Free Web NovelChapter 165: Chapter 165: Who Spoiled This Bad Temper?
Fang Shuxin stood up and pulled Yun Zijin, ready to leave. Besides, she had already finished her cup of Wangyou Milk Tea.
Yun Zijin had no choice but to get up and leave with Fang Shuxin.
Seeing that Fang Shuxin was about to pull her into her car, Yun Zijin quickly spoke up. "Landlady Grandma, I drove here."
If she got in the car with Fang Shuxin, she would have to go through the trouble of coming back here to get her own car.
"Don’t you have bodyguards? Just have one of them drive your car and follow us. We haven’t seen each other in so long. It’d be great to catch up.
Also, you aren’t my tenant anymore, so you don’t have to call me Landlady Grandma. Just call me Grandma.
Or, if you want to follow Little sparrow and call me Maternal Grandma, that’s fine too. I don’t mind."
With that last sentence, Fang Shuxin’s intentions were plain as day.
"Grandma Fang."
’We’re not related by blood or marriage. There’s no way I’m calling her Maternal Grandma.’
Fang Shuxin was rather disappointed not to hear the words "Maternal Grandma."
But she didn’t dwell on it. Regardless of whether Little sparrow could successfully win the girl over, her friendship with Yun Zijin, which transcended their age difference, would never change.
In the end, Yun Zijin was still pulled into Fang Shuxin’s car. Ling Qi discreetly broke off from the group to go drive Yun Zijin’s car, which was parked in a lot near the Wangyou Milk Tea Shop.
About fifty minutes later, Fang Shuxin successfully delivered Yun Zijin to the Huo Family’s Old Mansion.
The Huo family was one of the Five Small Families of Dijing and had been friends with the Fang family for generations. Fang Shuxin and the old master of the Huo family were classic childhood sweethearts, their story a beloved tale of a love that lasted from the cradle to the altar.
The moment Fang Shuxin arrived at the gate of the old mansion, someone opened the main door from the inside. Yun Zijin immediately spotted the patriarch of the Huo family waiting behind it.
"Running around outside every single day. Have you forgotten how old you are..."
The moment the door opened, Huo Wenqing began to chide her, but as soon as he looked up and saw Yun Zijin behind Fang Shuxin, the words caught in his throat.
"And this is..."
"Hmph! It’s none of your business who this is! Now get out of the way, you’re blocking the path!"
Getting scolded the moment he saw her made Fang Shuxin feel like she’d lost face. Her fiery temper flared, and she couldn’t be bothered with Huo Wenqing, pulling Yun Zijin past him and heading inside.
Yun Zijin wanted to offer a greeting, but Fang Shuxin was pulling her by the hand so tightly that she couldn’t even speak. All she could do was maintain an awkward smile.
’I didn’t mean to walk in on Grandma Fang getting an earful from her husband. What a time to show up.’
Ignored by Fang Shuxin, Huo Wenqing looked suspiciously at the butler. "Did I say something wrong? What’s she mad about now?"
’When she was young, she loved to run wild. Now that she’s old, she travels everywhere instead. I offer to go with her, and she still isn’t happy!’
’She finally comes home, only to give me the cold shoulder. Who was it that spoiled her into having such a temper!’
The butler thought, ’Aren’t you the very one who spoiled her?’
Fang Shuxin paid no mind to Huo Wenqing’s reaction, confidently leading Yun Zijin to her personal walk-in closet with practiced ease.
Little Chen had already helped her organize and store the things she’d brought back from her latest trip, so the gift for Yun Zijin was naturally here as well.
Fang Shuxin skillfully picked up a small ledger from a table in the closet and flipped through it for a moment.
"Found it!"
With that, Fang Shuxin set the ledger down and turned to open a cabinet built into the back wall.
Yun Zijin glanced at the ledger Fang Shuxin had been holding and realized it was an inventory log detailing the location of every item in the walk-in closet.
Yun Zijin was familiar with this system. She had a lot of things herself, and while her maids were excellent at organizing, with so many items, it was impossible to remember where everything was, no matter how neatly it was arranged.
Having a ledger to consult was the most convenient way to quickly and accurately locate any given item.
A moment later, Fang Shuxin retrieved a cubic box, about twenty centimeters tall, from the cabinet and handed it to Yun Zijin.
"Here. I saw this by chance and thought it would be perfect for you, so I bought it. It’s nothing expensive, so don’t feel awkward about accepting it."
Fang Shuxin held the gift box out to Yun Zijin.
Yun Zijin wanted to refuse, but after Fang Shuxin had gone to the trouble of dragging her all the way here, it seemed impolite not to accept.
In the end, Yun Zijin accepted it.
"Thank you, Grandma Fang!"
Without mentioning a return gift, she accepted the box with both hands.
"Don’t mention it! Stay for dinner tonight. I’ll give Little sparrow a call and see if he has time to join us."
Ever since Lu Yunque became the president of the Lu Group, his personal time had become incredibly scarce. The last time she’d had a meal with him was during the Spring Festival last year.
And even then, Lu Yunque had rushed through the meal before disappearing into the study to handle more work.
After all, while Hua Country celebrated the Spring Festival, it was business as usual overseas.
"Today’s a weekday. He’s probably too busy, isn’t he?"
The Lu Group had several major projects underway. As its president, it was impossible for Lu Yunque not to be busy.
"No matter how busy he is, he can find time for dinner, can’t he? You just wait. I’m going to give him a call."
Fang Shuxin simply refused to believe it. ’If Lu Yunque knows Yun Zijin is at the Huo family residence and staying for dinner, let’s see if he can still stay buried in his work.’
’If he does, then I’ll really have to advise Yun Zijin to forget about him, even if she already agreed to the blind date.’
’A husband who puts work before you is worse than no husband at all.’
Yun Zijin didn’t try to stop Fang Shuxin from making the call. She was also rather curious to see if Lu Yunque would actually drop everything just to come have dinner with her.
「Lu Group, President’s Office.」
Lu Yunque had just finished a project meeting. He hadn’t even left the conference room when he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.
He pulled it out and saw the caller ID: Fang Shuxin.
"Hello, Grandma..."
The moment they heard that form of address, the others in the room wordlessly quickened their pace, filing out of the conference room.
President Xiao Lu’s maternal grandmother was a legendary figure at the Lu Group.
Many of the older employees had likely witnessed some of Fang Shuxin’s legendary exploits at the Lu Group firsthand.
After all, Fang Shuxin and Xu Su Hua were known throughout Dijing as the inseparable "besties" of the city’s elite.
No one knew what Fang Shuxin said, but Lu Yunque’s eyes instantly lit up. The moment he hung up, he told Mo Bin to reschedule everything for tomorrow. He was leaving for the day.
Mo Bin was completely stunned. He raised his wrist to check his watch—it was five in the afternoon, all right. But wasn’t the president the type who never, ever left work before dark?
On a bad day, he might even have to pull an all-nighter with him. One look at his own receding hairline was proof enough that he never got to bed early.
"What? Not happy about leaving on time? If you’d rather work overtime, then..."
"No, no, no! Sir, my girlfriend told me just yesterday to get home early today. My mother-in-law is visiting!
Even if you hadn’t said anything, I was planning to ask you for the time off today."
’The mother-in-law was a lie, of course. He didn’t even have a girlfriend. But who cared about the details?’
Lu Yunque glanced at Mo Bin. "You have a girlfriend?"
Mo Bin: ’Is that really the important part?’
"Yup!" ’Even if I don’t, I have to say I do!’
"All right. From now on, just tell me if you have plans. The company isn’t so unreasonable that it won’t even give you time to spend with your girlfriend."
He felt a sudden sense of empathy, since he was about to start pursuing a girl himself.
