20: Chapter 20: Qin Mu Appears, Seeking Collection (1)_1 20: Chapter 20: Qin Mu Appears, Seeking Collection (1)_1 Because she hadn’t eaten lunch, Jian Ran was so hungry that she had no heart to entangle with Gu Mochen.
The three-year marriage agreement, nominal at best, was as if they were strangers to each other.
But after all, it was Gu Mochen’s name that was written in the spouse column of her identification…
She wasn’t a fool; she could see that when Gu Mochen treated her, his dark eyes were calm as still water, inscrutable, slightly more intimate than between ordinary superiors and subordinates, but definitely not the love of a man for a woman.
Gu, even if in name only, but legally binding all the same, a man’s possessiveness didn’t want to be cuckolded.
Jian Ran tugged at the corners of her lips simply and murmured softly, “Okay, President Gu, if there’s nothing else, then I’ll take my leave first.”
Gu Mochen gazed at the retreating figure of the woman, his thin lips pursing slightly, his long fingers tapping thoughtfully on the desk before him.
Soon after, Gu Mochen’s chief assistant, Secretary Zhou, knocked on the door and stepped forward with utmost respect.
“President Gu, I just reviewed the surveillance footage and found that Lan Xing has already informed the wife of the chairman, no, I mean Dong Qin, claiming to have been wronged by you.”
Gu Mochen’s narrow dark eyes slightly narrowed; the flash of danger was fleeting.
Seeing that Gu Mochen did not speak, Secretary Zhou continued, “You used Mrs.
Gu’s, no, Miss Jian’s work to successfully suppress Lan Xing.
I think this is also a deterrent to Dong Qin.
There are not many of her informants left in the company now; we can take the opportunity to get rid of them later.”
Dong Qin, the stepmother in name…
When he had taken twenty percent of the Gu Family’s shares as a condition of their marriage, Dong Qin had harbored ill will towards the Gu Family, and it was natural for her to start moving, planting spies everywhere to pave the way for her son.
Lan Xing was one of the spies Dong Qin had installed.
Initially, upon seeing Jian Ran’s design, he felt that this Mrs.
Gu was fully capable of rivaling Lan Xing.
As it turned out, he was indeed not wrong about the person.
He had chosen Jian Ran’s work to enrage Lan Xing.
Lan Xing harassed Jian Ran in every possible way, and Jian Ran played dumb…
Gu Mochen stood tall in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, his eyes growing narrower and deeper, his restrained aura chilling to the bone.
“Right, President Gu, Lan Xing deliberately made things difficult for Miss Jian at noon, asking her to work on design drawings and not allowing her to have lunch.
It’s past lunchtime now, and according to the Gu Family’s rules, employees are not allowed to leave their posts for meals during working hours.”
Gu Mochen’s hawk-like eyes moved slightly.
No wonder she had been standing straight just now, but her complexion was quite pale.
Returning to her seat, Jian Ran found that the pansy Qin Mu had sent over was indeed discarded; he was such a contrary man.
She was really so hungry…
Jian Ran looked over to Lan Xing, who was staring at her intently, as if wanting to devour her alive at any moment.
Jian Ran had no interest in thinking about Lan Xing’s issues and reached out her hand to gently rub her stomach.
Usually, Lan Xing always strutted around the design department, picking faults with her arbitrarily, but today was a completely different story.
It looked like Lan Xing had been put in place for the time being.
If she kept retreating and conceding, there would only be one outcome, being ousted by Lan Xing from the Gu Family’s company.
In fact, she truly couldn’t give up the high-paying job at the Gu Family.
Thinking this way, Jian Ran buried herself in her work with determination, all for Tang Bao’s sake!
But she was really so hungry.
“President Gu has prepared afternoon tea for the employees of the design department.”