068: Cooking for my wife is not a waste of time

In order to avoid receiving harassing calls, Xu Yao now refuses to answer all unfamiliar numbers.

She could reject calls on her own phone, but the advertising company couldn't. Within half a day, the company was flooded with calls from the public. Now, Xu Yao's social media account was completely hidden from the company.

In the past, Huabin always covered for Xu Yao, but now Huabin can no longer do so.

When Xu Yao thought about this upsetting thing, the durian no longer tasted delicious, and the strawberries no longer tasted as sweet as before.

"I know that once my account has more followers, I won't have the energy to handle my work at the advertising company. Sooner or later, I'll have to make a choice, but..."

Gu Jun picked up what Xu Yao hadn't finished saying, "But not now, and you shouldn't leave for this reason."

Resigning on your own and being forced to leave are two different things.

Gu Jun thought of the Nancheng IP who leaked Xu Yao's personal information under Tangtang's video: "That person just doesn't want you to have an easy life, and is disrupting your normal life in this way."

Xu Yao was so angry that her teeth itched. "I suspect it was some of Chen Yan's friends who were behind this! Because I proposed to break off the engagement, they felt that I had let down Chen Yan's affection, and they had already given me trouble that night at the Shen family cocktail party!"

"Shen family cocktail party?"

Gu Jun's grip on the steering wheel tightened unconsciously. "Was it the time when President Jiang brought me along, but I left early?"

Xu Yao nodded, "That time."

Xu Yao briefly told Gu Jun what happened that night, and he was very upset.

He shouldn't have left so early!

If he had stayed, those bastards would not have had the chance to stop Xu Yao.

"I'll check in this direction."

Gu Jun suppressed his anger. Xu Yao was actually more worried about him: "Don't ask Mr. Jiang for help anymore. If you want to find the person who leaked the information, I can investigate slowly. Favors become less and less valuable the more you use them. It's not good for you to keep bothering Mr. Jiang!"

"I won't look for him. I'll check it myself. Have you forgotten? I have some skills in this area."

Gu Jun assured Xu Yao.

Xu Yao nodded. "Even if they weren't the ones who broke the news this time, you should still be wary of them. They're all rich second-generations spoiled by their families. They don't care how badly their little malice can affect the lives of ordinary people!"

Back at Shenghai Garden, Xu Yao disagreed with Gu Jun carrying her up there again.

Xu Yao felt embarrassed because she saw her neighbors every day.

After just one day of not coming home, there was already a faint smell of dust in the house. Gu Jun helped Xu Yao sit on the sofa and went to open the window to ventilate.

Xu Yao asked Gu Jun what he wanted to eat: "I'll order takeout."

Gu Jun looked at her feet and said, "You should eat something good to replenish your body."

Xu Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I just twisted my ankle, not broke my leg. There's no need to take any special supplements!"

Obviously Gu Jun felt that Xu Yao needed nourishment.

The two had just arrived home when the doorbell rang a few minutes later. Gu Jun had ordered takeout to be delivered to his home.

He actually bought fresh pig's feet!

From a distance, Xu Yao seemed to have smelled the fishy smell. Her face turned pale: "...I don't know how to make this."

Gu Jun looked at her strangely. "You're injured now. Since I bought the ingredients, of course I'll cook."

Xu Yao wanted to say something but stopped herself.

Her culinary skills were limited to steaming rice in an electric rice cooker, which came with instructions that anyone with nine years of compulsory education could understand. Xu Yao wasn't very good at stir-frying. The sheer complexity of seasonings and the combination of ingredients was overwhelming. And when cooking, she had to ensure the right amount of saltiness and heat, and there was also the risk of burns from oil spills.

After living together for such a long time after getting married, Xu Yao and Gu Jun either ate takeout or went out to eat. This was the first time that Gu Jun cooked.

Xu Yao couldn't help but worry, is the food cooked by Gu Jun edible?

While Gu Jun was cooking, Xu Yao sat beside the dining table and watched him.

The sight of Gu Jun rolling up his sleeves to wash and cut vegetables diluted his elite temperament. He looked very homely, and Xu Yao was lost in thought. When Xu Yao was a child, her family was not very rich. Before hiring a nanny, Xu Qinghua had always cooked for the Xu family. Lin Meixian would buy vegetables, wash them, and do all the preparations before Xu Qinghua came home, and then she would take charge of cooking after Xu Qinghua got home. At that time, Xu Yao would do her homework at the dining table while smelling the aroma of food coming from the kitchen. Xu Qinghua would let Xu Yao taste each dish first after he prepared it, sometimes it was fried meatballs, sometimes it was fried hairtail fish. Xu Qinghua fed her like this, and Xu Yao was half full before she even ate...Xu Qinghua is dead, and these warm memories will always remain in Xu Yao's heart.

Xu Yao didn't know why she thought of the scene of Xu Qinghua cooking. Maybe it was because she hadn't eaten home-cooked meals for a long time.

To Xu Yao's surprise, the dishes that Gu Jun brought out from the kitchen looked very good.

He cooked rice, steamed fish, stir-fried mushrooms and Chinese cabbage, and made soybean pork knuckles in a pressure cooker.

Xu Yao swallowed her saliva as she smelled the aroma of the food. "Are you such a good cook?"

"Children from poor families have to grow up early. I am better than you in this respect."

Gu Jun stuffed the chopsticks into Xu Yao's hand and said, "Try my cooking. I haven't cooked for a long time. I hope I can still cook at my peak level."

The fish has no fishy smell and the meat is very tender.

The shiitake mushroom and Chinese cabbage look and taste good.

The soybean pork trotter soup is thick and the meat is glutinous.

Xu Yao ate very contentedly. Touching her belly, she sighed, "To capture a person's heart, you must first capture her stomach. This applies to both men and women. Now I look at you as if I've automatically added several layers of filters. You're even more handsome than usual!"

Gu Jun, who looked even more handsome than usual, took the initiative to clear the table and wash the dishes. When his back was facing Xu Yao, Gu Jun couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

Cooking is a troublesome and time-consuming task, but Xu Yao is not an outsider but his wife, so what does the wasted time matter?

Gu Jun could see that Xu Yao was very satisfied and happy.

He discovered that when it came to getting along with his wife, he could neither search the Internet for answers nor ask Jiang Zhiyan, that strategist, but should follow his heart.

He doesn't need others to teach him what to do, but he can do what he wants to do!

…

Xu Yao and Gu Jun reconciled.

In the morning, Gu Jun sent Xu Yao downstairs to the advertising company and repeatedly asked her, "Do you really not need me to accompany you upstairs?"

Xu Yao shook her ankle to show him, "I'm really fine, you can go to work!"

Gu Jun has a meeting today and cannot miss it. He really cannot put everything aside to accompany Xu Yao. He can reduce overtime but cannot completely stop working. As the boss, Gu Jun has to be responsible for Huahu from top to bottom.

"Call me if you need anything."

Xu Yao nodded, "I know. I'll tell you as soon as there's any situation."

Team leader Hua Bin had been waiting for Xu Yao for a long time, and when he saw Xu Yao, he dragged her away.

"That plague god is here to cause trouble again!"

The plague god that Hua Bin mentioned is Wen Yiyi.

Shen Zhongjun stopped Wen Yiyi from hiring internet trolls. Wen Yiyi could no longer slander Xu Yao online, so she came to the advertising company specifically to laugh at Xu Yao.

Xu Yao was too lazy to argue with Wen Yiyi, so she asked Hua Bin about the company's decision.

"The company wants you to resign on your own."

Xu Yao flatly refused. "I haven't done anything wrong, why should I resign? On the contrary, I'm the victim of cyberbullying. If the company feels I'm no longer competent for this job, then they should fire me according to the procedures."

Xu Yao is not stupid.

There is no compensation for resigning on your own.

——She has been working in this company since she graduated from college. Now that the company wants her to leave, it has to pay her compensation according to regulations!