naughty little friend

Chapter 3

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Qiao Minghuang is very strict at work.

The principle of pursuing efficiency and results, so working with him is very important.For four years, Lu Xiaoyan tried her best to catch up with him.

"Mr. Qiao, your itinerary for today is—the executive meeting at [-]:[-], Manager Liu's visit from Anfu at [-]:[-], and attending Colonel T at [-]:[-]—" Lu Xiaoyan stood in front of Qiao Minghuang's desk, holding He read his itinerary for the day in a notepad.

Qiao Minghuang responded in a low voice, and he went online to check and sign official documents with both hands busy.The cypress table was full of stacks of official documents and analysis reports.

Lu Xiaoyan continued to report as usual, but Qiao Minghuang suddenly interrupted her: "I will cancel the lunch for me, I have something to do; for the visit in the afternoon, you go with me; for the evening, help me with everything." Turn it down, I want to stay and work overtime to prepare—"

"work overtime?"

Lu Xiaoyan exclaimed, causing Qiao Minghuang to look away from the computer screen and look up into her surprised eyes wearing brown lenses.This was the first time he looked directly at Lu Xiaoyan this morning. He was still dressed like this, and still couldn't hide that beauty, except for the color of his eyes.

"You don't have to stay, it's okay."

"Uh——" Lu Xiaoyan hesitated for a moment, and then she held the briefcase and replied timidly: "I can stay, but I never heard that Qiao always has to work overtime."

Qiao Minghuang is a very efficient person. He can handle a lot of things in the shortest time. He doesn't think it's a considerate move for employees to work overtime.He also never wastes time after get off work.

After listening to her doubts, Qiao Minghuang smiled and said calmly: "There will always be exceptions, so I say you don't have to stay."

Lu Xiaoyan looked at him directly, and always felt that Qiao Minghuang this morning was different from the usual foolishness, but looked a lot like Qiao Mingzheng.

Qiao Minghuang wrote an address and phone number on the note and handed it to her, "By the way, help me choose a pair of earrings, and have someone deliver them here."

Lu Xiaoyan took the paper, glanced at the address on the paper, and felt a pain in her heart.She replied respectfully: "Yes, I will do it as soon as possible."

"Well, go out first if you have nothing to do!"

After Qiao Minghuang gave her an order, he watched Lu Xiaoyan leave his office, and his heart couldn't help feeling a deep sense of loss and displeasure.

Hmph, the second brother said something wrong, and he will never regret it for the rest of his life.

Because——she has no selfishness in him at all.

Qiao Minghuang shook off the boredom of the whole night and buried himself in the heavy work.

Lu Xiaoyan sat behind her desk, staring excitedly at the name and address on the note in her hand.

She likes to help Qiao Minghuang buy a breakup gift as a gift, because it means that he has ended another relationship.

Over the past four years, she has bought 52 gifts for him.

The value of the gift shows the quality of the female companion.Earrings!It seems that Qiao Minghuang is very satisfied with Lina's company.Lu Xiaoyan breathed a sigh of relief, feeling relieved and sad at the same time.

Qiao Minghuang is a very demanding person, and even his female companions are carefully selected.

If we say that the attraction of men to women is divided into four categories.Then, Qiao Minghuang belongs to the first type of "get something for nothing".

This man will never have a day of anchoring!

As long as she is his secretary, it is impossible for them to cross that forbidden line.

However, once she is not his secretary, then she is nothing, and she has no chance to get close to him.

Letting out a long and helpless sigh, Lu Xiaoyan began to concentrate on her work.

Another busy day.

"Okay, okay, okay, I see, uh-uh-yes-"

Lu Xiaoyan clamped the microphone between her neck and shoulders, and recorded the conversation in a hurry. While the other party was talking, she pinched her nose with her fingers and resisted the desire to sneeze. Her eyes looked at Zhao Shizhuo standing in front of the table apologetically. .

Zhao Shizhuo bought a bouquet of tulips during his lunch break, and stood here patiently waiting for Lu Xiaoyan. She was serious and beautiful at work.

He had been secretly in love with her for a long time, and after he saw her in the interview, he surrendered to her every frown and smile.He swore that he must chase her.

Lu Xiaoyan finally ended the call and hung up the phone, Zhao Shizhuo hurriedly held the bouquet in her hand forward, Lu Xiaoyan stood up with a smile, and reluctantly took it.

"Well, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Mr. Zhao, this flower—"

"This is for you, can you agree to my invitation today? Let's go to dinner together!"

Facing Zhao Shizhuo's ardent pursuit, Lu Xiaoyan felt a little out of breath.She smiled lightly, and politely declined: "Sorry, I've already eaten, and please don't spend money on buying flowers for me in the future, I—"

"That's my intention, and I've been standing here since the lunch break, and I never saw you have a chance to eat! You're welcome, let me treat you to dinner!"

"Uh-heh, in fact, I had already had a meal secretly when Mr. Qiao went out, so don't tell me about it!"

"really?"

"Really, because Mr. Qiao has a heavy workload, I don't have much time to eat at noon, so I eat as early as eleven o'clock."

"That's it! Then I—"

"what's up?"

An abrupt question in a deep voice startled the two of them.

With a calm face, Qiao Minghuang stood at the entrance and looked at them. He walked forward slowly, staring coldly at their folded hands.

Zhao Shizhuo suddenly felt pressured, instinctively turned around, and greeted him politely: "Mr. Qiao."

"Zhao Shizhuo, you came to see me, what's the matter?" Qiao Minghuang stood up straight, his knuckles were slightly white when he was carrying the briefcase, and the veins on the back of his hands were raised, but his face was still stable without any fluctuation.

Lu Xiaoyan breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she was so afraid of Zhao Shizhuo's tough action just now, he grabbed her hand so hard.She only paid attention to her own arm, but did not notice the dark waves between the two men.

"No, it's okay, I'm here to find Secretary Lu." Zhao Shizhuo replied fearlessly.

Qiao Minghuang kept staring at him, and then suddenly smiled: "Oh, that's right! But the lunch break is over, shouldn't you disturb Secretary Lu's work anymore? She will be responsible to me."

"Uh—yes, I'm sorry, I'm leaving first." Zhao Shizhuo turned pale with shame, and left quickly after saluting.

Qiao Minghuang didn't turn his head until Zhao Shizhuo's back was out of sight.

Lu Xiaoyan was frightened by the reproach and anger in his eyes, she hesitated and didn't know how to speak.

"Er—he—I—"

Qiao Minghuang's eyes were complicated and difficult to distinguish. He looked at her meaningfully, then suddenly reached out to pick up the large bouquet on the table, and walked out.

Lu Xiaoyan looked at him strangely, and followed him out suspiciously.Qiao Minghuang came to the big trash can beside him and threw the whole handful of flowers into it.

"Ah—" Lu Xiaoyan exclaimed in surprise.

Qiao Minghuang turned his head, stared at her with deep eyes, and then walked back to the office without saying a word.

Lu Xiaoyan came back to her senses and chased him back to the office, "Mr. Qiao, how could you—"

"Why not!" Qiao Minghuang replied lightly, staring at the unsorted letters on her desk, he first took out a few important ones, and then said in a low voice: "You are allergic to pollen at all, put it here, want to Does it affect the work progress in the afternoon?"

"I--"

Without waiting for her answer, he coldly threw out another suspicious sentence: "Take the sandwiches on the table to cushion your stomach first, and then go to have a full meal when you visit customers in the afternoon. After eating Come in later, I have something to explain."

Lu Xiaoyan stared at the closed door with her hand in mid-air, and walked back to her seat incomprehensibly. She reached out to open the plastic bag of the supermarket, and found that there were three sandwiches of different flavors and two triangular rice balls inside.

She carefully recalled all the process up to this moment, and then, she decided to take the initiative to do one thing.

Qiao Minghuang was busy analyzing the report and was about to ask Lu Xiaoyan to help prepare some materials when there was a knock on the door.

He listened carefully to the rhythm, he smiled slightly, and then he coughed lightly and replied seriously: "Come in."

Lu Xiaoyan was holding a tray with both hands, on which were placed two cups of steaming drinks, the sandwiches and rice balls he bought.

"how--"

Qiao Minghuang raised a sharp eyebrow, watching her put down the tray in doubt, he reflexively moved the report and documents away, and she put the things on top.

He looked up at her expectant and somewhat panicked smile, and asked her with his eyes.

Lu Xiaoyan took a deep breath, and then answered him timidly: "I think—Mr. Qiao bought these because you haven't had lunch yet, so I made rose tea for you."

Qiao Minghuang looked at her and stared at the appetizing hot tea and meals, he smiled warmly and sincerely, and said, "Sit down!"

"Ah I--"

"Leave me alone! Sit down and eat! I'm starving."

Qiao Minghuang picked up a cup of rose tea, and after speaking, he quickly glanced at Lu Xiaoyan, and found that she didn't notice the meaning behind his words.

Sitting opposite him, Lu Xiaoyan looked at him with a smile. Once she relaxed, she playfully imitated the characters in the cartoon and shouted in Japanese: "E TAE KI MAS!" (meaning to start)
Qiao Minghuang laughed and replied in Japanese to greet her.

For the first time in four years, the two got along so easily. They shared sandwiches and rice balls, talked about strange and trivial topics, but enjoyed each other's conversations and kept talking.

Lu Xiaoyan stopped after eating a sandwich and rice balls, and the rest went into Qiao Minghuang's stomach.

Later, Qiao Minghuang noticed that there was a grain of rice left in the corner of Lu Xiaoyan's mouth. She was talking happily but didn't notice it. He naturally reached out to remove the grain of rice for her, and then put it into his own mouth.

This intimate move shocked the two of them.

Lu Xiaoyan closed her slightly opened mouth and stared at him, while Qiao Minghuang was stunned in astonishment.

He stood up holding his breath, moved in front of her under her gaze, and whispered: "Lu——"

"Pluto? What are you doing?"

The sharp shout at the door broke the weird atmosphere between the two.

As soon as Lu Xiaoyan stood up, Qiao Minghuang naturally pulled her behind to protect her, and looked at the person who suddenly appeared at the door to disturb them with her chest held high.

Lina stood at the door, her eyes were burning with anger, she glared fiercely at Lu Xiaoyan who poked her head out from behind Qiao Minghuang, "It turns out that you are all doing these shameful things behind your back—"

"Get out!" Qiao Minghuang stood in front of her and ordered Lina coldly.

"why--"

"Get out, what are you doing here? There is no relationship between us anymore! Even before, you can't appear in my workplace!"

"Heh-ha--" Lina was knocked down by his ruthlessness, she rushed forward recklessly, reaching out her hand with a grim expression, trying to grab Lu Xiaoyan who was standing behind Qiao Minghuang.

"Come out! Ah——" Lina's irrational behavior was pushed away by Qiao Minghuang impatiently, and she fell to the ground suddenly.

"Have you had enough trouble?" Qiao Minghuang stood in front of her gloomyly, and said mercilessly, "Lina, enough is enough, don't force me to use my power."

Lu Xiaoyan walked out of his shelter and stood beside him, her body trembling slightly, she looked at Lina who had fallen to the ground, she had lost her usual beauty on the stage, and she was crying in embarrassment.When he saw her, his eyes were directed at her with a vicious and terrible look.Lina stood up and cursed her with tears in her eyes: "Hmph! What do you think you are! What about the secretary? This man has no heart at all, he will not belong to you alone. He—"

"Shut up!" Qiao Minghuang squinted his eyes and said ruthlessly, "As long as you say one more word, just one more word, I will not let you die happily, I will make your life worse than death! Do you hear clearly?"

Lina trembled, stopped her tears, and looked into his cold eyes timidly, knowing that he always kept his word.She glanced at Lu Xiaoyan resentfully, then turned and ran away.

Qiao Minghuang sighed deeply, he combed his hair tiredly, then he slowly turned his head to face Lu Xiaoyan.

She didn't cry or yell at him angrily, she just looked at him with a face of horror, as if he were a villain with bloody hands, and her eyes were fixed on him with empty eyes.

"Xiaoyan—" he whispered, and when she retreated abnormally to avoid him, he stopped abruptly.

His heart became hard again, and he sank his face in silence.

Lu Xiaoyan felt that she was about to collapse.It turned out that he was such a cold-blooded and cruel man!
He can come to women as soon as he invites them, or leave them as soon as he asks, it all depends on his preferences to decide everything!He could be so ruthless with a broken up girlfriend, mercilessly threatening to destroy a woman.he--

Lu Xiaoyan stared at Qiao Minghuang's stern face, she hesitated and said respectfully: "Mr. Qiao, I'm going out first."

She quickly put away the tray, didn't look at him the whole time, and left with a distant and polite attitude.

The sound of "Mr. Qiao" closed all the sprouts that had just emerged, and pronounced the sentence.

It took a long time for Qiao Minghuang to close his sour eyes, and when he opened them again, he was no longer the Qiao Minghuang who still had some selfishness towards her.

"Hahaha - ouch, you are so bad! Mmm -"

"I'm bad? I can be worse! Well—"

Lu Xiaoyan sat at the desk, listening to every flirt that came from behind the door.

After that day, the headline of the next day's newspaper was the news that Diva Lina had attempted suicide because of love.Lena kept silent, and two days later, Lena went to Canada to settle down.

But in the past four days, Qiao Minghuang seemed to have changed himself, wandering around the world more flamboyantly, making headlines in gossip magazines and newspapers every day, and even more frantically bringing his new love to the company to work.

Today is his new love - Luo Bin smiling coquettishly in his office.

Lu Xiaoyan has been paralyzed after listening to the laughter of different scenes for four consecutive days, or it should be said that she has completely given up.

Every day, she has to face visits from various media and concerned inquiries from colleagues in the company. The past four days have made her extremely tired.

Qiao Minghuang hardly looked at her anymore. Every morning when he entered the office, a female companion came after him. Her routine report in the morning was often interrupted by their flirtatious scenes.

For the first time, she witnessed how he passionately kissed different female companions, most of whom were first-line celebrities, or news anchors and celebrities.

She didn't know what mood she should use to face all this. Every day she was struggling to cope with various tests, and she cried until she fell asleep after returning home.

"Ah um - no more!"

"Hahaha--"

She can't take it anymore!
Lu Xiaoyan covered her ears, shouted frantically in her heart, closed her eyes to keep the tears from falling, she has cried too much, her eyes are so crying that she almost can't wear corneal glasses!
"Well—" She bit her lip desperately to keep from crying, and their promiscuous love words gradually ceased to reach her ears.

"Xiaoyan? Xiaoyan? What's wrong with you? Ah? Xiaoyan!"

Lu Xiaoyan raised her head, opened her eyes and frantically looked at the man in front of her who cared about her.

"Ah—" she growled hoarsely, but couldn't make a sound.

"Xiaoyan! What's wrong with you! Calm down first!" Zhao Shizhuo stepped forward worriedly, grabbed Lu Xiaoyan's trembling body, and growled in panic.

Lu Xiaoyan was trembling all the time, her expression tensed up in pain.

The door behind her was suddenly opened, and Qiao Minghuang rushed out in panic, followed by Luo Bin with a displeased expression.

He pushed away Zhao Shizhuo's body, stretched out his hand to hold Lu Xiaoyan, and shouted in horror: "What's wrong with you? Xiao——"

Lu Xiaoyan struggled to slap his hands holding her, she cried and pushed him away, "Woo———"

"Yan—Yan—" Qiao Minghuang still wanted to hug her undaunted, but she suddenly twisted violently, full of fear and panic.

"Let her go! Let her go!"

Zhao Shizhuo pulled him away with all his strength, and Lu Xiaoyan hid in Zhao Shizhuo's arms like clinging to a driftwood.

Qiao Minghuang looked at her in Zhao Shizhuo's arms in shock, narrowed his eyes slightly, stepped forward and whispered in heartache: "Xiaoyan, Xiao——"

"Don't get close to her anymore, can't you see that she is afraid of you?"

Zhao Shizhuo's roar shocked Qiao Minghuang, he stared blankly at Lu Xiaoyan being held in Zhao Shizhuo's arms, sobbing and sobbing.

"I'm going home, I'm—going home—"

"Okay. Don't be afraid, I'll take you home." Zhao Shizhuo picked her up, whispered comfortingly, and strode towards the elevator.

Qiao Mingzheng, Qiao Mingwei and Huang Xiaoyun who happened to come to this floor saw this strange scene when they got out of the elevator.

Qiao Ming frowned and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"

"Lu Zi!" Huang Xiaoyun ran to Zhao Shizhuo's side in surprise, looking at Lu Xiaoyan in his arms.

Lu Xiaoyan trembled, she couldn't hear Huang Xiaoyun's question at all, she just repeated crying and whispering: "I want to go home—"

Qiao Mingwei frowned and looked back and forth at this scene. He walked up to the dazed Hades, and suddenly punched him down, "What the hell are you doing?"

Luo Bin screamed, Qiao Mingwei stared at her and told her to shut up.

Qiao Minghuang stood up and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.

What the hell is he doing?
He didn't know it himself.

They didn't send Lu Xiaoyan back to her residence, but took her to Qiao's family doctor's hospital.

Qiao Minghuang leaned against the wall outside Dr. Li's clinic, his expression sadly indifferent.

Qiao Mingwei sat on an outdoor chair with his arms folded and his eyes closed.And Zhao Shizhuo sat next to him, waiting anxiously.

Huang Xiaoyun has been staying with Lu Xiaoyan in the clinic.

Lu Xiaoyan screamed and cried at first, then turned to whimpering and crying until finally she was sobbing intermittently.

Every sound pierced Qiao Minghuang's heart fiercely, bleeding straight, and the pain almost broke his will.

Qiao Ming was immediately ordering all news to be blocked, and then urgently called in Dan Besty to help suppress the company.With a seven-month-old belly, Qiao Ling followed anxiously. In the end, Qiao's father returned to the company to stabilize all the chaos.

During this period of time, Qiao Minghuang thought about many things quietly. He swallowed the lump in his throat and breathed out regularly.

The waiting of the unknown makes people even more anxious.

Lu Xiaoyan's crying stopped, and after a while, Dr. Li walked out of the ward, Zhao Shizhuo was the first to notice and rushed forward, followed by Qiao Minghuang and Mingwei.

"Doctor, she—"

"Don't worry." Dr. Li restrained Zhao Shizhuo's panic, and he described Lu Xiaoyan's condition calmly: "She has some malnutrition, but it's okay, she can recover after nourishing her body. It's just—"

Qiao Minghuang clenched his fists and held his breath waiting for Dr. Li's sentence.

He sighed, looked at Hades Emperor, and then said: "Her mind may have accumulated a lot of knots for a long time. The pressure is too great for a while, so that she can't bear the stimulation for a while and then she will collapse. I think, wait for her If you have had enough rest, it is best to persuade her to accept psychological counseling and let her open the long-standing knot in her heart. This is the best way to help her. Underworld Emperor, you must help her well!"

Qiao Minghuang nodded numbly, Dr. Li patted him on the shoulder and left.Qiao Minghuang felt even more ashamed.

Counseling!He had pushed her to the point where she had to go to counseling and therapy.

"Underworld Emperor?"

Qiao Minghuang looked up into the worry in Mingwei's eyes, he glanced at Zhao Shizhuo, and faced Mingwei again.

He forced a smile, then pushed his second brother away and rushed out of the hospital.

"Joe—"

Qiao Mingwei grabbed Zhao Shizhuo's shoulder, he shook his head and sighed: "Let him go! He must be very sad now, he will figure it out, so don't bother them for the time being."

"what?"

"Zhao Shizhuo, how much do you know Xiaoyan? Do you know her background, her personality, and her true face? You don't know, right? The Qiao family has actually known her for almost 11 years. It was Emperor Hades who discovered her first." Everything about Xiaoyan was given by the Emperor of the Underworld." Qiao Mingwei slowly told the story of the Emperor Hades getting to know Lu Xiaoyan and adopting her, including the matter of the nursery.

"If Mr. Qiao really loves Lu Xiaoyan as much as you said, why did he hurt her so much? For four years, he has been treating her so cruelly!"

Qiao Mingwei glanced at Zhao Shizhuo, and then snorted coldly and replied: "Stupid! It's because I'm too blind that I'm so stupid." He chuckled amusingly, and then said seriously: "However, I want Just to remind you, the members of the Qiao family have the personality of never giving up once they make a decision, until they die."

Midnight.

Qiao Minghuang put his hands on the steering wheel, closed his eyes and kept thinking about the scene in the hospital just now.

She looked so small and thin.

When did she become so weak!

He was afraid of irritating Lu Xiaoyan, so he sneaked in to see her in the middle of the night, but what he saw was such a painful discovery.

She was unhappy and restless even in her sleep.

He stretched out his hand tremblingly, stroked her face gently and slowly, and asked her in a low voice: "You will never forgive me? Will you? You won't, will you! But I— —”

Qiao Minghuang took a deep breath of air, and then let it out slowly.He sat down again, finally got out of the car, closed the door, and walked towards the main house.

At the entrance, Qiao Mingwei stood there quietly waiting for him to come back, and the two brothers looked at each other in silence for a long time.

Then, Qiao Minghuang dropped the coat from his hand, and Qiao Mingwei stepped forward, and Hades hugged him and wept bitterly, venting his suppressed emotions all day without reservation.

Qiao Mingwei has been comforting him silently.

The lights in the garage suddenly turned on, and Qiao Ming was quietly walking out, reaching out to pat his shivering shoulders, and letting him cry.

That night, the three brothers of the Qiao family accompanied each other, as if they guarded each other wholeheartedly every time they encountered difficulties.

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