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“Gu Nan,” Lu Yushi paused, his eyes suddenly brightening. A thread suddenly came to mind from his previously chaotic thoughts, and the words that were about to come out were spoken calmly: “Gu Nan made an appointment with Shen Ming?”

When Qiu Jingxun saw that he had become unusually gossipy, he immediately stopped keeping him in suspense and told him everything at once.

"Gu Nan arrived half an hour earlier than Shen Ming. The two chatted in the private room for about 20 minutes. After that, Gu Nan came out and deliberately went around upstairs and left through a small door."

Qiu Jingxun snapped his fingers to attract Lu Yushi's attention: "There's something very interesting. As soon as Shen Ming arrived at Huai Shi, he went straight to Gu Nan's private room. After leaving the room, he didn't linger."

"What's even more interesting is that the photos trending on social media for negative reasons only feature Shen Ming and the owner of Xingzilou."

Four people ate together, but the photos were taken of two unrelated people.

Sun Qian frowned, thinking of those negative trending topics, and blurted out: "Miss Gu set this up?" He had a flash of inspiration and slapped his thigh: "The time the negative trending topics were published is the time Miss Gu entered the room."

Qiu Jingxun continued, following Sun Qian's train of thought: "She wants to use hypnosis to stall Yu Shi and give the trending topic a chance to spread."

Sun Qian shook her head again: "No, she didn't stall for time. If President Lu hadn't spoken, she was planning to leave."

Qiu Jingxun: "That's strange. Even if Gu Nan isn't the mastermind behind these negative trending topics, he's at least an accomplice." His brows furrowed deeper and deeper: "It can't be that the purpose is just to fabricate a few trending topics that can be taken down at any time for the sake of Qi Yushi."

The two analyzed the situation back and forth, but the person involved was immersed in his own world, slowly uncovering details he had never noticed before.

Qiu Jingxun waited for a long time without getting a reply. He looked up and saw that Lu Yushi's lips were slightly raised, and there seemed to be a hint of unclear pleasure in his eyes. He wondered, "Yushi?"

When Lu Yushi came to his senses, that smile became even clearer.

"If you shoot too many geese, someone will peck your eyes too."

The threads in his mind weren't tangled; he'd never paid much attention to them until now, as he untangled them one by one, he discovered that each thread led to a blatantly obvious purpose.

Gu Nan had a very clear purpose.

His first chance encounter with her was in a dark stairwell. The moment the light came on, he saw a fleeting look of surprise in Gu Nan's eyes.

The second time at the Platinum Club, Gu Nan asked if they had met before.

At Chenyue No. 1, the two met for the third time. Gu Nan threw herself into his arms without a trace of coquettishness.

He had been in power for many years, and countless women had thrown themselves at him, but none of them had ever been as willing to fall head over heels for him as Gu Nan.

But Gu Nan didn't seem to achieve his goal, so that led to the almost flirtatious boxing match.

Gu Nan realized something, and in their subsequent meetings, she began to awkwardly utter inappropriate remarks, until—

He kissed those chattering lips.

Gu Nan was furious.

In fact, the two didn't have many opportunities to meet, but upon closer examination, it became clear that Gu Nan was successfully attracting his attention.

When he went to inquire about the Buddha's Hand statue, Gu Nan once again revealed the abilities of her hacker friend.

He hissed softly. That wasn't the right way to think about it. Gu Nan had been deliberately provoking him from the beginning, ensuring that he couldn't find out her true identity.

Then, the system was attacked, and he needed a skilled hacker.

Gu Nan came to his door and gave him more than a dozen negative trending searches whose IPs could not be found.

After piecing together all their interactions since their first meeting, Lu Yushi smiled unconsciously, "It's my fault for being so slow."

Gu Nan was probably already waiting for him to bring up the topic of cooperation.

For some reason, he suddenly regretted leaving Gu Nan behind when Sun Qian entered the room, in order to take the opportunity to deal with the hacker.

Now it dawned on him that Gu Nan had come today with the intention of cooperating with him, and the three conditions she blurted out were proof of that.

He really shouldn't have spoken up. It would have been much more interesting to wait for Gu Nan to come to him on her own initiative.

He looked out the window, his furrowed brows relaxed for a moment, a faint smile appeared on his lips, and a soft laugh escaped his throat.

I thought he was a hedgehog that would explode at the slightest provocation, but it turns out he's a cunning and shrewd fox.

He underestimated Gu Nan.

Chiu Ching-hsun: "I'll go and meet her."

"He let Xingzilou cover for him, used Shen Ming, and instigated me to deal with the Shen family. This person..." Lu Yushi didn't finish his sentence. He shook his head and refused Qiu Jingxun. He then looked up and instructed Sun Qian, "Arrange a female companion for the party at the end of the month."

Qiu Jingxun asked, puzzled, "You're taking her? I'm being blunt, she can't possibly be with you..."

Lu Yushi said with certainty, "She will definitely go."

"Why?"

Because there is one more condition.

Lu Yushi didn't say it aloud. There were four conditions in total. It seems that Gu Nan wasn't unsure of what to say, but rather that the time wasn't right yet.

If Qiu Jingxun hadn't happened to see Gu Nan in Huai Shi, he would probably still be being led by the nose by Gu Nan without realizing it.

After all this time of planning, he also wanted to have a proper meeting with this Miss Gu.