Chapter 53: Chapter 53 After Running Away, the Disabled Tycoon Stopped Pretending 15
Lu Peijin got the news from his secretary, and when he saw her come back, he put down his book and looked at her, “You’re not going to do it anymore?”
“I was short on money for my grandmother’s medical treatment before, but now with Mr. Lu’s help, my grandmother’s illness is almost cured. I’m resigning to focus on fulfilling the contract,” Su Zhiruan explained, sitting beside him.
There was still a long time until the end of the year, and she wanted to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, having already chosen her school. During this time, she could prepare for pregnancy and study at the same time.
With the system, her pregnancy would naturally be more comfortable. Instead of doing nothing for such a long time, she might as well use it to elevate her education. It would also be good for her to go to another city to settle down with her grandmother.
“That’s good,” Lu Peijin stood up to stretch his limbs and put the book aside.
Su Zhiruan watched him walk towards the windowsill, where a wheelchair was placed. She suddenly remembered a question, “Mr. Lu, today in the elevator, you weren’t sitting in the wheelchair. If someone recognizes that—”
“It’s fine. I pretended to be disabled before to deal with some people. Now that things are almost settled, it doesn’t matter if it’s discovered,” Lu Peijin dimmed the light, and the entire living room immediately became dim.
Their eyes met for a moment, but Su Zhiruan’s gaze shifted away unnaturally, and she leaned back, only to find the couch behind her.
“I wanted to spare you last night, but it turned out that you couldn’t sleep,” Lu Peijin approached her step by step, “Since that’s the case, today we’ll see if this approach can cure your insomnia.”
“Can we not do it on the couch?” Su Zhiruan knew she couldn’t escape, but she didn’t want it to be on the couch, so she blinked at Lu Peijin.
She recalled that in the hotel before, she had proposed the same idea to Lu Peijin, and he had taken her to another place—beside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
She subconsciously glanced at the floor-to-ceiling windows, then immediately added, “And not in front of the window either.”
Lu Peijin nodded, but as he sat beside her, he didn’t move around. Instead, he held her and asked a question completely disconnected from the scene, “Did you eat anything tonight?”
“I ate a bit,” Su Zhiruan was puzzled by his question, so she answered honestly, “Mr. Lu, have you had dinner?”
“I haven’t eaten. I’m very hungry now,” Lu Peijin leaned on the couch, with Su Zhiruan collapsing along with him, “I want to eat something you’ve made.”
Su Zhiruan didn’t think much of it and immediately stood up, “Okay, wait for me for a while.”
Lu Peijin laughed softly behind her.
Not at the floor-to-ceiling windows, not on the couch…
Then how about in the kitchen?
By the time Su Zhiruan realized something was off, she was already in Lu Peijin’s arms.
When everything was over, Su Zhiruan was filled with regret!
This is even worse than the sofa!!
In the end, dinner turned out to be a no-go, and instead it was her who ended up utterly exhausted, dozing off on the couch.
Lu Peijin cooked two bowls of noodles and woke her with a smile, “Come on, eat something, you must be hungry by now.”
“…Lu Peijin,” Su Zhiruan spoke quietly, this time she didn’t call him Mr. Lu, but instead addressed him by his name.
Lu Peijin felt a bit surprised when he heard her, but found it quite pleasant, feeling the distance between them narrowing. He responded, “Hmm?”
“Can we go to the bedroom next time?” Su Zhiruan felt she needed to express her opinion, they couldn’t really keep undertaking such thrilling and intense ‘exercise’ in this total chaos and different settings every time.
“Of course, we can,” Lu Peijin replied casually as he led her to the dining table, pushed the bowl towards her, and handed her the chopsticks. Watching the sparkling look in her eyes as she ate her noodles, he added nonchalantly, “After dinner, we’ll do it again, this time in the bedroom, just as you wish.”
“Cough cough cough!!” Su Zhiruan almost choked upon hearing this, but Lu Peijin timely handed her a glass of water. After taking a sip, she felt much better.
The meal was eaten with hearts in throats, but in the end, Su Zhiruan still didn’t escape another round that night—this time in Lu Peijin’s bedroom.
The next day, Su Zhiruan had to make another trip to the hotel, mainly to handover her duties and take her belongings.
Ever since the elevator incident with Lu Peijin was discovered yesterday, she found herself the subject of many a waiter and colleague’s curious glances—some envious, some jealous, and some indifferent.
It wasn’t until Su Zhiruan had packed up and left that these people began to chat among themselves.
“What’s so special about her? She just relies on her looks! She’s working as a waitress at such a young age, able-bodied and all, not making a living by herself, but by that face—alas, these young girls nowadays…” someone remarked sourly as they watched her leave, continuing their bitter conversation with a close friend.
“Exactly, who knows with what foxy tricks she seduced President Lu. I tell you, she’s the craftiest one. How come we never noticed before!” Someone else chimed in, pausing their work to express their jealousy with a sneer.
“Enough, maybe it was mutual affection. Mr. Lu is handsome, and Su Zhiruan isn’t ugly either. If one is willing to strike, the other is willing to suffer. But in my opinion, it’s just a fling. With a family like Lu’s, he’s definitely expected to marry a well-matched young lady from a good family.”
That’s when the group started speaking ill of her.
“Actually, you guys don’t need to be so jealous,” a young girl who had been silent for a long while finally spoke up, with a soft voice that many heard, as the others’ remarks got nastier.
“And who are you? Just because you filled her position, you’re now recalling her goodness, how ridiculous.” The woman who had initially insulted Su Zhiruan sneered, tossing her cleaning cloth onto the floor dismissively.
“When she first joined, she claimed to be a university graduate. Serving here after graduation, probably graduated from some bogus university! Now that she’s climbed up to Mr. Lu, little does she know it’s probably just a plaything to him.” The woman spoke with a jeering face to the young girl defending Su Zhiruan.
The young girl’s gaze remained calm, laced with a hint of disdain.
Then, dropping her broom as well, she spoke evenly, her tone steady, “Perhaps she didn’t feel it necessary to mention it before, so you were unaware. But now that Sister Su is leaving, I’ll speak in her stead—”
“Su Zhiruan, a Jinghua University graduate, won countless awards during her time there and published dozens of papers—an exceptionally outstanding senior.” The young girl looked on with inward delight at the faces turning petrified before her.
She continued, “Had it not been for her grandmother falling ill, which led her to work here as a waitress to earn money, consider the prestige of a Jinghua University graduate. As for Mr. Lu, personally, I think that if they really got together, it wouldn’t be about who surpassed whom. If Sister Su wants, she could easily find a position within the system.”