If love can be booked

Chapter 176 Misunderstanding

After the New Year, various social occasions became lively and gatherings became frequent. These gatherings were usually just a formality, with the purpose of getting to know some celebrities. Lu Jinchuan did not often show up at ordinary gatherings, unless he really could not refuse, he would show up reluctantly to show respect for the organizer. After all, in the business field, maintaining harmonious relationships is very important.

In the past, when there were similar dinners and other events, Zhu Yaolin usually accompanied him. But now she has gone to the United States, so he thought of Chen Wanxin, the daughter of Tuohe Company. The reason for choosing her is that she is independent and does not entangle. Since the last incident, Zhou Jingjing has been on the blacklist.

"Why don't you let Shen Wanning go with you?" Chen Wanxin was actually jealous. She couldn't figure out why Lu Jinchuan was so obsessed with Shen Wanning. When she heard Lu Jinchuan invite her, Chen Wanxin felt both happy and sad. Recently, the entire Lu's Comprehensive Chemical Group's employees and related personnel have known that Shen Wanning has successfully conquered Lu Jinchuan's heart, and Lu Jinchuan is even willing to use marriage in exchange for her love.

"This kind of occasion is not suitable for her." Lu Jinchuan said calmly. He did not want Shen Wanning to participate in such social occasions too much. In his eyes, Shen Wanning belonged to him alone, and he did not want others to see her beauty and charm.

"Really? I envy her so much." Chen Wanxin's mood was complicated, with both envy and jealousy. She didn't know why Shen Wanning was the one who could win Lu Jinchuan's complete love. He loved her so much, so much.

"Let's go." Lu Jinchuan said in a flat tone.

Although she was full of resentment, Chen Wanxin did not show it on her face. She still kept that seemingly harmless smile, but it was so dazzling to Shen Wanning. Lu Jinchuan seemed to realize that someone was looking at him, so he turned around and met Shen Wanning's eyes. The tearful face deeply hurt his heart. He realized that she might have misunderstood and wanted to explain, but she turned around and left in a hurry.

Turn around, leave, look up, and don't blink so that the tears won't fall.

"Let's go, we're running out of time." Seeing Lu Jinchuan trying to catch up, Chen Wanxin hurriedly grabbed him, perhaps out of selfishness.

Lu Jinchuan came back before the party was over, because he was afraid that Shen Wanning would misunderstand him, and from the look in her eyes just now, Lu Jinchuan knew that she had misunderstood him. When he returned home and saw the dark room, he knew that Shen Wanning must be very angry.

Once, she said that she wanted to wait for him to come home so that he could see her the first thing he saw when he came back every day.

"Knock knock." Lu Jinchuan knocked gently on Shen Wanning's door, but no one answered. He knew Shen Wanning was in the room, but she just didn't want to come out and face him.

He whispered, "I know you are in there, Wan Ning, can you please come out? Let's have a good talk. Wan Xin and I are really not what you think." Although Shen Wan Ning did not open the door, Lu Jinchuan could feel that she was not asleep. Perhaps she was lying on the bed sulking. She must be very angry and maybe even crying foolishly.

"Wanxin? You called me so affectionately. I saw it with my own eyes. I don't need your explanation." Shen Wanning's voice trembled. She had actually been waiting for him to come back and for his explanation. Although she knew in her heart that this might just be self-deception, she still held on to a glimmer of hope. Why did she feel that love was so bitter after falling in love with him?

"What you see may not be true. Why can't you trust me just once?" Lu Jinchuan looked at her quietly, his eyes revealing helplessness and heartache. He sighed softly, trying to calm her down. She cried?

"I want to believe you, too, but how can I believe you?" Shen Wanning's tears burst out like a flood, like a broken heart.

"Wan Ning, she and I...ah..." Facing Shen Wan Ning's question, Lu Jinchuan didn't know how to answer. He felt a sharp pain in his heart, looking at the crying woman in front of him, but he couldn't find the right words to explain everything.

"Now you're too reluctant to even give me an explanation, right?" Shen Wanning looked at him with tearful eyes, not knowing whether to blame herself or him.

"No, Wan Ning, please stop messing around, okay?" He frowned, with a hint of helplessness in his tone. She didn't trust him? Didn't he have any credibility in her heart? Shen Wan Ning? What should I do with you? His heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand.

"I'm fooling around? You said I was fooling around?" Her heart ached like a knife, as if it was about to break. Why did she act as if she was the one who did something wrong when it was clearly his fault?

"Wan Ning, listen to me." Why did things turn out like this? I clearly wanted to resolve the conflict, but why did it feel like the more I explained, the more confused it became?

"I don't want to hear you, I don't want to hear you. Go away, go away." Shen Wanning screamed hysterically. She shut the door tightly, isolating him from the outside. Her body was shaking constantly, and tears were pouring out like a broken dam. She felt like she was about to collapse, and the pain in her heart was unbearable for her.

Lu Jinchuan stood quietly in front of the door, staring at it for a long time, as if he wanted to see the person inside who made him feel so distressed. Time passed by minute by minute, but he was motionless like a sculpture. Finally, he slowly walked to the door, sat down gently, and leaned his back against the door frame.

"Wan Ning..." He murmured to himself, his voice as soft as the breeze. He knew that she must be crying silently in the room at this moment, and all this was because of him. If he had known that something like this would happen, he would not have gone. How could this happen?

The sound of the door being shut tightly still echoed in his ears, like a heavy hammer hitting his heart. Wan Ning, did you also shut me out of your heart?

"I'm sorry, Wan Ning..." He whispered again. It wasn't that he didn't want to take her to those occasions, nor did he not want to introduce her to the people around him. It was just that in his opinion, she was so pure and beautiful, and those noisy and chaotic places were not worthy of her beauty. He just wanted to treasure the sweetness and warmth between them alone, and selfishly keep her beauty in a world that belonged only to them.

However, now he deeply realized that his thinking might be too narrow-minded and hurt her sensitive and fragile heart.

Shen Wanning, I can explain, but will you think I’m not serious?

When will you understand my worries? Hiding in the room, you are crying secretly again, right?

Wan Ning, I'm sorry, I just want to protect you and selfishly want you to live in our own world.

At this moment, Shen Wanning, perhaps just as he guessed, was hiding alone in the corner of the room, crying secretly. Tears silently slid down her cheeks, soaking her clothes, and her heart was broken into countless pieces along with this endless sadness.

One heart is sad, two people are melancholy.

I want to sort out my feelings, but find it difficult. Everything that happened last night is still so clear. Who dispelled the hazy twilight of wind and rain, leaving me alone at the end of the world?

Looking at the dark circles under her eyes in the mirror, Shen Wanning sighed helplessly. She picked up the makeup brush and desperately applied thick foundation to her face, hoping to cover up the signs of exhaustion. But no matter how hard she tried, the dark circles were still looming and difficult to cover up completely. In the end, she could only give up and thought, "Forget it, let it be."

In order to avoid meeting Lu Jinchuan, Shen Wanning got up early and went out early. In the past, she always went to the company with Lu Jinchuan. But now, the relationship between them has become so complicated and subtle that it may no longer be suitable for them to walk side by side.

Although Shen Wanning tried to avoid Lu Jinchuan, when she walked to the door of the company, the familiar figure suddenly came into her sight. Lu Jinchuan stood there quietly, his face looked a little pale, as if shrouded by a layer of haze. Did he not sleep well either? But when she thought of the unpleasant things that happened before, the anger in her heart rose instantly. She gritted her teeth and told herself that she must not be soft-hearted.

So, the two of them just stared at each other silently. Time passed by, and no one spoke to break the silence. In the end, Shen Wanning was the first to give in. She turned her head away and stopped looking at Lu Jinchuan, trying to drive him out of her mind.

When she stepped into the company lobby, she realized that she had just arrived at the rush hour. The employee elevator was already crowded with people, pushing and shoving each other, making the already narrow space even more crowded. In sharp contrast, there was a quiet elevator for the president. At this moment, Lu Jinchuan was standing alone at the elevator door, looking like he was waiting for someone.

Wait... is he waiting for me? Although she usually took the CEO's special elevator to go up and down the stairs, for some reason today, whenever she thought about being in the same room with Lu Jinchuan, she felt an inexplicable resistance in her heart.

Humph, go and wait. Shen Wanning just waited in front of the employee elevator. If she didn’t go, he wouldn’t leave either, as if he was sulking.

Until the alarm bells kept ringing and colleagues had to withdraw because it was overloaded.

"What are you still doing standing there?" At this moment, a cold voice suddenly floated into Shen Wanning's ears. She turned her head and saw Lu Jinchuan staring at her with an indifferent look, his eyes seemed to be able to spit fire. Shen Wanning glanced at him lightly, then turned her head away and ignored him.

"Shen Wanning?" Lu Jinchuan said with gritted teeth. She was always like this, ignoring him? In fact, he was not really afraid that she would ignore him, but he was worried that she would get angry and hurt herself.

Although she felt that Lu Jinchuan seemed to be really angry this time, Shen Wanning couldn't help but think in her heart: What right does he have to be angry? She should be the one who is angry, okay! Thinking of this, she wanted to say a few words of rejection. However, when her eyes met Lu Jinchuan's eyes as deep as a pool of water, she inexplicably felt a little timid in her heart. So, she couldn't help but slowly approach him.

Shen Wanning clearly saw the blazing anger in Lu Jinchuan's eyes, as if he was going to tear her apart and swallow her whole in the next second. At this moment, the air around them seemed to freeze.

All the colleagues looked at them with envy, but no one dared to say a word for fear of losing their job.

The enclosed space seemed to be filled with the thick and indissoluble scent of Lu Jinchuan. The low pressure was like an invisible giant hand tightly grasping one's throat, making every breath difficult. Shen Wanning kept her head up stubbornly, staring at the constantly jumping and rising numbers, not daring to move her eyes to the man next to her.

Finally, the elevator door slowly opened. The moment she stepped out of the elevator, fresh air hit her face. Shen Wanning greedily sucked it in. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart: It turns out that free air is so beautiful! But without him around, the air around her seemed to become a little lonely and deserted.

Lu Jinchuan left without even turning his head, saying "a cup of coffee." Shen Wanning stared at his receding figure with resentment on her face, secretly thinking of a good idea to deal with him.

"What is this?" After Lu Jinchuan took a small sip, his brows immediately wrinkled into a ball. He looked at the thing in his hand in disbelief. How much sugar was added to this?

Shen Wanning replied smugly, "Coffee, what you wanted." In fact, she knew very well that Lin Haozheng never added sugar to his coffee, but she deliberately added a lot of sugar to this cup of coffee.

"It tastes good." Lu Jinchuan nodded slightly and took another sip of the coffee in the cup. He knew in his heart that she was sulking at the moment.

"Yesterday, I..." Lu Jinchuan tried to explain something, but was interrupted abruptly by Shen Wanning before he could finish his words.

"I'll get you another cup." Shen Wanning turned her head away, her tone cold and resolute. She really didn't want to listen to any more, not even a single word. Because she didn't blame him at all, but herself.

"No need, as long as it's coffee brewed by Wan Ning, it's the best." Lu Jinchuan did not let her have her wish and slowly spat out another mouthful.

Shen Wan Ning stared at Lu Jinchuan quietly, her lips slightly parted but she still didn't utter a single word. The atmosphere between the two of them became a little stagnant for a moment, with only the faint rustling sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves outside the window.

"There are some things at the US headquarters that I need to deal with. I'm on a flight this afternoon. You..." Lu Jinchuan wanted to ask if they wanted to go to the US together to see the West Coast or something, but Shen Wanning interrupted him abruptly.

"I won't go." Shen Wanning refused without even thinking about it. In the past, whenever Lu Jinchuan went on a business trip, she would follow him like a shadow. But now that the two of them were in a cold war, how could she agree to go with him? Moreover, she hadn't completely calmed down, let alone forgive him.

Hearing Shen Wanning's decisive answer, Lu Jinchuan sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, take care of yourself and take a week off starting tomorrow."

"Wouldn't it be better to just fire me?" Shen Wanning was a little angry. She didn't want to forgive him. What she was most afraid of was that she couldn't be angry with him.

"Wan Ning, don't make me angry, okay?" Lu Jinchuan said softly. Although his tone was gentle, it contained a hint of unquestionable flavor. He slowly stretched out his hand and gently stroked Shen Wan Ning's silky hair. His eyes were focused and affectionate, as if he wanted to deeply engrave every frown and smile of this woman in front of him in his heart. If it weren't for this sudden change, he would have taken her away without hesitation.

Shen Wanning stood there quietly, her eyes following Lu Jinchuan's hurriedly leaving figure. She opened her mouth, wanting to tell him to take good care of herself, but her throat seemed to be blocked by something, and no matter how hard she tried, those caring words could not come out smoothly. She could only watch the familiar figure walk away, and finally disappear at the end of her sight...