The Cunning CEO's Contract Wife

Chapter 45 I Don't Want This Money

Xiao Jingchen listened to Lin Ran's explanation with a cold expression, and after a while, he smiled with a hint of sarcasm.

"Do you think I will believe you?"

Lin Ran closed her eyes, feeling somewhat helpless.

“Everything I said is true. If you don’t believe me, you can have someone investigate. I didn’t lay a finger on Ye Chuchu.”

"Unfortunately, I won't believe a single word you say."

"After all, you lied about yesterday with such a natural expression, didn't you?"

Thinking about the materials incident yesterday, Xiao Jingchen's suppressed anger surged up again, and he stared at Lin Ran, saying each word slowly and deliberately.

"I……"

Lin Ran remembered that she had indeed lied to Xiao Jingchen at the restaurant yesterday, and swallowed all her words of rebuttal.

She did lie about that.

Seeing her silent demeanor, Xiao Jingchen assumed she was tacitly agreeing to the matter of the materials, and with a cold laugh, he dragged Lin Ran into her room.

With a bang, the door slammed shut, cutting off all outside sounds.

Xiao Jingchen looked Lin Ran up and down as if he were examining an object, and after a while, a voice with a hint of malice rang out.

"Lin Ran, you really are despicable, you'll stop at nothing to achieve your goals."

Xiao Jingchen stretched out two fingers and pinched her chin, leaning closer to examine her closely. His gaze paused when he saw the faint red marks on her face, but he didn't say anything.

"Have you slept with Xiao Yunsi? How much does he pay you each time? Hmm?"

Lin Ran's eyes were filled with disbelief. She never expected Xiao Jingchen to say such a thing. In her anger, she pushed him away.

"Xiao Jingchen, don't think of me with your filthy mind!"

The two stared at each other as if they were enemies.

A cold glint appeared in Xiao Jingchen's eyes. He slowly raised his eyes, his eyebrows slightly upturned.

"I'm dirty? Lin Ran, if you hadn't done these things, I might have actually believed you."

Xiao Jingchen's voice was calm, even with a hint of a strange smile, but the coldness in his eyes revealed his true feelings at that moment.

"No matter what you say, there is nothing between Xiao Yunsi and me."

"I have a clear conscience."

Lin Ran said, enunciating each word clearly.

A hint of conflict, and a trace of joy that he himself was unaware of, surfaced in Xiao Jingchen's eyes. He spoke after a long while, but his tone remained icy cold, and his thin lips curled into a cold arc.

"No, that's for sure. After all, you're my wife in name only now, and I don't have the habit of being cuckolded."

Lin Ran pursed her lips, instinctively wanting to say that she wouldn't be cuckolded either, but considering the current situation, she silently swallowed those words.

The next second, a check was thrown at Lin Ran's face.

"Here's the money. Be more discreet in the future. If I see any news about it in the media, you'll be kicked out of the Xiao family immediately."

The check lightly struck Lin Ran's cheek and then gently fell to the ground.

Xiao Jingchen stared intently at Lin Ran, and when he saw her squat down to pick up the check, a cold smile of "just as I thought" appeared on his face.

But Lin Ran didn't put the check away; instead, she placed it on the table in front of Xiao Jingchen.

She accepted the money because she had been wronged, and the money was compensation, so she could accept it as a matter of course.

But this million was an insult, a mockery, something she shouldn't have taken.

“Xiao Jingchen, I have hands and feet, I can work by myself.”

“If I hadn’t had no other choice, I wouldn’t have taken your money. I will return that million to you as soon as possible. Don’t try to humiliate me with money again.”

Lin Ran's tone was much lighter than usual, with a hint of weariness. After saying this, she left the room without hesitation.

Xiao Jingchen frowned as he looked at her slender back, feeling a surge of anger stuck in his throat, unable to rise or fall.

Could it be that he misunderstood before, and this woman is not as greedy as she seems?

Lin Ran never expected to be so unlucky. She had only taken a few steps out of her room when she saw Ye Chuchu.

Ye Chuchu immediately noticed the finger marks on her fair neck and mocked, "Oh, sister, what happened to your neck?"

Lin Ran paused, stopped, and a smile appeared on her lips.

"Wasn't this your fault?"

Ye Chuchu, who had been exposed, was not embarrassed at all, and covered her mouth and laughed.

"I told you long ago to stay away from my Brother Xiao. We are the true love. Who do you think you are?"

Ye Chuchu's tone was full of malice. Even though Xiao Jingchen was treating her very well now, Lin Ran was still occupying the place that belonged to her, which made her very unhappy.

"Love?"

Lin Ran silently repeated the two words, carefully considering them, and then forced a chilling smile.

"I really love it, but..."

“I am Xiao Jingchen’s lawfully wedded wife, and you, even if it is true love, are just a mistress who can never be brought into the open.”

"Never to be seen by anyone."

Lin Ran finished saying what had been on her mind in one breath. Seeing Ye Chuchu's slightly green face, she felt much better and turned to leave the corridor.

"Lin Ran! You little bitch! How dare you insult me!"

When Ye Chuchu came to her senses, Lin Ran was nowhere to be seen. She stomped her foot, her face full of embarrassment at being exposed.

Knowing that Xiao Jingchen was in the room next door, Ye Chuchu could only suppress her resentment and cry as she entered the room.

"Brother Xiao, my sister just scolded me. She called me... a mistress."

When Ye Chuchu entered, she realized that the atmosphere was a bit strange. Xiao Jingchen, who was usually very gentle with her, was staring at her with cold eyes.

That cold demeanor reminded me of how we used to meet.

"Brother Xiao, I... I didn't mean to disturb you, it's just that what my sister said was too much."

Ye Chuchu gritted her teeth and started crying as before, but this time it didn't evoke any pity from Xiao Jingchen.

Xiao Jingchen found the whimpering sound very noisy.

"Shut up."

A cold voice rang out, and Ye Chuchu's crying stopped abruptly.

She cautiously looked up, only to find that Xiao Jingchen was lost in thought and didn't even lift his head.

Feeling even more aggrieved, Ye Chuchu silently added another mark against Lin Ran.

If it weren't for her, how could I have been scolded by Brother Xiao!

Just as she was about to leave, Ye Chuchu caught sight of the checks on the table, and her eyes lit up immediately.

After all, although Xiao Jingchen treated her very well and prepared many things for her, he never gave her any money.

She was extremely tempted by the million.

"Brother Xiao, I'll head out now."

As Ye Chuchu spoke in a low voice, she secretly observed Xiao Jingchen's gaze. Once she was sure he wasn't coming over, she quickly grabbed the check from the table.

She just suffered such a great injustice, so let's consider this million as compensation.

With that thought in mind, Ye Chuchu carefully hid the check and left the room.