Chapter 25 Why is he here?
Mu Yuan was speechless.
After a long while, he said with some confidence: "I'm afraid of disturbing you at work."
His tone was indifferent: "Given our relationship, it doesn't constitute a disturbance."
Mu Yuan choked.
Now that things have come to this, it would be too deliberate to insist on leaving.
She curled her fingertips lightly: "I know..."
He went back to looking at the documents.
Mu Yuan quietly watched him concentrate, feeling complicated.
Before, she had never felt that being in the same space with him would be so...restricted.
Even breathing is unnatural.
What I didn’t expect was that lunch would be hairy crabs.
The moment she saw Han Zhuduan come in, she was stunned.
The crab triggered her memory.
Huo Min was running and breathing heavily, and all the noises of him rushing to the lab to find her came through the microphone and reached her ears.
And now.
Huo Min sat opposite her, slowly peeling the crab legs. The crab shell was very crispy, and the thick crab meat was exposed when it was broken.
The next second, the peeled crab meat was in her bowl.
Mu Yuan hurriedly said: "No, no, you can eat it yourself."
He stared at her, his eyes showing deep emotions: "I promised to give you some hairy crabs, so eat them."
Mu Yuan was stunned: "You don't want to eat?"
He lowered his eyes, continued peeling, and said calmly: "It's all yours."
He was halfway through peeling when a piece of peeled crab paste appeared in the bowl.
He paused and raised his eyes.
She looked at him nervously, then looked away uncomfortably, whispering, "It's too much. I can't finish it. Let's eat together."
His deep, dark eyes stayed on her face for a few seconds, and he said hoarsely: "Hmm."
Finish lunch.
Huo Min sat back at his desk to eat again. It seemed that he had no plans to take a lunch break.
Mu Yuan glanced at the document he was reading, which was not hers.
Then we have to wait.
She sat upright on the sofa.
Without even looking up, he said, "There's a bed inside. You can take a nap."
"No need, I'll wait for you to finish reading it." Even if there was a bed, it was the bed he had slept in.
Go sleep in his bed...
Mu Yuan couldn't help but recall the ambiguous scene yesterday when he lost control and kissed her.
Suddenly, my heartbeat quickened.
She never thought that there would be any behavior beyond friendship between her and Huo Min.
That's why my mood has been difficult to calm down until now.
He looked at her intently: "Dislike?"
Mu Yuan said politely, "It's not that I dislike you, it's that I'm really not sleepy. Besides, if I fall asleep and you happen to have finished reading and want to ask me a question, that wouldn't be good. I'd better sit and wait for you."
Huo Min said meaningfully: "Then you really have to wait."
"It's okay, you go ahead and do your work, I'll wait for you."
Two hours later, Mu Yuan realized that his words "we really have to wait" were not just ordinary waiting.
Huo Min turned over the documents in his hand one by one, but did not touch hers.
The employees outside should have finished their lunch break by now, right?
She stayed in Huo Min's office for almost the entire morning...
No one should have noticed, right?
"Can you get me a glass of water?"
Mu Yuan raised her eyes when she heard the voice, only to find that his gaze had fallen on her face without her noticing.
"Okay." She stood up and reached for the kettle on the coffee table.
The kettle turned out to be empty.
Doesn't this have to be poured out?
Mu Yuan hesitated for a moment, but then turned around and looked at Huo Min again, looking down at the documents.
Helplessly, she could only open the door with the kettle in hand.
She immediately felt the gazes from all directions poking at her face... and the kettle in her hand.
She kept her face calm, as if filled with water, letting the gaze shift from her face to her back, and then she closed the door with her backhand.
Everyone at the workstation was talking about it: "Hey, isn't that the beautiful Engineer Mu from the L lab? Why is she here?", "Yeah, and she's been in there for a long time. She didn't even come out at noon? And she even had lunch with Mr. Huo?", "Maybe she wants to report her new research results to Mr. Huo, otherwise why would Engineer Mu come in person? It seems like the research results are very important. She even used her lunch break to report."
Someone curiously asked Han Zhu: "Hey, Han Zhu, do you know why Mu Gong is here?"
Han Zhu smiled politely and elegantly: "Mu Gong must have come for something."
But as to why he came, he really didn't know.
After all, this young lady is here for the first time.
Even he was surprised.
In the past, she was cautious and avoided any possibility of appearing in public with Huo Min.
Mu Yuan poured him a glass of water, and he said calmly: "You drink too, there is another cup in the drawer."
She opened the drawer he mentioned and found that the two cups were a set, one black and one white, and the one Huo Min used was black.
Staring at her back, he calmly emphasized, "The cup is new, no one has used it."
The new cup is placed in the drawer. I guess he wants it as a spare cup?
She put the cup back, turned around and chuckled: "No need, this is your spare cup, you can keep it. There are disposable cups outside, I'll get them..."
"The cup is yours."
Facing her surprised expression, a hint of sadness flashed across his eyes, and he whispered, "I bought it for you originally."
He said this, which almost made Mu Yuan's CPU burn out, and then lowered his head to look at the document again.
It's quite irresponsible, lighting a fire and then leaving it alone.
She washed the white cup in a daze and took a sip of warm water. Her dry throat was soothed, but her brain still froze.
Mu Yuan had been gone for so long that even the deputy dean came to ask: "Du Miao, why haven't you come back yet?"
Mu Yuan reported truthfully: "Boss Huo said that the finance department reported that our funding request for last quarter was too high. He asked me to sit here and wait, as he wants to ask me some questions."
Deputy Dean: [Yeah! Then I'll go over there?!]
Mu Yuan hesitated for two seconds and agreed: [Come over here too, I'm worried I might give the wrong answer later.]
Vice Dean: [I'll be there soon, you hold on first!]
The deputy dean arrived very quickly.
Huo Min's gloomy gaze shifted from the deputy dean to Mu Yuan.
He scoffed inexplicably, his icy voice shrouded in mist, making it hard to discern and understand. "Mr. Mu is so insecure? Do you need to trouble the deputy dean to come over and explain?"
The shrewd deputy dean sensed something was wrong and cast a questioning look at Mu Yuan.
But Mu Yuan himself was still confused.
She noticed that his mood had changed suddenly, but she didn't understand why.
The deputy dean tried to please him, "No, Mr. Huo, I wanted to come and deliver the application and report to you in person today, but something happened to hold me up, so I delegated Engineer Mu to deliver it. If you have any questions about the application, please feel free to ask me."
His explanation, however, touched Huo Min's sore spot.
No wonder she was willing to come.
She has other men in her mind.
How could he be here?
Huo Min laughed at himself and dropped the pen in his hand with a quiet clang.
But it made the two people opposite him focus their minds instantly.
Huo Min smiled faintly: "So Mu Gong was forced to come here."
The coldness in his words made Mu Yuan frown slightly. "Mr. Huo misunderstood. As a member of the laboratory, it is my duty to report to the group. There is no such thing as being forced to come here."
Huo Min curled his lips, smiling casually: "Then why is he here?"
His smile did not reach his eyes, which made Mu Yuan feel that all the secrets in her heart had been seen through.
She admitted that she had selfish motives in asking the deputy dean to come.
But so what? And didn't he feel awkward being with her?
Let's take a step back.
Is he really so sarcastic?
Mu Yuan was very unhappy.
"The vice president is the head of our laboratory. Can't he come?" Her voice was as clear and cool as spring water, but it contained waves of dissatisfaction.
Their eyes met, and colorless and odorless smoke rose.
The deputy director standing by was thinking: My good child suddenly rebelled - it's all over.
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