Chapter 121 Are you losing your patience?

The office was silent, with only the sound of pens scratching across the drawings.

Zhou Wanrong and Gu Xiangsi sat side by side, with the table spread out with the decoration design drawings of a luxury yacht.

Zhou Wanrong's drawings have a mature and gentle style, with soft lines and colors mostly in low-saturation beige and light brown, exuding a calm and elegant atmosphere.

Gu Xiangsi’s is completely different, it is youthful vitality and romance.

She occasionally glanced up at Zhou Wanrong's design, then silently adjusted her own drawings, obviously trying to accommodate her style.

Fu Sinian sat behind his desk, his fingertips tapping on the keyboard without stopping. He seemed to be concentrating on his work, but his eyes would occasionally glance at the two people across the table.

Li Xiaoyao was always extremely cautious when entering the president's office. When he pushed the door open, he would first glance nervously at the two ancestors beside him before reporting his work quietly.

It wasn't until half past ten that there was another knock on the door, and he had two more bouquets of exquisitely wrapped flowers.

"What's this for?" Fu Sinian frowned and looked up.

"Master, this was sent by Doctor Lu and Master Jiang. It's for Miss Gu."

Li Xiaoyao handed the flowers to the table. One bouquet was pure white roses with elegantly spread petals; the other was pink roses with plump buds and a sweet smell.

Zhou Wanrong put down her pen and looked up, her gaze circling between the two bouquets. She chuckled, "They're both quite picky. It seems Assistant Gu has quite the romantic luck."

As she spoke, she glanced at Fu Sinian with a playful look, "These two look quite compatible with Miss Gu."

"Mom, why don't you try a blind date first?" Fu Sinian didn't even look up, but his fingertips paused for half a second. "With your looks, you can pick any guy in his twenties or thirties. I don't mind having a stepfather who's about my age."

"What are you talking about, you naughty kid!"

Zhou Wanrong laughed angrily and put down the design pen in her hand.

"I'm hungry." She changed the subject.

"Do we want to go out to eat, or should I ask Xiaoyao to make the reservation?" Fu Sinian asked.

"Let's go eat outside. It's just about 40 to 50 minutes' drive from here," said Zhou Wanrong.

"Okay." Fu Sinian stood up and took his coat, glancing aside, "Assistant Gu, let's go together."

Upon hearing this, Gu Xiangsi glanced at him and said nothing.

Zhou Wanrong stood up first and said with a smile, "Let's go together."

Seeing that Xiangsi was still hesitant, she added, "I haven't seen Xing'er for a long time. I'm also familiar with Dr. Lu's mother. Let's call them all over and have a lively meal together."

Fu Sinian's eyes were slightly cold. As expected, his mother was up to something evil again.

Zhang's House is an upscale semi-private Chinese restaurant located in Causeway Bay.

Through the large open floor-to-ceiling windows, you can enjoy the entire Victoria Harbour view while tasting authentic Cantonese flavors.

Jiang Xinghe hadn't seen Gu Xiangsi for a while. When she heard about the dinner party, she was naturally the first to arrive. When she entered the door, she smiled and waved at her, her eyes full of familiar warmth.

Just as they sat down in the box, Lu Wang pushed the door open and came in, five minutes later than the agreed time.

He first glanced at everyone present, and when his eyes fell on Zhou Wanrong, he called out in a gentle voice, "Auntie Zhou."

"Come and sit down." Zhou Wanrong immediately waved, her tone warm, "How is your mother these days?"

"That's fine. She'll be back in a while. If you're free then, I'll ask her to invite you over for a small get-together."

Lu Wang responded and sat down, his eyes inadvertently passing by Gu Xiangsi, then quickly looking away.

Fu Sinian, who was standing by, didn't say a word from beginning to end. He just raised his hand to call the waiter and lowered his head to flip through the menu.

His fingertips paused on the page, and most of the dishes he ordered were Gu Xiangsi's favorites.

There was the store’s signature Morel Mushroom and Agaricus Water Flower Soup, as well as the Golden Phoenix Wings that she often talked about, and she even specially added two sweet and sour side dishes.

After ordering the dishes, he asked someone to add a pot of her favorite jasmine Pu'er tea.

Li Xiaoyao sat down in the corner, trembling with fear the whole time, and kept glancing at Fu Sinian out of the corner of his eyes.

Madam, did you specially call these two rivals here?

Didn’t you see that his young master’s brows were almost twisted into knots, and the low pressure around him was about to overflow. I’m afraid this meal will not end well.

Zhou Wanrong looked directly at Jiang Xinghe and Lu Wang and said straight to the point: "You two both like Assistant Gu, right?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the box fell silent for half a second, and then several people looked up somewhat unexpectedly.

"Ahem..." Jiang Xinghe choked back the tea she had just drunk. She frantically wiped the corners of her mouth with a tissue, her ears red. "Auntie! How can you...how can you be so direct?"

He slowed down, but didn't hide anything. He looked in Fu Sinian's direction and said frankly, "It's true that I like Sister Xiangsi. My cousin has known about it for a long time. We have always been fair competition."

Zhou Wanrong raised her eyebrows and turned her gaze to Fu Sinian, but saw that he seemed not to have heard the conversation. He held the teacup with his fingertips, slowly poured a cup of warm tea, and gently pushed it in front of Gu Xiangsi. His movements were natural and considerate.

She laughed secretly, this boy would take the opportunity to show his affection.

She retracted her gaze and looked at Lu Wang, who had remained silent, and asked in a questioning tone, "What about you?"

Lu Wang tightened his grip on the teacup, a subtle hint of embarrassment crossed his face, and his voice softened, "Aunt Zhou, your question is indeed a bit abrupt."

Lu Wang paused, his gaze passing over the crowd and landing on Gu Xiangsi, his tone serious and almost solemn: "If she is willing, I will definitely treat her well for the rest of my life."

As soon as he finished speaking, a crisp "click" sound suddenly broke the silence in the box.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the ceramic cup that Fu Sinian was holding tightly was crushed by him. Tiny pieces of porcelain were scattered on the tablecloth, and blood was oozing from his fingertips.

"Young Master, you...your hand is bleeding!" Li Xiaoyao was so shocked that he stood up immediately, his voice a little tense, and hurriedly reached out to help him clean the porcelain pieces on his hand.

But Fu Sinian seemed not to hear anything. He just let his hands hang down, and dark red blood dripped from between his fingers onto the floor. There was a childish stubbornness in his eyes.

Gu Xiangsi looked at the blood that kept dripping and quickly stood up: "Mr. Fu, go clean it up first. I'll get you the medicine box."

"I'll get someone to get it! I'll go!" Li Xiaoyao was afraid of delaying the conversation, so he quickly ran out of the box, not forgetting to turn around and remind him, "Assistant Gu, please take Mr. Fu to the bathroom first!"

Gu Xiangsi nodded, stepped forward and gently took Fu Sinian's uninjured hand: "Go and treat the wound first."

Fu Sinian was like a grumpy but obedient child. He let her hold his hand and followed her to the bathroom. He didn't say a word the whole time, but his eyes were fixed on the hand she was holding.

Gu Xiangsi pulled Fu Sinian into the bathroom, quickly turned on the faucet, and rinsed her hands carefully with running cold water. She turned to look at her hand, which was still bleeding. The wound from the porcelain shard wasn't deep, but the edge was stained with fine porcelain debris, which needed to be cleaned first.

"Wait a minute, I'll help you rinse off the porcelain debris first." She said softly, holding his injured wrist, moving the wound to a place with slower water flow, letting the cold water gently pour over the surface of the wound. After confirming that the foreign matter on the surface was rinsed away, she turned off the faucet.

At this time, there was a knock on the bathroom door, and Li Xiaoyao came in with a medicine box. Gu Xiangsi nodded at him.

She took out disinfectant wipes from the medicine box and gently wiped the skin around the wound. She then took out individually packaged sterile cotton swabs and iodine, dipped them in iodine and applied them in a spiral pattern on the outside of the wound to disinfect it, deliberately avoiding repeatedly wiping the inside of the wound.

Then she cut a piece of sterile gauze that matched the size of the wound and applied it to the wound, and gently tied a bow on the edge of the gauze.

After finishing all these, Gu Xiangsi raised her eyes and met Fu Sinian's gaze, feeling a little helpless.

"Are you losing your patience? Aren't you falling into your mother's trap?"