Zhou Yanci said awkwardly, "This happened a long time ago. You arranged for Shen Mian to interview Ji Yu in her video, and that's why I brought them together. There's nothing between Shen Mian and me."
"So it seems this anonymous email address belongs to Ji Yu. Why would she send me this? She's the one who wronged me, why is she trying to ruin our relationship?"
Shang Wu probed subtly.
Zhou Yanci's face darkened, and she was getting restless. She forced a smile and said, "She's always been such a vicious person. She doesn't want others to have an easy time either, and she has no remorse. You wait, I'll teach her a lesson for you."
He left in a hurry after exchanging only a few words with Shang Wu, and had already made a phone call before even stepping out the door.
Even from a distance, Shang Wu could still hear Zhou Yanci's gritted teeth.
"Where is Ji Yuguan?!"
Shang Wu's gaze grew cold.
It seems that Ji Yu is bound to suffer some more.
She smiled and glanced down at the contract on the sofa.
I almost forgot about this.
Shang Wu hurriedly took the contract and headed to Dingfeng.
When she reappeared here, compared to the gossip last time, everyone's faces held a more enigmatic smile.
No one knew who Shang Wu was, but they all knew that she was the reason why Lu Rang, like an iron tree, finally blossomed and ended his eternal single life.
Everyone smiled and watched Shang Wu go upstairs.
Before Shang Wu even entered the elevator, they were staring at her so intently that she felt uncomfortable all over, as if something was wrong with her.
She knocked on the office door and went in.
Lu Rang stood by the window, watering his succulent.
Shang Wu coughed lightly and said, "Attorney Lu, I've come to deliver the contract to you."
Lu Rang lowered his eyes to tend to the succulents, and only turned around after watering them.
His gaze swept over Shang Wu's smooth forehead, her full, red lips that made it hard to look away, and her slender waist, his eyes darkening slightly.
"Just leave the contract there. Let me know if there's anything work-related."
"Alright then, goodbye." Shang Wu had nothing more to say and turned to leave.
She hadn't taken two steps when she heard an inhuman voice behind her.
“I need to remind you that our relationship is more than just a partnership. The issues and cases we are involved in are complex, and it requires a lot of mutual trust. I don’t want to see this kind of double-dealing again, as it will make me lose trust in you.”
Shang Wu was stunned. She turned around, completely bewildered: "I don't think I've done anything that would cause us to lose trust, have I? We've worked together, and I haven't treated you unfairly or caused you any trouble."
"Isn't today a crisis of trust?" Lu Rang frowned deeply.
Sunlight streamed through the blinds, casting shadows on his sharply defined face.
In his deep eyes, there was a mixture of light and shadow emotions.
Shang Wu looked at Lu Rang and asked softly, "Trust crisis? What do you mean?"
Lu Rang took a few steps closer to her, his tone full of suppressed displeasure.
"Your relationship with Zhou Yanci seems very good. Shouldn't you give me an explanation? What I did for you was to deal with him, but you turned around and were all lovey-dovey with him. How can I trust you and feel at ease doing things for you?"
As Shang Wu gazed at his increasingly cold and stern face, she felt inexplicably stifled.
Despite being forced to come into contact with Zhou Yanci every time, she felt extremely resistant and repulsed, but she had no choice but to temporarily lie low and endure because of her revenge plan.
She thought that Lu Rang was well aware of her unavoidable concessions.
Shang Wu gripped the strap of her bag tightly and said coldly, "Attorney Lu, where did you get the idea that Zhou Yanci and I were being affectionate? Didn't you see that it was he who unilaterally laid hands on me?"
She looked up: "In your eyes, am I the kind of person who wouldn't care even if my own brother was framed and imprisoned, just because I'm love-struck?"
Lu Rang paused.
A sense of grievance welled up in Shang Wu's heart, but she couldn't explain the source of this inexplicable emotion.
She took a deep breath: "You're right, we need to trust each other, so I only wanted you to be the branch's legal counsel. But it seems that Attorney Lu doesn't completely trust me."
Shang Wu twitched the corner of her lips, walked over, and picked up the contract.
“I think we should reconsider the collaboration. I don’t need a legal advisor who questions me.”
After saying that, she clutched the file folder and left without looking back.
It started raining outside sometime ago.
Winter rain is always particularly cold, and a chill seeps into Shangwu's overcoat.
She left in a hurry, without an umbrella, and dressed lightly.
Shang Wu wrapped her coat tighter, looked at the rain that was falling rapidly, and stepped into the rain, but was suddenly pulled back by someone.
A shadow fell over his head.
Shang Wu looked up and saw a black umbrella with a bright silver handle, and then Lu Rang's slender hand.
The scent of ink was subtly present in the surroundings.
She turned around in surprise.
Lu Rang gripped her wrist, his voice suddenly dropping to a low hue: "Just because I said a few words to you, you're not going to cooperate?"
An umbrella and a rain shower cast shadows over the two of them.
The rain was falling heavily all around, some of it hitting Shang Wu's shoulders.
Lu Rang glanced at her, then wrapped his arm around Shang Wu and pulled her into his embrace, leaning in to warn her: "The papers are already signed, there's no going back. Shang Wu, I can only be your legal counsel."
Shang Wu slowly raised her eyes, meeting his gaze that was so close to hers.
She pressed against Lu Rang's chest, feeling the slightly prickly fabric of his wool coat.
"You, how could you be like this? You made me angry and then came out to threaten me!"
Lu Rang stared intently at her: "Give me the contract."
Shang Wu's eyes flickered slightly: "Didn't you say you had a crisis of trust in me?"
Lu Rang looked at her.
Under his calm gaze, Shang Wu obediently handed over the file bag.
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