Chapter 5: Good, He’s Looking for an Enemy!
Shen Chi did not like Lu Chenzhou, but he liked money.
The moment he heard five million, he nearly failed to maintain his aloof character setting.
Damn mouth, hold it in!
“Don’t worry, President Lu. I will definitely pay attention to the movements around me and help you find the person as soon as possible.”
There was still more than an hour before the end of the workday. Shen Chi thought they would return to the company, but Lu Chenzhou suddenly stared at his face.
“Secretary Shen, you may get off work.”
Shen Chi paused. Afraid that he had misheard, he even specially asked the system.
“Does he mean I can get off work today, not get off work permanently?”
The system also hesitated.
Thinking of his little life, Shen Chi’s movements as he left became somewhat slow and reluctant.
Lu Chenzhou looked at his thin figure, at that face so beautiful it made people ignore gender, and finally fixed his gaze on those clear eyes that carried a bit of coldness.
Without a doubt, Shen Chi’s eyes were very beautiful. Aloof, yet somehow also a little… alluring.
Lu Chenzhou’s teeth felt a little itchy. He pressed his tongue against his teeth and took another cigarette from his body.
“Secretary Shen, are you not leaving because you want me to send you home?”
Lu Chenzhou did not light it. He only held the cigarette between his lips, but when those dark eyes looked at someone, they carried a wild aggression.
The instinct of a herbivore made Shen Chi quickly sense danger.
He took a step back, his smile not reaching his eyes. “Thank you, President Lu, but there’s no need.”
This guy had not found his enemy. He would not start taking his anger out on others, right?
Shen Chi did not stay any longer and turned around directly.
The weather had not been very good these few days. It was misty and gloomy, so the bodyguards did not think much of it. They simply assumed Secretary Shen had hesitated because the weather was about to change.
Shen Chi’s luck really was not very good. The moment he stepped outside, light rain began to fall from the sky.
The system said, [Hurry, let’s run! In a few minutes, this rain is going to turn into a downpour. I don’t want to become a soaked system.]
March weather was not exactly cold, but it could not be called warm either.
Shen Chi wrapped his suit tighter around himself. While quickening his pace, he complained, “I know, I know. Soaked system, stop rushing me.”
The system said, [How about taking the shortcut? Don’t worry, with me here this time, no wild Alpha will appear.]
Once bitten by a dog, Shen Chi never wanted to take that damned shortcut again for the rest of his life.
“Get lost. Don’t even think about it.”
One person and one system quickly disappeared into the rain.
He did not know that when he left, Lu Chenzhou behind him never once moved his gaze away. His stare was completely unrestrained.
At some unknown point, the cigarette in his mouth had already been lit. White smoke slowly rose, covering Lu Chenzhou’s sharp and handsome face, and even more so hiding the emotions in his eyes.
“Check Secretary Shen’s route home.”
The bodyguard said, “Yes, President Lu.”
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Early the next morning, Shen Chi, who had finally gotten used to that broken bed, had not even woken up when singing and dancing started in his head.
[Come, come fortune, don’t be stingy~!]
Shen Chi almost fell off the bed. He opened his eyes and realized it was the system messing with him. Gritting his teeth, he said, “You’d better have a reasonable explanation!”
The system said, [Heehee, a beautiful day has begun. Time to get up and make money. Look, even the ringtone I used to wake you up is about fortune coming~]
Fine. So even the ringtone fit the occasion.
Looking at the shabby little room, Shen Chi knew that if he did not earn money soon, he would even be reluctant to order budget group-buy meals.
Dragging his exhausted body, he took the bus. Only an hour later did he finally arrive at the Lu Group.
In order to leave a good impression on his colleagues, Shen Chi patted his face, making his skin look less pale, before stepping into the magnificent building.
It was almost eight o’clock.
As soon as Shen Chi stepped inside, he noticed a dispute at the front desk.
His ears twitched slightly, and his eyes had already drifted over.
Gossip on the second day of work!
Perhaps because he had taken one extra look, or perhaps because Shen Chi himself was too eye-catching, the two young ladies at the front desk brightened up and hurriedly pulled him over.
“Secretary Shen!”
Shen Chi was rather surprised. “You know me?”
The two young ladies at the front desk smiled until their eyes curved. What a joke. Yesterday, the moment Secretary Shen joined the company, the company’s private group chats had exploded. With such an unparalleled face, it was hard to ignore him, okay?
What a pity, though. He was actually a Beta.
But then again, if he were not a Beta, he probably would not have been able to join the company.
The front desk girl immediately stopped sighing in her mind and pointed at an arrogant girl not far away. She said loudly, “Secretary Shen, Miss Ruan wants to see President Lu, but as you know, according to the rules, no appointment means no meeting.”
After saying that, the other front desk girl explained in a low voice, “Secretary Shen, Miss Ruan’s parents and President Lu’s parents are family friends, so this is a bit difficult for us.”
With one sentence, she explained this Miss Ruan’s identity and also explained why they did not dare call security to throw her out.
Compared with the two young ladies at the front desk, the information given by the system was more complete.
[It’s Ruan Shangxue! A cannon-fodder Omega. According to the relationship chart on my side, she will later make things difficult for the male lead’s love interest and humiliate him in public.]
[But she isn’t much of a threat. She belongs to the brainless cannon-fodder category. Although on the surface, her family is close to the male lead’s family, she is an illegitimate daughter. She was only brought back home when she was around ten. And because she charges forward noisily without thinking, many people laugh at her behind her back—for example, her outfits.]
Shen Chi gave a soft “mm,” and then saw that Ruan Shangxue had already stepped over in high heels, her face full of arrogance.
The girl was quite tall. She was one meter seventy and was even wearing high heels. Standing in front of Shen Chi, she was almost as tall as him.
Under normal circumstances, some men would feel inferior in this kind of situation, especially considering Ruan Shangxue’s family background. But Shen Chi simply smiled at her neither humbly nor arrogantly. There was no impatience on his face. His amber eyes held a faint smile, like a spring breeze on a spring day.
“Miss Ruan.”
The moment Ruan Shangxue saw Shen Chi’s face, she acted as if she were facing a great enemy. She frowned her pretty face, lifted her delicate chin, and her crisp voice carried obvious malice and displeasure.
“Secretary Shen? New here? Why have I never seen you before?”
“Miss Ruan, I only joined yesterday.”
Hearing this, Ruan Shangxue immediately sneered. “Then you’re still in your internship period. A trainee secretary like you can actually speak to your President Lu?”
Shen Chi did not mind her deliberate difficulty. Instead, following the system’s prompt, he paid attention to her outfit.
Objectively speaking, with Ruan Shangxue’s height and appearance, she leaned more toward the mature, elegant older-sister type. However, her outfit was cute lolita style: a lace puff skirt, high heels with platform soles, even a pair of lace-trimmed socks on her feet. And then there was her heavy blunt bangs and makeup… There were truly too many points to criticize.
But Shen Chi showed not the slightest hint of mockery. He only looked at her appearance and suddenly sighed.
Ruan Shangxue had never encountered this kind of situation before. She was stunned on the spot. Only after a moment did she become angry from embarrassment.
“Why are you sighing for no reason!”
Shen Chi stared at her face and sincerely suggested, “Although I’m just an outsider and it may be rude for me to say this, I really think you should fire your stylist.”
Ruan Shangxue paused.
She knew that many people mocked her behind her back, calling her a sparrow that had flown onto a branch, saying she carried the air of a nouveau riche. She was unhappy about it and wished she could tear those people’s mouths apart. But they were of similar status to her. She had once tried to imitate their outfits, but what she received was even more ridicule. Some people even mocked her for being a copycat.
