Treasure Hunt: Tycoon's Priceless Runaway Wife

Chapter 351: If It’s Free, Take It! (Three More Updates)

Ji Rui spent the entire day feeling extremely uneasy.Logically speaking, with Le Tong rejecting him time and time again with different excuses, he should be quite angry.

But, as he carefully recalled the past, he found that he couldn’t get angry at all!

As more and more past events replayed in his mind, he even began to despise his former self.

In the end, he even thought to himself that being rejected by her was well-deserved!

Le Tong thought he was being petty, which was why he ignored her all day.

Actually, President Ji was remorsefully reflecting on his past "misdeeds," and the more he thought about it, the more embarrassed he was to face her.

If he hadn’t recalled those past events, President Ji would most likely have shamelessly found new excuses to get close to Le Tong.

Because he is the kind of man who, once he’s made up his mind, will get what he wants no matter what!

Plus, he’s lived for thirty years and had only just fallen in love with a woman. Though facing setbacks once or twice might make him frustrated, it wouldn’t shake his strong determination to win her over!

But when he was still lost in his feelings of guilt, he simply couldn’t shamelessly go to Le Tong’s house to scrounge a meal.

So when Le Tong called him from the door, he thought he was just hearing things.

Later, when it was confirmed that she had indeed come looking for him of her own accord, he was so happy that his heart raced, leaving him dumbfounded.

Little did he know that his bizarre reactions today, in Le Tong’s eyes, turned into signs of being secretly proud and aloof.

When he heard his considerate little baby had paved the way for him to get close to her, he was overjoyed. "Bang!" He closed the document, stood up rapidly.

"We can go now!" he said, grabbing the coat and bag hanging by the table, kicking the chair aside, and striding over to Le Tong.

Now, it was Le Tong’s turn to react slowly.

"Uh! Mr. Ji, it’s not even off-work time yet..."

Ji Rui didn’t even bother to check the time, "Let’s go, don’t let Baobao wait!"

Le Tong shrugged. Since her boss said she could leave early, why should a small secretary like her have any complaints?!

"Then let Xiao Li give you a ride, I’ll walk back." Le Tong tried to reduce the chance of being alone with him.

For one, she didn’t want him to get the wrong idea. For another, she felt awkward.

If you set aside work and Baobao, she and Ji Rui weren’t even considered friends. In the current situation, staying in the same space would only make them both uncomfortable.

The man who followed her out of the office didn’t say yes or no, but when she briefly went back to her desk to tidy up, he stood silently to the side, hand looping his bag and coat.

"Mr. Ji..." Le Tong thought he hadn’t heard clearly, lifted her head to glance at him, intending to repeat what she’d just said.

"I’m waiting for you!" Ji Rui, however, didn’t give her a chance to repeat herself, directly interrupting with an undeniable answer.

"Alright... as you wish..." Le Tong sighed lightly. Since the one being rejected didn’t feel bad, why should she worry?!

Ji Rui stood silently for a while, gaze shifting from her profile to the blooming bouquet of roses.

"What flowers do you like?" Ji Rui suddenly asked.

Le Tong abruptly raised her head, examining him intently before sternly saying, "I don’t like any flowers!"

What a joke!

This ordinary bouquet of red roses already cost her two days’ wages. Remembering the more than eight hundred spent still pains her. If she told him she liked blue enchantresses, she might have to spend a month’s salary on flowers!

Seeing her fierce expression directed at him, Ji Rui found her frankness deeply adorable.

His whole day of gloominess lifted, and a smile crept onto his face.

"I didn’t tell you to pay. You insisted on giving me the money..."

Ji Rui’s tone was exceedingly gentle, and to Le Tong, it even carried a hint of pampering. It was just like how he spoke to Baobao when Baby made a mistake, smiling as he talked.

Le Tong’s mouth twitched as she glared at him, then huffed and went back to packing up her desk.

Then, she heard rustling nearby, not knowing what the man was fiddling with.

After a while, a large hand suddenly extended towards her, giving Le Tong a fright. Upon closer inspection, the hand was holding a wad of large, red banknotes.

"I bought these flowers myself!"

Le Tong didn’t take the money, instead pointing angrily at the bouquet.

Ji Rui nodded with a smile, "I know!"

As he spoke, he pushed the stack of money closer, "This money is for the meals I’ve had at your place recently. We’re not that close, so it makes sense that you can’t be expected to feed me every meal, right?"

Le Tong realized that Ji Rui was just trying to give back the money she had spent.

But he wasn’t wrong—they indeed weren’t close!

Definitely not close enough to have meals together all the time!

"What? Are you implying we’re really close? Close enough for you to treat me every meal?"

The amusement in Ji Rui’s eyes grew stronger, "Since that’s the case, thank you..."

As he spoke, his hand holding the money was about to pull back.

Le Tong quickly grabbed the wad of money from his hand, "Who said we’re close? We’re not close, not at all!"

Le Tong clutched the money, glanced at it briefly, then counted out a few bills from what was clearly a large sum, and handed the rest back to Ji Rui.

"Here, I’ve taken the meal money, the rest you can have back!"

Ji Rui, however, didn’t take it, just smiled at her, "Since we’re not close, are you sure you’re just charging for meals? Don’t you want a service fee?"

Le Tong ground her teeth. Rich people were truly capricious! She didn’t want to haggle with him, but he insisted on stuffing money into her pocket!

She wasn’t foolish; if it was free money, she might as well take it, right?

"Fine, this is for services!" Le Tong withdrew her hand and readily took a few more banknotes, then handed the remaining money back once more.

Of course, she wasn’t really greedy for those few hundred, but if she didn’t take the proportionate amount, this cunning man would surely use their "close" relationship as a reason to make requests that could only be made with such familiarity!

This time, Ji Rui said nothing, tucking the money she returned into his wallet.

Just as Le Tong thought he would finally relent and stop forcing money on her, he spoke again, "I’ll pay Baobao’s child support monthly. By the end of each month, I’ll transfer it to your salary card!"

Le Tong found it both amusing and exasperating. This man, did he just have too much money burning a hole in his pocket?

After giving her meal money and service money, now there’s child support at the end of the month! Hmph, should she seize the opportunity to extort a hefty "youth compensation fee" from him?!