This was the first time he felt that words were pale and powerless. With Shi Jingran's disturbance, he wouldn't be able to wash away this feeling even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
After taking in three deep breaths, Lo Shaoqing once again resisted the urge to throw Shi Jingran out of the door.
"Shi Jingran, who allowed you to speak such nonsense? Do you know that this gossip will spread very quickly in the company?! " Lo Shaoqing questioned the main culprit.
At this moment, Shi Jingran, the culprit who spread the rumors, was concentrating on reading the newspaper. After hearing Lo Shaoqing's question, she pretended to look at him innocently: "It can't be, I was just joking with Assistant Jiao."
"Just kidding …" Is that all? " Lo Shaoqing felt a burst of anger burning in his heart, "Shi Jingran, this kind of joke, can you casually joke around with it? You are a woman, how can you casually say that you are my girlfriend? "You don't even have the slightest bit of a woman's modesty anymore?!"
Shi Jingran said innocently: "In a short moment, what happened to you? "I don't mind you as a girl, but no one will believe this kind of joke."
Rumors would usually become true if they were spread around.
This move was called 'the first strike is the strongest'. It was immediately announced that the flower had a master — oh, no, the grass had a master, so he had to take the initiative. Women who wanted to get close to her naturally had to worry about her.
This woman really knew how to argue.
"There are a lot of gossipy women in the workplace. If you mess around, the rumors will spread very quickly. "When you have the chance, you must explain it clearly to everyone in the company. Separate the relationship between you and me, so that no one will misunderstand." Lo Shaoqing said very seriously.
Shi Jingran retreated in order to advance, "Alright, since you already requested that, I can only agree to it. But after a while, could she change the day? I'm really not in good shape today. "
Seeing her pitiful eyes, Lo Shaoqing's heart softened and he did not force her again.
Since Shi Jingran was not feeling well today, then there was no need to force her. After all, if everyone wanted to misunderstand, then there was no need to misunderstand for a few days.
"Assistant Jiao, Assistant Jiao!"
Just as Jiao Yundong walked out of the CEO's office, a few minutes after arriving at the corridor, he was surrounded by a few gossip-loving female colleagues. They forcefully dragged him to a secluded corner of the company.
"What are you guys doing?" With great difficulty, Jiao Yundong managed to struggle free from this group of women's hands and feet. While pushing his glasses, he also fixed his jacket that had been pulled to the point where he was about to fall out of shape.
"Assistant Jiao, what's the situation inside?" Wang Xinyue asked impatiently, glancing toward the president's office.
When he talked about the rumours about the CEO, Jiao Yundong's interest was piqued again. She said excitedly, "I heard that the CEO and that Shi Jingran are very close. I heard that the two are about to get engaged."
"Wow, it's so explosive!" Wang Xinyue covered her mouth in surprise. "The CEO's going to have a secret marriage? She's hiding her fiancee so well!"
A female colleague accidentally blurted out, "You don't know, Assistant Jiao sees you pairing with the CEO all day long. We were all talking about it in private and thought you had that kind of relationship with the president. "
The female colleague said, making an intimate gesture with her two fingers.
Wang Xin Yue elbowed her colleague.
Jiao Yundong said in dissatisfaction, "I am a pure man, I am a hundred percent straight man!"
"Eh …" Wang Xin Yue gulped a mouthful of saliva to quell her shock. With Jiao Yundong like this, no matter how she looked at it, he didn't seem to be on par with a straight guy at all.
Before leaving the company, Jiao Yundong casually waved his hands towards his female colleagues, seriously adding in his usual catchphrase: "You must keep it a secret, you cannot tell anyone else."
Wang Xin Yue promised Jiao Yundong with all her might. However, the moment she turned around, the news quickly spread throughout the company.
The final rumour even turned into something even more exaggerated.
"Shi Jingran seems to be pregnant with the CEO's child, so the two of them planned to get married. The CEO has already officially acknowledged her fiancee identity."
Thus, after the office's fermentation, the words that came out from Assistant Jiao's mouth became Shi Jingran's fiancee and she was currently performing a passionate drama together with the CEO in the office.
The truth was that Shi Jingran was reading the newspaper while Lo Shaoqing was handling the documents.
Shi Jingran had tried to communicate with Lo Shaoqing before, for example —
"Now, what's your favorite food?"
Lo Shaoqing replied without lifting his head, "Nothing."
"Then you have a special place to play, don't you?"
"I never go out to play."
"Eh …" Shi Jingran was not willing to give up, "Then, you must have some sort of special interest and hobby, right?"
The answer was, "I'm not interested in anything but work."
Throughout the entire process, Lo Shaoqing did not even raise his head to look at Shi Jingran.
At this moment, she looked completely like a workaholic, unable to chat at all.
"Very well. After a while, seeing your handsome appearance, I shall endure it." Shi Jingran advised herself silently to be calm.
Therefore, throughout the entire afternoon, Shi Jingran read her newspaper while Lo Shaoqing busied himself with his work. The two practically did not interact at all.
The colleagues outside had long transformed his relationship with Shi Jingran into a melodramatic scene of a CEO going into a secret marriage, with his fiancee taking the ball and getting married.
After an unknown period of time, Lo Shaoqing finally heaved a sigh of relief.
He put away the laptop and organized the documents on the desk.
After a full day of work, he had almost forgotten the time.
"Where are you going?" Shi Jingran also put down the newspaper.
She sat alone in her office for the whole afternoon. She thought she would find something fun at the office, but in the end, she just ignored herself.
"Time to go home."
"Immediately, I want to hug you." Shi Jingran opened her arms, waiting for Lo Shaoqing to hug him.
Unexpectedly, Lo Shaoqing completely ignored him, and directly walked past Shi Jingran.
"Now, how can you leave me alone!" Shi Jingran asked for attention as she looked at Lo Shaoqing's back, feeling wronged.
"Since you can walk back by yourself, you can definitely walk back by yourself. "I won't hug you, don't even think about it." Lo Shaoqing rejected him mercilessly.
"But, my leg is real! Damn! Very! Pain! After a while! A moment later! "
Ever since Shi Jingran realized that "bathing in the sun's legs" was very useful, she took out his legs and used them as her killing tools.
With regards to Lo Shaoqing who looked cold on the outside but was kind in the heart, Shi Jingran had already decided. With regards to her weak little girl's begging, he definitely could not bear to refuse.
As expected, after hearing Shi Jingran's true, miserable "leg pain", Lo Shaoqing finally stopped in his tracks, although he had originally planned to ignore her.
"Shi Jingran, do you really have leg pain or are you just faking it? "Why does your leg always hurt so much in time? When you make a mistake or when you need help, your leg will start to hurt. Why haven't I heard you scream out pain like this before?" Lo Shaoqing turned and questioned Shi Jingran.
The other person was looking at her with a kind of soft, cute, and pitiful expression. He even opened his arms for her to hug him.
Right, oh...
When Lo Shaoqing said this, Shi Jingran suddenly realized that she had already read the newspaper for the entire afternoon and had forgotten about the pain in her leg.
Lo Shaoqing continued to doubt him: "Usually when you're watching TV and eating snacks, why haven't you yelled out 'leg pain' before?"
On the contrary, his legs began to hurt when he was asked to carry her on his back.
Shi Jingran had always thought that her performance was flawless, but she never thought that the meticulous Lo Shaoqing would actually catch a trace of something suspicious.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly.
"Moments later, how can you be like this? I feel so wronged." Shi Jingran's tears began to roll in her eyes, "Usually I endure it, only when it's so painful that I can't stand it will I let you hug me."
In order to strengthen her argument, Shi Jingran had even brought out the doctor's diagnosis as strong evidence, "You heard the doctor's diagnosis last time at the hospital, how could I joke around with my own leg?"
Shi Jingran's acting was too online. As expected, she successfully tricked Lo Shaoqing yet again.
Lo Shaoqing could not bear to see a woman cry, and seeing how Shi Jingran was trying to resist the pain of wanting to cry yet not wanting to cry, he couldn't help but soften her heart once again.
Perhaps, she really did feel pain, but in order to not worry herself, she had to restrain herself from crying out for pain.
"Wait here for me." Lo Shaoqing ordered.
There were so many people in the company, he did not want to attract criticism by publicly hugging a woman.
"Assistant Jiao!"
Lo Shaoqing called out from outside the office, but he didn't see Assistant Jiao. Coincidentally, Wang Xin Yue happened to pass by, so he stopped her: "Manager Wang, where did Assistant Jiao go?"
Wang Xin Yue smiled sweetly at Lo Shaoqing and replied, "CEO, Assistant Jiao said he had an appointment and went downstairs to drink a cup of coffee. He still hasn't come back yet."
"Give him a call and tell him to hurry up." Lo Shaoqing frowned, "This Jiao Yundong, why is he always missing when using him?"
Wang Xin Yue nodded his head, "Oh, okay. CEO, please wait for a moment. I'll call Assistant Jiao right away."
Five minutes later, Jiao Yundong ran into the CEO's office, out of breath.
"CEO, I heard from Wang Xinyue that you were looking for me?" Initially, Jiao Yundong thought that with the CEO's girlfriend here, he would be able to take an afternoon vacation, so he had invited a friend over for coffee. Unexpectedly, he got a phone call after drinking half of the coffee.
"Assistant Jiao, her legs are in pain. Carry her to the carriage." Lo Shaoqing glanced at the paralyzed Shi Jingran on the chair, her face full of disdain.
"Me?" Assistant Jiao pointed at him in shock, not daring to believe his ears, "CEO, this isn't good …"
She was clearly the CEO's woman, but he was holding her. This wasn't really appropriate.