What are you doing?

  Chen Manhong and Cao Yingjie were taken aback, turned their heads, and saw Tang Kexin and Xiao Rou coming out from behind the bar again, preparing to move large bunches of lilies towards the wine area. Chen Manhong's face was a bit embarrassed as she said: "Director, I'm very sorry. Kexin is a new employee who is still in training, so she hasn't officially started working yet. However, during her free time, she will stay in the restaurant and help out with her colleagues."

  Jiang Tiankuai remained silent for a moment, then flipped another page of the menu before saying, "How can you do this kind of work during business hours?"

  Chen Manhong immediately explained again: "Because the greening department sent flowers late today. And the lilies in the restaurant must be inserted during business hours in the evening, so they rushed to finish on time. Please wait a moment, I'll have them stop work right away."

  Man Hong finished speaking and immediately turned around and walked towards Tang Ke Xin and Xiao Rou's direction.

  Zhuang Haoran glanced at Jiang Tiankui, then casually picked up the warm water and took a small sip. As the warm and refreshing water flowed down his throat, he seemed to ask nonchalantly: "Is Ruyan doing well?"

  Jiang Tiankuai's hand paused, seeing a certain famous dish, and then faintly raised his head, looking at Zhuang Huangran, smiling and saying: "She mentioned you to me some time ago. I almost forgot that when you were in kindergarten, she was in the older class."

  Zhuang Haoran stopped and looked at Jiang Tiankui with a half-smile.

  Jiang Tiankuai also smiled at him.

  "I'm hungry." Zhuang Hao Ran quickly flipped open the menu, browsed through it and mentioned some Western dishes: Marseille fish soup, stewed lamb with potatoes, roasted shrimp soufflé, foie gras, vegetable consommé, and Jiang Tian Kuai also ordered two dishes. Chen Man Hong, the executive chef, immediately took over the order and headed to the kitchen. Cao Ying Jie smiled and came forward saying: "What would the two CEOs like to drink?"

  Jiang Tiankuai said lightly: "Let's not talk about wine and water for now, let's just gather together as old friends."

  Cao Yingjie listened silently and glanced at Zhuang Huanran.

  Zhuang Hanran finally lifted his head, half-smiling as he looked at Cao Yingjie. Before returning to the country, he was still a young and inexperienced boy, but after three years of tempering, he had become more mature and stable. He praised, "Indeed, Director Jiang's leadership is excellent, having returned for only three years and already becoming so mature and stable."

  Jiang Tiankuai smiled and said, "He graduated from the Royal College of Hotel Management with the highest record score, assigned to Buckingham Palace, but returned to a Western restaurant, wasting his talent. I'm usually busy with many things and don't often meet him in person, so now that you're back, take good care of training him. Our Asian hotel needs top-notch talent like him. He's been at the Western restaurant for three years too, it's about time he shows off his skills."

  Zhuang Hanran listened and smiled slightly, then looked at Cao Yingjie.

  Cao Yingjie stood beside him, also seeming to look at Zhuang Haoran with a pitiful expression.

  Zhuang Haoran looked at Jiang Tiankui's indifferent expression again, and smiled: "Then I'll take him away, so he won't be a trouble to you here."

  The phone rang at this time, Jiang Tiankuai silently took out his mobile phone and happened to see that it was Ruyan's call. He looked at Zhuang Haoran and gave him an apologetic look before answering the phone: "Uh-huh."

  "I heard Haoran is back?" Ruo Mo said with a hint of joy.

  "Hmm." Jiang Tiankui simply responded faintly.

  "My car just happens to be passing by the hotel, I think I'll go take a look," said Mo Han with a smile.

  "Okay." Jiang Tiankuai responded lightly and hung up the phone, then turned to Zhuang Haoran with a smile and said: "Ru Mo will come over later, please wait for her here."

  "Really?" Zhuang Hao Ran heard this and couldn't help but smile with joy, saying: "Then I must go pick out a good bottle of wine for her, she loves drinking sherry."

  "Do you need a wine steward?"

  "No need. I'll go pick it out myself." Zhuang Hanran said with a smile, then looked at Jiang Tiankui and asked: "What would you like to drink?"

  "Go to my wine rack and get that 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon," said Jiang Tiankuai.

  "Yes!" Cao Yingjie immediately nodded, ordered someone to call the front desk, and then had the front desk bring the 1997 red wine from the presidential suite. Only then did he take the menu and hand it over to the administrative chef who was standing by. The administrative chef took the menu and quickly walked towards the kitchen.

  Behind the counter!

  Xiao Rou held a pair of scissors, trimming the lily's branches and leaves while raising her head to gaze at Tang Ke Xin with an air of mystery.

  Tang Ke Xin also held a pair of scissors, helping her neatly trim the lily's leaves, glancing at Xiao Rou as she cut, and smilingly asked: "What's wrong?"

  "Just now, when President Zhuang was getting on the elevator, what did he say to you? We're all very curious. Tell me quietly, I won't tell anyone else. What secret did President Zhuang share with you?" Little Rong stared at Tang Ke Xin with wide eyes, looking silly and asking in a soft voice.

  "...no...no...nothing..." Tang Ke Xin said a bit nervously while looking at Xiao Rou.

  Xiao Rou deliberately paused, looked at her for a moment, before saying: "I don't believe it. He seems to be very familiar with you, and he's so affectionate when calling your name, even telling you to remember the secrets you shared."

  "There's nothing to do." Tang Ke Xin sighed helplessly, then looked at Xiao Rou and said: "That was when I went downstairs to deliver flowers just now, my name tag was reversed, and it was seen by Director Zhuang. He threw me into the elevator and told me that in this place, everything can be turned upside down, except for names, which cannot be turned upside down."

  "Is that all?" Xiaoyu picked up a bunch of flowers, she had wanted to cut them earlier, but then discovered this flower was also missing a petal. She grumbled angrily: "The landscaping department just knows how to bully people, they know our flowers are for the dining hall, so they take all the good ones and send us some that aren't very good. I cut ten stems and at least two of them have missing petals, it's so annoying."

  Tang Ke Xin smiled and picked up the lily flower with a missing petal, carefully placing it among the bunch of incomplete lilies. Only then did she say, "Give them all to me. I'll take them to the wine room, find a red wine bottle for Sherry, and have it inserted."

  "Were you nervous at that time? Your left face..." Xiaorou didn't dare to mention this matter, because their colleagues in the restaurant actually all knew about Ke Xin's left face, but due to Chen Manhong's warning and also because of the good relationship between colleagues, everyone carefully avoided mentioning it.

  "What's the tension? There is no contact between him and me." Tang Ke Xin looked at the lily flowers that were almost all cut, picked up her own bunch of lilies, stood up, but found that her left shoulder was aching with a sharp pain, hurting her to cry out softly. Man Chen apologized in between.

  "What's wrong?" Xiaorou threw away the lily flower and looked at Tang Ke Xin, asking anxiously.

  Tang Ke Xin held a lily in one hand, her whole body sweating and panting with difficulty. She stretched out her hand to gently place it on her left shoulder and said: "It hurts so much. There's an old wound on my left shoulder that was stabbed by a knife, but this pain hasn't recurred for a long time. I don't know why it suddenly hurts again today."

  "Why don't you go see a doctor?" Little Rong said with concern immediately.

  "It's okay. I have some medicinal wine in my bag, I'll head back first." Tang Ke Xin had just finished speaking when she picked up the lily and took a few difficult steps to leave.

  "I'll take you back." Xiaorou said immediately.

  "No need. Later, the manager will see you and we'll be in trouble again for slacking off together." Tang Ke Xin said weakly, then hugged the broken lily flowers tightly, gasping in pain, and quickly walked into the Western restaurant, back to the wine storage room. She was already drenched in sweat, and with great effort, she suppressed her pain, hastily put down the lilies, and rushed to the table, picked up the pain-relieving oil, and carefully looked around at her colleagues outside, who were busily working. Since she was really in too much pain, she quickly closed the door, thinking that without the manager's orders, no one was allowed to enter the wine storage area. She swiftly pressed on her left shoulder, trembling and shaking as she made her way to the wine rack that Xiao Rou had told her would avoid the surveillance cameras. Half-kneeling down, she quickly unbuttoned the buttons on her vest, enduring the heart-wrenching pain, undid a few buttons on her white shirt, revealing her snow-white shoulders, and heavily gasping for air, picked up the pain-relieving oil, poured it onto her back shoulder, and rubbed it in, panting in agony...

  The door of the wine room was suddenly pushed open, and a elegant and handsome figure flashed in. He stepped forward with bright leather shoes, walking towards me.

  Tang Ke Xin's eyes widened and the medicinal oil in her hand fell to the ground with a loud crash.

  Zhuang Huanran stopped in front of a certain red wine rack, his eyes flashing quickly, and immediately saw that beside the Sherry wine rack, there was a figure flashing by. He then slowed down his footsteps and walked over with rapt attention.

  Tang Ke Xin's face immediately turned pale, her hands trembling as she buttoned up her white shirt while scrambling to get up from the ground. She didn't even dare to breathe heavily as she tried to move away from that figure. But just as she had turned around, before she could even finish buttoning up her shirt, a person's shadow suddenly flashed in front of her. She was so startled that she covered her head with both hands and let out a loud cry: "Ahhhhh———"

  Zhuang Huanran quickly stretched out his hand, pulled Cai Xi's slender waist tightly, and held her in his arms. He covered her small mouth with one hand and stared at her with a pair of full and sharp eyes.

  Xiao Tong quickly pushed open the door and led two bodyguards in, asking hastily: "Chairman, I heard a scream. Are you okay?"

  Zhuang Haoran's expression seemed to be smiling but not quite, his head lowered, looking at Tang Ke Xin who was staring with wide eyes, like a little dog, comically staring at himself, he didn't dare make a sound. He suddenly smiled and said in a low voice: "Just now we disturbed the staff here. It's okay now. You can go out first."

  Xiao Tong looked at the multi-layered wine rack with some unease, but there was no sound. After thinking for a moment, he had to withdraw from the wine rack.

  The entire red wine region was filled with a quiet and ambiguous atmosphere.

  Tang Ke Xin was panting, not daring to move, her hands clenched into small fists and placed on his firm chest muscles. She knew that if he relaxed his grip even slightly, her unbuttoned shirt would fall open, exposing herself completely!

  Zhuang Haoran was still gazing deeply at her profile, with a hint of memory that suddenly pierced his mind. At this moment, he heard some noise outside the door, and Jiang Tiankuai walked into the red wine area...

  My body is not feeling well today, so I'm typing a bit slowly. Sorry about that. Today's update ends here. Tomorrow at 9 o'clock, I'll be ready to update again.