Chapter 194 - Abandoned Roses (2)
Chapter 194: Abandoned Roses (2)
“Do you see that?! Do you see that?! It’s a 99 roses bouquet, and the bouquet is so huge! It symbolizes everlasting love. Oh… that’s so romantic!” As soon as Zhao Youlin was out of her sight, the female head of department tossed the report to the side. She held her face as if she had fallen in love.
The female head of department took the lead and soon, other ladies inside the meeting room followed suit, “Indeed, this is the fifth bouquet for this week. My goodness, a 99 roses bouquet every day?! That is so enviable! I bet someone must be pursuing our general manager!”
Right after the female colleague spoke, everyone inside the office immediately discussed it, “Cheh! Everyone can see that someone is pursuing our general manager, okay?! We’re not that stupid to bet with you on this!”
The female colleague choked after the crowd scoffed at her. Immediately after, she changed her attitude. She faked a cough and said, “Let me change it, then. I bet… I bet that the one who pursues General Manager is the president of Mu Feng Group. He put his own life at stake just to save her when she was trapped in the elevator last time!”
“This is possible. I bet the one who pursues the general manager is the young master of the Ye family. Last time, he was frequently seen with the general manager and later, they reportedly had dinner together.”
“You bet on the young master of the Ye family?! Are you nuts? Didn’t you see that President Mu has put his own life at stake just to save our general manager at the opening of the elevator a few days ago?! I bet it must be President Mu for sure!”
“Nothing is absolute. Isn’t President Mu her ex? They married once and are already divorced. Something that was truly irrevocable must have happened. Even though our general manager looks good-tempered, she certainly doesn’t look like one who could easily forgive a man who did her wrong. On the contrary, Young Master Ye looks so gentlemanly. I believe our general manager must be very happy when she’s with him! I also bet the person is Young Master Ye!”
“Even if they’ve already divorced, didn’t you hear the recent rumors that they are going to remarry? I think President Mu is most likely the one.”
“The remarriage is only a rumor. No one can tell if it’s real. Moreover, why did he even have to do all this if they are going to remarry soon? I think it’s highly possible that the person is Young Master Ye.”
The mysterious identity of the person who sent the flowers got a group of ladies started the discussion in full swing. In the end, an entire group started gambling, while the men who were at the side felt speechless. They looked up and heaved a sigh to themselves, “Gossiping women are really terrible creatures.”
After lamenting, they remembered the topic that involved the three parties. Again, they could not help but let out a sigh, ‘Why are the men pursuing General Manager so high in standard?’ Their love rivals were too powerful. As such, they could only silently retreat, squatting at the side and quietly mourn the end of their unrequited love when it had not even started at all. Pathetic! That was really a miserable feeling!
At that moment, Zhao Youlin did not know that she was once again becoming the hot topic in the entire company because of a single bouquet. She took Xiao Jingyao to a remote corner and sharply glanced at the bouquet of roses in Xiao Jingyao’s hand.
When Xiao Jingyao saw that Zhao Youlin did not intend to receive the roses, he could not help but fake a cough. He said politely, “General Manager, do you want to take this bouquet back to your office and put them in a vase, or…”
In other words, ‘Please hold the flowers. Even though there are only 99 of them and it’s not too heavy, my hand would get sore after long hours of holding it.’
At that moment, Xiao Jingyao regretted agreeing to Li’s request out of his soft-heartedness. He helped Li to carry the bouquet and send it to Zhao Youlin. For God’s sake, this was clearly Li’s job, why did an old man like him have to carry such a bouquet of eye-catching flowers and walk around in the company? How embarrassing it was.
Therefore, the mighty secretary Xiao who thought it was humiliating for him to do such work had shouted at the entrance of the meeting room just now. Old people were very particular about their image. If he did it alone, he felt embarrassed. If he did it with someone else, together, he no longer felt so embarrassed.
“Is it still anonymous?” Zhao Youlin ignored Xiao Jingyao’s hint. She glared at the striking red roses coldly as she asked with a low voice.
“Yes,” Xiao Jingyao reflexively reached out to hold the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose as he replied in a low voice.
Zhao Youlin narrowed her eyes and blurted out faintly, “Throw it away, then.”
“Throw it away?”
“Yes. Just throw it. If you ever receive flowers like this from an anonymous person again in the future, just throw all of them inside the rubbish bin. There’s no need to bring them to me. Who knows if a timebomb has been placed inside a large bouquet like this, or something might spread out of it that can cause our skins to rot? Since that person doesn’t even dare to leave his name, there might be some nefarious intentions behind it.”
Xiao Jingyao fell speechless. He felt that he was holding some sort of hot potato in his hand, and he felt uncomfortable all over his entire body.
“Above all…” Zhao Youlin glared at the bouquet of roses in disdain and stated her feeling, “What kind of awful color is this?! This is too striking! Simply a lack of taste!”
Xiao Jingyao fell silent. He thought she was right. So, he did not say anything.
The expensive bouquet of roses ended up in the trash along with other piles of garbage.
On the other hand, unbeknownst to the person who had delivered the flowers, his flowers were abandoned. Yet, he was still feeling anxious about pursuing someone for the first time in his life. Although his emotion was disguised under his ever stoic face and others could not see how nervous he actually was, as the chief secretary who was good at figuring out his superior’s mood and knew his behavior and attitude like the back of his hand, as well as already perceived the once gossip but now his mission to matchmake the president and the former Mrs. President, all these were nothing to him!
“Ahem, President, you don’t have to worry about anything. I’ve already gotten the news from others that Ms. Zhao has received the roses that you’ve sent over to her in the past few days. Moreover, two days ago, someone saw Ms. Zhao holding your bouquet of roses and taking it into her office. Apparently, Ms. Zhao likes your gift very much.”
The truth was, Zhao Youlin had initially wanted Li to place the bouquet outside first so that the janitor could take it away when he arrived. However, the bouquet was so eye-catching that it instantly attracted many people’s attention. Zhao Youlin found it annoying and so, she had to hold the flowers and hide them inside her office in order to have some peace.
When Xia Zhetao saw Mu Tingfeng no longer appeared to be as averse to the idea as before, he pressed on by adding, “As long as we remain mysterious and send the flowers anonymously, once Ms. Zhao is touched by this, only then do we appear. Even though Ms. Zhao has some prejudice with you due to past events, she would at least consider your recent thoughtfulness and forgive you, as well as return to you. With my many years of experience mingling around with women, I can guarantee you that this would certainly work!”