Chapter 294 - 159: Xu Xiyue: Willing to Be Your Lover

Chapter 294: Chapter 159: Xu Xiyue: Willing to Be Your Lover

To be honest, Chen Mo truly hadn’t expected to run into Xu Xiyue on the skyscraper’s rooftop.

He especially hadn’t expected that when he did, she’d be in the middle of jumping off.

If he had been just a few seconds later, Xu Xiyue would probably be experiencing the sensation of free fall right now.

’Who said she was unlucky? This seemed like pretty good luck, didn’t it?’

"Can you... let me go?"

At that moment, Xu Xiyue, who was held in his powerful embrace, struggled and patted his arm, managing to speak with some difficulty.

Chen Mo was holding her with too much force, completely crushing her magnificent, E-cup Mount Everest.

It left her a little breathless.

She no longer wanted to live, but she didn’t want to be suffocated to death in someone’s arms.

Especially not in this position.

Hearing this, Chen Mo realized he’d used too much strength and immediately loosened his arms.

The moment he let go, Chen Mo heard the sound of gasping breaths.

After a few dozen seconds, her breathing finally began to even out.

"Why did you save me?"

Xu Xiyue looked at him numbly, her tone devoid of any emotion as she asked.

She didn’t make a scene or try to jump again.

’With Chen Mo here, if he’d stop me once, he’d stop me a second time.’

So, she simply sat down on the ground, her long, beautiful legs drawn up together. She hugged her shins, her knees pressing against her magnificent chest.

Her long, wavy black hair cascaded naturally over her shoulders.

Her high-end professional attire was now somewhat disheveled, and her fair, delicate feet were bare upon the ground.

Her stunningly beautiful face, said to rival Xia Shiqing’s, was flushed from the alcohol, but her gorgeous eyes were empty of all emotion.

There wasn’t even a spark of life in them.

"You haven’t replied to my email yet. How could you die?"

Chen Mo replied, his tone light and teasing.

He knew that telling someone determined to die that "life is precious" was completely meaningless.

She was ready to take a free fall; she must have suffered an unbearable blow.

At a time like this, you had to say something she cared about, something that could grab her attention.

"What email?"

Xu Xiyue faltered for a moment, a flicker of light returning to her beautiful eyes.

"I sent you an email last week. I wanted to invite you to join my company, but you never replied or called me."

Chen Mo explained with a faint smile.

"You sent that?"

A flicker of memory passed through Xu Xiyue’s alcohol-hazed eyes. She quickly recalled seeing an email last week.

But the contents of that email...

"You said you admired and recognized my abilities and were sincerely inviting me to join?"

As she spoke of the email, her tone seemed to turn a few degrees colder.

"That’s right."

Chen Mo smiled and nodded. ’Looks like she really did read my email.’

"GULP..."

"You sent me an email just to mock me, and you expected a reply?"

Xu Xiyue picked up the liquor bottle she had just tossed aside and took a swig of the strong alcohol remaining inside.

After the liquor burned its way down her throat, she let out a cold, self-deprecating laugh and looked at Chen Mo.

’Admire and recognize my abilities?’

Before this year, she had heard those words countless times, but now they sounded increasingly jarring.

Lately, whenever anyone said that to her, she automatically assumed they were mocking her.

Hearing this, Chen Mo fell silent.

’I really hadn’t imagined that the reason she never replied was that she thought I was mocking her.’

’I swear, I invited her to join my company because I genuinely admire and recognize her abilities! I’m being dead serious!’

"I’m not so bored that I’d send an email just to mock you."

"I don’t know if you’ve heard of Panshi Venture Capital, but I just took over the company. I want to invite you to be the Vice General Manager and the head of the investment team."

Chen Mo didn’t explain too much more. He extended the invitation to her face, his manner frank and direct, his tone sincere.

Xu Xiyue and Chen Mo looked at each other in silence. His gaze was fixed directly on her, without a trace of evasion.

She could see his frankness and hear the sincerity in his voice.

’I believe he didn’t intentionally send the email to mock me; he really does want to invite me to join.’

"I didn’t reply to your email, so let me reply now."

"Thank you for your recognition. It’s rare at a time like this. But I’m sorry, I can’t accept your offer."

"Because if it weren’t for you, I’d already be dead."

Xu Xiyue took a drink of her liquor, rejecting Chen Mo’s invitation.

"Want to talk about it? Why do you want to die?"

Chen Mo offered her a Hua Zi. He felt like this was a good time for one.

"Got a light?"

Xu Xiyue took the Hua Zi with her slender, pale fingers and flicked Chen Mo’s lighter.

"COUGH COUGH COUGH..."

However, she couldn’t stop coughing after just one drag.

But after a moment, she took another drag.

She still wasn’t very good at it, but at least she didn’t cough this time.

"Don’t you already know everything?" she said flatly, exhaling a cloud of smoke.

"Just because of that?"

Chen Mo asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You think that’s not enough?"

Xu Xiyue gave a self-mocking smile as a look of reminiscence flashed in her beautiful eyes.

"After graduating, I joined Sky Dome Capital. I started on the investment team as just a regular investor."

"After more than a year of settling in and learning, I successfully completed my first project."

"From then on, everything I touched turned to gold. Every project I invested in succeeded, one after another. Even if no one else was optimistic, I firmly believed they would work out, and in the end, they always did."

"I maintained an incredibly high investment success rate for three consecutive years, earning the position of Deputy Head based on solid, tangible results."

"Back then, I also thought I was very capable, that I had a great eye for things."

She took a sip of liquor, a genuine smile gracing her stunningly beautiful face as she reminisced.