My CEO Husband Has Some Issues-Chapter 833 - : She has a boyfriend?
Chapter 833: Chapter 833: She has a boyfriend?
Chu Xi knew he had refused the collaboration without hesitation because he didn’t want to get involved with her. Now, seeing him pick up the contract again, she didn’t say much, stood up, and went aside to make a phone call, “Honey, I’ve talked to Mr. Li, we’ll meet at the Zijin Club at noon. Yeah, just come over. Okay, Kiss.”
After finishing the phone call, she came back and said with a smile, “Sorry, my boyfriend doesn’t speak Zekanese very well, so I have to mix languages when speaking to him.”
“It doesn’t matter.” Li Shengxiao was noncommittal, though he should say he was uninterested.
Chu Xi, looking at the handsome face that was close at hand, took the initiative to suggest, “Since we’re going to meet, Mr. Li, why not bring your girlfriend along? That way, we can all have a meal together and get to know each other better.”
No sooner had she made the suggestion than it was unequivocally rejected by the distinguished man, “No need, she doesn’t like such occasions!”
She doesn’t like such occasions? What kind of occasions?
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A flicker of interest crossed Chu Xi’s eyes and she teased in a half-joking tone, “Mr. Li, you couldn’t possibly be so reluctant to bring out your girlfriend for others to see, not allowing even a glance from someone else, could you?”
She had merely made the comment in jest and had not expected Li Shengxiao to answer her so seriously. But to her surprise, the man who had been cold and indifferent to her from the moment she entered softened somewhat as he spoke of his ‘girlfriend,’ “Yes. You’re right.”
“Yes, you’re right.”
Chu Xi was rendered speechless, and all her high EQ managed to muster was an awkward joke, “Now that you say that, I’m even more curious about what kind of girl could make the famously indifferent to women Mr. Li cherish her so.”
She joked, but she was always probing to find out what ticked this man.
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Sure enough, seeing Li Shengxiao frown, she quickly changed the subject, “But since you cherish her so much, I better not meet her after all, lest I frighten your precious girlfriend with just a glance, and Mr. Li gives me trouble, affecting our cooperation. That would be a loss for me.”
Li Shengxiao didn’t even bother to respond to her teasing; it was as if all her banter was just hot air, “I have other work to attend to. I will be at the lunch meeting, Miss Chu can take her people and leave first.”
Chu Xi was born into prominence, a surname that ensured she was always in the limelight, and beyond the advantages that came with her surname, she herself was sufficiently alluring to captivate men. She won the best actress award in the Oscars amid a gathering of beauties in the entertainment industry, which testified to her exceptional beauty.
Yet, this was the first time she had encountered a man giving her the brush-off.
What she found most unbelievable was that during their interaction, this man hadn’t even looked at her directly, as though her enchanting exterior, which fascinated men so, was nothing but a passing cloud to him.
Chu Xi took a deep breath, gave a faint smile, and stood up briskly, extending her hand to Li Shengxiao, “Then Mr. Li, I look forward to a pleasant collaboration.”
Li Shengxiao looked at the hand presented before him, his hawk-like eyes as dark as a cloud-filled sky, with storms brewing. When Chu Xi’s left hand was almost numb, the man staring at her hand finally slowly reached out and shook it briefly, “Pleasure doing business.”
His voice was deep and husky, with a texture that seemed to have a small hook, raspingly seductive and sensually bone-melting!
Chu Xi felt a jolt, almost losing her composure.
Unfortunately, Li Shengxiao quickly released her hand, his face set in an expression that kept others at a distance.
