Chapter 7: Don’t Reward Him Like That!
In order to become a gold-medal secretary, Shen Chi worked hard and studied diligently. Whatever the secretary sister gave him, he learned.
When he used his brain too much, his stomach became hungry easily.
He was actually quite picky about food, but right now, he was short on money. Even that morning’s breakfast had been dealt with hastily in a few bites. He had not eaten his fill at all.
The secretary sister was pregnant, and pregnant women also became hungry easily. The two looked at each other and instantly felt as though they had met someone of the same kind.
The secretary sister said, “Pantry?”
Shen Chi picked up the lunch box and was already standing up from his workstation.
On the top floor of the Lu Group, there were two pantries. One belonged to the secretary office, and the other was exclusively for Lu Chenzhou.
While eating snacks, the secretary sister said to him, “Little Chi, from now on, you’ll need to arrive twenty minutes early. President Lu drinks black coffee every morning, the hand-ground kind. Oh right, do you know how to hand-grind coffee?”
Shen Chi was eating the breakfast from the lunch box. There was only one sandwich inside, but the bread still carried the warmth of having just come out of the oven. The lettuce was also very fresh, and the meat inside was generously portioned. At a glance, it was definitely not pre-made food.
With one bite, the excellent texture made him feel as if he had come back to life.
This was what humans should be eating!
“I know how to hand-grind. What about lunch? When he eats, do I need to serve him at the side?”
The secretary sister said, “Usually, no. Unless there’s a dinner gathering. Then you might have to help drink alcohol. In the past, drinking was mostly the assistants’ job, but maybe because I’m a woman, President Lu had the male assistants drink instead.”
Shen Chi understood.
He took another bite of the sandwich. His cheeks were stuffed full, but he did not look messy. Instead, he looked extremely cute.
The secretary sister watched him and could not help wanting to reach out and poke him.
Just then, footsteps sounded outside the pantry. The two turned their heads together and saw Lu Chenzhou, that man, standing in the doorway with his one-meter-ninety height, blocking the entrance.
He was tall, and his handsome face was solemn and unsmiling. Beneath his custom-made suit, there was also a frightening sense of power.
Shen Chi suddenly thought of the phrase “a suited brute.”
He quickly swallowed the sandwich in his mouth, but because he swallowed too fast, he choked.
Shen Chi did not dare cough violently. He could only desperately hold it in, his little face turning red. In the end, even his cheeks flushed completely. The secretary sister finally noticed something was wrong and hurriedly poured him a cup of water. She also casually patted his back to help him breathe.
Everything happened so suddenly that the secretary sister forgot the strange quirk she had discovered about President Lu yesterday—he did not allow colleagues to touch each other.
“Secretary Shen, are you okay?”
Shen Chi’s cheeks were bright red. He did not say anything, but his misty eyes looked pitiful and delicate, diluting the aloof air around him.
“Secretary Shen, the three-day probation period is not for you to hide in the pantry and eat.” Unfeeling words slipped out from Lu Chenzhou’s thin lips.
Shen Chi wanted to give him a big slap.
Listen to that. Was that even something a human would say?
The secretary sister also felt that he was pitiful and explained softly, “President Lu, Secretary Shen has been busy with me all morning. He only rested for five minutes.”
Although Lu Chenzhou had been cold in the past, he rarely cared about such small things.
He would call the secretary office. If she was not there, the assistants would usually handle it. Unlike today, when he had suddenly appeared in the employees’ pantry.
The secretary sister vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but she could not grasp exactly what it was. She could only say, “President Lu, is there some work you need us to handle?”
Lu Chenzhou, however, looked at Shen Chi. “Secretary Shen, make me a cup of coffee and bring it in.”
Shen Chi still had an unfinished sandwich in his hand. Hearing this, he could only nod.
The sandwich was truly delicious. The moment Lu Chenzhou turned around, Shen Chi could not resist secretly taking another bite. But at that exact moment, no one expected Lu Chenzhou to leave and then return.
Shen Chi: …
Was he trying to kill him today?!
He could neither chew nor swallow. In the end, he could only hold it in his mouth.
Lu Chenzhou’s face was full of gloom. “Secretary Shen, if you can’t make it properly, take your sandwich and get out of the Lu Group.”
In his anger, Shen Chi almost wanted to throw the sandwich at him.
What was wrong with the sandwich?
The sandwich was so delicious!
Had the sandwich offended him?!
In a small burst of fury, he threw the sandwich into the trash can. But the piece in his mouth was not easy to spit out. That would look too ugly. So, right in front of Lu Chenzhou, he chewed it up and swallowed it down.
This action was truly bold. Both the system and the secretary sister watched with their hearts trembling.
Lu Chenzhou’s eyes were pitch black. He could not even control his pheromones, and some of them leaked out.
Those overflowing pheromones almost indiscriminately all targeted Shen Chi.
This pheromone was not an attack. On the contrary, it was more like enclosing a certain reckless fellow into his territory.
It was only because Shen Chi was a Beta and completely unaware. If there had been any Alpha or Omega here, they would have discovered just how terrifying the domineering aura wrapped around Shen Chi was.
Shen Chi knew nothing. After throwing away the sandwich, he resigned himself to his fate and walked toward Lu Chenzhou.
“President Lu, I’ll go make your coffee now.” After saying that, he turned sideways and, without waiting for Lu Chenzhou to nod, headed toward the other pantry.
At this moment, the secretary sister finally caught onto what had been wrong!
She looked at Lu Chenzhou in shock, only to receive a warning look.
The secretary sister’s heart raced wildly. She had been President Lu’s secretary for three years. She could not say she understood him completely, but she was not unfamiliar with him either. When had the previous President Lu ever cared so much about a minor employee? This abnormal attention clearly meant he had set his sights on Secretary Shen.
“Secretary Xu.”
A low voice sounded, and the secretary sister trembled.
“President Lu.”
Lu Chenzhou said, “What should be said and what should not be said—I don’t need to remind you, do I?”
It was a naked warning. What else could the secretary sister say? What else would she dare to say?
She took a deep breath and nodded with difficulty.
President Lu and Secretary Shen…
In the end, she could only silently apologize to Secretary Shen in her heart.
Sorry, Secretary Shen.
Better you than me!
Lu Chenzhou did not stay long and turned to leave.
He knew that his attention toward Shen Chi was abnormal, but he did not want to restrain himself. Unconscious attraction was the most fatal.
When Shen Chi was around, he would not even feel the irritation of failing to find that little Omega.
It was too strange. If Shen Chi were not a Beta, he would almost suspect that Shen Chi was that little Omega.
No. He had suspected it before. It was just that Shen Chi’s information did not match.
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On the other side, Shen Chi had no idea that someone had set his sights on him. He came to the pantry alone and angrily took out the coffee beans.
“System, what do you think if I sprinkle in a handful of salt? Salt him to death!”
The system said, [Ancestor, do you want to get fired? You’re still in the probation period right now.]
Shen Chi was furious. “He won’t even let me eat a sandwich now. Will he stop me from drinking water in the future?” After saying that, he stared at the ground coffee and gnashed his teeth. “If I can’t add salt, then I’ll spit in it. Disgust him to death!”
This time, it was the system’s turn to hesitate.
It looked at Shen Chi’s fair, beautiful face and whispered, [There’s really no need to reward him like that.]
