novelxo Chapter 182
Thinking of that, Shen Qi looked down and stared at the glistening water of the pool in silence.
“I’m sorry. It just slipped my mind…” Han Xueyou smiled awkwardly. Yan looked in the other direction in irritation, thinking that Han Xueyou had made such a remark deliberately. “Make sure your phone is fully charged so that you can help us to take photos when the contest starts!” Yan then turned to Shen Qi and said with excitement.
Han Xueyou seemed to recall something and asked, “Is everyone here to watch the contest?”
Yan nodded and answered, “Of course. Everyone will be here to watch the contest and there will be judges too.”
“Only men can join the contest?”
Yan glanced at Han Xueyou. “What do you mean?”
“I mean, why can’t we girls join the contest when the guys can?”
Yan’s eyes lit up. “Now that you mention it,there isn’t any rule against it, but it seems like the organizer doesn’t have such an arrangement, so I don’t think we girls can take part in the contest.”
“Easy!” With a bright smile on her face, Han Xueyou walked toward Shen Qi to cling onto her arm and waved at Ye Linhan who was not far away from them. “Mr. Ye!” Han Xueyou’s voice attracted everyone’s attention; on the other hand, Ye Linhan’s attention had been on them for quite some time now.
His eyes were attracted by Shen Qi’s bright red dress since she appeared at the dinner, and he had been paying attention to her all the while.
He originally thought that blue or green dresses would suit her better with her elegant temperament. He didn’t expect her to look so dazzling in red, just like a shimmering ruby.
Ye Linhan immediately noticed when Han Xueyou waved at him, and he also saw the change of expression on Shen Qi’s face.
Shen Qi held Han Xueyou’s hand and asked softly, “Why did you call him?”
Han Xueyou smiled and replied to her, “Oh, nothing much. Since he’s one of the people in charge here, I want to ask for his help to organize a women’s swimming contest.”
“You can find someone else, can’t you? What do you want to do?” Shen Qi lowered her voice and warned her, “Don’t do anything stupid!”
“Don’t worry. I won’t tell him about that matter at this moment. Obviously, I need to get your permission before I do so.”
“Vice President Ye is coming over here!”
Ye Linhan came to them, a light smile on his handsome face. “Yes?”
“Mr. Ye!” Excitement could be heard in Han Xueyou’s voice. “I heard that there will be a men’s swimming contest later. Is that true?”
“Yes, it is.” Ye Linhan nodded his head gently.
“The contest was only open for men in the past. Can we have a women’s swimming contest too this year?”
Listening to her suggestion, Ye Linhan was stunned for a while. He never thought that Han Xueyou would have such a request. Han Xueyou noticed the surprised expression on his face so she quickly squeezed Shen Qi’s arm tighter and pulled her forward. “That’s also Qi’s suggestion. Mr. Ye, you won’t decline her small request, will you?”
“I…” As Shen Qi wanted to speak up for herself, Han Xueyou held her tighter and whispered softly in her ear, “Help me this time if you don’t want me to tell him about that matter.”
Later, if Ye Moxuan is here, I must grab the opportunity to show off my figure in front of him! Han Xueyou thought.
Although Yan wasn’t happy to see Han Xueyou take advantage of Shen Qi, she was looking forward to the women’s swimming contest. However, she then added on, “Vice President Ye, if it’s difficult for you to make it happen, it’s alright. It’s nice enough to watch the men’s swimming contest!”
Just then, Ye Linhan smiled and said, “I think it’s a good idea to have a women’s swimming contest.”
His gentle eyes shone brightly, his gaze soft without any sign of aggressiveness. Everyone was enamored of his gorgeous eyes.
“We only opened the contest for men in the past. Now that you mention it, I think it will be fun to have a women’s swimming contest too in order to make the dinner more enjoyable.”
Shen Qi was speechless. Make the dinner more enjoyable? What a joke. I thought this should be an annual dinner, not a swimming tournament…
But looking at how excited Han Xueyou and Yan were, she didn’t make any remark.
“So does it mean that you’ve agreed to us, Mr. Ye? We can register to take part in the contest later?”
“Of course. I will talk to the organizer and ask them to open for registration later. All three of you want to take part? Since the number of participants is limited, if the three of you want to join the contest, I’ll ask the organizer to reserve places for all of you.”
“Yes!” Yan and Han Xueyou couldn’t wait and nodded their heads, thrilled.
Shen Qi was the only one who remained silent. The two girls looked at her and asked, “Qi, aren’t you joining us?”
“Er…” Shen Qi paused for a while and said awkwardly, “I don’t know how to swim.”
Of course she couldn’t take part in the swimming contest.
Yan was surprised to hear that. “How can you not know how to swim? Oh my god, in this era, you have to learn swimming anyhow. How boring it will be if you can’t swim!”
“It’s okay, Qi. Then you can cheer for us while we’re swimming later. Mr. Ye, please reserve two places for us.”
“Alright.” Ye Linhan nodded his head with a smile.
Not long after he left, the organizer announced the registration for the women’s contest and Han Xueyou quickly rushed to register her name excitedly. Yan let her go by herself and stayed back. “Did you realize Vice President Ye’s gaze when he looked at you just now?”
Shen Qi was dumbfounded. “What?”
“It was obviously full of love. Let me guess—Vice President Ye is courting you but you didn’t agree to be with him; am I right?”
Shen Qi replied, “You must have been mistaken. Vice President Ye and I don’t have such a relationship.”
Ye Linhan is courting me? That’s impossible! I’m Ye Moxuan’s wife regardless of whether it is a marriage of convenience, but Ye Linhan will never have feelings for me since he has known that since the beginning.
“I know that you two don’t have any special relationship, but it doesn’t stop him from having feelings for you. The gaze he cast at you just now…it felt kind of possessive. And do you know that last time…” Yan told Shen Qi about the thing that happened in the mall last time.
“That’s why I think he’s definitely after you! Although there were rumours about you and our Young Master Ye before this, if Vice President Ye doesn’t mind that, I think both of you can…”
“Yan!” Shen Qi cut Yan off aggressively. “Please don’t talk about such nonsense again!”
Although Ye Moxuan and her were not real husband and wife, she would never be with Ye Linhan too.
Otherwise… it would be incest. How would the others perceive her and the Shen Family if they knew that she had a relationship with both of the brothers?
Yan was terrified to see Shen Qi’s fierce expression. She finally nodded her head after a while. “Understood.”
However, Shen Qi was in deep thought. Her mind had been in a mess all the while, and now it became worse after listening to Yan’s words.
Ye Linhan won’t really have feelings for me, will he? But why does he treat me so well? He didn’t even hesitate to give the three hundred thousand to my mother, and he even gifted me a dress which he spent around one million on in an auction.
In addition with the gaze and smile he had just now, Shen Qi suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.