The note was passed to Na Muzhong while the two men were looking away. Na Muzhong thought the CEO's wife wanted to tell her something in secret, but upon reading the note, she nearly fainted.
"CEO's wife, is it really that obvious?" Na Muzhong asked incredulously.
Shen Xiaoyan lowered her head and wrote another sentence: "Your dark circles are also a bit heavy."
Na Muzhong: "I can't live anymore, I can't live anymore!"
"Speaking of which, Old Lu's dark circles are also a bit heavy. You two should restrain yourselves lately, lest you deplete your kidneys!" Zheng Wei said casually.
As Zheng Wei spoke, Na Muzhong looked back at Lu Taobao. When she looked, it was indeed true, Lu Taobao's dark circles were a bit heavy.
"It's all your fault," Na Muzhong whispered in disgust. Every night, Lu Taobao was the real king. He wasn't as talkative in bed as he was now.
"Sorry, I haven't been out of the dating scene for long and can't control myself." Lu Taobao said this in front of the three of them without blushing.
Shen Xiaoyan felt like she had heard something incredibly inappropriate and quickly lowered her head to eat honestly. Zheng Wei, however, glared at Lu Taobao: "There are still children in my family, can you speak a little more subtly?"
Lu Taobao thought for a moment before understanding what Zheng Wei meant by "children."
Lu Taobao: "You brought it up yourself, so it won't happen next time."
"I heard you bought a lot of clothes today. Where are they? Let me see?" Hearing that she had gained weight, Na Muzhong was only five-tenths full and didn't want to eat anymore. She looked behind Zheng Wei and the others, wanting to see what CEO Zheng had shopped for and then to mock the CEO's taste to her heart's content.
But looking this way, she saw nothing.
"He had them delivered directly home!" Shen Xiaoyan, seeing her expression, knew what she was thinking and wrote this on the note.
"Delivered directly home? Then how much did you buy?" Baby supplies, shouldn't they take up too much space?
"He bought two shopping carts full," Shen Xiaoyan explained further.
"Wow, a CEO is indeed a CEO," Na Muzhong exclaimed.
"When you get pregnant, I can also send you two carts," Zheng Wei said nonchalantly.
"No, I'm not used to having children around yet," Na Muzhong quickly waved her hand.
Children were not pets, they were humans. Once there were children, it was obvious how much they would affect her life.
Lu Taobao's eyes darkened.
"That's a good idea. At least pregnancy is more complicated than I imagined. If I had known she would suffer so much, I wouldn't have wanted her to get pregnant. You all saw how uncomfortable she was before. It's okay now, but in a couple of months, she'll have trouble moving, and her legs and feet will swell." Zheng Wei spoke while looking down at Shen Xiaoyan, his fingers tightly gripping hers. Although these things made him very fearful, her eyes always made him easily compromise.
"I'm scared just hearing about it," Na Muzhong couldn't imagine herself pregnant. Moreover, her temper was not as peaceful as the CEO's wife's; she could even be described as somewhat hot-tempered. Wasn't it said that pregnant women's emotions fluctuate more? For a moment, Na Muzhong strongly resisted the idea of pregnancy.
But she didn't notice that in the past, she wouldn't have even thought about it.
...
After bidding farewell to Zheng Wei and his wife, Lu Taobao drove Na Muzhong away. Na Muzhong didn't feel anything at first, but after passing an intersection, she realized this was not the way to Zheng's Group.
"Where are you taking me?" Na Muzhong looked at Lu Taobao with a vigilant expression.
"Didn't I tell you I didn't want to go to the group this afternoon?" Lu Taobao asked.
"Yes, and then?" Lu Taobao had indeed said that during lunch.
"So we're going home," Lu Taobao replied in his usual calm tone.
"What does that have to do with me?" Na Muzhong frowned.
"Of course, because I'm going home to sleep with my wife."
Na Muzhong: "..."
"You're the CEO, but I'm not. I still have a lot of work to do!" Na Muzhong looked at Lu Taobao somewhat indignantly, but Lu Taobao had no intention of stopping. He was currently sitting in the driver's seat, his expression blank, with gold-rimmed glasses on his nose. He looked... he looked like a wolf in sheep's clothing!
"I've already requested leave for you and Old Zheng. Also, when I picked you up at noon, you said yourself that you had finished all your work in the morning," Lu Taobao said. When he was serious, his logic was indeed very strong.
Na Muzhong made a gesture of defeat. She leaned back in the passenger seat and said in a speechless tone, "Have you forgotten about our dark circles?"
If he didn't torment her every day, would she have dark circles?
"It's temporary, it doesn't matter. We'll recover after some rest," Lu Taobao was very open-minded about this. He was not young anymore; wasn't this kind of reaction normal?
"But I won't look good with dark circles!" Na Muzhong felt like she was punching cotton.
Lu Taobao: "Then shall I request tomorrow's leave for you as well?"
Na Muzhong felt like she couldn't sit still anymore; she wanted to jump out of the car!
"If you say that, won't the CEO know why I'm taking leave?" Na Muzhong sat in the passenger seat, extremely annoyed. Seeing her anger, Lu Taobao showed no signs of relenting. Since Na Muzhong was already in the car, even if she was unwilling, she could only glare angrily.
Because this matter had not been approved by her, and Lu Taobao had no intention of discussing it with her, Na Muzhong held back her anger, and the word "breakup" even surfaced in her mind! The appearance of these two words was enough to show how angry she was.
It was also because of her anger that she didn't look at the road at all until Lu Taobao parked in an unfamiliar parking lot, and she finally came to her senses.
Her apartment complex and Lu Taobao's apartment complex were not like this. This parking lot looked so strange. It was such a large parking lot, yet there were no cars. This was very eerie.
"Hey, President Lu, you're not planning to... deal with me here, are you? What kind of fetish is this?" What Lu Taobao had said earlier hadn't left Na Muzhong's mind.
Lu Taobao's lips twitched. He glanced at Na Muzhong and then personally came to open the door for her: "Let's go, I'll take you somewhere."
Lu Taobao was always a man of few words and was rather reserved. Na Muzhong saw that he didn't refute her, so she thought he was still thinking about that matter. She sneered and followed behind Lu Taobao.
Lu Taobao was very tall and took long strides, but as soon as he touched Na Muzhong, he deliberately shortened his steps and, like a compulsive behavior, insisted on walking side-by-side with Na Muzhong.
This parking lot was larger than Na Muzhong had imagined. The more she walked, the more she realized that today was different.
"Hey, did you buy a new house?" Na Muzhong asked curiously.
"You'll know when we get upstairs," Lu Taobao said, revealing nothing, clearly playing coy.
Na Muzhong pouted listlessly, but then her gaze suddenly landed on something. When she realized what the cartoon character stuck to the wall was, she instinctively grabbed Lu Taobao's arm: "President Lu, look what that is?"
"Probably some bear," Lu Taobao glanced at it. He didn't recognize the bear cub.
"Don't you have a childhood? That's Winnie the Pooh!"
Lu Taobao: "I don't recognize it."
Na Muzhong: "..."
Lu Taobao: "I've never heard of it."
"What kind of neighborhood is this? Why is the parking lot so childish? Or did someone's child draw it?" Na Muzhong still couldn't figure it out and felt that everything here was strange.
Apart from the earlier remark, Lu Taobao remained silent for the rest of the time, not saying another word. Seeing this, Na Muzhong also sheepishly fell silent.
However, when the two of them walked out of the parking lot, the scene before them was truly dazzling.
No wonder there were cartoon murals! No wonder! No wonder Lu Taobao was silent.
Before Na Muzhong's eyes was a huge amusement park. But the amusement park was not as noisy as she had imagined; it was so quiet that, apart from a few professional staff, there was no one else.
And as Na Muzhong walked to the entrance, a very sweet-looking little girl reached out and placed a pink rabbit ear hair clip on Na Muzhong's head. Lu Taobao stood behind Na Muzhong and then loosened the hair Na Muzhong had tied up.
However, she was still wearing a sharp business suit. Lu Taobao took a very high-end garment bag from the little girl and asked Na Muzhong, "Do you want to change your clothes? Your current outfit might not be convenient for playing."
While Lu Taobao was speaking, Na Muzhong was still a bit dazed.
She deliberately tried not to let the surprise in her eyes show, suppressing the urge to scream from within. It wasn't until Lu Taobao asked her a question that she looked up at him. For some reason, she felt that at this moment, Lu Taobao's eyes hidden behind his glasses looked even better.
"Are you changing too?" Na Muzhong looked down at the bag. She could clearly see it was a light pink tracksuit. Na Muzhong felt a bit embarrassed if only she wore it and Lu Taobao didn't.
Upon hearing Na Muzhong's reply, Lu Taobao's lips curved into a smile. He nodded: "I'm changing too."
His was also prepared; it was black.
"Let's go change," Na Muzhong smiled when she got a satisfactory answer.
"En," Lu Taobao said, holding the garment bag in one hand and extending his other hand to hold Na Muzhong's.
There was no one else in the amusement park. Na Muzhong looked around and then looked up at the man beside her and asked, "Did you book this place?"
"En, it's a small brand under the Lu family. I thought you'd like it. I've never brought a girl here before," Lu Taobao explained.
"Who likes it?" Na Muzhong said stubbornly.
Lu Taobao heard this, and he stopped. His eyes showed a hint of confusion and inquiry: "You don't like it here? Then shall we go to Tokyo now? I heard there's an amusement park there with a very good reputation."
Lu Taobao's face was not joking at all. Seeing him like this, Na Muzhong knew that if she nodded now, Lu Taobao would definitely take her there.
"I was just saying. I don't dislike it." Something was gradually melting away in her heart. Na Muzhong hummed softly.
Lu Taobao tightened his grip on her hand: "Bao, don't force yourself."
Na Muzhong was about to be moved, but she was startled by Lu Taobao's address.
Her whole body trembled. "Bao, Bao"...
"Calling you by your name feels too formal. You don't like being called Xiao Ju, so I can only call you Bao, or perhaps Treasure?" Lu Taobao's words were full of sweet talk, but he looked at her with such earnest eyes that Na Muzhong couldn't even find fault with him.
"If you don't like it, we can change it," Lu Taobao said, his eyes flashing with a hint of hurt when Na Muzhong remained silent.
Na Muzhong was stunned to see the emotion in Lu Taobao's eyes. Just as she was about to say something, she heard Lu Taobao say again, "Old Zheng calls Shen Xiaoyan 'wife,' so should I call you wife too?"
"The previous one is better!" Na Muzhong was unconsciously led astray by Lu Taobao.
Lu Taobao heard this and readily nodded: "Okay, Bao."