Chapter 129 - Bouquet of Red Roses

Xie Yuansheng and Feng Xinying left for the office right on time. Feng Xinying wanted to talk to Xie Yuansheng about the post that was vacated due to Wang Zirong's mysterious disappearance but she couldn't get herself to talk about it. She looked at Xie Yuansheng who appeared deep in thought as he looked at his mobile. He was reading something keenly. She thought she would approach him in a better way. 

When they reached the office, everyone greeted them while giving funny glances. Some of the girls even started laughing. Once Xie Yuansheng left and Feng Xinying settled in her cubicle, she booted her computer. The first page that came in front of her when she booted was hers and Xie Yuansheng's photo hand in hand. She was shocked. The photo was clicked from afar and it had them holding hands and walking towards their car. She was in her yellow dress with sneakers while he was wearing a wrinkled white shirt and black pants. The backdrop of the station meant that someone clicked it while they had just gotten out. 

There was no noise from Xie Yuansheng's room, which meant that he hadn't seen it still. Feng Xinying called the IT team and asked them to take it down immediately. She asked them who could have done this prank but they couldn't answer. She told them to investigate and tell her the findings. 

She concentrated on working when she felt there was a flurry of movement behind her. She looked at the beck and found three girls standing there. Feng Xinying smiled at them. She knew they were from the same office floor as hers. 

"Yes, what do you want?" she asked politely.

"Well, the question is what do you want?" said one of them. 

"Ever since you have come, it seems you had just one mission in your life and that was to get into the pants of our CEO," said another tall one. 

Feng Xinying narrowed her eyes and said, "My personal life should be of no interest to you." 

"Oh right… your personal life. Can you tell us how you approached him? After all he must have seen some qualifications to make you the head secretary. Share your secret with us sister. Even we want to get near him. Let us all share him in order to gain the best office favors," said the third one who was standing silent with a wink. 

"Yes, why should you only get the best favors? We also work very hard. Come on sister give us secret recipe," said the first one and they all chuckled. 

"Get lost all of you! What I do is none of your concern and don't think of getting close to Xie Yuansheng. He will not even look at the likes of you," replied Feng Xinying in a low voice almost threatening them to stay off her man. 

"What do you mean – not even look at us? If the three of us will make a collective move, he would love it. There is no man who would deny three ladies throwing themselves at him." 

Feng Xinying shouted at the top of her lungs, "Enough! Get lost before I lose my temper." 

The girls became scared that Feng Xinying might actually lose temper. They left sniggering at her, "You bitch, wait till we show you that you are nothing but season's flavor. You will no longer be his favorite once he gets us. You are so proud of that picture? Wait till we make you infamous." 

Feng Xinying curled her fists so tightly that her knuckles turned white. They were talking about seducing her man in front of her. Have they stopped loving their life? 

Feng Xinying sat on her chair in order to calm herself down and then looked at the computer. She immersed herself in work and daily job soon forgetting about those three girls. 

When lunchtime came, she left the office building and went to a small flower shop outside. There met the owner and said, "Have you packed the bouquet?" 

The owner was a sweet old lady. She smiled and went to the back of the shop. She emerged with a huge bouquet of ninety nine red roses. "Here miss," she said as she handed the bouquet to her. Feng Xinying smiled as soon as she saw the bouquet. It was beautiful. As she held it, the red color of the roses reflected on her white skin making her look even more mesmerizing. Other customer, a young boy, gasped as he looked at her. She was a beauty to behold. 

Feng Xinying exited the shop after paying the owner and went to the office. 

Meanwhile in the office, Xie Yuansheng came out. He had to go on a lunch with a group of overseas people. He saw that Xinying wasn't in her place. He thought that she had gone to the cafeteria for lunch and it just didn't seem right to him. He decided that he would lunch with her in his office from now onwards if there weren't any engagements. He had fifteen minutes to be at the venue, so he decided to go to the cafeteria to meet her. When the lift opened and he was going to the cafeteria, a bunch of managers stopped him to talk to him. He couldn't say no to them and had to talk to them. While they were talking, Xie Yuansheng noticed that some of the were giving him strange looks. He didn't say a word to that. All of a sudden he thought that he saw Feng Xinying. He glanced past the managers and to his surprise, he did see Feng Xinying and that too with a huge red roses bouquet. She smelled the roses as she walked in at leisure towards the elevator. 

Xie Yuansheng looked at his watch and told the managers that he had to go for an appointment and would talk to them later. They all said thank you and left. Xie Yuansheng rushed to the elevator wondering for whom Feng Xinying is taking the roses for but the doors had closed before he reached there. He looked at his watch again and only five minutes were left. He rushed out of the exit to attend the lunch gritting his teeth. "Who will she give such a huge bouquet? To me or to…?" He shuddered. He was ready to rip apart the man who would receive the bouquet!