Chapter 77: Business Trip (Part 6)

Hearing such a threat, Zhou Xiaoru was unbothered; right in front of the man, she used a fruit fork to spear another piece of cantaloupe and put it into her mouth.

She said, while eating with great relish.

"If you dare to blab about my business, I'll tell the other colleagues that you're bisexual."

"Screech..."

Following the fall of her words, the car successfully swerved, and even emitted a somewhat harsh sound.

Xiao Chen was so scared he hurriedly apologized, "I... I'm sorry, I... I... my hand slipped."

Zhou Xiaoru glanced in the mirror at Xiao Chen, who was already breaking out in a cold sweat.

Hearing such news, how could his hand not slip?

And the aura of the gentleman in question, following this sentence, gradually became terrifying.

Yet the woman in question didn't care at all about his man-eating expression; she was no longer a little white rabbit to be bullied by anyone—she was now a beast of prey!

A beast of prey! Get it!

After staring at her for a while, Gu Liyan revealed a trace of a strange smile once again.

He said something even more misleading.

"Whether I am bisexual or not, haven't you already confirmed it?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru turned her head, "What do you mean I've confirmed it?" She hadn't slept with him, so how could she have confirmed it?

At this moment, the man had a gentle smile on his face and even reached over to flick her nose.

He lowered his voice and said, "That night during the heavy rain, we... under the bridge arch... have you forgotten everything..."

"Screech!!"

As the words fell, another harsh sound rang out, and the car swerved again.

This swerve shook the previous memories into the brain of the woman in question.

That rainy night, in the wilderness, in the car...

Zhou Xiaoru spat in her heart; nothing happened between them, alright!

The interaction between the two was as if they had forgotten that Xiao Chen was still in the car.

Faced with so much explosive entertainment news, Xiao Chen's brain capacity was clearly running out of memory.

And this conversation of mutual mud-slinging, which treated him entirely as air, had not yet ended.

Zhou Xiaoru did not jump up to refute the so-called rainy night, but instead went along with his words.

"You have the nerve to say that; looking at your build, you seem quite capable, but I didn't expect that at the critical moment, you would... sigh..."

By the end, she even put on an expression of being at a loss for words and sighed.

Gu Liyan's face was now so dark that only his eyes were visible.

This damn girl, she really dares to say anything!

Once they arrive in W City, let's see how he deals with her.

Xiao Chen in the front was now breaking out in cold sweat one moment and hot sweat the next; alternating between cold and hot, he wanted to just jump out of the car and flee.

Finally, this great battle sparked by feeding fruit ended with Zhou Xiaoru eating the entire box of fruit.

Having eaten and drunk her fill, the woman in question soon automatically entered sleep mode.

Leaving only the gentleman in question to fume in anger!

Although he was angry on the surface, when he saw the person sleeping like a little cat, his heart was left with nothing but softness.

Gu Liyan even thought that if there were always such a person by his side in the future, his life shouldn't be too dull or boring.

He even thought that even if he were asked to marry Zhou Xiaoru right now, he would go home and get the household registration book without the slightest hesitation.

This is the rotten smell of love.

And Zhou Xiaoru slept so soundly that she couldn't even find her way home.

She hadn't woken up even when they arrived at the hotel in W City.

The one who woke her up was not Gu Liyan, but Xiao Chen.

Not long after entering W City, Gu Liyan had already gotten out of the car on his own to take a taxi and visit several local companies.

He even thoughtfully had Xiao Chen take her to the hotel where they were staying for this business trip.

After being woken up, Zhou Xiaoru saw Xiao Chen standing outside the car door, looking at her with a fawning smile on his face.

Throughout this journey, regarding the interaction between the two, Xiao Chen felt that if he still couldn't figure something out...

Then he would have truly lived all these years in vain!

In his eyes, the current Zhou Xiaoru was like the existence of a CEO's wife.

He had to serve her carefully and must not piss off the future CEO's wife.

Zhou Xiaoru got out of the car suspiciously, only to find that she had arrived at a completely unfamiliar place.

By now, Xiao Chen had already automatically taken her and Gu Liyan's luggage.

Zhou Xiaoru hurried over to help, but was politely declined by Xiao Chen with a grin.

Following him into the hotel, she asked a question.

"Where is CEO Gu?"

"The CEO has already gone to handle other matters; he told me to drop you off at the hotel first, and then I will go pick him up."

She nodded in understanding and checked the time on her phone; it was already past twelve.

At this moment, her stomach was already growling with hunger.

After checking in, Zhou Xiaoru, who had been thinking about how to go out and forage for food...

While she was still marveling at how the room she was staying in was extraordinarily luxurious and spacious, the guest room manager had already personally pushed a dining cart over.

It turned out that while she was sleeping in the car, Gu Liyan had already arranged everything.

Looking at the dining plates being placed on the table one after another, Zhou Xiaoru had the feeling of being in an imperial palace where the Empress Dowager was about to dine.

Gu Liyan had ordered the local specialties for her, and the portion was enough for her to eat for several days.

Had she known that guy had already ordered food for her, she should have asked Xiao Chen to stay and eat together.

With so many dishes, what a pity it would be to waste them.

She remembered that just before Xiao Chen left, he had added her WeChat and left his mobile number, telling her to contact him anytime if anything came up.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoru hurriedly took out her phone to call Xiao Chen and ask him to come over to eat together.

She figured he shouldn't have left the hotel yet.

But after receiving the call, Xiao Chen flatly declined her kind offer.

Dare to eat with the Big Boss's woman? Did he not want to live anymore?

Zhou Xiaoru had no choice but to let him be.

Come to think of it, that guy Xiao Chen must think there is something going on between her and Gu Liyan.

Now she couldn't think about that much anymore; after putting away her luggage, she began her dining journey.

It's just that this meal, too, was not very peaceful for her.

Just as she had eaten two bites of food, her phone rang; she originally thought it might be Gu Liyan calling.

But after seeing the number, she discovered it was a strange number.

After answering the phone, a strange woman's voice came from the other end.

But after a few sentences of conversation, Zhou Xiaoru's complexion became worse and worse, just like her gradually changing appetite.

The person calling was Fang Qingkong.

Fang Qingkong said that she was also in W City now, and coincidentally, they were staying at the same hotel.

Fang Qingkong called to say she wanted to ask her out for afternoon tea.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru couldn't help but sneer inwardly; she was eating lunch right now, what afternoon tea!

And in her eyes, drinking afternoon tea was something rich ladies did.

For someone like her, she might as well just drink plain water.

She did not agree to Fang Qingkong's invitation, only saying that there was nothing for them to talk about and no need to meet in private, before hanging up the phone.

After hanging up, facing a table full of dishes, our Miss Zhou instantly lost her appetite.

She even felt it was all quite inexplicable!

Why did Fang Qingkong ask her out? Aside from Gu Liyan's affairs, there was absolutely no intersection between them.

Moreover, she had now completely associated Fang Qingkong with the vicious female supporting character in romance novels.

She wasn't stupid; she wasn't going to go looking for abuse.

But how did Fang Qingkong have her mobile number, know they were here on a business trip, and even know the hotel they booked...

Could it be... that Gu Liyan told her?

This was the sequela of reading too many romance novels.

Persecution mania!

At this moment, she couldn't help but start fantasizing.

Perhaps Gu Liyan was with Fang Qingkong right now, and Fang Qingkong calling to ask her for afternoon tea was actually to make her see them together...

Everyone could imagine the plot that would follow.

Zhou Xiaoru couldn't help but admire herself; she should become a screenwriter if she could even associate such a plot.

Having lost the mood to eat, and having had a good sleep in the car earlier,

Zhou Xiaoru was now full of energy; she grabbed her bag, planning to go out for a stroll.

She had only focused on sleeping earlier and hadn't seen anything; now she wanted to go out and take a good look at this major city that ranked in the top three for annual GDP.

When she walked to the door, she glanced at Gu Liyan's black leather suitcase left in her room.

Xiao Chen said that the Big Boss's room would have to wait for him to return to open it himself, so he had placed the luggage in her room first.

But after glancing at the room she was staying in, which was big enough to raise dozens of pigs, Zhou Xiaoru vaguely felt a bad premonition.

It wasn't that she was overthinking; this room had an interior and exterior, two rooms, a living room, and a high-end bathtub.

Although she had never stayed in such a luxurious hotel, in TV shows and novels, when the Big Boss went on a business trip, they always stayed in a Presidential Suite.

She wasn't going to be staying with Gu Liyan, was she?!

It must be said that our Miss Zhou, after being persecuted so many times, had finally learned to be sharp once.

Her guess was correct; this Presidential Suite was indeed for the two of them to stay in.

It was just that by the time Zhou Xiaoru confirmed it, it was already night.

After wandering around for half the day, Zhou Xiaoru had roughly strolled around the vicinity.

The hotel they were staying in was located right in the city center, so traveling was very convenient.

Next to it was a commercial street and a street of snacks.

Unlike places like A City with their cultural heritage and historical weight, this place was more industrialized and modernized.

There were high-rise buildings everywhere; while prosperous, it made Zhou Xiaoru feel a bit breathless.

There was also one thing that was very bad!

That was that she had run around for half the day and couldn't find a public restroom outside.

In the end, she had to hold it until she returned to the hotel to resolve it.

She didn't know what was wrong today; Zhou Xiaoru felt that all the toilets in the world were against her!

After she came out of the public restroom in the hotel lobby on the first floor, she prepared to return to her room to take a shower and then carefully look at the materials she needed to prepare for tomorrow.

Passing by that long front desk of the hotel, she clearly noticed that the beautiful receptionists in a row in front of the counter, dressed like greeters, were all sizing her up with strange looks.

Feeling puzzled, she stared at what they were looking at.

While thinking this, she had already turned her head to look directly at the few people at the opposite counter.

Do they think she doesn't exist! Staring at her so blatantly!

What is there to look at!

However, once she returned to her room, she knew what everyone was looking at.

A quarter of an hour before Zhou Xiaoru returned, Gu Liyan had already come back.

After he completed a simple registration at the front desk, he took the room card and went up.

Meanwhile, the crowd of infatuated receptionists were sighing at having seen such a handsome man, while also feeling jealous of the woman who had already checked in, Zhou Xiaoru.

So when she appeared, everyone began to size up what was different about this woman.

To think she could stay in the same room as such a handsome hunk!

It really makes one jealous to the point of madness!