Chapter 20: Does He Like Your Sister?

The cleaning lady came in and was also taken aback when she saw Bai Shuruo, then she smiled and said, "You must be Mr. Han's new wife, right? You look so beautiful, so fresh and lovely."

Bai Shuruo nodded and smiled, which counted as a greeting.

Seeing the sandwich in Bai Shuruo's hand, the lady smiled again: "Your Mr. Han is truly a good husband; he's wealthy and knows how to cook. But I've eaten his cooking before—it wasn't good at first, but it got better as he practiced. He must have learned it just to marry you. You're too thin, you need to eat more; eating more will make it easier to have children later."

Bai Shuruo thought to herself: How could he have learned to cook for her? They had only just met!

The lady was preparing to mop the floor. Just as she bent down, she saw a folder under the table and hurriedly asked, "Oh, how did this thing fall on the floor? Did Mr. Han drop it?"

Bai Shuruo took it and saw that it was a blueprint resembling a construction site, but since there was only one sheet, she didn't look at it carefully.

It must have been dropped by him.

Just as she was about to put the folder away for him, she heard her phone ring.

It was Han Yangting calling: "Ruoruo, could you help me look for a blue folder? I was in a rush leaving this morning, and I think I left it under the coffee table."

Bai Shuruo quickly said, "That's right, it's under the coffee table. Is it urgent? Do you need me to bring it to you?"

"Sure, bring it over for me. I'll send you the location."

Before long, the location was sent over. Bai Shuruo knew the place, so she immediately hailed a taxi to go there.

……

After getting out of the taxi, the first thing that came into view was a massive construction site.

This place used to be a farm; Bai Shuruo had come here to play when she was a child. It was demolished two years ago, and the people in this area all received high compensation payments. It seems they are going to build modern apartment buildings here.

Bai Shuruo didn't know where Han Yangting was, so she sent a WeChat message to tell him: Brother Han, I've arrived.

After a while, Han Yangting came out. Because the site was still under construction, he was wearing a hard hat and casual clothes, looking exactly like a handsome construction foreman.

Bai Shuruo thought to herself that he might have contracted a portion of the construction project.

No wonder she had been seeing him handling official business at home lately.

"Brother Han, here is your folder." Bai Shuruo handed the folder to him.

Han Yangting took it and nodded.

"Then... if there's nothing else, I'll head back first."

Han Yangting couldn't help but ask, "Don't you want to come in and take a look? I have an office inside."

In truth, he had left the file behind on purpose, with the goal of letting her get closer to him and deepening her understanding of him.

Bai Shuruo looked at the construction site; although it wasn't exactly dusty, there were piles of bricks and mud everywhere, and workers were walking back and forth, busy at work.

If she stayed here, not only would she be unable to help, but she would also get in the way of the workers.

When people are busy, they especially dislike those who are idle; the workers would be unhappy.

Bai Shuruo said to Han Yangting: "Brother Han, I won't disturb your work. These projects of yours must be quite intense, with deadlines to meet and so on. You should just focus on your work, and please be sure to stay safe."

Han Yangting: ……

So, he had been mistaken for a construction foreman?

Seeing that he didn't speak, Bai Shuruo took it as his silent agreement.

As she turned to leave, she even gave him an encouraging smile.

Although construction work is hard, Han Yangting was not an idle person; he was working hard, and such a person was reliable.

Han Yangting stared at the folder in his hand for a moment, then laughed in frustration.

……

Monday.

At noon, Bai Shuruo unexpectedly received a call from Gu Yunting.

"It's Gu Yunting!" The tone on the other end was condescending and extremely overbearing.

Because of her sister, Bai Shuruo had no good feelings toward this person at all. She asked coldly, "Mr. Gu, how did you get my phone number?"

"There's an emergency contact in your sister's personnel file, and it's you. That's not the point; the point is, where did your sister go? Do you know?"

"Why are you looking for my sister? Didn't your ex-girlfriend come back?"

"An ex-girlfriend is an ex-girlfriend, and work is work. Now that she's left behind a resignation letter and walked off, who is going to do all the work here?"

Bai Shuruo said angrily: "But I clearly heard you say on the phone yesterday that your company could run without anyone, and that without my sister, you could still find someone else to replace her."

"I... that was just talk in the heat of the moment." Gu Yunting was actually showing weakness.

He had spent his entire morning in a daze.

He didn't know where the files he needed were, his office phone was ringing off the hook, he didn't know his schedule, and some meetings were about to start before subordinates rushed over to remind him.

Usually, these were things Bai Shunan would remind him of, covering everything from the most urgent to the least.

With her gone, he really couldn't manage—at least not today.

Gu Yunting shouted at Bai Shuruo: "You contact Bai Shunan for me. If she's willing to come back, her annual salary can be raised to 800,000."

"But my sister doesn't care about that. Mr. Gu, do you think my sister resigned because of low pay? I also know what kind of relationship you two have."

"What kind of relationship?" Gu Yunting asked.

Because there were people around, Bai Shuruo didn't speak too loudly. She said: "My sister likes you; you should know that. Now that your ex-girlfriend is back, you shouldn't look for her anymore."

"But didn't your sister say it didn't matter? Even if I don't have her in my heart, she's willing to be my bed partner. She said she's the one taking advantage, not me, since I'm good-looking and she doesn't lose out by sleeping with me."

Bai Shuruo felt her face flush and her heart race hearing this.

"I'm not talking to you anymore. In any case, I don't know where my sister is." After saying that, she hung up the phone.

"Shuruo, who are you chatting with? Why are you so agitated?" Xiang Feifei asked.

"It's... a friend of my sister's," Bai Shuruo said. "This person is shameless."

"He even called you directly? He must like your sister, right?"

"He definitely likes her a little, but he doesn't love her," Bai Shuruo said decisively.

……

The two of them walked toward the cafeteria while talking.

Bai Shuruo added a chicken leg to her meal today, and just as she was about to add a spoonful of free chili sauce by the window, she remembered Han Yangting telling her that morning to eat less spicy food, so she couldn't help but swap the large spoonful for a small one.

For some reason, ever since they got their marriage certificate, she always felt as if Han Yangting was right there beside her, watching her, especially whenever she wanted to eat something spicy.

She was eating face-to-face with Xiang Feifei when a sarcastic voice drifted over: "Yo, you're willing to eat a chicken leg today? Is it because there are no male colleagues left to bring you food?"

Bai Shuruo looked up and saw Zhang Yuanyuan standing in front of her, her pretty eyes glaring at her as if she had offended her.

Bai Shuruo couldn't help but ask: "Zhang Yuanyuan, what do you mean by that?"