"I'm so angry!" Su He, after shaking off the woman's harassment, walked alone on the commercial street, feeling very uncomfortable.
The feeling of being looked down upon was terrible.
Her works had already garnered over a hundred million views, and they knew how much royalties she had earned, didn't they? They actually insulted her with a hundred thousand yuan!
Yes, she was short of money, but she also had self-respect.
A hundred thousand yuan was not even as expensive as a piece of clothing Lu Yanbei had gifted her!
Su He grew more and more angry the more she thought about it.
Before long, the other party's call came again, but Su He ignored it.
She tossed her phone into her bag, deciding to turn her anger into appetite.
Next to the commercial street was a snack street. Su He, familiar with the area, headed there and browsed from one end to the other. One portion of takoyaki, three skewers of grilled squid, and also roujiamo, hot and sour noodles, and braised duck wings – she wanted them all.
By the time she emerged from the snack street with her arms full of bags, it was already nearing noon.
Su He checked the time, estimating that Lu Yanbei should have already left the meeting room. So she called him to ask him out for a meal.
"Are you done with your business?" Lu Yanbei answered the phone, a clear hint of a smile in his voice.
Hearing their CEO's exceptionally gentle tone, the executives in the meeting room knew it was the boss's wife on the line. They wisely got up and left.
On the other end, Su He chewed on snacks and mumbled vaguely, "Don't even mention it, talking about it makes me angry."
"Okay, don't be angry, don't be angry. I'll buy you something delicious later," Lu Yanbei coaxed.
"You don't need to buy it, I've already bought a lot myself. Do you have time now? I'll bring some over to you." Su He looked at the bags in her hand, enough for four or five people to eat.
Lu Yanbei readily agreed.
Then, he instructed to postpone the meeting.
"As expected, the boss's wife has great charm!"
"There's a saying, right? What is love in this world? One conquers another!"
"Let's pray the boss and his wife stay together forever. That way, our lives will be a little easier!"
"From the boss's tone, the boss's wife is coming over soon? Should we prepare some snacks, milk tea, or something?"
"That's a good idea! Quickly tell the secretary to go downstairs and buy some!"
Thus, when Lu Yanbei emerged from the meeting room, he saw that more than half the people in the office area were gone.
Twenty minutes later, Su He, accompanied by a manager, took Lu Yanbei's private elevator upstairs.
Su He thanked the manager, whom she didn't know, and carried her bags to Lu Yanbei's office.
"The boss's wife looks so young! If you didn't know, you'd think she was a fresh graduate!"
"I heard she's four or five years younger than the boss, of course she's young!"
"Wow, an older man and a younger woman, so cute!"
"You're so brave, daring to call Mr. Lu old!"
"Shh, keep your voice down!"
A group of people watched Su He enter the office, then clustered together in twos and threes, whispering.
Su He closed the door, shutting out the sounds from outside.
Lu Yanbei was sitting behind his desk, reviewing documents. Seeing Su He enter, he finally put down his pen.
"Ta-da, look what I bought." Su He stepped forward, shaking the large and small bags in her hand like a treasure.
Lu Yanbei looked at the paper bags with various names printed on them and couldn't help but rub his temples. "Why are you eating these again?"
"I know what you're going to say, probably about them not being clean. Eating them once in a while should be okay." Su He placed the items on the coffee table and mumbled softly, "Mainly, my mood was bad today, so I particularly wanted to eat."
"Who made you unhappy?" Lu Yanbei walked over, sat beside her, and pulled her onto his lap, encircling her.
Su He dejectedly told him about the contract. "Who does she think she is! I would sell my most cherished work for a mere hundred thousand yuan? Hmph!"
"That's indeed excessive," Lu Yanbei agreed. "If it were me, the copyright fee would be at least a few million."
"That's not necessarily true..." Su He said modestly. "However, I've inquired. Based on the performance of my work, a million yuan in copyright fees is unavoidable."
"And also, you don't know how she looked at me... She thought I was a fresh graduate, easy to bully!" Su He puffed out her cheeks indignantly.
Lu Yanbei pinched her chin and leaned down to kiss her. "Mmm, you do look quite young."
Su He beamed when complimented. "You're so good at coaxing me!"
"I'm not coaxing, I'm stating a fact." Lu Yanbei, still not satisfied, deepened the kiss involuntarily.
Su He was kissed until she was breathless, and finally managed to push him away.
She covered her mouth and stepped aside, glaring at him. "This is the company! What if someone sees!"
Lu Yanbei let out a scoff, then pulled her back. "Without my permission, who would dare barge in?"
Saying that, he hugged her again and kissed her.
Two seconds later, Lu Yanbei's face was slapped, quite literally.
"Brother, are you busy?" Lu Jingyang pushed the door open without knocking.
The two people on the sofa, locked in an intense kiss, stiffened simultaneously.
Su He buried her head in Lu Yanbei's arms like an ostrich, too embarrassed to look up.
Lu Yanbei, however, remained composed.
He calmly raised his hand, wiped the lipstick off his lips, and asked in a deep voice, "Did it get on your hands? Didn't you knock before coming in?"
Lu Jingyang stared blankly at the two embracing figures and quickly apologized. "Sorry, I didn't know..."
"Get out and close the door." Lu Yanbei didn't say more to him and directly ordered him to leave.
Lu Jingyang had always been obedient to him and turned to leave. But remembering the purpose of his visit, he still mustered up the courage to ask, "Then when would be a good time for me to come in?"
"In two hours." Lu Yanbei said casually.
During the lunch break, he just wanted to spend quality time with his wife.
Lu Jingyang said "oh" and obediently retreated.
After leaving the office, Lu Jingyang finally came to his senses. Who was his brother hugging just now? Could it be Su He? Thinking of their intimate embrace, Lu Jingyang felt a sense of unease all over.
He didn't know what he was being so awkward about, it just felt a little wrong.
Su He was once his wife.
How could his brother do something like that?
"Young Master Lu?" Cheng Jue, returning from lunch, called out to Lu Jingyang as he passed by in a daze.
Lu Jingyang snapped back to reality and forced a smile. "Assistant Cheng, are you looking for me?"
Cheng Jue shook his head. "Young Master Lu, are you looking for Mr. Lu? The boss should be in his office right now."
"I know. I'll come back later." Lu Jingyang, perhaps out of guilt and fearing that someone might notice something, immediately fled.
Cheng Jue scratched his head, looking puzzled.
What was wrong with Young Master Lu?
He looked like he had lost his soul!
Cheng Jue found it inexplicable.
As he was about to go to the office to report his work, he was stopped by the secretary, Linda. "Hey, you can't go in right now."
"What's wrong? Is the boss angry again?" Cheng Jue guessed.
"No, the boss's wife is here!" Linda winked at him. "Young Master Lu barged in without knocking just now and was kicked out by the boss! Tsk, it must have been quite a scene!"
Cheng Jue: ...
Ah, so that's how it is.
No wonder Young Master Lu looked so strange. It turned out he had walked in on the boss and his wife in a compromising situation!