After finishing her shopping at the supermarket, Shen Zhi Qiu returned home and immediately lay down on the sofa, not wanting to move at all.
"You must be exhausted." Lu Jia looked at her with some concern.
"It's nothing, I'll be fine after a rest. I'm just a little tired, and I feel so heavy that I can't walk properly." Shen Zhi Qiu touched her stomach, but not wanting Lu Jia to worry, she smiled and said.
"Then you rest for a while, I'll go to the kitchen to prepare." After saying that, Lu Jia carried a large bag of ingredients into the kitchen.
“Mr. Lu, let me do it.” The nanny, Aunt Zhao, scratched her head a little embarrassedly. “President Rong instructed me to take good care of Miss. You haven’t fully recovered yet.”
"It's alright, Aunt Zhao, you've done everything else. I'll take care of the cooking. Zhi Qiu wants my fish soup, so I've already bought all the ingredients." Lu Jia smiled and held up the ingredients in her hand, then pushed Aunt Zhao out of the kitchen.
In a short while, Lu Jia brought out a beautifully presented fruit platter.
Shen Zhi Qiu's eyes lit up when she saw the fruit platter in Lu Jia's hand. She couldn't help but praise, "How are you so skillful? I only knew that your hands were best suited for coding before, but you've really surprised me a lot lately."
As she spoke, Shen Zhi Qiu got up and tidied up the things on the coffee table in front of her, then asked Lu Jia to put them down with an expectant look on her face.
Lu Jia laughed at Shen Zhi Qiu's reaction. He placed the fruit platter in front of Shen Zhi Qiu and handed her the fruit fork.
Shen Zhi Qiu looked at the apple that Lu Jia had cut and arranged into the shape of a phoenix dancing, and for a moment she couldn't bear to eat it. Next to it, the cantaloupe had been carved by Lu Jia into an adorable light blue handbag, and then filled with red cherries, which looked even more girlish.
"Eat up," Lu Jia urged with a smile. "Your blood sugar has been well controlled recently, and the doctor said you can eat some fruit in moderation."
Aunt Zhao watched the two of them from afar, praising Lu Jia in her heart.
"Then you can eat the fruit first, I'll go prepare the fish soup." Lu Jia said, standing up and heading towards the kitchen.
Shen Zhi Qiu leisurely ate fruit and watched TV, thoroughly enjoying herself.
"Young Miss, you have a guest." Suddenly, Butler Li strode in and stood at the entrance, respectfully addressing Shen Zhi Qiu.
"Guests?" Shen Zhi Qiu was taken aback and said with some doubt, "That's impossible. Only my brother knows I'm here. How could there be guests?"
"The man is unloading goods at the door right now. He says he's your friend and came to see you today with a gift," the butler replied. "He's a Mr. Gu."
"Gu Qingyan?" Shen Zhi Qiu frowned, her expression turning grim.
Seeing Shen Zhi Qiu's reaction, Butler Li immediately understood that Shen Zhi Qiu didn't want to see him, and tentatively asked, "Should I go and refuse him, saying that you have something to do?"
"Where is Wei Qiao?" Shen Zhi Qiu's brows were still furrowed, wondering where Wei Qiao had gone.
Just as the butler was about to answer, he heard a commotion at the front gate.
"Let's go take a look." Shen Zhi Qiu stood up with some difficulty, holding onto the edge of the sofa, and prepared to go out and take a look as well.
As she approached the entrance, Shen Zhi Qiu looked at the dazzling array of gift boxes displayed on the open space in front of the gate and couldn't help but twitch her lips. Who would buy things like this?
"I bought all of these for Zhi Qiu, why can't I put them in?"
Gu Qingyan was arguing with Wei Qiao, her face flushed, and angrily pointed to the trunk, saying, "I still have so much here, I have to give it to Zhi Qiu tonight."
"Sorry, the Rong family doesn't need this junk," Wei Qiao replied with a cold laugh.
"Who do you think you are?! How dare you talk to me like that? You should know that no one in Nancheng dares to talk to me like that!" Gu Qingyan roared angrily.
"You know you said it was in the South City. Too bad you're in the capital right now." Wei Qiao looked at the things on the ground nonchalantly, keeping Rong Mo's advice firmly in mind: "Never give face to that scumbag Gu Qingyan."
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Huamo Technology Co., Ltd.
At the entrance to the CEO's office.
"Knock knock knock," it was already past closing time, but there was a sudden knock on the door.
Rong Mo looked at the doorway with some confusion. The employees should have all left by now, so why was there still someone there?
"Who is it?" Rong Mo asked.
"It's me, Yuan Mengjie."
"Come in." Rong Mo frowned, looking at the proposal in his hand, subconsciously assuming that they were here to discuss business.
"President Rong, you haven't left yet?" Yuan Mengjie pushed open the door and asked Rong Mo with a smile.
"Hmm," Rong Mo nodded, but his eyes remained fixed on the proposal. "Is there something you need?"
"It's nothing, I just saw your office light was still on so late, so I came over to check on you," Yuan Mengjie said with a smile. But seeing that Rong Mo didn't seem to care about her, she pursed her lips, feeling a little embarrassed.
"Mengjie, if there's nothing else, go back and rest early. It's so late." Rong Mo looked up at Yuan Mengjie when he saw that she didn't seem to be leaving.
The moment his gaze fell on her, Rong Mo raised an eyebrow in surprise.
Yuan Mengjie had clearly dressed up carefully tonight, wearing a well-tailored khaki coat paired with a light beige scarf. Her hairstyle was also different from her usual long, straight hair, deliberately styled into loose, large waves, and she wore delicate makeup. Under the soft, warm light of the office, Yuan Mengjie looked elegant and sophisticated.
"You're all dressed up so nicely tonight, are you going to have dinner with your boyfriend?" Rong Mo thought it was almost time to leave work, so he didn't want to be so serious and said with a smile.
"No, I don't have a boyfriend. Mr. Rong, you're so funny. I just happened to go out to discuss a business deal this afternoon, so I dressed up a bit to look presentable."
"The company doesn't object to employees dating." Rong Mo didn't think much of it. "When we were studying abroad together, you said you wanted to find a handsome boyfriend, but I haven't seen you look for one since we came back. You've been focusing all your energy on your work. Of course, the company welcomes employees to work hard, but we also hope that everyone has their own life and doesn't put the cart before the horse."
Hearing Rong Mo tell her to find a boyfriend, Yuan Mengjie felt a little disappointed, but she still forced a smile and said, "It's so late, how about we have dinner together? I heard that a new restaurant opened near the company, and many colleagues have been there and said that the atmosphere is really good."
Rong Mo raised his hand to check the time; it was 8:00 PM. He had originally planned to work overtime tonight and not go see Chen Zhi Qiu, but now that his train of thought had been interrupted, he thought it would be better to see her tomorrow and go back to see his sister.
Thinking of this, Rong Mo smiled happily.
"No, thank you," Rong Mo quickly stood up, tidied up the documents in front of him and stacked them together, then grabbed the coat hanging to the side and said, "Mengjie, I have something to do tonight, let's do it another day."
Watching Rong Mo's car drive out of the company parking lot, Yuan Mengjie pursed her lips and followed after him.
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