Lin Xi.

He wanted to ask her if she had a heart at all.

Duan Mingxuan kicked away the gaming chair, and Yu Lang's scalp tingled. He hurriedly tried to pull him away, but couldn't.

He must have known about Duan Mingxuan's bad temper.

Lin Xi and Liang Yutong were chatting and laughing as they went upstairs when a dark figure rushed towards them angrily as they turned the corner.

Lin Xi's heart tightened. Meeting Duan Mingxuan's accusing gaze, she instinctively felt that it was related to her.

Yu Lang stepped forward and pressed down on Duan Mingxuan's shoulder, trying to persuade him: "Mingxuan, calm down."

Duan Mingxuan shook him off, his tone mocking: "What? Do you think I'd fight her?"

Liang Yutong looked at Yu Lang questioningly, "What's wrong?"

Yu Lang ran a hand through her hair, gesturing for her to ask Lin Xi.

Duan Mingxuan appears to be ignorant and incompetent, but he is actually quite intelligent. It's just that his intelligence pales in comparison to Duan Yiheng's.

His gaze fell on the shopping bag in Lin Xi's arm, and he suppressed his anger, asking, "What did you buy?"

Lin Xi pursed her lips, but still told the truth: "An ornament."

Duan Mingxuan: "Where should we put it?"

Lin Xi fell silent.

"I'm asking you a question, where are you putting it?" Duan Mingxuan persisted.

Lin Xi took a deep breath, slowly exhaling a bit, and looked up to ask, "What do you want to say?"

"Place it on the east or west side?" Duan Mingxuan stepped forward, forcing Lin Xi to retreat.

Liang Yutong stood in front of Lin Xi and scolded Duan Mingxuan: "What are you doing?"

Yu Lang felt that Liang Yutong was causing trouble, but he was afraid that she would be implicated, so he pulled her aside. Liang Yutong refused, but she was no match for Yu Lang's strength.

"What the hell are you doing? Let me go."

“Mingxuan won’t do anything to Lin Xi,” Yu Bo said in a low voice. “You just stay put.”

Liang Yutong was indignant: "What's with that look on his face, like he caught his wife cheating on him?"

Yu Bo thought to himself: This is no different from his wife cheating on him.

Duan Mingxuan's questioning caused Lin Xi's expression to change drastically; Duan Mingxuan knew.

With her friend still there, Lin Xi didn't want to make things awkward, so she said, "Let's go upstairs first, and I'll explain to you then."

"Explain why you became Duan Yiheng's secretary!" Duan Mingxuan roared, his temples throbbing with anger as he cornered her against the wall.

Lin Xi raised her hand and pressed it against his chest, pushing him away: "Are you sure you want to say this standing here?"

"Why can't we say it here?" Duan Mingxuan couldn't wait a second longer. "Is a simple explanation really that difficult?"

Lin Xi looked up, her face deathly pale: "What do you want me to explain to you?"

Duan Mingxuan grabbed her shoulders and asked hopefully, "Did my mom send you to the company? Does she want you to be my dad's informant?"

Lin Xi was shocked for a moment, not understanding how Duan Mingxuan could say such a thing.

“Duan Mingxuan, he is your older brother. How could you possibly think that I was working as his secretary to act as an informant for Uncle Duan? I was just there to do my job, nothing more.”

Duan Mingxuan's voice rose again: "If you're going to work at Yinfan, you can go to any department, why do you have to go to the president's office?"

Lin Xi felt pain from his pinch and struggled, shrinking her shoulders: "Enough, Duan Mingxuan, I am not your property. Where I work and who I am your secretary are none of your business."

"It's none of my business?" Duan Mingxuan's handsome face twisted in disbelief. "Why the hell didn't you tell me to mind my own business when you were a kid? Huh?"

Lin Xi was startled by his roar close to her ear and closed her eyes.

"Duan Mingxuan!" Liang Yutong tried to break free from Yu Lang's control. "Don't go too far, why are you yelling?"

Duan Mingxuan gritted his teeth and turned his head: "Since when did it become your place to speak about what I do with Xiao Xi?"

"You... you... you... Yu Lang, you fucking cover my mouth... you... go to hell..."

Sweating profusely, Yu Lang "kidnapped" Liang Yutong and dragged her to the first floor.

Lin Xi instinctively tried to comfort Liang Yutong, but Duan Mingxuan rudely grabbed her arm.

"What exactly do you want?" Lin Xi couldn't help but yell at him, "It's one thing if you're yelling at me, but why are you being so rude to Yu Tong too?"

“I haven’t settled the score with her for handing you over to Duan Yiheng last time.” Duan Mingxuan’s eyes were deep and heavy, like the oppressive dark clouds of July or August.

The commotion attracted the servants, but before they even got close, Duan Mingxuan revealed his fierce side, frowning and telling them to get out.

The servants dared not approach any further and could only notify Butler Mei.

Lin Xi felt distressed to see the innocent servants suffering, so she regulated her breathing to calm herself down.

“Mingxuan, it was wrong of me to keep this from you. You can ask, but don’t implicate innocent people.”

"Fine." Duan Mingxuan released her. "I'm asking you, if I hadn't had someone investigate, how long were you going to keep this from me?"

Lin Xi suddenly looked at him and asked incredulously, "You investigated me?"

Duan Mingxuan was initially a little guilty, but ever since he learned that Lin Xi had secretly become Duan Yiheng's secretary, that guilt had long since turned into confidence.

"I just wanted to know what you've been doing all this time, and as I expected, you've been led astray by others."

"Duan Mingxuan, can't you be a little more mature? No one has led me astray, and I'm just doing my normal job at Yinfan."

Duan Mingxuan laughed angrily: "Normal work? I've cherished you since you were a child, and now you turn around and serve tea and water to Duan Yiheng, welcoming and seeing him off. Have you ever considered my feelings?"

Lin Xi's eyes reddened: "So I have to stay at home, wear expensive and exquisite dresses, and be the little sister in your palm? You want me to go east, but I can't go west? Duan Mingxuan, are you sick?"

"It's not like I can't afford to support you." Duan Mingxuan slapped the railing, his palm turning red. "I already told Yin Fan that you can go if you want, but you have to stay away from Duan Yiheng. Why can't you do that?"

Lin Xi snorted lightly, stubbornly raised her head, and said, word by word:

"Then I'll tell you today, I'm unwilling and unable to do it. I'm unwilling to let you support me, and I can't stay away from Duan Yiheng."

"you--"

The air froze; Duan Mingxuan hadn't expected Lin Xi's rebellious phase to come so late.

He clung tightly to the stair railing, unsure of what to do with Lin Xi.

Liang Yutong looked up at the two people upstairs. She could see clearly that Duan Mingxuan had always had a strong possessive desire for Lin Xi. Could this feeling be love?

But Duan Mingxuan is an adult, he already has a girlfriend, how could he not see his own feelings?

His feelings for Lin Xi might be like a little boy's possessiveness towards a playmate.

Duan Mingxuan felt like he was about to explode if he didn't do something, so he grabbed Lin Xi's shopping bag.

"what are you doing?"

Lin Xi tried to reach it, but couldn't.

Duan Mingxuan raised his hand, and the sailboat ornament seemed to have encountered a hurricane at sea, tumbling down the stairs in pieces.

The ship has disintegrated, its base is riddled with cracks, and silk canvas is wrapped around the mast, making a smooth sailing impossible.

When Duan Yiheng arrived after receiving the news, the sailboat ornament rolled down the stairs, hitting him at his feet and also hitting his heart.