What exactly is going on?
When he saw her about to fall, why did he react so quickly to catch her?
Moreover, his immediate feeling was that he didn’t want her to suffer even the slightest harm.
Fortunately, Lao Fu was a step quicker than him. He really didn’t like this feeling of being out of control.
Lu Jiuyan stared at Xia Bai’s profile with a complicated expression, suddenly recalling that day when he impulsively decided to inspect the office. Hadn’t her figure been there too?
Was it because of this woman?
Making him act so unusually, time and time again.
Especially the psychological state beneath these anomalies—it felt as if someone else was controlling his thoughts and body.
Suddenly, Lu Jiuyan noticed Su Lingyu in the crowd.
Her attention, like everyone else’s, seemed entirely focused on Fu Yuchen and Xia Bai.
But unlike the negative emotions in others’ eyes, she was grinning like an infatuated fool, lost in who-knows-what messy thoughts.
Her expression looked… somewhat cute, actually.
…Wait.
That feeling—it seemed to be gone.
Lu Jiuyan pressed a hand to his chest. Was it because of her?
“Who spilled the coffee on the floor?”
After Fu Yuchen steadied the person in his arms, his icy gaze swept across the room.
“It… it was me.”
Outside the office door, Qiao Feifei raised a trembling hand.
There was no other way—she knew her cousin’s temperament all too well. Once he got angry, no one could stop him.
Besides, there were surveillance cameras in the office. Even if she wanted to deny it, it wouldn’t work.
“Since it was you, then you’re responsible for cleaning the entire office today.”
Noticing the coffee cup in her hand, Fu Yuchen added sternly, “Make sure it’s spotless—not a single speck of dust!”
“Um, can’t I just mop the part that got dirty?”
“What do you think?”
“Fine.”
Qiao Feifei hung her head, her voice trembling with tears.
Never in her life had she been so humiliated in front of so many people!
And she had never done such menial labor before—argh!!!
Snapping back to reality, Su Lingyu glanced at the small coffee stain on the floor.
Seriously—
Could such a tiny spill really make someone fall?
The author was really taking the utility of a female supporting character tool to the extreme!
First, it was coffee when she first transmigrated, and now it was coffee again. Did the author have some kind of grudge against coffee?
And if you thought about it, wasn’t Qiao Feifei being implicated because she had bought coffee this morning?
This was just… utterly ridiculous.
After Fu Yuchen and Lu Jiuyan left, Qiao Feifei shot a glare at Xia Bai, whose cheeks were still slightly flushed, and angrily threw her crumpled coffee cup into the trash.
“You…”
Su Lingyu hesitated, not finishing her sentence.
“It’s fine. At worst, I’ll just have a servant from home come over.”
Qiao Feifei took a deep breath, pulled out her phone, and plopped down into her seat.
“Good idea.”
Su Lingyu silently gave a thumbs-up.
Just thinking about it, it was pretty much impossible for a rich young lady like Qiao Feifei to clean the office herself.
But as she watched Qiao Feifei furiously tapping on her phone, Su Lingyu felt a twinge of guilt, while also worrying she might crack the screen with her stabbing fingers.
Tools like them probably didn’t deserve any pity from the author, did they?
“Do you have some other feelings for that Xia Bai?”
In the elevator, Lu Jiuyan pressed the floor button and asked the person standing beside him.
“Why suddenly ask that?”
Fu Yuchen instinctively frowned.
“Just curious, asking casually.”
“No, she’s just an ordinary employee of the company.”
An ordinary employee that you’d rush so nervously to catch?
If it were any other woman, even if she collapsed at your feet, you probably wouldn’t even blink, right?
Though Lu Jiuyan thought this in his heart, he ultimately didn’t call out the usually aloof Fu Yuchen.
He vaguely felt that his own abnormal behavior was probably different from how he acted toward others.
But why exactly was that?
“Tell me, what does it mean when someone always acts very unusually toward another person, even finding their own actions inexplicable?””
After exiting the elevator, Lu Jiuyan still felt this matter was like a thorn in his heart—the sooner removed, the better.
Before Fu Yuchen walking ahead could respond, someone popped up from the side.
“General Manager Lu, is this person you mentioned a man or a woman?”
“What does gender have to do with it?”
“Oh, it makes all the difference!”
Team Leader Qin looked up from his computer screen.
“A woman.”
“Oh~ so it’s a woman!”
The people in the office chimed in unison, their eyes filled with intense curiosity and gossip.
Did Lu Jiuyan not know what these youngsters were thinking wildly about?
He shot them a look with three parts amusement and seven parts threat, and everyone immediately quieted down.
“Ahem, General Manager Lu, you’ll need to tell me specifically how it’s unusual.” Let me, this unremarkable love genius, help you analyze it?”
Jiang Yanhua leaned in. As everyone knew, he was the man with the most dating experience in the company—bar none.
Though his looks couldn’t compare to Fu Yuchen and Lu Jiuyan, his girlfriends were each more beautiful than the last, with figures that kept getting better.
This nearly drove the single dogs on the twenty-second floor crazy with jealousy!
“It seems like when she’s around, or because of her, I always involuntarily do things I normally wouldn’t do at all.”
Lu Jiuyan’s mind flashed with scenes of him holding the elevator for Xia Bai, wanting to help her when he saw her cleaning, not wanting her to get hurt when she fell…
Perhaps even that time in the breakroom when she was almost wrongly accused and bullied?
Otherwise, why would he, who works on the twenty-second floor, suddenly suggest to Lao Fu that they take the stairs?
Everyone knew the company had two main floors—upper management and key R&D departments were upstairs, while only…
“So do you have any other feelings for her?” Jiang Yanhua asked again.
“What kind of feelings?”
“You know, like if you don’t see her you unconsciously think about her, you get angry when you see her close to other men, or sometimes feel she’s different from other women—really cute, often spotting her in a crowd at first glance, things like that.”
Did he have those feelings for the woman named Xia Bai?
It seemed even now he hadn’t completely memorized her face, didn’t really know what she looked like.
If he had to match a few of those points, wouldn’t that Su Lingyu fit better?
“So? Do you or don’t you?”
Seeing Lu Jiuyan deep in thought, Jiang Yanhua grew even more curious.
Just what kind of woman could attract their General Manager Lu!
“There might be, there might not be.”
“What do you mean ‘there might be, there might not be’?”
Clearly, Jiang Yanhua and the others who were eavesdropping with perked ears were quite dissatisfied with this answer.