Assistant Lu's face suddenly changed drastically. "President, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have informed Miss Yao about your itinerary. I'm sorry! Please give me another chance. I'll never take the liberty to do anything on my own again."
"Lu Chen, I've given you chances. Three times!" Huo Mingze looked solemn.
Lu Chen had been with him for seven years. Although he was just an assistant, they had been together for so long that there was a certain bond between them.
He paid Lu Chen an annual salary of 7 million yuan.
Of course, Lu Chen was worth it.
Except for the matter related to Yao Yutong, Lu Chen had done everything else well.
"President, I'm sorry. I was wrong. I overstepped my bounds and was being presumptuous, thinking that you still had feelings for Miss Yao in your heart. President, please give me another chance to atone for my sins. I promise you that I'll never make any mistakes again." Assistant Lu was extremely remorseful.
Huo Mingze said, "Yes, I did have feelings for Yao Yutong in my heart. But my future will have nothing to do with her anymore. I'm a married man now, and my wife is Shen Mo Di."
"Yes, I was wrong. I understand now. President, I earnestly beg you to give me a chance to atone for my sins. How about this? I'll go take care of your wife's father. I'll take care of her younger brother. I'll help your wife's younger brother with his language rehabilitation training." Assistant Lu said urgently.
Huo Mingze slightly raised his eyebrows and looked at Assistant Lu. "Help Xiaoguang with his language training?"
Seeing that the president was relenting, Assistant Lu immediately volunteered. "Yes, help Xiaoguang with his language training. I'll definitely work hard to make him recover and speak like a normal person as soon as possible."
"Make him speak like a normal person within a month after starting the training." Huo Mingze said.
"Yes, I'll definitely do it." Assistant Lu let out a sigh of relief, feeling as if he had broken out in a cold sweat.
He secretly vowed in his heart that he would never take the liberty to do anything on his own again.
Huo Mingze then lowered his head to handle the files in his hands again.
He was focused and worked quickly.
Soon, he had signed a pile of files.
Noticing that Assistant Lu hadn't left, he looked up at him. "Anything else?"
Assistant Lu immediately asked for instructions. "President, I'll go learn the skills of language training right now. Starting next week, I'll go to the hospital every day. At that time, could you please let President Qiu know about it so that your wife won't suspect anything?"
"en." Huo Mingze responded.
Assistant Lu felt as if he had been reborn and immediately left the president's office briskly.
Huo Mingze focused on his work and, after signing most of the important files, glanced at the time. It was almost noon.
He decided to go to the hospital to have lunch with Mo Di.
She was too thin.
He always felt that if he wasn't there, she wouldn't eat properly.
He got up, picked up his coat, and left the president's office. Then he drove his Chevrolet to the hospital.
...
In the Hospital
After drawing those two brooch design sketches, Shen Mo Di couldn't draw any new design sketches for quite a while.
She was holding her pen and gently tapping her head with it.
Suddenly, she thought of the shiny ring that Qiu Zhan had Photoshopped onto the picture of her and Huo Mingze that day.
A flash of inspiration came to her mind, and she wanted to draw a pair of rings.
Her pen moved quickly on the paper.
After a while, the rough shape of the rings appeared on the paper, and suddenly she had a prickly feeling.
She turned her head and saw Gu Tianxi standing at the door of the ward, holding a bouquet of carnations and a box of nutritional supplements. His eyes were fixed on her design sketches.
Shen Mo Di sprang to her feet, and a wave of anger surged through her. She immediately walked out, quickly closed the door behind her, preventing Gu Tianxi from entering the ward and keeping her father from seeing Gu Tianxi.
She was extremely angry. Afraid that her father would hear, she lowered her voice and gritted her teeth. "I told you, you don't need to come and see my father."
When Gu Tianxi broke up with her back then, her father was very angry.
But her father quickly calmed down and came to terms with it, sighing and saying that their humble family was no match for his wealthy family. It was better to break up now than to get married and then divorced.
If her father saw Gu Tianxi now, he would surely be furious.
Her father's body really couldn't withstand any emotional shocks.
Thinking about it, Shen Mo Di's eyes turned red with anger. She looked at Gu Tianxi coldly and, in a low voice, urged him to leave. "Please leave. I'm begging you!"
"Mo Di, I came to see Uncle."
"No need. My father is fine."
"I'll just take a look at Uncle and then leave."
"I told you no!" Shen Mo Di's voice rose slightly.
Afraid that her father would hear, she lowered her voice again and said coldly, "Master Gu, I beg you to be kind and not disturb our lives, okay?"
The words "Master Gu" made Gu Tianxi frown.
He quickly regained his composure.
He said, "Mo Di, I heard that Uncle's condition isn't very good. I want to invite an expert to treat him..."
"My father-in-law doesn't need anyone else to worry about him!" Huo Mingze's cold voice rang out.
Gu Tianxi looked over unhappily.
Their eyes met, and there was a spark.
Seeing Huo Mingze, Shen Mo Di immediately trotted over, took Huo Mingze's arm, and called out, "Mingze."
She had originally wanted to call him "husband" but couldn't quite bring herself to do it.
"Dear!" Huo Mingze called out naturally.
Shock flashed in Gu Tianxi's eyes.
She was married?
Huo Mingze ignored Gu Tianxi and gently asked Shen Mo Di, "How's Dad?"
"He said he was a bit sleepy after getting an IV drip and slept for a while. He's in good spirits now." Shen Mo Di said.
"That's good." Huo Mingze said.
For no reason, anger flared up in Gu Tianxi's heart. He subconsciously pulled down his tie with the hand holding the carnations and said in a calm voice, "I'll come to see Uncle another day."
He saw the nurses' station not far away, so he directly placed the flowers and nutritional supplements on the nurses' station and asked the nurse to pass them on. Then he left without looking back.
The nurse came over with the carnations and nutritional supplements and said to Shen Mo Di, "Family member, I'll put these things in the ward for you."
"Please throw them away for me. Thank you!" Shen Mo Di said without hesitation.
The nurse gave Shen Mo Di a strange look, then looked at Huo Mingze, and then thought of the handsome and elegant man who had just left. She seemed to have discovered something amazing, and her eyes sparkled with gossip. She also looked at Shen Mo Di enviously.
Beautiful girls are really lucky. So many men are chasing them.
The nurse left with the flowers and nutritional supplements.
Huo Mingze looked at Shen Mo Di as if waiting for her to say something.
Shen Mo Di suddenly had the urge to talk. She said, "He's my ex-boyfriend. We've known each other for many years. We met in junior high school and started dating in college. We broke up on the day we graduated from college."
Even though it had been a long time ago, it still felt a bit sad when she mentioned it now.
It wasn't as decisive and cool as she had hoped.
But there was one thing she liked about herself, that even though she was sad, she had never gone back to Gu Tianxi.
Huo Mingze saw that Shen Mo Di wasn't in a good mood, so he reached out and took her hand, slowly walking towards the end of the corridor.
Shen Mo Di continued, "After we broke up, we never contacted each other again. Once we broke up, there should be no more intersections. There will be other people in his world, and the same goes for mine. So, I don't want him to come and see my father. Um..."
Suddenly, an unexpected kiss made Shen Mo Di's eyes widen.