He was tempted to ask her if she couldn’t see that he was upset.
But when the words came to his lips, he couldn’t say them.
Depressed, Lu Qi took out a box of cigarettes from his suit pocket and opened it, shaking one out of it and putting it in his mouth, then took out his lighter and tried to light it.
However, the moment the flame approached the cigarette, he suddenly thought of something and glanced towards Secretary Tong who was still drinking the medicine on the bed and not paying attention to his side, then stopped his move to smoke, put the lighter back away and put the cigarette back into the box.
Forget it, I won’t smoke it.
This cigarette wasn’t good at all, next time he’d better change his taste.
The only reason he didn’t smoke it was because of this woman.
Lu Qi pursed his lips and thought in a complicated way.
At this moment, a mobile phone ringing suddenly broke the silence of the room.
The first thing you need to do is to finish the medicine in the bowl, then put the bowl back on the bed with a bitter taste in your mouth, and hurriedly take a sip of water from the water cup on the bed, which barely washed the bitter taste out of your mouth and made it less uncomfortable.
When Lu Qi saw her like this, he couldn’t help but hit her, “It’s just a medicine, is there a need to look uncomfortable?”
Secretary Tong’s mouth opened and she whispered back, “But, this medicine is really bitter.”
It was even more bitter than unsweetened Blue Mountain coffee.
Lu Qi coldly snorted disdainfully, “How bitter can it be? Saying so much is just not wanting to drink it.”
Secretary Tong didn’t say anything back.
Because what Mr. Lu said was right.
She did, indeed, not really want to drink it.
“Just asking you to drink a medicine, not asking you to do anything else, putting on this bitter face for who? ” Lu Qi’s mouth was unforgivingly irritated.
Secretary Tong bit her lip, “I didn’t mean to, I just ……”
When she said this, she suddenly stopped again and didn’t continue on.
She suddenly realized that for someone who hated herself, no matter what she did, whether it made sense or not, it didn’t make sense for the person who hated her, it wasn’t treated well.
In that case, what was the point of arguing for herself?
Anyway, no matter how much she argued, in Lu’s eyes, she was still wrong.
So, she didn’t want to argue, whatever.
“Sorry, I won’t do that in the future, I will finish my drink properly in the future and won’t make such a face again.” Secretary Tong lowered her eyes and returned with a slightly self-deprecating tone.
Hearing these words of hers in mourning, Lu Qi was not happy again in his heart.
But seeing her look of self-loathing, he originally wanted to hurt her a few times, but now he couldn’t say anything, so he hummed, pretending to be impatient and said, “That’s the best, all right, your phone is still ringing, hurry up and take a look, it’s noisy.”
“Sorry, I’ll look at it now.” Secretary Tong apologised again, rubbed his cheeks and reached out to bring the phone over.
Once she saw the caller ID, Secretary Tong froze for a moment, then immediately sat up from the bed and looked at Lu Qi in a panic, “Mr. Lu, the chairman is calling.”
Lu Qi’s pupils shrank slightly, “Shu Shu is calling?”
“Mm.” Secretary Tong nodded, then asked tentatively, “Lu Qi, should I answer it?”
Lu Qi pursed his lips and seemed to be considering.
After a few seconds, he waved his hand, “Answer it, but don’t tell her what she shouldn’t, or else ……”
His eyes held a cold light ruthless colour.
Seeing her beloved man treating her like this, Secretary Tong’s heart was also pinching hard, but her face did not show it, she just nodded grimly, “I know, I won’t tell the chairman.”
“Take it.” Only then did Lu Qi lift his chin in satisfaction and let her answer the phone.
Secretary Tong took a deep breath, slid her finger on the screen and put the phone to her ear, “Chairman.”
“Secretary Tong, are you alright?” At the other end of the phone, Rong Shu heard the low tone mixed in Secretary Tong’s tone and became more and more sure of Lina’s guess earlier, her heart tightened and she hurriedly asked.
Secretary Tong did not know that this was what Rong Shu was asking about and thought that Rong Shu was asking about her own surgery.
After all, the reason for her leave of absence was known to Rong Shu, and with a warm heart, she hurriedly returned, “Chairman, I am fine.”
“Really fine? Did the operation go well?” Rong Shu asked again uneasily.
Secretary Tong touched her stomach, her eyes complexly puzzled as she looked at the man in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, staring out again, and gave a hmm, “The operation …… Pretty good.”
“Really good?” Rong Shu narrowed her eyes, obviously unconvinced, “Since the surgery was good, then why did you hesitate just now? Secretary Tong, I hope you won’t lie to me, besides being your boss, I’m also your friend, I’m worried about you now, so you mustn’t lie to me, or I’ll worry even more.”
Hearing that the chairman was really worried about herself, Secretary Tong was more and more moved in her heart.
She knew that the chairman was a good person.
So that was why, even though she knew that the person she liked, liked the chairman, she was not jealous of the chairman.
After all, the chairman was such a good person, what face did she have, what qualification did she have to be jealous?
A good person should never be jealous of anyone.
“Chairman, thank you for your concern, don’t worry, I’m really fine, the operation went really well, the reason I hesitated was that something suddenly occurred to me that had nothing to do with the operation, Chairman, there’s no need for me to lie to you about such things, listen, I sound very spirited don’t I? If there was something wrong with the operation, my whole body should be weak, but my voice is not weak at all, which means that what I said is true ah.”
When Secretary Tong explained this, Rong Shu suddenly felt some sense.
Indeed, listening to Secretary Tong’s voice, she did sound very energetic, and apart from being a bit down at the beginning, there was indeed no weakness.
It was even more energetic than when she had finished her abortion at first.
When she had finished the operation back then, the operation had gone just as well, but afterwards one also needed to rest in bed, one was also weak, and her voice was far from being as spirited as Secretary Tong’s.
So spirited that it was as if Secretary Tong had not had the operation at all.
Of course, this should not be possible, Secretary Tong also did not say he did not have surgery ah.
Probably the reason why Secretary Tong was so spirited was because of the system.
But the blind concern she just had was true.
“It’s good that the operation went well, so it seems that your body, Secretary Tong, didn’t suffer any damage, right?” Rong Shu breathed a sigh of relief, relieved.
Secretary Tong shook her head, “Of course not, my body is fine.”
She lowered her eyes.
Of course her body was fine, it wasn’t like she had actually had surgery after all.
The moment before she went into the operating room, Mr. Lu suddenly arrived and stopped her straight away, then brought her here.
She didn’t know why Mr Lu hadn’t allowed her to remove the baby, why he had chosen to let her have it.
But she knew that the reason would definitely not be because she liked her.
“By the way Chairman, why are you suddenly so worried about my damaged body? And from what you said, it seems as if you were very sure that my body was damaged before?” Secretary Tong suddenly realised this and hastily asked the reason for it.
Hearing Secretary Tong’s question, Rong Shu smiled awkwardly, “It’s like this, I’m also guessing, I heard that you’re going to resign, right?”
Secretary Tong’s face changed slightly, “Chairman you …… How do you know? This matter, I did not tell you only right, and the personnel department side ……”
“The personnel department, also promised to help you keep it a secret for the time being, right?” Rong Shu knew what she was going to say, and directly took the lead in what she was going to say later.
Secretary Tong was silent.