Gu Jiajia hesitated for a moment when she saw this, then spoke.
“If you want Jiahua Group to make concessions, my father’s condition is a marriage alliance—he wants me to marry Lin Xiu.”
There was a slight shock on Liu Yun’s face at these words. Although she had already guessed as much, a strange emotion still surged in her heart at this moment.
It took her a while to recover, and she spoke a bit awkwardly.
“Miss Gu, you’re not joking, right? It doesn’t seem like you and President Lin have had much contact. Isn’t this marriage alliance a little too hasty?”
Gu Jiajia stirred her coffee on the table with a spoon, and let out a faint, lonely laugh.
“To me, it doesn’t matter who my marriage partner is. The important thing is that it brings benefits to Jiahua.”
Hearing this, Liu Yun also fell silent. She could sense the helplessness in the other’s words—the helplessness of the eldest young miss of Jiahua Group.
Maybe, just as Gu Jiajia said, it truly didn’t matter who she married, as long as it brought benefits.
At this thought, Liu Yun took a deep breath and then said,
“I understand your company’s condition. I’ll relay it to our chairman truthfully.”
When Liu Yun returned to the hotel, it was already near noon.
Standing in front of her hotel room door, Liu Yun felt a sudden, inexplicable irritation. Even she found her own mood rather odd.
It’s just a marriage alliance—if that guy really marries Miss Gu, she ought to be happy.
After all, that way, maybe he’d finally stop bothering her, and she could be rid of his clutches…
At this thought, Liu Yun patted her own cheeks. That’s right, she should be happy!
With this in mind, Liu Yun finally picked up her room card to open the door. But as soon as she walked in, before she could react, she was grabbed by the wrist and pressed up against the wall by a certain someone.
“Mm… What are you doing?”
Liu Yun looked at the fierce-faced young man in front of her, a little bewildered, and spoke in a small voice.
Lin Xiu, however, stared at the woman before him several times before finally letting her go.
“Who did you sneak off to see behind my back just now?”
Hearing this, and remembering her conversation with Gu Jiajia, Liu Yun suddenly felt somewhat annoyed.
“Why do I have to tell you everything I do? It’s none of your business, is it?”
With that, she shoved the young man aside, opened her laptop expressionlessly, and got ready to work.
Lin Xiu stared blankly at this woman who seemed to have exploded, a bit at a loss. He curled his lips and muttered,
“If you don’t want to tell me, then don’t. No need to get so mad.”
While Lin Xiu was wondering if this woman had eaten gunpowder for breakfast, his phone suddenly rang in his pocket.
He glanced at the caller ID, then lazily picked up.
“Hello, Grandpa. What brings you to call me today?”
“You brat, cut the nonsense. Did you go to Sanya with Secretary Liu?”
In truth, Lin Jianguo had known about this for some time, but he still wanted to interrogate his grandson.
Lin Xiu looked at Liu Yun tapping away at her keyboard on the other side and picked his ear nonchalantly.
“That’s right, I’m in Sanya. But I’m just here for a vacation, not to bother Secretary Liu with her work.”
Liu Yun rolled her eyes at the boy’s shameless reply. If all the things he did didn’t count as bothering her, then what would?
Lin Jianguo didn’t believe a word, but he hadn’t called for this. He quickly got to the point.
“Alright, alright, I don’t care if you’re vacationing or doing something else. Since you’re there, tidy yourself up this afternoon. I’ll send you an address—go meet a young lady for me.”
Lin Xiu was stunned. He had a bad feeling.
“Grandpa, what do you mean?”
“What do I mean? Oh, Secretary Liu didn’t tell you?”
“The young miss of Jiahua Group, who’s working with Lin Group this time, has taken a liking to you. You don’t have a girlfriend, do you? Go meet her, see how you get along.”
Lin Xiu narrowed his eyes at this and glanced at Liu Yun, who was pretending to be calm, his expression half-smiling.
Liu Yun felt nervous inside, though she herself couldn’t say why. She was just the messenger…
“Grandpa, you’re basically selling your grandson off for a marriage meeting. How much did Jiahua Group promise to give us?”
Lin Jianguo laughed at his words, then cleared his throat.
“You brat, what nonsense are you talking about? I’m doing this for your own good. Don’t be ungrateful. You must go see her this afternoon. Whether it works out or not, that’s for later.”
Lin Xiu wanted to refuse out of hand, say he wasn’t interested.
But the words were just at his lips when a wicked idea came to him, and he readily agreed.
“Alright then. Since you insist, Grandpa, I’ll go. Who knows, maybe she really will make a good wife.”
With that, he decisively hung up.
Liu Yun’s gaze dropped after hearing this, but she continued to work on her files as if nothing had happened.
But at that moment, the young man came over, closed her laptop in front of her.
Liu Yun was stunned for a moment, annoyed, and looked up at him.
“What are you doing?”
Lin Xiu smiled faintly, reached out and tousled her already slightly grown-out short hair, speaking in a low voice.
“Yun-jie, are you really in such a hurry to find me a wife?”
Liu Yun trembled slightly at his words, swatted away his hand, and, not daring to meet his eyes, admitted,
“N-no, that’s exactly what I want.”
Lin Xiu chuckled softly at this and spoke in a quiet tone.
“I see. Then, Yun-jie, you can’t blame me…”
Liu Yun was startled, a bad feeling rising in her heart, but by the time she realized, it was already too late.
Because the young man had already wrapped an arm around her slender waist, lifted her from the chair, and flung her onto the soft bed!
Dizzy from the impact, Liu Yun found herself pinned under him in the very next second!
The sudden turn of events left Liu Yun stunned. She pressed her hands against the young man’s chest, panic filling her eyes.
“What are you doing? Let me go…”
Lin Xiu chuckled, lifting her chin with a finger.
“Yun-jie, you know I have my eye on you, and we have a bet. Yet you’re trying to set me up with another woman. Isn’t that against the rules?”
Liu Yun was left speechless for a moment, but felt extremely wronged inside.
Never mind that the so-called bet was never her idea—and wasn’t it against the rules for him to keep hypnotizing her at the drop of a hat?
Besides, what did a marriage alliance have to do with her? She was just the messenger!
Thinking this, Liu Yun’s eyes turned slightly red. She was never one to cry easily…
“I—I didn’t… This has nothing to do with me…”
Looking at the pitiful and alluring woman beneath him, Lin Xiu’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and he snapped his fingers.
“Whether it does or not isn’t important anymore, Yun-jie. To make up for your mistake, you’ll have to help me this afternoon.”
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