Chapter 373 Research
After dinner, Lin Ruoxue went upstairs to continue working, as she had been too busy recently to rest and chat as usual.
Su Chen sat on the sofa alone eating some fruit before he rushed off to the manor. When he got there, Xu Xinran was sitting cross-legged on the sofa, watching a comedy movie on her tablet.
Xu Xinran was laughing so hard, without any image of a lady.
However, as soon as she saw Su Chen coming in, her smiling face suddenly turned cold, and she huffed before taking her tablet back to her room.
Su Chen was used to this girl's aloof attitude and didn't really mind.
He just wondered why this girl hadn't left yet. Could it be that she wanted to take root here?
With a curled lip, Su Chen returned to his own room to continue his cultivation practice. After all, for him, cultivation was the priority, and there was no need to waste time on this girl.
A night of cultivation practice made Su Chen feel ever closer to the Eighth Layer Realm; he thought it wouldn't take much longer to break through.
After finishing his practice, he took a bath and then returned to the villa, where he skillfully prepared a rich breakfast, as usual.
When Lin Ruoxue got up, the three of them quietly had breakfast together and then headed off to their respective workplaces at the company.
Upon arriving at the company, Su Chen went straight to the public relations department. He hadn't even reached his office when he could already hear the lively chatter inside, clearly filled with excitement.
Su Chen knew the women in the public relations department had been looking forward to this trip for a long time, and their attention at work had noticeably waned over the past few days.
However, when Su Chen walked in, he was instantly stupefied!
As soon as he entered, he saw everyone's desk covered with large and small packages, and nearly everyone also had a suitcase—except, of course, the few male colleagues.
"Director, you're finally here. Let's get ready to depart!"
Zhao Lin came up to Su Chen with a beaming smile as soon as she saw him.
"This is way too much; we're only going for a few days!"
Su Chen pointed at the parcels and said, a look of disbelief on his face.
"Director, you just don't understand. Can we women be the same as you smelly men?"
Ran Ting also came over to Su Chen with a smile when she noticed him, standing very close to him:
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"All the makeup, skincare, and sunscreen products, that's a whole lot. And there are all sorts of clothes!"
"Director, I even brought three swimsuits!"
Ran Ting whispered in Su Chen's ear in front of everyone.
At these words, Su Chen's heart couldn't help but skip a beat, especially with the playful gleam in the eyes of this little siren, which made his imagination run wild!
"Cough cough cough!"
Su Chen pretended to cough a couple of times to hide his unease, then turned to Qin Li and asked:
"Sister Qin, when is the car coming?"
They were traveling with a chartered bus for this trip, not with a tour group. First, because they had too many people, over twenty, and also because traveling with a tour group was too restrictive and not much fun.
But such trivial matters were definitely not Su Chen's cup of tea; he had delegated all the arrangements to the more dependable Qin Li while he played the role of a hands-off shopkeeper.
"I've just contacted them, and they should be here in about ten minutes."
Qin Li replied with a smile after hearing Su Chen's question.
"Okay then, everyone should take their things and head downstairs."
Su Chen waved his hand grandly and led the twenty or so people from the public relations department out, instantly drawing the attention of other departments.
As part of the same group, they naturally knew they were off on a trip, and envious glances followed them.
The group had just arrived at the entrance of the Belle Building and waited for a few minutes when a coach bus slowly made its way toward them.
Walking at the front and carrying only a small bag, Su Chen was the first to board, then he settled down in the back row.@@novelbin@@
After the luggage was stored, the women also boarded one by one, with Ran Ting heading straight to the back to sit next to Su Chen.
"With so many empty seats, why cram together?"
Su Chen said, because the bus had about forty to fifty empty seats arranged in pairs separated by an aisle, and there was almost enough space for each person to sit alone in a row.
"But I like sitting next to you, Boss!"
Ran Ting said coquettishly, batting her eyes at Su Chen.
Su Chen's heart skipped a beat, he exclaimed he couldn't take it, but let her be.
Once Zhao Lin boarded and noticed Ran Ting sitting close to Su Chen, her face soured, and she muttered a few words under her breath before moving to a seat in front of Su Chen and addressed a man there:
"Swap with me."
The man, facing Zhao Lin's unfriendly expression, didn't say a word, simply grabbed his backpack and stood up silently, then found another empty seat and sat down.
Before she took her seat, she threw a glance at Ran Ting, who provocatively raised her eyebrows back at Zhao Lin, causing Zhao Lin's majestic peaks to heave with irritation.
Once everyone had taken their seats, Qin Li counted the heads and, seeing no one was missing, told the driver to start the bus.
As the bus began moving, they all felt as if their hearts were soaring...
Although Jianghai was also in the south, it was not as far south as Sanya; it would still be at least a ten-hour drive.
As the bus rolled on, Su Chen turned to look out the window, taking in the changing scenes.
In fact, he was a bit worried about this trip, concerned that those families might cause trouble for Lin Ruoxue.
But then he thought it was unlikely, as there was no real point in targeting Lin Ruoxue unless it was to kidnap her and use her to pressurize him.
However, if that was indeed the case, they would be digging their own graves, as the saying goes, 'Heaven's wrath is tolerable, but self-inflicted misery is not.'
Even if they did kidnap Lin Ruoxue, for Su Chen, rescuing her would be as easy as reaching into his pocket—those people were ultimately not worth mentioning.
Of course, it was more likely that they would attack him directly.
However, to be on the safe side, Su Chen took out his phone and sent a message to Gu Ming, the 14th Shadow Guard, asking him to keep a closer watch on Lin Ruoxue for the next few days.
He believed that with Gu Ming's capabilities, even if those families had any malicious intentions, they wouldn't succeed.
After sending the message, Su Chen finally felt a bit more at ease and took a magazine called "Men's Fashion" from his bag to read leisurely.
"Boss, is she pretty?"
After a while, Ran Ting glanced at Su Chen's magazine, where a sexy blonde was striking a pose, and she asked with a grimace.
"Yeah, pretty!"
Su Chen blurted out, but then he quickly realized and said seriously:
"What? I'm studying the anatomical differences between Western and Eastern women's skeletons!"
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