Love Me Harder, Mr. Fu - Chapter 189

“I am here now. You can go. Thank you” Zichen tries to shoo him away but Junjie will not go until he knows where Zichen was for three days.

“Not so soon, bro” he smirks and sits back comfortably, putting his legs on the coffee table. “You should tell me what were you doing for three days? Don’t tell me you were busy with your girlfriend” he continues, amused by his own thinking.

Zichen makes a face that says ‘what the hell is wrong with you?’ and kicks in his knees. Junjie lets out a loud yelp and falls to the floor, the pain shooting in.

“What the fuck?” he hisses, grabbing his knee cap with one hand and holding his apple with another.

“You need to go” Zichen declares, giving him a warning look. “Call Rong on the way” he adds as he goes to sit on his chair.

Junjie glares at him, taking a big bite of his apple with no mercy. Junjie will just not leave until he gets some news about him. He has been trying to reach Zichen for days and he didn’t call him yet he is standing in front of him appearing completely oblivious.

Zichen thinks Junjie is leaving but his guess is wrong when he stops at the door and calls out Rong with his tone loud. “Rong!”

“I didn’t tell you to call him that way” Zichen hisses standing up from the seat.

In a hurry, Rong enters looking like he has run kilometers. He asks Junjie, “Yes, Sir?”

“He is the one who needs you,” he says, taking a bite of his apple and gestures with his eye towards Zichen.

Rong, a little surprised walks to Zichen’s desk and stands in front of him. “Sir.”

When Zichen sees Junjie walking in their direction, he cannot help but scowl. “I ordered you to leave,” he tells again but Junjie is not listening. Throwing the skeleton of an apple in the dustbin, he travels and stands beside Rong.

“It’s not like I don’t know your secrets, Zichen” he retorts impatiently.

Zichen sighs heavily, agreeing with his words. Junjie has known him for half of his life and he is the only friend who knows most of his secrets. He decides to let him go and move on to other things.

The thing which made him come here.

“I came to know that there’s a rumor about me dating someone” he reveals, looking serious and his fingers entwined with each other.

Junjie and Rong both first glance at each other, both their faces surprised, and then look at Zichen. “I don’t know about this, Sir,” Rong says.

Zichen turns his eyes to Junjie who seems to think something. “What about you?”

“I might have heard it,” he thinks hard, “someone told me about it.”

“Who?”

“Donghai”

That is enough to make Zichen fume with anger. His brother has to be everywhere. He didn’t say anything when he stepped inside the company, into his office, and demanded to work but now, he is going out of his line.

“What else did he say?” Zichen asks, his face grumpy.

“I don’t keep much attention to him and I have to tell you this,” he tells, putting his palm on the desk. “I know he is your brother and you also told me that he will be here for few days but bro, even for a few days, he will destroy this company. I didn’t say anything when you have made him the second CEO” he pauses and continues, “but he hasn’t done a single thing as a CEO. All he did was stay inside the office, doing whatever crap and when it’s time to go, he leaves. He doesn’t even do any work which I give him!”

It is evident that his brother is here for fun or some ulterior motive and definitely not to work. Just because of his father, he absorbed his temper and gave him the chance to work but what is the result? It’s a waste of time and the company is not a playground. He needs to do something.

“Sir, the workload is pending and the Roman group’s men want to have a meeting with you. We have been delaying it for over a month” Rong informs.

He pinches the bridge of his nose, his head feels heavy by all the current information. “Tell them to meet tomorrow” he pronounces.

“By the way, how did you know that there’s a rumor in the company?” Junjie asks, curious and also hungry for gossip.

“Brother” the word feels bitter every time he says, “he told in front of mother and father and they started to urge that they want to meet her.”

Junjie snickers, “Shit.”

“Sir, is this girl by any chance Shi Lian?” Rong chimes, curious too.

Zichen gives him an unbelievable look. “Of course it’s her. Which woman other than her have you seen me getting close to?” he snaps.

Rong looks down, feeling stupid for asking that question. He doesn’t really take Zichen’s words by heart but he does feel he is stupid.

“You should be cautious and as much as I know Aunt, she will dig out her information real quick” Junjie suggests, playing with the marbles which are kept on the small container on his desk.

“I know. I want to tell her about Shi Lian—”

“What?” Junjie cuts him midsentence but instantly regrets doing so. Zichen hates when someone speaks in between when he is saying something important.

“What do you mean? I want her to meet my parents for sure.”

“Wait….do you love her? You want to marry her?” Junjie exclaims in horror, having a hard time believing what he said.

Zichen can feel the pumping of his heart and a slight blush crosses his face but he quickly recovers himself. “Yes,” he mumbles. “I love her.”

It’s the first time he has ever accepted that in front of someone and it feels weirdly good when he lets it out.

Junjie is looking at him with his eyes and mouth open. “Oh, God! I can’t believe you are in love!” he exclaims dramatically.

Zichen rolls his eyes and Rong chuckles under his breath. “I never thought that my cold and boring friend will ever be in love” he continues, faking his tears.

For his sentence, Junjie gets one forehead flick from Zichen and he yelps in pain.

“Stop with your melodrama and get out,” Zichen says with displeasure.

“Seriously though, I thought it was only casual,” he says, taking a step back from the desk, “it’s surprising that it’s your first relationship and you are already in love.” He laughs while saying it.

With one glare from Zichen, and Junjie is out of the room. Zichen does not want to discuss his relationship with Junjie. That playboy knows nothing else other than to have sex with one and grab another one the next day.

Sighing, Zichen asks Rong to keep the documents for now. He will not be here now. “I need to take care of other matters at home.”

With that, he leaves his office, with the same cold face and same temper.

**

“What do you take the company for? It’s not a playground, brother!” Zichen bellows, looking straight into Donghai’s eyes, standing at only one hand distance length.

Hearing his bellow, his parents come out from the room, not knowing why he is yelling.

“I didn’t take the company for granted, Zichen,” Donghai says solemnly. He is acting innocent because of course, he does not want to show his real face to his parents.

“Zichen, what is going on?” his father demands.

Without breaking the contact, he says through his gritted teeth. “Doing what should be done.”

“Father,” Donghai says meekly and goes over his side. “Just because I am not as good as him in business doesn’t mean I take the company as a playground.”

His father’s eyes are narrowed as he gazes at Zichen. “What are you trying to imply, Zichen?”

“Your decision to let him work at the wrong was very wrong, father!” he tells, losing his temper, “the company is in mess because of him!”

His father does not understand what he means. He asks his elder son instead. “What did you do?”

“I don’t know what he is talking about either,” he tells, escaping his father’s gaze.

Zichen scoffs, fed up by his brother’s pitiful act. “You don’t know? Brother, stop with your act. It’s an eyesore.”

“Zichen, son, say what you want clearly” Zhi Ruo steps him, trying to calm him down.

“I gave him the position of the CEO and he very well knows what that means. Father, you asked me to teach him, I did but he is the one who didn’t learn anything. All he does was sit in his office and go when it’s time to leave. I can’t tolerate this.”

“Is that true?” his father demands from Donghai, his voice rising.