My Aloof Husband Can't Stop His Devoted Affection

Chapter 276 - 272: Surname Zhu

"No, I just came to take a look. Isn’t he here?" The girl smiled gently, her beautiful phoenix eyes unabashedly scanning the entire consultation room’s decor. The amusement in her eyes deepened a bit as she murmured to herself, "This decor does look quite like his style."Wei Xuan listened beside her and could tell from her words that she seemed to be familiar with Jiang Baizhou, so she smiled and said, "Doctor Jiang is here, it’s just that he’s currently treating a patient and we don’t know when it will be finished."

"Oh, is that so? Then it seems like I came at a really bad time today." The girl showed helplessness and disappointment, raised her wrist to check the time, thought for a moment, and asked, "It’s almost noon, shouldn’t he be about done by now?"

"Um...I’m not really sure about that." Wei Xuan smiled awkwardly, feeling like the girl seemed to be in a bit of a rush.

The girl looked at her, laughed, "Sorry, I was too abrupt. By the way, Lu Xize also seems to be a partner in this consulting room, right? Is he here?"

"Um...yes, Doctor Lu is in his office upstairs."

"No patients?"

"No, if you need to see Doctor Lu, I can announce you now." Wei Xuan replied with a smile, observing her as she said this.

"Okay, just say my last name is Zhu."

"Okay." Wei Xuan nodded, returning to her seat, picked up the phone on the desk, dialed Lu Xize’s internal line, and after the call connected, asked, "Doctor Lu, there’s a Ms. Zhu downstairs who wants to see you. What do you think...?"

On the other end, Lu Xize, who was crossing his legs and having a snack, was puzzled when he heard Wei Xuan’s words. He couldn’t recall any girl with the last name Zhu: "A Zhu? I don’t know any Zhu, and neither do my recent patients..." Just as he finished speaking, something suddenly occurred to him, and he was startled, murmuring, "No way!"

"Ah, I didn’t catch what you said just now."

"Nothing, I’ll come down and see."

"Okay." After Wei Xuan hung up the phone, she turned around to look at Zhu Qinghan behind her, "Please wait a moment, Doctor Lu will be down shortly."

Zhu Qinghan smiled and nodded, "Hmm." When she turned her head towards the stairs, she saw Lu Xize coming down and waved at him, "Hello, junior brother, long time no see! Do you remember me?"

Standing on the stairs, Lu Xize was obviously startled, his eyes widening in surprise. He came down the stairs in two or three steps, looking at her incredulously, "Oh my god! Am I seeing things? Senior sister? Is it really you?"

"The one and only." Seeing Lu Xize’s sunny and devilish handsome face, Zhu Qinghan raised her eyebrows with a playful smile, her tone very lighthearted.

"When did you return to the country? Why didn’t you tell me? It’s been years, and you haven’t changed one bit! Still as beautiful as ever, elegant and graceful! Time hasn’t touched you at all!" Lu Xize looked at her with great delight, these compliments slipping effortlessly from his mouth, without even a blink.

Zhu Qinghan’s smile grew more pronounced, and she rolled her eyes at him with amusement, "You’re just the same, that mouth! Still so glib, not a bit changed, still so dashing."

"Exactly." Lu Xize raised his hand to touch his hair, indulging in her compliment with pride and without modesty. Then he stepped aside, "Let’s not stand here chatting, it’s tiring! Let’s go to my office." Saying this, he gave Wei Xuan a look, smiling, "Wei Xuan, could you please bring up a cup of Americano? Lang Jing is off today, so I have to trouble you."

"Of course, how could I not follow Doctor Lu’s orders! Right away." Wei Xuan replied with a smile, making a mock courteous gesture, glanced at Zhu Qinghan, and turned to the pantry.

Zhu Qinghan glanced at Wei Xuan’s retreating figure, her eyes narrowing slightly. While walking up the stairs with Lu Xize, she inquired very naturally, "Who was that girl just now? Someone from the consulting room’s staff?" ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novelhall.com

"She’s Old Jiang’s assistant. Since I don’t have much to do today, my assistant is off." After walking up the stairs, Lu Xize opened his office door, "This consulting room is a joint venture between me and Old Jiang. He’s here today too, but he’s with a patient now, hasn’t finished yet. It’s on the right once inside, his office and treatment room."

"I see!" Zhu Qinghan walked into the office, glanced around, and teased, "When I heard you opened this consulting room, I could hardly believe it! You, the wealthy second generation, actually started a consultation practice."

"I don’t want to deal with family business, and my old man can’t stand the thought of me idle. Later, Old Jiang had this idea and mentioned it to me, so I agreed. Since I wasn’t doing anything, we just went ahead." Lu Xize shrugged helplessly and sat on the long sofa, "Senior sister, when did you come back?"

"I’ve been back for a while now." Zhu Qinghan smiled and paused, then asked mockingly surprised, "Didn’t Bai Zhou tell you?"

Lu Xize was taken aback, "Old Jiang knew you were back? When was that?"

"Oh, it’s like this, once when I was in Milan, I ran into Bai Zhou and even mentioned having a meal together when I came back. Later, when I went for a meal with Zhu Chen after returning, I met Bai Zhou’s wife."

"Ah, I see! I did hear about Old Jiang’s trip to Milan. He went all out to accompany his wife, pushing all the clinic matters onto me, even handing over the lectures, just to surprise his wife in Milan. But, as for running into you, senior sister, he didn’t mention that."

After hearing this, the warmth on Zhu Qinghan’s face noticeably dimmed, and even her smile became somewhat awkward. Although Lu Xize had a rather laid-back attitude, he was quite perceptive about women’s feelings. Besides, he had sensed something amiss back in school. At that time, Zhu Qinghan wasn’t very reserved, it was quite apparent, but Jiang Baizhou always seemed to turn a blind eye, pretending not to know anything, and Zhu Qinghan didn’t want to break the unspoken understanding.

Seeing the change in Zhu Qinghan’s expression, Lu Xize didn’t feel he had said anything wrong. Instead, he believed he merely spoke the truth, which wasn’t incorrect.

"That said, it’s also been a long time since I saw senior Zhu Chen." Lu Xize acted as if he was unaware of anything and smoothly changed the topic, "Senior sister, are you and senior Zhu Chen still in Switzerland?"

"No, we moved to Ireland four years ago, most of our work is there now."

Just then, footsteps and a familiar steady male voice could be heard from outside, seemingly instructing a patient. Lu Xize raised an eyebrow, smiling, "It seems Old Jiang is done over there."