Teacher, spare me his cruelty

  The driver was already waiting outside, and the two of them got into his car together and left. After getting in the car, Xu Liu felt that his face looked even more unpleasant, but this time she couldn't think of anything to make him unhappy, and she hadn't said much to Fang Dongchen either. Unable to understand, she could only sigh and turn her head to look at the streets passing by outside.

  Lu Zhou couldn't help but feel even more annoyed at her nonchalant attitude, just now she had actually called Fang Dongchen "Dongchen" with such familiarity. How could she call another man by such a intimate name, while not being able to call him Zhouyue?

  The two of them remained silent all the way until they arrived at the hotel for dinner, and he still didn't have a good expression on his face. The people who invited him to dinner were startled when they saw his expression, and they exchanged awkward glances with each other, wondering if they had offended him in some way.

  Because he was too scary, those people shifted their focus to her, and she herself was born wrong and young and tender, a group of old men's eyes lit up at once.

  "Hey, Director Lu, who is this beautiful woman...?"

  He sat at the head of the table with a cold face and refused to speak, so she had to awkwardly introduce herself.

  "I am General Lu's secretary, my name is Xu Liuwei, nice to meet you!"

  "Haha! So it's Secretary Xu, great! Great!"

  One of the old men took the opportunity to pat her shoulder, she instinctively dodged, a strong sense of disgust rising in her heart, but seeing him with an air of indifference, she could only laugh dryly. The old man then squinted his eyes and continued speaking.

  "I'll take good care of you!"

  He sat in the first place, while she was just a secretary and sat in another position, diagonally opposite him. She was attending such an occasion for the first time and felt constrained and tense. The people who came were all old men in their 40s and 50s, with big heads and ears, and beer bellies, making people lose their appetite at a glance.

  He was smoking at the other end, she kept drinking tea on her own seat, several old men were roughly arranging their seats and laughing, finally leaving a position next to her, one of them smiled very ambiguously.

  "Let Secretary Xu have the one next to him, beautiful women have always been Old Cui's favorite!"

  Several others burst out laughing and exclaimed "good" in unison, with one of them chuckling and saying to Lu Zhou,

  "Lao Cui just came back from attending a wedding banquet at noon, got drunk and was sent home to sleep by the driver. But I heard that tonight, Lu Zong is willing to give us face and have dinner with us together. He said even if he has to crawl, he will crawl here!"

  Xu Liu'ou frowned upon hearing this. These people were so eager to curry favor with him that they got drunk and still came to see him?

  Just as everyone was talking, a short and stout man stumbled in from the doorway. Everyone quickly invited him to sit down in the seat next to her. She felt a strong smell of alcohol hit her nose, and before she could even see what he looked like, he grabbed her hand.

  "Who is this beauty? Why does she look so familiar?"

  As he spoke, the whole person leaned in front of her, she almost couldn't help but slap him. She finally knew why people said beauties were his favorite, because those eyes that were dazed were a wolf's. She frowned and struggled to free her hand, but the man held it even tighter. Someone next to him introduced him as President Lu's secretary, and the man smiled with an extremely flirtatious expression, his fat hands constantly touching hers.

  "So it was Sister Xu after all..."

  She looked up at him across the way for help, but saw that he was just leaning there indifferently smoking a cigarette. Heartbroken, she gritted her teeth and struggled free from the old man's grasp, saying coldly...

  "Director Choi, please be careful!"

  That surname Cui was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing again.

  "Spicy enough, cold enough, I like it!"

  Xu Liu'ou sat in her own seat, pursing her lips and not saying a word, facing the old man's harassment, his indifference made her heart cold.

  The dinner party started, they asked her what wine she would drink, she said with a hint of apology:

  "Sorry, I don't drink!"

  "Don't drink? Is it okay not to drink in this situation? Are you saying that's what Mr. Lu said?"

  The old man sitting next to her immediately stood up and protested inarticulately as soon as she said that.

  She looked at him with hopeful eyes, hoping he would allow her not to drink. He knew her capacity for wine, and shouldn't be so heartless as to watch her get drunk. Unfortunately, not only did he not stop her, but he also extinguished the cigarette in his hand and indifferently ordered her to drink.

  "Have a few drinks with several bosses!"

  Her face suddenly turned pale, her hands holding the wine glass in front of her trembled uncontrollably as she tried to prevent them from refilling it. In a moment of distraction, the old man next to her snatched the glass away and poured her a full cup of red wine with a gurgling sound.

  "Come on, come on, Sister Xu, have a drink of red wine! Red wine is good for beauty and skin care, it's what you women love most!"

  As she watched him pour himself a glass of red wine, she felt a little better inside. If he savored it slowly, he shouldn't get too drunk. But what she didn't expect was that as soon as the waiter had filled everyone's glasses, the old man who led the toast picked up his cup and said

  "This is the first cup of wine, it's a great honor to have Mr. Lu join us for dinner tonight, I suggest, let's all drink up!"

  That man finished speaking and downed a large cup of red wine in one gulp, the others followed suit. She saw him also drink up without any expression, she was stunned and foolishly stood there, to her, red wine was something to be slowly savored, how could they...

  A whole mouthful of dryness?

  What's more, with such a ferocious drinking method, she got drunk directly after downing this cup, and hasn't eaten anything until now! Her stomach definitely can't take it, so she scrunched up her eyebrows and picked up the large full cup of wine in front of her and took a small sip.

  The old man next to her wine glass refused again, stretching out his hand to pat her shoulder.

  "I said, Sister Xu, isn't this unfair? Look at everyone else working hard, and you just take a small sip, what does that mean? Do you look down on us or what?"

  "Sorry, Director Cui, I have a limited capacity for alcohol, I really can't drink like this..."

  She suppressed her disgust and forced a smile to make excuses for herself, thinking that the old man would directly pick up her wine glass and hand it over to her.

  "No way, no way! I don't care what your reason is. If you don't drink this cup of wine today, it's a slap in the face to us!"

  She had never been through such a scene, how could she be the opponent of these old men in the wine industry? After three pushes and two pushes, she was still forced to drink that full cup of red wine. Moreover, he didn't care about her at all, making those old men think she was a newcomer who was easy to bully, so they refilled her cup again.

  She sat there dizzily, staring at the terrifying wine in front of her, feeling an increasing chill in her heart, and tears welling up in her eyes. She looked up again at him across from her, and he was still looking at her with that same expressionless face.

  At this moment, she finally understood that the humiliation given to her by these old men tonight was his punishment for her. He watched with his eyes open, letting her hurt, letting her be embarrassed, and letting her know what it's like to be ignored by others.

  She couldn't express the feelings in her heart, which were bitter, resentful, sad and indignant. Others treated her so unfeelingly. So when those old men raised their glasses to her again, she didn't think twice before picking up the wine glass in front of her, closing her eyes and drinking it all in one gulp. When she put down the glass, she finally saw a flash of annoyance in his eyes.

  Hehe? Didn't he think she would go all out? He wouldn't feel heartache for her, so why be angry? Just let her degenerate and that's it. She raised her eyes to look at the large group of old men who were gradually overlapping into several silhouettes, and curled up the corners of her mouth in a self-mocking smile. The old man beside her saw that she had already started to get drunk, and hastily poured her another cup.

  "Come on, Sister Xiu, brother would like to toast you a cup of wine..."

  Looking at Lu Zong ignoring her, he must have thought that once the banquet was over, he would not care about her anymore. How could he not take advantage of such a delicate girl? Xu Liuwen had already drunk his eyes blurry, took the wine cup and drank it, but before this cup of wine reached his mouth, he heard a loud roar from across the table.

  "That's enough!"

  The anger in his voice was so intense that it made her hand shake and she spilled a lot of wine.

  A group of old men were also stunned into silence by Lu Zhou's sudden roar, they all stopped their movements and looked at him, only to see him suddenly get up and walk quickly to her side, snatch the wine from her hand and smash it heavily on the ground, the transparent glass mixed with red wine shattered on the clean marble floor, startling several people to stutter.

  "Six, Director Lu..."

  Lu Zhouyu ignored them, walked forward and hugged her who was already drunk with bleary eyes into his arms, turned around and left without looking back, leaving a room full of people in shock. What is this situation? Isn't Lu always indifferent to this little secretary?

  Xu Liu'er was held in his arms, and the consciousness that had been propping her up suddenly dissipated. Her whole body went soft and limp, nestling into his embrace without moving a single inch. She thought to herself, "He won't care about her life or death anymore."

  Could I have a few monthly tickets?