Chapter 75: Chapter 75

Su Lingzhi hesitated for a moment, then replied: "Tomorrow."

"What time tomorrow?"

"What time in the evening?" Fu Yinli asked again, his voice deep and slightly hoarse.

Su Lingzhi couldn’t help but tighten her grip on her phone and softly replied, "Before midnight."

It sounded like she was being perfunctory.

Fu Yinli let out a cold laugh, his voice slightly cool, "Might as well not have said anything."

He was met with a long silence.

Soon after, the call was disconnected from the other end.

Fu Yinli frowned, staring at the phone screen that had gone black. His dark eyes were so intense they seemed even darker than the night outside.

She cared less and less about him...

Far away at Shangyu Hotel, someone was still talking when she gradually realized something was off.

She put down her phone to see that it had shut off due to a dead battery.

The next afternoon, at Fu Group.

Xiao Li entered his office, reporting the itinerary, "President Fu, you need to return to host the acquisition project at England Airport. The plan is to depart the day after tomorrow, with a schedule of half a month."

Fu Yinli moved his gaze from the computer screen and said to him, "Postpone the trip by two days."

"Understood," Xiao Li nodded, then tentatively asked, "Should we bring Secretary Shao on this trip?"

"No," his voice was cold and indifferent.

"Secretary Shao has been in the company for four days without any work assignments. What is your intention, President Fu?"

The pressure from the superior was palpable, and Xiao Li dared not speak further. After reporting the work, he exited the office.

Having been by President Fu’s side for many years, he naturally understood President Fu’s rules and the weight of the word "loyalty."

Disloyal people would never be kept by his side, and those who betrayed him wouldn’t meet a good end.

Everyone on this entire floor knew that although Shao Yuwei was arranged by the old master, she used to be President Fu’s lover, yet he acted indifferent toward her; there had to be a deeper reason.

Seeing Xiao Li come out, Shao Yuwei quickly approached him, "He still doesn’t plan to give me work?"

Xiao Li looked at her awkwardly, "Secretary Shao, I’m afraid I can’t help you with this. You should talk to President Fu yourself."

Shao Yuwei’s eyes darkened as she turned dispiritedly and returned to the secretary’s office.

The secretary’s position was like a mere formality, something that was dispensable to Fu Yinli.

No, it was that to him, she, Shao Yuwei, was dispensable.

If she continued being idle , she wouldn’t even respect herself.

After thinking for a while in the office area, she touched up her makeup in the mirror, then took the gift she had prepared for him and knocked on the door to enter.

When that cold gaze met hers, her spine immediately tensed, hairs standing on end, leaving her thoughts in a frenzy, unsure of how to speak.

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"Didn’t your brother tell you that I already have someone by my side?"

His tone was no colder than usual, but the words "someone by my side" hit her heavily.

"I..." Shao Yuwei’s voice was mosquito-like, burning with the fire of shame, "My brother didn’t mention it."

It had been seven years since they parted, and even if she were to say he had no women around him during those years, she wouldn’t believe it herself.

However, hearing him say this personally, she felt as if she was a third party, intruding on their relationship.

Morality wouldn’t allow her to do that.

"But, didn’t we break up, right?" she insisted.

Back then, he left Beijing for distant England due to a transfer order, and for seven years they hadn’t contacted each other just because they hadn’t explicitly broken up, leaving their relationship undefined, and now bringing it up seemed meaningless.

Fu Yinli spoke indifferently: "You’ve waited a long time for this day, huh."

Seeing through her thoughts at a glance, Shao Yuwei felt particularly embarrassed, so much so that she couldn’t speak due to the blockage in her heart.

The reason they ended up was all because of her high ego back then.

Now, no matter how much he taunted or sneered, she should endure it, as it was what she owed him. Just for the day he might change his mind and return to her, no matter how many women he’d had before, she wouldn’t mind.

"There’s no point in tangling further, Yuwei."

Shao Yuwei instinctively clenched her fists, her fingers looped around the gift bag’s handle, refusing to admit defeat.

She also knew that if she continued to argue about this, it would only make herself more disgraced, "I’m here at this job not just for you, but for my future career."

Fu Yinli leaned back in his chair, looking at her with contempt, saying nothing.

Shao Yuwei continued, "Since I’m here, President Fu, you should keep work and personal matters separate and treat me as a regular employee. Whether I can do the job is another matter, but you should at least give me a three-month probation period."

Once she said this, the entire office fell into a suffocating silence.

"Do you really want to stay here?" Fu Yinli coldly eyed her.

After a few seconds of silence, Fu Yinli finally spoke: "Arrange it with the special assistant."

Seeing him relent, Shao Yuwei’s expression relaxed a bit, "Thank you, President Fu."

With that, she presented the gift she had prepared, but before it landed on the table, she heard him coldly say, "Take it back."

Shao Yuwei paused for a few seconds, retrieved the gift, then bowed and exited the office.

The moment Xiao Li received notification from Fu Yinli, Shao Yuwei knocked and came in.

Anyone with eyes could see that President Fu wasn’t interested in her. However, the person before him seemed educated and well-mannered, and with the added layer of distinction from being the Shao Family’s representative, it made people treat her carefully.

Xiao Li stood up respectfully, "Secretary Shao, President Fu has just instructed that aside from external trips, all administrative affairs will be handled by you."

The rest of the time, Xiao Li was handing over the work to her.

With an additional helper, his workload naturally lightened considerably.

Shao Yuwei then asked, "Does President Fu have any preferences or dietary restrictions?"

Xiao Li replied, "President Fu prefers Biluochun tea and never touches coffee lattes, among other things."

"Yet I distinctly remember he used to like black coffee."

"You did say that was in the past."

Shao Yuwei was at a loss for words for a moment before asking, "Is there anything else I should be aware of?"

"Sir isn’t picky with food, but if there’s anything taboo, it’s that he takes great care of his clothes, especially the embroidery; getting it dirty is unacceptable, much less tearing it. Previously in England, a senior accidentally spilled coffee on the embroidered cuff of his shirt, and President Fu immediately fired him."

Shao Yuwei couldn’t quite comprehend, "It’s just a piece of clothing, if it’s dirty, it can be dry-cleaned; why fire someone?"

This seemed ridiculous to her.

Besides, from childhood to adulthood, Yinli had always been composed and measured; she found it hard to imagine this was something he would do.

Xiao Li shook his head; there were things he shouldn’t say too much about, yet he couldn’t resist giving a hint: "President Fu abhors betrayal. Being by President Fu’s side, loyalty is our duty."

After the work handover, Shao Yuwei became busy and didn’t even know when Fu Yinli left with Xiao Li.