After returning home with the child, her ex-husband knelt down and gently coaxed her.

As soon as Cheng Wanwan arrived at the door, she sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the office.

The chill in the room was almost overwhelming, and Jiang Yao stood there looking completely bewildered.

She pushed open the door and entered, softly calling to the man above, "west Yan?"

Lu Xiyan's gaze swept over, his anger fading, and his brows furrowed slightly. "Why are you here?"

"Grandpa picked out a few hotels for us to choose from," Cheng Wanwan said with a smile as she approached. "I was afraid I wouldn't be able to explain it clearly over the phone, so I came to find you."

She glanced at Jiang Yao. "Assistant Jiang, what did you do to offend President Lu? The atmosphere is so serious."

"Well?"

Jiang Yao looked bewildered, and the nerves on his scalp twitched. He wouldn't dare offend President Lu even if he had ten lives.

"Go out."

The person above delivered this message, which made Jiang Yao breathe a sigh of relief, and he quickly went out.

Lu Xiyan turned to look at the torrential rain outside the window, then put away the documents on the table. "Do whatever you want with the hotel."

His tone was calm and indifferent, without any ripples.

Cheng Wanwan smiled, forcing a smile.

The literal meaning is to respect her; only she knows that Lu Xiyan doesn't care about this engagement at all.

"west Yan, is it time to leave work?"

Cheng Wanwan looked at the neatly tidied table. "Let's have dinner together tonight?"

Lu Xiyan got up and picked up his suit jacket. He was about to refuse when he suddenly remembered something.

"it is good."

His agreement filled Cheng Wanwan with joy, and she immediately followed him out.

Just as I reached the door, I bumped into someone.

"Huh? Is Mr. Lu getting ready to leave work?"

Liang Xu was holding a USB drive. "I was just about to talk to you about something."

Suddenly, she noticed a woman following behind him. "Wanwan's here too?"

"Brother Liang Xu." Cheng Wanwan glanced at Lu Xiyan's profile and said to Liang Xu with a smile, "Xiyan and I were just about to go eat."

"Oh?" Liang Xu drawled, a knowing smile on his face. "So you're here to pick up west Yan from work."

Cheng Wanwan smiled happily, then turned to look at the man beside her, only to find that his face remained calm, seemingly unaffected by Liang Xu's teasing.

"What do you want?" Lu Xiyan asked Liang Xu.

Liang Xu glanced at Cheng Wanwan beside him, put away the USB drive in his hand, and said with a smile, "The location of the Food and Medical Joint R&D Center has been decided. It's in Longhu. I happen to have something to do tomorrow and can't go. I'll have to trouble President Lu to go and inspect it in person."

"this one?"

Lu Xiyan's eyes were deep. Jiang Yao had told him about this a long time ago, so Liang Xu didn't need to make this trip.

Liang Xu reached out and patted his shoulder, laughing, "I was just afraid you'd forget!"

Lu Xiyan glanced at him. "Want to go out for dinner?"

"I'm not going," Liang Xu quickly said with a laugh. "If I go and become a third wheel, Wanwan will be angry with me, right, Wanwan?"

He glanced at Cheng Wanwan teasingly. Cheng Wanwan was secretly pleased, but politely replied, "How could that be?"

Liang Xu smiled, watched the two enter the elevator, took out the USB drive he had just been holding from his pocket, and then his smile faded as he looked troubled.

He was unsure whether he should get involved in the matter between Lu Xiyan and An Ning.

Previously, he felt that An Ning was too materialistic and had hurt his brother, so he wished Lu Xiyan would stay far away from her and never see her again in this lifetime.

But now it seems that's not the case.

He couldn't understand what the woman wanted to do, and he couldn't figure out what his brother was thinking.

......

The rain was pouring down outside, showing no signs of stopping.

It's unclear how long this rain will last. Anning had just delivered the USB drive to Liang Xu and was looking up at the building from the lobby.

I wonder if Lu Xiyan has finished get off work yet, or if he forgot to eat because he was working overtime.

He is always very serious about his work, and when he gets serious, he forgets to eat and sleep.

This is not a good habit.

An Ning withdrew her gaze, opened her umbrella, and left.

As she walked to the roadside to hail a taxi, rain splashed onto her legs, and glistening water droplets swirled down her skin.

An empty taxi approached from a distance, and just as An Ning was about to raise her hand to flag it down, a black luxury car drove out of the group's underground parking garage in her peripheral vision.

As if drawn by some unseen force, An Ning subconsciously looked over and immediately recognized it as Lu Xiyan's car.

The vehicle was turning at the intersection and happened to pass by her, driving over the puddles on the road.

An Ning was just about to find an excuse to stop his car when she froze on the spot before she could even raise her hand.

Through the rain and the car window, she saw a woman intimately clinging to his shoulders in the back seat of the carriage as it slowly drove past her, her nose hidden against his neck.

Vague and indistinct, hazy and indistinct, intimate and ambiguous...

It felt like a kiss.

An Ning clearly saw his gaze sweep over her; his clear, black and white eyes were as cold as frost, meeting her astonished gaze without any ripples or emotion.

Just then, the woman beside him looked up.

An Ning's heart clenched suddenly, and even her breath seemed to stop for a few seconds.

It's Cheng Wanwan!

She stood blankly on the roadside steps, the rain pounding against the umbrella she held above her head.

She watched the luxury car drive away, her breathing light and slow, as if something was stuck in her throat, preventing her from making a sound.

My eyes were so red, and my heart was numb with pain.

A thought I dared not face suddenly popped into my head—are Lu Xiyan and Cheng Wanwan really together? Is it not an act, but real?

If Lu Xiyan was only angry with An Ning, and those harsh words were meant to retaliate against her and make her angry, then even if there was still a little bit of her in his heart, she would still have a chance to win him back, tell him the whole truth from four years ago, and get his forgiveness.

But if... he has truly and completely let go of his feelings for her and fallen in love with Cheng Wanwan, deciding to get engaged to her, then An Ning will be completely helpless.

A passerby, hurrying by, accidentally bumped into her umbrella.

Her grip gave way, the umbrella was knocked to the ground, and a torrential downpour soaked her to the bone.

An Ning stared blankly at the black car that gradually disappeared from sight, unable to tell whether the water on her wet face was rain or tears, only feeling waves of heat welling up in her eyes.

A gaping hole suddenly appeared in my heart, and icy rain poured in.

......

"It's done."

In the back seat of the car, Cheng Wanwan sat up straight, looked at Lu Xiyan's suit jacket collar, and smiled, "The collar was a little crooked just now."

Lu Xiyan glanced at her, his eyes unreadable, and remained silent.

His gaze was so intense that Cheng Wanwan was a little scared and quickly looked away.

Her hands, hidden under the hem of her skirt, clenched tightly.

She did it on purpose.

As the car pulled away, she saw Anning standing by the roadside.

She knew An Ning could see them too, so she deliberately got close to Lu Xiyan and pulled off the stunt just now.

She was also very certain that Lu Xiyan must have seen An Ning as well.

So she was angry, and even though Lu Xiyan clearly saw that she had done it on purpose, he did not refuse her.

He would only accept her advances when he needed to play along.

It was like this last time at the hospital, and it's happening again this time.

He deliberately let Anning see what just happened; the more deliberately he did it, the more it proved that he still cared.

With her palms clenched, a flash of hatred crossed Cheng Wanwan's eyes.

She wants to make Anning disappear completely!