The second day, Zhan Yu was about to get ready for work after coming downstairs when he saw Lu Bai wearing a suit and waiting for him in the parking lot. He wanted to walk around him when Lu Bai noticed him and immediately walked up. "Good morning."
"President Lu, what are you planning to do?"
"I'm bringing you to work."
"Thank you but there is no need."
"I bought breakfast." Lu Bai stopped Zhan Yu from walking to the right.
Zhan Yu looked expressionlessly at him and walked over to the other side. However, Lu Bai stopped him again.
"I'm just scared that you would head to work early so I had been waiting here for you since early in the morning." In other words, Lu Bai had been waiting for a long time.
Zhan Yu thought this was funny. "I didn't make you wait for me."
"Hm? So can I take you to work?"
"I can drive myself." Zhan Yu rejected.
"Can't you give me a chance to perform?" Lu Bai believed even more that this man had a heart of stone.
"The chances are for people who need it. President Lu, I think you should forget about it."
After Zhan Yu left Lu Bai behind and saw that he didn't chase after hi., he couldn't help but wonder how come he was so easy to talk to today. When he arrived at the TV Station, the colleague in front of the reception desk said that he needed to sign something.
Zhan Yu was stunned. What did he have? He didn't remember having a delivery. When he saw a bouquet of brilliant red roses, he was frozen. The bright red color attracted many female colleagues. Someone asked, "Did President Lu gift this bouquet of roses?" Zhan Yu responded without thinking, "Impossible!" In the original book, Lu Bai seemed to have never gifted Chu Hua flowers. The colleagues all gestured about and said, "We don't believe this!"
"Won't we find out by looking at the card?!"
"Zhan Yu, Xiao Yu, quickly look! Quickly look!"
"Don't be shy, Zhan Yu. Don't hide this from us. Just look at the signature."
In the end, at the bottom of the pink card was Lu Bai, written in bold cursive calligraphy.
"Wow! So romantic! President Lu is so considerate!"
"Xiao Yu, you're so blessed!"
Zhan Yu was confused. He actually gifted this? Lu Bai was being serious? He carried a bouquet of roses that could block his face and didn't dare to stay. He quickened his pace to his office. The moment he sat down, his phone revealed the caller ID as Lu Bai. He thought about it before he rejected the call and firmly blocked Lu Bai's number. He proudly opened his laptop when he got another call, this time, from an unfamiliar number. He hesitated before he picked up, "Hello, I am Xin Zhan Yu."
"Did you receive the flowers? Do you like it?"
"You-" Zhan Yu felt like Lu Bai latched onto every opportunity. "I don't like it so don't give it to me in the future."
"Usually when women say that they don't like it, they mean that they like it so it same goes for men too."
"I...Lu Bai, I don't want to talk to you about this. I'm going to hang up. Also, don't call me anymore. I need to work."
"If we're going out for lunch together, I won't bother you."
Zhan Yu answered without hesitation, "I don't want to." He directly hung up after.
In the end, the phone rang again. Zhan Yu ended up shutting his phone off. However, when he did that, it held things up. After half an hour, a colleague came over and urged, "Host Zhan, Director wants you in his office."
"Ah?" Zhan Yu was shocked. What did the Director want from him? He had seen the Director a little too much these past two days.
When he arrived at the office, the Director asked, "How come I couldn't call you before?"
Zhan Yu cleverly turned his phone back on as he walked over. He smiled dryly and lied, "Sorry Director. I was charging my phone before."
"Ok." Thankfully the Director didn't continue to ask about it. He delivered an invitation, "Designer Chu personally delivered this invitation over. She's in the conference room still and wants to invite you to be the host of her jewelry exhibition for her company next week. What do you think?"
Zhan Yu naturally didn't need to think about it before he rejected this. Chu Hua had a strong mindset.
Chu Hua was in an awkward situation with him, yet she was still able to invite Zhan Yu to be her exhibition's host? Did she want the two of them to dislike each other? Or was she planning to increase the popularity of the scandal? No matter what she was planning to do, He won't let her have her way. So Zhan Yu slightly smiled and said, "Director, I don't think I will have time. How about you see which colleague in the TV Station has time and let them go over?"
"Ok. Chu Hua said that she just wanted you to host it. If you don't want to, why not make it clear to her? It's pretty to explain some things. Right? Host Zhan."
Zhan Yu smiled fakely and tugged the left corner of his lips up. He took the invitation and walked towards the conference room.
What is this?!
In the vast conference room, Chu Hua's slender fingers caressed the edge of the white glass. She seemed to be emptying her mind.
Zhan Yu closed the door after he came in. Chu Hua suddenly snapped out of her daydream and said, "What's Host Zhan's answer?"
"Thank you for the offer." Zhan Yu said simply.
"If Host Zhan is still holding a grudge against what I had said downstairs that day, I can apologize."
"There's no need. I am very busy these days so I can't attend. It's best if Designer Chu finds another colleague."
Seeing Zhan Yu's determined attitude, Chu Hua laughed and said, "I guessed that you wouldn't agree."
"Since you know, why did you come then? To increase the awkwardness between the two of us?" Zhan Yu sneered.
Who knew Chu Hua faintly smiled and said, "I just want to say something. You like Lu Bai but I also like him too. I won't give up on him so I want to have a fair fight with you."
Zhan Yu waved his hands impatiently, "You don't need to fight me. I never thought of him in that way. I'm not interested in the two of you guys. Designer Chu, if you don't have anything else to say, I'm going back to work. Do as you wish."
After Zhan Yu left, Chu Hua tightly held onto the warm cup with her right hand. Her eyes darkened. Zhan Yu acted like it didn't matter to him or did he have no fear?
Zhan Yu was too lazy to take notice of Chu Hua's thoughts. He had to hurry back to memorize his lines because he needed to record the program tonight. When he was off work in the afternoon and worrying over where to eat, he received a call saying that they had his takeout. Zhan Yu shockingly went downstairs to sign the delivery. He noticed that the takeout was the dishes from a pretty famous Chinese restaurant nearby. He enjoyed the food there and ate there a few times with his colleagues. But the business was too good there so they needed to wait a long time for their food. So, even though he liked it, he rarely went there. But who ordered for him?
Lu Bai?
Not only did Lu Bai bring him lunch, but also an afternoon snack. Zhan Yu didn't know how to respond to his colleagues who were joking about him while eating the cake. He wanted to emphasize his existence? It was rare for Lu Bai to end work early. He waited half an hour downstairs for Zhan Yu, but he still didn't spot him getting off from work. He gave him a call, only to realize that he had blocked him and had not removed him from his blacklist. Helplessly, he could only call Assistant Wang and have him contact him. "Call him and tell him that I am waiting for hi. downstairs."
Assistant Wang almost blurted out 'who is he?' when he heard 'TV Station' and he hurriedly answered, "President Lu, please wait momentarily. I'm calling him now."
"Ok."
Zhan Yu wasn't done talking to the Director when he heard the phone ringing. It was an unfamiliar number which stopped ringing for a few seconds before resuming again. He had no choice but to stop the discussion and pick up the call, only to notice it was an unfamiliar man's voice. "Hello Master Zhan, President Lu wants me to tell you that he's waiting for you downstairs at the TV Station."
"Hm? What?" Zhan Yu scrunched his eyebrows. Without thinking, he said, "Can you tell him that I will be recording a program tonight and for him to quickly leave?"
Assistant Wang responded calmly, "Master Zhan, sorry. How about you call President Lu and personally tell him this? Thank you, goodbye."
Zhan Yu was irritated when he hung up on him. What was Lu Bai doing?! There was already a lot of gossip circulating about them, and now that he appeared downstairs, what would his colleagues think of him? Zhan Yu fixed the last issue with the Director absent-mindedly and hesitated a bit before taking out his phone to call him.
Once Lu Bai saw Zhan Yu's call, he faintly raised the tip of his eyebrows. He knew that sooner or later, Zhan Yu would take his phone number out the blacklist. For now, he will be generous and temporarily won't argue about this with Zhan Yu, but in the future, he will slowly settle accounts with Zhan Yu. He said gently, "When do you get off work? I'll bring you for food."
"I don't have time. Lu Bai, can you not add onto the inconvenience by appearing where I work? If you have something to say, we can talk about it when we're home."
"I just want to eat with you."
"Well, thank you."
Lu Bai didn't rush Zhan Yu. He said in an upset voice, "Since you're so busy and don't have time to eat with me, then I'll just order takeout and bring it upstairs for you. After all, you need to eat dinner. You should have time to eat food."
"You..." Zhan Yu's head was hurting.
"I ate some simple food so I'm full now."
"Then I'll wait for you to get off work."
"Lu Bai? Can you be more mature? I'm really disturbed by your actions."
"You're disturbed because you won't let yourself enjoy this process."
"Heh."
Zhan Yu thought this was funny and said, "If you want me to enjoy the process, the precondition is that it has to be someone I like. I think I can forget about it if it's you."
"You're always like this." Lu Bai's magnetic voice penetrated through the phone. "You never place your guard against me down, so how could you possibly be moved by me? Xiao Yu, you have something against me. This indescribable prejudice is unfair to me."
Lu Bai's complaint made Zhan Yu stunned. When he was shocked, he didn't continue this topic but said, "Work properly."
Zhan Yu stared at the phone, unable to guess his thoughts. But because of Lu Bai's seemingly accidental words, he suddenly realized that he was right. He always held a prejudice against Lu Bai and this originated from the original book's tragic ending. His impression of Lu Bai was engraved in his mind before he crossed over. The villain's side the family was ruined, destroyed, and ultimately died violent deaths because of the original Lu Bai ruthless and merciless methods. Yet, he neglected the most important thing-he Zhan Yu was himself, not the Zhan Yu from the original book. He never did anything that led to misunderstandings or disturbed Lu Bai in any way as the original owner did and he didn't do anything to hurt Chu Hua either, and Lu Bai wasn't with Chu Hua yet. Ever since he crossed over, all the things that happened completely changed. For example, his work, like this place. The book never mentioned 'A City' and how the male and female leads never went to A City before. Yet, they were settled here...
A lot of things aren't developing in the way of the original plot.
Zhan Yu couldn't help but mockingly laugh at hi.self. He cared only for his business in the past and never thought much. As it turned out, he's the stupid one this whole time. He now pondered Lu Bai's words of how he held prejudice against Lu Bai. It seemed to be the case. After all, ever since he crossed over, he never treated and viewed Lu Bai fairly before. Lu Bai didn't do anything overly excessive to him. Lu Bai was an outstanding and considerate person. If he stopped holding prejudice against Lu Bai, would he stop pushing him away? Zhan Yu laughed and shook his head. He didn't want to continue his thoughts.
Once Zhan Yu was done with the work at night, he arrived at the parking lot. Right when he was about to take out the car keys from his pocket to unlock the car, he heard a clear honk from the car behind. He looked with suspicion at the black car but then decided to ignore it. He was about to open his car door and get in when the black car honked again.
"Who is it?"
Zhan Yu walked over there to take a look. The driver's car window rolled down a bit to reveal Lu Bai sitting in the car with a white shirt on. He shifted his head and casually said, "Get on. I'll take you home."
"Why are you..."
"Didn't you wish that your colleagues won't see you? There's a security camera behind so I won't get off the car."
Zhan Yu was surprised by Lu Bai's explanation. Yet, looking at his sincere look, he seemed to...After he successfully got in the car, there was only one thought running in his mind:
ZHAN YU , IT'S OVER!
Lu Bai thought that he would need to spend more effort on convincing Zhan Yu to get in the car. Who knew that it would've been so successful? The car drove for a distance. Lu Bai glanced over to see Zhan Yu scrolling through his Weibo and WeChat. He passed his phone over to Zhan Yu.
Zhan Yu looked confusedly at the black phone in front of him. and asked, "What are you doing?"
" I don't have your WeChat or Weibo."
"I used my own name for Weibo." Zhan Yu thought in his heart: If you had the intention of following me, how could you not have it?!
But Lu Bai didn't think so. "It has a different meaning."
"How is it different?"
"Why are you asking that much? Just do as I tell you."
"I can't even ask why you're making me do this?" Zhan Yu retorted.
Lu Bai heard this and turned around to look at Zhan Yu. After a while, he said, "Then can you add my WeChat?"
The speechless Zhan Yu really didn't understand Lu Bai. He took his phone and clicked on the screen. Seeing that the screen was locked, he passed the phone back to Lu Bai and said, "What's the password?"
Zhan Yu originally wanted to hint: there's a password so you can just add me later.
Who knew Lu Bai replied without thinking: 105619.
"What?"
"It's the password." Lu Bai stared at Zhan Yu's blank expression and couldn't help but say, "I think it's best if our child takes after my genes in the future."
Zhan Yu was stunned for a while before he realized what Lu Bai was saying. He pursed his lips and couldn't be bothered to respond to Lu Bai.
What was he saying?!
After Zhan Yu put the password in, he opened WeChat and successfully added him as a friend.
Lu Bai reminded, "Weibo also."
"You can follow me back when you're home."
"Is it that difficult for you to follow me?"
"I'm going to say the same thing back to you." Although Zhan Yu said this, he still opened Lu Bai's Weibo and followed himself for Lu Bai'saccount.
Lu Bai's Weibo name was a bunch of English letters.
Zhan Yu had no idea what it meant.
After Zhan Yu glanced at it, he didn't pay attention to the rest. He gave the phone back to Lu Bai.
Lu Bai originally wanted to bring Zhan Yu out for a midnight snack but Zhan Yu said that he didn't want to eat it since he just finished recording the program and was too tired. In the end, Lu Bai ordered some exquisite dishes as takeout for Zhan Yu to bring back home. When he brought Zhan Yu to his neighborhood, Lu Bai watched as Zhan Yu wanted to get off the car as he unbuckled the seat belt. He pulled on Zhan Yu's arm and said, "You're just going to leave like this?"
"What?" Zham Yu thought, What else should he do? Invite him up for tea? Don't even think about it. It's in the middle of the night.
Lu Bai laughed and said, "After all, I should get a goodnight kiss, right? I performed very well today."
"Heh, dream on!"
"Yes, I am always thinking of you."
Zhan Yu looked over to see Lu Bai's tender look. He almost immediately ran off. Seeing Zhan Yu's escaping figure, Lu Bai couldn't help but tilt his lips up into a smile. He picked up his phone and unlocked it before going on Weibo. Seeing that there was clearly an extra person in his followers, he finally had the urge to write a comment. In the past, he would frequently forward activities in the company or for propaganda, but he didn't really have the mood to personally write comments. Today was quite a rare occurrence.
It was a simple comment. He just plainly @ his.
Zhan Yu ran to his house and still felt his heart thumping non stop as he reached into his pocket for his keys.
Why did Lu Bai suddenly say that?!
Before Zhan Yu even opened the door, someone said from behind, "Are you finally interested in someone?"
Zhan Yu almost dropped his keys out of shock. He hurriedly steadied his hand and turned around. Who knew when Zhan Qiancheng stood behind him. Zhan Yu panted a bit and clapped his chest, saying, "Brother, you scared me to death!"
"If you don't do anything wrong, you won't be afraid. Did you do something bad?"
Zhan Yu rolled his eyes at him and turned around to open the door. "Since when?!" He had been carefully living in this world and when did he have the guts to do something bad?
Zhan Qiancheng followed him inside and asked, "Was it Lu Bai who just brought you back?"
Zhan Yu nodded his head and observed his expression. He shouldn't like Lu Bai. As expected, Zhan Qiancheng's expression was a bit ugly, "What's your situation with him right now?"
"What?" What situation? Zhan Yu didn't understand either.
Zhan Qiancheng stared at him and coldly humphed. He shook his head, "As expected, one can't keep a boy at home anymore when he is of age."
On the same night that Zhan Qiancheng stayed at A City, Zhan Yu received a phone call from Bai Ning. After finishing his call and hanging up, Zhan Yu laughed and said, "I was initially touched by you coming to A City, thinking that you came to visit me, but it seems like I was thinking too much about this!"
Zhan Qiancheng, who just got out of the shower, neatly dried his wet hair before replying, "Even if we delve more into this topic, the responsibility still lies with you."
"How does Mother wanting you to go on blind dates have anything to do with me?" Zhan Yu looked at him with displeasure and said, "Brother, you can't put all the blame on me!"
Zhan Qiancheng said confidently, "If it weren't for Lu Bai's news conference and our parents discovering that their youngest son has a boyfriend, do you think they would rush to find me a partner? Zhan Yu, you need to be honest and sincere!"
"This...you should go and find Lu Bai!" Zhan Yu retorted and said, "He's the one who wanted to blabber nonsense. How could I stop him?!"
Plus, Lu Bai never told him that he was going to hold a news conference. The more she thought about it, the more Xin Siyue felt like he did this on purpose. Originally, the videos and all the related information were already deleted. Their company had also made a statement, so why did he need to show his face to the public and say such nonsense!?
Zhan Qiancheng gave Zhan Yu a meaningful look and said, "Once you make mom give up the idea of making me go on blind dates, I'll leave."
"Hey! How could I convince ?!"
Zhan Qiancheng only cared about the ending, not the process. He asked, "Where's the guest room?"
Zhan Yu pointed at a direction and Zhan Qiancheng went to his room to rest without another word.
Zhan Yu who was still at the living room was stunned: he was going to live here? Although he wanted to shoo Zhan Qiancheng away, Zhan Yu abandoned the thought after predicting his success rate and taking in account of his low capability to fight against him.
The next morning, Zhan Yu wanted to wake up early to make breakfast. After all, Zhan Qiancheng was now living here, and it wouldn't be good to let him starve. In the end, the moment he got out of bed and out of the bedroom, he heard movements from the entrance hall. Subconsciously assuming it was Zhan Qiancheng, he yawned and squinted his eyes while saying in a muffled voice, "Why are you up so early? I didn't even start cooking yet."
Zhan Yu hadn't received a response for a while. Ge was confused and hurriedly looked straight ahead. The tall gray figure wasn't Zhan Qiancheng at all!
Zhan Yu panicked in the first moments and he stammered, "Why...why are you here so early?!"
After Lu bai heard his question, his face darkened and said seriously, "If I didn't come here early enough, I wouldn't even know that you have another guy in your house." As he [Lu Bai] said this, Lu Bai pointed at the suit that Zha Qiancheng threw on the sofa. He humped and said, "Xin Zhan Yu, you've gotten better! So you had been rejecting me because of him?"
"No, no, it's not what you think!" Zhan Yu hurriedly explained. "I didn't..."
"Why is it so noisy early in the morning?!" Zhan Qiancheng knitted his eyebrows and walked out the guest room. He was annoyed at being woken up by the noise. Seeing that there really was a guy walking out the room, Lu Bai was burning with rage. Though, after he saw the young man's face, his anger dissipated.
This was really a big misunderstanding. Lu Bai softly massaged his temple.
However, after Zhan Qiancheng noticed that there was an extra man that he didn't like within the living room, he immediately looked at Zhan Yu and interrogated, "Why is he in your house so early?"
Lu Bai didn't admit defeat and asked, "Didn't President Zhan appear in Zhan Yu's house early in the morning too?"
"I'm different from you."
"We're going to be a family in the future."
"Who's going to be a family with you?!"
To be cotinued...