Lu Yan stared at her for a while, then lifted his eyelids slightly and lowered his head to type something on his phone.
"What are you doing?" Ning Anmiao couldn't help asking.
"Sending a message to my secretary to buy a serving of almond tofu for my wife."
Ning Anmiao was instantly stunned. When she realized that the "wife" in his words was the contact name she had just changed on his phone, her heart skipped a beat.
"Um, I was just joking. I changed it casually..."
"Got it, wife."
Lu Yan's tone was so ordinary that Ning Anmiao felt uncomfortable all over. She quickly waved her hands and stammered, "I'm sorry. Please stop calling me that."
"Okay, wife."
Ning Anmiao: "..."
She really had done something stupid.
Seeing that she would get shy so easily, Lu Yan smiled contentedly. He casually picked up Ning Anmiao's phone beside him, changed his own contact name on it, and then returned the phone to her.
Ning Anmiao eagerly took the phone back. When she saw that Lu Yan's contact name was "Kissy Husband", she was thoroughly disgusted.
"How childish! Really childish!"
Ning Anmiao bit her lips, her ears getting even hotter. She simply ignored him and threw the phone aside, temporarily forgetting about the contract.
Seeing that she started to work seriously, Lu Yan didn't bother her anymore. He picked up his own phone and left the office.
The smile on his face gradually faded, leaving only coldness in his eyes.
He understood that Lin Chuluo's move was not only a declaration of war against him regarding Anmiao.
It was also a declaration of war against Xinghe.
In this world, there were too many things that one couldn't have both.
But Lu Yan didn't agree.
Anmiao was his weakness, but she could also be his courage and armor to fight against the world.
He wouldn't lose.
...
Once the contract took effect, this cooperation gradually kicked off.
When everyone in Xinghe learned that Lu Yan planned to cooperate with Yanyun, they were all shocked, thinking that their boss had lost his mind.
How magnanimous must one be to cooperate so calmly with a rival?
Everyone knew that Yanyun was the mastermind behind the accident of the factory workers not long ago.
Under the circumstance of clearly knowing the other party's ill intentions, why still cooperate?
Although everyone had doubts in their hearts, they didn't dare to ask. They could only follow the company's arrangements and do their jobs.
At first, Ning Anmiao was also very nervous. But when she found that nothing unexpected happened, she felt relieved.
However, she suddenly noticed that Lu Yan didn't seem to show up at the company very often.
Realizing this, Ning Anmiao immediately felt alarmed. She picked up her phone and called Lu Yan.
No one answered.
She suddenly panicked, worried that something might happen to Lu Yan while in her body. She stood up in a daze and wanted to go out to look for him.
"Mr. Lu, here's a contract that needs your signature."
"Mr. Lu, there will be a meeting soon. Everyone is waiting for you in the meeting room."
"Mr. Lu..."
A deluge of work suddenly rushed in and overwhelmed Ning Anmiao.
She was holding the phone and was about to call Lu Yan again when he quickly sent her a message.
"I'm fine, Anmiao."
Seeing this reply, Ning Anmiao felt a little more at ease, but still felt something was wrong. "Where are you now?"
"I'm at Lin Chuluo's place."
Ning Anmiao's pupils instantly constricted.
"Why are you there?"
The other party didn't reply.
After a while, he replied again.
"Don't worry. It's about work."
"I'll be back soon."
Ning Anmiao tightened her palms. She was very anxious. Just as she was about to send another message to Lu Yan, the secretary knocked on the door and came in.
"Mr. Lu, are you ready? The meeting is about to start."
Helplessly, Ning Anmiao had to put down the phone and nodded slightly. "Got it. I'll come right away."
She didn't know what Lu Yan was up to, but now she had no choice but to trust him.
At the same time, at the headquarters of Yanyun.
"Anmiao" sat opposite Lin Chuluo, her eyes calm.
"Mr. Lin, I don't know what the meaning of this is."
Seeing that "Anmiao" was speaking to him so distantly, a fleeting look of gloom flashed across Lin Chuluo's face, but it quickly dissipated. "I just want to catch up with you."
"I really don't know what there is to catch up on with you, Mr. Lin."
"This is stipulated in the contract, Anmiao."
Lin Chuluo frowned slightly, his eyes impatient. "You should realize that since Lu Yan signed this contract, to some extent, in his eyes, interests are more important than you."
"Anmiao" sneered faintly. "Even so, it's still within the scope I can accept."
There was nothing unreasonable in the cooperation terms. The only one was that Ning Anmiao, as a special design director, would go to the headquarters of Yanyun for a week.
"Anmiao." Lin Chuluo looked at her worriedly. "Why do you believe so much that Lu Yan is sincere to you?"
"If he hadn't proposed this contract to you, would you have agreed?"
"Don't be his tool anymore, Anmiao."
"Anmiao" remained unmoved.
"Mr. Lin, since I'm here for the contract, let's handle it officially. There's no need to talk about these things."
"Anmiao" lowered her head and glanced at the time.
According to the contract, he needed to stay at Yanyun for three hours a day for a week.
It was called an "inspection", but in fact, it was just Lin Chuluo's selfish desire.
He wanted to be alone with Ning Anmiao.
However, perhaps he never expected that the person who was alone with him was Lu Yan.
Seeing that the other party was unmoved, Lin Chuluo sighed. He was still quite a gentleman. "You can visit Yanyun at will."
"Maybe you'll change your mind."
"Anmiao" nodded in agreement. "That's exactly what I want to do."
She couldn't wait to get out of the same room as Lin Chuluo for another second. She immediately stood up, opened the door, and left the president's office.
Watching the back of "Anmiao" leaving, Lin Chuluo's eyes darkened.
Anmiao, you'll regret it.
The moment "Anmiao" walked out of the office, the office area outside immediately fell silent. Many people lowered their heads as if they were working hard, but in fact, their eyes were secretly on her.
"Anmiao" didn't care about others' gazes. She walked around the company casually and occasionally flipped through the documents on the desks.
Before "Anmiao" visited the company, Mr. Lin had specifically arranged that no one should question or interfere with any of her actions in the company.
This kind of treatment was like that of the president's wife.
"Anmiao" moved freely in Yanyun. When she saw the company's business plan, the corner of her lips twitched slightly.
Lin Chuluo was right. It was really a "Yanyun specially built for Anmiao".
However, his plan had ultimately failed.