Jiang Ruolan immediately sensed something was wrong. She turned and looked at Xian Zihao.
If her memory was correct, Xian Zihao had always been calm and collected. Although his expression hadn't changed, with her sixth sense, she knew that he knew the woman at the door.
The car didn't stop, passing by the plaza like an arrow detached from a bowstring.
Jiang Ruolan no longer turned to look. She only looked at the blurry figure of the woman through the side mirror. A strange feeling of confusion arose in her heart.
Although she did not know who the woman was, from Xian Zihao's behavior, he had answered her question. He knew who that woman was, but he was pretending he didn't know her.
It was as if she was a stranger that he had never seen before.
As if she was a stranger waiting to ask for help.
As if this was a common occurrence.
Jiang Ruolan did not plan to say anything about it.
However, for some reason, when Xian Zihao's hand tightened slightly, she felt that a ripple had stirred up his calm heart.
This was something that Xian Zihao had never shown to her no matter how well he treated her.
The only thing Jiang Ruolan could understand was that he was rational. Xian Zihao had always been reasonable towards her, and apart from the most primitive urges between men and women, he had never given her any other urges.
"Zihao, are your morning meetings very important?" Jiang Ruolan suppressed the indescribable uneasiness in her heart and asked softly as she looked at the side of his face that was still calm and serene.
"Why?" His right hand was still holding her hand. He looked back at her and gently smiled.
"It's nothing. I just want to know how long your morning meeting will be. Can you come out for lunch? There's a newly opened donkey meat restaurant next to my company. I don't know if you like it, but I heard from my colleagues that it was very delicious, and I want you to accompany me to have a taste."
"It shouldn't be over by noon." There was an apologetic look in his eyes as he gently shook her hand. "Maybe another day, or night?"
"Alright, we'll go when you have time. If I'm really greedy, then I'll let Xiong Ruogang accompany me first." Jiang Ruolan replied smilingly.
She lifted her other hand and gently placed it on their intertwined hands. "Zihao, are we going to be happy?"
"Are you not happy now?" Xian Zihao took advantage of the moment to glance at her.
Jiang Ruolan didn't know what had happened to her. Was it because of that woman? Or was it because of that little girl she saw yesterday?
That little girl's face, Jiang Ruolan suddenly remembered who she looked like, but she couldn't be sure.
There were too many uncertainties, and the unease in her heart grew even stronger.
"That's not what I meant. What I mean is …" Jiang Ruolan embarrassedly lifted a strand of hair from her cheek and pushed it behind her ear. She felt that she had made a big fuss, so she said, "Just pretend that I didn't say anything."
Xian Zihao's soft laugh entered her ear. Jiang Ruolan looked at him with shock. "What are you laughing at?"
He didn't say anything, just smiled at her and parked in the makeshift parking space across from the food bureau.
Jiang Ruolan looked at the time and saw that it was already 8: 10. She was just about to open the car door and get off when she heard Xian Zihao's voice. "Wife, I have to drive for five to six hours today. What should you do if I'm hungry at noon?"
Jiang Ruolan staggered and she almost head-butted the ground.
Suddenly, she looked at the elegant and gentle man. Although she was somewhat surprised, her heart felt as if it was filled with honey.
The first time she heard Xian Zihao call her 'wife' was during Han Xuegang's engagement party. He hugged her as he walked through the crowd and said, "My wife drank a lot, so I'll send her back home first."
But this was the first time he called her that.
"You can bring me food." Xian Zihao chuckled.
Her eyelids twitched. "Are the family members allowed to send food during the meeting?"
"You can."
Jiang Ruolan glanced at him doubtfully. "The CEO's privilege?"
"What do you think?"
Jiang Ruolan: "…"
While watching Xian Zihao drove away, Jiang Ruolan thought about the serious scene at the board meeting and couldn't help but shiver. Did Xian Zihao think she was so easy to coax as a three-year-old?
Even if quite a few people in Xian Group knew her, the security guards definitely wouldn't allow her to be near the meeting room even a little. As it was such an important place in the company, it would be weird if she could enter.
But Xian Zihao didn't seem to be joking.
Thinking back to the last time she had a meeting with him in G City, he might have had a break, but it was very short. Only from ten minutes to twenty minutes. So she had to come quickly.
Jiang Ruolan exhaled, straightened her face, and quickly walked into the Food Bureau.
Xiong Ruogang was already waiting for her in the hall in front of the food bureau. When she saw her enter, she hurriedly came over. "Sis Jiang, why are you late?!"
"There's a traffic jam." Jiang Ruolan cleared her throat.
She couldn't possibly say that she woke up late.
****
"Hey, Sis Jiang, our company has always had two hours of lunch break. Why are you eating so fast?"
In the newly opened donkey meat restaurant beside the company, Xiong Ruogang speechlessly gnawed on the donkey-meat stew in her hands while looking at Jiang Ruolan, who was eating fast.
"I need to make a trip to the Xian Group in a while." Jiang Ruolan smiled and wiped her mouth with a clean napkin as she turned around to call the waiter to ask if there was any vegetarian food on their menu. She remembered that Xian Zihao ate very little meat and preferred vegetarian food.
"Tsk tsk, you've already been married for several months, why do you suddenly look like a woman in love?" Xiong Ruogang enviously chewed the donkey meat in her hands and sighed, "If only President Xian had a little brother. I can still have some dreams, what a pity."
Jiang Ruolan reprimanded her with a smile, "You little idiot."
"Eh? Sis Jiang, you just stand there talking regardless of my feelings! You are lucky enough to marry President Xian. He is the dream man of all the girls in H City, including me. Now, President Xian already has a wife, so I don't dare to go crazy over him again. To satisfy my aching heart, that's why I'll daydream of him having a little brother."
Xiong Ruogang pouted and took a bite of the donkey meat in her hand.
Jiang Ruolan sighed and smiled. She remembered that when she first came to H City and entered the company, she had never come into contact with Xian Zihao. Those rare impressions of him were basically rumors told to her by Xiong Ruogang.
But who would guess, in the blink of an eye, she suddenly became President Xian's fiancée? Thinking back to Xiong Ruogang's astonished expression, Jiang Ruolan couldn't help but laugh.
The world was unpredictable. The stranger from a few months ago, the haughty man who was not even on the same level as her, had now become her most intimate partner.
Xiong Ruogang said she now looked like a woman in love.
Love?
Could it be …
Had she lost control of her heart?
Was her behavior that obvious?
When Jiang Ruola walked into the Xian Building with lunch, all eyes were on her. Many people recognized her and called her Miss Jiang, and there was even a young man who admired her as he followed her from behind and said, "Greetings, Madam Xian."
However, when they arrived at the meeting room's floor, a few very serious security guards stood outside the door. They looked at her in suspicion as she walked out of the elevator, then looked at the disposable lunch box in her hand. There was wariness in their eyes as if the lunch box in her hands might contain combustible and explosive dangerous goods.
A security guard with a cold expression walked over and extended his hand to block her way, "Miss, I'm sorry, but this floor is temporarily off limits. Please leave."
