Chu Hongyu shook her head and sneered, "These paparazzi nowadays are really losing their professional ethics. The photos are so blurry, and they make me look so ugly. They still have the nerve to sell them! It's clearly two hours, not three hours. This is FAKE NEWS!"
Ning Yuan rolled her eyes helplessly. "Is the point two hours or three hours? My dear lady! Can't you be a little more mindful of your image? Even if my brother doesn't care, what about your reputation?"
"What's wrong with him? Using me to fend off unwanted suitors? Please, what harm does that do me? I'd be happy to do it, my salary and experience will increase rapidly!" Chu Hongyu raised her eyebrows, her eyes sparkling with indescribable charm.
"After more than a year of hard work, things have indeed become much quieter around the young master. Those women have finally quieted down, and my ears are finally free."
Ning Yuan shook her head again: "That's true, but some people in the Ning family have come to me and gossiped, saying that you are a fox spirit reincarnated, and that you bewitched my brother with your bedroom skills, and that he hasn't changed his lover for more than a year. I don't know how much yang energy you've drained from him!"
Chu Hongyu was incredibly clever and immediately understood the hidden meaning in Ning Yuan's words. She raised her slender eyebrows and asked, "Oh? Someone in the Ning family has complained to you, Xiao Ning? Which elder is so concerned about me?"
Ning Yuan nodded: "Besides my mother and my grandfather, my uncle and my father, who is practically dead, have all inquired about it."
"They think I can be a mistress, but not a wife, right?" Chu Hongyu said calmly, as if she were talking about someone else, but a hint of coldness flashed in her beautiful eyes.
Ning Yuan looked at her with heartache and reached out to hold her hand: "Sister Hongyu..."
Chu Hongyu suddenly smiled charmingly, reached out and took the baby girl, who was not yet a year old, from the maid's arms, and kissed her on her pink little face: "Nannan, call her Auntie."
The little one, with big eyes and incredibly long eyelashes, giggled and waved her tiny hands, calling out indistinctly, "Auntie... Auntie..."
"Auntie's heart melts. Our little Jiajia is so adorable." Chu Hongyu pinched the little one's chubby cheeks with great delight.
While teasing the little girl, she said in a relaxed tone, "I get paid this salary, so I have to do some work, right? I'm just doing my job as a personal assistant, acting as a shield for the young master to keep away unwanted romantic advances."
She paused, then smiled and played with the little one's raised hands: "As long as those big shots from the Ning family don't drag me out to fill the sea, or sell me to Kowloon Walled City, or even worse, sell me to Thailand to work as a prostitute, that's fine. Doing this job means sharing the boss's burdens..."
She shrugged and said in fairly standard Cantonese, "...If you can't handle the salty fish, you have to bear the thirst."
Come to think of it, there really are women who overestimate their abilities, want to climb up the social ladder, or are simply jealous of her existence, and they want to send someone to deal with them.
As a result, Ah Chao and Ah Juan, who were with her, acted swiftly and decisively, leaving those people with no chance of getting away with anything.
Ning Yuan frowned. She knew all too well that Chu Hongyu spoke lightly, but the reality was far more complicated. Chu Hongyu simply didn't want her to worry.
Those rumors would undermine Chu Hongyu's reputation, even though she had achieved tangible results and made significant contributions to the Ning Group.
In some people's eyes, she was nothing more than a canary who rose to power through nepotism and by virtue of her relationship with Ning Bingyu.
Moreover, the self-proclaimed elites in the Ministry of Finance are snobbish and prioritize academic qualifications above all else.
Among that group of elites from prestigious universities like Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Yale, Chu Hongyu, with her undergraduate degree from the University of Hong Kong, was simply too conspicuous.
Ning Yuan felt a little uneasy: "Sister Hongyu, I'm really worried that you'll be ostracized. The finance industry is the most snobbish industry in the world; they love forming cliques."
Chu Hongyu made a face, making the little child giggle, and said calmly, "I've heard a lot of nasty things, like vixen, reincarnated demon, seducing the boss, climbing the social ladder by relying on men. They're just things people say behind my back."
She paused, handed the child back to the maid, and a mocking smile appeared on her lips: "As the personal assistant of Young Master Ning, I'm not someone anyone dares to offend. There are plenty of people who want to flatter me."
Chu Hongyu turned around and gently patted Ning Yuan: "Don't worry, Ning Yuan, when I'm out there, I'm Sophia, a Chinese woman who came back from Europe. Apart from Sister Ling and a few core executives, who knows that I'm Chu Hongyu from the mainland?"
While changing the baby's diaper with the maid, Ning Yuan wondered, "My older brother is acting strangely too. He's been separated from Cha Meiling for over a year and hasn't found a wife. I can understand that he's careful in choosing a partner, but he hasn't had a single rumored girlfriend in over a year. Hongyu, do you know what's going on?"
Chu Hongyu took an elegant sip of coffee, thought for a moment, and shook her head: "How would I know? I'm just an employee, not a mind reader. But I really haven't seen Young Master Ning find a new love interest in the past year or so."
Ning Yuan frowned. The little girl in her arms started squirming and wriggling, her little face turning bright red as she snuggled against her, looking like she was about to cry.
Ning Yuan quickly picked up her daughter and breastfed her, muttering to herself, "Could it be... that my 'pinky sausage brother' has been playing too much and is now impotent?"
"Pfft—" Chu Hongyu almost spat out her coffee, frantically wiping her delicate makeup. "Xiao Ning, why do you say such things out loud! The flowers of our motherland are still in your arms! Be mindful of your behavior!"
Ning Yuan curled her lips dismissively and gently patted the baby in her arms: "The flowers of the motherland are too young to know what impotence is. Besides, he's already quite old. Don't men experience a precipitous decline in ability after thirty? There are medical statistics to prove that!"
Chu Hongyu quickly waved her hand, signaling her to stop: "Stop, stop, stop! Please spare me! I'm just an assistant, how could I possibly check if the boss is capable? Even if he is, it's none of my business!"
She secretly wondered to herself, Ning Bingyu had indeed been acting strangely lately, could it really be as Xiao Ning said?
Ning Yuan watched her daughter eat with relish and said with a smile, "My mom was a little worried and mentioned it a couple of times, which made me a little curious too."
Chu Hongyu chuckled, put down her coffee cup, and teased, "Then Madam Ning will have to personally take the young master for a checkup. I don't have that ability."
Ning Yuan shifted to a more comfortable position, gently rocking the little girl in her arms: "Let's not talk about my brother anymore, it's bad luck! Let's talk about my new company. The takeover of the two electronics factories from the Li family by Jiyuan Heart went quite smoothly, and the eldest son of the Li family is also very willing to cooperate."
She narrowed her big eyes: "Speaking of which, it wouldn't be bad to send my brother, this sly little thing, to marry into the Li family. That Li Kaili looks like she's head over heels in love, my brother would definitely be able to bewitch her completely."
Chu Hongyu raised an eyebrow, amused. "You're too ruthless! You think you can sell your brother out with just two electronics factories? If Young Master Ning knew, he'd scold you for being so short-sighted!"
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