"Time to sleep, Liang Zhirou."
Just as Liang Zhirou put away her diary, Chen Lu walked into the bedroom yawning and stretched, saying, "I think I need to hire a driver. I'm exhausted."
"Wouldn't that cost a lot more money?" Liang Zhirou muttered to herself as she peeled an orange. "If you find it tiring, I can just learn to drive and take you with me."
The more she thought about it, the more feasible the idea seemed. She could pick Chen Lu up from drinking outside in the future.
This way, you can even save money on hiring a designated driver.
Seeing that Chen Lu didn't speak, she turned her head curiously and saw Chen Lu deliberately making an exaggerated expression as he looked at her.
"What makes you have the illusion that you can pass the driving test?" Chen Lu couldn't help but laugh. Although this silly girl would never do something as absurd as mistaking the brake for the accelerator, she would most likely forget to walk around the car when she got nervous.
"......"
Chen Lu saw Liang Zhirou biting her lip and looking at him, so he quickly took two steps back. "I'm your creditor!"
After a few cries of pain, Chen Lu lay on his back on the bed, rubbing his chest, looking like he was in great pain. But after a while, he suddenly laughed a few times.
Liang Zhirou was so frightened that she quickly shrank back.
"What are you laughing at?" she asked, her voice trembling. When did her boyfriend become like this?
She didn't bump his head...
Could this person have some kind of strange constitution?
"I'm happy," Chen Lu said truthfully.
"You're happy that I hit you?"
"That's right, I'm happy."
Liang Zhirou swallowed, climbed onto the bed, and touched Chen Lu's forehead. "Why?"
My body temperature was perfectly normal.
Chen Lu chuckled smugly, "I'm not telling you, I'm going to sleep."
By the end of March, Hangzhou wasn't so cold anymore, so I switched to lighter pajamas and blankets, making it much more comfortable to sleep at night.
As soon as he lay down, the girl crawled out from under the covers and nestled obediently on top of him.
Chen Lu then gently stroked the girl's back with his right hand, just like petting a cat.
"Suddenly I don't know what to do," Liang Zhirou said softly, nestled against Chen Lu's chest.
Ever since she came to her senses, she has felt completely lost.
My mother has almost recovered, but she's not around every day, so I can't take care of her even if I wanted to.
I was working hard every day to earn money and pay off my debts as soon as possible, but now I suddenly realize that the creditor is my boyfriend...
Now we don't have to pay back the money.
She couldn't repay it even if she wanted to. Now that she knew about it, and given that her relationship with Chen Lu wasn't exactly innocent, if she tried to make things clear with Chen Lu again... Chen Lu would get angry.
"What's there to not know?" Chen Lu raised the corners of his mouth slightly. "Whether you pay back the money or not, you'll still have to earn money in the future, right? Of course, if you think it's too tiring and you don't want to work, I can support you, but I don't think you'll like that, so you'll have to keep painting, and then spend the rest of your time doing whatever you need to do, just like usual."
Liang Zhirou puffed out her cheeks and gently poked Chen Lu's Adam's apple with her fingertips. "You really like saying things that seem like you haven't said anything at all."
"Because that's just how it is. No one can give you advice on this kind of thing; it all depends on what you want to do." Chen Lu pondered for a moment. "However, if you really don't know what to do, maybe I can help you..."
The girl's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this, "How can you help me?"
"I can help you have a child, then you won't have to worry about this anymore."
For the first time, Chen Lu experienced what it meant to sleep like a baby.
......
The next day at noon.
The weather was fine and sunny.
Chen Lu stood in front of a tall building and looked up at the sign in front of him—Kaisheng Hotel.
The last time he came here was when he won a game development competition and came to celebrate with Jiang Chao and the others.
I can't believe so much time has passed.
"Hello, Mr. Chen, I am Mr. Lin's secretary."
A young woman in a black dress walked over with a smile and bowed slightly. "President Lin is waiting for you on the second floor."
Chen Lu nodded slightly and followed the woman slowly into the hall.
With the court hearing just two days away, Lin Jingming's sudden invitation to have dinner with his "good nephew" at this crucial juncture couldn't be clearer.
After months of back-and-forth, Polaris has won decisively.
The Lin Group suddenly realized that although its size was several times or even more than that of Polaris, it could not gain any advantage in this regard.
Not wanting to be severely damaged by the news of a lost case, they had no choice but to come over and negotiate.
Whether the lawsuit continues or not is of no concern to Chen Lu, since his initial goal was simply not to lose.
His company doesn't really need the publicity from winning the case right now, and given the size of the other party, they won't collapse just because of one loss.
Therefore, the conditions for withdrawing the lawsuit are naturally negotiable, and it won't take much effort to come and see what tricks the other party is up to.
Anyway, he's in control right now.
"Xiao Lu is here?"
Upon entering, Lin Jingming acted as if he knew nothing, adopting the demeanor of an elder and smilingly instructing him to sit down.
"I originally wanted to call Xiaoqian over, but I didn't expect that girl to run away abroad to see her sister again. She just does whatever comes to mind."
Chen Lu gave him a forced smile and deliberately sat down opposite him.
"Hey, that's where the guests sit. You've called me 'Uncle' since you were little. Come sit next to me." Lin Jingming waved his hand.
Chen Lu didn't move. "What happened between you and my Aunt Shiyun?"
His meaning was clear: I only call you "uncle" because of my aunt; I'm not buying your attempts to get close to me.
Lin Jingming rubbed his neck, and said somewhat awkwardly, "We had a little argument."
Halfway through the meal, seeing Lin Jingming still bringing up childhood memories, Chen Lu suddenly felt nauseous and said coldly, "Uncle, let's get down to business."
"Well, your company has recently had a minor conflict with one of my studios, hasn't it?"
Lin Jingming looked furious. "Actually, Uncle was busy with other things abroad and had no idea that my branch office was so irresponsible, daring to tamper with your company. I fired that brat as soon as I got back. I told him that was my nephew's company!"
After he finished speaking, he forced a kind smile and said, "Xiao Lu, how about this? Uncle will apologize to you personally, and then you name your price, and we'll withdraw the lawsuit."
"It would be so embarrassing for outsiders to see us, uncle and nephew, in this state. It was all a misunderstanding to begin with!"
"Uncle, who's in charge of that comic convention your company organized in Hangzhou?" Chen Lu asked casually, raising his head.
"He's a senior executive appointed from head office, what's wrong?"
"You might as well fire him too, on the grounds that it affects the relationship between us uncle and nephew."
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