June 28th
Today was Du Yuanzhe's birthday. Liu Xu and Xiaopang called him early in the morning to wish him a happy birthday.
Chen Rongsan wanted to help him organize a birthday party, but Du Yuanzhe refused without hesitation. He was not interested in turning his birthday party into a business exchange meeting.
Du Yuanzhe went home at noon to celebrate his birthday with his family.
"Mom, I've already made an appointment with Lu Xuan and the others tonight. They said they want to get together to celebrate my birthday."
Chen Rongshan was not surprised: "Be careful and don't drink too much."
When children grow up, they don't like to celebrate their birthdays at home. Both Du Yuanwen and Du Yuanzhe are like this.
Du Yuanzhe nodded: "I am the God of Longevity, and I am the one who will give them wine."
Zhao Zhimeng said: "Lu Xuan has been very successful these past few months."
Du Yuanwen laughed and said, "He achieved his success by stepping on Jiang Chelin. With Jiang Chelin's personality, there's no way he would let him go."
Du Yuanzhe immediately asked: "Brother, have you received any news?"
Du Yuanwen: "You don't know yet? I guess Lu Xuan didn't tell you because he was afraid of being embarrassed. You can ask him tonight."
Zhao Zhimeng wondered, "Why don't I know?"
"You've been absorbed in work and pregnancy lately, so you don't have time to pay attention to what's going on in their circle. And it only happened in the past two days, so it hasn't spread yet."
The more Du Yuanzhe listened, the more curious he became, so he called Lu Xuan directly.
"Lu Xuan, I heard that Jiang Chelin took revenge on you?"
Lu Xuan was trying to pretend nothing had happened, but when he heard this his face suddenly turned pale: "Damn, which bastard betrayed me? They clearly promised to keep it a secret."
Du Yuanzhe: "Tell me what's going on."
Seeing that he couldn't keep it secret, Lu Xuan no longer concealed the truth and told Du Yuanzhe about it.
The main reason was that Lu Xuan was too low on guard. After successfully tricking Jiang Chelin once, he thought he was very powerful. He was still on guard against Jiang Chelin at first, but after a few months, when he saw that Jiang Chelin did not take any action at all, he forgot about it.
This guy recently got a girlfriend, whose appearance and personality completely met his aesthetic standards. Lu Xuan was very concerned about his girlfriend and often took her to various parties. Just half a month later, his girlfriend cheated on him at a party and was caught in bed by someone else.
Lu Xuan's face turned black on the spot, and he was so angry that he wanted to beat up the adulterer, but the adulterer was stronger than him, so he failed to beat him up and got beaten up instead. He lost all his face for a moment.
The eyes of the young masters at the party when looking at Lu Xuan suddenly changed. Lu Xuan had been showing off in front of them a lot in the past few months, and many people wanted to see him having fun.
Lu Xuan couldn't beat the man, so he could only hope that this embarrassing thing would not be spread. At that time, everyone swore to him that they would definitely not say anything nonsense, but who knew that this group of bastards would sell him out in the blink of an eye. This news was spreading little by little in the circle.
Du Yuanzhe asked, "Did Jiang Chelin find that woman?"
Lu Xuan gritted his teeth and said, "I have already checked. She is the lady of the club. Jiang Chelin specially let her play me. I thought I was lucky to meet someone who met my aesthetic taste. I wanted to slowly advance the relationship. But I haven't even kissed her yet, and she has slept with someone else."
Puff——
Du Yuanzhe couldn't help laughing. Lu Xuan was the worst. He thought he had met his destined girl, but it turned out to be all fake. He must have suffered a great shock to his heart.
Lu Xuan heard his laughter and said bitterly, "Yuanzhe, this is not very kind of you."
Du Yuanzhe said: "This thing is hard to guard against. Who is Jiang Chelin? He is determined to take revenge on you. You can't hide from him even if you want to."
Jiang Chelin is really cruel.
Lu Xuan stepped on him to become famous in the circle, so he made Lu Xuan lose face in the whole circle, and he made him lose face as an adult.
These young masters care a lot about their reputation, and it is the humiliation for their girlfriends to be caught in bed with someone else in public. Moreover, Lu Xuan still has some real feelings for them, so this hurts Lu Xuan even more.
This is the worst kind of murder!
Lu Xuan also knew this, and said calmly: "Jiang Chelin is indeed someone you can't mess with. I'd better stay away from him from now on."
He no longer had the intention to look down on Jiang Chelin.
Du Yuanzhe said, "Tit for tat. Jiang Chelin will not think of you anymore after he has taken revenge. You were implicated by me this time. I will compensate you someday."
Lu Xuan said, "You can't say that. You didn't force me at the beginning. I wanted to punish Jiang Chelin myself, and we succeeded. It's just that I was stupid and didn't realize I was deceived."
Lu Xuan was a little shallow after all, and couldn't tell whether a person was sincere to him or not. This showed that he had little experience and had never met someone who approached him on purpose. This could be regarded as a reminder for him.
Du Yuanzhe always felt a little guilty and said, "How about this, you tell me what type you like and I'll introduce you to a girlfriend."
Lu Xuan refused without even thinking: "Forget it, I've let it go. What's so good about women? They're not as good as wine."
Could it be that this guy has seen through the world?
Du Yuanzhe didn't want to provoke Lu Xuan any further, so he said a few words casually and hung up the phone.
Du Yuanwen looked at him and asked, "Have you asked everything clearly?"
Du Yuanzhe sighed: "I was careless. I always thought Jiang Chelin would only take revenge on me, but I didn't expect that he didn't intend to let Lu Xuan go. He actually thought of such a method. Lu Xuan must be scared by him."
Du Yuanwen said: "Jiang Chelin's current reputation is not undeserved. If he didn't have some tricks, how could so many people be afraid of him?"
"But this method is ultimately inferior, and can only be used to deal with a playboy like Lu Xuan."
Du Yuanwen looked at him jokingly: "You wouldn't fall for this trick, would you?"
Du Yuanzhe flatly denied: "Of course it's impossible."
Not to mention that he has someone in his heart, he is not as stupid as Lu Xuan who can't even tell whether the other person is sincere or not.
......
This afternoon, the Du family gathered together to celebrate Du Yuanzhe's birthday. Everyone gave him a birthday present. After receiving the presents, he had only one thought - could he have another birthday?
Du Yuanwen and his companions are really generous.
His father gave him a house in Yancheng, his mother gave him a high-end handmade suit, his eldest brother gave him a luxury sports car, and his eldest sister-in-law gave him a famous watch.
After just one birthday, his income has far exceeded the salary for his two movies. No wonder rich people don't take celebrities seriously. The two are really not in the same league.
Du Yuanzhe secretly asked Du Yuanwen: "Brother, will I be able to receive so many gifts in the future?"
Du Yuanwen smiled and ruthlessly broke his fantasy: "You're dreaming. Dad and I gave you these rewards because you performed well this year and learned to be filial to your parents."
Du Yuanzhe suddenly understood and said that the original owner had never received so many valuable gifts at once before.
Du Yuanwen said, "Your car is outside, just drive away when you leave."
Du Yuanzhe said excitedly: "Then I'll go out for a drive first."
Although he doesn't treat his sports car as his wife like other men, he still has a unique feeling for it.
What man doesn't want to experience the feeling of driving a sports car?
After Du Yuanzhe finished speaking, he took the key and went out. He soon saw the silver luxury sports car in the garage. The hood of the sports car was open at this time, and he could see the configuration inside the car at a glance. He didn't know much about cars, but he smelled the scent of money at the first sight of this car.
Du Yuanzhe opened the car door with the key and immediately closed the hood. It might be an actor's occupational disease, he didn't like being stared at. And based on the reputation of this car, the rate of people turning their heads when he drove it on the road was absolutely 100%.
Du Yuanzhe started the car and left the Du family's old house. As the car gradually accelerated, he was surprised by the speed of the sports car.
No wonder so many people like to drive a sports car. The feeling of smoothness is so great, and the silky speed makes them feel like they are driving at the speed of light.
When they were about to arrive at Qianying Entertainment Company, Du Yuanzhe called Xia Ningmi and said, "Qiqi, come down quickly. I'll take you for a ride."
Xia Ningmi didn't understand what was going on. When she left the company and saw the luxury sports car that had attracted countless people's attention as soon as it stopped, she immediately understood what Du Yuanzhe meant.
Xia Ningmi ignored everyone's gazes, opened the car door and got in. Du Yuanzhe immediately started the car and disappeared in a flash.
Du Yuanzhe breathed a sigh of relief: "I still underestimated the appeal of this car."
Xia Ningmi raised her eyebrows and looked at him: "Birthday present?"
Du Yuanzhe smiled and said, "Qiqi is really smart, my brother just gave it to me."
Xia Ningmi said: "If you like, I can also give you one."
She has a lot of luxury cars in her garage, but no sports cars.
Du Yuanzhe waved his hands and said, "One of these things is enough. I don't have a sports car collection habit."
"I want to take you for a ride today."
His first thought after getting the sports car was to take Xia Ningmi for a ride.
Xia Ning glanced at the roof and asked, "Just going for a ride like this?"
It would be a waste of the car's speed if you couldn't feel any wind at all.
Du Yuanzhe thought about it and said, "I'll open the roof when we get on the highway."
There is a road near Yancheng that is suitable for driving. Since we are planning to go for a drive, of course we should enjoy it to our heart's content.
......
While the two were enjoying the ride, someone had already posted a photo of Xia Ning getting into a luxury sports car online.
The luxury sports car and Xia Ningmi, these two highlights quickly attracted a large group of people to watch, and the popularity was getting higher and higher. It became a hot search an hour later. This was the time when people were slacking off at work, and they were extremely idle. The real-time comments increased at an alarming rate.
"Wow, it's so cool to see President Xia driving a sports car. I want to see how President Xia drives (love heart)"
"A sports car should be paired with a beautiful woman, and a luxury sports car should be paired with a stunning beauty"
"Alas, I can't afford it. To Mr. Xia, it's just a drop in the bucket."
The netizens who clicked in at the beginning didn't read the content carefully at all. They subconsciously thought that the sports car belonged to Xia Ningmi, so they praised it as usual and then envied the life of rich people.
It wasn't until an eyewitness at the time pointed out that the sports car was not Xia Ningmi's, but someone else drove the sports car to pick her up that the comments began to change, and the rate at which the comments increased became faster.
Netizens were curious about the incident and many were guessing who had picked up Xia Ningmi in a sports car.
Or to put it bluntly, they just wanted to know whether Xia Ningmi was in love.
Countless netizens went to the official Weibo account of Qianying Entertainment to inquire, and some fans even began to cry for the loss of their wives.
But they didn't know that the official Weibo account was also shocked. The staff who managed the official Weibo account asked the people around them: "Is President Xia in love?"
The man subconsciously said, "What a joke!"
This is simply impossible!
Until that person saw the trending search, he was shocked.
"Hey, this is President Xia?"
"I called specifically, and the front desk said that Mr. Xia had indeed left the company."
At first he even suspected that these were Xia Ningmi's twin sisters.
"We can't handle this matter. Report it to the secretary's office."
At this time, the Secretariat was also looking at the trending searches.
Yueyue said: "Wow, the president's mysterious boyfriend finally showed up."
"Where?"
Others gathered around, but they only saw the photo of Xia Ningmi and the sports car.
"Tsk, it's just a sports car, without a license plate, how can it be considered an appearance?"
Yueyue was unconvinced: "At least it showed up once."
"But this car is not cheap. With the shipping fee and other miscellaneous expenses, it would cost at least 50 million."
"I just don't know whether the president bought it for him or he bought it himself."
Cheng Yu said: "It was not bought by the president."
This kind of car must be ordered in advance. If Xia Ning bought it, she would definitely not be able to hide it from Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu knew that today was Du Yuanzhe's birthday and guessed that this was the birthday present he received.
Alas, it’s another day of being jealous of the rich second generation.
Yueyue was excited when she heard this, "Doesn't it mean that the CEO's boyfriend is very rich? There's a high chance that he and the CEO are well matched. Could it be that they are childhood sweethearts?"
"It is very likely that, given the president's personality, only someone who spends a long time with her can win her heart."
"But, is there really such a person around the president? Why don't we know about it?"
The secretary is the person who knows Xia Ningmi best.
Yueyue guessed, "We have only been with the CEO for two or three years. What if he has been abroad and just returned recently?"
It is possible that others think it makes sense.
Cheng Yu knew the truth but couldn't say a word and could only let them make wild guesses.
At this time, the public relations department called and asked how to deal with this matter.
......
On the other side, Du Yuanzhe also received a call from Liu Xu. He turned on the speaker and asked, "What's wrong with Brother Liu?"
Liu Xu was inexplicably emotional: "Did you go to the company to pick up President Xia?"
Du Yuanzhe said: "Yes, we are taking a ride."
Liu Xu sighed: "You could have just gone to the company to pick up President Xia, but why were you so high-profile and drove such an expensive supercar? Are you afraid that others won't notice you guys?"
Du Yuanzhe asked: "Did anyone take a photo?"
"Not only that, the trending search of President Xia being picked up by a supercar has gone viral, and everyone is looking for who was driving the car."
Du Yuanzhe said: "You don't have to worry about this. The car company will not disclose customer information. But did they take a picture of the license plate number?"
Liu Xu said: "That's not the case. It's a blessing in disguise."
It was just a casual photo taken by some curious people. They were not professional paparazzi and had no intention of taking a photo of the license plate number. Most importantly, they did not have the time. Du Yuanzhe only stopped in front of the company for a few seconds.
Du Yuanzhe: "If that's the case, then don't bother with it. After a while, they will just leave when they see that there's nothing exciting to watch."
Liu Xu warned: "Be careful."
He had just hung up the phone when Xia Ningmi's phone rang.
Xia Ning said calmly: "Don't pay any attention to it!"
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Du Yuanzhe asked: "Did the company ask you about this, too?"
Xia Ningmi nodded: "A group of people went to the official Weibo to ask who the owner of the sports car was."
Of course Xia Ningmi couldn't answer it, she had no obligation to answer netizens' questions.
Du Yuanzhe smiled bitterly: "I was not vigilant enough. This sports car is really too high-profile."
[It seems to be effective]
Xia Ning turned her head to look at him: "What are you planning?"
Just now she discovered that Du Yuanzhe was not as nervous as he appeared.
Du Yuanzhe was puzzled: "What?"
"Even people who don't know much about sports cars can tell that this car is worth a lot of money. You drove it to pick me up at the company, and you wouldn't have thought that you would be surrounded by people."
Xia Ning concluded: "You deliberately wanted to be photographed."
Du Yuanzhe's face froze, and he said helplessly: "Qiqi, can you please stop being so smart?"
"You want to make it public?"
Du Yuanzhe looked ahead and said, "Not yet, but it's still possible to declare sovereignty."
When recording "The Cottage in the Country", he first met Xia Ningmi's little fan, and then listened to Feng Mao and others gossiping about Xia Ningmi and Jiang Chelin.
It would be strange if he felt comfortable.
It was not the time for the two of them to be public yet, but they could still assert their sovereignty without showing their faces. He had been looking for an opportunity these days, and the sports car Du Yuanwen gave him just the chance.
Originally everything was going as he had imagined, but in the blink of an eye, Xia Ningmi saw through it. He really couldn't hide it from Xia Ningmi.
Xia Ning looked away: "You can tell me in advance, and I will cooperate with you."
Du Yuanzhe said: "I can complete it alone."
The main reason was that he had always teased Xia Ningmi for being jealous, but then he realized that he was not much better, which made him embarrassed to talk too much to Xia Ningmi.
This was just a small episode. Xia Ningmi didn't care about Du Yuanzhe's assertion of sovereignty. They were a couple, and even if Du Yuanzhe wanted to make it public, Xia Ningmi would cooperate with him.
......
Du, General Manager's Office
The assistant knocked on the door and walked in, looking odd, and said, "Boss Du, take a look at this."
The assistant showed Du Yuanwen the photo that was on the trending search.
Du Yuanwen recognized Xia Ningmi at a glance, and then he saw the sports car he had just given to Du Yuanzhe.
Although the license plate number was not captured in the photo, how could Du Yuanwen not recognize the gift that he had personally given out?
I took another look at the Weibo post and was shocked.
I couldn't help but ask the assistant: "Is this the car I asked you to order?"
He began to suspect that he might have made a mistake.
The assistant nodded affirmatively: "This is it."
The assistant picked up the car himself; he was more familiar with it than Du Yuanwen.
The most important thing is that there are only two supercars of this brand in the entire Yancheng, so it is impossible to make a mistake.
When Du Yuanwen got a positive answer, he inexplicably recalled the scene of Xia Ningmi and Du Yuanzhe dancing at Mr. Jiang's birthday banquet, which shocked a group of people at that time.
At that time, Du Yuanzhe seemed to have mentioned that he was dating Xia Ningmi, but Du Yuanwen did not believe it. He knew his brother's ability very well and thought that no matter how blind Xia Ningmi was, she would not fall in love with him.
Now it seems that Xia Ningmi is really blind.
Du Yuanwen waved his hand to let his assistant go out, took out his cell phone and subconsciously wanted to call Du Yuanzhe, but he hung up as soon as he dialed the number, and then called Zhao Zhimeng instead.
"Wife, something big has happened."
A minute later, Zhao Zhimeng walked into the general manager's office.
"Are you telling the truth?"
Du Yuanwen showed her the photo.
Zhao Zhimeng said in a daze: "My little brother has grown up."
Du Yuanwen was very puzzled: "Why would Xia Ningmi fall for Yuanzhe?"
This is really hard to understand.
Zhao Zhimeng rolled his eyes at him and said, "How can you look down on your own brother like that? Yuanzhe is so handsome and he is a clean man. What's wrong with him?"
Du Yuanwen asked, "You know his personality. Sometimes he's like a child who never grows up. Can Xia Ningmi stand his weird personality?"
Du Yuanwen imagined the scene in his mind and shuddered, feeling it was too disillusioning.
Zhao Zhimeng smiled and said, "Different people have different tastes. Xia Ningmi is such a strong person, so maybe she likes someone with a good temper like Yuanzhe. If she chooses someone with Jiang Chelin's personality, the two of them will quarrel eight times a day."
In this regard, Du Yuanzhe has a really good temper.
Du Yuanwen asked, "Should I still call and ask?"
Zhao Zhimeng shook his head: "Don't ask, Yuanzhe is not a child, there is no reason for him to report his relationship to his family. If he wants to talk, he can talk. If he doesn't want to talk, we will pretend that we don't know."
Du Yuanwen looked at the trending searches online and said with a smile, "Given how high-profile he is now, I don't think he can keep it a secret for long."
Zhao Zhimeng suddenly thought of something and asked quickly, "Will Mom recognize this car?"
Du Yuanwen was stunned for a moment and said, "Probably not, Mom has never seen it."
This car had always been kept in the garage by Du Yuanwen and was only given to Du Yuanzhe today. Chen Rongsan never drives herself when she goes out, and she would never enter the garage without a reason.
Zhao Zhimeng breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. If Mom knew that Yuanzhe was in love, she would probably call him immediately to get to the bottom of it."
When Du Yuanwen thought of Chen Rongshan's attitude when she mentioned Xia Ningmi before, his face turned a little strange. He inexplicably felt that his home would be lively in the future.
......
Du Yuanzhe took Xia Ningmi out for a ride and did not return to Huahu Apartment until four o'clock.
This car has become a hot topic, and he will not be driving it in the short term, and plans to let it gather dust in the garage for a while.
"Qiqi, how are you going to celebrate my birthday?"
Du Yuanzhe lied to the Du family that he was celebrating his birthday with Lu Xuan, but in fact he was setting aside his evening time to spend it with Xia Ningmi.
Xia Ning asked, "Don't you want to eat longevity noodles?"
Du Yuanzhe was stunned. He was just saying it casually at the time, but he didn't expect Xia Ningmi to really believe it.
But longevity noodles are also simple to make, just order a bowl of noodles and you don’t have to worry about Xia Ningmi making some dark dishes.
He had just breathed a sigh of relief, but after hearing Xia Ningmi's next words, his heart began to tighten again.
Xia Ning said, "I looked it up online. Longevity noodles are just noodles. There are detailed instructions online. It should be easy to make according to the instructions."
She originally planned to find Cheng Yu to practice a few times, but after reading the tutorial, she felt that it was okay not to practice in advance. To make longevity noodles, she did not need to heat oil, cut meat slices of the right thickness, or add various seasonings in appropriate amounts. She only needed to knead the dough and then pull the noodles into noodles little by little. It looked very simple.
Du Yuanzhe's heart shuddered when he heard her words, and he twitched his lips and said, "Qiqi, do you know how to knead dough?"
Xia Ning said: "The tutorial has the specific ratio of flour and water. You just need to spend some time kneading it into a dough."
Obviously, Xia Ningmi is very confident in her learning ability.
Du Yuanzhe didn't want to undermine her self-confidence, so he said weakly, "Then I'll wait to eat the longevity noodles you make."
At this moment, he wanted to slap himself twice. He knew that Xia Ningmi would take his words to heart, but he still spoke nonsense.
He no longer had any extravagant expectations about the taste of the noodles, he only hoped that Xia Ningmi could make the noodles successfully and not undermine her confidence in her learning ability that she had built up since she was a child.
Xia Ningmi was very mobile. As soon as she got home, she took out the electronic scale she had used before, weighed out the flour and water she would need, and then found a basin to start kneading the dough.
She must have memorized the entire tutorial again, and she even knew to add water little by little. Once all the water was added, she began to knead the dough.
Du Yuanzhe watched her movements and guessed that she should have memorized the three tips for kneading dough - light noodles, light bowl and light hands.
But unfortunately, this is not something that can be done just by knowing it.
Du Yuanzhe once thought that kneading dough was easy, but in fact he was unable to knead the dough into a smooth dough the first time he tried.
And now Xia Ningmi was repeating her previous failure, and she also failed to follow the Three Lights formula.
A few minutes later, Xia Ningmi looked at the ugly dough in the basin and fell into deep thought, with quite a bit of dough still stained on her hands.
The dough she kneaded was not smooth at all, and she didn't even knead all the flour in the basin. The bottom of the dough was stuck to the bottom of the basin and could not be kneaded smoothly at all.
In short, it is far from what is said in the tutorial.
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