Chapter 44: Chapter 44 After Fleeing, the Disabled Tycoon Stops Pretending 6
He placed the cup down with a sound that was not subtle.
Su Zhiruan and the senior, as well as other people in the mall, all heard the noise and looked over.
Then the woman trying on jewelry in the jewelry store, hearing his movement, quickly took off the jewelry and approached Lu Peijin, not daring to get too close, her tone appeasing, “Ajing, what happened?”
“Nothing,” Lu Peijin’s gaze was devoid of any ripples, just quietly watching Su Zhiruan not far away, and the woman who had followed him looked in the same direction, somewhat puzzled.
“I get it now, Ajing, are you envious of that young couple? If only we could be like that…” The woman, dressed in luxurious haute couture, showed a sudden look of realization, at first filled with joy and shyness, but when she looked at Lu Peijin again, she found his expression had darkened, and she hurriedly fell silent.
Su Zhiruan looked at Lu Peijin and the woman by his side, originally intending to greet them, but seeing his somber expression from afar, she guessed that he might not be in a good mood now, and if she were to disturb Lu Peijin and his girlfriend, it might only exacerbate his already sour mood.
With that thought, Su Zhiruan just smiled from a distance and nodded.
After doing so, she noticed that Lu Peijin’s complexion seemed to get worse.
Su Zhiruan felt the scene was somewhat bizarre, Lu Peijin and his woman, and then a so-called senior suddenly appearing beside her, and then her and Lu Peijin’s relationship…
Standing together made it seem somewhat strange.
“Ruanruan, may I call you that?” the senior, clueless, still smiled openly, “Is he someone you know? He looks very imposing, much like a leader.”
“Yes, he’s someone I know—Senior, did you come to the mall to shop too? Let’s go!” Su Zhiruan changed the subject and wanted to take the blissfully ignorant senior away.
But just then, a cold and chilling voice came from behind her.
“What are you running for?”
Su Zhiruan immediately stopped in her tracks.
The woman accompanying Lu Peijin was called Gu Baicha, the second daughter of the Gu Family. Initially, she thought Lu Peijin was envious upon seeing the young couple in love, but later, she observed that his gaze on these two people, especially the female, seemed more complex than what would be reserved for strangers.
Alarm bells went off in her mind.
She had been entangling Lu Peijin for a long time, and this time, she had barely managed to get a few minutes of his time by invoking her elders’ names.
But if this woman had something to do with him, wouldn’t all her previous plans have been in vain?
She could not accept such an outcome, so her gaze towards Su Zhiruan once again filled with hostility.
“Mr. Lu,” Su Zhiruan had no choice but to turn around and greet him with a smile, “I didn’t come over to greet you just now, afraid of disturbing you and your girlfriend.”
“Since Mr. Lu has his fair lady by his side, I won’t disturb Mr. Lu’s pleasures,” Su Zhiruan also smiled gently at Gu Baicha, as a way of greeting.
Gu Baicha originally thought she was a romantic rival or an adversary, but hearing her tone now, it didn’t seem that way.
Instead, she looked more like a subordinate of Lu Peijin’s, and this reassured Miss Gu quite a bit.
“Is this your boyfriend?” Lu Peijin hadn’t listened to her polite words but just quietly looked at her, with an apparently calm surface yet seemingly hiding countless undercurrents.
“No, he’s my senior,” Su Zhiruan said truthfully, “He’s from the same school, and today is the first time we’ve met.”
The senior hadn’t approached, but he didn’t leave either, his gaze always on Su Zhiruan. Lu Peijin took in everything, his displeasure growing stronger.
But he didn’t understand what was happening to him, so he could only watch Su Zhiruan say goodbye and then leave with the young man.
The young man seemed quite happy, constantly grinning.
“Ajing, who is she?” Gu Baicha wanted to get closer to Lu Peijin but could feel the oppressive air around him and immediately reconsidered.
Lu Peijin looked at Su Zhiruan’s retreating figure and said indifferently, “A hotel waitress.”
“Ah? So that’s it,” Gu Baicha instantly relaxed. If she had been some family’s young mistress, she might have been worried, but as a hotel waitress, she wasn’t concerned at all. With such social standing, there was no comparison between them.
“She is pretty though, and they do look well-matched.” Gu Baicha said bluntly what was on her mind while watching the two from behind.
Lu Peijin’s hand, holding the tablet, tensed in an instant, his expression still calm, but his eyes gradually brewed a storm.
“They can never be together,” Lu Peijin withdrew his gaze and focused on the document at hand.
Gu Baicha would normally speak to him without receiving any response, but today, the fact that he was willing to say so much to her—even though it was about another woman—made her quite happy.
Lu Peijin furrowed his brows and, after quite a while, finally said, “Their auras don’t match.”
Although Gu Baicha didn’t quite understand what that meant, she still nodded her head as if she did.
Right then, Lu Peijin’s secretary arrived, and they left the mall.
Su Zhiruan had no shift today, and she had spent the day arranging her rented small apartment, making it much cozier.
In the evening, she thought it over and decided to take out the red dress she wore yesterday from the wardrobe, putting it on after taking a shower.
Nine o’clock at night.
She arrived punctually at Lu Peijin’s 28th-floor presidential suite.
Just like the day before, she knocked on the door first and, after half a minute, opened it with her key card.
Upon entering, she was enveloped in an overwhelming darkness.
She placed her card properly and softly called out twice, “Mr. Lu? Mr. Lu?”
Receiving no answer, she felt around in the dark trying to locate the light switch.
However, at that moment, as the world seemed to spin around her, a great force pinned her against the wall.
Then, a cool and sharp fragrance pressed heavily against her, prying her mouth open.
Following that, Su Zhiruan’s flailing hands were also restrained, lined up neatly against the wall.
It was only then that she realized.
Lu Peijin! He did it on purpose!
But then, her consciousness gradually grew hazy, even blurry.
All of a sudden, it seemed as if she saw their overlapping shadows in the reflection of the floor-to-ceiling window.
Cast upon the window, they appeared even closer.
The thinning air was slowly being stripped away, and the remaining gaps were steadily filled.
She felt herself being picked up in a horizontal embrace and then placed down on a soft sofa.
She thought absently.
“Don’t… not the sofa…”
But it was to no avail.
There are some things that, once they have started, there’s no reason to stop.
She could feel a low pressure emanating from the man, he was not pleased, one could even say, he was somewhat angry.
And all this, only Lu Peijin knew—he was indeed very angry, all of his incomprehension, all of his anger, it all stemmed from her!
He himself didn’t know why.