The employees coming and going on the first floor of the company all gave him strange looks.
He lowered his voice. "Do you rarely deal with clients from other countries?"
Seth thought Chu Hengyuan was accusing him of not doing his job properly. He widened his eyes, and his light - blue pupils practically showed his grievance. "How could that be! It's all written on my schedule. I personally receive at least three clients a day!"
Chu Hengyuan: "So, have you never greeted clients at the door or seen them off? Why are they looking at me so strangely?" The looks they gave him were mostly curious, with an indescribable admiration mixed in.
Seth coughed softly, looking guilty. "Most of the clients I receive are from our own country. And we have a branch in China. No Chinese person would travel all the way to the head - office for business, so they're probably just surprised."
Chu Hengyuan: "..." The explanation made sense, but Seth's guilt was too obvious.
After they finished looking around the first floor, Seth was about to lead him to the second floor. As they got into the elevator, Chu Hengyuan finally understood the strange looks from the company employees.
On one side of the elevator was a frontal photo of himself, with a foreign slogan below it.
The translation of the slogan was - This is the first executive president of the CY Group and will also be the future executive president of the CY Group.
This meant that anyone who had used the elevator knew him. Even if Seth didn't call him 'brother' in the company, everyone in the company knew that he was the person whom Seth praised in various ways but who had never said a word in the work group.
"Seth!" Chu Hengyuan's blood pressure soared when he saw the photo. No one in the company but Seth would dare to hang his photo in the elevator.
Seth was too guilty to look Chu Hengyuan in the eye. "We've reached the second floor. Let's - "
Before Seth could finish, Chu Hengyuan pressed the elevator's close - door button. "No, we're not going to look around the company anymore. Let's go straight to your office and have a good talk."
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On the other side, Rong Lan was arm - in - arm with Bai Rongran. They walked the whole street but couldn't find a suitable hotel.
In the end, Bai Rongran couldn't stand it anymore. She showed Rong Lan her phone and told her to choose a hotel online first, and then they'd take a taxi there.
It took them a full hour and a half from the time they left home until they got out of the taxi in front of the hotel.
Rong Lan, who hadn't fully mastered the original owner's foreign - language skills, unhesitatingly pushed Bai Rongran forward to confirm the rooms with the hotel receptionist. Bai Rongran thought Rong Lan was deliberately testing her survival skills, so she took care of everything right in front of Rong Lan.
Not long after they arrived at the hotel, Bai Rongran got two room cards. She gave one to Rong Lan. "Chu Hengyuan came with you, right? You can give your room card to him first."
Rong Lan took the room card and put it in her pocket. "I'll just send him a message to let him know. I'll give him the room card when he gets here. I'll go to your suite for a while first."
"Okay."
Both of their rooms were suites, but they were on different floors. Rong Lan's room was on a lower floor, while Bai Rongran's was on an upper floor.
As soon as they entered the suite, they took off their coats and flopped onto the sofa. If the sofa had been long enough, Rong Lan would have even lain down on it.
"You're so tired, but you still dragged me around on the street?" Bai Rongran complained about the exhausted Rong Lan.
The little fox stretched. "How can that be called just wandering around? Your complexion is much better than it was this morning. Walking around for an hour outside was meaningful."
She was afraid that Bai Rongran carried sleeping pills with her to commit suicide, so she walked slowly with Bai Rongran outside for a while, hoping to let Bai Rongran feel how happy it was to bask in the winter sun.
It wasn't just aimless wandering. On a deeper level, she wanted Bai Rongran to feel the beauty of life.
Bai Rongran was stunned for a moment. She unconsciously reached up to touch her cheek and murmured, "Really..."
Rong Lan sat cross - legged on the sofa. "Are you hungry? How about we go downstairs and eat something?"
The little fox, who hadn't had breakfast and had been on the go all night, said her stomach was growling.
"I don't want to go down..."
Rong Lan snapped her fingers. "Then call and have someone deliver it. You order. I want chicken dishes. You can decide what to order specifically. It's a pity if I don't eat some foreign chicken dishes during my rare trip abroad."
Bai Rongran rolled her eyes. "You actually have the nerve to order me around when I'm a patient?"
Rong Lan nodded with a smile, warmer than the winter sun. "I do. After all, I'm not familiar with this place and don't know what's delicious here. So, I have to trouble my dear Rongran sister."
Bai Rongran had the energy to argue with her, so it seemed her mentality was recovering well.
Bai Rongran was speechless. She took a deep breath, got up, walked to the call device at the entrance, and picked up the phone.
Rong Lan understood the foreign language. She was relieved when she heard Bai Rongran order 'Chicken in White Wine'. It didn't matter what else Bai Rongran ordered.
Half an hour later, there was a knock on the door.
This time, Rong Lan got up to open the door. She made two trips to carry in everything the waiter had brought and politely thanked the waiter.
Seeing Rong Lan's enthusiasm, Bai Rongran went to wash her hands first, then sat down at the dining table. She put the salad in front of herself and placed the Chicken in White Wine and Wellington Steak next to her, as if these two dishes had nothing to do with her.
Rong Lan came out after washing her hands. She sat down in front of her chicken dish, picked up the knife and fork as the locals did.
She looked at the food in front of her and then at the salad in front of Bai Rongran. "Is that all my dear Rongran sister is going to eat?"
Bai Rongran nodded expressionlessly. "I have a poor appetite. I can't eat anything else."
Rong Lan didn't force her. It was normal for Bai Rongran to have a poor appetite. At least she was willing to eat a few mouthfuls of salad instead of nothing. "One should feel happier after a good meal."
"So?" Bai Rongran didn't understand why Rong Lan suddenly said this.
"So, Rongran, eat more. I'll share something big with you later. You probably won't be too sad after you're full."
Bai Rongran: "..." She had a feeling that what Rong Lan was going to share wasn't going to be good news. "What's the thing you're talking about related to?"
"I can't tell you. You'll know later. Just eat well first." Rong Lan held a fork in one hand to pick up the chicken and poked at her phone screen with the other to send a message to Chu Hengyuan, asking where her brother was and when he could come.