Chapter 36: Apology

The news that Madam Shen came to catch the "illegitimate child" has almost spread throughout the capital.

There were many people present that day.

And it was not a closed private room, and there were many people lying on the fence around to watch.

Although people who are far away may not know what the truth is.

But with Ji Min's ability, he is enough to find out the real news.

However, this real news is a little unbelievable.

So much so that Ji Min couldn't help but confirm it twice.

Outside the spacious and empty cloakroom, Butler Chen nodded seriously: "Yes, this is what Madam Shen admitted personally that day."

Ji Min turned his head and continued to tie his tie in front of the mirror.

His slender and powerful fingers pinched the royal blue tie and tied it into a knot, then he pulled away impatiently and threw the tie into the cabinet beside him.

"She let her own son live in the servant's room?"

"She let her second son hire someone to run over her youngest son's dog to death."

"She also signed a so-called funding contract with her own son?"

At the end, Ji Min almost laughed.

Butler Chen shrugged and said frankly: "I also find it incredible."

Ji Min shook his head, took the tie and tied it again.

He rarely made useless movements.

Because of his limited physical movement, he strives to be simple. The fact

that he tied a tie twice today has already revealed his inner unrest.

Ji Min took care of his clothes as usual.

But his slightly slower movements revealed the fact that he was distracted.

Ji Min just suddenly thought of the fire in Lu Ran's eyes again.

In the small servant's room, the boy asked him with a sneer: "If you want to sleep with me, do you think my father will pack me up and send me to your bed?"

At the funding conference, the boy stood on the stage and calmly said that he was an orphan.

And that day outside the elevator.

Lu Ran looked back at him with burning eyes: "If I really accept my fate, how can I live?"

Ji Min thought that this was the step-by-step strategy of a usurper who was temporarily in a weak position but had ulterior motives.

But he didn't expect that this might... just be a counterattack when he was pushed to the edge of a cliff.

Ji Min has no empathy.

He rarely seriously explores other people's feelings and thoughts.

But at this moment, Ji Min couldn't help but think about it.

How did the child feel when he stood on the stage seeking financial assistance but saw his mother below the stage?

As the blood of the Shen family.

He saw that all his relatives lived on the second and third floors with plenty of sunlight and spacious space, while he himself lived in a small servant's room without even a cabinet. How did he feel?

No wonder...

Even after receiving financial assistance, Lu Ran still chose to work in a nearby coffee shop.

Because he knew clearly that he had no so-called backing.

He had to keep moving forward.

Thinking of the "study abroad" funding he proposed, Ji Min suddenly closed his eyes.

He stretched out his hand and pinched his eyebrows.

When he opened his eyes again, his black eyes returned to their usual calmness.

Because he spent too much time in the cloakroom, the housekeeper waiting outside reminded him gently: "Sir, breakfast is ready."

"Got it." Ji Min said.

He controlled the wheelchair remotely and walked out of the cloakroom and entered the elevator on the second floor.

As usual, he had some breakfast and took a car to the company.

There was a lot of work waiting for Ji Min.

Logically speaking, he didn't have the time and energy to think about other people's affairs.

That child had nothing to do with him.

Ji Min was a little surprised by Lu Ran's life experience.

But this is just the endless gossip in the upper class circles of Beijing.

But there is always a moment occasionally.

Ji Min would be distracted for a second in the gap between work.

The image of the young man walking into the cold wind with his eyes lowered emerged in his mind.

At this time, a very rare emotion would emerge, like a small stone thrown into the calm lake of Ji Min's heart.

Lunch time.

Ji Min worked overtime as usual.

When he left the office, the employees outside had gathered in groups of three or four to eat.

The moment he came out.

The employees around him looked at him vaguely as usual.

Ji Min did not pay attention to these sympathetic glances.

He did not walk straight to the elevator as usual.

His wheelchair stopped once in the middle of the journey.

Ji Min turned his head and looked at the familiar paper bag on the workstation next to him.

The two people at the workstation were still chatting casually:

"The latte in this shop tastes good."

"I like their cheesecake and order it every day."

The person opposite laughed and scolded:

"Do you like the cake? You like the clerk, right?"

"No? Those puppy eyes are so cute." The

two people's voices became smaller and smaller under Ji Min's gaze.

Finally, the two stopped talking.

He smiled awkwardly and looked at Ji Min: "Chairman... do you want to eat something?"

Some words lingered on Ji Min's tongue and then scattered.

In the end, he just said: "No."

Ji Min entered the elevator.

This time the elevator was empty.

In the reflective mirrored wall, there were only the wheelchair and him.

There was no skinny boy carrying nearly ten large paper bags.

No one tried to hide in the corner of the elevator with paper bags in his hands in order to avoid him.

No one pretended to be brave and pushed the paper bag in his hand onto his wheelchair.

Ji Min sat quietly in the wheelchair alone.

He watched the numbers on the floors jump down one by one.

No one pressed the elevator button in the middle. People

were rushing into the elevator with a bunch of paper bags and mobile phones in their hands.

There was nothing.

This picture was just what Ji Min wanted to see at a certain moment.

"Ding".

The elevator reached the first floor.

The elevator door opened.

The moment he went out, Ji Min recalled his thoughts when they were riding the elevator together last time.

Something with ulterior motives.

A fool who cannot be saved.

It was also at this moment that Ji Min suddenly understood.

All day long, it broke out from time to time, interrupting his work and forcing him to constantly think about what Lu Ran's emotions were.

Probably... some guilt stemming from arrogance.

And a slight regret.

And embarrassment.

Studying abroad, it seemed to be well-intentioned funding.

But he said to the boy: You don't deserve to stay in the Shen family, you don't deserve to fight for and own those things you want.

But the funny thing is.

No one deserves it more than him.

Those should have belonged to Lu Ran. There

is no need to fight for them, no need to grab them.

They should have been held in handfuls with love.

But now, someone points at his nose and says: You don’t deserve it.

After Lu Ran refused, Ji Min didn’t say anything out of education.

But some superficial judgments still came out through his attitude.

Ji Min didn’t know if Lu Ran felt it.

Thinking back to the last time they met, the boy walked out of Ji’s building in silence...

maybe, he noticed it.

In the next few days.

Ji’s employees felt like it was raining red.

Their boss, who was as gloomy as a vampire, would not leave the office unless he could.

The boss who would definitely have something big happen when he left the office, was actually -

wandering around?!

Damn it!

The chairman must have been betrayed!

The first time Ji Min went out for a walk, people around him were extremely nervous.

The second or third time he went out for a walk, a group of employees began to ask Ji Min's assistant for news.

They asked if the company had any big moves recently.

Was there going to be layoffs?

As a result, the work efficiency of several departments on several floors was rising rapidly. They

were afraid that this knife would accidentally cut their heads.

After Ji Min went out for a walk more often...

the employees gradually became desensitized.

They returned to their normal state, and even the cautious attitude towards Ji Min on weekdays was gone.

To be honest, their boss looks pretty good.

Although his face is scary, it can barely be considered a beautiful landscape.

Some people even had nothing to do and summarized Ji Min's behavior pattern:

he usually appears at mealtimes.

He hangs out in the office and around the elevator.

He would walk around the elevator a few times.

He looked mild and harmless for the time being.

But when he came out of the elevator, his face didn't look very good.

Ji Min didn't care what others thought.

It was as if he just increased the time for walking before and after meals.

Butler Chen noticed something and asked with a smile: "It seems that sir is very free recently?"

Ji Min was very calm.

He didn't give Butler Chen a chance to tease him, and said directly: "I am looking for an opportunity to make up for my mistake."

Because of the arrogance of going one's own way, there will be regret and embarrassment.

Make up for it as soon as possible, and end it as soon as

possible. Smother the guilt that keeps emerging and growing.

Let it not pop up from time to time when he is working, reminding him that

he has bullied a child.

Butler Chen smiled and said, "Then why don't you try a more efficient way, sir? For example, order a takeaway meal yourself?"

Ji Min: "..."

He pursed his thin lips.

The old butler and He Yan smiled.

He understood and said, "Oh... So you are embarrassed."

Ji Min: "..."

He controlled the wheelchair remotely and turned back to the office.

In the evening, Ji Min still followed Butler Chen's advice.

In the past, he asked his assistant to order meals.

This time, Ji Min did not notify anyone, and downloaded the takeaway software on his mobile phone and operated it himself.

He rarely eats out.

When ordering, he was unfamiliar with the operation of the takeaway software.

After ordering, he put the phone aside.

The emotions that had been bubbling up in his heart recently had faded a little.

Ji Min knew that Butler Chen was right.

If he had dealt with it at the beginning, then this matter would not have had such a big impact on his emotions.

Approved two documents.

There were some problems with the recent projects, and Ji Min, immersed in overtime work, gradually forgot about the takeaway.

He called and made an appointment with a project manager. He

remotely controlled the wheelchair out of the office and walked straight to the elevator.

Before Ji Min could press the elevator button,

the elevator door suddenly opened.

A paper bag with a familiar logo suddenly caught his eye.

The paper bag was strewn all over the place.

It made his heart jump.

Ji Min looked up.

The obvious drumming in his chest suddenly calmed down.

"Sorry, sorry!"

The voice from the elevator was a strange male voice.

The male voice was rough, and it no longer had the clarity of a teenager.

The figure wearing the same uniform was also the bulk of an adult male, and with a dozen paper bags hanging in the crook of his arms, he also looked relaxed.

Ji Min was stunned for a moment, then he moved his wheelchair back.

"Sorry, did I bump into you, sir?"

Xiao Wang asked with his head tilted.

Ji Min shook his head.

He watched the delivery clerk about to walk away, and then he remembered something. He

said, "There's my takeaway."

In his heart, the seedling called guilt that had just been pinched out, drilled out of his head again.

As if it had been exposed to some sunshine and rain, it was clamoring with its fangs and claws.

Ji Min thought that there was no point in ordering takeaway.

At noon the next day, Ji Min paid attention again.

The clerk who came to deliver the food was always the same one he saw last night.

In the evening, Ji Min ordered takeaway again.

This time he stayed in the office.

When there was a knock on the door, Ji Min paused while looking at the door of the office.

After a few seconds, he said nonchalantly: "Come in."

The paper bag entered first again.

But the figure behind the paper bag was still not the one he wanted to see.

He took the takeaway.

Ji Min hesitated for a moment, but asked directly: "Did the clerk who came to deliver the food before resign?"

Xiao Wang was a little surprised when he asked this question.

But he still said truthfully: "No."

Ji Min paused.

Xiao Wang immediately understood and said hurriedly: "Oh, he doesn't know what's going on, and said that he would ask me to deliver all the orders of Ji's in the future."