Chapter 137
After hanging up the phone, Yu Duo waved in Ah Chi’s direction and called, “Ah Chi!”
Meanwhile, Ah Chi had been walking with his head down and talking to his assistant about work matters when he suddenly heard a familiar voice call his name. He steps unconsciously slowed and he looked up in the direction the voice came from only to see someone he hadn’t seen in a long time, his sister-in-law, who was standing there waving to him.
Then, disregarding his confused assistant and ignoring the fact that there were a lot of people around, Ah Chi quickly and directly walked over to Yu Duo.
The girls at the front desk saw him coming and busily stood up while greeting, “Vice President Chi.”
But Ah Chi ignored them and said, “Sister-in-law, what are you doing here?”
Yu Duo flashed the bento box she was carrying and said, “I came to deliver lunch for Sinian, but even until now I still haven’t seen him. It seems he’s still out working even at lunchtime... tell me honestly, has he been too busy with his work and forgetting to eat properly these days?”
Ah Chi was about to say something in response, Yu Duo just kept on grumbling, “I’ve already told him many times that he should go home and properly rest these days while I’m not around because of my pregnancy and even told Auntie Lian to stew him nourishing soup for his stomach, but it seems that he’s been ignoring me. I really don’t know how to persuade him.”
The girls at the front desk all began exchanging nervous glances while secretly looking over at Yu Duo, worried and wondering if she had overheard what they had been saying just now.
“Well...” Ah Chi started again.
But Yu Duo cut him off once more, really not letting him get a word in, “Anyway, take me up to Sinian’s office for now, I guess I’ll just go and wait for him there.”
“Alright, sister-in-law, come this way.”
Suddenly, Yu Duo looked back at the girls at the front desk and spoke with a gentle smile, “It might be better not to believe every random thing some person in prison says, don’t you think?”
The girls at the desk all looked uncomfortable, one of them nodded awkwardly and replied, “You’re right, I don’t believe what that woman says at all.”
Some other nearby staff members had also noticed the small commotion so by now many sidelong glances and hushed whispers were suddenly being directed at Yu Duo, and one particularly industrious individual had even quietly taken out their phone as if to snap a picture. Ah Chi noticed what was going on and was about to yell to put a stop to it, but Yu Duo raised a hand and stopped him.
She quietly winked at Ah Chi and whispered, “It doesn’t matter.”
In fact, the bigger the fuss that was made, the better, as far as she was concerned. It would be best if this scene could be seen by everyone.
After that, Ah Chi took her up to Fu Sinian’s office. This was actually the first time that Yu Duo had come to her husband’s office and, after looking around curiously for a while, she set down the bento box on a table that seemed to be for serving tea to guests before sitting on a nearby sofa to wait for Fu Sinian to come back.
“Sister-in-law, would you like something to drink? I’ll go get it for you.”
“I’m fine,” Yu Duo replied. “I know that the company has been very busy lately, so you don’t have to stay here and take care of me. Go ahead and go do what you need to do.”
Actually, there was still something very uncomfortable between her and Ah Chi and, although they had a tacit understanding not to mention it anymore, it wasn’t like they could just pretend that nothing had happened.
Because of that, the atmosphere was a little awkward.
“Alright, sister-in-law, but if you need anything just come find m... you can find one of the assistants outside and they’ll take care of it for you, whatever it is. ” Ah Chi was accustomed to just telling Yu Duo to come look for him, but just as the words were about to leave his mouth, he suddenly remembered his Big Brother’s previous warning and swallowed them back down.
Taking a final glance at Yu Duo’s slightly bulging belly and the bento box on the table, Ah Chi silently left the office.
Yu Duo breathed a sigh of relief.
When the door finally closed, Yu Duo stood up and began to look around Fu Sinian’s office curiously.
It was spacious and comfortable, simple and elegant, without much in the way of decoration, and also without much in the way of personal belongings anywhere. The desk mostly just had a computer on it, along with a large accumulation of documents.
Yu Duo plopped herself down in the wide and comfortable ‘bosses’ chair, leaned back, and began to spin leisurely.
However, the longer she looked at it, the more she felt that there was something missing from this nearly-empty desk.
After thinking for a while, she suddenly felt that Fu Sinian’s desk should definitely have a picture of her on it.
If she had a chance in the future, she would tell him to put one there.
After idling around for a little while, Yu Duo checked the time on her watch unhappily.
Why wasn’t Fu Sinian here yet?
Looking out at the slowly setting sun beyond the huge glass windows, Yu Duo yawned with boredom.
Ever since she had gotten pregnant, she got tired and sleepy a lot more easily than she had before. She had spent more than an hour in the car riding from the Yu residence here to the Fu Group and, honestly, she had already been getting sleepy in the car. So now, as soon as her back touched the leather of the big and comfortable chair, her eyelids began to sink and, ultimately, she couldn’t help but drift off to sleep.
When Fu Sinian came back, that was what he saw. Yu Duo, sitting behind his desk in his chair, obviously asleep.
His feet slowed imperceptibly as he contemplated for an instant, and then he waved off the person behind him to silently tell them to leave. He gently shut the door behind him and then walked slowly over to the desk. He looked at Yu Duo’s sleeping face helplessly before quietly shuffling over and leaning down to pick her up.
Although, Yu Duo got tired more easily these days, she actually couldn’t sleep very well and tended to wake up at the slightest movement. So, the moment Fu Sinian gently laid her down on the sofa, Yu Duo suddenly woke up with a startled expression. However, as her eyes focused and she recognized Fu Sinian’s face, she breathed a sigh of relief.
“You’re back?”
Fu Sinian’s hands froze, even as Yu Duo sat up from the sofa.
“En.”
“Have you eaten yet?”
“Not yet.”
“The bento I brought for you is on the table,” Yu Duo yawned. “It may be a little cold by now, you might need to warm it up.”
Fu Sinian walked over, picked up the bento box, and opened it. It was still warm.
He brought it over and sat on the sofa next to Yu Duo.
“It’s all your favorite foods,” Yu Duo looked over at him with her chin resting on her palm, and asked in a deliberately nonchalant tone of voice, “The things written in that article, are they true?”
Fu Sinian’s hand that was holding his chopsticks paused in mid-air, and he turned to look at her.
Yu Duo lowered head and said with a sigh, “I read that article and what’s written in it seems to be in line with the situation from back then. In fact, when I think about it carefully everything seems to match up perfectly, so I’m feeling a little confused. Husband, who do you think I should trust?”
However, when he saw the cunning smile playing around the edges of Yu Duo’s lips, Fu Sinian realized she was just teasing him on purpose, so he continued to eat while saying, “Do you think you should believe what a person in prison says, or believe me?”
“But I think that Qiao Jiao has a good point. What happened at that party back then was really strange. Husband, are you sure you don’t have anything you need to explain to me?”
Fu Sinian gave her a sidelong glance. “It’s all pure nonsense.”
Yu Duo leaned back on the sofa and idly looked around the office while he ate, “This is the first time I’ve come to your office,” she murmured. “It’s really big.”
Fu Sinian finished eating and quietly packed up the bento box without making any reply.
A moment later, he picked up the phone on the desk and used the internal line to call an assistant to take away the bento box. By now, the whole company knew that Mrs. Fu had come to the company to send a bento box to Mr. Fu, so after the assistant arrived to take the bento box, she didn’t dare to linger very long, just taking a quick glance at Yu Duo before quietly retreating with the empty bento box.
Yu Duo sighed, “Are all the assistants in big companies like yours so beautiful?”
Fu Sinian, who had been drinking a glass of water, almost choked.
“Also, there’s probably more than one assistant, right? At the very least you’re the boss of a big company, so you probably have a whole team of them, each one more young and beautiful than the last. Seeing them every day must be very pleasing for you.”
After his strange experience during those three months, Fu Sinian had realized that Yu Duo was not the gentle and obedient woman she often pretended to be on the surface, so he knew that she wasn’t in the habit of just speaking randomly. Whenever she wanted to express something, she might not just bluntly say it out, but she would definitely find her own way to make sure he would understand exactly what she was trying to communicate.
Thus, when he heard the traces of discontent and resentment in her ‘casual’ remark just now, he realized that she was clearly winding herself up to settle accounts with him later.
He slowly took another sip of his water and said calmly, “Actually, they were all arranged by Ah Chi.”
“Ah Chi?” Yu Duo looked at him with puzzled eyes.
“I don’t have the time to personally hire my assistants.” Fu Sinian abruptly drained the rest of his water, set down the cup, and then walked over and wrapped his arms around Yu Duo, laying his palms gently on her belly, “By the way, when are you going to come home?”
“I want to wait a while longer.”
“What are you waiting for?”
“I’m not sure, I just want to wait a bit longer. Besides, I’m doing fine, my mother is looking after me.”
Fu Sinian fell silent and, in the end, he didn’t say anything more.
———-
The fact that Yu Duo had appeared in the Fu Group building to send a bento to Fu Sinian spread out like wildfire, and soon photos and speculation were flying everywhere. With a bit of ‘guidance’ from the marketing team, many netizens began to question the authenticity of the article from before.
That article had maliciously claimed that Fu Sinian had done something unspeakable to Mrs. Fu, but now Mrs. Fu came out at a critical moment to clearly express her love for him! Clearly, the things described in the article were off base, and actually, the husband and wife were deeply and truly in love. And that wasn’t even mentioning that Mrs. Fu seemed to currently have his child in her belly.
Of course, there were also villains who were trying to fight back by posting speculations that maybe Fu Sinian had bribed or threatened Mrs. Fu somehow. After all, Mrs. Fu was clearly pregnant right now, and making big moves like this was no good for the baby, so probably her ‘show of love’ was just an act.
However, just when Yu Duo had resigned herself to the thought that this matter would continue to ferment and that the netizens would be arguing over it endlessly for a while to come, the lawyers from the Fu Group’s legal department began to send out their letters to certain people, while the Fu Group’s PR department began to aggressively delete the offending posts and just generally control the flow of the online discussion. The whole two-pronged operation was swift and fierce and, in just a few days, the internet returned to calm as if the miniature scandal had never existed in the first place.
By this point, certain people suddenly began to wake up.
The Fu Sinian now was no longer the Fu Sinian from that year back then. His means and abilities had only become more and more powerful with the rising tide of his ambitions. For the him of today, this kind of thing was just a trivial matter that could be easily squashed out of existence with a single word.
Following that, the Fu Group suddenly announced the launch of their long aimed-for Chengdong Project, and a press conference was held alongside the signing ceremony.
At the press conference, Fu Sinian was as stable as Mount Tai, neither humble nor arrogant, modest but not servile, as he signed the agreement to take on the project face to face with the government representatives.