Chapter 32

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Lu Xingxue stopped next to Jiang Ci, Tong Zhenni rolled her eyes several times in dissatisfaction.

Lu Xingxue sat down and asked, “My assistant told me that you have something important to find me for?”

Tong Zhenni hugged her arms and said with a strange air, “It’s okay, can’t I come to find you?”

Where is this attitude trying to seduce people? It seemed more like looking for a fault. Thinking about this, Jiang Ci inevitably felt sympathy for Lu Xingxue.

Lu Xingxue only thought that since Tong Zhenni had just finished a fight with Wang Yuanyuan, she had a temper, so she gently said, “Of course you can come, you are welcome anytime.”

Tong Zhenni nodded slightly, barely satisfied.

Lu Xingxue turned to Jiang Ci and smiled before saying, “What would you like to drink? The coffee here is not bad, and small cakes are fine.”

Her voice was soft and her smile was kind. Jiang Ci was about to open her mouth, and Tong Zhenni pouted, “Why didn’t you ask me?”

Jiang Ci: “……”

Lu Xingxue laughed, undiminished, “Then what do you want? I’ll get it for you.”

“This is not too bad,” Tong Zhenni snorted, “I want coffee and cake.”

“Good,” Lu Xingxue asked Jiang Ci again, “How about you?”

Jiang Ci: “No, Assistant Yao said you are busy, I just sat down, not planning to have anything, then leave.”

Tong Zhenni was messing around here, she had no chance to talk with Lu Xingxue. Besides, Xiao A asked her to drink tea, and it was almost time.

Hearing that she was leaving, Tong Zhenni followed her statement, “Anyway, I will not go, Lu Xingxue, you are busy with your work, so I will wait for you in your office.”

Raising her chin high, she provoked Jiang Ci with a posture of “whoever I love, what can you do to me.”

Jiang Ci: “……” Just be happy.

Lu Xingxue sent Jiang Ci to leave. This floor was the rest area of the company, and the people there had mixed eyes. The two of them walked all the way, and many employees paid attention to them. They were all people who had read the hot search on Weibo, everyone knew that it was the president’s wife.

“Did you listen? When Madam came, President Lu stopped working and ran to find her.”

“It’s another day full of dog food.”

“Wasn’t President Lu absent from the new product launch? I heard she went to pick up her wife from the airport.”

“I want to be this spoiled!”

“……”

There are always a few words in the whisper that leak into Jiang Ci’s ears, and she walked into the elevator as usual, but her ears were secretly red.

Lu Xingxue pressed the button for the basement parking lot, and then asked Jiang Ci, “So you came to visit me too?”

Sweeping Jiang Ci’s ears, she teased, “Same as Tong Zhenni?”

It was not surprising that Lu Xingxue would ask Jiang Ci this. This was her first visit to the Forest building, it would certainly not be on a whim, Lu Xingxue was just trying to bring up the topic.

Jiang Ci didn’t intend to scribble around, but fortunately she already got the answer from Tong Zhenni, so when she talked with Lu Xingxue, she seemed comfortable, “Did you meet with Tong Zhenni last night?”

Lu Xingxue paused: “She told you?”

Jiang Ci: “Can’t she?”

Lu Xingxue said helplessly: “‌She asked me to keep it a secret.”

Jiang Ci: “Then did you know that she left her stockings in your car?”

Lu Xingxue opened her eyes slightly with a look of surprise, “She was fighting with Romeo. Last night, she asked me to go to the police station to pick her up, and by the way, gave me back the ‘hard work’ Romeo took from me. Her stockings…”

When Lu Xingxue said this, the topic suddenly changed direction, “Jiang Ci, I’ve understood this correctly, right?”

She asked her clearly, “You came here today and happened to meet Tong Zhenni, so she told you we met‌ last night, and those stockings were also hers, right?”

It’s okay to understand it this way, Jiang Ci thought, “Almost.”

Lu Xingxue: “Then when you came here, you didn’t know that the stockings belonged to Tong Zhenni. You came to me to find out about this matter?”

Jiang Ci: “……”

The elevator door opened, and Lu Xingxue stood in the doorway, not giving her time to think about it.

Jiang Ci had a sense of embarrassment, like she was doing bad things and being caught on the spot. This was really weird. She was full of courage when didn’t know the truth, but now she wanted to escape with a guilty conscience.

Rolling her eyes, she hesitated, “Not entirely… I’m going to Zhenzhen and passing by you on the way. Thinking of this, I wanted to come and discuss it with you…”

Lu Xingxue smiled at the corners of her lips, and said slowly, “What do you want to discuss?”

The elevator door closed slowly, Jiang Ci hurriedly pressed it open again. Lu Xingxue reacted like ‌nothing happened, turning and walking out of the elevator.

Jiang Ci looked at her dark long hair and slender figure from behind, taking a breath to calm herself.

“Hm? What do you want to discuss?” Lu Xingxue asked again.

Jiang Ci: “Do you have an intimate relationship with someone else?”

This time it was Lu Xingxue’s turn to be on the spot: “…”

Jiang Ci walked toward the parking lot, her pace was getting faster, and her voice was slurring, “I had a thought after seeing the stockings that I needed to discuss with you. We are still in a marriage contract. If you have one, it is best to mention it. Let me know. Whether this is to help you conceal it, or whatever else, I will try to cooperate with you as much as possible.”

The car was very close to the elevator entrance, and ‌the conversation was over. Jiang Ci stopped, stood by the car door, and took another breath. Turning around, she watched Lu Xingxue’s reaction seriously.

The two were very close, and Jiang Ci’s cheeks were white and blushing, and her eyes were on the floor.

Lu Xingxue chuckled, “What do you want? You saw the stockings, so you were wondering if I was messing around with someone?”

She looked directly into Jiang Ci’s eyes, “No. No girlfriend, no bed partner.”

……

There was still rain outside, Jiang Ci opened the window, and the cold wind blew for a long time before the heat on her face gradually subsided.

Lu Xingxue was too clever, maybe when she heard the word “stockings,” she could see through it.

Jiang Ci had never been so embarrassed. Although she was embarrassed, she had let go of her thoughts, but she didn’t suffer a loss even when she thought about it.

She drove the car to a tea house not far from Huo Zhenzhen’s tattoo studio, and saw Xiao A across the street holding an umbrella, squatting down on the roadside to buy strawberries.

The strawberries were delicate and tender. The granny, who was carrying a strawberry shoulder bag, did not wear a raincoat, but instead covered the strawberries with a poncho. Xiao A picked two big boxes, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and prepared to scan the QR code for payment.

“Granny, you’re quite fashionable, you still have it at this age.” He pointed the phone at the payment code hanging on the granny’s neck.

The granny said, “Everyone doesn’t bring money to go out now… This account is my daughter-in-law’s.”

Xiao A turned off the phone, and asked the granny to hold the umbrella for herself, “Let me see if I have enough money.”

He turned from his jacket pocket to his trouser pocket, and finally found enough money for the strawberries.

The granny was happy, and handed him a few strawberries: “Thank you! Thank you young man!”

Xiao A took the strawberries, and when he turned around, he saw Jiang Ci.

“Sister Ah-Ci, please have some strawberries!” He raised his hand and laughed, showing two rows of white teeth.

Xiao A had a shaved head, wore ear studs, and had a tattoo on his neck. He looked very fearsome since he was tall and big, but he was as careful as a hair. The money would go to the daughter’s account, not the granny’s, so he took the initiative to collect cash to give it to her.

Jiang Ci watched and smiled. Xiao A ran across the street in the rain, and the granny ran after him, “Young man! Your umbrella!”

Xiao A didn’t turn his head and said, “In here!”

The two entered the tea house; the conditions here were average. There were people playing cards in the booth next to them, and a fierce dispute shook the walls. Xiao A’s expression was not good, scratching his head thoughtfully, “Sister Ah-Ci, the shop is not usually busy, otherwise I would invite you to other places.”

“Actually, you didn’t need to spend money.” Jiang Ci sat down and guessed what he could use.

“You asked me out, do you want to ask me what presents Zhenzhen likes? Or you want me to help you save face?”

Xiao A smiled shyly: “Sister Ah-Ci, I really want to ask you for help.”

Jiang Ci: “Well, you say it.”

Xiao A: “…I would like to ask you to tell her‌, I won’t pester ‌her, ‌she doesn’t have to hide from me. What I say now is the truth, if she cannot work with me anymore, I can leave the studio immediately.”

Xiao A’s attitude was contrary to Jiang Ci’s image of him. His eyes and face were clean, and no matter how cool he looked, he still looked like a big boy.

Jiang Ci felt that Huo Zhenzhen might be worse.

Leaving the tea house, Jiang Ci specifically called Huo Zhenzhen. Bringing the words of Xiao A, Huo Zhenzhen listened intently and began to sigh again.

Jiang Ci: “You can’t avoid him forever.”

Huo Zhenzhen: “Got it! I’ll solve it! What about you? Lu Xingxue, have you talked with her?”

Jiang Ci: “Yes.”

Huo Zhenzhen immediately came to the spirit: “How was it? How was it!?”

Jiang Ci: “There really are such pitiful people.” 🙂

……

Lu Xingxue was still busy preparing for the business trip until early in the morning. Jiang Ci probed from the room and asked Lu Xingxue who was passing by, “What time is your plane?”

Lu Xingxue: “Wei Ning said that she would come to pick me up at five o’clock in the morning. I should be there just in time for the opening ceremony.”

Isn’t it impossible to rest at all?

Jiang Ci: “This is hard work.”

Lu Xingxue: “I can sleep on the plane.”

Jiang Ci: “Where’s your luggage? Have you packed up?”

Lu Xingxue: “I’m stuffing the rest in.”

“Oh,” Jiang Ci squeezed the doorknob inside, “…Then I wish you a safe journey.”

Lu Xingxue smiled softly and warmly, “Thank you.”

Jiang Ci closed the door; the conversation between the two of them was like a pair of neighbors, not particularly familiar with each other.

She slumped down on the bed, rubbed her face and swam to the head of the bed, touched the phone, and adjusted the alarm clock to 4:30.

After being unsteady for two minutes, Jiang Ci tossed from the bed again, and looked through the cabinet to find the cat stickers left from last time.

The next day, Jiang Ci woke up before the alarm clock. When she came out after washing, she saw the door to Lu Xingxue’s room open, and the white light illuminating the hallway.

Jiang Ci walked over softly, the silver-gray suitcase stood in the center of the room. Lu Xingxue was neatly dressed, stood next to the suitcase, with her head down buckling the metal strap.

The room was quiet, and so was Lu Xingxue. Jiang Ci looked at her, and once again confirmed that she should like her.

Why else ‌‌when she was about to leave did she feel unwilling to give her up?

Lu Xingxue straightened the buckle and suddenly looked up.

Jiang Ci: “……”

Jiang Ci shook the cat sticker in her hand, “Would you like to post a few? This will save others from picking up your suitcase by mistake.”

‌The house was warm inside, Jiang Ci’s face was flushed in sleep, and some disobedient hair was still on her head.

Lu Xingxue smiled and looked at her‌, although there was a private plane, ‌she still said, “Okay.”

The two of them gathered together to paste the cat stickers on the suitcase, and when there was only the last one left, Lu Xingxue brought it over: “This isn’t for here.”

Jiang Ci’s eyes followed, “Where to put it?”

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