Chapter 57: with translation of chapter title

57 This bill just keeps getting more and more, the dowry has doubled again.

Tushan Jiu, this is her first time coming to the Xie Clan Group.

As soon as she got out of the car, she saw Xie Shiyu walking toward her.

"How did you come down?"

Wasn't he supposed to have Li the assistant come down to pick her up?

Xie Shiyu frankly admitted, "I had him go buy you milk tea, but I still wanted to come down myself to pick you up, so the front desk can get to know you."

"I don't come here often, so there's no need to specially get to know people, right?" Tushan Jiu muttered softly.

Xie Shiyu heard it, but he chose to automatically ignore it.

From now on?

As the boss's wife of the company, how could she not come often?

When Xie Shiyu came down, he had already instructed the front desk and security to remember her.

He didn't want someone clueless to show up and affect Tushan Jiu's mood.

Better to simply eliminate the possibility of such a thing happening.

The system recorded it, and Tushan Jiu's facial recognition also has the highest clearance.

These things were done quickly; once everything was ready, Xie Shiyu took Tushan Jiu's hand and walked toward his private elevator.

At the moment her hand was grasped, Tushan Jiu's steps faltered, and she instinctively wanted to pull her hand away.

But as soon as she moved, Xie Shiyu gripped her hand even tighter.

She glanced at the passersby, all of whom looked at them with shocked expressions; Tushan Jiu's face felt hot, "What are you doing?"

Xie Shiyu, however, didn't mind and bluntly said, "I just want to hold your hand—isn't it obvious?"

"They're all watching!" Tushan Jiu earnestly reminded him.

"Do you know how happy I am that you can come to the company? I'd love for everyone to know my fiancée is you."

Tushan Jiu's eyes widened, her red lips slightly parted, as she stared in surprise at Xie Shiyu's sudden confession.

Just in an instant, her face flushed red.

"You, you… how…?"

Xie Shiyu pressed the elevator button, brought her inside, then turned and rubbed her head, "Don't feel pressured; if I weren't blunt, I'd worry you wouldn't react in time!"

Tushan Jiu met his peach-blossom eyes full of sincerity, but after just two seconds she flicked her gaze away and lowered her eyes to her toes.

A thought suddenly popped into her mind: sincerity is a person's ultimate skill.

She thought, even without that engagement, meeting Xie Shiyu, he would still be someone who could make her heart flutter.

Lost in thought, the elevator had already reached the top floor.

As soon as they stepped out of the elevator, they saw two people leaning against the office door.

Lu Ze Yuan leaned against the left doorframe, Qi Chen against the right.

Both made the same motion, arms crossed, wearing teasing expressions.

"Sister-in-law." Qi Chen spoke first, his tone fairly normal.

But with Lu Ze Yuan, it was different.

He glanced at their joined hands and, with a sarcastic tone, said, "It's cold up here, the wind's too strong—just a breath of air fills my belly with wind."

He glanced at their joined hands, speaking sarcastically: "It's cold at the top, the wind is too strong, blowing air into my belly."

Tushan Jiu tilted her head, recalling that today's weather was clear and there wasn't a hint of wind outside.

Xie Shiyu took her hand and walked inside, whispering, "Don't mind them; we have one last bit of work to finish, then we'll leave. The milk tea is on my desk—go drink it."

Xie Shiyu held her hand and walked inside, speaking softly: "Don't mind them, we still have one last bit of work; after we finish we'll leave; the milk tea is on my desk, go drink."

Before entering the office, Tushan Jiu noticed a man who had been standing there at the elevator entrance.

His posture was straight and stiff, as if he were undergoing some inspection.

But his gaze was evasive, looking at the sky, the ground—anything but meeting her eyes.

Tushan Jiu was a bit curious why he was like that, so she moved her fingers idly twice, then her fingers froze: "......"

She never expected that to be the reason.

She felt a mix of laughter and tears—what to do?

Could they have some misunderstanding about her?

She really doesn't just casually calculate anyone she sees, but their behavior like this only draws her attention.

Isn't this just the classic case of 'no silver here, three hundred taels'?

Alright, now it's fine—he still has a few packs of snacks in his drawer for slacking off, which she knows about, and there's that movie left playing on the computer backend that he forgot to stop, currently at one hour and three minutes, which she also knows.

Sigh, following the principle that overly clear water holds no fish, she decided it's better not to expose him.

She averted her gaze and entered the office.

The moment the door closed, Zhou Hao's stiff body instantly relaxed.

He hurried back to his desk, fumbling to turn off the movie still playing in his backend.

After doing that, he slumped into his chair, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, then shook his hand and said, "Phew—close call!"

Zhou Hao glanced at the door of Xie Shiyu's office and muttered softly, "This future boss's wife isn't as formidable as Li Ge said, is she? She doesn't seem to have noticed anything."

At that moment, Li Kai, who had just come out of the assistant's office to print materials, heard and quietly said, "Could it be that the future boss's wife didn't want to embarrass you?"

Zhou Hao blinked, then embarrassedly scratched the back of his head, "Well, I guess that's also possible."

Having said that, he quickly sat upright and began checking the number of contracts sent up by the department.

Meanwhile, inside the office, Tushan Jiu sat in Xie Shiyu's boss chair, sipping milk tea while watching a movie.

Meanwhile, inside the office, Tushan Jiu sat in Xie Shiyu's boss chair, sipping milk tea while watching a movie.

But she was looking at it openly.

Because the other three were still discussing the project's specific details.

Originally, Xie Shiyu didn't want to make Tushan Jiu wait.

But Tushan Jiu said she had eaten a lot at lunch, wasn't very hungry yet, and it was the perfect time to finish the movie she hadn't finished yesterday, so she told him to go ahead and get busy.

Half an hour later, everything was settled.

Lu Ze Yuan stretched, then unconsciously gazed out the window and began to space out.

In these many days, he truly experienced life's ups and downs.

When he saw in the surveillance that his father was putting medicine powder into his grandfather's chicken soup, he was completely dazed.

When Tushan Jiu said it wasn't that woman, he even suspected everyone in the house—except he never suspected his own father.

That's his own biological father—what kind of hatred could drive him to kill his father!

He didn't understand, and didn't want to understand.

Now he has fled abroad; he originally wanted someone to bring him back.

But unfortunately, the grandfather wouldn't allow it, saying he might as well have never had this son.

Actually, he knows the grandfather still feels some father-son affection.

Thinking of this, a flash of cold light crossed Lu Ze Yuan's eyes.

The grandfather could let him go, but he couldn't swallow this anger.

He wants to take over the Lu clan and become stronger.

Someday, he will make him kneel before the grandfather and repent!

And he hasn't told these things to his two brothers.

He knows that if he says it, they will surely help him with all their might.

But he himself needs to grow.

Lu Ze Yuan was spacing out when Qi Chen beside him kicked him, saying, "What are you thinking about? Your phone's ringing."

He then came to, picked up his phone, glanced at it, and saw a message from the bar.

After reading it, he jumped up, his tone full of incredulous gossip:

"Wow, you'd never guess—I just got a message saying the bartender at my bar, Zhuo Sui, is actually a cousin of Xiao Yingwei from the Xiao family! Now they're holding a family-reunion scene at my bar."

Xie Shiyu was putting on his coat; upon hearing about the Xiao family, he glanced at Tushan Jiu walking toward him, his eyebrows slightly raised, as if asking.

Tushan Jiu also mimicked his action, raising her eyebrows.

How about it, isn't she impressive?

This debt just keeps growing, and the dowry has doubled again!