There was braised fish on the table, just like the one he ate in Britain. It was what that man liked to eat while he liked steamed fish. He really felt that he still had a long way to go.
Xia Ruoxin picked out the bones from the fish and placed it in her daughter’s bowl. Rainy did not need anyone to feed her and could eat on her own. However, she noticed that that Uncle would look at her bowl from time to time; was it because her food was nicer?
“Uncle, Rainy will give you her food.” Rainy offered her bowl generously.
Chu Lui’s chopsticks stopped in their motion.
He took the bowl and placed it in front of his daughter again.
“Baby, Uncle has his own bowl,” he said as he lifted his own one up. “You see?”
Rainy looked at it for quite some time but still did not understand so she continued eating her food. “I thought Uncle liked Rainy’s food.”
Chu Lui helped himself to some vegetables. Actually, he did not just like Rainy’s food; he really wished he could eat at this table every day. Instead of delicacies, all he wanted was this homemade food.
Her daughter was also very obedient, well-behaved, and polite. The Chu Xiang in his house still needed his mother to feed her. Compared to her, Rainy was very obedient.
After dinner, Xia Ruoxin tidied up the table; and when she came out again, Chu Lui was still here. He was sitting beside Rainy and was checking on her writing her homework.
“Does she know a lot of words?”
Chu Lui was surprised by Rainy’s ability to recognize words. Even though she did not know the meaning of some, she had already learned to read and write them.
“Kind of.” Xia Ruoxin did not want to talk to him about Rainy too much as she always had the feeling that he was going to snatch her daughter away.
Also, she opened the curtain and found out that the sky outside was already dark.
“Mr. Chu, the sky is dark.”
“Yes, I know.” Chu Lui pretended to not get the hint.
“Mr. Chu, the sky is dark, and the roads are slippery.”
“I have a car.”
“Mr. Chu, I’m going to lock my house door.”
“I’ll open it in a while.”
“CHU LUI!” Xia Ruoxin yelled Chu Lui’s name really loudly, and her face darkened. What exactly did he want? Forget about him invading her house; what other motive did he have?
“Yes, go on.” Chu Lui decided to act dumb all the way, but he also knew his limits. He stood up as he knew that he could not rush things; if not, it would result in a disaster.
This woman still took great precautions against him.
He opened the door and left. When there was no longer the man’s scent in the house, Xia Ruoxin then noticed that her breathing had started to become normal.
“Mom, I’m done writing.” Rainy raised her hand as if she was bestowing a gift. The happenings between the two adults were none of her business as she was still a child.
“Let Mommy take a look.” Xia Ruoxin walked over and glanced through her daughter’s homework.
Rainy’s drawing was not bad, and her writing was decent and nice. Even though it had missing strokes here and there sometimes—amongst the children of the same age, she was already doing quite well.
Rainy placed her hand behind her back and looked up, waiting for her mother’s praise.
“Baby’s so well-behaved.” Xia Ruoxin bent down and carried her daughter. “Come on, let’s shower and sleep.”
Once she thought about tomorrow, Xia Ruoxin felt a discomforting suppression.
She was going to work at Chu Enterprise tomorrow. Four years ago, she would never even have imagined that she would step into Chu Lui’s company; and yet four years later, she actually got in. To think about it, even she thought it was ironic at times.
Rainy fell asleep really quickly, and so she did so in no time. Perhaps Xia Ruoxin had troubling matters in her heart so she kept tossing and turning in bed until she finally fell asleep after a long while. When she opened her eyes again, the sun was already up.
She checked her watch. It was around six in the morning so she should be awake.
After tidying the room, making breakfast for her daughter, and bringing her to school; she sighed deeply. It was like she was on her way to the execution ground when she was sitting in the car to Chu Lui’s office. Honestly, if she had a choice, she would definitely not come here and be related to Chu Lui once again.
Just that, when her daughter fell sick, she began to realize that her pride would not get her anywhere.
She needed to work here and earn her own keep to provide for her daughter. Besides, the benefits that Chu Lui gave were tempting. She had already heard before all the staff at Chu Enterprise earned a high salary and experienced great benefits. Finally, she saw this for herself.
Outside, she sighed a few times before finally going in. Once the receptionist saw her, she smiled politely.
“Hello Miss, may I know who are you looking for? Do you have a booking?”
Perhaps she was a stranger face so they had to ask to make sure.
Xia Ruoxin touched her face. It turned out that there were still people who did not recognize her here. People were indeed forgetful, and to think she thought that everyone knew her face? However, the truth was that it was not… as time had already washed everything off.
Xia Ruoxin took out something from her bag, which was what Chu Lui called ‘work pass’, so that receptionist could naturally tell the person they were serving their job details.
Once the secretary saw the work pass, she smiled even brighter than before.
“Oh, so you’re Ms. Xia. Sorry, CEO had already informed me about you. Please follow me; I’ll bring you to your office.”
Her manner-filled sentences made Xia Ruoxin a bit embarrassed. She was not born with a silver spoon. She had grown up in the Xia household; even though she did not receive much status and she was the Xia household’s stepdaughter, she still did learn quite a few things. Whatever those women knew, she knew as well; and no matter how the years went by, she did have the disposition of not-a-distinguished job, yet not petty.
After they left, the people outside started gossiping.
“Who was this? Why did she need Sister Shalin to send her up personally?”
The other person then warned in a low voice. “Be quiet, just in case you say something wrong. This was something the CEO asked for personally so the Ms. Xia was not anyone normal. Rumor had it that her office was on the seventeenth floor, and the more she went up, the more difficult the job became.”
Reality was exactly the same. Chu Enterprise was just like a pyramid where Chu Lui was at the top, and all the others were slowly inching their way up. While others rise, there definitely would be someone who fell.
After they climbed up, they naturally could achieve more of the things that they liked. This was a custom: the higher the person was in terms of floor, the higher their salary and benefits.
However, it was not only ‘hard’ to go up floor by floor—it was with so much difficulty. It was easy for one to fall, but once the person fell, it would be as if they fell to their death and their bones shattered, causing them to leave.
