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Watching the two getting close, Qing Yukong felt extremely uncomfortable.
Moreover, there wasn’t a single servant around.
His subordinates instinctively clenched into fists, and Qing Yukong coldly looked at Gu Xiruo. “Is it necessary to dismiss all the maidservants just for a business discussion?”
Hearing Qing Yukong’s sarcastic tone, Gu Xiruo was also displeased. “Qing Yukong, what do you mean by this?”
“What do I mean? Shouldn’t I be asking you what you mean? We’re about to get married, but instead of coming to me after your return, you stay with this kind of wild man. Have you ever valued our engagement?” The more Qing Yukong thought about it, the angrier he became.
Gu Xiruo seemed intentional, intentionally embarrassing him in front of another man.
“Are you happy to embarrass me in front of other men?”
Gu Xiruo furrowed her brows, already becoming a bit impatient with Qing Yukong. “Qing Yukong, that’s enough. I’ve already said he’s my business partner. I collaborate with him on many businesses.”
“Collaborate? You’re about to marry me soon, and you talk about collaboration. It’s better to end it.” Qing Yukong said coldly.
Gu Xiruo looked displeasedly at Qing Yukong. “What are you talking about? How could I give up this collaboration? It’s my business.”
“I won’t allow it.” Qing Yukong just felt that the way Lu Lingfeng looked at Gu Xiruo didn’t seem like he was looking at a business partner.
Is there any business partner who looks at the other party with such tender eyes?
He is a man and knows what that kind of gaze from Lu Lingfeng represents.
“Xiruo, he likes you, don’t you know?” Seeing Gu Xiruo silent, Qing Yukong spoke again.
Lu Lingfeng’s eyes flashed slightly. He indeed liked Gu Xiruo, but now was not the time to confess.
“Young Master Qing, there’s nothing impure between Xiruo and me. You don’t need to misunderstand us.” Lu Lingfeng furrowed his brows, seemingly distressed after being misunderstood by Qing Yukong.
Qing Yukong didn’t believe a word Lu Lingfeng said. Nothing impure? Then why did he look at Gu Xiruo with such doting eyes?
“This is a matter between Xiruo and me. You don’t have the right to interfere here,” Qing Yukong said coldly.
Gu Xiruo was gradually getting impatient. She looked at Qing Yukong and said irritably, “Qing Yukong, have you had enough of making a scene?”
“We have an engagement, and your family has set a wedding date, that’s true. But it doesn’t mean I can’t continue with my business. You can accept it or not. I won’t stop doing business just because you’re unhappy and unwilling to accept it. Whether you can accept it or not is your problem. I won’t stop doing business just because you’re unhappy and unwilling to accept it.” Gu Xiruo said coldly.
Hearing Gu Xiruo’s words, Qing Yukong chuckled and pointed at Lu Lingfeng. “Is it because of this man that you’re treating me like this?”
“It’s not that I’m treating you like this because of him. It’s because you’re making trouble without reason. Can’t you find a woman with good relations around you?” Gu Xiruo looked at Qing Yukong and asked.
He knew that one of Qing Yukong’s trusted aides was a woman.
“How can that be the same? She’s just my subordinate.” Qing Yukong explained with a furrowed brow.
“Why is it different? It’s your subordinate, and you don’t find anything wrong with it. But this is my business partner. Why do you have objections? Qing Yukong, when you get close to those women, I don’t say anything. In that case, please don’t interfere in my business matters.” Gu Xiruo said coldly.
Qing Yukong finally realized that Gu Xiruo was siding with this man today.
“You want to quarrel with me over this man?” he asked.
“It’s not that I want to quarrel with you; you’re the one starting the argument. In the business world, there are both men and women. I didn’t say anything about you, so please don’t talk about me.” Gu Xiruo said with a cold face.
Because of Gu Xiruo’s words, Qing Yukong laughed, looking at Gu Xiruo for a while before saying, “Since that’s the case, I won’t disturb you.”
Watching Qing Yukong leave angrily, Gu Xiruo’s impatience became even more apparent.
Couldn’t Qing Yukong be a bit more generous? She had a fiancé, and Lu Lingfeng hadn’t said anything about it, right?
What Gu Xiruo didn’t know was that Lu Lingfeng didn’t stay silent because he didn’t want to, but because he didn’t have the position to say anything.
He was just Gu Xiruo’s business partner.
Turning to look at Qing Yukong, Gu Xiruo sighed and apologized, “I’m sorry for making you uncomfortable, Lingfeng.”
Lu Lingfeng smiled and shook his head, “I’m fine. But why don’t you go and explain to him?”
In fact, Gu Xiruo was secretly pleased to have support from him. As for Qing Yukong, he probably intended to investigate more about him later, right?
With a slight smirk, Lu Lingfeng looked at Gu Xiruo. He truly anticipated the day when Qing Yukong and Gu Xiruo would completely fall out.
At this moment, Gu Xiruo was still unaware that the person she considered a friend, helping her without the need for a formal role, had such thoughts.
Qing Yukong left the Gu family with a gloomy face and returned home. He called his people to investigate Lu Lingfeng and, at the same time, to look into the relationship between Gu Xiruo and him.
While Qing Yukong was investigating Lu Lingfeng, Wan Feng got wind of it. He looked at the people below and said, “Since he’s so eager to know about Lu Lingfeng and Gu Xiruo, let’s help him out. Provide him with the information we have, but make sure not to arouse suspicion.”
“Yes.”
Wan Feng wrote a letter informing Su Yu about the dispute between Gu Xiruo and Qing Yukong, as well as Qing Yukong’s investigation into the two.
When Su Yu received Wan Feng’s letter, he was somewhat surprised. They hadn’t done much yet, and Qing Yukong and Gu Xiruo were already having a dispute. It was interesting.
Rubbing his chin thoughtfully, Su Yu considered whether to add fuel to the fire.
In the evening, while Wang Jinhe was calculating how many melon seedlings they would need for the year, Su Yu suddenly spoke, “Xiao He, there’s something you’ll find very interesting.”
Wang Jinhe didn’t even lift her head, asking indifferently, “What’s the matter?”
Su Yu was very dissatisfied with Wang Jinhe’s indifference. He walked over and looked at her, saying, “What are you busy with?”
“I’m calculating how many melon seedlings we’ll need this year.” Her breeding work would only yield a few dozen more plants, not much.
“Is it done?”
“It’ll take a while. What did you say I’d find interesting?” Now that they were both by the side, Wang Jinhe finally looked up at Su Yu.
Su Yu handed the letter that Wan Feng gave him to Wang Jinhe. “Take a look for yourself, and you’ll know.”
Wang Jinhe curiously looked at the letter in her hand, with surprise in her eyes. “Qing Yukong has a conflict with Gu Xiruo?”
“I told you that you’d be interested. That’s what Wan Feng said.”
Regardless of who it was, if they saw their fiancée or wife getting too close to another man, they would feel upset. If Qing Yukong didn’t get angry seeing the two of them being intimate, was he still a man?
However, what surprised him was Gu Xiruo’s attitude.