Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
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A few minutes later, Jiang Beihan was seated in an air-conditioned office in the creative department, reviewing some boring documents and waiting for Song Wenxin’s coffee.
Shortly, there was a knock on the door.
“Coffee!” Song Wenxin announced from the other side of the door.
“Come in!” he responded.
Holding the coffee, Song Wenxin walked into the office with a hint of a smile on her face.
Placing the cup of coffee on the desk, she stood to one side without a word, waiting to see his reaction when he drank the coffee.
Flashing her a glance, Jiang Beihan lifted the cup and took a sip of the coffee.
With that one sip, his face took on a stunned look.
“Song Wenxin, you call this coffee?” he asked patiently, suppressing his emotions and putting the cup down.
How much sugar had she added to the coffee? Did she intend to murder him for his money?!
That level of sweetness was definitely enough to dislodge all his teeth!
He had no doubt whatsoever that she must have taken all the sugar that she could find in the pantry and added them to his coffee!
“Of course it’s coffee!” Song Wenxin exclaimed innocently. “Perhaps the quality of the coffee in your company is sub-standard and not quite up to the quality of coffee that you are accustomed to.”
She rarely drank coffee and had no clue as to whether the coffee was good or bad. What she had just said was simply an excuse that she had made up.
Jiang Beihan pursed his lips. Poor quality coffee?
She could not have known that the JS Group only ever procured top-grade coffee, so the term “poor quality coffee” did not exist here!
“Oh, I see!” he responded, suddenly laughing out loud. That laugh made Song Wenxin’s heart miss a beat, alerting her to looming danger.
This was the first time that she had heard Jiang Beihan laugh aloud, and it was a laugh that caused her hair to stand on end, giving her goosebumps!
Glancing at the cup of coffee on the table, he instructed, “Song Wenxin, drink it up.”
As expected…
Song Wenxin hesitated, realizing that he had seen through her prank–that she had messed with his coffee.
Shaking her head vehemently, she declined with gusto. “I don’t drink leftovers!”
“Are you looking down on me?” He demanded to know, enunciating each word clearly in a tone tinged with anger.
She had refused to drink it because he had drunk it first?!
Did that mean that she felt superior to him?
Noting that his face had darkened with anger, Song Wenxin was worried. Game over. She had gotten herself into deep trouble.
Even if she had been hellbent on getting back at him, she should not have gone overboard with adding all that sugar in the coffee.
Having endured the furious glare from his dark eyes for a few seconds, Song Wenxin laughed guiltily and said, “I was referring to other people, not you, Big Boss Jiang!” It was all she could do to suppress her unwillingness even as she uttered those deferential words.
All right then. She conceded defeat, blaming it on her destiny.
Busted for a prank that had backfired, she had no choice but to reach for the cup of coffee and proceed to drink it.
Would this scenario be described as “cutting off the nose to spite the face”?
The coffee was not only sickeningly sweet but also extremely bitter, enough to trigger a cardiac arrest. The deadly combination of extreme sweetness and bitterness made Song Wenxin feel suddenly nauseous.
By the time she had drunk half the coffee, Song Wenxin felt that her entire body was falling apart, her face an unearthly shade of grey!
In that instant, the cup in her hand was suddenly snatched away and dumped in the trash bin!
“Stop drinking. That’s enough!” he commanded in a low voice.
It was only then that Song Wenxin heaved a sigh of relief, raising her hand to pat her chest, her mouth still filled with the lingering taste of the coffee, making her very uncomfortable…
Jiang Beihan glared at her and said angrily, “Try a prank like this again and this will be the consequence!”
She was the first person who had ever dared to play a prank on him!
Looking all innocent, Song Wenxin stuck out her tongue…
She had not wanted this. It was his fault for making her stay behind when all she had wanted was to join the educational tour!