chapter 12.2

“No.” Gu Ye put away his smile.

Then he slowly said, “No, today it is my family that has caused trouble for young master Qiao, it should be I who apologizes. I am sorry.”

Perhaps it was a childish provocation while waiting for the elevator at that time, or perhaps a lapse of control over his temper on the phone this afternoon. Gu Ye found it difficult for him to keep up the pretense of the usual generous and forgiving person in front of Qiao Yang. He even felt that his smiling expression was stiff and ugly.

Although he had put away his smile, but his expression was not at all cold and detached. It was just that the usual emotions couldn’t be seen, as if the deep peach blossom eyes completely lacked any warmth.

“What a big deal about this? Apologizing here, apologizing there.” Qiao Yang raised his eyes and looked at him, “It’s just that, in the future… Auntie Xu is an elder, she will look for me to open the door later, I really don’t know how to refuse her.”

Gu Ye said, “I will warn her and won’t let her come to trouble Young Master Qiao again.”

Qiao Yang said that it didn’t matter. Then he said to him half-jokingly, “Actually, you don’t need to hide. Qin Man-jie is quite good ah.”

Gu Ye slightly shrugged his shoulders without explanation.

Qiao Yang looked at the bag in his hand, “Your family is sending you food, right? And it seems to be homemade.”

Smells so delicious ah. Read this novel only on Foxaholic

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After saying that, he couldn’t help taking a closer look at the large and small lunch containers in the bag.

The bag with the lunch containers were left by the entrance hall for two hours, which enveloped half of the living room in the scent of boiling soup and food.

Qiao Yang unconsciously rubbed his stomach. Moreover, he had been staying in front of the computer ever since he got home.

Up until now, he still hadn’t had any dinner. He was hungry.

Gu Ye looked at him and asked, “Young Master Qiao hasn’t eaten dinner yet?”

Qiao Yang hurriedly retracted his eyes that were staring at the lunchboxes.

“Actually, after waiting to give these things to you, I’ll just go out and eat some random thing later.”

After saying that, he directly put on his shoes and left his house.

Gu Ye watched him walk into the elevator, and the hand that gripped the bag tightened. He wanted to open his mouth and say something, but finally pursed his lips tightly, and swallowed down what he wanted to say. In the end, the relationship between the two of them were not familiar enough to have dinner together.

Until the moment the elevator door closed, the man inside grinned at him, handsome, unconstrained and also cheerful.

Gu Ye fished out a cigarette from his pocket and held it in his mouth, and silently mouthed one single line in his heart: Qiao Yang.

Several people around him warned him that Qiao Yang had moved across from him at this time to deliberately get close to him, trying to get Gu Est.’s budget to bid for Qifengtai.

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But, was this Qiao Yang’s way of deliberately getting close to attain classified information?

Just now, when he opened the door he was obviously uninterested. The tiny eyes movements of coveting the meal inside the bag within his hand, as well as the carefree before leaving.

People who were used to pretending, could see the other party’s hidden intention with just a glance.

However, he could not read Qiao Yang. This was because people who weren’t making any pretense were the hardest to figure read.

“Mr. Gu, Mr. Gu?”

“En?”

Gu Ye was pulled back from his trains of thoughts by the voice of the door technicians.

“It’s unlocked, you can reset the password again.”

Gu Ye smiled at them and said, “Thank you for the hard work.”

It was still the same gentle and elegant smile from before — so easy to do.

But just a moment ago, in front of Qiao Yang, it was very difficult to do. Read this novel only on Foxaholic

After entering the house, Gu Ye threw the bags in his hand next to the trash can. He picked up his phone and dialed Xu Weiling’s phone number.

His voice was cold, “Mom, my house’s password has been changed, and don’t arrange for anyone to come over in the future.”

On the other end of the phone ‒ Xu Wei Ling was silent for a while then spoke slowly, “Qin Man is worthy of our Gu family—in looks and character—regardless of her family background.”

“In addition, she’s been fond of you since she was a child. Moreover, she’s the only daughter and the only eldest young lady of the Qin family. If she marries into our Gu family, the Qin family and Gu family will be able to cooperate on many projects. We lack the resources and they lack the team. The marriage is beneficial to both of our development.”

Xu Weiling’s voice was calm and low, one could feel the regal sharpness of the person through the phone.

There was absolutely no warmth and affection from when she was in front of Qiao Yang.

Gu Ye was cold and indifferent, “Mom, I just don’t want to be so calculating even on marriage.”

“Calculating?”

Xu Weiling raised her voice in a way that was holding back some emotions, “After your father died, how did I raise you through these years, don’t tell me you have forgotten. And now, I’m merely suggesting that you marry a woman who will be useful to the Gu family. Now is not the time for you to be capricious, everything must be considered for your career.”

Gu Ye tried his best to hold together the impatience in his heart and interrupted Xu Weiling’s words, “Forget it, I still have things to do, you should rest early.”

“Very well!” Xu Wei Ling called out to stop him, “You and I both take a step back. You don’t like women, fine, then you’ll marry a man.”

“But he must be chosen from the Liang family and the Qin family. The worst is the young master of a political family.”

Gu Ye snorted, “The Qin family? The Liang family? The Qiao family has even more resources and an even bigger market share, why don’t you say the Qiao family?”

Xu Wei Ling paused, and said in surprise, “… Qiao family?”

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