The Ex and Her Riches

All the deleted documents were gone.

Kieran wasn’t upset by it. He continued to translate the remaining three documents.

However, his typing speed had slowed down a lot.

Once again, silence ensued in the office. Nobody said anything more.

Time seemed to tick by faster when everyone was busy. In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed.

Inez began to pack up her stuff to get off work. “Once you’re done organizing the translated documents, send them to me,” she said casually.

Kieran paused what he was doing and turned to look at her. “Aren’t you going to check them?”

“You’ve finished translating. What is there for me to check?”

Kieran lowered his gaze, finding it hard to speak. “I… I have two more documents left to be translated.”

Inez was stunned. She shot him a look and asked, “You had three documents left one hour ago. And now, there are still two left? What have you been doing for the past hour?”

Inez carefully recalled and didn’t remember seeing Kieran slacking off. He had indeed been focusing on his translation.

Kieran’s face stiffened slightly. He didn’t make any response.

Inez walked over suspiciously and took a look at his computer screen. Soon, she noticed something was amiss.

“I came by earlier and saw that you had translated these documents. Why are they gone? Are you trying to fool me?”

“I accidentally deleted them, so I had to translate them all over again,” Kieran explained calmly.

Inez stared at him in confusion. She immediately clicked the recycle bin on his computer, but it was empty.

“So you’re saying that you accidentally deleted them from the recycle bin too?” she teased.

Kieran fell silent.

to delete the files for real, judging from your ability, you should be able to translate them again in no time. Do

His ears were

good at lying, so he

my nose on your first day of work. Do you think I won’t punish

“In this office, you’re the CEO, and I’m your secretary. Feel free to punish

fixed her eyes on him,

Kieran, who was always haughty and cold,

she seemed

to help you complete your

her desk and took out a sandalwood ruler

that to educate her cousin brother who had interned at the company. Since then, she had been keeping the ruler

Kieran, who was the second son of the

be anything wrong with

what she was

her courage, she walked toward Kieran with steady

since he was young and hadn’t caused any trouble. No one had used a ruler to hit him before,

Adam’s apple bobbed. By then, Inez had already walked up to him. “Please stretch out your left hand, Mr. Kieran,”

he looked up at her

Face your palm

that he had no experience of being beaten by a ruler,

Kieran followed her instructions.

moment he spread his hand, Inez slapped his palm hard with the ruler. A stinging pain seared through

line, he frowned in pain

with the ruler, she observed the expression on his face at the same time. She didn’t go

stopped and asked in a deep voice, “How

palm and said honestly, “It

let you experience the feeling of getting hit with a ruler for the first time.” Inez

felt that

“There are actually a lot of first times—first

Inez was moved.

at the thought that he was punished because of a mistake, she immediately regained her composure and reprimanded him, “Go ahead and play tricks if

“Okay.”