After the minor character transforms into a beauty, she steals the heart of a tycoon's son.

Ruan Tang's body stiffened for a moment. She stepped out of Wen Yan's arms, moved half a step to the side, and lowered her head, not daring to look at Si Lin.

Wen Yan chuckled. "Alright, you almost choked her to death. What's wrong with me saying a few words of comfort?"

He turned his head, looked at the finger marks on Ruan Tang's neck, reached for a can of iced cola on the coffee table, and pressed it against Ruan Tang's neck.

The coolness touched her skin, and Ruan Tang shrank her neck and looked up at him.

Wen Yan smiled at her, "Put it on first, and I'll call the school doctor to take a look later."

Pei Heng, legs crossed, watched this scene with a half-smile, "Wen Yan, aren't you a little too concerned about this girl?"

"Can't I cherish and pity women?" Wen Yan said, his eyes still fixed on Ruan Tang.

Si Lin was too lazy to listen to their nonsense anymore. He walked around the desk and stood in front of Ruan Tang.

Ruan Tang took a step back, her back pressed against the door panel again.

Si Lin reached out and pinched her chin, lifting her face. "You want to sleep with him and become his kept woman?"

Ruan Tang shook her head, her voice still hoarse, "I didn't."

Si Lin stared at her, then shook her chin off her hand. "You'd better not."

"I only have useless people under my command, not people who give up halfway."

He stepped back, looking down at her. "This is the first time you've disobeyed me, and I hope it's the last."

Ruan Tang raised her eyes to meet his gaze.

Si Lin said, "Next time, I want to see you personally take action against the resistance."

"Only by doing it yourself can you truly distance yourself from the resistance."

The office was extremely quiet.

Ruan Tang lowered her eyes.

Si Lin reached out and grabbed her neck, but his grip was weak, merely a threat.

"Did you remember?" he asked.

"I've got it," Ruan Tang said.

Si Lin released his hand, turned around, and walked back to his desk to sit down.

Wen Yan broke the silence, walked over and tugged at Ruan Tang's wrist, "Come on, sit down and rest for a while."

He pulled Ruan Tang to sit down on the sofa.

Wen Yan sat down next to her and then pressed a can of iced cola against her neck.

Ruan Tang flinched, reached out and took the Coke, pressing the can herself.

Si Lin leaned back in his chair, his gaze fixed on her across the desk.

The girl sat obediently on the sofa, her legs together, her hand pressed against the iced cola on her neck, her head lowered, and her stray hairs falling down to cover half of her face.

Her shoulders were still trembling slightly, and she was huddled in the corner of the sofa, looking delicate and frail.

-

Si Lin stood up.

Ruan Tang heard footsteps, looked up, and saw him walking in front of her.

Si Lin bent down, removed her hand from the cola can, and placed his own fingers on her neck.

Ruan Tang shivered slightly.

"Does it hurt?" he suddenly asked.

Ruan Tang was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding.

Si Lin stared into her eyes and asked again, "Does it hurt?"

"It hurts," Ruan Tang said, her voice pitiful, like a cat's meow.

Si Lin looked at her for two seconds, withdrew his hand, and straightened up. "If it hurts, learn from the lesson."

He turned and walked towards the door, pausing briefly as he passed Wen Yan.

The two men exchanged a glance, their expressions tense. Si Lin was the first to look away, open the door, and walk out.

As soon as the door closed, the atmosphere in the office seemed to drop by half.

Pei Heng let out a long sigh, tossed his phone onto the coffee table, and said, "Damn, this atmosphere is suffocating."

He turned to look at Ruan Tang, grinned, and said, "Girl, you're really brave to slap Si Lin in the face and go against him."

Ruan Tang kept her head down and didn't say anything, continuing to press the iced cola against her neck.

Wen Yan sat next to her, looking at the finger marks on her neck, wanting to reach out and touch them but then pulling his hand back.

Ji Yan walked over from the window and sat down on the sofa opposite Ruan Tang.

He glanced at her. "Si Lin has a bad temper. The people he appoints can only do things according to his wishes."

"Don't do what you did to Su Nian on the playground today again."

Ruan Tang pursed her lips and said softly, "Okay."

Ji Yan was taken aback, then glanced at her again. Her voice was soft and sweet, and she looked quite well-behaved.

No wonder Si Lin and Wen Yan both took a liking to her.

Even though Si Lin pinched her today, it was already considered a lenient treatment.

It should be noted that the Si family treats traitors with either crippling or, in severe cases, feeding them fish.

-

night.

Ruan Tang pushed open the door to the second floor of the flower shop and put her schoolbag on a chair.

She took off her school uniform jacket, leaving only a tank top, and sat down on the bed.

The finger marks on her neck hadn't completely faded yet; several faint red marks stood out starkly against her fair skin.

The system's sweet, childlike voice exploded in her mind, trembling with tears, "Tangtang, how could he choke you?"

"You're so beautiful, your skin is so delicate, how could he do that to you!"

Ruan Tang didn't speak, but raised her hand to touch the finger marks on her neck. A slight smile curved her lips, but there was no laughter in her eyes. "How much tolerance would you have for a beautiful but disobedient cat or dog?"

The system paused for a moment, then remained silent.

She lowered her hand. "In Si Lin's eyes, I am now just a cat he picked up."

"If a cat is good-looking, he'll take a second look. But if a cat dares to extend its claws, he won't hold back."

System: "But..."

"There's no 'but' about it," Ruan Tang interrupted, her tone indifferent.

"I helped Su Nian today because I genuinely wanted to help him, and also to test his bottom line."

The system was silent for a moment, then whispered, "Tangtang, did you already guess he would be angry?"

Ruan Tang did not deny it, "He is the heir to the Si family conglomerate and the head of the Shenglan Deacon Group."

"He chose me as his secretary so that I would be an obedient tool."

"It would be abnormal if he wasn't angry that I disobeyed him on the very first day."

She paused for a moment, then said, "But today wasn't entirely fruitless."

She opened the system store.

A transparent light screen appeared before my eyes, and the number in the luck value column had more than doubled compared to before.

"So many!" the system's sweet, childlike voice exclaimed excitedly.

"Tangtang, although Si Lin lost his temper today, anger is still an emotion."

"His attention to you is many times greater than before."

"In addition, now that you're the secretary of the deacon, many people at the school are starting to know about you."

"Being seen brings good fortune."

Ruan Tang stretched out her finger and tapped the mall panel.

【Skin as smooth as ice and bones as white as jade】: 50%

[Stunning Beauty]: 50%

[Willow-like waist]: 30%

[Graceful figure]: 30%

[Subtle Fragrance]: Not yet unlocked, but luck value has reached the required level.

[Innate Charm]: Not yet unlocked, but luck value has reached the required level.

[Nine-Bend Corridor]: Not yet unlocked, but luck value has reached the required level.

[Spring Water Jade Pot]: Not yet unlocked, but luck value has reached the required level.

【Fragrance in the Secluded Valley】: Not yet unlocked, but luck value has reached the required level.