23 023 Discover the truth
◎Acting skills.◎
Jiang Xiu obviously wanted to give her some face, and the man directly dragged a large suitcase over, and after opening it, there were several beautifully shaped boxes.
Like opening a present, when all the boxes were opened, there were rows of jade ornaments inside, including bracelets, necklaces, earrings, etc. The necklaces were divided into bead strings and pendant types.
"Last time, Mrs. Lu picked out a set of imperial green. This time, we also brought other colors. There are boxwood green and apple green with a hint of yellow, as well as olive green and gray green with a hint of blue. Of course, there are also purple models, and spring colors with mixed colors..."
This jade jeweler was obviously very good at speaking and spoke clearly. He introduced things while guiding with his hands so that Ren Lu could see clearly.
"Don't look at other colors, I want the imperial green one. It's a classic that never goes out of style." Jiang Xiu made the decision right away.
Ren Lu did not object. In fact, she was not very interested in jadeite. In comparison, she preferred diamonds.
But as Jiang Xiu said, no matter whether she wears it or not, as Mrs. Lu, she must have it, and she must have the most expensive one, otherwise she can't afford to wear it.
After Jiang Xiu said this, many boxes were closed, and only a few were pushed in front of him.
You can tell at first glance that the imperial green bracelet is worth the money, and the quality of the jade is excellent.
“This is the king of kings green, our trump card…”
Ren Lu almost fell asleep listening to these recommendations, so she simply tried them one by one.
In the end, as if he was in a dilemma, he said, "Mom, how about you help me choose? I think they're all good."
There was also chaos in the barrage, some people were just watching the fun and felt enlightened, while others were complaining about Ren Lu.
——Ahhh, what a green bracelet! It looks so expensive!
——I’m a hand model, wear it for me!
——I’m also a hand model. I can’t show you that feeling by wearing it. Please show it to me!
——Sister, what are you doing? I bought you jadeite, but you pretended to be uninterested.
——It’s so funny. A secretary who got promoted now acts like he has no material desires. Does anyone believe it?
However, this statement was broken before it could gain momentum.
"You, you really don't have any interest in jadeite. You still like gemstones, right?" Jiang Xiu saw through her at a glance.
Ren Lu smiled sheepishly: "Mom still understands me."
The style of the barrage has changed again.
——Tsk, mangosteen can’t eat fine bran, but you still picked it!
——You don’t even like jade, tsk tsk.
——What got in here? Why is it so sour? Did someone spill the vinegar?
——This is just pure showing off of wealth, there’s nothing to see. It won’t work without Lu Sinian here, as other couples have already hugged each other.
"Since they are all similar, let's keep these." Jiang Xiu pointed at the bracelet that Ren Lu had just tried on, waved his hand, and made the final decision.
"Ah? Mom, you don't need that."
"Of course you don't need it anymore. These ones have good water content, keep them. Si Nian said that he doesn't like incomplete jade jewelry, they must be complete sets. Last time you picked a jade pendant necklace, so this time you can keep a string of beads." Jiang Xiu didn't even blink and kept another piece.
"Mom, that's enough, that's enough. I'm not an octopus. I can't wear so many!"
"If you can't wear it, just watch it. We were supposed to record a show today, but he went to work overtime and left you alone. You have to make him compensate you!"
Jiang Xiu was standing up for her and Ren Lu didn't know what to say. She could only let her choose for herself. In the end, she was left with seven or eight pieces of jade jewelry. The jade jeweler did not give a price in the live broadcast room, but some netizens had already guessed it. When they announced the number, it immediately attracted countless exclamations.
"When will he be back? Or you can go to the company to visit him?"
When Jiang Xiu said this, she glanced at the camera with some worry. It was obvious that she had been surfing the Internet recently and had already known about the bloody relationship between Lu Sinian and Ren Lu. When the marketing accounts came out to lead the rhythm, and there were netizens who liked to watch the fun and add fuel to the fire, it would be hard to predict which direction the wind would blow. Who knows how they would make fun of Ren Lu.
"No, he speaks very quickly and it won't take too long." Ren Lu waved her hand to refuse.
Jiang Xiu didn't force it anymore, but as if to make up for Ren Lu, she kept praising her daughter-in-law in front of the camera. In her words, Ren Lu was simply the best woman in the world.
In the president's office of Shengtian Building, Lu Sinian sat in front of the computer. A silent video was playing on the screen, which showed what happened in the Lu family's back garden a few days ago.
Ren Lu lost her temper at Madam Lu and smashed all the tea sets on the table. She even went crazy, and everything was captured very clearly.
Including the later part, Lu Hui and Jiang Xiuquan came over and comforted Ren Lu.
The video was silent, but he watched it with great interest, and occasionally when he came across an interesting scene, he would replay it.
Chief Secretary Liu Cheng stood diagonally to the side of the computer, not daring to make a sound.
As time passed, the suffocating feeling around him became stronger and stronger, and cold sweat began to appear on Liu Cheng's forehead.
Finally, he couldn't help it and took the initiative to speak: "Mr. Lu, these surveillance videos have been deleted a long time ago. Please let me find a hacker to restore them. For now, only the images are available, and the audio will be restored in a few days."
"No need." Lu Sinian refused without even thinking: "It's meaningless."
He started playing it again, as if he was enjoying some highlight reel.
"How many years have you worked with Ren Lu?" He pressed the pause button and suddenly started the interview.
Liu Cheng swallowed and his mind started working quickly.
"Three years. My wife has been your secretary for three years."
"Have you ever seen her go crazy?" Lu Sinian asked again.
Liu Cheng suddenly felt a great deal of pressure. What kind of question was this? Why was he asked? He was just an insignificant passerby and really didn't want to get involved in their relationship problems.
"No, my wife has always been very thoughtful, prudent and good at dealing with people." He thought for a long time before answering with gritted teeth.
The main thing was that Mr. Lu remained silent, obviously waiting for his answer, not even giving him a chance to escape.
"Yeah, people who are good at dealing with people are also good actors." The man sighed.
After he finished speaking, Ren Lu happened to look up on the screen and looked at the old lady sinisterly. He quickly clicked pause and carefully appreciated this expression for half a minute.
It was obviously an expression that could easily turn into a ferocious one, and it made the whole person look very gloomy, but Ren Lu managed to hold up this face, and even made his lips and teeth look rosy and white. This side of him that had never been shown in front of him actually made him feel somewhat fresh.
"It would be a pity if she didn't become a female star. She's already crazy to this extent, but her expression doesn't break." Lu Sinian pressed the play button again, tapping the table with his fingers, feeling a little agitated all over.
It's a pity that she never shows this expression in front of him, otherwise he would definitely beat her up so hard that she couldn't get out of bed.
Liu Cheng was still standing there as a background board. It was he who asked someone to restore the deleted surveillance video of the Lu family’s old house, and he was also the one who contacted the hacker.
He clicked on the video out of curiosity, but when he saw the first half, he was so scared that he turned it off. This obviously involved a big secret of the Lu family, and President Lu seemed to know nothing about it. He had to investigate it himself. It was obvious that he was kept in the dark.
This was really too exciting. He was afraid that knowing too much would be of no benefit, so he didn't dare to think more divergently.
Just at this moment, the landline on the table rang. It was an internal call.
Lu Sinian pressed the speakerphone button and it turned out to be a call from the public relations department.
"Mr. Lu, the public opinion online is not right. Some people are leading people to believe that you and your wife are a platonic couple, and they are even comparing you to Xu Shiqing and her husband to highlight how close they are. My department just stepped in to try to guide them back, but the effect was minimal. Your wife is live streaming, so we can't communicate in time. What do you think we should do?"
The PR department actually embellished the story a bit, and the internet simply said that they were a "sexless couple", which made it look very dull.
"Ren Lu is in charge of the variety show." Lu Sinian threw down these six words and hung up.
His words seemed quite cold, short of directly stating that it had nothing to do with him.
The man looked at the screen, where the whole family was surrounding Ren Lu to comfort her, and couldn't help but sneer.
"You love acting so much, let me see how you perform a monologue."
"Call all departments to a meeting. I want to see someone in five minutes." Lu Sinian gave the order directly.
Liu Cheng rushed out as if he was escaping. He simply couldn't stay there any longer. Although Mr. Lu's words just now were calm and his emotions were stable, they revealed a sense of calm before the storm.
He always felt that something big was happening.
***
In the Lu family's old house, a staff member hid behind the camera and gestured to Ren Lu.
Ren Lu understood what he meant and made up an excuse to ask Jiang Xiu to stay in the live broadcast room, and she left the camera.
"Mrs. Lu, it's almost time. We can move and join the other guests."
"Okay, I'll contact him."
Ren Lu called but couldn't get through. She couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. Under normal circumstances, Lu Sinian would give the green light for her call.
Unless it was a special shareholders' meeting, he would answer her calls during ordinary meetings. For example, during the last live broadcast, he was in a meeting with village cadres and did not miss her call.
She called the secretariat again and soon got a reply that President Lu was in an important meeting and she didn't know when it would end.
"Okay, thank you, you have worked hard." Ren Lu thanked politely.
But the moment she hung up the phone, the smile on her face disappeared, her brows slightly furrowed, and her mind began to review what had happened recently.
Last night she fed Lu Sinian well, and their sexual relationship was extremely stable. The state of their marriage was that there was no emotion and it was all based on physical pleasure, so there shouldn't be any problem.
But something is wrong now.
The two major things she had done recently were to make him make a will and to push Meihua to reveal her pregnancy.
But he was willing to make the will, and the fact that Meihua was pregnant and made him a father was kept secret by Lu Hui, so Lu Sinian was still completely unaware of it.
Is it Lu Sinian's extraordinary career ambition that is at work, is he really working, or is he simply going crazy?
Vicky rushed over and immediately showed her the increasingly lively public opinion on the Internet.
"A girl from the PR department secretly leaked the news to me. Half an hour ago, they asked Mr. Lu how to deal with it, and Mr. Lu said he would not interfere."
Ren Lu sighed lightly. Okay, the question just now was solved. Lu Sinian didn't ignore her because of his career, but something made him unhappy, so he started to act like a troublemaker.
The word "drama queen" is often used to describe women, and rarely to describe domineering bosses, but Lu Sinian is actually quite capable of acting like a drama queen.
Every time she does something naughty, she needs to be coaxed, otherwise she will be in trouble.
"What did Xu Shiqing and Peng Hongyu do in the live broadcast room? Why is public opinion leaning towards them again?"
She was not panicked at all. After all, she knew Lu Sinian too well, and it was quite easy to appease him. What concerned her more was the couple Xu Shiqing. They were the male and female protagonists. Ren Lu did not want to be like Lu Sinian, a victim who was stepped on by others to get to the top.
"They were playing an intimate interactive game in the live broadcast room. They competed with each other, and the winner asked the loser to do something. They started by holding hands, hugging, hugging from behind, and then hugging each other like a princess. Now they are kissing each other on the forehead. The atmosphere was very sweet, and it was a pure show of affection. The audience just loved it."
"But they are showing off their affection, why are they still stepping on you and Mr. Lu? I now suspect that they are the ones who created this online propaganda, otherwise how could it be such a coincidence? After the last live broadcast in the village, they said that you are a contract couple and they are the true love. It's like a dog-skin plaster that can't be shaken off!"
Vicky was very dissatisfied with the two of them. She often contacted the public relations department and was very sensitive to online public opinion. Therefore, the first suspect was Xu Shiqing.
"There's no need to guess. As the vested interests, they must be the driving force behind the scenes. But it's very simple to reverse the public opinion on the Internet. All we need to do is let everyone see how loving Mr. Lu and I are." Ren Lu said in a relaxed tone.
"You're right, but Mr. Lu can't come for the time being. Every meeting like this takes a long time, and there have even been records of it lasting eight hours. I'm afraid he won't be able to make it in time for the live broadcast. Do you want to go to the company in person to invite Mr. Lu? If I had known that my wife asked you to visit the set just now, I should have not refused." Vicky was very anxious.
Now is the live broadcast time. If Ren Lu goes to the company, the camera will follow her.
He had just rejected Jiang Xiu's proposal, and now he changed his mind and went again. Even if he finally allowed President Lu to record the program together, I'm afraid the online public opinion would have something to say about it, and it wouldn't be able to change the situation much.
Ren Lu patted her shoulder and comforted her: "Don't worry, I don't have to do anything, someone will support me."
Vicky opened her mouth and asked, "Who supports you?"
However, after asking the question, I realized that what I said was extremely inappropriate, but I couldn't take it back and could only stand there awkwardly.
"You'll find out in a moment."
Ren Lu returned to the live broadcast room and began to take everyone to visit the internal structure of the old house, while Jiang Xiu came to ask Vicky what had happened.
After Vicky finished her story, Jiang Xiu's face immediately turned cold, and she gritted her teeth and said, "This little bastard failed at the critical moment. I'll hunt him down!"
She called immediately, but as expected, the call didn't go through.
But she quickly found someone else to beat her son, and when she couldn't find him, she went to look for his father.
The largest office on the top floor was filled with people. Lu Sinian sat in the main seat, listening to reports from the heads of various departments.
Just at this moment, there was a knock on the office door and everyone was startled.
Who would dare to offend the boss at a time like this?
All the employees in Shengtian Building know that President Lu should not be disturbed when he is in a meeting. Otherwise, it would be like touching a tiger's butt and he would be killed sooner or later.
Lu Sinian frowned, but before he could say anything, the door was pushed open. It was obvious that the person knocking on the door was of high status and came in without his permission.
"I'll arrange it. There are other things waiting for you to deal with." Lu Hui walked in directly.
"Mr. Lu, this meeting is very important. It involves the last rural reconstruction project." Lu Sinian was obviously reluctant to leave.
"Renovation projects must be adjusted in a timely manner and advanced slowly. You can't achieve everything in one go. Ren Lu is still waiting for you, and you left your wife alone in the live broadcast room. That's very ungraceful." Seeing that he was still hesitating here, Lu Hui didn't care about the presence of outsiders. He didn't even look for excuses to whitewash the situation and just told the truth.
At the same time, because of this, it also feels more oppressive.
"Get out." Lu Sinian raised his chin and threw out two words coldly.
The supervisors who were still standing there in a daze all left quickly.
Most of them were regretting in their hearts. It was a pity that they didn't get to see the big drama later, the father and son duel over their daughter-in-law?
Wow, if this title were put online, it would definitely get a lot of clicks.
Only the Lu family father and son were left in the office. Lu Sinian said slowly, "I didn't expect that she could ask you to be her lobbyist."
"It's not her, your mother asked me to come. If you don't want me to chase you next time, just answer Xiuxiu's call." Lu Hui corrected.
"Mom asked you to come, and you came? Ren Lu is just an ordinary person with no background or support. It's okay that Ms. Jiang is emotional, but Dad, why are you also following her? Does she have something on you?" Lu Sinian raised his eyebrows and teased half-seriously.
"Like you said, Ren Lu is just an ordinary person. What leverage could I have on her? I respect Xiu Xiu. Listen to my advice. My wife is more important than the project." Lu Hui interrupted him without seeing anything unusual.
Lu Sinian sneered, said nothing more, picked up his coat and left the meeting room.
What the old man said sounded better than what he sang, and he almost believed it.
Ren Lu finally received a call from Lu Sinian. The two met at the door of the old house, got on the program crew's car, and rushed to their destination.
Lu Sinian had a cold face and just nodded when he saw Ren Lu. He seemed to have returned to his cold and aloof look as in the first episode.
【Author’s words】
I've been quite busy these past two days, and I'm not in a very good state. I'll update more when I have some free time in a few days. Please forgive me~
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