Chapter 16 Roses from Gu Hanchen

"Boss Huo, please go to the reception room and take a rest first. I'll go down and see who sent the roses."

Yuan Xi got into the elevator and arrived at the front desk. It was the working hours for most of Mi Chen's departments, and many of Mi Chen's colleagues who had just started working were gathered around the front desk.

On holidays like 520, it is not uncommon to have flowers on the front desk, but roses are indeed rare.

"Is this imported Ecuadorian Explorer rose? On a holiday like today, a rose would cost thirty dollars! With so many, the roses alone would cost at least thirty thousand dollars, right?"

"Secretary Yuan is so lucky!"

"This is the first time I've seen so many roses."

Yuan Xi sneezed loudly as he approached the front desk.

When colleagues saw Yuan Xi coming, they all made way for him.

Fang Qin, the public relations manager, walked up to Yuan Xi and said, "Secretary Yuan, congratulations. There are so many roses. The person who sent them must love you to the core."

Yuan Xi thought about it for a long time, but couldn't think of who else would give her roses except Huo Shiyan.

It's funny to say that she has never been in a relationship and has been living as a single mother for 26 years.

When she was in high school, she studied hard with the goal of getting into Jiangda University. She had no distractions and stayed away from her male classmates. Whenever the boys showed any signs of premature love, Yuan Xi would nip them in the bud.

When she was in college, Yuan Xi originally wanted to have a good relationship and enjoy her youthful campus life like her peers.

However, things did not go as planned. Her adoptive parents died unexpectedly. Although her friends helped to raise tuition for Yuan Xi, she did not want to owe anyone anything. She filled her free time with part-time jobs and had no time for a relationship.

She joined Mi Chen for internship in her senior year. Yuan Xi was even busier and had no time to spend with her in a relationship.

Yuan Xi took the folded card next to the flower. After opening it, he found the big words on it very familiar to him.

Yuan Xi even thought of the boy who had confessed his love to her in high school, but she didn't expect that it would be sent by him.

"Gu Hanchen!"

"It's from Mr. Gu!" the receptionist read out, "Secretary Yuan, Mr. Gu is so good to you!"

"Mr. Gu likes you so much, so many roses."

"Secretary Yuan, you and Mr. Gu..."

Seeing the ambiguous looks from her colleagues, Yuan Xi coughed and said, "I'm married and have a child. This is the 520 gift from General Manager Gu to each female colleague. All female colleagues can come and take a rose."

"Thank you, Mr. Gu."

"Mr. Gu is so handsome!"

Yuan Xi was speechless holding the card. Rather than saying that Gu Hanchen liked her, it would be better to say that the world would end tomorrow and she might believe it more.

Yuan Xi got on the elevator and met Gu Hanchen inside.

"Morning, Mr. Gu."

There are only a few days when Gu Hanchen can get to work on time at 9:30.

Gu Hanchen saw the card in Yuan Xi's hand, yawned and said, "Did you receive the flowers I sent you?"

Yuan Xi said: "I gave it to a female colleague. I'm married. Mr. Gu, please don't do anything that will cause my husband to misunderstand."

Gu Hanchen snorted, "When I was drinking with Chu Linyan and Yan Bofan the day before yesterday, I heard that your husband is a rural gigolo who doesn't even have a commercial house in Jiangcheng."

Yuan Xi frowned. She didn't expect Chu Yan and Chu Lin to say this about Huo Shiyan behind his back.

After exiting the elevator, Yuan Xi said to Gu Hanchen, "Boss Huo is in the reception room."

"You're here so early?" Gu Hanchen entered the reception room.

Yuan Xi went to prepare two cups of coffee and went into the reception room.

Huo Shiyan took the coffee, raised his eyes and asked Yuan Xi: "Secretary Yuan, who sent the roses?"

Gu Hanchen: "Who else could it be? Of course it was me who gave it to him!"

Huo Shiyan glanced at Gu Hanchen and said coldly, "I heard from Secretary Yuan that she is already married, and you still gave her roses?"

Gu Hanchen: "Don't even mention her gigolo husband. He has no house and no car, and he's even eyeing Yuan Xi's Mi Chen shares, which haven't even been listed yet, and wants to buy a luxury car. This kind of man is not worthy of Yuan Xi."

Gu Hanchen picked up the coffee: "Only I am worthy of Yuan Xi!"

"Ahem!" Huo Shiyan coughed twice. Yuan Xi frowned and said, "Boss Gu, what nonsense are you talking about in front of Boss Huo?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? What did your husband give you today? If he doesn't give you flowers, can't I give them to you?"

Huo Shiyan touched his nose uncomfortably.

Gu Hanchen: "My family urged me to go on a blind date and get married. Instead of marrying someone like Yu Xiaoxiao, I'd rather marry you. This way you won't quit your job.

Although you are not the type of gorgeous beauty that I like, you are still a little beauty. It is not a loss for me to marry you, and it is not a loss for you to marry me and become the wife of Michen Boss. "

Yuan Xi said: "Mr. Gu, I'm pregnant."

Gu Hanchen said, "Marry one and get two for free, isn't that a good thing? My grandma has been urging me to have great-great-grandchildren, so now I have two. For the sake of our Mi Chen, I don't mind helping you raise Mi Chen's brothers and sisters."

Huo Shiyan said: "Secretary Yuan's husband will mind."

Gu Hanchen raised his eyebrows and said, "Boss Huo, you are not Secretary Yuan's husband, how do you know her husband would mind? He doesn't even see flowers on 520, how can he mind?"

Huo Shiyan changed the subject and asked about business matters, "How are your preparations for the roadshow in the United States going?"

Gu Hanchen said: "I've been prepared for a long time..."

Huo Shiyan said: "Let me see."

Seeing that they were talking about business, Yuan Xi returned to the office and did his own work.

After a busy day, she didn't even know when Huo Shiyan left Mi Chen.

Before getting off work, Yuan Xi went to the building next door early to choose a dress and put on makeup.

Today, she attended Si Chen's wedding banquet as Gu Hanchen's female companion, which more or less represented the reputation of Mi Chen Company. She didn't want to steal the bride's limelight, but she couldn't be too casual either.

After Yuan Xi finished her styling, she went downstairs and saw Gu Hanchen's Aston Martin sports car.

Gu Hanchen looked at Yuan Xi and said jokingly, "I take back what I said about you not being a great beauty. Why didn't I realize you were so beautiful before?"

Yuan Xi said: "Boss Gu, no secretary would fall in love with his boss, so please don't disgust me."

Yuan Xi knew that Gu Hanchen had no feelings for her at all, and his so-called pursuit was purely because he didn't want her to leave before Mi Chen went public.

Gu Hanchen: "Why not? Isn't the wedding we are attending today the one of Si Chen and his secretary?"

Yuan Xi: “…”

Yuan Xi's newly done hairstyle became messy because Gu Hanchen was showing off and insisted on driving a convertible.

When they arrived at the manor where the wedding was to be held, Yuan Xi spent a long time fixing her hair in the car while Gu Hanchen lit a cigarette beside her.

After Yuan Xi got off the car, he took the cigarette from Gu Hanchen's hand and put it out, "Mr. Gu, I'm sorry, I have a child now, and I can't breathe your secondhand smoke."

Gu Hanchen scratched his head and said, "Sorry, I forgot."

Yu Xiaoxiao saw Yuan Xi standing next to Gu Hanchen's sports car from a distance. Seeing her intimately snatching the cigarette from Gu Hanchen's hand, she was furious: "Yanyan, that's Yuan Xi, right? We warned her last time, but she still dared to be Gu Hanchen's female companion to attend the Si family's wedding."

"She really is shameless!"

Chu Yan looked at her from afar and smiled contemptuously: "Xiaoxiao, you don't have to worry about her snatching Gu Hanchen from you. Yuan Xi is already married and pregnant."

Yu Xiaoxiao asked: "Married? How did you know?"

Chu Yan said: "Because she is the real daughter of our Chu family who has been abducted for many years."

"Yanyan." Chu Lin came to Chu Yan's side, "Have you taken a photo with the bride?"

Chu Yan shook his head: "Not yet."

Chu Lin looked over to where the bride was and frowned, "Isn't that Yuan Xi's husband?"

Chu Yan asked: "Brother, what did you say?"

Chu Lin said: "The man wearing a dark blue shirt next to the bride is Yuan Xi's husband..."

"So handsome!" Yu Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up.

Chu Yan sneered, "Being handsome is useless. He's just a pretty boy, a gigolo. He's so poor that he can't even afford a suite. He has to rely on gigolos to buy a Continental."

Yu Xiaoxiao said, "But this is Si Chen's wedding banquet, and Yuan Xi was able to come in with Gu Hanchen. How did her husband get in? He looks like he's very familiar with the bride?"

(End of this chapter)