Chapter 209: The Story of the Chicken Leg and the Good Boy
Lin Ruoxue usually ate her lunch in the company cafeteria, and today was no exception.
Su Chen had been closely following Lin Ruoxue. Although he appeared playful and carefree, he was actually constantly alert to everything around him.
After getting their food, Su Chen, as usual, sat opposite her. It had been like this for the past couple of days.
The people in the company were becoming more and more puzzled, wondering why these two were inseparable these days.
Could it be that they were dating? But that seemed impossible!
Who was Lin Ruoxue? The president of Belle Group, the most beautiful woman in Jiangnan, the dream lover of countless wealthy young men!
And what about Su Chen? While handsome and somewhat charming, he was just a driver earning a few thousand a month!
How could these two possibly get together? Unless the sun crashed into Earth...
But even if, by some slim chance, they were actually dating, did they really need to be together all the time?
Even if it was true love, it didn't need to be this intense!
Lin Ruoxue was well aware of the pointing fingers and buzzing gossip around her, but what could she do?
Even if Lin Ruoxue weren't afraid of danger and wanted to send him away, she couldn't make him leave!
This guy even dared to enter the women's restroom, which showed how thick-skinned he was!
Thus, Lin Ruoxue could only pretend not to hear these discussions.
She thought to herself, if everyone knew this jerk was her husband, she wondered what their expressions would be.
Xia Qiuru watched the two from a distance, feeling inexplicably irritable and saddened; it was just very uncomfortable.
The food tasted like wax in her mouth. She really wanted to stop looking and stop thinking, but some things just couldn't be controlled at will.
It was like a spring. The more you compress it, the higher it bounces. Xia Qiuru felt she might go insane if this continued!
But every time she encountered Su Chen, she didn't know why she felt the urge to flee quickly!
Was it because she feared hearing something she didn't want to hear, or was she afraid of getting an answer she didn't want?
Xia Qiuru couldn't quite explain it herself...
Perhaps this was why the word "emotion" could be so torturous.
Xia Qiuru quickly finished her lunch and went back to her office. Su Chen, of course, had no way of knowing about her complex feelings.
At that moment, his attention was all on Lin Ruoxue.
"President Lin, eat some meat, don't just eat vegetables."
Su Chen placed a chicken drumstick in her lunch box.
Lin Ruoxue immediately grimaced. Being a germaphobe, how could she eat something from someone else's plate? Even if that person was her husband, she couldn't accept it.
"No, you eat it."
Lin Ruoxue planned to give the chicken drumstick back to Su Chen, but he quickly held it down with his chopsticks and chuckled,
"It's fine, I'm healthy, missing one won't hurt me. Look at you, you've lost weight recently. You should eat this drumstick."
"I really don't need it."
Lin Ruoxue still tried to return the drumstick to him.
"Come on, be good, eat it. How else will you have the energy to work?"
Su Chen coaxed Lin Ruoxue like coaxing a child, making her feel a bit embarrassed.
Two women sitting at a nearby table, upon hearing Su Chen's words, suddenly widened their eyes, feeling a sense of unreality!
What had he just said to President Lin?—"Be good!"
That was just too cheesy! It's something only a couple deeply in love would say!
The two women exchanged glances, both revealing expressions of shock!
Looking at Lin Ruoxue, her face had turned red, just like a woman in love!
The two women suddenly felt as if they had discovered a new continent, their expressions instantly filled with excitement, almost desperate to share this astounding discovery right away!
So it turned out that Su Chen and President Lin really were a couple!
Faced with Su Chen's relentless teasing, Lin Ruoxue had no choice but to nibble at that chicken leg, a strange feeling rising in her heart.
After Lin Ruoxue and Su Chen finished eating and left, those two women immediately shared their great discovery with their best friends.
As a result, the news spread from one person to ten, ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand—in less than an hour, almost the entire group knew the story about "the chicken leg and 'Be good!'"
Of course, Lin Ruoxue, who got busy in her office after lunch, was oblivious to all this.
At the moment, Lin Ruoxue was busy preparing for the afternoon's HR meeting, especially since the previous PR director had passed away; naturally, a new director needed to be chosen.
For Lin Ruoxue, who was keen on entering the international market, the PR department was obviously a very crucial department, and the choice of PR director was of the utmost importance.
Important as it might seem, there didn't seem to be much choice; from any aspect, the candidate was almost already decided—it was the current deputy director, Niu Xuewen.
Lin Ruoxue had even heard that he had prepared a celebration banquet for that evening. Although she wasn't too fond of such behavior, after all, it was a minor issue as he was competent.
Around 2 p.m., Lin Ruoxue walked into the meeting room with Su Chen, or, to be precise, Su Chen followed her in.
As they entered the meeting room, Lin Ruoxue sensitively noticed that everyone was looking at her strangely.
Although people had been giving her and Su Chen odd glances over the past few days, this time it was clearly different.
Just as Lin Ruoxue was puzzled by this, a female director she usually got along well with spoke up:
"President Lin, the lunch today was especially delicious, wasn't it? Especially that chicken leg, it must have been really tasty, right?"
As the female director said this, she also gave Lin Ruoxue a teasing look.
"Of course, it was eaten with a 'Be good,' how could it not be delicious?"
In this exchange, everyone in the meeting room burst into laughter, even Lin Chao joined in laughing.
Right then, Lin Ruoxue's face turned red as a monkey's butt, and she finally understood why everyone had been looking at her so strangely just now.
It turned out the scene in the cafeteria had already become public knowledge, and looking at the situation, probably the whole group was aware of it already!
Thinking this, Lin Ruoxue couldn't help but feel a bit shy, and somewhat annoyed, she gave Su Chen a glare—it was all this troublemaker's fault!
Why did he have to pick up that chicken leg?!
Unlike the hearty laughter of others, Xia Qiuru laughed very reluctantly.
No wonder he refused to accept me—it seems he had already gotten close with President Lin!
If Su Chen had been close with any other woman, Xia Qiuru would have been very upset, but if it was Lin Ruoxue, she could only offer a bitter smile.
In terms of looks, Lin Ruoxue was widely recognized as the number one beauty of Jiangnan, and although she considered herself pretty, she was still somewhat behind Lin Ruoxue.
In terms of status, in terms of wealth, Lin Ruoxue was way out of her league...
Although he had mentioned he was married the first time she rode in his car, Xia Qiuru had been somewhat skeptical all along.
At this moment, she was even more certain; that was just a joke he had made back then.
If he truly were married, how could someone as noble as Lin Ruoxue be with him?
At that moment, Xia Qiuru decided to bury her feelings for him, letting them fade slowly as time passed...