Chapter 27: Agreement

Qin Ruyan pursed her lips. She wanted to go back on her word.

“Can you let go of me now?”

She lowered her eyelashes. They were close now, and she was trapped in Lu Jingchen’s arms, his hand still on her waist.

Lu Jingchen looked down at her, and readily withdrew his hand, taking a step back.

As long as she didn’t avoid him, he didn’t mind taking things slow. A slow boil, it was quite interesting.

“So, you deliberately had someone distract my uncle and the others today?”

Quite perceptive? Lu Jingchen hummed in agreement.

“Couldn’t find you outside, so I had to come to your house to catch you.”

Qin Ruyan glared at him. Was he actually proud of that?

“Then you’re here, what about my uncle and the others?”

Lu Jingchen leaned against the door, one hand in his pocket, taking a pack of cigarettes out and pulling one out.

Qin Ruyan furrowed her brows, he caught her glance and didn’t light the cigarette, just played with it in his hand.

“I was planning, if you didn’t want to talk to me properly, I would have had Chen Zhong coerce and entice you, forcing your uncle to marry you to me.”

His voice was laced with laughter, like a joke, but also like he was serious.

“But now, Yan’er is willing to talk to me properly, not avoiding me, so today, I’ll naturally invest in Qin Pharmaceutical.”

Qin Ruyan breathed a sigh of relief.

“You don’t need to do that,” she thought for a moment before speaking.

“You don’t need to do anything because of me. I believe my uncle and my brother have the ability to develop Qin Pharmaceutical well.”

Lu Jingchen felt a little uncomfortable listening to that. His beloved was praising another man in front of him? Not even her brother was allowed.

“That won’t do, I need to curry favor with my future brother-in-law, so he can speak well of me.”

Qin Ruyan chuckled.

“Brother Lu, my uncle and my brother might not have a good impression of you. He repeatedly told me not to have any interaction with you. So, if you want to take that shortcut, it might not work.”

Lu Jingchen’s brows furrowed.

“Such a deep grudge against me? Did I offend him before?”

Those who had offended him, or those he disliked, had been dealt with long ago. How could they still be jumping around in front of him?

Qin Ruyan’s laughter died down. She touched her nose, feeling a little guilty. Was this considered selling her uncle out?

“It’s not that, my uncle said you’re too high and mighty, like a cloud above clouds, mortals can only look up, not get close.”

Qin Ruyan had lowered her guard now, able to chat with him like friends.

Lu Jingchen smiled, he lowered his head, looking at her level.

“Then why, when I stepped down from the clouds, you didn’t look either?”

Qin Ruyan couldn’t laugh anymore. She opened her mouth, but couldn’t speak for a long time.

Lu Jingchen curled his lips, stood up, reached out to touch her head, but thought of something and retracted his hand.

“I’m not teasing you anymore, remember what we agreed on, when I contact you, don’t let me lose track of you, okay? Even if it’s just as ordinary friends, we can meet for dinner, right?”

Qin Ruyan nodded blankly, her eyes a little dazed.

“Then I’ll go first? Your uncle and the others are probably still at Lu’s.”

Lu Jingchen glanced at the time, anyway, people wouldn’t run away, and he couldn’t completely abandon work. They were both adults, both had their own careers to pursue.

“Okay, then Brother Lu, be careful on the road.” Qin Ruyan nodded at him.

Lu Jingchen was about to turn around, then remembered something.

He took out his phone and transferred some money to Qin Ruyan.

Qin Ruyan’s phone beeped, she subconsciously unlocked it and looked at the screen.

…

“You…”

Why would he suddenly transfer money to her? And exactly 5,200,000 yuan? Is it inappropriate?

Oh, no, I mean, is it ambiguous?

Lu Jingchen put away his phone and said with a clear and cheerful voice, “Since we are friends, and you are the pursuer and the pursued, it’s okay for me to send you a red envelope when you open your studio, right?”

What’s okay? Who sends a red envelope with a seven-figure transfer? Are you doing charity?

“But this is too much.” Qin Ruyan pursed her lips, she couldn’t even bring herself to say that the amount he transferred was inappropriate.

Lu Jingchen smiled, “What can I do? I just happen to have this much left in my WeChat wallet?”

He was being deliberate, reminding her all the time that their relationship was meant to progress.

“But if you don’t accept it, I’ll directly transfer 13,145,200 yuan from my personal account to your uncle’s company, and I’ll note that it’s an investment in your studio, please ask Mr. Qin to forward it to you.”

Lu Jingchen saw her about to press the decline button, so he added a forceful statement.

He said he would give her time and space, but the dominance in his bones remained.

Rejecting his physical contact and closeness, okay, rejecting his confession once is also fine.

Once is a stranger, twice is familiar, he can take his time, he doesn’t believe that with sincerity, even stone can be moved, he can’t move her?

But she opened a studio and he sent a red envelope, and she refused? He couldn’t accept this.

Qin Ruyan paused, raised her eyes to look at him, he was also looking down at her, their eyes met, Qin Ruyan turned her head.

“Okay, but it’s the same as what my brother gave me, I’ll share the profits with you when I make money, and if I lose money, I’ll slowly pay you back.”

Lu Jingchen heard this, subconsciously frowned again, wanting to speak, Qin Ruyan took the lead.

“Brother Lu, I told my cousin the same thing, the money Yaoyao gave me, I treated it the same way, we are equal.”

“Okay.” Lu Jingchen was defeated by her.

Qin Ruyan then accepted the transfer with peace of mind.

Lu Jingchen looked down at her chat box, stunned, what was her note for him?

Brother No. 2?

He laughed angrily and pointed at her phone.

“Your note?”

Qin Ruyan put away her phone and glanced at him, “Why are you looking at my phone?”

Lu Jingchen didn’t say anything, his eyes fixed on her.

Qin Ruyan said slowly, “You said you were my brother, I already have a brother at home, what else could you be but Brother No. 2?”

“Okay, I’ll wait for the day you take the initiative to change the note.”

Lu Jingchen didn’t argue with her about this anymore.

“I’m going now, remember, you can find me if you have problems, and you can also find me if you don’t have problems.”

Before leaving, Lu Jingchen finally touched her head, and even rubbed it.

Qin Ruyan hummed and saw him out. Then she went back to sit on the sofa.

She held her phone, a little dazed, now that Lu Jingchen was gone, she was alone, she suddenly felt like her lips were a little numb.

She reached out to touch her lips, then quickly retracted her hand.

She looked at the empty room, then at the newly added WeChat.

She didn’t understand how someone she had planned to completely avoid had returned to her sight, could it be that she was really blinded by beauty? Blinded by Lu Jingchen’s beauty?

Qin Ruyan sat on the sofa for a long time, unable to figure it out.

Forget it.

She stood up and walked towards the bedroom, she was going to Hangzhou tomorrow, she needed a good rest today.