rose ashes

It was already late at night. Ye Gu sat in the car, looking at Rocco's figure outside the window.

"I'm here to return my clothes, please don't stop me."
Luo Ke looked at Ye Gu's chief assistant arrogantly, but Luo Ke didn't know that this person was someone close to Ye Gu. To her, no matter what their identity was, they were all servants.

Chief Assistant Liu Min had a blank expression on his face and directly took the bag from her hand.
"I'll pass on the clothes. Mr. Ye is busy. Please go back, Miss Luo."

Luo Ke looked at the stubborn guy in front of her and was furious, but she did spend too much time here and in the end she could only leave empty-handed.
"Just wait for me, I will definitely complain about you to Brother Ye Gu next time!"

Liu Min didn't care at all and still made a very gentlemanly gesture of inviting him.

Ye Gu looked at Luo Ke walking away through the window with indifference, and soon looked away.

After Liu Min walked in, the window of the back seat slowly dropped down, and a cold white hand with protruding wrist bones stretched out.
"Where's the stuff?"

The bag was passed in through the window and a few seconds later, it was passed out intact.

"threw."

Liu Min took a look and saw the suit was still in the bag.

In the car, Ye Gu was holding the rose brooch he had taken off the chest of his suit and looking at it carefully. His eyes were unfathomable and no one knew what he was thinking.
No one dared to ask, and no one could ask.

The car drove away from Ye's house and headed towards the company.

Liu Min looked at Ye Gu through the rearview mirror and said respectfully, "Boss Ye, I have already told you what you ordered. Are you sure this is okay?"
A while ago, he was very surprised when Ye Gu asked him to spread the news about the marriage.

There had never been any news about Ye Gu getting married before, and he was completely confused about Ye Gu's instructions.

But he was just following orders and had no right to ask questions about his boss.

But after meeting Luo Ke several times with Ye Gu, to be honest, he felt that the marriage partner chosen by Ye Gu was really very different from Ye Gu.
He is totally unpresentable, bossy and condescending, and treats everyone as inferior.

Although he lacks strength, his methods are varied and his mind is as cunning as a spider web.

Liu Min was truly worried about Ye Gu's future. If Luo Ke was the future president's wife of their company, then everyone's good days would probably be over soon.

Ye Gu stretched his neck lazily in the back seat and opened the window a little to let the wind in.
"I never do useless things," he paused and raised his chin slightly, "give me the cup."

Liu Min's spine shrank. It was over. He forgot to drink the milk tea.

"Mr. Ye..." He tried to delay time.

Ye Gu's eyes were stern, "You'd better not tell me that the milk tea is gone."
He looks like he's in a very bad mood, as if his head is almost covered by dark clouds.

Liu Min made up his mind and clenched his fists. He was going to die anyway, so he might as well die with a clear mind.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Ye, the last cup of milk tea today was bought by someone else, and then you were in a hurry to go back to the company, so you didn't buy it."

Ye Gu laughed in anger, and the teardrop mole under his eye was moved to life.
"So Assistant Liu is blaming me?"

Liu Min's back was already covered in cold sweat. How could he dare to do that?
"No, no, it's all my fault. How can it be Mr. Ye's fault? There's a milk tea shop up ahead. I'll go buy some right away!"

After saying this, without waiting for Ye Gu to say anything, he got out of the car as if escaping.

Fortunately, the milk tea shop is very close and can be reached by crossing a zebra crossing. Liu Min sighed in his heart, feeling grateful for his long life and for the thousands of employees in the company.

Ye Gu is the most eccentric CEO Liu Min has ever met. Other CEOs are not involved in these three things.
——Don’t touch sweet things, women, or fun.

In Liu Min's opinion, except for not getting involved with women, Ye Gu has achieved the other two goals to the extreme.

Their CEO Ye brings an opaque sports water cup to the company every day. New employees who don’t know the answer to this question assume that he goes straight to the company after working out, and in their minds they consciously create an image of CEO Ye as someone with a perfect body, self-discipline and efficiency.

Little did he know that apart from milk tea, there was no way anything else could have entered Ye Gu's cup.

Moreover, the milk tea that Ye Gu drinks must not contain anything other than liquid, and additives such as pearl coconut flakes must not appear.

Ye Gu would be in a bad mood if he didn't drink something sweet for a day, so there was a special supply of milk tea in the company's tea room. Besides, he didn't like coffee, so coffee was not allowed in front of him.

There are also clear specifications for milk tea. It must contain 70% sugar, no more or less. Pure milk tea never has pearls added. If there is a seasonal edition, you have to buy the seasonal edition.
This is a clear rule that everyone in the company knows, and it is clearly written in black and white in the company's guidelines.

To be honest, Liu Min thought it was a joke at first, but since he became Ye Gu's general assistant, he realized that a good cup of milk tea can sometimes save a life.
Therefore, he always kept in mind the importance of milk tea to Ye Gu, but he could not avoid today's accident.

Finally, looking at the milk tea shop in front of him, Liu Min seemed to have seen a life-saving talisman. He walked in with gratitude, feeling pious and funny.

"A cup of spring milk, no toppings, thank you."

The cashier was stunned, looked at the lady who ordered first, and looked at Liu Min apologetically: "I'm very sorry, we are out of the ingredients for Spring Milk. The last cup has been sold out. How about you come back tomorrow, sir?"

At that second, Liu Min seemed to see himself standing at the door of the president's office with tears in his eyes, holding his resignation letter.

"Please, can you find a way to make me another cup? I'm really in a hurry and I need it now, please."
Liu Min looked like she was about to burst into tears in the next second, and her voice was trembling a little.

The woman next to him found it funny, but looking at Liu Min's expression, it seemed that he was not lying. He really looked like he was waiting for this cup of milk tea to save his life.

She smiled and raised her hand: "Give him my cup." Liu Min instantly felt as if he had been pardoned. Looking at the woman who kept bowing, he said, "Thank you so much! Thank you, you are really kind and beautiful! You will definitely be blessed!"

The woman didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "No need to do that. It's just a cup of milk tea. I don't need it."

While waiting for the milk tea, Liu Min and the woman started chatting. Liu Min was very talkative, and the woman occasionally said a word.

Liu Min complained crazily about his boss's weird hobby, and the woman finally understood why he wanted that cup of milk tea so much just now.

"It seems that your boss is a person who likes to take unconventional approaches. He must be very capable."

Liu Min agreed. This was undeniable. During the years that Ye Gu had been running the company, the stock price had generally been on the rise, and the company had also developed many other business areas. He was a rare business talent with an unusually keen sense of smell.

"Thank you so much, why don't you leave me your contact information? I really want to repay you this time, really! If I can't buy this cup of milk tea, I doubt I will see the sun tomorrow!"
Liu Min was scared just thinking about it.

The woman was begged by Liu Min in every possible way, and seeing that Liu Min was indeed sincere, she had no choice but to leave her contact information.
"Then I wish you good luck, and I hope your boss will be a forgiving person today."

Liu Min carefully returned to the car with the milk tea. The woman was still waiting in the milk tea shop for the mango green tea she had exchanged for.

"Boss, milk tea, seasonal, no extra ingredients."

Ye Gu opened his sleeping eyes slightly and stretched out his hand.

The taste is really good, with just the right amount of sweetness, and my originally gloomy and tired mood slowly recovered a little.

Liu Min smiled, and Ye Gu raised an eyebrow: "Are you so happy just buying a milk tea?"

Liu Min smiled innocently, touched the back of his head, and told the truth about what happened in the milk tea shop just now.
"That girl is really special in appearance, not the type of beauty that is popular among the general public, but I can guarantee that there must be a lot of people pursuing her!"

Ye Gu sneered, looking indifferent: "It's better not to be so confident when speaking."

Liu Min didn't say anything, but he was silently objecting. Now that young lady was his savior, so he didn't agree with Ye Gu's words.

Ye Gu was sensitive and could see through Liu Min's silent protest at a glance.

"If you have something to say, it's as if I'm some tyrant who won't let you speak."

Liu Min muttered, "No, I just wanted to thank her so I asked for her contact information. Boss, if you don't believe me, you can take a sneak peek next time!"
Liu Min is very rigorous and indifferent when working, and he clearly distinguishes between public and private affairs, but in fact he is a very serious and naive person in real life.

People in the company once thought that this was one of the reasons why Ye Gu chose him. After all, his life would become more interesting because of Liu Min.

Ye Gu laughed out loud. This was the first time today that he laughed so freely, feeling joy from the bottom of his heart.

"Assistant Liu, you are not trying to find yourself a girlfriend by saying thank you, are you?"

Liu Min didn't say anything, and then he said honestly: "Boss, I have a girlfriend, I think you should find a good one."

Ye Gu: “…”
It seems that he has been too nice to him recently, which gave Liu Min the courage to poke at his sore spot.

After a short episode, the car started moving slowly again. Ye Gu leaned back in his chair, holding the cup and closing his eyes, but his mind was in a mess.

The door of the milk tea shop was pushed open, and a woman was holding a cup of milk tea, with a corner of her coat lifted by the wind.

/ / /
The company rarely keeps people working overtime, so the entire building is dimly lit, with only a few lights on in the corridors.

Ye Gu tiredly unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt and handed the cup to Liu Min behind him.

"Last week, a printed copy of the acquisition plan for Qirui was sent to my office, and the sales quota from the headquarters was also sorted out and sent over."

"Ok."
Liu Min sighed, lamenting his miserable life. Others didn't have to work overtime, but he never had a day off.

Ye Gu sat on the sofa, but his eyes were fixed on the building opposite. The corners of his mouth were straight, and he looked like he was worried about something.

"Boss Ye, all the information is here."

"Yeah." Ye Gu replied softly, and suddenly a piece of paper fell in front of him. It should be the contact information that Liu Min asked for just now.

He picked it up and called out, "Liu Min, something fell."

Before he could even stretch out his hand, Ye Gu caught a glimpse of the name on the piece of paper. He was so familiar with those two words that they had long been deeply engraved in his genes.

Ye Gu said hurriedly: "Is this the contact information you asked for just now?"

Liu Min was startled by his sudden change of emotions and replied blankly: "Yes, yes."

Ye Gu held the paper in his hand, and suddenly lowered his eyes and smiled as if he had surrendered.

The two words "strong and elegant" on paper
——Luo Yang

(End of this chapter)