Chapter Ninety-Six: A Rival in Love (Please add this book to your shelf so you can find it again.)

Lu Siyuan watched Hua Tianyu leave his seat. He watched him exchange a few words with Wei Xueying. He watched Wei Xueying and Hua Tianyu walk out of the conference room side by side...

Wei Xueying had gone out too...

Gone out...

The conference room had been left with only him inside, and the restroom was on the left!

Damn it...

The whole plot had gone completely off the rails from what he had arranged!

Hadn’t this Hua Tianyu been supposed to take the money and get out of the conference room?

Fine, he got out of the conference room, but why did he take my Wei Xueying with him too?

You want me to spend fifty thousand yuan just to go to the toilet alone?

With fifty thousand yuan, I could have refurbished this restroom from top to bottom!

That fifty thousand just now—did you really think it was for you to leave the conference room? It was for you to create a chance to be alone with Wei Xueying!

How the hell am I supposed to trust you after this?

Where is the trust between people?

Huh?

Why do I feel like I’ve been saying that a lot lately?

Huh?

Lu Siyuan felt as though he had been about to hand out dog food, only to have someone shove a mouthful of filth into his face instead.

Watching Hua Tianyu’s departing back, he felt as if that filth had been ladled up by his own hands and stuffed into his mouth by someone else.

Hua Tianyu, give me back my fifty thousand!

“Hua Tianyu!” Lu Siyuan roared.

Hua Tianyu and Wei Xueying both stopped just outside the conference room and looked back.

With Wei Xueying there, Lu Siyuan couldn’t say outright that he had used fifty thousand yuan to buy Hua Tianyu off, so he raised his right hand, spread out all five fingers, and shook them at Hua Tianyu.

His meaning was very clear: since you dragged Wei Xueying away with you, give me back the fifty thousand.

You can’t leave me broke and empty-handed, can you?

When Wei Xueying saw Lu Siyuan’s five fingers, she froze, not understanding what he meant.

She looked at Hua Tianyu in confusion and asked, “What is he doing?”

Hua Tianyu lowered his head and thought for two seconds before suddenly seeing the light. “Oh, I get it. Young Master Lu is a man of real etiquette!”

Then he said to Wei Xueying, “I’ll be right back. My, Young Master Lu really does mind his manners!”

“A man of etiquette?” Wei Xueying still didn’t understand and looked at him blankly.

Hua Tianyu hurried over a few steps to Lu Siyuan, also raised his right hand, spread his fingers wide, and slapped Lu Siyuan’s hand in a high five.

“Yeah! Give me five!”

With that, he left the stunned Lu Siyuan standing there and turned to head out of the conference room again.

Seeing Hua Tianyu return to her side, Wei Xueying frowned and asked, “What are you celebrating with him for?”

“Celebrating that the negotiation is going smoothly and the contract is about to be successfully signed!” Hua Tianyu answered matter-of-factly.

Wei Xueying glanced again at Lu Siyuan’s somewhat pale face and became half skeptical, half convinced by Hua Tianyu’s words.

“Xueying, let’s go! You’re a young lady—why are you staring at Young Master Lu? Does he not have to keep up appearances? How is he supposed to use the restroom?”

As he spoke, he lightly put a hand on Wei Xueying’s shoulder, turned her around with an easy motion, and quickly dropped his hand.

Wei Xueying gave him a white-eyed glance, but didn’t notice that tiny gesture. The two of them walked out shoulder to shoulder.

Lu Siyuan was stunned speechless by that high five from Hua Tianyu.

You’re the assistant to the CEO of the Swan Group, for heaven’s sake—can you be this shameless?

I asked you to return my fifty thousand, and you said “yeah”?

Does your conscience not hurt at all?

And what did you just call Wei Xueying? “Xueying”?

When Wei Xueying turned around, Hua Tianyu even draped an arm over her shoulder, naturally, so naturally that even Wei Xueying didn’t object.

The whole sequence flowed so smoothly it was as if Wei Xueying had already grown used to it.

At last, Lu Siyuan discovered the thing that worried him most.

This Hua Tianyu might be his rival in love!

A rival who stayed by Wei Xueying’s side at every moment, serving as her assistant!

Cold sweat broke out on Lu Siyuan.

He began to think back, starting from the Tigger Villa Hotel.

The bouquet of more than nine hundred ninety-nine roses he had prepared had been destroyed by Hua Tianyu with a single tail sweep. The private banquet he had painstakingly arranged was completely ruined by more than a hundred people Hua Tianyu had brought in, ruined so thoroughly it looked sickly yellow all over.

The gift worth five hundred thousand that he had carefully prepared was casually tossed to someone else by Hua Tianyu, and might still be lying in a trash can somewhere.

And today, after listening to his mother’s foolproof method for chasing women, he had decided, at the risk of being stripped to the bone by his father, to sign this contract that sold out the Lu Group for glory, all for the sake of getting a chance to be with the beauty.

And the result was... “Yeah”?

Oh, and “Give me five”!

Damn it, there was no reasoning with this at all!

The Swan Group is full of tricks. I want to go back to the Lu Group!

“Lu Fang!”

“Lu Fang!”

Lu Siyuan called several times, but no one answered.

Fine, even Lu Fang has abandoned me.

Lu Siyuan nearly couldn’t hold back his tears. Life is hard, love is harder; we should cherish every step as we go.

Dejected, he had just taken one step when he saw a pair of feet blocking his path.

“Lu Fang, let’s go. Let’s head back to the company together,” Lu Siyuan said without even lifting his head, assuming it was Lu Fang.

“Young Master Lu.”

A voice came from the person in front of him, clearly not Lu Fang.

Lu Siyuan looked up.

It was Hua Tianyu!

He didn’t know when, but Hua Tianyu had come back again.

Lu Siyuan looked at him warily and said nothing. He didn’t believe for a second that Hua Tianyu had suddenly grown a conscience and come back to return the money, but he also didn’t know why Hua Tianyu had turned back.

“What is it?” Lu Siyuan asked.

“I came back to tell you that the Swan Group is very welcoming to business partners who truly want to cooperate. And I can assure you that if the cooperation is sincere, the benefits you gain will be far greater than you imagine.”

“But the Swan Group does not welcome anyone who uses cooperation as an excuse to stir up trouble or who has other intentions. As for people like that, at the lightest, I’ll make them regret coming to the Swan Group. At the worst, I’ll make them regret ever coming into this world!”

Hua Tianyu’s words rang out with force.

When he finished, he meaningfully patted Lu Siyuan’s shoulder and once again left the conference room at an unhurried pace, leaving only the dumbfounded Lu Siyuan behind.

After leaving the conference room, Hua Tianyu caught up with Wei Xueying again and walked beside her.

“What did you go back and tell him just now?” Wei Xueying asked.

“Nothing much. Young Master Lu was being so courteous and signed such a favorable contract. No matter what, I had to go thank him, didn’t I? So I specifically went back and thanked him once more,” Hua Tianyu replied with complete seriousness.

“Mm, that was thoughtful. He should be thanked. I was careless just now!” Wei Xueying nodded in agreement with Hua Tianyu’s approach.

“Oh right, later keep an eye on legal. If everything checks out, hurry up and have both sides stamp and seal it, then lock the contract down for good,” Hua Tianyu reminded her.

“You’re afraid...” Wei Xueying frowned.

“Lu Changyun!” Hua Tianyu answered.

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