Chapter 3 He Doesn't Know Me Well?
"Hello, may I ask Ethan White..." Lilly accidentally said his full name, and when she saw the inquiring eyes of the receptionist, she immediately realized that something was wrong and quickly stopped and changed her words, "Excuse me, is Mr. White here?"
"Excuse me?" asked the receptionist.
Lilly politely reported her name again.
"Excuse me, are you looking, Mr. White...? What do you want to talk to Mr. White about? Do you have an appointment?"
"I'm his friend." Lilly thought for a while and said, "I have some work matters to discuss with him. I don't have an appointment. Sorry to bother you."
The receptionist saw that she looked determined, thought for a while, and called the Secretary. After a few words, she hung up and told her, "Please wait in the lobby. The secretary has gone to ask Mr. White for instructions."
Lilly nodded and sat down in the reception hall obediently. She couldn't help but think of a long time ago when that person was still an associate professor; it was easier to see him than now.
Although office doors and apartment doors were blocking her, she always found a way to open them, slip in, and then pester him with all her strength.
Unlike now, without his words, she couldn't even get into the elevator.
Ziyan knocked on the door of the president's office. When she heard "enter" from inside, she knew that the meeting was over, and immediately pushed the door in.
Ethan was browsing through a thick stack of documents in his hand while drinking black coffee.
"Ethan, Secretary Hani just came to report, and Lilly followed and waited in the hall. She said she had something to discuss with you about work."
Ethan frowned, turned a page of the document, signed with a pen, and then continued to look through the data report at the back without any response.
"Brother Ethan, don't you want to meet her? We can ask her about the original..." Ziyan was interrupted by him before he finished speaking.
"Forgot what I said?" He said in a flat tone, still staring at the document in his hand.
"Don't mention that again?" Ziyan thought about it and was a little dissatisfied, "But Brother, you were hurt so badly by her, don't you want to know why she left without saying goodbye-"
"Ziyan." He glanced at her coldly, then put down the coffee cup in his hand and said, "Get out."
Like the calm before the storm, no one could imagine his inner fatigue at this moment, deeply covering a sentence; he knew the reason why Lilly left without saying goodbye.
Perhaps because he knew it too well, his hands trembled slightly, and he took out a cigarette from the cigarette box and lit it. Only when he inhaled the familiar smell of tobacco into his lungs could he suppress the brutal hatred surging in his heart.
Just then, the door of the president's office was suddenly knocked.
Ziyan hurried to open the door. As soon as the door opened, he saw Secretary Hani and Lilly standing two steps away from the door, seemingly talking about something.
Ethan turned his head and stared at the girl outside the door, who was smiling and acting coquettishly at the Secretary, and her eyes gradually darkened.
After the Secretary knocked on the door, Lilly still thanked her and chatted with her for a few more words. She smiled brightly and spoke softly. In fact, this was all thanks to Ethan. If she hadn't chased him shamelessly for four years in college, she wouldn't have been able to develop such a thick skin and glib tongue.
She was thinking about Ethan, coaxing the Secretary, praising her hairstyle for a while, and praising her professional ethics for a while. Just as she was about to continue, the door of the president's office opened, and she saw Ethan at a glance... and the cigarette in his hand.
‘When did he learn to smoke?
As far as I can remember, in all the years I've known him, I've never seen him smoke or drink like an ordinary man.’
At that time, she was not ashamed at all, and teased him carelessly, saying: "Ethan, you don't smoke or drink, you are simply a national treasure, you know, who can accept you as a national treasure is really lucky, hehehe... Otherwise, you should be wronged and let me accept you, okay?"
In addition, Ethan hates the smell of cigarettes. When she was in Provence, she played with a few classmates who smoked with similar temperaments. She accidentally got the smell of cigarettes on her body, which directly caused Ethan to give her a cold face for a whole week.
Ethan, holding a cigarette between his fingers, turned around and stood, his figure against the light, adding a cold and arrogant temperament to the floating smoke.
Lilly felt sad, and the conversation with the Secretary began to become absent-minded.
At this time, he had already put out the cigarette and walked out of the office. Ziyan followed closely behind.
"Hani, how many years have you been a secretary?" he asked Secretary with a cold expression instead of looking at Lilly.
The secretary quickly replied, "Six years."
"You are not short of experience, but you are not competent enough. You have been working for six years, but you still don't know the rules?" His eyes cut into the Secretary's face like a knife. Secretary's hair stood up, and cold sweat ran down her face.
Before she could argue, she heard the CEO continue in a cold voice, "Or are you so powerful that you can bring random people to knock on my office door without my permission? How about I give up the position of CEO, and you take it?"
This time Secretary was completely trembling, repeatedly apologizing and saying she didn't dare, then turned around and wanted to take Lilly away. He thought Lilly was really the CEO's friend, so she was willing to bring people here. Now it seems that she was completely wrong. Judging from Mr. White's attitude, they should be more like enemies...
The secretary was anxious, fearing that she would anger him again if she was slow. She asked Lilly to leave, but Lilly refused. She got anxious and grabbed Lilly's arm, who was trying to resist, and tried to push her out.
"Ethan, Ethan, I really have something important to tell you!" Lilly blocked the Secretary's hand and hurriedly shouted at Ethan.