15. So do you have it or not?
"Of course it's true. A few days ago, I overheard Lawyer Zheng telling Lawyer Chen in the break room that he and Lawyer Chu live in the same neighborhood, the new development not far from here called Mingshi Mansion. He said he saw Lawyer Chu shopping at the supermarket with a hot, wavy-haired woman from afar in the neighborhood."
But less than two weeks later, he accidentally saw Chu Lu picking up another girl, and said that the girl looked very young, probably a college student.
"And then what happened?"
"Is it possible that we were just mistaken?" someone asked. "After all, Chu Lu doesn't really look like that kind of person..."
"No." The melon vendor shook his head, continuing to mimic the middle-aged man's tone and mannerisms, "But I recognize Xiao Chu's car, there's no mistake!"
The girls were speechless.
"Alright! 'No comment until the full picture is clear,' have you forgotten what Chu Lu taught us? Besides, even if Chu Lu is good at playing games, it's because he has the resources. It would be a waste not to play. Let's go! Let's get off work." One of the girls was the first to react and pushed the group away.
The girls walked away laughing, leaving Lu Siming still frozen in place.
"Old Lu?" Chu Chiyi couldn't help but call out to him when he saw that the other man hadn't spoken for a while. "What's wrong with you?"
"Huh?" Lu Siming stopped reminiscing and came to his senses. "It's okay! I'm fine!"
He suddenly grinned and pulled Chu Chiyi along: "It's really nothing! I just wanted to say, have you been under a lot of work pressure lately? Come on, let's go have a few drinks tonight."
"..." Chu Chiyi looked at him with suspicion, not understanding what was going on.
"Let's go!" He grabbed the person and headed towards the underground parking lot.
Yes, let's have a few drinks, until he's passed out, so he can spill the beans and see what this kid's up to...
The next morning, when Lu Siming woke up, it was already past ten o'clock.
Fortunately, it was the weekend. But just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he slapped his forehead and remembered that he had made an appointment to have lunch with Chu Bike. So he quickly got up, got ready, and went out to pick her up.
While sitting down in the restaurant and waiting for the food to be served, Lu Siming opened his phone and checked the unread notifications one by one.
He found a new email in his work inbox. Upon opening it, he saw it was the electronic version of the contract he had given Chu Chiyi yesterday, sent more than four hours ago...
He exited the interface and dialed the number directly.
This time, the other side responded quite quickly, and the man's voice was as calm and steady as ever, "The revised contract has been sent to your email."
"I see it." Lu Siming said, cutting the Eggs Benedict on his plate. "Chu Chiyi, are you even human?"
There was a pause on the other end. They seemed somewhat confused as to why their well-intentioned help with the contract was met with criticism.
Lu Siming knew that Chu Chiyi still went for a morning run every day without fail, so he couldn't even imagine whether this person needed sleep at all.
The person on the other end of the phone didn't seem to care, saying, "I'm not drunk."
"By the way, um..." Lu Siming put the fork to his mouth, his tone suddenly becoming more tentative, "I didn't say anything after I got drunk last night, did I?"
"I've said quite a lot."
"What?!" The fork in his hand suddenly clattered, causing Chu Bike across from him to look up. "What did I say?"
"You told me to take care of my health."
"..." Lu Siming seemed to suddenly choke on the half-eaten egg in his mouth, unable to swallow it or spit it out.
"He also said that as a man," the person on the other end of the phone continued, repeating the facts, "it's okay to have many relationships, but it's not good to have many at once."
"..."
"Alright!" Lu Siming couldn't take it anymore. "The safety measure I'm talking about is not letting your colleagues see it!"
"Okay, I understand."
"..."
"I think... I think you're good at what?" he asked instinctively, wondering if the other man had seen through his little scheme.
"I don't know." Chu Chiyi calmly stated the facts: "You threw up before you finished speaking."
Considering that Chu Bi was also present, he deliberately omitted the words "many girlfriends," since Chu Chiyi would understand what he meant anyway.
"If I told you he mistook someone for someone else, would you believe me?"
"Get out!" Lu Siming was completely disheartened. "Do you even believe me?"
"Chi Yi?" After hanging up the phone, Chu Bi Ke noticed that his expression was strange and asked casually.
"Yes." He nodded.
The woman glanced at him, and then, combining his words from the phone call, she suddenly hit the nail on the head: "Lu Siming, you don't still want to set Jiajia up with him, do you?"
"Huh? I...you...how did you know?" Lu Siming looked at her in surprise. Sure enough, nothing could be hidden from her.
The woman smiled but remained silent, offering a friendly reminder, "But don't forget, Jiajia already has a boyfriend."
After that training camp ended, Mu Jia insisted on asking him what made Chu Chiyi different from the others.
Lu Siming was speechless for a moment when she asked him. As a good friend, he couldn't really figure out exactly what made Chu Chiyi different, but he knew for sure that he was different.
He was about to say that children raised by such parents must have a much broader perspective and more sophisticated thinking than their peers, so of course they are different from others.
Her thoughts drifted back to that night more than a month ago, "Could it be because of this that he..."
"Huh? What about him?"
Mu Jia then realized that she had unconsciously blurted out what was on her mind, and quickly shook her head: "It's nothing."
"And why would he feel uncomfortable?" Lu Siming looked at her in astonishment. "He's not a three-year-old who wants to cling to his mother for milk every day."
Mu Meixi usually kept a very strict eye on him. Boys of their age crave freedom more than anyone else, so Lu Siming was extremely envious of Chu Chiyi every day. He really couldn't understand where Mu Jia's "feeling uncomfortable" came from.
"Mu Jia! What are you saying? Who said you need to put it to their mouth?"
"Oh, right," Mu Jia suddenly looked at him and warned, "Don't say anything when you see my parents later!"
"What did you say?" Lu Siming paused for a moment before realizing what she meant, then suddenly scoffed, "What are you afraid of? Don't you even show the love letters you receive to your mother?"
"You don't understand!" The girl glared at him. "Anyway, you're not allowed to say anything out of line. No, you're not allowed to say a single word!"
The boy made a face at her: "Guess whether I'll tell or not?"
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