Chapter 104: I Am Seething, and Chen Luo Must Cool Me Down

"Has Wen Wan gone mad?"

"How dare she be so brazen as to lay hands on my share of the education business!"

Elena Ye slammed the table, startling Linqian Ye beside her.

"Sis, what's wrong? Who upset you?"

At the sound of their voices, the assistants and bodyguards outside surged in.

"Miss, what are your orders?"

Seeing them arrive, Elena drew a deep breath. The fury on her face vanished in an instant. She merely said calmly that nothing was wrong, then went into the room alone.

No one dared leave. They stood quietly at the doorway.

That hopeless sister-devotee, Linqian, hurried forward at once to pound on the door.

Bang, bang.

"Sis! What's wrong? Say something!"

There was no reply from inside. In her anxiety, Linqian pressed her ear to the door, straining to catch any sound.

Inside, Elena's anger flared once more, and in her rage her figure rose and fell with sharp, restless motion.

Just now, in front of her subordinates and bodyguards, she could not reveal her true fury. That was not only because of her own proud, stubborn nature, but also because she could not let her anger shake the company's morale.

Since Wen Wan had struck, it meant a full-scale war was now unavoidable.

With battle at hand, as the backbone of the Ye family, she absolutely could not be the first to lose her composure.

"Are you taking this too far, Wen Wan?"

Elena clenched both fists and ground the words out through her teeth.

If it had been any other industry, she would never have been this angry.

But education was one of the Ye family's pillar businesses along the southeastern coast, and it was also a vast fortune Elena had painstakingly built.

If Wen Wan had merely taken a slice of the market, that would have been one thing. But her online education venture was not here to steal business. It was here to smash the pot.

"If you throw the entire offline education market into chaos like this, are you trying to fish in troubled waters?"

The Ye family owned no fewer than a hundred training institutions. All these years, they had poured everything into improving teaching quality and turning one teacher after another into a golden brand.

To attend the classes of these star instructors, countless parents had been willing to spend a considerable sum on tutoring for their children.

But now, with Wen Wan pushing online education, the courses of these famous teachers could be bought on the internet for a pittance.

The blow to the Ye family's education empire was self-evident.

"No! I need to calm down!"

"I can't lose control, or I'll end up being led by the nose by Wen Wan."

Elena kept slapping her own cheeks, yet the fire in her heart would not die down.

She walked farther into the room, intending to pour herself a glass of water, and when she looked up, she saw a basketball jersey lying on the table.

"Isn't this... Luo Chen's jersey?"

Before she knew it, Elena had reached out and picked it up. As she unfolded it, she seemed to remember the lines of Luo Chen's body when he wore it.

"Oh, so they really did steal it back."

Only then did she recall that she had once ordered her assistant to retrieve this jersey.

After saying it, even she had forgotten, but her assistant had faithfully completed the task.

Holding the jersey in both hands, she pictured Luo Chen in the bloom of youth.

Sweat glistening, a tall and upright figure, eyes bright as stars, and that steady, mountainlike presence about him.

Elena only felt some string in her heart gently tugged, and her pulse quickened despite her.

With every beat, the rage inside her was gradually washed away.

At the same time, a trace of impulse rose within her. She stared at the jersey, glancing nervously left and right.

"This isn't because I want to smell Luo Chen's masculine scent. I'm just... I'm just checking whether this shirt has been washed. Yes, that's it. It has to be."

As if convincing herself, Elena lifted the jersey and buried her face in the chest of it.

She drew in a deep breath.

A rich, heady scent rushed over her, flooding through her nostrils and straight to her skull.

The smell, mingled with sweat and the fragrance of fresh grass, instantly pressed down the blazing anger in her heart.

"So this is what male allure smells like?"

"Do all men smell like this, or is it only Luo Chen?"

All of Elena's fury vanished without a trace. Her mind seemed to enter a state of unprecedented clarity, and even her thinking became sharper.

"Wen Wan suddenly launching this online education platform definitely wasn't a whim. She must have started preparing when she took over the Wen family business."

"Then there must have been a process. I simply failed to notice it."

As that thought clicked into place, Elena stared at the jersey, and a bold idea sprang into her mind.

Rustle, rustle.

She stripped off her clothes and put on Luo Chen's jersey.

Walking up to the mirror, Elena looked at herself in it and found the jersey fit astonishingly well. At the sides, it kept revealing glimpses of the curves of her chest and hips.

The fabric brushed against her skin from time to time, like a pair of large hands roaming over her body.

With that delicious sensation, the bottleneck in her thoughts broke almost at once.

"Now I see. The earlier delivery app project was a smoke screen, meant to make me lower my guard and scatter my people."

"Then she caught me off balance and launched this online education project, one with even more terrifying profits."

"Wen Wan, Wen Wan, I nearly fell for your trick."

This was the most natural conclusion, after all. Compared with the food delivery market, education was simply too large a business, with too much profit and too much room to grow.

How could she have known that her guess was completely wrong?

Wen Wan had treated the online education project as the smoke screen, using it to shield Luo Chen's takeout software project.

"Fine. Since that's how it is, let's play this game properly."

A fierce blaze lit Elena's eyes, the fire of a natural warrior.

"Before I face you, I need to savor Luo Chen's scent once more."

"You really are living far too well. With such a wonderful man, you actually dared to let him out into the world. How bold."

Elena lifted the collar of the jersey to her nose, imagining Luo Chen holding her, doing all manner of things to her.

"Luo Chen!"

"Hiss!"

"I'm burning up right now! Come over here and crouch down to help me cool off!"

"Ah! Gently!"

As Elena tasted the scent of Luo Chen and kept devising ways to strike back, those half-delirious murmurs slipped from her lips.

Meanwhile, Linqian, still pressed against the door and listening intently to the sounds inside, sharply caught Elena calling out Luo Chen's name.

No—that was unmistakably a man's name.

Why was her sister calling a man's name again and again?

Linqian turned around and fixed the assistants with a murderous glare.

"Speak! Who is Luo Chen? Is he my sister's boyfriend?"