She pursed her lips and stood still.
The first sentence he uttered was in a commanding tone, devoid of any affection in his voice.
"Sorry, I must have entered the wrong office. Excuse me." She turned around to leave, her expression fully displaying her aversion to seeing him.
Lu Jinyang’s brows furrowed, the wrong office?
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Her anger growing increasingly intense, overshadowing her reason, she turned around and yelled at the man: "Lu Jinyang, what exactly do you want with your persistent haunting?"
The man looked at her, his obsidian-like eyes reflecting her enraged face, and suddenly he smirked: "It seems the news from the past few days hasn’t affected you at all."
Hearing this, Zhuang Shuqing was fuming and took deep breaths, "I am alone in the world, without a single relative. It must be your family, Major, who are truly upset, right?"
The distinguished young master of the Lu Family, the youngest Major of the Empire, to be ruined by a woman like her, anyone would feel that it is Major Lu who is at a loss, not her, Zhuang Shuqing.
Just like she felt about Major Lu’s engagement to Tan Biyang—a fresh flower stuck in cow dung, and this time the cow dung was her.
"Pfft, I don’t want to know at all."
Lu Jinyang watched her for a long while, then coldly said: "Don’t use foul language in the future."
"..." Did she use foul language?
Having composed herself, Zhuang Shuqing looked at him seriously: "Major Lu, since I’ve seen you today, some things are better made clear."
"If the news has affected you, I apologize. However, I hope in the future we can stay out of each other’s way. You are high above, I am just a lowly employee struggling to make a living, you know, that sort of thing."
Lu Jinyang for the first time felt it was difficult to communicate with a woman. She said something, then concluded with ’you know,’ what could he possibly know?
Zhuang Shuqing: "...Stop pretending..."
"I really don’t understand. Do you want me to help you settle the news issue?"
Zhuang Shuqing held her forehead, that wasn’t what she meant. As she was about to explain, the man’s voice came again.
"It’s not impossible, as long as you become my woman—"
Before Lu Jinyang could finish his sentence, Zhuang Shuqing interrupted him, "Impossible! With your qualifications, you can find a far better woman to marry than me, so why bother?"
Zhuang Shuqing: "..."
She didn’t continue to argue with him, instead just gave him a silent look, then with a sprinter’s speed ran to the door, opened it, and left.
Her entire movement was fluid, without any pause.
Lu Jinyang watched her fleeing back with interest, his lips slightly curled, this woman was becoming easier and easier to bully.
As soon as Zhuang Shuqing left, Gu Chen walked out of the lounge, looking speechlessly at Lu Jinyang, "Major, that’s not how you pursue a girl."
"Which eye of yours sees me chasing her?"
Gu Chen: "I heard with my two ears. I say, this girl is quite self-aware, knowing she doesn’t match up to you, even explicitly mentioning it. If it’s not about playing hard to get, such a girl is truly rare."
Lu Jinyang upon hearing this, unusually agreed with him, "Indeed. Also, she is not playing hard to get."
Her behavior was wholly about avoiding him at all costs, where was the question of playing hard to get.
Gu Chen opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, finally giving him a thumbs up, "You win."