The assistant put away the tray and leaned towards him respectfully: "Yes, Mr. Lu."
In a blink of an eye, he and Nie Qingru were the only ones left in the office.
Nie Qingru picked up the coffee cup and took a sip, her demeanor revealing a picky expression. She only touched it once before putting it back.
He looked directly at Lu Zhi: "When will she come?"
Lu Zhi drank his coffee sip by sip, his nerves relaxed, and he leaned back in his chair lazily: "Didn't we say three o'clock?"
Seeing his nonchalant attitude, Nie Qingru suppressed her rising anxiety, tried her best to appear less anxious, and sat there counting the time.
**
Qiao Nian didn't wake up until three o'clock.
After she woke up, she washed her face, picked up the baseball cap on the table, put it on her head, took her keys and cell phone and went out.
By the time she arrived at Tianchen headquarters, she was already half an hour late.
During this period, Lu Zhi did call her once, but Qiao Nian didn't answer the phone because she was already on her way. She just sent him a message to tell him that she would be there soon.
Lu Zhi never urged her again afterwards.
This was not her first time to come to Tianchen.
Qiao Nian pushed the door open with ease, walked along the brightly lit marble floor, and headed straight for the elevator that belonged to Lu Zhi alone.
She still dresses in her usual style, simple and comfortable, very low-key.
So when she came in, the front desk clerk didn't notice her until he caught a glimpse of Qiao Nian walking towards the exclusive elevator out of the corner of his eye. Then he frowned and turned to look over.
“That person…”
She originally wanted to say, "Maybe that person has taken the wrong path?"
But reality soon slapped her in the face. The receptionist saw a girl in ordinary clothes and a baseball cap standing sideways, whose face could not be seen clearly. She raised her hand to input her fingerprint, and the elevator door opened.
The girl walked into the elevator in front of her and disappeared.
The receptionist opened her mouth unconsciously, as if she had seen something weird, and pointed in the direction of the elevator, unable to react for a long time. Her colleague noticed her abnormal behavior, patted her, and asked in confusion: "What are you doing? Why are you pointing over there?"
The elevator had already gone up, and from their perspective they couldn't see any difference.
Only the front desk clerk witnessed Qiao Nian enter the elevator through fingerprint verification. She turned around and excitedly grabbed her colleague's shoulders and shook them: "How many people have fingerprint codes for Mr. Lu's exclusive elevator?"
Lu Zhi is a mysophobe.
Few people could touch his things.
That’s why I never take the same elevator with other people in Tianchen, because I don’t want to be in the same small space with others.
Similarly, he doesn't like others using his elevator.
Everyone in Tianchen knows that Lu Zhi’s exclusive elevator has a fingerprint password and not everyone can use it. No one would be so ignorant as to use Lu Zhi’s elevator.
"Are you crazy?"
"Just tell me."
"…Only Mr. Lu and Assistant Jian recorded their fingerprints. Everyone knows it, but you don't know?"
The receptionist let go of her shoulders and said in a daze, "I just saw someone who also had the password and had already taken the elevator up."
Her colleague looked at her with a puzzled expression, and even reached out to touch her forehead to make sure she had a fever. Finally, he let go of her hand and said strangely: "Hey, you don't have a fever, why are you talking nonsense?"
"I'm serious!" The receptionist grabbed her hand excitedly.
Seeing her excited face, her colleague was stunned for a moment, but still asked in disbelief: "Did someone really go up there just now?"
"Absolutely true!"
The two looked at each other, and saw confusion in each other's eyes, unable to guess the identity of the person who went up.
(End of this chapter)