Chapter 3024: Willful Taming 41

Chenshu sighed, about to put the meat into their mouth, when someone suddenly walked over.

Chenshu recognized the person, a boss of import-export trade in Yicheng, whom they seemed to have met once at some banquet, not well acquainted.

"Mr. Chenshu, good afternoon, sorry to disturb your meal." Boss Zhao walked to the table, attitude respectful and polite, even with a hint of trying to please.

Chenshu put down their chopsticks, showing a polite but distant smile: "Boss Zhao, what's up?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Boss Zhao waved his hands repeatedly, chatting, he took out a box from his pocket, printed with a luxury brand's logo, and handed it to Chenshu, "First meeting, a small gift, just a token."

Between the lines, it was all about using him to get on good terms with Jin Chen.

One leads to another.

Just as that person left, another came, and the table before Chenshu quickly filled with gift boxes, all sharing a common trait—obviously expensive at a glance.

Wow! So many gifts! Chenshu, who loves receiving gifts, excitedly rubbed their hands together.

Of course, whether to accept them needed to be asked of the old man; he didn't want to be scolded again for randomly accepting things.

After lunch, Jin Chen ended the remote video conference with the group's various departments and returned to the suite.

Continuous high-intensity work also lent him a hint of fatigue between the brows, while Yan Rui and the brothers were quite excited, following behind, shouting that the Xie family's big chunk of fat had finally been devoured, worth celebrating, they called on Jin Chen to go downstairs to the bar together for a couple drinks to relax.

Jin Chen rubbed the space between their brows, refused, only wanting to go back to find their wife to recharge: "You go ahead, put it on my tab."

Pushing open the door, the room was quiet, nobody there.

Chenshu wasn't in the room.

Jin Chen: "……"

He put on a sour face, sat on the Sofa, and clicked his tongue.

Not long after, the suite's door was kicked open from outside with a toe, "Honey honey! Come help me quick! I can't hold this!"

Chenshu's clear and lively voice came from the doorway.

Jin Chen stood up and walked over to open the door.

As the door opened, the first thing seen was a pile of gift boxes stacked higher than a person, blocking the person behind. Those boxes wobbled, about to topple, Chenshu poked half a face out from behind the boxes, eyes curved, with a strip of unknown origin stuck on their forehead.

Jin Chen lent a hand, taking the top few wobbling boxes, helping Chenshu stack the mountain of gifts beside the Sofa.

"What is this?" Jin Chen asked, looking at the pile of gift boxes, somewhat amused.

"Gifts!" Chenshu finally popped out, patted nonexistent dust off their hands, and exclaimed excitedly, "Just now at the restaurant, many people came over, saying they wanted to get on good terms with you… uh, with our President Jin, and came to curry favor with me!"

Jin Chen looked at his present-offering demeanor, chuckled lowly, and ruffled Chenshu's hair.

"If you like them, just keep them." Jin Chen said casually, many people in Yicheng want to curry favor, giving gifts is commonplace, Chenshu likes to keep them.

"Great!" Chenshu loves receiving gifts, but right now they have something more important than unwrapping presents.

They pushed Jin Chen to sit on the Sofa, half-kneeled up, straddled his lap, leaned forward, and with both hands pressed on Jin Chen's temples, gently rubbed with the fingertips.

"Are you tired?" Chenshu asked softly while pressing, feeling heartache.

Jin Chen closed their eyes, hummed, relaxed against the Sofa back, letting Chenshu press for a while.

After a while, Jin Chen lifted Chenshu's shirt hem, palm slipped in to press against their warm, soft abdomen, then buried their face in it. Chenshu laughed and flinched slightly, but didn't dodge, slipping a hand into Jin Chen's hair to gently rub.

The two stayed like that, in the afternoon sunlight, quietly for a while.

Chenshu found the perfect way to go back without getting scolded!

Of course, it's just to sweet-talk the old man into comfort, so he has no mind to get angry!

——

Two months later.

Not far from the Half Mountain Villa, the exclusive training base was completed.

Though called a training base, it was more like a large adventure playground exclusive to Chenshu; Jin Chen had fenced off a small hill, planting osmanthus trees on it, in autumn the whole hill is fragrant with flowers. Someone in Jin Chen's design team had previously made training grounds for special forces; all sorts of odd devices that only Chenshu could think of, they could make them all. Moreover, a bunch of bodyguard brothers accompanied the play, each day different.

On the day the base's completion was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting, the weather was fine, the sea breeze pleasant; attendees were Jin Chen's subordinates and the Half Mountain Villa's bodyguard team, the atmosphere lively as a festival.

Chenshu stood at the front, holding a large pair of scissors, before them a red ribbon, the corners of their mouth unable to be suppressed.

"Cut." Jin Chen said.

Chenshu snapped the red ribbon with a crack, raised their hand high and cheered.

"Oh!!!" The venue burst into enthusiastic cheers and whistles, the brothers all gave face, clapping until the sound shook the heavens, Yan Rui took the lead in shouting: "Sister-in-law! Show us a trick! Let us open our eyes!"

"Come on then!"

Chenshu didn't hesitate either, shoved the scissors into Chen Gai's hand nearby, moved their wrists and ankles a bit, then took a few steps' run-up, a light leap, both hands grabbing a protrusion at the bottom of the adjacent climbing wall, in a few swishes they scaled up to the top of the seven- to eight-meter-high rock face, drawing cheers from below.

"Handsome!!!"

"Sister-in-law, awesome!"

After playing around, Chenshu got up from the ground, brushed off the dust on their hands, corners of their mouth turned up high.

Spirited and high-spirited, wild and untamable, yet happy as if possessing the whole world.

The lively ribbon-cutting activity lasted an afternoon; as the sun set west, everyone only then reluctantly dispersed, agreeing to come another day for team building.

The chef team had already prepared a lavish seafood barbecue and beer at the base's open-air grilling area, counting as a small celebration.

But Chenshu didn't stay to eat the barbecue, having worked up a sweat, they ran to Jin Chen's front, eyes shining as they looked at him.

"Going home?" Jin Chen asked, reaching out to wipe a speck of dust from his nose tip.

"Mm!" Chenshu nodded firmly.

The two didn't drive, just held hands, walking slowly back along the newly built coastal scenic path to Half Mountain Villa.

This road isn't short, but the scenery is superb, one side lush Shan Lin, the other side boundless blue sea, the sunset dyeing the horizon a splendid gold-red.

The sea breeze blowing on the face felt very comfortable; Chenshu held Jin Chen's hand, swaying, steps light.

Walking on, they gazed at the distant horizon where sea meets sky, that huge red sun slowly sinking into the sea level, and glanced at Jin Chen's profile in the sunset, a surge of exuberant joy and fulfillment welled up in their heart.

This joy was too full, soon to overflow, needing something to express it.

Thus, while Jin Chen hadn't yet reacted, Chenshu suddenly let go of his hand, took two quick steps, lunged forward and leapt onto Jin Chen's back, both arms tightly encircling his neck.

Jin Chen hooked his arm under Chenshu's knee and carried him steadily on his back.

Chenshu lay on Jin Chen's broad, sturdy back, pressed his face into the crook of his neck and took a deep breath, smelling the soothing agarwood scent on him, then leaned in and kissed his ear; a soft, light voice, together with the warm breath, slipped into Jin Chen's ear: "Husband, I'm so happy, so happy."

The sea breeze continued to blow, the sunset stretched their shadows long on the walkway, they clung tightly together, as if they would never part.