Chapter 396 - The Stupidest Way

Chapter 396 The Stupidest WayThey didn’t want to use public money to travel. They were afraid that you guys might be worried and didn’t dare to come back. Xia Yu thought in her mind. Her lips were twitched a bit, and she managed to put on a smile reluctantly.

Old Madame couldn’t bear it anymore on the side. There were a lot of things waiting to be dealt with outside. Was she trying to bring the fight back home? After giving out a dry cough, Old Madame said, “Xiao Yu, the nourishment which your mom gave me is really good. Thank her for me.”

“As long as Grandma likes it, everything will be fine. If it’s good for your health, I will ask my mom to send more in a few days.” Xia Yu said with a smile.

“Okay. I’m happy to take it. Little Yan invited your parents to come over last time when he went to your home, right? When will they arrive here? I will ask Little Yan to send a driver to pick them up.” Old Madame was smiling all the time.

“My parents just went to work the day after we got back to S city. One of the restaurant’s chefs has resigned recently. They are pretty busy now. I assume that they will arrive here the day before your birthday.” Xia Yu heard that her father’s first apprentice who her father cultivated as his successor resigned when she called her mother two days ago.

It could be said that her father taught him all he knew. His departure was a big loss to the whole restaurant. Her father came to persuade him in person, hoping that he could stay there. But he was determined to leave. Her father had to let him go.

Her father needed to keep an eye on the business and tried to find another chef in the meantime. So, Xia Yu was sure that he didn’t have time.

“I see. I planned to invite them here and spend some quality time with them for a few days. In this case, forget it.” Old Madame nodded to show that she understood it. But she still asked her to tell Shen Yan to entertain her parents well.

Was a chef worth all the attention? First Madame couldn’t help snorting on the side.

Nobody paid attention to her. They treated her as air directly. Xia Yu continued to talk to Old Madame. She talked a lot about what she saw in Shangri-L. Of course, she skipped the scene where she met Chen Wenxuan.

Old Madame traveled a lot when she was young. She had been to both Xizang and Yunan. She had been to all those places which Xia Yu said just now in the earlier years.

Those places were very poor back then. She went there to do disaster relief as a volunteer several times. Hearing Xia Yu talking about all the changes there, she was very happy.

Shen Mo and Zhang Hanyu went down from the stairs. Seeing this scene, they were touched in their hearts. They had to say that Xia Yu was good at communicating with people. She knew that Old Madame had special feelings towards those places. She described the local conditions and customs in those places in detail.

Naturally, she and Old Madame became closer. She didn’t look like a toady. Instead, she made people feel comfortable.

“Xia Yu, you are here already?” Shen Mo greeted Xia Yu on the stairs.

Xia Yu looked up and saw Shen Mo and Zhang Hanyu. She stood up. “Young Master Mo, President Zhang, you are both here. Right! I don’t need to go to the company. This is the contract of the project in Xizang. Shen Yan asked me to give it to you.”

Shen Mo was the one who had followed this project. Although Shen Yan and Xia Yu went to sign the contract at last, Shen Mo did all the preliminary work. Shen Yan would naturally never take the credit of Shen Mo.

“Thank him for me. Are you free tonight? My treat. You both come.” Shen Mo knew Shen Yan’s temper well. He skipped the polite formality and took the contract directly.

But anyhow, Shen Yan did him a big favor this time. He should thank him.

“I don’t think he is free. You know how annoying Young Master Li can be. He asked Shen Yan to talk about business right when Shen Yan came back.” Xia Yu thanked Shen Mo for his goodwill. It wasn’t that they really didn’t have the time to go out for dinner.

It was just that the journalists were watching Shen Mo’s every move carefully now. They would make a big fuss about even a small thing. They were not afraid of them at all. But it was better to save trouble, wasn’t it?

“In this case, we will do it another day.” Shen Mo didn’t force them. Li Wen’s nitpicking was very famous in their business circle. People from Tengfei couldn’t handle him at all. Shen Yan must do it himself.

“Okay, I’m leaving first. I still have things to do in the company.” Xia Yu smiled at everyone and was about to leave.

“I’ll go with you.” Zhang Hanyu said. He was on medical parole. He could consult for Shen Mo. But he couldn’t go to work officially.

Xia Yu just gave Shen Mo the contract. He would be busy with work from now on. It was time for him to go back.

Zhang Hanyu didn’t drive. He was in Xia Yu’s car. “Xia Yu, I didn’t expect that you and Young Master Yan would move so fast. Your parents are about to meet. Are you going to get married soon?”

“How can it be so fast?” Xia Yu smiled and said, “How about you?”

“I’m just fine.” Zhang Hanyu also smiled and said, “I really have to thank Young Master Yan since I could come back early this time. I want to apologize for that thing. But if you let me choose again, I would do it again.”

Xia Yu shook her head and sighed. “You are really honest. But to be honest, did you really have to do that?”

Zhang Hanyu was silent for a long time and then said, “Although Young Master Mo is very excellent, even if he can become the President easily in any other family and has the ability to carry forward the company, he was born in Shen Family. It’s not that I praise Shen Yan in front of you. He is really a smart and shrewd person. Young Master Mo is no match for him under normal circumstances.”

“Can I comprehend it like this? Shen Yan is more capable of being the President than Shen Mo. But Shen Mo is not willing to give up. However, is it really necessary?” There were two tigers in one mountain, and the board would decide whether the braver one or the smarter one could be the king. The problem was that one of them was brave, smart and topnotch.

But the other one was not willing to give up. Hence, the unfair competition came into being.

Xia Yu knew it was common in real life. But it didn’t mean that she approved.

Zhang Hanyu sighed and said, “To be honest, I also don’t want this scene to happen. But I owe Young Master Mo a debt of gratitude. As long as he wants to do, I will help him by any means.”

“Even if you should sacrifice your family, you will not hesitate to do it?” There were many ways to pay a debt of gratitude. Zhang Hanyu was not stupid. Why did he have to choose the stupidest way?

Family? Family! He once longed for a stable family so much. So, after he got married to Wanru, he really cherished his family and worked hard for it.

However, it was a pity that his value was too different from that of Wanru. Their marriage couldn’t go on well.

“She is very happy with Zhou Yan now.” Zhang Hanyu said bitterly. Wanru gave Xia Yu the evidence, which shocked him deeply. He still felt like he was dreaming now when he thought of it sometimes.

He still couldn’t believe that Wanru could do such a thing. But the truth was that she really did it and did it proudly and confidently.

He thought of what Wanru once said to him. She said that he didn’t know her at all, and he didn’t try to do it. So, she was really very disappointed.

She had struggled and tried. Now she was going to give up. So, she really gave up on him. After giving up, she lived a free and happy life.

It was very nice. All he wanted was to bless her.

“Yes. She is very happy. She is just like another person.” Xia Yu said flatly.

But it was he who pushed Wanru to Zhou Yan, wasn’t it? However, Xia Yu didn’t say these words to him.

Xia Yu left after she drove Zhang Hanyu to his renting place. Li Wen and Shen Yan were almost done with their business. It was just about time to have lunch with Shen Yan when she went back.

After going back to the company decidedly, she just saw Li Wen going out of Shen Yan’s office.

Li Wen hadn’t seen Xia Yu for a few days. He felt she became more beautiful. Seeing her again, his eyes just brightened up. He said surprisingly, “Xia Yu, Shen Yan said that you had something important to do, and you couldn’t come back until evening. Did you come back early just to send me off?”

Could this man not be so narcissistic? Xia Yu was speechless for a moment. But she couldn’t say anything extreme. He was a big client of her company now, after all. She shouldn’t offend him.

Shen Yan pulled his office door open and stuck out his head. He squinted his beautiful foxy eyes and said, “Yes. She came back deliberately to send you off for the last time. Are you happy now?”

Such a disappointment! It was surely that a filthy mouth couldn’t utter some decent words. Ignoring Shen Yan, Li Wen smiled brightly at Xia Yu and said, “I still have something to do today. I’ll take you to lunch some other day.”

“Thanks, Young Master Li. Goodbye!” Seeing Li Wen was about to leave, Xia Yu was relieved. She was afraid that Li Wen would keep on nagging here for a long time. It was good that he was gone now.

What? Didn’t she notice that her husband was here? How could she give this scumbag such a sweet smile? Shen Yan’s handsome face turned green at once. He coughed dryly. “What are you looking at? Don’t you have work to do?”

Was she looking at something? Xia Yu whispered in the heart. But she still went back to her office.

Young Master Yan was jealous. His secretaries present couldn’t help laughing. But they withheld it very quickly, seeing Shen Yan’s murderous eyes. They looked down in a hurry.

When Xia Yu entered the President’s Office holding a file, Young Master Yan was studying the detailed terms of a contract playing with a pen. But when you looked closely and carefully at him, you would find that his eyeballs were still. It was unknown what he was thinking. The cold vibe coming out of his body could freeze people to death.

So cold! Xia Yu said to herself in her mind. She gave Shen Yan the file and asked him to sign. People were waiting for it.

Public Relations Department had been very busy recently. Li Feiran called her over and over to urge for it. Shen Yan didn’t give any order. She wouldn’t dare to make the decision herself. She thought he should be done with his file. So, she went in.

But she found perplexedly that there were still piles of files on his desk.

Shen Yan was absent-minded now, which was not a good sign. After all, a workaholic should be devoted to his work, which was normal. Besides, when Shen Yan was absent-minded, he was usually thinking something bad.

She was speaking from experience. Besides, Li Wen just left. She thought whether she needed to find an excuse to leave or not.

When she was thinking wildly and woolgathering, Shen Yan suddenly looked up. He looked straight at her with his dark and deep eyes, and then a smile emerged on her face.

Xia Yu suddenly felt that the temperature of the whole office dropped a lot.

Shen Yan’s smile was very weird. At least, she felt it was very weird.

“Miss Xia, haven’t you eaten yet?” Shen Yan asked in an affirmative tone. Leaning back in his leather chair, he played with his pen in the hand and asked with a faint smile after turning around leisurely. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

Shen Yan’s smile was so seductive.

Wasn’t this nonsense? She came back deliberately to have lunch with him. Who knew that he would go crazy suddenly and ask her to go back to her office for work? She was still hungry now.

Xia Yu felt very wronged at first. But she was a nympho. She couldn’t resist such a seductive and glamorous smile of him. She felt that her heart got an electric shock. Then her whole back was numb. She became a nympho again.

She didn’t know if it was true that beauty was in the eyes of the beholder. How could she feel that Shen Yan became more and more handsome? She didn’t have time to be mad at him. She just stared straight at him boldly, keeping herself from drooling.

How deeply she had fallen!

“Miss Xia, have you had enough look of me yet? Am I handsome enough for you to look at?” The corners of Shen Yan’s mouth rose up. His smile was getting brighter and brighter. Men occasionally enjoyed their women’s drooling over them.

Especially a cold, twisted, and scheming woman like Xia Yu!

“Nearly! Nearly!” Xia Yu regained her senses. She really wanted to slap Shen Yan to cool herself off. How could a man be so beautiful for no reason? He just needed a spanking.