Chapter 52: Chapter 52 Who Prepared the Cold Medicine for Her?
The voice of a middle-aged man on the other end of the phone sounded unhappily, “You think anyone cares about your business?”
“What’s the deal with your fiancée? Your mother heard that your fiancée is the second miss of the Lu Family? Annan, although we really don’t want to waste time meddling in your affairs, anyone would get it wrong when it comes to who their future daughter-in-law is. This makes your mother lose face, so I had to come and ask. Didn’t you say it was Ms. Ye Jing’s daughter from the Lu Family?”
“Father, you’re not mistaken. Anyway, this is not something you need to worry about. The only thing you two need to do before then is to keep silent and just show up on the engagement day.”
“So you treat us as a pair of mascots to use?”
“…” Gu Annan’s brows slightly furrowed, “I didn’t.”
This serious reply dissatisfied Mr. Gu, “Seriously no sense of humor. Hard to believe you’re my son. How can I retire in peace with you being so lacking in EQ?”
Gu Annan wasn’t surprised by the nonsensical worried tone on the other end of the phone.
“Father, if you don’t want to retire, you can come back,” he said slowly, “As it happens, right after I get engaged, I would like to take a vacation with my fiancée.”
“No more nonsense with you, wasting my time! I still have to make breakfast for your mother, goodbye!”
Lu Wanwan’s trash bin next to her desk was filled with balls of tissue paper, as her sneezes followed one after the other.
The effect of getting caught in the rain yesterday was quite clear, as today she came down with a glorious cold.
“Xiaolu, take some medicine, eh?” Tang Xiao sat with her legs manspread.
Lu Wanwan sniffled, her voice heavy with nasal congestion, “I’ll buy some later.”
Although she had received another two hundred thousand, that sum was only reserved for the kidney source surgery. Now that her grandmother couldn’t be discharged from the hospital, the daily expenses flowed away like water, and no one knew how many more days they’d have to wait before the surgery. The last hundred thousand had less than a few thousand left, meaning unless the surgery happened immediately, the money was still not enough.
A cold isn’t such a big deal; one could just tough it out without necessarily needing medication.
“Where is the document I gave you yesterday, in the USB drive?” asked Tang Xiao.
Lu Wanwan frantically rummaged through her bag, and after dumping out the contents, a box of cold medicine fell out.
Tang Xiao’s sharp eyes spotted the USB drive amidst the mess and took it, “Hey, you have cold medicine.”
Lu Wanwan held the medicine box in surprise – this definitely wasn’t something she bought herself. When had it appeared in her bag, and how did she know nothing about it?
Could it be Gu Annan?
“The meeting is starting, hurry up.”
“If you’re late, the queen mother will be furious!”
Having no time to think it over, Lu Wanwan put the cold medicine back into the drawer and followed to the conference room.
After the editor-in-chief went over the usual business, he tapped his finger, and the slide immediately refreshed to Gu Corporation.
“The last time the team conducted a carpet-like investigation throughout the building, they didn’t find a single clue,” said the editor-in-chief as he pushed up his black-framed glasses with a serious mien, “I’m very dissatisfied with this result.”
Those assigned to that group murmured quietly – they were supposed to find someone from just a blurry silhouette that only appeared once among the countless people coming and going in the building.
A sneeze from Lu Wanwan came at just the right moment, and she quickly apologized, “Sorry, sorry, I’ve caught a cold.”
The editor-in-chief looked on in disgust and, from seemingly nowhere, pulled out a face mask and quickly put it on, then continued, “However, I recently received a valuable piece of information – the Gu Corporation heir is getting engaged in half a month.”