Gu Ying must have just returned home, but before she could even rest, she received news from Wang Ye and the Wang family.
She changed her clothes, becoming less jeweled than before, wearing a pale yellow dress, her long, seaweed-like hair casually draped behind her, making her look more like a girl next door than a engaged woman.
Lu Fan was taken aback for a moment, and Gu Ying had already said to her assistant, "I have something to say to your CEO Lu, you can go out first."
As she spoke, she looked at Lu Fan with a resentful and aggrieved expression, waiting for him to speak.
The assistant was also waiting for Lu Fan to speak.
Lu Fan nodded to his assistant:
"Pour this Miss Gu a strong cup of black coffee; I think she needs to sober up."
A double entendre.
Gu Ying lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly, offering no rebuttal.
She didn't sleep a wink last night, and after putting on a show of self-pity, she's exhausted.
I had just gotten home and hadn't even gone to sleep after washing up when I heard that someone from the Wang family had come.
Before she could even get dressed again, the family's maid secretly came to tell her that something terrible had happened.
Gu Ying had no choice but to run away from home in this state to seek Lu Fan's help.
The assistant really wanted to go back to the break room right now and gossip with his colleagues about their CEO Lu's scandals.
Then he wondered if he should let Madam Lu know.
However, his professional ethics told him not to do that.
Lu Fan seemed to sense the burning gossip within him as well. He coughed lightly and instructed his assistant:
"Miss Gu just got engaged last night. Some rumors have reached the ears of some people with ulterior motives, which will cause a lot of trouble for all of us. Don't you think so?"
The assistant immediately became alert and said very professionally and cautiously:
"Mr. Lu has some guests visiting. I'll go make some coffee now. You two can continue your conversation."
With that, he closed the door and quickly walked away.
Gu Ying was initially quite annoyed, but seeing her assistant and Lu Fan's expressions, she found it both amusing and unsettling.
"It's just an assistant. If you don't like her, you can just get rid of her."
"If something really gets out, we can just deal with him directly."
Perhaps because she had discussed cooperation with Lu Fan in private, Gu Ying was now making no attempt to hide her true personality.
She could say even the cruelest and most morally bankrupt things in front of Lu Fan with complete self-assurance and ease!
This made Lu Fan change his opinion of the girl:
Indeed, their methods are numerous and ruthless!
This also extinguished some of Lu Fan's original plans.
He remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he wondered what the true nature of the Wang family was, something the Gu family still didn't know.
However, they still chose to form a union and cooperation between the two companies.
Does this indicate something...?
There's also the issue of how the Gu family raised Gu Ying. Lu Fan felt that Gu Ying was ruthless and lacked any sense of public morality, even though she was the spokesperson handpicked by Old Master Gu.
This shows that the Gu family also lacked any cultural foundation, but their power was far greater than that of the Wang family.
Lu Fan genuinely wondered if he was going crazy. Just because the Wang family got involved with poison, he felt that all the big families had a similar tendency.
With that thought in mind, Lu Fan seized upon this fleeting idea and planned to test Gu Ying later.
Gu Ying noticed Lu Fan's changing expression after she finished speaking, and he seemed to be staring at her the whole time. A blush crept across her face.
"What's wrong, Mr. Lu? You wouldn't have changed your mind about your previous proposal, would you?"
Lu Fan was stunned for a moment, then quickly came to his senses and laughed:
"There's no need for those words anymore. Miss Gu, what brings you here today?"
Gu Ying's eyes were alluring as she asked whether Lu Fan's decision to refuse her as a concubine that morning had been too hasty, and whether he now regretted it.
But Lu Fan flatly refused.
Lu Fan's question only made Gu Ying puff out her cheeks, looking even more aggrieved:
"Mr. Lu, since we're going to cooperate, shouldn't both sides be open and honest with each other?"
"I don't believe that President Lu hasn't heard the news. Besides, you and the Wang family have already fought several rounds. I don't believe that you haven't infiltrated each other's forces."
How could Lu Fan be so easily fooled by Gu Ying's few words? He smiled smugly and said:
"There are indeed rumors, but as for any power or influence, I started from scratch and fought alone. As for what kind of power the Wang family is, I don't think I'm as familiar with it as you are, Miss Gu."
Gu Ying, however, truly did not know the specifics of the Wang family's affairs.
She couldn't even handle her collaboration with Lu Fan, so how could she possibly be overly concerned about what kind of business her fiancé's family was doing behind the scenes?
Perhaps only some of the higher-ups in the Gu family would know this. Gu Ying, hearing this, only thought Lu Fan was being sarcastic.
She was puffed up with anger, then suddenly deflated, clutching the tassel on her designer handbag, and said coldly, as if devoid of emotion:
"Whether Mr. Lu has heard of it or not, let me tell you about it now."
“Wang Ye is in trouble. There has been some argument between my family and the Wang family. One side wants to break off the engagement, and the other wants me to go and see Wang Ye.”
"I've heard that some people who are half-dead may even be left with disabilities."
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