At half past 11 in the morning, after Chu Cheng Yan finished working through files and secretly checked up on Jiang Yue Yue, he prepared to go out for lunch.
At that moment, Assistant Jiang knocked on his door and entered the office. With a hint of curiosity in his voice, he said: âPresident, a call just came in from the front desk. There is a gentleman downstairs who claims to be your cousin bringing lunch for you.â
Chu Cheng Yanâs sharp eyebrows couldnât help but rise a fraction, he was already planning to go out for a meal.
Assistant Jiang misunderstood Chu Cheng Yanâs reaction as irritation and quickly apologized, âIâm sorry! Iâll take care of this matter, President.â
âLet him come up,â Chu Cheng Yan rubbed his brows as a hint of annoyance crept into his voice.
Assistant Jiang who was about to leave to have the man removed froze for a moment seeing Chu Cheng Yanâs dark face. He did not dare to ask anymore before quickly leaving the office to bring the cousin.
A few minutes later, Su Yu walked into the office behind Assistant Jiang carrying a huge insulated thermal lunch box. When he saw Chu Cheng Yan, he flashed a brilliant smile. âCousin, I brought you lunch!â
Chu Cheng Yanâs eyebrows twitched twice. Just as he was about to drive the other party away, he saw Su Yu put down the lunchbox and rub his stomach: âIn order to get the food here on time, I havenât eaten yet. Cousin, take a break from work and quickly come eat ah.â
With the food already within reach, Chu Cheng Yan gave up on sending Su Yu away. He decisively put down the documents in his hands and stood up. Seeing Assistant Jiang still standing in the office, Chu Cheng Yan frowned. âYou go and work.â
Although Assistant Jiang was very curious about this cousin who popped up out of nowhere, under the icy gaze of his boss, he nodded his head and quickly left.
Su Yu opened the lunchbox and carefully laid out the meal before placing a pair of chopsticks in front of Chu Cheng Yan. âCousinâs probably really hungry right? Quickly eat ba.â
Waiting until Chu Cheng Yan picked up the chopsticks, Su Yu immediately picked up his own chopsticks and started to eat. Chu Cheng Yan looked at Su Yu with an inexplicable gaze for a moment then finally began to eat.
Su Yu had prepared a lot of dishes but perhaps because the appetites of the two men were very large, almost no food was left when they finished eating.
Because he overate Su Yuâs stomach felt very uncomfortable. Lounging on the couch, Su Yu lazily asked, âCousin, I ate too much earlier and it feels very uncomfortable to walk right now. Can I just sit here for a while?â
âEn.â Chu Cheng Yan nodded. He then proceeded to directly ignore Su Yu and sat back down at the desk to continue processing documents.
Su Yu yawned and lazed around on the couch in boredom until the ball came back with news that Jiang Yue Yue had already finished her lunch break and was about to enter the company. Su Yu pushed himself off the couch and picked up the empty dishes to put back in the lunchbox.
âCousin, Iâm going to head back now. Iâm not very familiar with this place so do you can you send me back down?â Su Yu stared at Chu Cheng Yan with wide innocent eyes.
Chu Cheng Yan didnât even look at his cousin. He mercilessly told Su Yu to go ask Assistant Jiang. Su Yu rolled his eyes in his heart but he put on a pitiful and innocent expression as he pleaded, âEarlier when I was on the first floor the security guards tried to throw me out. They didnât believe I was your cousin. It was really scary! Even after Assistant Jiang came, the people said I was just trying to cling onto my relatives for wealth.â
This was the first time Chu Cheng Yan had seen a grown man showing such a pitiful look. He momentarily felt a foreign emotion as his heart inexplicably skipped a few beats: âFine.â
âThank you Cousin!â Su Yuâs face immediately brightened and he gave Chu Cheng Yan a huge smile.
When Assistant Jiang saw his boss walk out of the office side by side with the âcousinâ from earlier, his jaw almost fell off from shock.
âCousin, can we use the staff elevator going down? I really want to try it once!â Su Yu smiled with his eyes as wide and innocent as possible. In order to create encounters with the female protagonist, he also had to work hard.
Chu Cheng Yan sternly looked at Su Yu for a moment before he surprisingly agreed to the request. The pair walked to the staff elevators that had just stopped on their floor and entered.
By this time, Jiang Yue Yue had been waiting on the first floor for the staff elevator for a long time. She didnât know what was wrong with the elevator today but it was much slower than usual. She waited for half a day but still did not see even a shadow of the elevator.
Two minutes later, an elevator finally arrived at the first floor. Jiang Yue Yue felt relief as the lights signaled the elevatorâs appearance. When the doors had just opened, she immediately rushed inside without looking around before suddenly noticing the President was in the elevator.
What she was waiting for was the regular staff elevator, right? Not the Presidentâs exclusive elevator?
Su Yu also saw Jiang Yue Yue; his lips faintly curled up. As he walked past her to step out of the elevator, Su Yu accidentally bumped into Jiang Yue Yue causing the lunchbox in his hands to fall and spill out onto the floor.
A little bit of remnant soup splashed out of the lunchbox and fell directly on Jiang Yue Yueâs white canvas shoes.
âSorry! Sorry! Iâm so sorry! I lost my balance for a moment and bumped into you. I even got your shoes dirty.â Su Yu was shocked and quickly apologized. He grabbed a paper towel and tried to help Jiang Yue Yue scrub off the soup stains on her shoes. Su Yu suddenly stopped, realizing his actions were too over the top and afraid he had accidentally scared the other party.
But from behind him, Chu Cheng Yan suddenly came forward and, without thinking, took the paper towels from Su Yu and proceeded to clean Jiang Yue Yueâs shoes.
The next moment noise ceased on the first floor as everyone fell dead silent, staring at the man studiously cleaning Jiang Yue Yueâs shoes. This⦠Is this⦠Is this really their merciless President?
Su Yu also looked at this scene with a ridiculing smile until Chu Cheng Yan stood up. Bowing his head Su Yu apologized again. âCousin, Iâm sorry. Itâs all my fault. I was too careless.â
Chu Cheng Yanâs gaze was still locked on Jiang Yue Yueâs shoes that he had helped wipe clean with a paper towel.
Jiang Yue Yue was flustered and quickly waved the apology away. âItâs okay. I should have waited for you to get off the elevator first. I was wrong too, so you donât have to apologize.â
She completely did not expect the President to personally help her wipe her shoes. This situation was too unbelievable!
Su Yu had already made two sincere apologies, completely revealing the situation to everyone around. As Su Yu walked past the front desk, Su Yu carelessly said, âCousin, you must get along really well with your employees at the company. Youâre not even disgusted when helping people clean their shoes. Youâre really gentle!â
This statement made Chu Cheng Yanâs face stiffen slightly. At the front desk, the two receptionistsâ eyes widened with realization at Su Yuâs comment. They seemed to have inadvertently heard a big secret!
âI just said it casually. Cousin, you really donât have to care about it.â After his goal was reached, Su Yu immediately absolved himself of blame. Laughing, Su Yu waved goodbye to his cousin and took a taxi back to the Chu family villa.
The most important part of any workplace will always be gossip and what Su Yu did earlier was exactly promoting gossip. Su Yu can almost perfectly imagine how todayâs event will produce the most wonderful present for himself in the near future.
In the original story line, though Chu Cheng Yan had always paid a lot of attention to Jiang Yue Yue, he had never overtly displayed his affection and so the company never had any opportunity to spread gossip. But it can be assumed things will not happen the same way now.
Of course, he didnât do things this way entirely just to make trouble for Jiang Yue Yue.
Su Yu looked down at the image just captured by the ball. A man in a suit gently kneels next to a cute petite woman wiping her shoes while the womanâs gaze gently rests on the man. The picture had a beautifully artistic charm to it.
âHost, even if Jiang Yue Yue knew of Chu Cheng Yanâs affection for her, Iâm afraid she still wonât be with him,â the ball glanced at the picture. Thinking the Hostâs motive today was only for convincing Jiang Yue Yue to be with Chu Cheng Yan in the future, it couldnât help but speak up to warn him.
If Chu Cheng Yan could be considered to have negative IQ when it came to Jiang Yue Yue, then Jiang Yue Yue also had negative IQ when it came to her boyfriend, Zhao He. Both people were willing to fight for their one special person.
Su Yu smirked slightly at the mischief to come in the future. âI donât have any intentions of promoting their feelings. But doesnât this make things more interesting? As for this picture, of course it will have its uses in the future. Naturally, you will know it then.â
Su Yu canât possibly allow the days to all be so boring. Instead of having to waste months waiting with just one person, itâs much more fun to jump start the plot and make everyone busy.
ââ¦â The ball gained a deeper understanding of the Hostâs twisted mind. It trembled a bit but did not dare to say anything and just silently drifted away from the frightening Host.
The next day, Su Yu once again brought an insulated lunchbox for Chu Cheng Yan as well as a brand new pair of canvas womenâs shoes. He gave the lunchbox to Assistant Jiang to deliver to Chu Cheng Yan while Su Yu himself went to Jiang Yue Yueâs office.
Due to the time, there were very few people still in the office as most were still on lunch break including Jiang Yue Yue.
After asking around and learning Jiang Yue Yue was currently not at the office, Su Yu entrusted the shoes to a colleague of Jiang Yue Yue as well as a message: âLet Jiang Yue Yue know that the shoes are compensation for yesterdayâs accident. The President personally picked out the shoes for her and hopes that she will like them.â
Holding the new pair of shoes, Jiang Yue Yueâs colleague kept repeating the words âthe President personally picked out the shoesâ in her mind. Then she became extremely angry. She really didnât expect that the rumors that âthe President and Jiang Yue Yue are having an affairâ turned out to be true!
Obviously Jiang Yue Yue already had a boyfriend yet she still dared to seduce the company President. Jiang Yue Yue usually presented herself as soft and weak yet it was all just for show. She did not expect this woman to be such a hypocritical slut!
After Su Yu delivered the shoes, in a good mood, he went back up to accompany Chu Cheng Yan for lunch before leaving.
The next few days, except for greeting Chu Cheng Yan every morning, Su Yu spent most of his time playing in the city. He discovered that the scenery in A city really was quite nice good. However, he did not forget about Jiang Yue Yue; he kept the ball secretly monitoring the situation.
The ball: QAQ
These days, Jiang Yue Yueâs time at the company was really difficult. She obviously hadnât done anything but suddenly, she was being shunned by her co-workers. Someone even put a threatening letter in her desk.
Jiang Yue Yue had always been lacking in courage. At that time, she was really scared and told the department manager about the letter. She hoped the department manager could help her investigate the situation.
The result was that the manager glared at her and coldly said, âItâs best if you just admit your crime outright, otherwise you will have to bear the consequences yourself.â
This made Jiang Yue Yue feel very stupid in and caused her heart to be endlessly troubled. She was completely clueless as to why everyone had turned on her until one day she overheard her colleagues chatting in the bathroom. Then she finally realized what was going on.
There is absolutely nothing going on between the President and herself. How could they say she�!
Jiang Yue Yue was almost in tears. In order to be rid of the scandalous label on herself and the criticism and ostracization of her colleagues , she directly confronted Chu Cheng Yan and very seriously said, âPresident, I already have a boyfriend and I donât have any unreasonable thoughts about you. How can you let such horrible rumors spread through the company?â