This morning, Shu Qingqing had an appointment with Director Fang to discuss the new drama.
Coming out after their discussion, she happened to run into Zhou Zheng.
Standing next to Zhou Zheng was a woman. The two were intimate, looking like she was Zhou Zheng's wife.
Seeing her, Zhou Zheng immediately came over to greet her. After some introductions, the woman turned out to indeed be Zhou Zheng's wife.
After a few pleasantries, Shu Qingqing prepared to leave.
Zhou Zheng's wife suddenly nudged him, and Zhou Zheng immediately remembered his main business.
"By the way, Ma'am, regarding your new house, do you need it to be renovated? If you do, President Lu has already instructed me to contact the best designers. Whenever it is convenient for you, I can have a designer reach out to you."
After Zhou Zheng finished speaking, he looked at Shu Qingqing.
A few days ago, after learning that Shu Qingqing had bought a house, his boss immediately had him find a few designers, waiting to help the boss's wife renovate. However, several days had passed, and he hadn't heard his boss mention it again.
Later, he couldn't help but ask about it, but his boss said there was no need to look for designers for now.
He immediately sensed that something was wrong. After thinking it over, he figured the two might be having a disagreement again.
Thinking back to the last time they had a conflict, Zhou Zheng still had lingering fears. When the gods fight, the mortals suffer; he didn't want to live in fear again. So, as soon as he got home, he asked his wife if he should mention the designers to the boss's wife.
His wife had told him then that only when the boss's wife is happy can the boss be happy, and only when the boss is happy can he be happy. Therefore, the things the boss silently did for his wife absolutely had to be made known to her.
Zhou Zheng had originally been worrying about how to casually bring this up to the boss's wife without seeming deliberate, but he didn't expect to happen to run into her today.
Hearing him out, Shu Qingqing was a bit surprised: "How did you know I bought a house? Lu Bochuan... knows too?"
Zhou Zheng chuckled: "That day, Chen Youfa, the sales manager at Shanshui Mingjing, specifically called me, which is how I found out about you buying the house. So, I immediately told President Lu."
Shu Qingqing finally understood. No wonder that sales manager had been so enthusiastic that day and insisted on giving her a discount; it turned out he was planning to use this matter to curry favor with Lu Bochuan.
Zhou Zheng asked again: "Ma'am, then when would it be convenient for this designer to contact you?"
Shu Qingqing shook her head: "No need. The house is already renovated, so there's no need to find a designer."
Zhou Zheng's wife immediately stated that she had already prepared a housewarming gift and asked Shu Qingqing to definitely accept it when the time came.
Zhou Zheng and his wife soon left. Shu Qingqing returned to her car but wasn't in a hurry to drive back.
She hadn't expected Lu Bochuan to know about her buying the house. No wonder when she went home that day, Lu Bochuan had asked her what she did today.
She had replied at the time that she didn't do much.
Lu Bochuan's eyes had darkened, but he hadn't said anything more.
So Lu Bochuan was originally waiting for her to mention buying the house, and then he would bring up helping her find a designer?
But she... truly hadn't planned on mentioning the house purchase.
Shu Qingqing drove home. Not long after she walked through the door, Nanny Li led in a few women in professional attire. The people behind them were pulling an entire rack of clothes, while another person opened a case, taking out a pile of jewelry.
The woman leading them smiled at her: "Hello, Mrs. Lu. These are all the latest season's clothes and jewelry. Please see what you like."
Shu Qingqing was confused: "I didn't order these."
The woman said: "It was President Lu who instructed us to come."
Lu Bochuan?
Shu Qingqing was absent-minded and ended up not picking anything, so she had them leave.
Lu Bochuan didn't get home until after nine in the evening. As soon as he walked in, Shu Qingqing walked over.
"Lu Bochuan, if I want to buy clothes, I'll go shopping. Why did you have those people deliver clothes to the house today?"
Lu Bochuan walked over and squeezed her hand: "Because my wife refuses to use my card."
Shu Qingqing paused: "It's not that. It's just that I've been busy with work lately and haven't had time to go shopping, which is why I haven't used your card. Don't worry, President Lu, I can be quite a spendthrift."
Lu Bochuan smiled. "Qingqing, we are husband and wife. What's mine is yours. Don't draw such clear lines between us, okay?"
Shu Qingqing hesitated for a moment before nodding.
She admitted that the reason she didn't tell Lu Bochuan about buying the house was out of self-interest.
Growing up in an orphanage, she had never had a home that truly belonged to her, so she had a deep obsession with buying a house.
Although she now lived in a large villa, she didn't have a strong sense of belonging. In her heart, only a house bought entirely with her own money would be a home that truly belonged to her.
Coupled with the hidden danger of Li Dagang hanging over her head, she wasn't certain about her and Lu Bochuan's future.
This house was the last resort she left for herself. If the time came when Lu Bochuan wanted to... So from the beginning, she hadn't planned to tell Lu Bochuan.
But now, Lu Bochuan already knew about the house. After understanding her attitude, he chose to pretend not to know, which made Shu Qingqing feel a bit uncomfortable.
He even personally had things presented to her just to get her to swipe his card.
Actually, telling Lu Bochuan wouldn't have been a big deal. It wasn't like he would covet the little bit she had.
Shu Qingqing struggled internally for a while before saying: "Lu Bochuan, you know about me buying a house, don't you?"
Lu Bochuan was momentarily stunned before nodding.
Shu Qingqing continued: "Then why didn't you ask me why I didn't tell you about it?"
Lu Bochuan's eyes were deep. "You must have your reasons for not telling me. But I think it's because I haven't given you enough of a sense of security."
After Lu Bochuan finished speaking, he took her hand and led her to the study.
The study was large, surrounded entirely by bookshelves.
From the outside, you couldn't tell there was anything unusual about these bookshelves at all.
Lu Bochuan pulled her over to the rightmost bookshelf and reached out to open a cabinet, revealing a safe inside.
Immediately after, Lu Bochuan held her fingers and bent down.
Realizing what he was about to do, Shu Qingqing struggled slightly. "Lu Bochuan, let go first."
Lu Bochuan didn't speak. He stubbornly held her hand and pressed a string of passwords.
With a click, the safe door swung open.
"Did you memorize the passcode? All the valuables in the house are in here." Lu Bochuan squeezed her hand, then pulled out a document from the safe.
Lu Bochuan pulled her by the hand to sit on the sofa and placed the document in her hands.
On the cover of the document, the words "Prenuptial Agreement" were very conspicuous.
Originally, when the original owner of her body found out she was pregnant and came to Lu Bochuan, although Lu Bochuan agreed to marry her, he had his lawyers draft a prenuptial agreement.
Therefore, if the two were to divorce, Shu Qingqing wouldn't be able to get any of Lu Bochuan's assets.
The agreement Ren Qiuyang mentioned that day was exactly this one.
Shu Qingqing was puzzled. "Why are you bringing this out?"
As soon as her voice fell, she saw Lu Bochuan take the agreement from her hands and tear it to shreds.
