He would marry a beggar than go back to Xia Yixuan.
After she had filled her water, she stood at the side to wait for it to cool before drinking it again. Right, she had something to discuss with Chu Lui about.
Knock, knock. She knocked on the door.
“Come in.”
The man inside was obviously not in a good mood to the point where his entire office had an angry atmosphere.
Once Xia Ruoxin opened the door and entered the room, a stack of documents flew towards her and had almost hit her.
“Take these back to arrange. You can’t even do the basic job of a secretary. If you mess up again, get out of the office.”
Chu Lui yelled harshly with his back facing her.
Xia Ruoxin squatted down and picked up the document on the floor, flipping it page by page.
After not hearing the secretary respond in a while, he turned around. “Why, did you not understand what I just said? How many times do you want me to…?” Before he could finish his sentence, he was taken aback because the person standing at the door was not the secretary that he could rage at. It was Xia Ruoxin.
“Ruoxin, are you okay? Did I hit you?” He hurriedly came over and remembered that he had thrown something over just now. Hopefully, it did not hit her. Xia Ruoxin carefully placed the document in her hand on the table.
“Mr. Chu, do you need to bully people like that?”
She folded her arms tightly. “They came here to work for you, not seek their death.”
“I never thought of smashing her with it.” Chu Lui explained himself.
Xia Ruoxin lowered her head and stared at the document on the table. It was too late. He had already hit her, and she experienced it firsthand.
“Ruoxin, do you have something you want to talk to me?” Chu Lui’s attitude changed completely. His current mood was actually not bad, and he had a slight smile on his face.
Xia Ruoxin held her cup tightly and felt the warmth coming from the cup.
“CEO, may I know if I can boil water at my office?” she asked Chu Lui. It was troublesome to make so many trips. It was not the problem of taking the elevator or walking many steps. It was just that she always seemed to meet this man every time she came.
Other than work, she did not want to have anything to do with this man. Just that, she did not know their fate had begun twenty-odd years ago. Their lives were destined to be intertwined, and only death could do them apart.
“Sorry, but no.” Chu Lui walked to the front of his desk and sat down before flipping the documents on the table. “The company has rules. The pantry will provide drinking water for the employee, and there cannot be any other personal facilities to boil water. If you find it a hassle, you can go down a few floors.”
Down a few floors? Forget it. Xia Ruoxin acted as if she had never asked anything. Who on Earth came up with this design to have the water coolers at two floors and none above the fifteenth floor? Besides, the seventeenth-floor elevator did not directly go to other floors, and so did the eighteenth-floor one. They were both straight elevators. If she did not come to the eighteenth-floor pantry to take water, then she would have to walk down to the fourteenth floor or take the elevator down to the first then up to the second.
She took her cup and walked out, but she did not know that Chu Lui was staring at her back view. The frown on his face suddenly curved up with a smile.
Meanwhile, Xia Yixuan was so frightened by Chu Lui. She did not dare to go out of the house for a few days. Every time she thought of Chu Lui’s red eyes and the hands that almost strangled her neck, she was petrified and was scared awake at night.
“Daddy.” She walked to Xia Mingzheng’s side and hugged his arm before shaking it like she did in the past.
“You!” Towards this daughter, Xia Mingzheng had nothing to say. Even though he was angry and disappointed, it was better than him sending her off to her death.
“Why are you so disobedient?” He could not resist not disciplining Xia Yixuan. “Think about it. What have you done all these while? If you didn’t like Chu Lui, you could have just said it. There was no need to come up with a car accident. Don’t you know how I have been living for the past few years?”
“Daddy, I didn’t do it on purpose.” Xia Yixuan was really spoiled. Up till now, she still did not know what she did wrong. “How was I supposed to know that it would end up like this back then?” She complained. “Anyway, I’m back now. Who allowed that shameless Xia Ruoxin to marry my Brother Lui? Brother Lui is mine!”
“Yixuan!” Xia Yixuan boomed and called out Xia Yixuan’s name.
“What’s wrong with you, Dad?”
Xia Yixuan pulled a long face. “I just came home, and you yelled at me?”
“I didn’t yell at you.” Xia Mingzheng did not know how to communicate with this daughter. “Don’t bother with Chu Lui and his family ever again. Don’t go near them, and distance yourself as far as possible away from Chu Lui.
“Do you hear me?”
Xia Mingzheng raised his voice, but Xia Yixuan still had a look of nonchalance on her face. She looked away. While Xia Mingzheng was talking, she did not hear anything of what he said.
“Daddy. I don’t care. You must help me this time.”
Xia Yixuan interrupted Xia Mingzheng’s sentence. This was her father, her biological father. Naturally, he would give whatever she wanted. However, he was actually raining down on her parade. How could this be happening?
“What can I help you with?” Xia Mingzheng started to regret it. How could he teach his daughter and caused her to become like this? She had no morals and had embarrassed him with whatever she had done. He needed to settle her now and change her for the better. If he did not do so, what else could he do for her?
“Daddy…” Xia Yixuan tugged Xia Mingzheng’s arm.
“That Xia Ruoxin is back and is right in Brother Lui’s office. What should I do? I don’t care. Get Mother to call that Xia Ruoxin to come back and not come in between me and Brother Lui. Brother Lui should be mine.”
Xia Mingzheng really wanted to slap this daughter of his. Did she have any idea what she was saying? Chu Lui… did he not make himself clear? Or did she think that she had not embarrassed his family enough?
“Yixuan, don’t follow that Li Manni. She ruined herself and her entire family.”
Outsiders did not know how the Li family fell out of power, but he could not ‘not know’. It was Chu Lui’s doing. Even though Chu Lui did not cause the Li family to fall apart, he did do enough damage. If it was not for Chu Lui considering his past relations with the Xia family—based on Xia Yixuan’s lies from the past four years, it was lucky that their Xia family could live on peacefully.
“Don’t mess with Xia Ruoxin or Chu Lui again.” He repeatedly warned.
However, Xia Yixuan was still not happy.
From young, she was prioritized for everything at home. Xia Ruoxin should be her shadow for life, be the dog by her side. Chu Lui was hers. Last time, she did not want him; but now that she did, he was hers.