Oh no! His rural wife is sweeter than a peach!

The break time is over.

With Song Minghua's last words in mind, Lu Luozhi returned to the company with a heavy heart.

Ying Yuchuan didn't know when he returned; by the time she arrived at her workstation, he was already sitting in the office.

Yuan Yiwei came out from inside and whispered to her, "The president wants to see you."

"oh."

"Where did you go?"

As she slowly walked into the office and closed the door, Ying Yuchuan, sitting in his office chair behind the desk, asked her with a sullen expression.

Why haven't you replied to any of the many messages I've sent you?

She then pulled her phone out of the pocket of her blazer, somewhat puzzled. "You texted me?"

Upon unlocking it, it really was.

A total of eight.

Ask her if she has eaten.

Ask her what she's doing.

I asked her why she wasn't replying to my messages.

Don't underestimate these eight messages; this is the first time he's ever sent her so many messages.

She scratched her head sheepishly. "Sorry, I was eating out and didn't look at my phone."

"With whom?"

"Song Minghua".

Ying Yuchuan's expression improved slightly.

He stood up, walked around from behind his desk, and stood in front of her. "You're in a bad mood, so you're having dinner with him?"

He lowered his eyes and stared intently at her.

Lu Luozhi turned her face away and said nonchalantly, "No, he just happened to be in the neighborhood on business, and it was lunchtime, so he simply asked me to come along..."

"You're afraid to look at me?"

He cupped her cheeks in his hands; Ying Yuchuan disliked her ignoring him.

He forcefully pulled her gaze back to his face, softening his tone.

"Are you still thinking about what I said last night?"

Her pupils were filled with his handsome, serious face. Lu Luozhi stared at him for a long time, wanting to say something, wanting to ask something, for example, for example, about him, about her...

After much contemplation and inner turmoil, these words ultimately turned into a silent sigh from the depths of my heart.

"no."

This statement was clearly against her will.

How could Ying Yuchuan not notice the undisguised guilt in her eyes?

He pursed his lips, gazing intently at her, seemingly deep in thought.

When Lu Luozhi felt a chill run down her spine from his gaze, he made his next move.

"Walk."

He grabbed her wrist and forcefully pulled her out of the office.

"Where to?"

Forced to follow behind him, she was momentarily bewildered by his actions.

"I want to tell all the employees that you are my wife, Ying Yuchuan's wife."

Since she cares about Li Wan so much, then he will go and tell everyone that he, Ying Yuchuan, is married, and that his only wife is Lu Luozhi.

"what?"

Lu Luozhi cried out in surprise.

I was terrified by what he did.

Just as he was about to reach the office door, she quickly stopped him.

"No, no, no, don't be impulsive."

She stood in front of him, saying, "If you tell him, I won't have to come to work anymore. What will people think of me?"

How will others see him?

Knowing that his wife is such an ordinary person, how could he accept those strange looks?

She didn't want him to suffer unwarranted malice because of her.

Rumors can kill a person.

Ying Yuchuan also has his own principles.

"You care about Li Wan, don't you? Wouldn't it be better to go public now?"

That's true, but...

"No, you can't say."

She firmly rejected him, and even hugged him, pulling him inside, not wanting him to leave.

"Have you ever thought about whether this is fair to you?"

"You are my wife, Ying Yuchuan's wife, why won't you just tell them openly and honestly?"

"We didn't have a secret marriage; we officially registered our marriage."

The issue now is not whether to make it public or not, but rather...

If he's just making it public for the sake of making it public, it doesn't make sense.

Song Minghua's question resurfaced in her mind.

The real question is, does he even have feelings for her?

If he doesn't have her in his heart, then this fairness doesn't matter.

It's better to just leave it at that, maintain the facade of a superior-subordinate relationship, and avoid giving people any further reason to speculate.

If he really can't forget Li Wan, then her withdrawal later can be done in a more dignified way.

"Can you let me think about it first?"

She begged him.

This is the only way to stall him for the time being.

He's a man of his word; once he says something, he'll definitely do it.

"how long?"

Ying Yuchuan asked in a hard voice.

"How long will it take you?"

For some reason, her eyes always seemed to...make him uneasy.

She didn't seem to believe herself.

His gaze was fixed on her; if she didn't give him a deadline, he certainly wouldn't let her off easily.

Gritting her teeth secretly, Lu Luozhi said a timeframe, "Three months."

Ying Yuchuan's face immediately fell.

Three months.

Too many things can change in three months.

"no."

He flatly refused, his face cold, clearly disagreeing with her statement, and then said in a forceful tone:

"I'll give you a maximum of one week. If you haven't made up your mind within a week, then I will announce our marriage in all the media after a week."

Is he really that unsavory?

Why must we hide it?

Lu Luozhi smiled wryly; she had no choice but to agree now.

"Okay, one week it is then."

Just then, Sister Huang knocked on the door from the outside.

It also quickly broke the somewhat tense atmosphere in the office.

"President, are you inside? Miss Li from Donghong Group is here."

After listening.

Lu Luozhi quickly moved away from Ying Yuchuan, maintaining a safe distance that would not arouse suspicion.

Ying Yuchuan had a stern expression, disliking her current behavior of distancing herself from him.

It makes him seem like some kind of virus.

"Let them in."

After speaking in a deep voice, Sister Huang opened the office door a few seconds later and brought Li Wan and the other two people in.

When Sister Huang saw that Lu Luozhi was also inside, she was initially a little surprised.

She also sensed that the atmosphere inside was somewhat different.

And the CEO's expression...

"President Ying, we meet again."

Li Wan smiled and walked forward as if no one else was around, giving Ying Yuchuan a hug.

"I've missed you quite a bit since we last met last night."

Ying Yuchuan, his face dark, pushed Li Wan away as quickly as possible. "Miss Li, please have some self-respect."

He took a few steps back, his eyes instinctively looking in the direction of the deer vine.

She kept her eyes down and didn't look at him.

Li Wan, on the other hand, chuckled to herself.

"Look at you, still so sensitive, just like before."

"I once secretly hugged you when we were in school, and you were so scared that you immediately jumped away. But then one time... you were too rough."

She stopped automatically when she got to this point, and smiled meaningfully.

It seems they deliberately left some things unsaid to arouse speculation in others, making them think that they had an unusual and ambiguous relationship.

Sister Huang was slightly surprised, but based on her professionalism as a secretary, she pretended not to hear anything.

Lu Luozhi, who was standing to the side with her head down, listened to these words with a blank expression, her heart sinking heavily once again...