Chapter 841 - Giving Up the Position (2/2)

“Ruoxin, where are the noodles?” He walked over. He only had time to change, but his body was still damp and cold from the rain.

“Tossed it,” Xia Ruoxin said plainly. She sat before the easel as she painted senselessly. It was abstract, but she had no idea what she was painting. It seemed like she was just wasting her materials as she was with her life and time.

Her words hurt Chu Lui a little. He walked over and squatted down before her. “What do you want to eat then? Shall we go out and eat something that you like?”

Xia Ruoxin turned and stared at him. “I want to eat the buns from the Sun family’s shop.”

“Okay, I’ll go get it.”

Chu Lui stood up and grabbed his car keys to go get the buns that Xia Ruoxin wanted, unbothered by the fact that he had just returned home. As for Xia Ruoxin, she continued painting on her canvas; but her eyes were looking beyond canvas at the distance.

After a while, Chu Lui returned. The distance from the garage to the house was long enough to drench to man. He then handed the buns over to Xia Ruoxin.

“Go ahead and eat it. They’re still hot.”

Xia Ruoxin placed her paintbrush down and grabbed the buns. However, Chu Lui stopped her. “Wash your hands first.”

She stood up and went to the bathroom to wash her hands.

She picked up a bun and began eating. It was still warm and had the same taste. Under the usual circumstances, there was a queue for the stall. She picked up one bun after another, placing her feet on the floor.

After eating three buns, she was a little bloated.

Chu Lui brought over a basin of water filled with warm water. He rolled up his sleeves and squatted down.

“Soak your feet.” He tested the temperature of the water and placed Xia Ruoxin’s feet in the water to wash them for her. This was a tip he heard from Jia Xinbao. He had said that Xia Ruoxin’s body had gone through a lot earlier, and soaking her feet daily might help her condition a little. So he learned the different ways of soaking feet from an old Chinese doctor to let her soak her feet nightly. However, he was not too sure if it worked.

After the treatment, the quality of Xia Ruoxin’s sleep improved. She did not jolt awake in the middle of the night anymore.

The tall man squatted on the floor. He did not feel like there was anything wrong with him washing a woman’s legs. He looked a little exhausted, perhaps because he himself had not been sleeping well. No matter how tired he was or how late he returned home, this was one thing he would never forget just like the promise he made from over twenty years ago.

Xia Ruoxin fell asleep at some point. Chu Lui opened his eyes slowly and carefully moved the blanket away. He then went to the study. The issue at the company was more troublesome than he had anticipated. He might actually have to give up his position as CEO of the Chu Enterprise after this. He had been in this position for rather long, and he was getting tired, too.

In the conference room of the company, many stockholders were unhappy with the major downsizing of the company’s assets. Chu Lui’s mistake had cost them quite a bit. How could they be happy with only thirty percent of the company’s assets left?

“CEO, is there anything else you’d like to say,” a stockholder asked Chu Lui with a gloomy expression. “If you can’t make up for our losses, then I think it’s better that you give up your position.”

“Yang Lao, I don’t think that’s how it works.” Du Jingtang laughed coldly. “When our CEO took over the company from the previous CEO, it was but ten percent of its current size. If it weren’t for the CEO, you would only be holding ten percent of what you currently have.”