Wishing her happiness until then?

Getting her kicked out of Lingjia Capital?

Cui Peng sneered, finding it all too funny.

“You think you’re so capable. Do you know who the real boss of Lingjia Capital is?”

Luo Qi didn’t need to know. “When I take action against you, no one can protect you.”

“You think finding a new rich boyfriend can help you cover the sky?”

“I’m enough to deal with you and me alone. One more person would be a waste of intelligence.”

Cui Peng laughed. She was too lazy to argue against such a stupidly aggressive attitude; it was a waste of time.

She’s happy to wait for two months. Let’s see what Luo Qi could do to her.

She didn’t even know that the real boss of Lingjia Capital was Xu Xiangyi, yet she dared to tell her she’ll get kicked out.

Luo Qi called an internal number on the landline, and the other party answered immediately.

“Ms. Luo, what advice do you have for me?”

“Who dares to advise you? Come here and take your person away. If you don’t want to, then you can just help me apply to the company to get an air purifier for my office.”

Shu Rui: “…”

His person?

“Is Cui Peng at your place?”

The only one who could make Luo Qi act strange was Cui Peng.

Cui Peng stood up and took two deep breaths. She was embarrassed that Luo Qi exposed her in front of Shu Rui.

Fortunately, she had already vaccinated Shu Rui in advance, and he knew all about her ‘grievances’ with Luo Qi.

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Shu Rui didn’t want to wade into these muddy waters, but these two kept ruthlessly pulling him in. He could do nothing but splash around in it.

After hanging up the phone, he took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose. He thought Cui Peng would not come to the company today, but instead she went directly to Luo Qi.

The door to his office opened without anyone knocking.

Shu Rui looked up. He was not wearing glasses, and the outline he saw was a little blurry.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Shu, for causing you trouble.”

Cui Peng opened the door but didn’t close it.

Shu Rui didn’t like her closing the door. Cui Peng came to Ruipu a little too frequently these days, and every time she came, she stayed in his office. 

A man and a woman alone in the same room—those who didn’t know would think that they were conducting an affair in the office.

“Why did you go to Ms. Luo? If you need to communicate about anything regarding work, I will help coordinate. If it’s a private matter, you can make an appointment to talk after you get off work. Don’t make a fuss that everyone in the company could hear about.”

What he disliked the most was others bringing personal emotions to work, but Cui Peng was not from Ruipu, and he couldn’t say harsh words to reprimand her.

Cui Peng apologized again, taking all the blame on herself. “If you want to blame someone, blame me; this has nothing to do with Luo Qi.”

Shu Rui’s words just now were like punching cotton. She already lowered her posture so much—could he still go after her?

He poured her a cup of tea and asked, “What going on?”

Cui Peng showed him the credit transfer notification on her phone, “Take a look.”

Such a private matter, Shu Rui only glanced at the screen symbolically and didn’t take a closer look at it. He didn’t know how much money had been received and who transferred it to her.

He didn’t care either.

“I sold my old apartment to Luo Qi’s Aunt, and received an IOU of 9.2 million issued by Luo Qi’s family in exchange. With this, I became Luo Qi’s creditor.”

Shu Rui looked at her for a few seconds.

“I went to her office just now to make a deal with her. I didn’t force her to pay back the money. In fact, I told her she can pay it off in as many years as she wants. The condition is that she will cooperate with my work and… that of Ruipu’s management. I just wanted us all to work together and make Ruipu bigger.”

Cooperating with Ruipu’s management—to put it bluntly, this meant cooperating with him.

She was expressing her feelings implicitly.

“I thought for sure she would be willing to cooperate, but instead she borrowed money from someone else to repay the debt to me in one go. When she was paying back the money, she was so sarcastic to me, but I didn’t say anything back. 

“Because of this, you were also targeted by her.”

Cui Peng took a sip of the tea poured by Shu Rui and then looked at him. “When Yuanwei Group acquired Ruipu, they used various means to force you to the wall. I’m not that despicable. I didn’t force her to pay me back. I even allowed her to pay it back in monthly installments, but she didn’t appreciate it.”

She smiled and said, “I can’t say I don’t understand it. We have different interests and positions, and everyone has their own master to report to. I simply wanted to bring her over to our side.” 

She said regretfully, “It turned out that I couldn’t.”

Shu Rui could now understand that Luo Qi’s weakness that Cui Peng mentioned that day turned out to be an outstanding debt.

Which were true and which were false—Cui Peng didn’t believe that Shu Rui could tell which of what she said were one or the other.

She had to let him know that she was doing this for him, and her enduring this humiliation was also for him.

“If it weren’t for Ruipu, I wouldn’t be able to shake hands with her and make peace.”

She smiled bitterly, “But she was not willing to reconcile and even looked down on me.

“I won’t bother you anymore. I only came here specifically to see Luo Qi about this matter. The result is not satisfactory, but I was willing to give it a try.”

Cui Peng finished her tea and said goodbye, “You are busy, there is no need to send me off.”

She picked up her bag and left.

Shu Rui called the secretary to send her away, but Cui Peng refused. She smiled and said, “I will close the door. Even if you shout, the secretary won’t hear you.”

She closed the door and left.

… …

Shu Rui didn’t have time to see anyone off; he went to Luo Qi’s office.

Luo Qi was using a cleaning rag to wipe the table; she wiped this table once or twice every day.

Shu Rui was beginning to realize how much free time she had in her hands. 

In fact, she could still do a lot. It was true that she had no decision-making power regarding the company’s core business, and she was not allowed to participate in matters that were in Shu Rui’s control. However, she really just spread her hands and did nothing.

“If you have any grudges with Cui Peng, don’t involve me. I already said I don’t want to get involved in your affairs—now and in the future. Cui Peng and I are just colleagues, nothing more.”

After saying that, he walked out.

“Mr. Shu, wait a moment.”

Shu Rui had already reached the door and turned around expressionlessly, “What’s the matter?”

“I’m going to Suzhou City on a business trip next week. I can drop by and say ‘hello’ to the R&D center there. If it’s not convenient for me to go and find out what’s happening there, then I don’t have to make an appearance, but I’m going on this business trip.”

Shu Rui understood her subtext: it didn’t matter whether she had work to do there or not—she wanted to go home on the guise of a business trip.

She could make him so angry when she was in the company; it would be better to just ignore her.

But if she wanted to know more about the situation in the Suzhou R&D Center—it was impossible.

He only just learned that the schedule for the business trip has already been decided. She would leave this weekend and stay in Suzhou for a week.

Seventh Year of My Secret Love for You translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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