Meal delivery

"Tsk."

Ye Xu stared at the screen, shaking his head repeatedly, sighing incessantly.

Gu Nan, unable to bear it any longer, threw the tissue beside her at him and casually pulled back her bracelet: "Do you have something to say?"

Ye Xu handed his phone directly to Gu Nan, his eyes gleaming with gossip: "Look, it's the same style. It really is a peace bracelet. What's going on between you and Lu Yushi? Did he get it for you? He doesn't seem like the kind of person who believes in these things."

Gu Nan lay sprawled on the table, lazily humming, "Is your phone reliable?"

"This product is patented, and counterfeit products would infringe on your rights. Your young master Lu shouldn't be wearing fakes."

"Is this a matter of whether it's fake or not?" Gu Nan sighed, rubbing the bracelet incessantly. Why did she have to give this thing to her?

What's going on?

Ye Xu's eyes narrowed, and he rested his chin on his hand, asking in confusion, "Why are you sighing? What does it mean that your Mr. Lu is truly in love with you? Maybe you'll be Mrs. Lu soon. Once you're married, don't forget to introduce your best friend to high-quality, successful men. Her happiness for the rest of her life depends on you. If you become rich and powerful, don't forget me!"

"...Get lost."

"Before even successfully taking over, I'm already preparing to say goodbye to everything from the past."

Gu Nan stared at the bracelet and muttered softly, "This wasn't something he got for me."

Ye Xu was startled: "You stole it?"

Gu Nan looked up, hesitating to speak: "I really want to stuff a tissue box into your head and help you absorb the water inside."

Seeing that she was in low spirits, Ye Xu put away most of his joking intentions and said, "Sometimes I really can't understand whether you want to be with him or not?"

Gu Nan opened her mouth, thinking to herself, "How would I know?"

"The better he treats you, the more pressure you seem to feel."

At the 46-minute mark of afternoon tea, Ye Xu finally pinpointed her true feelings. Gu Nan almost burst into tears, grasped Ye Xu's hand, and sadly called out to her a kindred spirit.

But she couldn't do something so degrading.

Furthermore, a familiar voice came from the doorway.

"Nannan?"

The two turned around in response. Gu Nan quickly put away the bracelet and stood up. Realizing her movement was abrupt, she rubbed her nose awkwardly and called out softly, "Auntie."

Ye Xu's pupils dilated, and he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time. He turned around and leaned closer to Gu Nan, his lips barely moving, and said in a low voice, "Don't tell me this is Lu Yushi's mother."

Gu Nan gave him a very certain look.

"Damn it!" Before he could finish speaking, Gu Nan glared at him, and Ye Xu silently shut up, obediently standing to the side: "Hello, Mrs. Lu."

Shi Nian'an turned her head and instructed the bodyguards to wait outside the door. She smiled gently and stepped forward, saying, "Please sit down, don't be shy."

Ye Xu nodded frantically, his index and middle fingers almost tearing the seam of his trousers apart and resewing it: "Please sit down, please sit down."

As he spoke, he discreetly observed Shi Nian'an. Judging from Lu Yushi's age, Shi Nian'an, even if not 50, must be in her late forties. Her skin was very smooth, with only slight wrinkles at the corners of her eyes when she smiled, revealing her true age. Her every word and action was gentle and elegant, likely due to years of immersion in the rigid and traditional Lu family. Even with her approachable smile, her aura was undeniable.

"Did I disturb you?"

Gu Nan slowly sat down, subconsciously pulling up her sleeves to hide the bracelet she hadn't had time to put in her pocket.

Shi Nian'an glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, his expression unchanged, but his heart was in turmoil.

The prolonged, stunned gaze made Gu Nan pause in her movements. She pursed her lips and thought to herself, "It's not like I stole it, why did I hide it?"

"Ahem, would you like something to drink?"

Shi Nian'an's mind was filled with thoughts of the bracelet, and she couldn't wait to run home and tell Lu Yuanjing that it seemed he was really going to have a daughter-in-law.

"I'm not drinking anymore. I made some soup, and I was just about to take it to Xiaoshi." Shi Nian'an's eyes flickered, and she asked, "Is Nannan busy later?"

Ye Xuxian realized first: "She's alright."

"Okay, shall we go together?"

Ye Xu: "Okay, I have something to do, I'll be going now, goodbye Mrs. Lu."

The two exchanged questions and answers, but Gu Nan didn't get a word in edgewise. She watched helplessly as Ye Xu stood up, slung his bag over his shoulder, and strode out with a "proud and arrogant" air.

Another bodyguard brushed past her, carrying a box, and bent down to say, "Madam, I've brought it over."

Shi Nian'an nodded and looked at Gu Nan: "Nan Nan, let's go."

As she got into the car and watched the street scene rushing past the window, Gu Nan rubbed her face. Wasn't she supposed to be out shopping with Ye Xu? How did she end up in Shi Nian'an's car?

Looking down, she wondered when the lunchbox had gotten into her hands.

"Madam, we've arrived."

"Nannan, I'm not going up."

"ah?"

Gu Nan stood alone in front of the Lu Group's gate, clutching the lunchbox. She looked around, bewildered and confused, wondering how she had ended up delivering food to Lu Yushi.

"Ding-dong."

She looked down at the message, while Ye Xu, always eager for drama, watched the spectacle unfold.

[Keep it up, it seems Mrs. Lu is very satisfied with you.]

The confusion on Gu Nan's face faded, and her expression became indifferent.

When Shi Nian'an finds out in the future that she is the culprit behind Lu Yushi's insomnia, she will probably not be satisfied.

"Heh, I don't care if she's satisfied or not."

Shaking his head to put aside his wild thoughts, he stepped forward.

The automatic door opened at the right time, revealing a clean and tidy lobby with a large logo of the Lu Group facing her. The receptionist was smiling and watching her.

Gu Nan muttered to herself, "Shi Nian'an asked me to deliver the food alone. Didn't she think that without an appointment and an elevator card, she wouldn't be able to see Lu Yushi at all?"

After standing there for a while, he called Sun Qian: "Pick me up, first floor."

The person who stepped down was square-faced and had a serious expression: "Miss Gu."

Where is Sun Qian?

The square-faced man paused in his hand, which was about to take the lunchbox, and quickly withdrew it. He gestured for Gu Nan to take the private elevator upstairs, saying, "President Lu and Assistant President Sun are in a meeting."

Gu Nan glanced at the time and asked in surprise, "Now?"

A little after 12 o'clock, when I went upstairs, I could see the staff returning from lunch one after another.

The square-faced man stood ramrod straight, his expression unreadable. He nodded to the employees who greeted him and gestured for Gu Nan to enter the elevator.

"Several shareholders are quite difficult to deal with."

"Oh, eh?"

"Ding." The elevator doors closed.

"You said?"

Gu Nan had no interest in chatting with the robot-like square face in front of her. Lu Yushi and Sun Qian weren't there, so what was she going to do up there? Just stare at this square-faced guy with big, round eyes?

Seeing that the elevator doors had closed and the elevator was already going up, I gave up the idea of ​​leaving.

In fact, she was overthinking it. The square arranged for her to go to the office, claiming that there was still work to do, and closed the door before giving her any time to react.

She could only stare at the lunchbox.

Her gaze involuntarily drifted toward Lu Yushi's desk.

Leaving her alone in Lu Yushi's office is like putting a mouse in a rice bin.

She wandered aimlessly around the office, pretending to be nonchalant. Eventually, she walked up to Lu Yushi's desk. His laptop was open. She touched the tip of her nose, then nudged the mouse with her elbow. It had a password.

I breathed a sigh of relief; the rice was locked.

He lay back on the sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling and yawning. He tossed and turned, wrinkling the smooth sofa, and finally let out a long sigh, kicking the cushion away to announce that his patience had run out.

Who cares? Nobody deserves to make her wait half an hour.

Just as he was about to leave, Sun Qian suddenly pushed the door open and came in.

Their eyes met, and neither of them looked well.

"Miss Gu."

“Oh, you’ve come at the right time. I’m leaving now,” he said, gesturing with his chin toward the lunchbox. “Remind Lu Yu to eat.”

Sun Qian responded and turned to instruct the female employee behind him, "Take them all to the car."

"What do you mean?" Gu Nan asked casually, observing the female employee's actions.

"President Lu is going to inspect the branch office at 1 p.m.," the female employee said with a polite smile. "We came early to pick up some things. President Lu will go downstairs after the meeting and won't be coming back."

Gu Nan glanced at her watch subconsciously; there were still 15 minutes until 1 o'clock. She blurted out, "So troublesome?"

Sun Qian nodded, gave a forced smile, and said nothing.

"How long have you been driving?"

Three hours.

Gu Nan's eyes flickered. After a half-second silence, she took the lunchbox back from the female employee and asked Sun Qian, "Where is the meeting room?"

The female employee hesitated for a moment, then politely declined, "President Lu is in a meeting, no..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sun Qian had already led his men out of the office and pointed in the direction.

The female employee stared at Gu Nan's back and said in a complicated tone, "Brother Sun, if President Lu finds out that you let outsiders into the conference room, he will be angry."

Sun Qian looked inscrutable: "You wouldn't understand."

The female employee looked puzzled, staring with wide, eager eyes.

Before he could finish speaking, Sun Qian changed his mind: "Think about it, if we went in and said that President Lu went to the branch office this afternoon and it's time for lunch now, what would the shareholders think?"

"You're not happy, are you?"

"Dissatisfaction is a minor issue, but if they turn around and cause trouble for us, who can stand that?"

The female employee nodded thoughtfully: "That makes sense."

“Miss Gu is different. Even if she goes in and flips the table, the shareholders won’t take their anger out on us.”

"But Mr. Lu doesn't like being disturbed while working, right?"

Sun Qian thought to himself, "Could Gu Nan be anyone else? It can't be!"

He couldn't explain the real reason to the female employee, so he could only smile mysteriously and walk downstairs with an air of nonchalance.

As the female employee watched his retreating figure, she suddenly thought of another problem. The shareholders weren't fools, and which ordinary employee would dare to tell Miss Gu? Only President Lu's assistant would do so. It seemed that only Assistant Sun was attending the meeting with President Lu's assistant.

The elevator doors closed, and the female employee kept her mouth shut, her expression one of pity.

My gaze shifted, and the private elevator display showed that we had reached the conference floor.

With her initial courage waning, Gu Nan, clutching the lunchbox, backed down. She was good at causing trouble, but what was the point of inexplicably delivering food to Lu Yushi? Sun Qian was a strange person; she was clearly acting impulsively, so why didn't they stop her?

Now look what's happened. She's pacing around the conference room door with a lunchbox in her hand. Anyone who didn't know better would think she was trying to poison someone.

Caught in a dilemma, another five minutes passed.

For a moment, Gu Nan even considered throwing the lunchbox in the trash, but then she thought, what if Shi Nian'an asked? She wouldn't know how to explain. The idea of ​​throwing the lunchbox back to Sun Qian was just a fleeting thought, but she immediately rejected it; she still had to maintain her dignified image.

Take a deep breath; we're already here.

As soon as the meeting room door opened, the heated debate abruptly stopped, and 16 pairs of eyes turned to look at them.

Gu Nan rubbed the tip of her nose, wondering to herself that she never expected to experience social anxiety one day.

She called out, "You guys continue, I'm going to bring my boyfriend some food."

As soon as he finished speaking, the only person who didn't turn around shifted his gaze and frowned almost imperceptibly.

The second middle-aged man from the left, eyes downcast and seemingly lost in thought, coldly swept his gaze over everyone in the conference room and asked in a stern voice, "Whose is it?"

It's rare for a meeting to leave everyone feeling unhappy.

Lu Yushi and a group of people led by him supported a complete break with the Shen family, while another group, standing on the side of the group, consistently opposed it. Their reasons were reasonable, so it was not easy to reject them outright. There was also a group of people who were dissatisfied with the compensation Lu Yushi gave to Xingzilou, and they joined in the attack.

"Get out." Lu Yushi withdrew his gaze.