PRESIDENT IS BEING SHAMELESS AGAIN

Chapter 169

[This is an adaptation, this story is not mine. The credits goes to the original writer. Please do not vote!]

Jennie and Zheng Yuntong arrived at the lobby of the office building and could see a crowd of people waiting outside the automatic doors. Everyone in the crowd was equipped with cameras and lenses, so they were obviously reporters.

The entire security detail must have been deployed, as it would have been impossible to hold them back otherwise.

"Stay out of the way, or else you will be identified and pulled into this mess because of me." Jennie said to Zheng Yuntong.

She had become the subject of fabricated news so many times that she was kind of desensitized to it. The only thing she cared about was not ruining the image of The Manoban family. However, when it came to her own image... she no longer cared.

Nevertheless, she could not let Zheng Yuntong's peaceful life be disrupted because of her issues.

Zheng Yuntong shook her head as this exceeded her expectations. "Those reporters will do anything for fresh gossip. What if they bump into you, especially in your current condition?"

Immediately after this, she felt her wrist being grabbed. The touch of the stranger's fingers burned her skin, causing her to shiver.

She turned around and saw that it was Shen Zongyi as the latter had appeared behind her without her noticing. She directed her gaze downward at the large hand holding her wrist.

His fingers were pretty, they were so long that they could almost form a full fist despite simultaneously gripping her wrist. His nails were neatly cut at exactly where the nail met flesh, keeping it clean and tidy. They were not as bright a shade of pink when compared with hers, which proudly reminded her of the resilience of a man. They also seemed to be more calloused as the crescent-shaped white areas stood out.

Zheng Yuntong's face burned. The area that he was gripping burned hot as if they were being branded by iron, but it was nowhere near as painful, it was just a similar scalding sensation.

She gulped, then fumbled to get her words out without daring to look at the other in the eye. She felt like she could not speak under his dark, obsidian gaze, and her face burned as she stood there totally immobilized.

She could only avert her gaze and look to the side. "As... Assistant Shen."

Shen Zongyi raised his brow. His gaze became more intense after seeing Zheng Yuntong's reaction toward him. "Jennie's right. You shouldn't show yourself."

Zheng Yuntong instantly forgot about her shyness. She raised her head to retort, but Shen Zongyi had already turned toward Jennie. "I sent someone to scope out the area and Young Master Manoban has already sent some people here to protect you. We're now making arrangements so that they can enter the area, but both the front and back doors are surrounded by reporters, so it'll be too obvious if all of them entered at the same time. There are security guards outside the buildings too, so they'll escort you out."

Jennie nodded. Only after this did Shen Zongyi lower his gaze to talk to Zheng Yuntong. "You shouldn't go out either or risk messing things up. Besides, you alone can't protect Jennie even if you tried."

Zheng Yuntong knew that Shen Zongyi was speaking the truth, but she felt hurt by his dismissive tone. Her cheeks puffed out as she pouted.

Shen Zongyi noticed her unhappy expression and felt amused. Thus, he smiled to himself and pulled her to his side.

Only then did Zheng Yuntong realize that he had never loosened his grip on her wrist. Her face reddened as she attempted to pull her wrist away, but he did not let ago. He stared at her whilst looking displeased. "What are you doing, fiddling around like that?"