Cinderella Innocent and Boss Charming - Chapter 80

Chapter 80 She Likes Me, Not You
Thinking it was Jiang Kaiwei, Du Xiaoxian was about to give him a cold and angry glare when she found that it was Shen Li.

Shen Li was the kind of man who could make people take to him at the first glance. Besides, Du Xiaoxian had a good impression of him, so she only looked at him in surprise. “Mr. Shen…”

Shen Li did not say anything. He looked at Cheng Mingchi with a faint smile. Under his gaze, Cheng Mingchi slowly withdrew his hand from Du Xiaoxian’s waist.

Shen Li then turned to look at Du Xiaoxian. “I’m a great dancer. Let me teach you how to dance! Moreover…” he blinked mischievously at her, “I can even let you dance on my feet!”

At this moment, Wang Qian pictured a classic movie scene in her mind and covered her mouth in disbelief. She sized up Shen Li’s height and felt that it was entirely possible for him to do so.

Du Xiaoxian was still dumbfounded when Shen Li took her hand and placed it on his shoulder. He was like a gentleman, hugging Du Xiaoxian’s waist softly. With a contented expression, he made a turn. Du Xiaoxian only felt her body was rising and her feet seemed to leave the ground. She subconsciously lowered her head to look, but Shen Li said, “Don’t lower your head. It’s a taboo for dancing. If you lower your head, you can’t learn dancing well.”

Du Xiaoxian had to raise her head. Such close contact with Shen Li did not seem to make her panic. In fact, her thoughts were not here at all because she felt like she was flying. Shen Li made her fly with him! Her bubble skirt whirled like a big, blooming green flower, and her hair was also dancing. Shen Li looked at her and smiled. She smiled even more happily, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. Turned out that dancing was like this, and she had a feeling of happiness!

Shen Li was actually slightly surprised. He had thought Du Xiaoxian was timid. But now he twirled her around like this, she was not afraid at all, instead she even had such a bright smile on her face. She looked like a happy child!

“Is it fun?” he asked.

Du Xiaoxian nodded and raised her hand to touch her hair, smiling at him.

“Feeling dizzy?” he asked again.

“No,” Du Xiaoxian said, “Mr. Shen, you’re really amazing. How can you remember such complicated dance steps?”

Shen Li answered, “Actually, it’s not complicated. You only need to remember the basic dance steps and practice until you can dance freely. I think you have a good sense of rhythm. You will learn it very quickly.”

Du Xiaoxian said happily, “I think so too. They say learning to dance will get you step on your partner’s feet, but I didn’t seem to step on your feet!”

Hearing Du Xiaoxian speak nonsense blindly with her big, clear eyes wide open, Shen Li couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “You didn’t step on my feet? You’ve been standing on my feet and never get down.”

Du Xiaoxian was surprised and wanted to lower her head again. Shen Li made a fast and big spin and almost threw her away. She was so scared that she grabbed onto Shen Li’s shoulder at once.

“I told you not to lower your head. If you do that, we will lose the rhythm,” Shen Li said, “then both of us will fall.”

Du Xiaoxian did not dare to ignore his words. Besides, she felt that Shen Li was correct. They had been dancing smoothly, but in just a short while, she seemed to have lost that fluency. She tried to calm down and listened to the rhythm. Slowly, she got back that happy feeling of flying.

Wang Qian’s eyes lit up while looking at Du Xiaoxian and Shen Li on the dance floor. The scene was as beautiful as she had imagined. No, it was even more beautiful. Being so refined and carefree, Shen Li’s noble young master temperament deeply attracted her!

“How happy Xiaoxian is,” she said emotionally, “it seems that everyone likes her.”

Cheng Mingchi looked at the people on the dance floor coldly with one hand in his pocket. These people were all well-dressed, but they were actually all shameless hypocrites! They were just lucky to be born in wealthy families, so they could live a luxurious life with everything they wanted. But he had nothing, even if he had been obedient and sensible since childhood and he worked hard everyday in order to live a better life. However, he did not envy those people. He believed that with his own abilities, one day he would be able to stand at the peak of the world and look at those people who had trampled on him with contempt.

But…he looked at Du Xiaoxian and sighed. Even if one day he could finally be proud of his life with satisfaction, when looking into the past, this girl would always be a thorn in his heart and remind him of all the nasty things he had experienced.

Shen Li wasn’t surprised now because he smelled a faint wine fragrance. The little girl’s cheeks flushed and her eyebrows beamed with joy. Her dark eyes seemed to have been soaked in water, and her laughter was ringing like a bell. She was completely different from the timid and foolish Du Xiaoxian he had known before. Shen Li guessed that the little girl had drunk at least three glasses of wine. The cocktail was like sweet beverage, but had strong aftereffect, so now she was so abnormally excited.

Looking at Du Xiaoxian with a smile, Shen Li was actually observing those people’s behaviors in the hall from the corner of his eyes. They were all sneaky, which was definitely not a good thing. He was just puzzled. Were those people’s ultimate target Du Xiaoxian or Gu Nianbin?

Shen Li was not a nosy person, and Gu Nianbin was only his common friend. However, he was curious about Du Xiaoxian. He was sure that such a thin and weak girl was not his type. However, the little girl’s happiness was contagious. He liked to see her smile and her excited look. When she was happy, she was entirely different, fresh and beautiful, like a flower that was slowly blooming, attracting people to admire her.

When a song was finished, Du Xiaoxian finally returned to the ground from the clouds. Letting go of Shen Li’s shoulder, her entire body started to fall backwards. Shen Li hurriedly pulled her back and teased, “Little girl, you’re still on my feet!”

Du Xiaoxian lowered her head and found that she was indeed stepping on Shen Li’s shoes. She opened her mouth wide in shock and quickly got off from him. Then she crouched down and tried to wipe out the shoe print with her hand.

Shen Li stopped her and smiled gently. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll clean it myself later.”

Du Xiaoxian was very frightened at the moment. She mumbled and bowed to Shen Li to apologize, “Sorry, sorry, I didn’t mean it. I didn’t know…” When she was nervous, her entire body stiffened. Her previous cheerful expression disappeared completely. She became the timid and foolish Du Xiaoxian again.

“I said you could dance on my feet. You did nothing wrong.” Shen Li glanced at Jiang Kaiwei, who was standing at the dining table with a gloomy face, and asked Du Xiaoxian, “It’s late. Aren’t you going back?”

“They will cut the cake at twelve o’clock.” Du Xiaoxian twisted her fingers. “Yang Liying asked me to stay until after having the cake.”

Shen Li glanced at Cheng Mingchi again. The young boy stood far away with the same gloomy expression.

“I think I’m the only one here who can dance with you like that.” Shen Li’s gaze swept from her shoulders to her feet. “You may look skinny, but you’re actually quite heavy. Fortunately, it’s just one dance. Otherwise, my feet will be crushed by you.”

There was a smile on his face, and he was clearly joking. But Du Xiaoxian started to bow in fear and apologized again. Shen Li couldn’t help but frown. It really needed patience to get along with such a little girl. Jiang Kaiwei was asking for trouble to pester her.

“Go find your friends,” Shen Li then smiled and warned her, “but no more drinking. Gu Nianbin won’t like it if you go back like a drunk kitten.”

Du Xiaoxian waved her hand at him with a red face and turned to Wang Qian and Cheng Mingchi.

Shen Li walked towards Jiang Kaiwei slowly, ignoring his gloomy face and angry eyes. “Your eyeballs will pop out if you keep staring at me like that.”

“Shouldn’t I be the one to dance with Du Xiaoxian?” Jiang Kaiwei still glared at him. “Why did you take my place?”

“Isn’t this obvious?” Shen Li spread out his hands and said, “She likes me, not you!”

Jiang Kaiwei frowned and said in a very disdainful tone, “Really? When did the noble Shen Li have such a low taste?”

“Liking Du Xiaoxian is having a low taste?” Shen Li shook his head. “You’re wrong. Du Xiaoxian is a piece of beautiful jade. You can’t see her beauty, but Gu Nianbin can. I don’t mean to judge you, but you may be good at doing business, as for other things…” He sighed helplessly, “I don’t know why I agreed to come here with you. You are really so lame!”

“Aren’t you lame?” Jiang Kaiwei retorted, “You think you’re not lame to dance around with Du Xiaoxian? I saw the reporters taking a lot of photos of you two.”

“Whatever.” Shen Li took a small snack from the table and put it into his mouth. “Aren’t you planning to make Gu Nianbin mad with that? What’s the difference which one of us did the dancing?”

Jiang Kaiwei thought for a moment and felt that his words made sense. He felt a little better but still muttered unwillingly, “Everyone knows whom to choose between you and me. Du Xiaoxian is simply blind.”

Shen Li smiled and punched him. “Seriously, you’re not really jealous of me, huh?”

“I don’t like her. Why will I be jealous?” Young Master Jiang was used to being the focus everywhere, so he didn’t like to be left out by anyone.

Shen Li reminded him, “Didn’t she say that her aura doesn’t match with yours?”

“I bet,” Jiang Kaiwei said, “it must be Gu Nianbin who has taught her to say so.”

“I know the reason why Gu Nianbin doesn’t like you.” Shen Li asked with a smile, “But I can’t think of a reason why you don’t like him. You have always been hostile against him. He didn’t offend you other than stealing a few projects from you!”

“Isn’t that enough?” Jiang Kaiwei said argumentatively, “Stealing my projects is stealing my money. Stealing my money is taking my life. Isn’t this a reason good enough?”

“It seems that you didn’t like him before he stole your projects. Tell me, what’s the real reason?” Like Shao Boqing, Shen Li had always been very curious about the answer. Unfortunately, Jiang Kaiwei refused to tell the truth even if they two were such good friends. Every time Shen Li mentioned it, Jiang Kaiwei would pretend to be angry.

As expected, Jiang Kaiwei put the glass of wine in his hand on the table and said coldly, “You really are not busy. Have you finished the bid for the ecological park?”

“Did I step on your tail to make you change the topic so quickly?” Shen Li smiled impudently and then looked at him thoughtfully. “You seem more suspicious when you keep acting like this more. Should I suspect your sexual preference? Is it possible that you hate Gu Nianbin…because of love?”

“Shen Li, being the general manager in the Jiang Company seems like a waste of your talent. Why don’t you write dramatic novels? With your face printed on the cover, your books will definitely become top sellers!”

“Then I will write about your grudge with Gu Nianbin and put the faces of you two on the cover. That’s the real best seller!” Shen Li talked back, revealing not the slightest weakness.

Jiang Kaiwei glanced at him and remained silent. Shen Li was the master of speaking and had never lost one debate. It was the same with Gu Nianbin and Shao Boqing. Gu Nianbin would always lose. Jiang Kaiwei and Gu Nianbin were actually similar, both of who liked to speak with facts. The difference was that the former was high-profile, while Gu Nianbin was low-profile and reserved.

“Don’t worry,” Shen Li patted Jiang Kaiwei’s shoulder and lowered his voice, “right now, someone is helping you deal with Gu Nianbin. Of course, it’s also possible that the person is targeting at Du Xiaoxian. Either way, it’s a good thing for you, isn’t it?”

“Are you sure?” Jiang Kaiwei looked at him suspiciously.

“Absolutely yes,” Shen Li glanced at Du Xiaoxian from afar and said, “we’ll see tomorrow.”