Chapter 32 Keep Your Distance
The sun was shining brightly. Lu Yanzhi had been up for a while, but there was no sign of Zhou Qingti on the big bed.
Ever since her period, she has asked to sleep in a separate room from him because their wake-up times are different.
Zhou Qingti was afraid that if they slept in the same bed, it would be too easy for something to go wrong, and she was not ready yet, not physically but mentally. She was afraid that if they took a step further, she would get deeper and deeper into it.
The better her relationship with Lu Yanzhi, the more afraid she became.
She was afraid to give her heart to others because Lin Xiye was right, she was a boring person, so boring that she didn't know how to keep someone's love.
Zhou Qingti knew that she had a fear of intimacy, which was evident from the fact that Lin Miao was the only friend around her.
Before leaving, Lu Yanzhi glanced at the tightly closed door of the guest room, thinking that sooner or later he would take down the door and the bed inside.
Zhou Qingti got up when he heard the sound of the door closing. This seemed like an attempt to deliberately avoid Lu Yanzhi.
She really thought so, and tried to have as little contact as possible. Lu Yanzhi would come to her for lunch every day at noon, and they would occasionally have dinner together and occasionally work out together.
Zhou Qingti treated him as his roommate.
It was a sunny afternoon. Zhou Qingti was sitting in the store feeling bored. Not wanting to waste such good time, he picked up his car keys and prepared to go to the beauty salon.
When she started the car, the WeChat notification sounded. It was Lu Yanzhi: "I want to eat the cake you made."
[Boss Zhou, could you please send me two pieces?]
This was the first time Lu Yanzhi asked her to deliver a cake. Her store had its own mini-program, and if you placed an order on it, someone would deliver it.
(I'm about to go to the beauty salon, please place the order through the mini program.) Before this message was sent, Lu Yanzhi transferred 1,000 yuan to me.
Zhou Qingti deleted the words he had typed, replied: [OK] and quickly accepted the transfer.
"I'm in a meeting now. Assistant Dong will come down to pick you up later. Bring fifty extra copies. I'm afraid they'll think I'm stingy." Lu Yanzhi sat in the conference room and roughly counted the number of people.
Zhou Qingti was furious when she saw Lu Yanzhi's message. She thought that one thousand yuan was enough to buy two desserts.
【Not enough! 】
Zhou Qingti returned to the store and instructed Xiao Li and the others to pack up the remaining desserts and European bread and put them in her trunk.
Xiao Li was still very excited: "Boss, what a big order! He bought it all at once."
"Yes, all of it was deducted from the card of Mr. Lu, whose license plate number is 6528."
Xiao Li and Zhang Yan calculated the price, there were a total of sixty-two portions, totaling 2,859 yuan.
Zhou Qingti thought for a moment and said to Xiao Li, "Pack up the remaining iced lemon tea as well. There are still a few customers who haven't come to pick up their cakes."
"Boss, there are five cakes in the freezer. They said they would pick them up after six o'clock." Xiao Li ran over to report the situation.
Zhou Qingti was loading desserts into the car: "Are you on duty today? Then wait until the customer takes the cake before you leave. Everyone else can leave now."
Zhang Yan and another little girl cheered and packed their things faster.
Xiao Li was also happy, because even so, she could still get off work several hours early.
"Long live the boss."
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When Zhou Qingti drove the car to the downstairs of Luyi Group Building, Assistant Dong had been waiting there for a while.
When he saw Mr. Lu’s Porsche driving over, he knew it was the boss’s wife coming.
"Long time no see, Mr. Dong." Zhou Qingti took the initiative to greet him.
"Hello, Madam Boss."
When the boss lady opened the trunk, he was shocked. With so many people, did she empty the entire store?
Assistant Dong took out his cell phone and called someone.
The two of them can't take so much.
Two minutes later, five or six people came down from the elevator, each carrying three bags of desserts.
One person in the elevator even joked with his colleague: "Do delivery drivers drive Porsches now?"
Another girl: "What delivery girl? That beautiful lady looks like the owner of a dessert shop. Didn't we book this place for our birthdays? It's delicious."
The buzz cut man said: "Her Porsche seems to be the same model as Mr. Lu's."
Zhou Qingti thought she had delivered the goods and was about to drive back when Assistant Dong stopped her, "Boss, don't leave. President Lu asked me to take you upstairs."
Zhou Qingti pointed at himself and said, "Take me upstairs?"
Assistant Dong nodded sincerely.
This was Zhou Qingti's first time entering the Lu Yi Building, which had standard high-end CBD decoration.
It’s just that the few withered money trees in the corner seemed a bit out of place, and Zhou Qingti couldn’t help but take a few more glances at them.
Assistant Dong noticed Zhou Qingti's gaze and began to complain to her, "I don't know who killed these trees by pouring boiling water on them. They were originally placed at the front desk. I suspect it was done by a rival company."
Zhou Qingti was full of questions: "Huh?"
Is this what true business warfare is like? Kill the rival company's money tree.
Are the business wars in TV dramas where hundreds of millions of assets are mobilized to win a single battle fake?
Lu Yanzhi, who always racked his brains to negotiate with others at the negotiation table: If only it were as simple as watering the money tree with boiling water.
The elevator went straight to the 16th floor. Assistant Dong took Zhou Qingti to Lu Yanzhi's office. "Please wait for Mr. Lu in his office for a while. The meeting will be over soon."
After saying that, he went out and poured her a glass of orange juice.
Lu Yanzhi's office is composed of white, natural wood and dark gray. The desk and reception sofa are both dark gray, which is simple, exquisite and steady.
Dark gray is Lu Yanzhi's favorite color.
Zhou Qingti sat down on the sofa. Lin Miao had sent her a message ten minutes ago asking her if she wanted to go to the college reunion.
[What class reunion? I haven't heard of it.]
Lin Miao was slacking off at the moment and replied quickly: [The QQ group has been discussing this for two days, and you haven't even read it.]
She hasn't checked QQ for a long time, let alone the group messages that she blocked.
My college classmates are from all over the world, how can we still get together now?
Without waiting for Lin Miao's reply, Lu Yanzhi pushed the door open and walked in. He looked in a good mood.
"Thanks a lot."
"It's not hard to make money." Zhou Qingti put away his phone and looked like a hardworking worker.
Lu Yanzhi walked towards her: "Can I tell your identity to the company employees?"
Zhou Qingti wanted to ask why. Wasn’t it a secret marriage? She thought it was enough for Assistant Dong to know.
But thinking about the last time her grandmother was angry because she didn't know what kind of business the Lu family had, she didn't raise any objections and nodded in agreement.
Outside the office, everyone was eating dessert and asked Assistant Dong, "Did President Lu order afternoon tea for us?"
If it had been before, Assistant Dong would have definitely said yes, but today Mr. Lu asked the boss’s wife to come up, so he must have wanted to make their relationship public.
He is not stupid, and Mr. Lu obviously does not need him to keep it secret.
"This is what the boss lady sent to everyone."
"Boss lady?"
Assistant Dong said proudly, "Yes, you may not know Mrs. Lu. She is in Mr. Lu's office right now."
Everyone looked towards the closed president's office. Some of them had seen Zhou Qingti before.
"You should have said it was Mrs. Lu!"
"Damn it! I told you that car belonged to Mr. Lu! I'm pretending to be a prophet."
Those who hadn't seen Zhou Qingti gathered around him and asked, "What does Mrs. Lu look like?"
"It looks good." This was as good as nothing else. Everyone was keeping their eyes on the door, wanting to see with their own eyes what Mr. Lu's wife looked like.
In the office, Zhou Qingti didn't know that he had been exposed and was still discussing what to eat in the evening with Lu Yanzhi.
Lu Yanzhi said he would take her to a newly opened Cantonese restaurant that night. Besides loving money, she was also very interested in food.
After marrying Lu Yanzhi, I went to many high-end restaurants. There were some disappointments, but most of them were delicious.
Lu Yanzhi walked over to the desk. There was a photo frame on the desk, and the amulet Zhou Qingti had given him earlier was framed inside. "I'll take care of some documents first. You take a break. You must have worked hard to deliver so many desserts."
Zhou Qingti suddenly felt that this was really married life, with its trivial daily routine and a virtuous wife bringing homemade desserts to her husband's company to wait for him to get off work and have dinner together.
Of course this is just an illusion. She is not virtuous, can't cook and doesn't like to stay in the kitchen.
She has never fulfilled her responsibilities as a wife. Her coats and bags, which she casually placed on the sofa, are now often found in Lu Yanzhi's originally tidy apartment.
There are always some miscellaneous girls' supplies on the coffee table, such as hair clips and accessories, and used iPads and computers are also placed casually.
Auntie used to come once every two days but now she comes every day.
Luxury brands would come to her house to showcase their new clothing on the first weekend of every month, but she didn't even want to go to the mall.
I feel like I've really been spoiled.
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