Chapter 179: Chapter 179
Ji Rui’s eyebrows relaxed, and he immediately put down the receiver, sat up straight with a serious demeanor, reopened the file, cleared his throat, and responded.
At the moment the door was pushed open, Ji Rui lowered his eyelids and pretended to read the file earnestly.
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Ji Rui?"
A strange male voice came over, and Ji Rui suddenly raised his head, staring at him fiercely!
Why is it a man? Where is his little secretary?
Ji Rui glared at the young man standing by the door who seriously didn’t match expectations, and replied in a stern voice.
The sharp gaze shot directly at the young man, who shivered uncontrollably, unable to stop himself from shivering.
"Mr. Ji... Mr. Ji... there is a package for you, could you... could you sign for it?"
The young courier hesitated under Ji Rui’s killer-like gaze for a moment, but finally bit his lip, and slowly moved towards Ji Rui’s desk.
"A package?" Ji Rui’s hopes dashed, his tone became especially harsh.
"Yes... yes... it says here, the recipient is... is Mr. Ji!"
The courier struggled to move to the table under Ji Rui’s intimidating gaze, pulled a delivery package out of a large bag, and gingerly pushed it in front of Ji Rui.
Ji Rui glared at him, lowered his eyes to glance at the name on the package, indeed, there was no mistake, it wrote his full name "Ji Rui".
"Why was it brought in? There isn’t a secretary outside?"
Ji Rui’s parcels or packages had always been signed for by Le Tong. He asked , hoping the courier would take the package outside for Le Tong to sign, so she would have no reason to avoid him anymore, right?
The courier wasn’t actually delivering to Ji Family for the first time, usually, as the terrifying man said, the beautiful secretary sitting outside would sign for it.
"But, there’s no one outside..."
If the secretary was outside, he definitely wouldn’t bring it in to get scolded!
Ji Rui’s heart sank, silently glanced at the courier, said nothing, picked up a pen and signed the delivery note.
"Tha... thank you, Mr. Ji..." The courier grabbed the signed delivery note and slipped out as quickly as if oil had been applied to his feet.
Ji Rui thought it was just a customer file and was too irritated at the time to have the heart to look at such things. He picked up the package wanting to toss it aside but unexpectedly saw the sender’s name as "Le Tong".
Ji Rui’s heart began racing, he never knew his heart was so useless, just a package could make it beat faster.
He pulled back his hand, swiftly tore open the package seal.
Two fingers slipped inside and pulled out two envelopes, one large and one small, caught between his fingers.
Both envelopes were blank, and Ji Rui frowned, a bit unable to guess what Le Tong, this woman, was up to with two letters. What did this signify?
Ji Rui placed the small one on the table, picked up the large envelope, tore it open, pulled out the sheet of paper, and smoothed it out. At the header of the paper were big bold words "Resignation Letter".
The accumulated depression and irritation of recent days instantly ignited like kindling when he saw these words, turning into a fiery blaze in his heart.
Ji Rui couldn’t suppress the flames in his heart, and with both hands, shredded the resignation letter to bits in just a few moments!
As he looked at the white paper fragments scattered all over the ground, the fire in Ji Rui’s heart subsided slightly, only then did he pick up the other small envelope, tore it open, and pulled out the small piece of paper inside.
When Ji Rui saw that what he pulled out was the almost obsolete smallest denomination currency, his lips couldn’t help but twitch.
And then, seeing the content on the small note folded underneath the penny, his complexion changed from dark to livid!
On that small note, a bold line was written flamboyantly.
[The service that night was not bad, here’s the tip!]
Below the bold line, just like the signature on the resignation letter, was the name that made the current Ji Rui grit his teeth with hatred and a desire to kill [Le Tong]
Ji Rui’s face remained livid as he stared at the penny and the rather insulting note, his chest heaving violently, yet he did not move for a long time!
Ji Rui remained frozen with a livid face for several minutes as if in a trance, and when he came around, the first thing he did wasn’t ripping up the penny and note, but placing the note into a drawer and framing the almost extinct penny, positioning it next to the cactus!
Only after doing all this, Ji Rui picked up the phone, instructing someone to go and bring back that arrogant little secretary who dared to act so brazenly towards him.
The person accepted the order, patting his chest and promising to deliver the person to President Ji before dark.
Ji Rui hung up the phone, and as if driven by a ghost, clicked on Le Tong’s personnel file.
When he saw her writing "none" in the relatives column, Ji Rui paused.
It wasn’t the first time Ji Rui looked at Le Tong’s personnel file, but before, he only cared about her academic background and some work experience, never paying attention to her family members or concerning himself with them.
A simple "none", did it mean both parents were deceased?
Ji Rui frowned slightly, his eyes inadvertently glancing at her address column, and when he saw the address, he was once again taken aback.
He had sent Le Tong a few times, and Le Tong always got off at the expensive apartment building, so he always assumed she lived in that building, but from her address, it seemed to be the old buildings behind the building, where rent should be much cheaper!
Ji Rui always thought he understood Le Tong well, but seeing these two columns, he realized he actually knew nothing about her!
Ji Rui picked up the phone, paused to think, and put it down again.
The person who claimed to bring her back to meet him before dark had not sent any news by noon.
But Ji Baby called in, just when Ji Rui hadn’t had lunch yet.
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Ji Rui, unable to deal with Ji Baby’s pestering, eventually told his dear son that his sister would return from the business trip today.
Ji Rui pinched his brow, gently exhaled, "Not yet, she should be back tonight."
"Daddy is a big liar!" Ji Baby angrily declared, and without listening to Ji Rui’s explanation, directly hung up the phone.
Ji Rui stared at the phone for a moment, shook his head helplessly, and placed the phone down properly.
That noon, Ji Rui neither went to the canteen for lunch nor ordered takeout, because his mind was fully occupied with matters concerning Le Tong, completely forgetting he needed to eat lunch.
It was after great difficulty that Ji Rui finally waited until off work time, tidied up the documents on his desk, hesitating whether to call and inquire about the investigation, when the phone conveniently rang.
[Second update is done, still one more to go!]