Chapter 31 Sun and Moon "Eat brother."
Yun Tan didn't know why Lu Wangshan was still so petty even though he was almost 30 years old. He was still feeling unhappy until the next day.
Yuntan received a text message from Elara while he was having breakfast: "I forgot to ask yesterday, would you be honored to try the Chinese captain's cooking?"
Italians are enthusiastic and make friends quickly. In Elara's opinion, after last night, she and Lu Wangshan have become friends.
Yun Tan often sent her photos of Chinese food these days to "seduce" her, but the ones that made Elara drool the most were those made by Lu Wangshan. The photos alone were very appetizing and full of the aroma of the wok.
Yun Tan looked at Lu Wangshan across the table and asked, "Are you free lately?"
He looked up: "What's wrong?"
Yuntan didn't have the Italian's enthusiasm and ease, and at this moment it was a little difficult to speak: "Because I sent Elara your dishes before, and she has always wanted to try them. If you are free recently, can I bring her here for dinner?"
Lu Wangshan took a sip of coffee and asked slowly, "Why don't you go ask that man at the bar yesterday if he can cook?"
“…………”
Why bring it up again!
"Jiang Zhier's boyfriend cooked for us when he came to Milan before, and Elara thought it was delicious. I told her that yours was even better, but she didn't believe me."
Yun Tan tried to provoke Lu Wangshan, but Lu Wangshan didn't fall for it at all.
"They are a couple, what is our relationship?"
Yun Tan paused, realizing he had made a mistake, and continued eating his breakfast with his head down: "If you don't have time, forget it."
Lu Wangshan finished his cup of coffee and went to work. He was still regretting it when he walked into the elevator. He hated Yun Tan the most for always talking about her sex friends. Why did he start to imitate her asshole tone when he was jealous and angry?
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When he arrived at the company, Lu Wangshan received a friend request notification on WeChat.
He clicked on it and saw that the WeChat name was "Sun and Moon" and the avatar was a cartoon picture of Hello Kitty facing a camera.
Lu Wangshan never added friend requests from unknown sources, and just as he was about to ignore them, Mr. Lu called.
"Wangshan, did Zhaozhao add you on WeChat?" Lu Kun asked.
Lu Wangshan frowned subconsciously and realized that this was Ruan Zhao that the old man introduced to him last time.
Sun and moon, Zhao.
"There's a friend request, but I don't know who it is."
"It must be Zhao Zhao! You too, I wrote my phone number on the back of the photo I gave you last time, but you didn't take the initiative to contact her and made me have to go through the trouble of explaining to you that you were too busy with work."
"I've been busy lately."
"Such a large group can't function without you?" The old man snorted coldly, puffing his beard and glaring. "No, I'll call your dad and ask him to approve your leave!"
Lu Wangshan sighed silently.
"Hurry up and add them, and invite them to dinner and a movie!"
Lu Wangshan had just scolded Yun Tan for "cheating" yesterday, but he didn't expect that he would now be caught in such a dilemma, even worse than Yun Tan's.
If Yuntan was already with him, he would certainly not go.
But Yun Tan is such a person that if he doesn't go and the old man intervenes, all his efforts in the past few days will be in vain.
Lu Wangshan finally accepted the friend request.
A message came from the other side: "Hello, Ruan Zhao."
It seems quite businesslike.
Lu Wangshan replied as it was: "Hello, Lu Wangshan."
Ruan Zhao: "Have you been in Beijing recently?"
Lu Wangshan: "Yes."
Ruan Zhao: "Do you have a dinner date tonight?"
This girl is unexpectedly direct.
Lu Wangshan: "I'm free at noon."
He was free for dinner, but he had too much free time to waste after dinner, and after lunch it was almost time to go to work in the afternoon, so he didn't have to worry about the next trip.
Ruan Zhao: "Okay, let's have lunch together. Do you choose the location or do I?"
Lu Wangshan rarely let the girl choose the restaurant, so he directly sent Ruan Zhao the location of a private restaurant: "Is this place okay?"
The environment here is relatively secluded, and the staff are notoriously tight-lipped.
Lu Wangshan didn't want anything about what happened today to be spread out, let alone reach Yun Tan's ears.
Ruan Zhao: "Sure, see you at noon."
Lu Wangshan pressed his nose bridge with a headache.
He planned to talk things over with Ruan Zhao face to face, but even so, even if Yun Tan didn't know, Lu Wangshan still felt uncomfortable going to this blind date-style meal behind her back.
After a pause, Lu Wangshan called Lu Shiyue and got straight to the point: "Are you home?"
"Yes, brother, what's wrong?"
Lu Wangshan glanced at his watch and said, "If you have nothing else to do, come to the company now and we'll have lunch together."
Lu Shiyue was a little flattered. His brother actually took the initiative to ask him out for dinner: "The two of us?"
"Um."
Lu Shiyue jumped out of the bed and said, "Okay, I'll be right there."
Eating out with three people probably doesn't count as a date.
Although he would probably be criticized by Ruan Zhao and his sisters, it didn't matter.
Lu Shiyue arrived quickly. Lu Wangshan still had one last report to sign. "Please sit down for a while."
Lu Shiyue seemed to be in a very good mood, smiling broadly: "Okay, no hurry, brother, take your time."
Ten minutes later, Lu Wangshan picked up his coat and called Lu Shiyue downstairs.
Lu Shiyue hadn't eaten alone with his brother for a long time, probably since Lu Wangshan graduated from college and took over the company's affairs. His brother was too busy, and he often flew back and forth between cities.
"Where are we going to eat?" Lu Shiyue asked.
"A River of Spring."
Lu Shiyue nodded and said sensibly, "I'm driving, please take my car."
"Um."
Lu Wangshan lowered his head. Ruan Zhaogang had just sent him a message: "I'm leaving."
Lu Wangshan replied, "I'm leaving too."
"Brother, why did you suddenly ask me out for dinner? Is there something you want to say?" Lu Shiyue drove the car out of the underground garage, still not figuring out what was going on.
Lu Wangshan still looked down at the latest work email on his phone and explained calmly, "Grandpa arranged a dinner for us. The person on the other end is Ruan Zhao, the daughter of the Ruan family. She should be 27 years old. You can just call her sister."
Lu Shiyue was stunned. This kind of dinner was undoubtedly a blind date. The 28-year-old Lu Wangshan and the 27-year-old Ruan Zhao had suitable family backgrounds.
"Grandpa, do you want to marry into the Ruan family?"
"Yes, Ruan Zhao's grandfather was also his former comrade-in-arms."
"But……"
Lu Shiyue recalled the scene on New Year's Eve when Xiang Wu live-broadcasted the kiss between him and Yun Tan in his ear. It hadn't even been three days yet, so why was he going on a blind date with someone else?
"Does Yuntan know that you are like this?"
Lu Wangshan paused, glanced sideways, and asked with amusement, "Haven't you always disliked her?"
"That's not the same thing."
Lu Shiyue was taught the most by Lu Wangshan since he was a child. In addition to verbal instruction, he taught him more by example. So even though he doesn't like Yun Tan, he won't be rude to her, and he won't condone his brother to do such a tasteless thing just because he likes him.
Lu Wangshan tilted his head and said, "Why else do you think I would call you?"
Lu Shiyue: “…”
The two arrived at the store first and waited for about ten minutes before Ruan Zhao arrived.
Lu Wangshan didn't recognize her at first sight because she looked very different from the gentle girl in the light blue dress in the photo.
A gray baseball cap, a pair of Prada cat-eye sunglasses, her hair tied up in a low bun, a large black riveted tote bag slung across her body, and after taking off her coat, she was wearing a white off-shoulder sweater and gray wide-leg trousers. She was dressed very smartly and neatly.
"Hello, Mr. Lu."
Ruan Zhao took off his sunglasses, leaned forward and extended his hand, "I'm Ruan Zhao, you can call me Zhao Zhao."
I've never met anyone who comes to a blind date and calls someone "Mr. Lu" as soon as they start.
Lu Wangshan understood in his heart that it seemed that Ms. Ruan in front of him was also forced to come and meet him because her family urged her to get married, so he relaxed a lot.
He stood up and shook hands with the person, then introduced: "This is my younger brother, Lu Shiyue. I happened to see him here, so I asked him to sit with me. I hope Miss Ruan doesn't mind."
Lu Wangshan found an excuse. After all, there was no need to embarrass innocent people.
Lu Shiyue called her "Sister" according to etiquette.
Ruan Zhao was a smart man and soon realized that Lu Wangshan was in the same situation as himself.
So he smiled relaxedly: "Of course I don't mind. Beijing team's Lu Shiyue is even more handsome in real life than on TV. No wonder he has so many female fans."
Lu Shiyue was a little surprised: "Do you watch basketball too?"
"Occasionally, I'm a fake fan. We planned an advertising idea before and wanted to invite you to record it, but unfortunately you were rejected." Ruan Zhao said with a smile.
Lu Shiyue was stunned.
He had received so many advertisements that he rejected them all, and he wasn't sure which one Ruan Zhao was talking about.
"I'm sorry, it was due to personal reasons that I didn't accept the advertising shoot." Lu Shiyue explained.
"I understand." Ruan Zhao shrugged briskly and said with a smile, "If I had a brother like Mr. Lu, I would have been laid up long ago. You still have to train so hard every day."
Ruan Zhao is worthy of being the daughter of a family with three generations in politics. She speaks nice words naturally without being offensive at all.
Ruan Zhao came here not only to deal with his family, but also for a more important purpose.
She got straight to the point: "Mr. Lu, I heard that you're running WH Group's Wanzhou Capital. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask if WH Capital has ever considered investing in film and television productions?"
"We've never had such a precedent. WH Group's investment projects prioritize technological innovation, business models, and industry prospects," Lu Wangshan said. "Also, I heard Ms. Ruan specializes in creative advertising shoots. Why are you asking about film and television production?"
"It's my personal dream. I wrote this script when I first started studying this major. From the initial draft to the current version, I really want to film it and see how it goes."
Ruan Zhao introduced the story with a smile, neither humble nor arrogant. "It tells the life story of a generation in the last century. The subject matter is not very popular, and perhaps many investors are worried about future returns."
"Did Miss Ruan bring the project plan?"
"I brought it." She took out a stack of papers from her bag and handed it over.
Lu Wangshan took it and said, "I will ask the company's professional evaluators to do the assessment."
"Yes, thank you very much."
After a quick look at the plot summary, Lu Wangshan was able to roughly assess that this was not a project that required a large investment amount. Compared with the hundreds of millions or even billions of projects that Wanzhou Capital had been involved in, Ruan Zhao's project was too small.
Given her family background, even if the project loses money, it doesn't matter if she does it as a favor.
When Lu Wangshan first glanced at his watch, Ruan Zhao suggested ending the conversation: "I have to go to the set this afternoon, and President Lu probably has other things to do as well. How about calling it a day for today?"
"Okay, someone will contact you regarding the follow-up of the project book."
Lu Wangshan went to pay the bill, and Ruan Zhao went to the bathroom to touch up her makeup.
When Lu Shiyue passed by the bathroom, he heard her voice on the phone: "I will come this afternoon, but haven't we already finished? What does it have to do with you whether I come or not?"
Did you just break up?
Lu Shiyue thought carelessly, and just as he was about to walk in, he was stopped in his tracks by her next words——
"Hey, why are you crying? Are you still going to shoot the afternoon photoshoot?"
“…”
Lu Shiyue saw through the reflection in the mirror that Ruan Zhao was leaning over and applying red lipstick, then putting on a hat and sunglasses. The capable demeanor he had when they first met was gone, and he turned into a goblin who would eat people without leaving any bones behind.
Although Lu Shiyue didn't interact much with the young masters in the circle, he had heard of them to some extent.
There are many who keep small stars and internet celebrities as their partners. When they get tired of them, they will change them. Their attitude towards their ex who cries and begs for reconciliation is exactly the same as Ruan Zhao's just now.
Lu Shiyue understood.
The person on the other end of the phone was probably a young actor in a commercial filmed by Ruan Zhao. He had been with Ruan Zhao for a while, but he might not even have a formal relationship with him.
...Why is the woman grandpa introduced to my brother so unreliable?
Ruan Zhao came out after putting on her makeup, and Lu Shiyue couldn't dodge in time, and the two of them bumped into each other.
Ruan Zhao pushed his sunglasses down to the middle of his nose and raised an eyebrow: "Why are you here?"
Lu Shiyue didn't say anything and pointed to the men's restroom sign.
Ruan Zhao stared at him for a while, and then he realized that he probably heard what had just happened, but it didn't matter, they had already broken up.
Her ex-boyfriend was a model with good looks and a good figure. Ruan Zhao had supported his career and invited him to shoot the industry's top commercials directed by him. Although he was just a background board, it would be very helpful for his future career development.
Unfortunately, he didn't know how to seize the opportunity and didn't perform well. Ruan Zhao was very realistic and naturally admired the strong. He gradually lost the love stimulated by hormones and broke up with her.
Ruan Zhao suddenly smiled at him: "Didn't you call me sister just now? Why don't you call me that now?"
"What?"
Ruan Zhao put up her sunglasses again, put her index finger to her red lips and said "hush", then she winked at Lu Shiyue: "Remember to keep this a secret for your sister."
If her parents knew that she was dating a little model, she would definitely be scolded.
Lu Shiyue looked at her back as she walked away with her waist twisted, and felt more and more that all women in this world were so scary.
Yuntan, Xiangwu, Ruan Zhao.
All scary.
Ruan Zhao is the scariest.
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In the afternoon, Lu Wangshan returned to the company to handle work as usual.
But what Yun Tan said at breakfast this day kept lingering in my mind.
After a while, Lu Wangshan opened the memo and made a very long list of ingredients. Then he called his personal assistant and asked him to buy the ingredients and called Yun Tan.
"Where?"
Yun Tan was about to develop PTSD from what happened last night. He subconsciously looked around and asked, "What? Are you hiring someone to spy on me again?"
Lu Wangshan raised his eyebrows: "Why, you took pictures with the naked guy again?"
“…”
What naked man?! How long is he going to keep bringing this up?
Lu Wangshan paused. He had no intention of bringing up the past, but Yun Tan provoked him into bringing it up again. He coughed lightly and changed the subject: "Is Elara also with you?"
"Um."
"Does she have any dietary restrictions?"
"Ah, what?"
Lu Wangshan glanced at the time and was too lazy to talk nonsense: "At six o'clock in the afternoon, take her back to our house. I will cook."
Yun Tan suddenly smiled and asked in a drawling tone, "Oh, didn't Mr. Lu say he was busy?"
It's meant to be a joke.
Lu Wangshan sighed: "So are you going to eat it or not?"
"Brother, eat." Yun Tan said.
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The author has something to say: The kitten is acting coquettishly again
I saw the comments section before and was worried that the blind date arranged by my grandfather would become a sad point.
Don't worry, Daddy Lu will never mess this up [erect ears rabbit head]
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