Wen Shu was taken aback and looked at Li Duo.
"Mr. Li, what do you mean?"
"Didn't you say this to express your gratitude? In that case, what about my share?" Li Duo asked expressionlessly.
Wen Shu stared at him wide-eyed. "Mr. Li, are you joking?"
"Who's joking with you?" Li Duo asked. "Yesterday, besides Attorney Zhao, I wasn't there? What? Am I not worthy?"
Wen Shu pursed her lips. "You've misunderstood. I just made some home-style dishes because I was afraid you wouldn't like them..."
“I can eat it.” Li Duo held out his hand to her. “Give it to me. You’re not going to tell me you didn’t prepare any, are you?”
Wen Shu stood frozen in place for a long while before finally speaking, "I really wasn't prepared..."
Li Duo's face darkened. "You were eyeing Lawyer Zhao last time, just because he's young and handsome?"
"President Li, you misunderstand. I know my own limitations. How could someone as outstanding as Attorney Zhao possibly be interested in a woman like me?"
Wen Shu smiled slightly, "Those who are willing to get close to me are just playing around with me."
Li Duo paused for a moment, then said, "Take that food back."
Wen Shu looked at him, "Mr. Li, are you joking? Then I thank Attorney Zhao. If it weren't for him, I don't even want to think about what would have happened to me."
Li Duo approached, lowered his head slightly, and looked at her face. "Give it to me. If you didn't prepare one, then that one should be mine too!"
Wen Shu bit her lower lip and glared at him fiercely, "President Li, why are you forcing me to do something I don't want to do?"
“Because I’m your boss, if you’re going to thank someone, you should thank me!” Li Duo said. “Sending them homemade food will only make them misunderstand that you have ulterior motives!”
“Attorney Zhao isn’t narcissistic, and besides, I’ve already explained things clearly.” Wen Shu didn’t want to argue with him: “Mr. Li, I have something to attend to, I’ll be leaving now…”
With that, she turned and left.
The door was pulled open a crack, but Li Duo quickly pressed it down, "Wen Shu!"
He trapped her between himself and the door, saying, "You don't think that just because you've broken up with me, you can start dating one of my company's employees, do you?"
Wen Shu looked up: "President Li, you just said that office romances are forbidden. If I want to date an employee of Li's Group, I will resign first. May I leave now?"
"Take my food back!"
"That's not yours!"
“Wen Shu,” his gaze fell on her lips. She pursed her lips tightly, her face tense, showing that she was not happy at the moment.
Without realizing it, he had become so knowledgeable about her micro-expressions.
Li Duo began, "If I wanted, even you could be mine..."
Wen Shu's pupils contracted. "President Li, what exactly are you trying to do?"
"Take your lunchbox back!"
Wen Shu glared at him fiercely, "I'll go get it!"
Two minutes later, Wen Shu came over, took the lunchbox, put it on the table, and asked expressionlessly, "Can I leave now?"
Li Duo said, "Okay."
Wen Shu turned and left.
Li Duo sat behind his desk, his gaze fixed on the lunchbox.
It was washed very clean. When I opened it, the food inside looked beautiful, and it was accompanied by a pair of very pretty chopsticks and a spoon.
That kind of dedication is obvious at a glance.
Li Duo narrowed his eyes, and that sour feeling rose up little by little again.
There really is a difference between food made with care and food made without care.
"Mr. Li, have you had lunch yet?"
Jin Chao didn't receive a call from Li Duo at noon, and he was a little puzzled. Could it be that Li Duo went to the hospital to accompany Miss Lin?
Li Duo glanced at him and said, "I ate it."
Jin Chao breathed a sigh of relief. "The tripartite meeting at Fengxing Plaza will start on time at 1 p.m. The vehicles have been arranged. If we go now, we will have half an hour to rest."
Li Duo stood up: "Go now."
His gaze fell on the beautiful and clean lunchbox. After finishing the food, he felt half of the pent-up frustration in his heart was relieved.
He now knows that he simply cannot bear to see her being affectionate with other men.
As for the reason, Li Duo had already thought of it for himself: it was just his male pride that prevented him from allowing a woman he had slept with to get involved with his employees.
It was awkward and uncomfortable.
Office romances are absolutely forbidden!
A silver Bentley drove by on the road; it was lunchtime and there was some traffic congestion ahead.
Li Duo turned his head unintentionally and suddenly saw Wen Shu and Lawyer Zhao sitting face to face inside the transparent glass wall of a roadside shop, eating and chatting.
"parking!"
Li Duo suddenly spoke up, startling Jin Chao. "President Li?"
He followed Li Duo's gaze and felt a chill run down his spine. Oh no, what is President Li doing...?
Li Duo reached out to open the car door and get out.
Jin Chao hurriedly interjected, "President Li, Miss Wen was just having a normal meal with her colleagues!"
He stared at Li Duo with slight nervousness. "You're the boss. If you go over there now, it will only make them nervous. There's no need for that!"
Li Duo paused, and the car started moving at the right moment, and Jin Chao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Duo took out his phone. "Where are you?"
Wen Shu found his call inexplicable; it was lunchtime, so of course she was eating.
"Mr. Li, I'm eating."
"one person?"
Wen Shu replied, "It's just me and Attorney Zhao."
Li Duo was momentarily bewildered. She hadn't hidden anything at all; she had directly said that she was having dinner with Attorney Zhao.
He snatched the food box she had prepared for Attorney Zhao, so she directly invited Attorney Zhao out for dinner.
She was so frank, so completely honest, because she was no longer his...
"Mr. Li, is there anything else?" Wen Shu asked calmly on the other end of the phone. "If it's work-related, I'll come to you after I finish cleaning your clothes."
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