Me After Meeting You

“How about bringing down Axton Pharmaceuticals? If Axton Pharmaceuticals falls, then Nancy’s laboratory will definitely be affected, and she won’t be able to conduct any further experiments or take in Elly. At least, not in the near future.”

‘… This wasn’t a drama, and Ian definitely wasn’t one of those brain addled tyrannical CEOs who were only interested in pretty women!’

Amber very much wanted to praise him for his reasoning. “Great idea! But would you help me?”

“If you’d accept it, then yes.”

In that instant, Amber was stupefied.

Because she had realized that Ian was serious, and when she remembered his personality, she couldn’t help but ask,

“You’re … kidding, aren’t you?”

Ian smiled nonchalantly. “You don’t dare to?”

Amber choked, walked over, and inspected him carefully.

Ian looked back at her, his gaze as calm as usual. There was neither a ridicule nor jest in his eyes; these were his true intentions.

He truly wanted to bring down Axton Pharmaceuticals.

This was really too shocking.

Amber restrained the shock in her heart. She didn’t make a big fuss, but she felt herself suddenly relax, as if a big boon had fallen into her lap for no reason after chatting with him so often these last few days, a breakthrough had just landed in her lap today! She responded cautiously, “Yes, I dare! If Axton Pharmaceuticals is guilty of poor business ethics, like if they replace their products with inferior ones, or if their business constitutes a major threat to society, then I would definitely dare to do it. But, does it?”

Ian smiled. “No, it doesn’t.” As he said this, he suddenly leaned in toward her.

Amber almost jumped back in fright, but she forced herself to not back down. She saw her image reflected in his pupils. That Amber seemed like she was forcing herself to calm down while looking … very timid.

Ian’s eyes was utterly devoid of his previous smile. He stretched out his hand and lightly lifted her lower jaw up. “Are you scared? Let me guess, in the eyes of psychiatrists like you, cold-blooded humans don’t have any sense of morality, and they sometimes even hope for the destruction of the world, giving them the potential to do things that would frighten normal humans. You think that I want to bring down Axton Pharmaceuticals because my mental condition is worsening, don’t you?”

This was why they said very intelligent people were frightening; they could see through everything.

Amber didn’t deny his accusations. “I almost had that notion, but after talking to you now, I don’t think that your condition has deteriorated at all.”

“It hasn’t,” he said with absolute certainty as he continued gripping on her jaw.

Amber wanted to free herself from his grasp, but she wasn’t able to do so. She could only give him a reminder. “This is a very impolite gesture, you know.”

He smiled again. “How strange. Why am I so interested in a person as dumb as you?”

Amber was speechless because she realized that she might have just fallen into his trap: his statement about bringing down Axton Pharmaceuticals was just a test for her, wasn’t it? And to think that she had ever believed him.

“I don’t like it when you do this,” she said gloomily. “Do you feel like your high intellect makes you amazing when you suddenly test people like that?”

She raised her head and looked at him before realizing that she had no other choice but to advise him. “Sometimes, you should act a bit dumber, so that other people can feel better about themselves.”

After saying this, Amber sincerely felt an impulse to throw down all her responsibilities and walk out. This job used to be her sole passion and love, but the recent setbacks it had thrown at her were nearly unbearable.

When a doctor admitted defeat in front of a patient, that was also a disgrace.

But someone like Ian couldn’t be understood through common logic. The stopgap measure that she’d implemented to lighten the tension was something that he took seriously. His pupils stared straight into hers for quite a while even as he continued to hold onto her face.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

The lamp’s glare made Amber’s eyes stream, its harsh intensity almost bringing Amber to tears. However, not only did Ian not release her, he instead lowered his head and kissed her.

Amber was so taken aback that she couldn’t even react; a teardrop that she had spent great effort to squeeze out coalesced in one eye, reflecting her image like a fool.

The mood had changed so quickly that she couldn’t keep up at all!

Mr. Axton’s identity as the quintessential tyrannical CEO had evaporated so quickly that Amber couldn’t even escape from him if she wanted to. After a few trial runs, his skills had improved significantly.

He first kissed her directly, and then before Amber could react, rapidly extended his other hand underneath her shoulder, lifting her up and pushing her down. In the end, Amber was left pressed up against him in an embrace without any way to resist.

Peng!

As she was forced up, she knocked over the stool she was sitting on. In comparison to the silent room, the resulting noise was loud as an earthquake.

Amber felt a pinch of pain in her heart, but even as she tried and failed to stop him with her hands, the door behind them opened from the outside.

“Oh!”

“Ah!”

The two cries came from Ian’s grandfather and grandmother, respectively, before the door quickly closed again.

Amber could hear Ian’s grandfather complaining to his wife. “Why did you go in? Didn’t you see what they were doing?”

His wife whispered back in a rather loud voice. “His hand’s bleeding!”

“He’s a man. What’s the harm in a little blood? Rather, what he should be scared of is not ever finding a wife!”