The blind boss's nanny

Qin Xiu coughed lightly and gently pushed up his glasses:

"I've already arranged for someone new..."

"I knew it!"

Lu Tingxi interrupted him.

"If I were here, I would never have let Lin Xiaoman leave like that. Don't you know how difficult my older brother is to please?"

Qin Xiu rarely showed a troubled expression.

This week, the chairman has already changed three nannies.

Lu Tingzhao dismissed the first male caregiver after two days.

The second was a distant relative introduced by Aunt Mei, who seemed quite honest. However, after discovering that the employer was blind, the man started cutting corners in his work.

It wasn't until Aunt Mei caught her doing something shady that she got so angry that she kicked her out on the spot.

This is the third one, a senior nurse who returned from studying abroad, and her professional skills are impeccable.

Aunt Mei said that the chairman always stared blankly at her, and wouldn't hear her even when called several times. On her third day at work, she blushed and asked Lu Tingzhao:

"Although you are blind, I admire you very much. Can I stay by your side forever?"

Qin Xiu had never been so afraid in all his years in the industry, and he was receiving frequent calls from Lu Tingzhao.

Now, every time the phone rings, his heart skips a beat... because he knows the chairman is about to start nitpicking again.

"The new nurse walks like she's mopping the floor."

"The tea she brews is either too hot or too cold."

"This person is too slow to react and doesn't understand hints."

Behind every reason for criticism, Qin Xiu heard the same subtext—the chairman was very dissatisfied with this person.

No outsiders have visited the manor for a long time.

That day, Jason strode into the living room carrying a case of vintage Bordeaux wine and gave Lu Tingzhao a firm hug as soon as they met.

"Lucas! We've finally met again!"

He looked around at the high ceilings and antique stone fireplaces, and whistled.

"Honestly, this place is more impressive than any of the castles we saw when we were studying in Edinburgh."

Jason was not a business partner, but a close friend whom Lu Tingzhao had made during his early years studying in England.

At that time, Lu Tingzhao did not plan to take over the family business so early, thinking that he would study for at least a few more years.

"If you hadn't suddenly returned to China to inherit the family business back then, I would really feel sorry for you."

Jason remarked with emotion.

"You're the most versatile one among us... You get good grades, you're popular, and you're even better at horseback riding than us."

The two chatted for a long time, lost in memories, until the firewood in the fireplace made a slight cracking sound. Only then did Jason stop smiling and get to the point.

"Lucas, there's something I'm sorry about..."

He stroked the wine glass.

"I couldn't persuade the neurology expert you asked me to find to come out of retirement."

Lu Tingzhao remained silent for a moment, a hint of disappointment flashing across his face, before he regained his composure.

"It's okay, I was prepared."

"But don't be discouraged!"

Jason immediately changed the subject.

"I know a very talented expert in Switzerland, and I plan to visit him next month..."

In fact, after the news of Lu Tingzhao's blindness spread, all his former friends said they wanted to visit him, but he politely declined them all.

He knew that these words of comfort, offered through a screen, would turn into cautious support and hesitant conversations once they became reality.

Friendship can never return to the carefree level it once was... Even Jason is now deliberately avoiding all words related to "seeing" and "eyes".

Sensing the awkward silence, Jason's eyes suddenly lit up:

"By the way, Lucas, what about Maggie, who I talked to on the phone last time? Is she still working at your place? I really want to meet her in person."

Lu Tingzhao paused for a moment before realizing that he was referring to Lin Xiaoman.

Unexpectedly, after just one phone call with Jason, she was remembered by his name.

"I fired her."

Lu Tingzhao picked up his wine glass, his smile impeccable.

"What a pity!"

Jason made no attempt to hide his disappointment.

"Although we've only spoken on the phone once, I can tell... she's a very interesting person."

Lu Tingzhao paused, his slender fingers gently stroking the rim of the glass, his raised eyebrow suggesting he was carefully considering his words.

"She is indeed...very interesting."

Jason keenly noticed the subtle changes in his friend's face... When the girl was mentioned, Lu Tingzhao's tense jawline seemed to soften a bit, and even the knuckles holding the wine glass were no longer so tight.

This was a rare sign for his old friend, who was always so reserved with his emotions.

"so,"

Jason leaned forward, a curious smile on his face.

"Maggie, what kind of girl is she?"

Lu Tingzhao seemed surprised that he would ask further questions and paused for a moment.

The firelight from the fireplace danced on his sharply defined profile. He was silent for a moment, and when he finally spoke, his tone was calm, a calmness he himself was unaware of:

"She...is very noisy."

Jason raised an eyebrow at the opening remarks, but Lu Tingzhao's next words overturned the initial "accusation".

"The manor used to be very quiet, but after she came, you could always hear her and Yuanbao running around in the yard, or humming off-key songs while tidying up the rooms."

He paused, a look that seemed both helpless and nostalgic.

"She would even read the weather forecast to Yuanbao in a serious manner on rainy days, saying, 'Sweetie, we can't go out today, I'm worried the chairman will fall down....'"

Jason couldn't help but burst out laughing:

"That sounds cute."

"She's not very professional in her work."

Lu Tingzhao continued his evaluation, but the list he provided was entirely different.

"Sometimes the tea is too hot when I brew it, and when I'm organizing documents, I mutter to myself as if I'm arguing with them."

"But she's very smart and learns quickly. She could stay up all night and finish translating the contracts I asked her to; she figured out the estate's smart home system in just a few minutes..."

Jason noticed a faint smile on Lu Tingzhao's lips as he spoke.

"Is she not afraid of you?"

Jason asked tentatively.

He knew how authoritative Lu Tingzhao was in front of his subordinates.

"Afraid?"

Lu Tingzhao seemed to have heard an unfamiliar word. He pondered for a moment,

"She's better at bargaining. She can come up with a hundred seemingly reasonable reasons to slack off a little longer."

Over the next while, Jason listened as Lu Tingzhao, in a seemingly critical yet subtly warm tone, recounted more about "Maggie"...

How she clumsily tried to teach him to use the new Braille reader, how she frowned all day because a rose in the yard was sick, and how she deliberately clumsily knocked things over to distract him when he was in a bad mood...