During this period, Lu Qi’s gaze kept falling on her, even though her figure had disappeared outside the door for a long time, he never withdrew it, as if he was absorbed in watching.
It was only when Rong Shu finally tapped him on the shoulder that he withdrew his gaze and turned his head back.
“What’s wrong?” Lu Qi asked, touching the shoulder that had been patted by Rong Shu.
Rong Shu looped her arms up and looked behind him in the direction of the gate before finally fixing her gaze on him, “I was going to ask what’s wrong with you, staring at the direction Secretary Tong left all the time, calling you twice and you didn’t even respond.”
“Who said I was staring at her, I was just thinking about something.” Lu Qi was a bit agitated and hurriedly retorted.
When Rongshu saw that he refused to admit what he had just done, she couldn’t help but roll her eyes, “Fine, fine, if you didn’t, then you didn’t. But I’m telling you, Ah Qi, when you come to my place in the future, you can’t be shady to Secretary Tong, she’s my secretary now, not yours.
Anyway, as Tong’s current boss, she had to maintain Tong’s secretary, no matter how she put it.
She couldn’t let Secretary Tong be bullied here in Ah Qi.
“Got it, got it.” Lu Qi skimmed his mouth and waved his hand, “I’ll deal with her less in the future, right? Anyway, I don’t think I’m being mean to her, you didn’t see her expressionless face when she faced me, I didn’t say she was deliberately giving me a look, you’re blaming me instead.”
The corners of Rongshu’s mouth twitched, “Ah Qi, that’s a bit unreasonable, isn’t Secretary Tong’s attitude towards you the same as before? How come you can’t accept the way Secretary Tong used to treat you after he came to my place for a few months?”
Lu Qi was stunned and was unable to speak at once.
Yes, the way Tong Xi greeted him in the face was indeed no different from the way she used to treat him.
He himself hadn’t even found anything wrong with Tong Xi like this in the past.
Why now, however, did he not like it anymore?
Lu Qi lowered his eyes and felt a sense of unexplainable irritation in his heart.
A moment later, he pulled out his chair and sat down, waving his hand once again, “Forget it, forget it, let’s not talk about this, it’s annoying to talk about.”
Rongshu gave him another blank look.
Upset?
Wasn’t it him himself who was staring at Secretary Tong one after another, disliking her attitude at the back and having to dwell on it?
How come he was now upset again?
But Rongshu always respected other people’s meaning, Lu Qi did not want to talk about this anymore, then he would not say anything.
At this time, there was another movement from the office door.
An a*sistant-like woman appeared at the door with a tray and knocked on the door, “Chairman, the coffee is here.”
Rong Shu smiled at her and nodded, “Come in!”
“Yes.”
The a*sistant answered, put her hand down and walked in with the tray in both hands, then put the two cups of coffee, respectively, in front of Rong Shu and Lu Qi.
After putting them down, the a*sistant was about to turn around and leave.
Lu Qi’s eyes were dark as he called out to her, “Wait.”
The a*sistant stopped in her tracks and looked back at Lu Qi, “Does Mr. Lu have any more orders?”
“Where’s Tong Xi?” Lu Qi swirled the coffee in front of him, his tone flat, unable to tell what mood he was in.
Rongshu sat across the table and looked at him, not opening her mouth, wondering what Lu Qi was going to ask.
The a*sistant held the tray vertically in her arms, remembering Secretary Tong’s explanation just now, and smiled back, “The Secretary General just received a phone call, and there was work she needed to handle, so now she’s gone to work, specifically instructing me to bring in the coffee.”
Lu Qi didn’t say anything anymore, narrowing his eyes as he looked at his coffee cup, not knowing what he was thinking.
The meeting room was quiet all of a sudden.
The a*sistant stood there, neither leaving nor not leaving, and could only look at Rong Shu for help.
Rong Shu held her forehead, and felt a few headaches regarding Lu Qi’s behavior.
“Ah Qi ……”
Rongshu was about to open her mouth to relieve the situation.
Lu Qi took a sip of coffee and threw his coffee cup onto the table with a thud.
The sound that came out also startled Rong Shu and her a*sistant.
“Is there something wrong with her, or is she deliberately making excuses not to send it in herself, I don’t think I need to explicitly say the answer, right?” Lu Qi looked at the a*sistant, his eyes uncertain of joy and anger.
The a*sistant’s mouth opened, wanting to say something, but in the end, she said nothing and put her head down.
Rongshu couldn’t watch any longer and waved her hand at the a*sistant, “Xiao Lin, you can go out first.”
“Yes.” Hearing Rong Shu’s words, the a*sistant’s heart rejoiced and he was instantly pardoned, hurrying towards the door and leaving the office.
After the a*sistant left, Rong Shu’s expression was slightly sullen as she looked at Lu Qi who looked unhappy across the room.
Obviously, Lu Qi was unhappy with the a*sistant’s departure, as he still had something to say.
“Ah Qi, I asked Secretary Tong to bring in the coffee for someone else, so there is no need for you to blame Secretary Tong for not bringing it in personally.” Rongshu looked at Lu Qi and said in a light voice.
Lu Qi’s hand on the coffee cup tightened slightly, “Why did you do that?”
“Why?” Rong Shu pinched her brow and explained somewhat heartily, “Ah Qi, haven’t you noticed that Secretary Tong is very afraid of you? I don’t know what exactly happened between you two to make Secretary Tong so scared of you, all I know is that I am now Secretary Tong’s boss and have the responsibility to protect her, and since she will feel uncomfortable and scared when she sees you, then of course I have to find a way to avoid her meeting you, so it’s normal for me to do so isn’t it?”
She spread her hands.
At the same time, she also deliberately hid the fact that she already knew what had happened between them.
Lu Qi’s attention was not on Rong Shu, but in this statement of hers.
When he heard Rong Shu say that Secretary Tong was afraid of herself, for some reason, he felt as if his heart was being pulled in a very uncomfortable way.
“Why is she afraid of me?” Lu Qi’s lips moved slightly in a low murmur, as if he was asking Rong Shu, and also as if he was asking himself.
Rongshu gave him a blank look, “Isn’t the reason why most clear in your mind? That’s how you guys are all of a sudden anyway.”
“……” Lu Qi squeezed his coffee cup again and fell silent.
He seemed to, like, know the reason.
After that night, he had said a lot of excessive things to Tong Xi.
Maybe it was those words that made Tong Xi so afraid of him.
Tong Xi’s fear of himself as well as his avoidance should, by definition, make him happy, shouldn’t it?
After all, this was what he wanted in the first place.
But now that he really saw Tong Xi treating him like this, he had some unexplainable feeling of irritation in his heart.
At the same time, it also made him realize that he …… didn’t seem to like the fact that Tong Xi was really afraid of him and avoided him.
What was this all about?
Lu Qi looked down at his hands, his eyes and expression, all in a daze.
When Rongshu saw him like this, although she didn’t know what he was thinking, she guessed it had nothing to do with Secretary Tong.
She shook her head and gently snapped the desktop again, “Alright Ah Qi, let’s not talk about Secretary Tong, anyway, you don’t treat Secretary Tong well now, wouldn’t it be just the right time for Secretary Tong not to bring you coffee?”
Of course not!
Lu Qi subconsciously wanted to say these four words out.
But as the words reached his lips, he suddenly reacted that it was not quite what he should say.
So, he swallowed the words again, nodded slightly and said with a slight smile in his tone, “What you said is also true, it’s indeed good not to have to see the people you don’t want to see.”
After saying that, he picked up his coffee and drank it.
The delicate coffee cup, which just blocked the sunken corners of his mouth, made it impossible to tell that his expression was not as bland and happy as his tone when he said this.
The heart and mouth were not the same, so that was probably it.