Cinderella Innocent and Boss Charming - Chapter 309

Chapter 309 Du Xiaoxian Was Too Arrogant

Lu Haochen had been focusing all his attention on Du Xiaoxian recently, almost having no appetite for food and drink. Every day, he pondered about how to keep her by his side.

Last night, he couldn’t sleep for a long time and finally came up with an idea. When he came in the morning, he brought his baseball cap. When Du Xiaoxian finished cleaning, he asked her to remove the logo on the cap. Du Xiaoxian was confused and asked him, “There’s nothing wrong with the logo. Why do you want to remove it?”

Lu Haochen said casually, “I don’t like it.”

Rich people were just willful. Du Xiaoxian did not say anything. After cleaning, she took the cap and sat on the sofa, using a small blade to remove the threads. The logo was manually embroidered. The embroidery was dense, fine and complicated. It had to be removed little by little by following the direction of the stitches. It was not difficult but laborious.

Lu Haochen looked up from the pile of documents and smiled at the figure on the sofa. “If you’re tired, you can rest for a while. I’m not in a hurry to get it.”

Du Xiaoxian raised her head and rubbed her eyes. She smiled and said, “Even if you are in a hurry, I’m unable to finish it quickly. It is highly likely to cut the cap by accident when I remove the logo. Therefore, I can only take it slowly.” Then she lowered her head again and carefully followed the direction of the stitches.

Lu Haochen rested his chin on his hand and looked at her in a daze.

Rose pushed open the door and came in. When she saw Lu Haochen like this, she was shocked. President Lu, who had always been upright and expressionless, was now holding his chin with a smile on his face. His gaze was gentle as he looked ahead. It was obvious that he was casting glances of love!

After taking two steps, she was shocked again. Wasn’t Du Xiaoxian holding the boss’ most beloved baseball cap? It was this year’s latest limited edition, and there were only three in the world. Lu Haochen had spent a lot of effort to buy it. The most valuable part of the cap was its logo, which he thought was a status symbol. But now, Du Xiaoxian was taking out the logo bit by bit with a small blade!

Rose couldn’t believe what she saw and felt that there must be something wrong. The scene in front of her was completely out of the ordinary! She stepped heavily twice, and Lu Haochen came back to his senses. He sat up straight and looked at her expressionlessly. Du Xiaoxian did not even raise her head but continued to seriously ruin the limited edition baseball cap.

Needless to say, this was definitely Lu Haochen’s idea. But why? It was the logo that made the cap valuable.

Well, the boss had always been very strange recently. Rose sighed silently in her heart. The idea of her boss, the chosen one, was probably something that she should or could not think about.

“Boss, everyone is waiting in the conference room. Shall we…”

Lu Haochen seemed to have just remembered it. He raised his eyebrows and said, “Tell everyone that the meeting will be held in the afternoon.”

Rose opened her mouth. The boss was too willful. He suddenly changed the time of the meeting without issuing a notice or informing others in advance. He only said this casually when she came to remind him!

Rose felt that Lu Haochen had been very lax in his work recently. Some of the work that should have been done on the day when he had received it was still piled up on his table. Moreover, he had often been in a daze or absent-minded. When she came in to ask for instructions, Lu Haochen usually looked blank even though she had repeated several times.

She could not object to the boss’ order, so she nodded and said “Yes”. Full of doubts, she left the office.

It took Du Xiaoxian a whole morning to remove the logo. After it was removed, there were needle holes left on the brim of the hat, and it was difficult to recover. It looked very ugly.

She was a little embarrassed and showed it to Lu Haochen, “A nice cap was ruined by me just like this.”

Lu Haochen glanced at it and said casually, “Not bad.”

Du Xiaoxian said, “Are you still going to wear it?”

“Of course!” Lu Haochen put the cap on his head and winked at her with a smile, “How is it?”

Du Xiaoxian told him the truth, “It looked better when the logo was on it.” Because she was getting more and more familiar with Lu Haochen, she was much braver when talking to him. She just said whatever she wanted.

Lu Haochen laughed and shook his head with his cap on. “Isn’t it good? Is there something wrong with my taste?”

Du Xiaoxian smiled and said, “Mr. Lu, if there’s nothing else, I will take my leave.”

Lu Haochen said “OK”. And before she opened the door, he said, “You do me a big favor. Shall I treat you to lunch today?”

“Don’t take it to heart. I can have lunch in the canteen.” Du Xiaoxian said.

“I owe you that,” Lu Haochen said, “I’ve been eating the food you cooked for me during the past few days.”

These few days, he always happened to meet Du Xiaoxian at the bus station when he got off work. Then, he took her to the villa and had dinner cooked by Du Xiaoxian. After she was done, he would send her home.

Du Xiaoxian asked him why he went to the villa every day. He said that his friend had been on a long journey and asked him to watch the house. Therefore, he went there every day.

Du Xiaoxian said that since the owner of the house was not at home, maybe there was no need for her to cook every day.

Lu Haochen said that anyway, the owner had already paid the salary. It was a waste not to cook and eat the food. He also said that she just needed to do her work since she had been paid, and there was nothing else to worry about.

It was obviously a very far-fetched excuse, but it just happened that he met a simple-minded person like Du Xiaoxian, so he managed to have Du Xiaoxian believe it. In fact, if she thought deeper, it would not be difficult to find out his ulterior motives. But Du Xiaoxian seemed to have a sudden realization, saying that no wonder there hadn’t been a contract yet. It turned out that the owner wasn’t at home!

Lu Haochen found her innocent look funny and adorable. He almost wanted to pinch her little face.

They ate lunch in the office. Lu Haochen asked a staff member of the canteen to send him dishes for two. He wanted to continue to have a sweet time with Du Xiaoxian, but Du Xiaoxian did not know. She even thanked him, staring at him with her big black eyes.

Lu Haochen felt that he was like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, slowly approaching the innocent little sheep. But the latter was unaware of it and still looked at him with pure eyes in a friendly way.

This was also good. At least she was not wary of him, so they could still stay so close.

Du Xiaoxian was totally unaware of it, but Rose became suspicious. Lu Haochen had a female employee eat lunch in his office. This was something that had never happened before! Although she had long felt that something was wrong, she did not relate Du Xiaoxian to it. After all, Du Xiaoxian was just an insignificant cleaner. Rose never thought that Du Xiaoxian would have anything to do with Lu Haochen!

But recently, Du Xiaoxian had been spending more and more time in Lu Haochen’s office. Now, Lu Haochen even asked her to stay for lunch. They were talking and laughing, especially Lu Haochen. He had always been expressionless towards his subordinates. It was very rare for Rose to see such an amiable and approachable side of Lu Haochen.

Rose thought, could it be that Lu Haochen had feelings for Du Xiaoxian?

Then Rose took a look at Du Xiaoxian. She was quite pretty, but she couldn’t be considered to be exceedingly beautiful. There were more beautiful women in the company than her. For example, Huang Yali, who was known as the number one beauty in Tianchen Company, was prettier than her.

Although she had doubts, Rose did not dare to jump to conclusions. After all, for so long, there had been no woman by Lu Haochen’s side. He was not a lustful person.

By the time Du Huayue came back from Daliang Mountain, the relationship between Du Xiaoxian and Lu Haochen was getting better and better. In Lu Haochen’s words, when they were at work, they were employer and employee; after work, they were friends.

Of course, Du Xiaoxian was happy to make a new friend. What made her unhappy was that Du Niannian was left in their hometown while Du Huayue had returned. Du Xiaoxian’s aunt was reluctant to send Du Niannian back. Her aunt said that they could go back to pick Du Niannian up when the new semester started. If they did not have time, her aunt could send Du Niannian over.

Seeing that Du Xiaoxian was unhappy, Du Huayue comforted her, “Xiaoxian, forget it. I can’t do anything as your aunt has a short temper. I know you miss Niannian much, so I didn’t dare to tell you in advance. Now you have work to do at night, and I sometimes work night shifts. Then it will be quite worrying if Niannian needs to stay at home alone sometimes. So we should let her stay there. When school starts, I will pick her up.”

Although Du Xiaoxian was reluctant to part with Du Niannian, she also knew that Du Huayue was right. They were not at home at night, and they wouldn’t feel easy about letting Du Niannian stay at home alone. Presumably, her aunt wanted to help them relieve some of their burdens. She just felt guilty because she had caused much trouble for her aunt when she was young and now she was to trouble her aunt with Du Niannian again.

Without her daughter by her side, Du Xiaoxian worked hard to earn money.

She was very happy today because Lu Haochen told her that he wanted to decorate corridors, meeting rooms, and other public areas with some paintings. Since she could paint, she may have a try. He said she could get five hundred yuan for each painting and asked if she was interested.

Of course, she was interested. Not to mention five hundred, even if it were for fifty, she would do it. However, she was not confident. After arriving in Yawan, she had drawn some paintings and sent them to the gallery, but she was rejected on the spot. Would Lu Haochen accept her paintings?

Lu Haochen said that she should paint one for him to see first. If he liked it, he would give this job to her.

Therefore, at this moment, she was sitting on Lu Haochen’s office chair and painting seriously.

When Rose came in, she was naturally shocked again. Du Xiaoxian actually sat in Lu Haochen’s seat openly, while Lu Haochen bowed his tall body and looked down at the documents spread on the coffee table.

A surge of anger suddenly rose in Rose’s heart. No matter how much he favored her, Du Xiaoxian could not be so insatiable. She sat comfortably in the seat while the boss had to work on the sofa. This Du Xiaoxian was simply too arrogant.

Rose’s footsteps were loud, but Du Xiaoxian did not even raise her head. Instead, Lu Haochen put down the pen and stood up to stretch.

Rose took the opportunity to say, “Boss, it’s uncomfortable for you to be like this. Why don’t you go back to your desk to work?”

Lu Haochen smiled and gestured for her to keep silent. Then he quietly walked towards Du Xiaoxian.

Following him, Rose immediately walked closer to take a look and realized that Du Xiaoxian was painting! She was quite engrossed in her work. They walked to her side, but she did not notice. She was holding the brush and coloring bit by bit.

The painting consisted of simple flowers with bright red petals and green leaves, blue sky, and golden insects. It was colorful but childish, as if it were painted by a child.

Rose curled her lips. Judging from the appearance, she knew that Du Xiaoxian was not a good painter.

Lu Haochen, on the contrary, kept smiling and nodding, looking very satisfied.