Chapter 1301: Everyone Has Secrets

"Alright, alright, I'll let you hug me properly when we get back tonight," Li Jie said helplessly, feeling limp all over from her teasing.

Soon, Chen Yu drove over, and Liu Ruxi asked for the address and navigated there.

Finding a nearby parking lot to leave the car, Chen Yu got out.

This Hunan restaurant was indeed authentic, and having not been open for very long, the decor was quite elegant; the dishes inside were fragrant, colorful, and delicious, and the taste was extremely genuine.

"Mm, the food here is truly delicious; I want to come here often from now on," Liu Ruxi said.

It was authentic Hunan cuisine, and with a slight adjustment to the flavor profile, it made the texture feel exceptionally good to eat.

"The places you frequent are all Western restaurants; to be honest, those places are filled with too much etiquette and culture," Chen Yu said. "You should taste more of the food from your hometown in the future."

"Chen Yu, I have another question I want to ask you." While eating, Liu Ruxi looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Go ahead and ask." Chen Yu gave a bitter smile; although she hadn't stated it clearly yet, he already knew what she was going to ask.

She was simply going to ask what his relationship with Wang Le was; could he really have given him that much face?

Sure enough, she swallowed the food in her mouth and said, "What exactly is your relationship with Wang Le? How could he give you so much face?"

"If I said I wasn't familiar with him, would you believe me?" Chen Yu smiled slightly. He subconsciously glanced at Li Jie, because Li Jie now knew his identity.

She should help him smooth things over.

"Of course I don't believe it. Although Wang Le's status in Modu doesn't count for much, he is still someone who has one foot in the socialite circle." Liu Ruxi naturally didn't believe Chen Yu's nonsense.

"And he is a top figure at the World Trade Building. Now that such a person is so respectful to you, you say you aren't familiar with him? Saying that is a bit of an insult to my intelligence."

"Alright, stop asking. Who doesn't have a few little secrets?"

Li Jie glared at her and said, "Eat your food. Can't even good food stop your mouth?"

"Little Aunt..." Liu Ruxi looked at Li Jie with some resentment and said, "Why aren't you taking my side?"

"I am speaking based on the facts. Who doesn't have secrets? It's a good thing that Little Chen can help you; there's no need for you to get to the bottom of it, is there? Is that polite?" Li Jie put on a lecturing tone.

"Little Aunt..." Liu Ruxi felt very aggrieved and looked at Li Jie, acting like a spoiled child.

"Alright, hurry up and eat. Regardless, Little Chen is so capable; you can ask him to solve things you can't handle in the future. Isn't that a good thing?" Li Jie said. "You really found a treasure; you should give him a raise later."

"Are you serious?" Liu Ruxi was startled. This wasn't her Little Aunt's style at all; she had always opposed her being good to that man.

"The capable should do more, and those who do more should get more. That is our company's motto; how could you forget it? Where else can you find someone who acts as your driver, your bodyguard, and can help you settle deals you can't sign?" Li Jie said. "If you don't cherish him, what if he gets poached by a rival company?"

"What you say is also right." Liu Ruxi nodded seriously and said, "Alright then, I'll give him a raise, thirty thousand a month, how about that?"

"Really, there's no need. I haven't been in the company long; if my salary goes up this fast, people will definitely be suspicious." Chen Yu shook his head.

Just kidding, he really didn't come here for the salary; where had these two women's thoughts wandered off to?

"Suspicious of what? If they have the ability, they should be as capable as you." Liu Ruxi giggled and said, "Good, it's happily decided then. I want to go back early tonight; let's eat quickly, and once we're done, we'll head back."

After eating, Chen Yu drove to Liu Ruxi's villa. This place was quite far from the city center, but it didn't feel slow to drive there.

It was just that this place was terrifyingly quiet during the day, and at night it seemed even more gloomy, because there were simply too few people.

Although the villas were all detached, there were very few that had lights on, so it was no wonder He Yi had been so guarded against Chen Yu before.

The car stopped in the garage, and Chen Yu walked into the villa, though he still felt a bit uncomfortable; after all, he had never lived with a woman before.

After changing clothes, Liu Ruxi went downstairs and said to Chen Yu, "Go to the garden in the courtyard and have a couple of drinks with me."

Chen Yu followed her instructions and went to the small garden outside.

The villa's courtyard was indeed not small, and although it was far from the main urban area of Modu, in a place like this, detached houses were still extremely scarce.

In the small garden, Liu Ruxi had set out red wine. She poured a glass for Chen Yu and handed it to him.

"Thank you." Chen Yu nodded and took the wine glass.

"Tell me, what's going on between you and my Little Aunt?" Just after drinking a glass of wine, Liu Ruxi giggled and said, "Looking at you two, things seem a bit abnormal today."

"There's nothing between her and me; nothing happened between us." Chen Yu was slightly stunned, not knowing what she meant by that.

"Oh, stop it. Do you really think I can't tell?" Liu Ruxi glared at Chen Yu, then giggled and said, "You probably don't understand my Little Aunt."

"I don't understand her either, what's wrong?" Chen Yu asked.

"Since I was little, she has been overprotective of me, terrified that I would be deceived or suffer a loss." Liu Ruxi said leisurely, "No messy men are allowed to appear around me."

"I don't count as a messy man, do I?" Chen Yu was slightly stunned, feeling both amused and frustrated.

So it turned out that everyone who had approached Liu Ruxi before had been treated as a messy man?

No wonder when he first joined the company, Li Jie had conducted a major investigation on him; it turned out it was just to check his identity.

"You don't, but you're still a man. She actually defended you today and spoke up for you, which makes me feel it's somewhat unbelievable." Liu Ruxi giggled.

"How is it unbelievable? I think what she said was quite right." Chen Yu smiled slightly. "Everyone has their own privacy; it's not very good for you to pry into other people's privacy like this, really."

"Forget it, does that even count as privacy? Besides, I'm the boss; I have the right to know. It's a terrifying thing to think that I don't even know what kind of person my employee is." Liu Ruxi said dismissively.

Having said this, Chen Yu finally understood her meaning; it turned out she still wanted to pry into his relationship with Wang Le.

"You still want to know about my relationship with Wang Le?" Chen Yu laughed.

"Yes, I want to know. I beg you to tell me, because I know what kind of person Wang Le is." Liu Ruxi said, "In Modu, although he doesn't count as having the most connections or background, ordinary people can't get close to him."