Zhao Yu woke up in Shang Lu's villa. She was alone in the empty big bed.
Shang Lu took her back to his villa, but he didn't touch her again, he didn't even share the bed with her, he just provided her with a place to bathe and stay.
It seemed that with the end of the sex that had gotten him out of control, his sanity had finally returned, and he had regained the distance he had always had with her.
There was no one in the living room, only a serving of simple breakfast was placed on the dining table, and it seemed that he had already gone to work.
Zhao Yu didn't care about what happened last night, she didn't try to investigate the reason why he lost control yesterday, she just calmly washed the dishes and called the taxi to leave.
Keeping a proper distance from Shang Lu was beneficial and harmless to her. After all, now he was not strong enough to help her. As for whether he will be useful in the future, that will be another matter in the days to come.
Initially, she thought that since Xue Zi'ang was rejected yesterday and definitely would not come to work, but as soon as she sat down at her desk, she saw Xue Zi'ang walked in.
He was wearing a suit and a pair of leather shoes, but he was obviously not in a good condition. When their eyes met, he was still dazed for a brief moment.
Zhao Yu retracted her gaze and tidied up her desk, ready to treat him like a stranger, but he suddenly walked up to her and smiled, "Good morning."
Zhao Yu could only show a standard professional smile: "Mr. Xue is early."
Xue Zi'ang didn't say anything else and went straight into the office.
During lunch time, Zhao Yu was discussing with Wang Qi and Xia Nan on where to have lunch, when two deliverymen suddenly came to the door and delivered a sumptuous lunch to all the secretaries and assistants, including Xue Zi'ang's, who ordered the food.
Meeting Zhao Yu's puzzled gaze, Xue Zi'ang just smiled innocently: "We are all colleagues, it's not too much to invite everyone to a meal occasionally, right?"
Of course, it's not too much. Everyone else accepted it calmly. If Zhao Yu didn't accept it, she would be appeared as rude.
It's just that his reaction was a little different from what she expected. He didn't act stubbornly nor acceptively, he didn't play by cards according to the routine at all. For a while, she didn't know the best way to deal with him.
Xue Zhan didn't like the smell of food outside his office, so everyone went to the lounge at the other end of the floor to eat the takeaways. When Zhao Yu went in with everyone, Xue Zi'ang also followed, but only sat with a few male assistants. Without having the same table as Zhao Yu, she has nothing to say.
Halfway through the meal, someone brought flowers in, specifying that Zhao Yu should check and accept it. Needless to say, she knew that it was Xue Zi'ang's doing.
However, looking at Zhao Yu's confused eyes, he still smiled calmly: "I just want to pursue you again. It is your freedom to accept or not, it is up to you."
Such an indifferent attitude is very contrast from the previous Xue Zi'ang, Zhao Yu can be certain now that she really doesn't know him.
Xue Zi'ang's reaction seemed to be unexpected to Xue Zhan.
"It turns out that he can still have such a persistent side, yes, he has grown up." He said this when she brought documents to his office.
At that moment, she felt that in Xue Zhan's eyes, she was just a tool to help his nephew grew up.
"Friday's dinner party, you come and accompany me." When he personally sent out the review report to Zhao Yu, Xue Zhan deliberately stopped at her desk for a while, issued an order that the whole office could hear. From the widely opened door, Xue Zi'ang can definitely hear it from the inside.
Everyone kept silent and continued to work quitely. Zhao Yu nodded: "En."
"And..." When he turned to leave, Xue Zhan suddenly glanced at the bunch of flowers that Zhao Yu had inserted into the common vase in the office, "That, throw it away."
Zhao Yu obediently threw the bouquet into the trash can, Xue Zi'ang stood at the door and looked at her calmly and smiled, but still didn't say anything.
3
The next day the bouquet was delivered as usual, full of high quality roses, more than the previous day, and the money had been paid for and could not be refunded.
This time, Zhao Yu had a reason to be rude, signed for it in one second and threw it in the trash bin the next second, in front of all her colleagues.
Looking at the flowers in the trash can, Xue Zi'ang still just smiled calmly, without even frowning, let alone changing his facial expression.
This man all of sudden seemed to have reached a full level of cultivation.
When she was about to get off work, Zhao Yu received a message from Shi Yu: [ I make a big meal tonight, come to my house for dinner? ]
She was almost certain that this was Ji Sui's initiative, so she responded readily. When she arrived at Shi Yu's house, as expected, it was Ji Sui who opened the door.
The embarrassing atmosphere last time resumed and Ji Sui was a little uncomfortable with that situation. She was also flustered and greeted him with a smile: "You are here too."
"En." Ji Sui step forward to meet her at the entrance, he helped to retrieve the gift from her hand, and handed her a pair of home-slippers.
Zhao Yu continued to act embarrassed but pretended to be calm, and chatted with him with a smile: "I remember these desserts are all Xiaoxiao's favorites, did I remember correctly?"
"Yes, you did." He never glanced at the bag at all, his eyes kept falling on her face.
When Zhao Yu changed her shoes and straightened up, she 'accidentally' met his gaze and quickly looked away. He also looked away with a guilty conscience, and directed her to sit down and went to the kitchen to help.
After the meal, only Qu Sixiao was the only one who was really carefree and happy. Shi Yu should have listened to Ji Sui's intention, and the thought of trying to match Zhao Yu and Ji Sui can't be hidden. Ji Sui probably didn't expect her to be so straightforward, so he could only wink at her frequently.
Zhao Yu, who was quietly watching the movement of the two, pretended to be ignorant and accompanied Qu Sixiao to watch TV, the suffocation in her heart was finally completely relieved.
Obviously, all her previous worries were unnecessary. The appearance of Shang Lu didn't make Ji Sui suspicious at all, but instead gave him a sense of crisis and made him speed up the pace of approaching her.
When she left, naturally Ji Sui and Zhao Yu went out together, since she drove the car here, she didn't need him to escort her back.
Looking at his expression of hesitating to speak, Zhao Yu opened her mouth first: "You...do you have something to tell me?"
The elevator happened to stop on the ninth floor, and a large family crowded in, with two dogs barking loudly. Ji Sui subconsciously grabbed Zhao Yu's arm and pulled her to the corner, leaning on his side to help her block the crowd and the dogs.
Staring up at his tough facial features, Zhao Yu pursed her lips, she smiled and grabbed his arm from behind.
It wasn't a very intimate gesture, but it made his body froze for a moment. When he turned to look at her, she quickly let go of her hands and lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
After hesitating for two seconds, Ji Sui finally stretched out his hand and grasped hers carefully. Seeing that she was not struggling, he slowly clenched and wrapped her fingers with his broad palms.
He took her out of the elevator and walked to her car. He was still thinking about how to find an excuse to send her off, but she suddenly stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the face.
Ji Sui froze again and dumb-founded.
Zhao Yu's face was full of shyness and she still didn't dare to look at him. She quickly retracted her hand away from his palm, she ran into the car without saying a word and hurriedly started the car.
It wasn't until the car was far away that Ji Sui reacted from his daze, he unconsciously reached out and touched the face she had kissed, the corner of his lips was raised high.
Zhao Yu woke up in Shang Lu's villa. She was alone in the empty big bed.
Shang Lu took her back to his villa, but he didn't touch her again, he didn't even share the bed with her, he just provided her with a place to bathe and stay.
It seemed that with the end of the sex that had gotten him out of control, his sanity had finally returned, and he had regained the distance he had always had with her.
There was no one in the living room, only a serving of simple breakfast was placed on the dining table, and it seemed that he had already gone to work.
Zhao Yu didn't care about what happened last night, she didn't try to investigate the reason why he lost control yesterday, she just calmly washed the dishes and called the taxi to leave.
Keeping a proper distance from Shang Lu was beneficial and harmless to her. After all, now he was not strong enough to help her. As for whether he will be useful in the future, that will be another matter in the days to come.
Initially, she thought that since Xue Zi'ang was rejected yesterday and definitely would not come to work, but as soon as she sat down at her desk, she saw Xue Zi'ang walked in.
He was wearing a suit and a pair of leather shoes, but he was obviously not in a good condition. When their eyes met, he was still dazed for a brief moment.
Zhao Yu retracted her gaze and tidied up her desk, ready to treat him like a stranger, but he suddenly walked up to her and smiled, "Good morning."
Zhao Yu could only show a standard professional smile: "Mr. Xue is early."
Xue Zi'ang didn't say anything else and went straight into the office.
During lunch time, Zhao Yu was discussing with Wang Qi and Xia Nan on where to have lunch, when two deliverymen suddenly came to the door and delivered a sumptuous lunch to all the secretaries and assistants, including Xue Zi'ang's, who ordered the food.
Meeting Zhao Yu's puzzled gaze, Xue Zi'ang just smiled innocently: "We are all colleagues, it's not too much to invite everyone to a meal occasionally, right?"
Of course, it's not too much. Everyone else accepted it calmly. If Zhao Yu didn't accept it, she would be appeared as rude.
It's just that his reaction was a little different from what she expected. He didn't act stubbornly nor acceptively, he didn't play by cards according to the routine at all. For a while, she didn't know the best way to deal with him.
Xue Zhan didn't like the smell of food outside his office, so everyone went to the lounge at the other end of the floor to eat the takeaways. When Zhao Yu went in with everyone, Xue Zi'ang also followed, but only sat with a few male assistants. Without having the same table as Zhao Yu, she has nothing to say.
Halfway through the meal, someone brought flowers in, specifying that Zhao Yu should check and accept it. Needless to say, she knew that it was Xue Zi'ang's doing.
However, looking at Zhao Yu's confused eyes, he still smiled calmly: "I just want to pursue you again. It is your freedom to accept or not, it is up to you."
Such an indifferent attitude is very contrast from the previous Xue Zi'ang, Zhao Yu can be certain now that she really doesn't know him.
Xue Zi'ang's reaction seemed to be unexpected to Xue Zhan.
"It turns out that he can still have such a persistent side, yes, he has grown up." He said this when she brought documents to his office.
At that moment, she felt that in Xue Zhan's eyes, she was just a tool to help his nephew grew up.
"Friday's dinner party, you come and accompany me." When he personally sent out the review report to Zhao Yu, Xue Zhan deliberately stopped at her desk for a while, issued an order that the whole office could hear. From the widely opened door, Xue Zi'ang can definitely hear it from the inside.
Everyone kept silent and continued to work quitely. Zhao Yu nodded: "En."
"And..." When he turned to leave, Xue Zhan suddenly glanced at the bunch of flowers that Zhao Yu had inserted into the common vase in the office, "That, throw it away."
Zhao Yu obediently threw the bouquet into the trash can, Xue Zi'ang stood at the door and looked at her calmly and smiled, but still didn't say anything.
3
The next day the bouquet was delivered as usual, full of high quality roses, more than the previous day, and the money had been paid for and could not be refunded.
This time, Zhao Yu had a reason to be rude, signed for it in one second and threw it in the trash bin the next second, in front of all her colleagues.
Looking at the flowers in the trash can, Xue Zi'ang still just smiled calmly, without even frowning, let alone changing his facial expression.
This man all of sudden seemed to have reached a full level of cultivation.
When she was about to get off work, Zhao Yu received a message from Shi Yu: [ I make a big meal tonight, come to my house for dinner? ]
She was almost certain that this was Ji Sui's initiative, so she responded readily. When she arrived at Shi Yu's house, as expected, it was Ji Sui who opened the door.
The embarrassing atmosphere last time resumed and Ji Sui was a little uncomfortable with that situation. She was also flustered and greeted him with a smile: "You are here too."
"En." Ji Sui step forward to meet her at the entrance, he helped to retrieve the gift from her hand, and handed her a pair of home-slippers.
Zhao Yu continued to act embarrassed but pretended to be calm, and chatted with him with a smile: "I remember these desserts are all Xiaoxiao's favorites, did I remember correctly?"
"Yes, you did." He never glanced at the bag at all, his eyes kept falling on her face.
When Zhao Yu changed her shoes and straightened up, she 'accidentally' met his gaze and quickly looked away. He also looked away with a guilty conscience, and directed her to sit down and went to the kitchen to help.
After the meal, only Qu Sixiao was the only one who was really carefree and happy. Shi Yu should have listened to Ji Sui's intention, and the thought of trying to match Zhao Yu and Ji Sui can't be hidden. Ji Sui probably didn't expect her to be so straightforward, so he could only wink at her frequently.
Zhao Yu, who was quietly watching the movement of the two, pretended to be ignorant and accompanied Qu Sixiao to watch TV, the suffocation in her heart was finally completely relieved.
Obviously, all her previous worries were unnecessary. The appearance of Shang Lu didn't make Ji Sui suspicious at all, but instead gave him a sense of crisis and made him speed up the pace of approaching her.
When she left, naturally Ji Sui and Zhao Yu went out together, since she drove the car here, she didn't need him to escort her back.
Looking at his expression of hesitating to speak, Zhao Yu opened her mouth first: "You...do you have something to tell me?"
The elevator happened to stop on the ninth floor, and a large family crowded in, with two dogs barking loudly. Ji Sui subconsciously grabbed Zhao Yu's arm and pulled her to the corner, leaning on his side to help her block the crowd and the dogs.
Staring up at his tough facial features, Zhao Yu pursed her lips, she smiled and grabbed his arm from behind.
It wasn't a very intimate gesture, but it made his body froze for a moment. When he turned to look at her, she quickly let go of her hands and lowered her head, not daring to look at him.
After hesitating for two seconds, Ji Sui finally stretched out his hand and grasped hers carefully. Seeing that she was not struggling, he slowly clenched and wrapped her fingers with his broad palms.
He took her out of the elevator and walked to her car. He was still thinking about how to find an excuse to send her off, but she suddenly stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the face.
Ji Sui froze again and dumb-founded.
Zhao Yu's face was full of shyness and she still didn't dare to look at him. She quickly retracted her hand away from his palm, she ran into the car without saying a word and hurriedly started the car.
It wasn't until the car was far away that Ji Sui reacted from his daze, he unconsciously reached out and touched the face she had kissed, the corner of his lips was raised high.
