Falling For The Contract Bride
Chapter 196

Falling For The Contract Bride Chapter 196

Chapter 196 She Belonged to Lu Jinye!

This time, Lu Jinye’s tone was even more self-confident.

“That’s true, I did not need a secretary.”

He even turned to her and smiled meaningfully.

Mu Zhi was even more confused by his smile!

“Then, why did you call me there?”

Lu Jinye was still smiling as he said, “It was a show of power.”

He said those words lightly.

She could not tell whether he was being serious. She furrowed her brows in frustration and looked athim, but he was completely focused on driving.

He even seemed to be in a very good mood!

A show of power… What does he mean by that?

Mu Zhi could not understand at all.

Her face clearly showed that she could not understand what Lu Jinye was hinting.

A few blocks later, Lu Jinye turned to look at Mu Zhi. Seeing that she was still in thoughts, he laughed.

“Is it because you haven’t been in this kind of work environment for too long? Seems like you don’tunderstand me anymore…”

Lu Jinye sighed and continued, “If I have known that I would need to recalibrate someone’s intelligenceand rapport, I would never have let that person go.”

That person was of course Mu Zhi.

Mu Zhi could tell that he was teasing her intelligence in a roundabout way. She was impressed that hecould criticize her intelligence sounded so pleasant. This was not something anyone can pull off.

Mu Zhi glared at Lu Jinye and said, “You speak as if it was my fault. I wonder whose former love it wasthat had returned and started an epic love affair, leaving me no choice but to step aside for the truelove.”

Mu Zhi did not hold back as she countered him.

Lu Jinye looked at her. His expression seemed to be saying ‘fine, as long as you are happy’. After that,he did not seem to want to talk anymore and was focused on driving.

Mu Zhi returned to her thoughts and wondered who Lu Jinye made the display of power to.

Why had he not brought more people… Since there were so many people on Xie Xiu’s side.

Lu Jinye drove the car to his company and parked in the underground car park. When he got out of thecar, Mu Zhi quickly followed and shot another question, “Lu Jinye, was the show of power to Xie Xiu?What do you mean by show of power?”

Lu Jinye couldn’t help smiling as he looked at Mu Zhi.

He handed the documents to her, “As for you, why don’t you go to work first and take your time to thinkabout it.”

He was leading her towards the lift as he spoke… However, Lu Jinye’s phone rang.

The smile on his face disappeared instantly and his eyes turned cold as he answered the call and said,“What is it?”

“The master wants you to stop by. He has something to say.”

“Now?”

“Yes, sir.”

At the other end was the voice of the Lu Family’s senior butler…

Lu Jinye grunted in affirmation and the senior butler hung up.

He turned to Mu Zhi. His tone remained gentle as he said, “You go up first. I have to go to the Lu’sManor for a while.”

Mu Zhi nodded lightly… And waited for the lift.

Lu Jinye had barely taken a few steps when his phone rang again.

When he answered the call, his tone was different from the previous call. This time he was somewhatimpatient but still amiable.

He held the phone to his ear and said, “What is the matter?”

“Did you go on a holiday with Mu Zhi and Mu Xiaomu again?”

“Are both of you back together?”

“Brother, you shouldn’t come back! I think not returning here will be a better show of your stance.”

“After all, this matter isn’t your fault!”

The call was from Lu Yunxi. Whenever Lu Yunxi spoke to Lu Jinye on the phone, he had a habit ofspeaking excitedly. As such, Mu Zhi could hear everything Lu Yunxi had said clearly.

On this end of the line, Lu Junnian was reserved. He raised a brow and replied, “I will handle it myself.There’s no need for you to get involved.”

“Sigh… Brother.”

Lu Yunxi clearly had more to say and suggestions to share.

However… Lu Jinye had already hung up on him.

He did not turn around but headed straight to his car, started the engine, and left.

Although Mu Zhi had heard their conversation, based on the few things that Lu Yunxi had said, shecould not determine why Lu Jinye was going to the Lu’s Manor…

Based on the statement, ‘After all, this matter isn’t your fault’, Mu Zhi imagined that Master Lu must bewaiting for Lu Jinye to confront him about something.

Mu Zhi thought about it, but she could not figure it out.

She thought perhaps it was the standoff between Lu Jinye and Master Lu from previously when LuJinye wanted to marry Xiao Qingqing.

She shook her head and went up with the documents.

When she had reached the right floor, she went into Lu Jinye’s office and took a seat at the secretarydesk prepared for her.

She stood up less than 3 seconds later. She kept feeling that Lu Jinye was behaving strangely lately.She also did not know about the company’s recent businesses, so she felt that it was necessary tospeak to Linda.

As such, Mu Zhi walked towards the secretaries’ room.

Presently at the secretaries’ room, everyone was taking a break from work and were chatting excitedly!

Furthermore, the door was not closed properly, leaving a thin gap, and aided by the silence of thewhole floor, Mu Zhi could hear what was being spoken inside.

A junior secretary asked Linda curiously, “Previously, why did Mr. Lu Jinye ask you to call on othercompanies to cancel all her job interviews?”

“In the end leaving Mu Zhi with no choice but to return to him?”

Linda smiled knowingly and replied, “Haven’t you just answered the question yourself? Why ask meagain?”

“Of course that is the reason, to get Miss Mu Zhi back by his side!”

Hearing that, Mu Zhi was frozen for a moment.

So, Lu Jinye was behind all her canceled job interviews and appointments?

At this moment, Linda added, “I think Mr. Lu might really be in love with Miss Mu Zhi.”

“Do you all know? The reason our company needed capital investment from Xie Xiu’s company is thateven in these critical times, Mr. Lu still invests a large amount of funds in medical research anddevelopment. The most expensive project is also the one that Mu Zhi had helped to makeconnections.”

“Mr. Lu does this is so that Miss Mu can one day make a respectable return to the medical field and begiven the honor she was due.”

These are things that the junior secretaries had never heard before.

As such, they were all shocked by what Linda had said.

Mu Zhi had never heard of them too.

At this moment… she was not only surprised. She was very moved.

She instantly understood what Lu Jinye meant when he said he brought her to the meeting as a showof power.

He wanted to take the money respectably, and also made concessions. The purpose of bringing herwith him was just to give Xie Xiu a warning and to inform him that she belonged to Lu Jinye!