"Let me ask you, do you even believe that reason yourself?"
She gave Yan Luoxi a speechless look and said, "Also, if I’m not mistaken, aren’t the clothes you’re wearing for men?"
"Huh?"
Yan Luoxi suddenly froze.
Only then did she remember she was still wearing that jerk’s clothes!
"Spill it. Just who is this man that managed to make our little iceberg beauty, President Yan, fall for him? So much so that you’d even pull a disappearing act to go on a date?"
Yan Luoxi’s face flushed slightly as the handsome face of Gu Yizhou suddenly appeared in her mind.
"Shut up!"
"If you don’t know how to talk, then just don’t. No one will think you’re a mute!"
She shot Roy a glare and said irritably, "I’m going to change!"
With that, she got up and headed for her walk-in closet. She had to get out of that jerk’s clothes immediately.
It wasn’t for any particular reason!
After what Roy said, she just felt uncomfortable all over.
’Looks like that girl Luoxi really has a thing for someone,’
Roy muttered to herself, lost in thought as she watched Yan Luoxi’s retreating back.
...
Binjiang Mansion No. 1 District.
"RING-RING—RING-RING—"
At 6:30 in the morning, Gu Yizhou was jolted awake by his phone’s alarm.
"Ngh..."
He slowly opened his eyes, groggily reaching for the phone on his nightstand to turn off the annoying alarm, then closed his eyes once more.
After struggling for a little longer, Gu Yizhou finally opened his eyes again. He lifted his phone to check the time; it was already almost 6:50 AM.
His alarm was set for 6:30, which meant he’d fallen back asleep for another twenty minutes just by closing his eyes.
"Haaah~"
"Time to get up, or I’m going to be late again."
He muttered to himself as he stretched.
With that, he threw off the covers and got out of bed.
"CLICK~"
Gu Yizhou opened his bedroom door and walked out.
"Xiaobai~"
he called out casually as he walked toward the living room.
But there was no response. Gu Yizhou paused, confused.
He started searching around the living room sofa...
After searching the whole area, he checked the kitchen, the bathroom, and the balcony. He even checked the gap between the washing machine and the wall, but there was still no sign of the little white cat.
Gu Yizhou was alarmed!
’Did it run away during the night while I was asleep?’
He searched every corner of the apartment again, but there was still no trace of the cat.
Gu Yizhou was at a complete loss.
’I’ve only had this cat for less than a night, and it already escaped?’
For now, that was the only reasonable explanation.
"Sigh~"
Gu Yizhou sighed softly and shook his head helplessly.
He hadn’t yet noticed that two articles of clothing were missing from where they were drying on his balcony; he just assumed Xiaobai had run away on its own.
At 8:30 AM,
Gu Yizhou finished washing up and left his apartment.
After buying breakfast at the entrance to his residential complex, he got ready to ride his beat-up, second-hand CFMoto 450SR motorcycle to the office.
If you were to ask why he was leaving so early instead of finishing his breakfast first,
Gu Yizhou could only say: child, you’re still too young. You’ll understand once you enter the workforce!
On the way, he was still wondering, ’My doors and windows were closed. How on earth did the cat get out?’
It was a puzzle he simply couldn’t solve.
...
About twenty minutes later, Gu Yizhou arrived at the company.
It wasn’t yet 9:00, the official start of the workday, but the office was already mostly full.
After all, a 9:00 AM start time was already quite generous, so very few people would risk arriving right on the dot.
Well, the real reason was that being late meant a pay deduction of 50 yuan each time!
yuan was enough for two lunches, so no one was willing to lose that money.
"Morning, Yizhou~"
As soon as Gu Yizhou stepped through the company’s main entrance, the young lady at the front desk greeted him with a sweet smile.
"Sister Xiaomeng, morning~"
Gu Yizhou replied with a slight smile of his own.
"Have you eaten breakfast yet?"
"If not, I have some here..." Shen Meng offered warmly to Gu Yizhou.
"No need, Sister Xiaomeng, I brought my own!"
Gu Yizhou gently declined, holding up the breakfast in his hand.
Because he was quite handsome and had a pleasant way of speaking, many of his female colleagues had been very kind to him ever since he started at the company.
Back at his desk, Gu Yizhou had just sat down and was about to eat his breakfast!
His colleague He Mingyi, from the next desk over, leaned in and whispered, "Hey, Yizhou, did you hear what happened last night?"
He Mingyi was a fourth-year college student who had started interning at the same time as Gu Yizhou. Perhaps because they were similar in age and had no generation gap to overcome, the two got along quite well.
"What happened?"
Gu Yizhou glanced at him and asked casually.
"Well... I heard this through the grapevine, but apparently our president went missing yesterday afternoon..."
He Mingyi first glanced around, then scooted his chair closer to whisper in Gu Yizhou’s ear.
"The president went missing?"
Gu Yizhou was slightly taken aback.
"Yeah!"
"I heard it happened right around when we got off work yesterday. The entire upper management was in chaos last night!"
He Mingyi said, "Do you think President Yan was kidnapped?"
"President Yan is known as the ’Iceberg Beauty’ in Modu circles. She’s so gorgeous that if she was kidnapped, the kidnappers would probably be after her, not just her money. I heard she doesn’t even have a boyfriend. It would be a real shame if something actually happened to her..."
"Uh..."
Gu Yizhou paused.
’Why does that sound so weird?’
He shot a strange look at He Mingyi, who wore an expression of deep regret.
’But to be fair, our president really is gorgeous.’
Although someone at Gu Yizhou’s level wasn’t qualified to interact with the group’s upper management, he had once seen the company president from a distance after work. Plus, her photo was in the company files. Her beauty wasn’t exaggerated; she was truly stunning!
’But He Mingyi said the president went missing yesterday afternoon. If that were true, wouldn’t the company be in chaos right now? Everyone here seems perfectly normal!’
’Whatever. If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up. I’m just an intern; what happens at the top is way over my head. First, I’ll eat!’
Shaking his head, Gu Yizhou didn’t give it any more thought.
...
「Meanwhile.」
On the top floor of the Modu Financial Mansion,
In the president’s office of Tidal Group.
The entire floor was dedicated to the president’s office suite, which included a lounge, a reception room, a gym... in short, it had everything!
At that moment, Yan Luoxi was sitting in her executive chair, looking through the personnel files of her company’s finance department.
After flipping through them for a long time, finally... her eyes lit up!
"Gu Yizhou..."
"You jerk, I’ve found you!"
she muttered to herself.