Chapter 342: Death-Exemption Gold Medal

Upon hearing Lu Yunque’s words, everyone in the meeting breathed a sigh of relief. They had finally survived another close call today.

Mo Bin watched the relieved crowd, silently patting himself on the back.

’Thank Miss Yun. Otherwise, even if you weren’t fired today, he would’ve skinned you all alive.’

Leaving the conference room, Lu Yunque went straight back to his office.

Sure enough, he saw Yun Zijin in his office. His foul mood, from dealing with a team of completely useless employees, was instantly soothed.

Lu Yunque walked over, wrapped Yun Zijin in his arms, and bent down to gently kiss her forehead.

"You went to do the paternity test with the Situ family today?"

Lu Yunque knew about the agreement between Yun Zijin and Situ Wenze. He had originally planned to accompany Yun Zijin today, but she had refused.

In any case, with Zero One and the others by Yun Zijin’s side, he wasn’t worried about Situ Wenze and his group doing anything irrational.

Yun Zijin nodded. "I went. But we have to wait until this afternoon for the results."

As for what the results were, it didn’t really make any difference to Yun Zijin.

"No matter what the results are, I’ll be with you."

Lu Yunque sometimes felt that Yun Zijin’s life story was quite melodramatic, but regardless of her origins, it wouldn’t change his desire to marry her.

"Hmph. Don’t tell me you were thinking of siding with the Situ family?"

Lu Yunque gave a helpless smile. He was finally starting to understand what people online meant when they said women could be unreasonable.

"What are you thinking? We’re a team. If you’re unhappy... I can... with future business with the Situ family..."

Before Lu Yunque could finish, Yun Zijin stopped him. "I’m not that kind of unreasonable girl. When it comes to business, you do what you have to do. You don’t need to make irrational decisions for my sake."

Since the Situ family had been able to develop so well in France, they must have their strengths.

If the Lu Group canceled its partnership with the Situ family just because of her, it would be a losing proposition.

Yun Zijin didn’t want to hear any negative gossip about her or Lu Yunque in Dijing later on.

"If the results come out and you really are Situ Yunliang’s daughter, will you go back to France with them?"

Although the Situ family wanted to break into the Hua Country market, their main family was still in France. Lu Yunque was afraid Yun Zijin would follow Situ Yunliang back to France, and they would end up in a long-distance relationship.

"Of course not. I’ve been an orphan for 21 years. I wouldn’t be used to going back to France with them."

Yun Zijin had been rather pampered by Randomly Spend by now. Forcing herself to go back to France with Situ Wenze and the others would be an ordeal. She might as well not have done the paternity test in the first place.

"What if they ask you to go back? After all, in France, you have grandparents, uncles, and so on."

Situ Yunliang was the apple of the Situ family’s eye, and Yun Zijin was the only girl in her generation of grandchildren. Lu Yunque felt the Situ family would probably cherish her.

A sweet, precious little granddaughter—who wouldn’t love that?

Just look at how much his own grandparents doted on Yun Zijin; you could tell how well-liked she was by the older generation.

"I’m not some poor little orphan girl with nothing to my name. Asking me to give up everything I have in Hua Country to go to France? In their dreams."

Hearing Yun Zijin’s firm stance, Lu Yunque relaxed a little.

As long as she was still in Hua Country, everything would be fine.

His mood lifted, and with a grand gesture, Lu Yunque had Mo Bin arrange afternoon tea for the entire company. It was his treat.

Seeing the numbers on the order form Mo Bin brought over, Yun Zijin’s eyes lit up.

"This... is actually pretty cheap, huh? How about I treat everyone today? Assistant Mo, give me the payment account, and I’ll transfer you the money."

There were probably several hundred to a thousand people in the entire Lu Group Building. With a budget of 100 per person, the total would only come out to tens of thousands.

But Yun Zijin had a spending mission, and tens of thousands was still money.

’Hmm, next time I can try a budget of 200 per person.’

Lu Yunque gave Yun Zijin a suspicious look. ’What a silly girl, fighting to pay the bill.’

Even when buying clothes or jewelry, Yun Zijin never let Lu Yunque pay. Every time he offered, she’d get upset with him. There was really nothing Lu Yunque could do.

Sometimes, Lu Yunque really wanted to post a question online: "What do you do when your girlfriend won’t spend your money? Waiting for an answer online, it’s urgent."

"Miss Yun, this bill has already been paid. I was just bringing it for the CEO to review."

Mo Bin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. It was the first time he’d ever seen a girlfriend who didn’t want to spend her boyfriend’s money and was always thinking about how to spend her own.

’If only my wife could...’ ’No, I can’t think about it. Just thinking about it makes me even more miserable.’

When Yun Zijin heard Mo Bin say the bill had already been paid, she instantly lost interest.

’An order she couldn’t pay for was none of her concern.’

"You want to spend money that badly?"

Lu Yunque had no idea how Yun Zijin had developed this habit of always wanting to spend money, but since she wanted to, it was only natural for him to find ways for her to do it.

Yun Zijin nodded. "Okay, I’ll come clean. I have this condition where I get antsy all over if I don’t spend money."

"This week’s spending target is twelve million. Do you know anywhere I can go to blow a ton of money all at once and have a great time doing it?"

Yun Zijin didn’t even expect to make back this twelve million. In the end, Randomly Spend would just return it to her anyway.

The more she spent, the more she had. That was Yun Zijin in a nutshell.

"I can arrange that. But the money might just go down the drain. Are you sure you want to?"

"Do I look like the kind of person who’d lose their cool over a mere ten or twenty million?"

She didn’t even know how many hundreds of millions were in her account balance. She could definitely afford to blow ten or twenty million.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have dared to make that bold promise to build a lab for Tang Zhaosong.

"Alright. I’ll pick you up tomorrow and take you somewhere to spend money."

’Whatever his girlfriend wants to accomplish, a boyfriend should, of course, unconditionally support her and help her achieve it.’

"You catch on quick, kid. Your big sister has a reward for you!"

With her spending mission for the week solved, Yun Zijin happily gave Lu Yunque a fleeting kiss.

Lu Yunque wasn’t about to pass up a freebie that came knocking on his door. As Yun Zijin pulled back, he moved with lightning reflexes, pulling her into his arms to claim a bigger reward for himself.

...

After a long while, Lu Yunque finally let her go. Their foreheads touched, and he lowered his gaze to stare at Yun Zijin’s lips, which had turned a deeper cherry-red from their kiss. He had to use immense self-control to fight the urge to continue.

Yun Zijin struggled for a moment, pulling out of Lu Yunque’s embrace and giving him a light push to put some distance between them.

’This guy... he was going a little too far today.’

"You... This is an office! Aren’t you afraid someone will walk in?"

"Mo Bin knows you’re here, so he won’t just walk in. As for everyone else... they wouldn’t dare enter without my permission."

He couldn’t suppress the smile playing on his lips.

Yun Zijin shot Lu Yunque a glare. "I’m hungry. Go order some food."