"Okay."
"Are you ready to go to the venue of the auction now?"
Bai Lu nodded. "But I have to go back to the office. My things are all there."
Liang Feifan stood up and walked out of the dining room. He picked up his jacket from the sofa in the living room and put it on. "You can come with me directly to the venue of the auction. Guan Chao will help you get your things. "
Bai Lu thought that since he had already arranged everything, she didn't say anything else and got into the car with him.
She automatically chose to open the door of the back seat, but Liang Feifan pressed her hand down. "Sit in the front."
Bai Lu struggled out of the car with some resistance. "… I can sit in the back."
"Sit in the front." Liang Feifan insisted. His deep voice was irresistible. "I'm not used to always turning my head to talk to the person in the back seat."
Bai Lu could only surrender. She obediently opened the door to the front passenger seat and bent over to get in.
The car drove steadily, but the two of them didn't seem to say much on the way. Bai Lu felt that the closer they got to the venue of the auction, the more nervous she became. She didn't even notice when Liang Feifan turned on the stereo halfway through the journey. Her mind kept flashing with the various data, the structure of the building, and the draft she had memorized previously.
When the car stopped, Liang Feifan realized that the woman beside him had her fingers tightly clasped together. Her eyes were downcast, and he didn't know what she was thinking. However, her whole body was tense. She didn't realize that her action of biting her lip completely revealed how nervous and uneasy she was at that moment.
Liang Feifan reached out to unbuckle his seatbelt, then leaned over to help her unbuckle her seatbelt.
Bai Lu felt a familiar breath on her face. She suddenly came back to her senses. When she looked up, her thin lips happened to be pressed against the side of Liang Feifan's face.
Her brain buzzed. She wanted to avoid it, but there was no way to do so.
Liang Feifan had already reached out to hold the back of her head and delivered his lips to hers.
Bai Lu was dumbfounded and his body stiffened. He didn't know where to put his hands and feet. This was not the first time they had kissed. Every time, it seemed to be so sudden and inexplicable that she did not even have the strength to resist …
Liang Feifan's tongue intimately slid across the corner of her lips, and his hands gently cupped her cheeks. "Are you nervous? In that case, will you be more nervous? "
Bai Lu instinctively opened her mouth. Her lips moved slightly, and the tip of his tongue entered her mouth without restraint, kissing her even more deeply.
Her breathing was messed up, her brain was messed up, everything was messed up …
"… No." She tried to resist weakly.
Liang Feifan grabbed her hand that was waving wildly. After going deep again, he slowly stopped.
He took a deep breath and said in a hoarse and tense voice, "I know it's your first time, so you're very nervous. But I hope you'll remember my kiss at this moment. Don't you want to know why I'm doing this to you? Bai Lu, look at me — "
Bai Lu's eyes were in a mess, but Liang Feifan did not let her escape. His enchanting eyes were like limpid autumn waters that could suck her in. "If you perform well, I'll tell you why I kissed you after you leave the stage."
Bai Lu was a little dazed. Her watery eyes looked at Liang Feifan blankly. There seemed to be something in his eyes. She wanted to catch something, but he had already restrained all his emotions —
Just like he said, Bai Lu, if you want to know why I kissed you, perform well. If you succeed, I'll tell you why.
He was using another kind of pressure to push her forward.
There was no woman who would not want to know why this man kissed her and hugged her. Even if she knew … it was impossible between them, but … she still wanted to know.
She really wanted to know.
…
Before entering the venue of the auction, Bai Lu specially went to the washroom.
She washed her face with cold water. Liang Feifan's kiss, Liang Feifan's complicated and indecipherable gaze, Liang Feifan's words …
Those images kept repeating in her mind, but she gritted her teeth and pushed them to the back of her mind. She couldn't think about anything else now. She just had to think about the auction. Demon School Hunk, who was afraid of who?!
Perhaps she didn't know it herself, but because of the auction, she was so nervous that her thoughts were in a mess. She didn't have the courage to take that step at all. But now, it had been replaced by another feeling.
Now, she only wanted to succeed, and not be nervous and confused all the time …
When Bai Lu entered the venue of the auction, several companies participating in the auction were already there.
She saw Liang Feifan sitting at the front, and there were people from other companies sitting beside him. Occasionally, they would chat with him.
This man had a calm and reserved temperament. In front of others, he was like a piece of cold jade, faintly exhaling cold air.
But when she thought of the warmth he had felt when hugging her just now … her heart couldn't help but beat faster.
Women were emotional creatures. When you felt that the high and mighty person was always so special to you, there would be a very strange feeling in your heart …
Bai Lu took a deep breath and secretly told herself not to think too much about unrealistic things. The most important thing now was to clinch this project!
Her gaze shifted and she saw Chu Weiye sitting across from her. He seemed to have seen her too, and he even raised his hand to greet her. In such a big venue, the lights were as bright as day. Bai Lu only saw a flash in front of her eyes. The platinum cufflinks on Chu Weiye's gray suit were shining with a little silver light, which pierced her eyes. She subconsciously narrowed her eyes and didn't intend to respond. She turned around and walked over to the seat next to Liang Feifan.
Chu Weiye didn't care about the snub at all, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
"Director Chu." At this time, the designer beside him came over and asked softly, "In a while, we will be in front of EC. Will there really be no problem?"
Chu Weiye's gaze remained fixed on the delicate voice not far away. When he heard this, he merely raised his brows. His fingers gently fiddled with his cufflinks as he casually said, "The problem won't be with us. It will be with EC."
…
Five minutes before the bidding started.
First, the municipal party secretary personally went up on stage. He was a young man in his thirties. He was very good-looking, and his words were concise. He only said a few words before the bidding officially started.
EC was in the middle, and Far East was in front of EC.
The man sitting next to Chu Weiye just now got up and walked to the podium when his name was called.
Bai Lu sat next to Liang Feifan. When the designer from Far East went up on stage, she subconsciously glanced in Chu Weiye's direction. Coincidentally, he was also looking at her.
The moment their eyes met, Bai Lu saw Chu Weiye's particularly deep gaze. He was looking at her with a half-smile.
Her heart inexplicably trembled. She didn't know why, but she actually felt uneasy.
And this uneasiness quickly became reality.
The instant the designer from Far East placed the design on the projection, Bai Lu suddenly stood up from her seat and stared at the big screen in disbelief.
That was, that was her design! …
What was going on?
Why was her design on the projection? Why … Why was the representative from Far East holding her design when she hadn't even represented EC to give a speech?
What was going on? What exactly … was going on? Zhen!
Bai Lu was completely dumbfounded. Her mind was blank. Waves of light from the projection hit her in the face. She stood upright. Her face was deathly pale, and her breathing was rapid. Her only reaction was to instinctively clench her hands that were hanging by her sides. Her joints were also deathly pale.
"Come with me."
Liang Feifan suddenly stood up, grabbed Bai Lu, and walked toward the back door of the auction venue. Bai Lu finally reacted. She subconsciously struggled. "… Mr. Liang, I …"
"Let's go out first."
Liang Feifan was the first person to see Bai Lu's design. How could he not know whose design Far East was explaining now? He was also surprised, but compared to Bai Lu's flustered state of mind, he was obviously much calmer. "If there's anything, let's talk outside."
Without giving her a chance to reply, Liang Feifan pulled Bai Lu toward the back door with a sullen face.
When the two of them passed by Chu Weiye's seat, Bai Lu instinctively looked at him.
Chu Weiye was sitting there lazily. His two long legs were elegantly crossed. One of his hands was supporting his chin, while the other was casually tapping the edge of the stool. He was also looking at Bai Lu. The moment their eyes met, Bai Lu saw a faint smile in his eyes. It was as if he was waiting to watch a good show.
It's him, it must be him!
Chu Weiye, that bastard! He actually stole her design in broad daylight and even smiled at her as if nothing had happened. Bai Lu really wanted to rush up to him and tear that hypocritical smile off his face.
That despicable man!
As soon as Liang Feifan left the venue, he immediately called Guan Chao. "Tell the higher-ups that EC is withdrawing from this bid."
When he instructed Guan Chao, his voice was low but calm. But Bai Lu only had to look at the side of his face, which was so tense that even his jaw seemed to be tense. She instinctively bit her lip. Naturally, she knew how angry and disappointed he was!
She knew exactly how long EC had been preparing for this bid. When she was still his secretary, she knew that he had vowed to win this project. In the end, when he finally handed over the project to her, something like this happened …
Bai Lu felt guilty. Even though she knew nothing about this whole thing, she still felt that she had let down his trust in her.
She wanted to explain. She wanted to say that she really didn't know anything … but when all the words reached her throat, it was as if they were blocked by a stone. She couldn't say a single word.
"Let's go back to the company first," Liang Feifan spoke first. His voice was very low and concise. "Get in the car."
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