Chapter 69: A Single Arrow Pierces the Clouds (Part 2)

When a person is at their angriest, what kind of state can they reach...

Perhaps, being so angry that one wants to kill is only the mildest form, because after all, a single strike to end a life is clean, and it won't be too painful.

Right now, Gu Liyan's rage and killing intent are already enough to tear Du Feng, who is holding Zhou Xiaoru's hand, into five pieces and more.

Staring at everything across the street, the steering wheel in that gentleman's hands is just like his mobile phone this morning, about to be crushed into powder!

Over there, the scene of deep affection is still playing out.

Facing Du Feng's warm and thoughtful offensive, Zhou Xiaoru is not bewitched.

Looking for a boyfriend is just like picking out clothes; although the size and fit are very important, the style and design, and whether you like them, are equally important.

She cannot look for a boyfriend just for the sake of looking for a boyfriend, and even less can she delay a good person; she certainly doesn't want to be a "green tea"!

Looking at her held hand and facing the calm in her heart, Zhou Xiaoru decides she must face her true self.

She lifts her head and looks at the tall boy in front of her.

"Du Feng, I don't want to lie to you, and I want to lie to myself even less. Perhaps one day in the future, I will completely forget that person. Then, at the right opportunity, I will meet the right person, only I don't know how long this time limit will be. So, I'm sorry, I cannot selfishly tie you to me to wait together."

Hearing this, Du Feng reveals a trace of a hurt expression.

"Are you really not willing to give me even a chance to wait?"

Zhou Xiaoru is silent; she knows that refusal is a hurt, but not refusing will only deepen the hurt.

Thinking that she still has to work at Tengyuan in the future, she doesn't want to make things awkward with Du Feng; after all, she feels that Du Feng is very worth getting to know deeply as a friend.

In short, he is more than a hundred times more worth getting to know deeply than the other two executives in the company.

Thinking back to the afternoon, after she entered the classroom next to the restroom and saw everything arranged inside, she truly felt very moved.

Growing up to this age, no one has ever spent such effort to specially arrange these things for her.

In the afternoon, she kept thinking, if only she could like Du Feng, how good that would be.

The person being confessed to happens to also like him; what a romantic and just-right love that would be.

Unfortunately...

Zhou Xiaoru finally concludes for herself that it might be because the starting point of her standards was too high before, and she fell for an antique vase like Gu Liyan.

To the point that later on, she became directly immune to all other men.

If she wants to pull her standards down from the sky a bit, it seems it will still take some time.

Thinking for a moment, she changes her approach and says, "Du Feng, look, we actually haven't known each other for long, and you might not know me very well. Dating also requires a process of getting to know each other, doesn't it? I think being friends is quite good; it lasts longer than being lovers, don't you think?"

She doesn't want to say a direct refusal because she doesn't want to face hurting this Brother Du, so she changes her phrasing.

But facing Miss Zhou's statement once again that being friends lasts longer than being boyfriend and girlfriend...

Du Feng expresses that he is somewhat between laughing and crying.

Seeing him laugh, Zhou Xiaoru gets a bit anxious.

"Don't laugh, I'm telling the truth. I am a living example myself. To tell you the truth, when I was dating Gu Liyan, he always had someone hidden in his heart, and what was the result? You see it now, so, I am determined not to do such things that harm others and benefit no one."

This is the first time Zhou Xiaoru has taken the initiative to speak about the matter between her and Gu Liyan.

Du Feng thinks of Gu Liyan's overly cold and hard attitude toward him recently and says.

"I feel that President Gu is... different toward you now."

Although he doesn't know why they started in the first place or why they ended.

But now, he can keenly sense Gu Liyan's hostility toward him.

If he didn't care about Zhou Xiaoru and have her in his heart, it would be impossible to have these reactions.

But Zhou Xiaoru has been shielding all of this out of the situation...

"There is nothing different; it's just sour grapes because he can't eat the grapes. If I really had a boyfriend, would he really commit suicide because he lost me? Stop joking."

On this earth, no matter who is missing, it will still turn; no one will be unable to live because they left someone.

At this moment, a flash of light passes through Du Feng's eyes, and he pulls the person in front of him a bit closer to his own body.

He whispers, "I have a good suggestion..."

A good suggestion? Zhou Xiaoru looks puzzled. "What suggestion?"

Then, Du Feng lowers his head and leans toward Zhou Xiaoru's ear...

Zhou Xiaoru thinks it is something that is not easy to say directly, so she naturally leans her ear over...

This scene stimulates the person in the car across the street once again.

With a livid face, Gu Liyan takes the surviving mobile phone out of his pocket and dials a number.

At this moment, a ringtone sounds on the street across from them, separating the two who were still whispering to each other.

And as this ringtone sounds, it instantly draws the gazes of the surrounding people toward them.

Just because Miss Zhou's ringtone...

Is too demonic! Listen to what this is singing!

"Can't be hurt, really can't be hurt, I calculate and calculate, calculate and calculate, until I give up. Do you have a conscience? Your conscience was carried away by a dog. I hate you, hate you, hate you, hate you until I completely forget..."

I don't know why, but every time she changes her ringtone, Gu Liyan thinks it is aimed at him.

Someone who uses this kind of song as a ringtone now must be either a middle-aged aunt or someone of grandmother age or older.

Zhou Xiaoru is indeed not an ordinary person; she doesn't like the same songs as on TikTok, nor does she like popular hit songs; she is just this willful!

And Miss Xiaoru doesn't care about the surprised gazes of others; she just slowly takes out her phone, looks at it, and sets the ringtone to vibrate.

She doesn't even answer the call and puts the phone back into her pocket.

Seeing this, Gu Liyan's eyes are like ten thousand arrows fired at once! He swears to turn the two people across the street into a hornet's nest!

She actually doesn't answer his call!

(Author's inner OS: It seems like she usually doesn't answer your calls whenever she can!)

That gentleman's patience has reached its limit; even a few years ago, when he had just started university and caught Fang Qingkong cheating, he was not as angry or furious as he is today!

Clutching his phone, which was already falling apart, he got out of the car, redialed the number, and strolled toward the other side of the road.

After feeling her phone vibrate again, Zhou Xiaoru glanced at the caller ID and ignored it once more.

Seeing the call coming in again, Du Feng asked, "Who is calling? Why aren't you answering?"

"It's nothing, just some lunatic calling. Don't worry about him. Anyway, what were you saying just now? I didn't hear you clearly."

It was all Gu Liyan's fault; why did he have to choose this moment to call?

At this moment, Du Feng's peripheral vision had already caught sight of the person walking over from the diagonal opposite side.

They were standing under a large tree by the roadside, and the direction Du Feng was standing in faced the other side of the road perfectly.

Therefore, he had already seen Gu Liyan's BMW since the moment they started talking there.

As for Zhou Xiaoru, who had been facing away the whole time, she naturally saw nothing.

Du Feng had been doing it on purpose from the very beginning.

He had intentionally made Zhou Xiaoru stand with her back to the road, deliberately reached out to hold her hand, and even more deliberately whispered to her.

(Author's note: Du Feng, aren't you afraid of being sexually harassed by the Big Boss for provoking your direct superior so blatantly!)

Just as Gu Liyan was about to walk over, Du Feng finished the sentence he hadn't completed earlier.

"You can completely pretend to be in a relationship with me now to get rid of President Gu's pestering. Given time, I think President Gu will give up on his own."

Because by that time, she would already be his girlfriend in every sense of the word.

While Zhou Xiaoru was still pondering the meaning of this sentence, the man with a murderous look on his face across the way had already arrived on the scene.

Gu Liyan walked straight up to the two of them!

Faced with the appearance of such a handsome man, a small commotion broke out at the school gate.

Many people even recognized Gu Liyan.

As soon as Zhou Xiaoru saw a huge shadow looming over her, she was so scared she almost retreated three steps!

When did this guy show up again?!

Is he a groundhog? He always just pops up out of nowhere.

At this moment, Gu Liyan's gaze remained fixed on Du Feng.

Du Feng was not afraid of him either, and looked back.

While watching Du Feng, Gu Liyan reached out and wrapped his arm around Zhou Xiaoru's shoulder.

He said, "Zhou Xiaoru, let's talk about your salary now!"

Zhou Xiaoru, who was just about to resist, lost all momentum upon hearing this.

She stopped moving because, at this moment, she really wanted to know how much salary she could actually get after working so hard for so many days.

But Du Feng, who was standing to the side, made a move.

He grabbed Zhou Xiaoru's arm directly and said.

"President Gu, it's off-duty hours now. Besides, my girlfriend has been on leave lately. If there's anything, let's talk about it at the company next week."

Hearing him say this, Zhou Xiaoru was secretly giving Brother Du a thumbs up in her heart while also breaking into a cold sweat for him.

Little Du, it's not really good for you to clash with your direct superior like this.

As for that gentleman, upon hearing the words "my girlfriend," he had already mentally thrown countless blades at him.

Word by word, he asked coldly.

"You said, she is your girlfriend?"

Du Feng remained calm and replied.

"Yes, I just successfully confessed to Xiaoru this afternoon."

As he spoke, he looked with deep affection at the person who was still being held in Gu Liyan's arms.

Only then did Gu Liyan's gaze slowly shift to the person he was holding.

He asked just as coldly, "Is what he said true? You are now... his girlfriend!"

Faced with the incoming murderous aura, Zhou Xiaoru shivered all over and didn't dare to look at that gentleman even once.

Regarding Du Feng's suggestion from earlier, Zhou Xiaoru gritted her teeth and forced a single word out.

"Yes!"

Before the word "yes" had even landed, she clearly felt a pain in her shoulder.

Gu Liyan was truly furious this time...

He let go of the person in his arms and dropped a line,

"If you still want your salary, get in the car with me now. If you don't want it, then next week you can prepare the penalty fee as written in the breach of contract statement!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru was so shocked that she broke free from Du Feng's hand and stepped forward to ask.

"I never said I wanted to resign, why would I have to pay a penalty fee!"

She had read that statement several times, and it only took effect if she resigned.

The man, with his back to her, said coldly.

"You didn't take the initiative to resign, but the statement also says very clearly that as the second party, I have the right to initiate your dismissal! You still have to pay compensation!"

"You!! This is a predatory clause!"

Damn it! She had actually been played by this guy! Damn! She was about to start cursing!